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Swank.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

Are any of you going to that Modular night at the Knitting Factory? I'm probably going to see that, though I'm not totally certain.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

OMG!!!! sign-up. it's totally worth it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

When I get back from my desk hour, I shall.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thank you, Spencer.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

bump for Tim.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

I put in my password but nothing happens

― Magic City (ano ano), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thanks Spencer, I will follow this up!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oddly, Dexter and James De La Cruz are DJ'ing at a 3-on-3 basketball comp tonight.

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

There's some Avalanches connection with the cats who DJ on the first Saturday of each month at St. Jerome's (in Melbourne). Pretty sure it's not Dexter or De La Cruz, must be some of the other guys. The night is absolutely packed, and there's lots of highlife and juju and other African music (incl. the track they use on that Belle & Sebastien remix), and everything else from soca to Bon Jovi. Only $5 on the door.

― cnwb (cnwb), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oops, sorry - that was already mentioned here and here.

― cnwb (cnwb), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh for fuck's sake, just remembered I lent Since I Left You to that megababe I scared off and now it's somewhere in her dorm (which I'll never see again). YAY AWESOME THREAD

― LC, Friday, 8 October 2004 05:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

Let me tell you this, minna mi mamacita, when I was in high school, there was this short lived local craze with the beads.......the necklaces and braclets you make with the tiny craft-shop beads and fishing line.......how fucking corny was this, guys giving BEADS to girls while trying to act all hard and street.......this Patrick kid was making them and selling them for five bucks each......i bought one off him and then decided i would cut his grass a little bit, get my own money......so i began taking orders, about 20 people.......that weekend I go to the craft shop and pick up the shit, sit down and get to making.......it was IMPOSSIBLE......the beads were so tiny, the fishing line would bend and wobble, and making a single one took an hour......fuck it, right?......but by then I had already spent all the money on pot and porn so I had to bullshit at school until people forgot about it.....mortifying.

Since then, whenever I think of entrepreneuring, I get scared......I'm just the type of guy to let everyone down with anything involving logistics.....like when I drive by a sign that says BRIDGE RESTORATION IN PROGRESS or a big modern building being made, I imagine myself somehow being contracted to do something like that BY MYSELF and leaving it till the last minute.......i don't even own a screwdriver.....I'd call up my mom, sobbing...."MAAMAAAAAA......I FUCKED UP...."........still, she'd show up in her sneakers that night with a tupperware box of pasta and some neon construction paper and say, "we can still do it, don't give up!".....just like all those other times......but I'd say, "Mom, not this time.......supplies for this, we can't buy at 7-11 at midnight"

I get the same feeling when I watch that surgery footage.....because I can also imagine myself somehow bullshitting my way into a position where I am performing surgery, actually beginning the procedure rather than admitting I'm a fraud and losing face, blood pouring everywhere, me having absolutely no clue how to close the guy back up......"ummmm.....scotch tape!"

I still love the avalanches, because how are they to know my esoteric phobias?

-- Ramosi (olafsonski...), May 9th, 2002.

Fuck the Avalanches, let's talk blood, failure and death. :-)

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), May 9th, 2002.

It's funny, this confluence - I did call my Mom last week.

― LC, Friday, 8 October 2004 05:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

I put in my password but nothing happens

Try putting it in all lower case.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

hey SPencer now you've signed up you can send us all the new tunes heh heh

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

i've signed up, how long does it take 2 get the password?

this better be worth it.

― piscesboy, Friday, 8 October 2004 08:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

can't someone post the password here?

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

can't someone post the password here?
-- mentalist (pete...), October 8th, 2004.

it's 'brains'

― Mil (Mil), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

thanks!

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

you even get to see Avalanche crack

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

do I get to smoke it?

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

i just downloaded something off of soulseek called "The Avalanches - Live 1997 Kup Day Kaos".
all the tracks all labeled "Track01, Track02" and so on.
i was just wondering if anyone here ever heard this before or knows where to find a track listing?.
thank ya

― i can't remember my password, Saturday, 9 October 2004 19:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

sorry about the typo's. i'm a bit tired

― i can'y remember my password, Saturday, 9 October 2004 19:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

*views footage and hears music* An enjoyable mess of stuff, that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

no Avalanches DJing, no Modular bands in the USA:

an email from Modular:
"It's with much sadness that we have to let you know that the tour formerly known as the Modular World Domination Tour [r.i.p.] will not be happening this month. Many apologies to all who had planned to come out and see us in LA, New York and London, but due to unforseen circumstances we've had to pull the entire thing.
We're bummed about it, the bands are bummed about it, and it's quite possible that many of you are too.
We do, however, hope to have something similar in the pipeline for either late this year or early next.
When things come to fruitition, be sure we'll let you know."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

this is the photo they included in the email:
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― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

hmm

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

it's cute.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

I dreamt that I read an interview with them about the new album. They were going for a sort of early twentieth century theme, I remember a masked ball on an ocean liner from America to Europe. They also said there was going to be a silent movie slapstick suite. When I awoke I was pretty disappointed that it was a dream – the slapstick thing would be great.

― Orange, Friday, 15 October 2004 07:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

That's the best logo ever.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 15 October 2004 16:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Five Years

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Saturday, 24 December 2005 10:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Please come home.

― manuel (manuel), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

I read a couple of months back that they had recorded a new album but scrapped it.

No idea how true that is, though.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 24 December 2005 13:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

come on already

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

"We took our career tips from Axl..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

i mean i guess it's time to just completely give up hope, huh? i can't imagine those guys made enough from being the avalanches to spend 5 years making an album, they've probably moved on in their lives by now...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

im gonna email this thread to them when i get home

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe I never posted to this thread!

― Dan (Probably For The Best) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

I honestly can't imagine a follow-up touching the first one; perhaps its best if one never arrives.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

haha i was just listening today and wondering whatever happened to them.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

mark are you actually in touch with them?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

last week there was an interview w/ them in the street press over here in sydney because they're playing a show next weekend. i think they said that they were finally going to start knuckling down and recording their new album (this sounds believable right?).

― t_g, Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

was in a melbourne pizza place today & "electricity" was playing. & i'm seeing them dj on sunday!

― etc, Friday, 24 February 2006 07:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Where the HELL are *these* guys?

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

they play music

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

Every generation has its Loveless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

from their theavalanches.com site which is still regularly updated:

"M A R C H > U P D A T E
NEW ALBUM -
exploration into sampled inner space continues, and is sounding damn exciting from all reports. the band would like to thank everyone for their patience and ongoing support. "sorry its not done sooner but theres no point in putting out an insane half finished mess" is the general feeling in the camp. recording is proceeding much quicker than with the first album believe it or not - its just that no one was waiting on that one.

AVALANCHES IN ROCK SHOCK -
the guys have also been busy re - editing most of bon jovis seminal 'slippery when wet' album (excluding wanted dead or alive and without love which are shit) and will be airing these once in a lifetime versions during their melb and sydney laneway dj sets - so get down there for a once only 80's rock extravaganza."

― i'm from hollywood, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

excluding wanted dead or alive and without love which are shit

Very wise people.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

i got an avalanches 12" for free the other week.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 23:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

I only remember hearing Living On A Prayer at the end of the set, though there was a bit of other 80s rocktacularity mixed into the set, like fuckin' Springsteen.

Word is that they turned in a complete album of dark and introspective noodling, were told "no-one wants to hear this" and have gone back to write a new record full of party jams (though they reckon they'll sample the unreleased one for it).

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 03:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

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