I bet you missed a great show this week. It was on Monday, but
really Monday is just like Friday or Saturday except you gotta get
up and go to work the next day if you're a 9 to 5er like me. What,
are you shocked that our Me-Thinks royalties paychecks don't allow
us snort mountains of coke
off of the breasts of the complete roster of Vivid
Video pornstars in the back of our Bentleys? Shit, brothers
and sisters, we gotta keep day jobs. How else are we going to afford
to live the Me-Thinks lifestyle of booze, coke, whores and extra
helpings of Dessert? Yup...day
jobs. Sorry to burst any bubbles here but being in a rock band is
expensive, even if your not in the champagne room down at Yolanda's
Midget Cabaret and Mini Golf Palace 4 nights a week like we are.
But I digress. Back to Monday...
Here's what you missed...Darth
Vato doing an all cover set at the Moon on Monday night. Dub
versions of Alabama's "The Closer You Get", George Strait's "Ocean
Front Property" and Poison's "Every Rose Has It's Thorn". Not to
mention such christmas classics as the Vandals "Oi to the World"
and "My First Christmas as a Woman". You know you missed it. I didn't
see you all there. I am just saying you missed a cool show and here's
your chance to redeem yourself is all...We are playing with Darth Vato
this Friday at Fort Worth's home of rock and roll, the Wreck Room.
Shriner Threat is coming up from Austin to open the show, we go
on around 11 right in the middle and then Darth Vato takes the stage
at Midnight for your listening pleasure.
And since last time we had a Double EP release party with no CDs we are making it up to you by actually having the Double EPs there for sale, to you, for only 8 bucks. And with this 8 bucks you can even get a limited edition t-shirt (while supplies and sizes last)
FREE with your purchase of this beautiful double disc set. That's right...2 CDs, a t-shirt and stickers and buttons too, for only 8 bucks.
Well it has been a whirlwind couple of weeks for us here at Me-Thinks
World Headquarters. We had our CD release but as you may already
know we didn't get the CDs in on time to have them for the show.
Typical. The good news is that they did eventually come in and we
couldn't be happier with them. Except for my typos and shit but
fuck, no one's perfect. The better news is that we are having an
actual CD release with real CDs! Friday, December 15th at the Wreck
Room with our old pals Darth
Vato and some even older pals, Shriner
Threat (from Austin). We'll also have stickers, buttons and
some limited t-shirts that came out great (thanks Brian!!!). Hell,
if I wasn't in this band I would wear one, but I think it's a rule
that can't wear your own t-shirts. We are giving them away for free
when you purchase the Double EP from us at the show, so ask the
lovely Linda for your size. But be
nice because she bites!
As the night decends upon the city this evening, and as many unsuspecting
families are just sitting down to dinner, we will load up into the
Me-Thinks mobile, haul ass to the
airport, pick up one Jack Bensonhurst and set forth a catastrophic
chain of events that will leave this sleepy medium-sized Hamlet
of ours known as Panther City, forever changed and possibly even
scarred and traumatized. Tonight is the start of a 2 day, no holds
barred, 666 mile per hour, Haltom City style, razor-wired cage match
between two heated rivals. In the Red corner we have the all-city
tag-team champions of the Me-Thinks and Indian
Casino Records mogul Jack Bensonhurst. In the Blue corner we
have every unsuspecting bar, booze bottle and barmaid in greater
Fort Worth. There's not enough "Extremne
Mud-Lovers" mudlside mix or test tube shots full of Girly Drink
in this town for us to lose. Two nights of High Volume, No Limit,
No Car Keys, Puke and Rally, I lost my fucking shoes and I pissed
in the freezer style debauchery and drinking from the band that
drank Milwaukee dry.
Oh yeah...and a little something about a Double EP release on Saturday night at the Wreck Room. Buy one and get a free t-shirt while they last.
Friday, November 3rd 2006:
Quart-Morning Motherfuckers! The CD release is almost upon us.
Jack Bensonhurst from Indian
Casino Records sent us an advance and told us to take the cash
down to Edwina's Waffles and Midget Stripper Palace and have ourselves
a good time before the big day. We obliged and indulged...heavily
and repeatedly! Will and I really took one for the team. Marlin
and Trucker John really got us good when we got home. Check out
the pictures... Will...Ray.
So then a few days later Steve from Darth Vato takes us out on
the Weekly's dime so he can do an article for next week's paper.
We hit Fred's for some burgers and then went out to paint the town
brown. After several Sierra Nevada's, rounds of Crown and Tequila
and probably some terrible tall tales it was time for payback. Here's
what Will and I did to Marlin and Trucker John after they indulged
a little more then we. I have to take this time to apologize to
Trucker John for the new guy hazing he will most likely endure until
he quits or we die. Sorry for the dick jokes Buddy. Marlin...Trucker
John.
Then today we all hugged. The End.
Here's a little video footage of the Loco Gringo's tribute party
Marlin and me went to back in June. If you don't know who the Loco
Gringos were then you are either too young to know any better
or you're just a lame douchebag who actually better not even click
on this
link. The Loco Gringos were definitely one of the coolest bands
to ever come out of the city of Dallas...and maybe even the world.
I know if Pepe were still alive today and they were playing shows,
we would hopefully be opening for them and probably doing their
laundry as well as washing the Hearse
and unclogging the toilet at Gringo Manor. God Bless the Loco Gringos.
Thursday, October 26th 2006:
CD release party announcement! November the 11th at the Wreck Room will be the official Double EP release party. We got a deal going. Buy a CD get a t-shirt while they last.
8 bucks for the set I believe but Jack desides ultimately. We only have a few but hopefully it'll be enough. Jack Bensonhurst from our label, Indian Casino Records, will be there to drink up the profits
and sign bands he likes and dis the ones he hates. So if you think you have what it takes to play one show a month, do all the recording yourself, go on marathon drinking binges with your label head, get zero chicks,
don't ever tour, don't own a van, can drink your weight in the alcoholic beverages of your choice, don't mind not ever making any cash and you can fit into the costumes...your band too can be a member of the Indian Casino Recording Company roster.
We play with The Fellow
Americans and The
Legends of the South November 11th at the Wreck Room. We're right in the middle slot so we don't
get too drunk to play like we always do in the headlining slot.
We also just set up a show with our old friends Darth
Vato and some out of town (Austin) friends Shriner
Threat on December 15th at the Wreck Room. We will probably have forgotten all about the last CD release part and make this show a
CD Release party as well. That's what happens when you're a 34 year old burnout...Deja Vu...and a lot of the Me-"nice to meet you"...You-"Yeah, no, we've met many times before"...Me-"sorry man".
Thursday, October 12th 2006:
You may already know but I am just going to keep saying it...We are playing Fredtoberfest this Saturday afternoon at
3:00pm in the afternoon. We are kicking off what is shaping up to be one of the most kick-ass bills in the history of afternoon rock and roll. Show up early
and stay late. Here's the line-up:
The Me-Thinks........3:00pm
The Gideons...........4:30pm
Stoogeaphilia.........6:00pm
Blood of the Sun.....7:30pm
Honky.....................9:00pm
The Me-Thinks would like to take the time to personally thank a
hero of heros. A man of men. The cat's ass if you will. Ladies and
gentlemen we salute Mister
Steve Steward of Fort Worth, Texas for being the first person
to pre-order our new double disc set "The Me-Thinks present The
Make Mine A Double E.P". Steve is a good friend and musical Comrade
here in Panther City. His band Darth
Vato and ours have shared many bills together and we hope to
share many more. I think the DV/MT shows at the Wreck have been
some of my favorite shows to play and I/we can't wait to do another.
So kids, take the example set by a righteous individual and pre-order
your copy of our Double E.P. today and get some special Me-Thinks
gifty-goodies (t-shirt, stickers and buttons) when you do.
Click the image below to go to the website to pre-order the Double EP.
Tuesday, October 3rd 2006:
The time is so near you can almost taste it. The Double EP is so
close to being in our hot little hands that we are actually pre-selling
it on the Indian Casino
website.
The record, currently titled The Me-Thinks Present: The
Make Mine A Double EP, should be ready by the end of October
give or take. We'd like to take this time to Thank Jack Bensonhurst
and everyone on the Indian Casino staff for making us feel like
a real rock and roll band (Mountains
of Cocaine and Filipino
Ladyboy Hookers). We'd also like to thank a one mister Curby
Forté for his help engineering and recording (erasing
tracks and getting us beers) on this Double EP. Without him it would
have taken a lot longer (way less time) to finish.
Click the image below to go to the website to pre-order the Double EP.
Fredtoberfest News - We found out the line-up yesterday and we wanted to give you guys a heads up that we are first on the bill so
get there by 3 at the latest to see us and stay all day (we are) to see the Gideons, Stoogeaphilia, Blood of the Sun and Honky. Here's the line-up:
The Me-Thinks........3:00pm
The Gideons...........4:30pm
Stoogeaphilia.........6:00pm
Blood of the Sun.....7:30pm
Honky.....................9:00pm
Fantasy Drinking League News - Fantasy Drinking League results coming up later this week. Please stay tuned!
Friday, September 29th 2006:
Here's a little Friday treat for you hosers courtesy of YouTube
and a friend named Wildo. Enjoy.
Tuesday, September 26th 2006:
A little reminder for all of you that we will be playing one of
the Fredtoberfest
weekends in October. The 14th to be exact. It's an all day show
but we are unsure of when it starts. I will fill you in when I get
more info from Fred's but the bill is real good. Honky,
Us, Blood
of the Sun, Stoogeaphilia
and the
Gideons will all be there on the 14th so you should be too.
Remember you can bring your own hard liquor to Fred's and Lee was
telling me they just started a new burger that is bigger than the
Fredburger! How can that be you ask...with a quarter pound more
meat that's how. The Big Fred will make it's 3/4 lb. debut.
Next Weekend Pussyhouse Propaganda
(Calvin and Me) will be showing some more art at Studio
817. There will be tons of other artists including but not limited to Velton Hayworth, Diego Martinez and Amanda Fortenberry. Sleeplab is going to play and I think there is even going to be a hair
salon or some shit cutting hair. I don't know what that's all about but girls get they hair did and I like girls so...whatevah. Come out, it's free (I think), meet chicks, drink booze, scope art,
buy our shit, support our habits, give us drugs, get us laid, get your hair did.
And now the moment you've all been waiting for...here's last weeks Fantasy Drinking League stats:
Ray - Strong lead with such slob moves as pouring
anonymous half drunk beers into one on Friday night and at times,
triple fisting drinks at the Wreck on Saturday night. Also got
drunk for lunch before grocery shopping then headed to the bar
on Sunday. I fucking killed it last week!
Marlin - Taking second place with an impressive showing on Friday night but falls behind the leader by opting out for Saturday nights festivities.
Will - Still holding down 3rd place and still on the Disabled List with a cold that won't go away. Even with NyQuil it's still not enough to advance past 3rd again.
Trucker John - Trucker John doesn't have time
to drink because he's in 54 bands right now but he at least gets
to throw back a few when he jams with us. It's that or he's kicked
out of the band! Yes we MAKE him drink. Don't act like you never
peer pressure anyone into doing something they don't wanna do.
Trucker's a Grown-Up.
Until next week then...
Tuesday, September 19th 2006:
Ah, Sorry dare kiddoes. I know I haven't updated the site in a
few but we've been busy for fuck's sake! Busy dreaming up the latest
Me-Thinks scams and shennanigans. We were on the Good
Show a few Sundays ago and it was quite chaotic and fun. We
hit the Moon an hour before the show and totally got destroyed! My bar tab for one hour was
60 bucks so you do the booze math my friends.
This dazzling display of drinking dynamics got me thinking...what if we started a Me-Thinks Fantasy Drinking League? All those goons
(some of our close friends included mind you) watching football with their laptops on their...well...laps, going over stats and sounding completely gay doing so gave me the idea
to do something fun with the stats from our day to day drinking. You know, capitalize on what we do best. (insert whimpy voice here...)"But you guys are a band. Shouldn't you be doing music
best?" NO! Have you never seen us play? Have you ever seen our bar tabs? The answer is clear kiddies...we drink to win!
Here's how you play:
Pick your favorite Me-Thinks member
Send your picks to us using our handy dandy email email button to your left
Entries must be received by September 30th
Check back with this website every week to see the drinking stats
Win a Me-Thinks "IOU" prize pack if your Me-Think comes out ahead.
Here's last weekends stats:
Ray - Currently leading with an amazing display on Friday (puked as I left the moon), decent showing on Saturday and a single beer on Sunday
Marlin - Taking second place with an open bar at his hotel in Austin but was with his beautiful wife and child so he had to keep it under control
Will - Even on the DL with a cold he still managed a few glasses of wine dinner 2 nites in a row
Trucker John - Trailing behind because he's not a big drinker but through Osmosis we believe you'll be seeing a lot of more of Trucker John
And by no means is this a last paragraph kinda paragraph but I
got carried away with all the bullshit above so here goes. We like
for you to welcome mister Trucker John into the mysterious order
of the Me-Thinks. Trucker plays drums for us now because Will has
Dave Grohl'd and been promoted to rhythym guitar. That's right the
Me-Thinks are a 4 piece now...biggest news in Haltom City since that
crooked-assed judge Jack Bino was busted for watching his female
prisoners undress and pee. But I digress. Trucker John is officially
the hardest working man in Haltom City music right now. He plays
with 3, count em 3 other bands and shows no signs of slowing down.
He also drums with Haltom City freakout country/rock band HellDamnCrap,
old school punks One
Fingered Fist and just for good measure he threw in some grindcore
with Spanish for Panther. So welcome Trucker John into a lifetime
of drunken man-fun (gay) with the Me-Thinks. He has no idea what he just signed on to do...
Thursday, August 31st 2006:
Damn those baboon livers if they didn't give out on me after like
4 days and I had to have them replaced. Luckily Jon Teague (friend
of the band, drummer for The
Great Tyrant and Stoogeaphilia as well) just returned from Japan
where he ate a 3 dollar peach, drank beer from vending machines
and somehow managed to procure me a shark's liver. Have you ever
seen a sharks liver? It's huge and should do the job of 30 human
livers. It does make me look fat though. Oh well. Anything to be
able to keep pickling myself.
Stoogeaphilia
tonight at the Black Dog Tavern in Fort Worth for anyone interested in hearing Iggy and the Stooges covers all night long.
Fall Gallery Night is next Saturday the 9th from 2-9pm. Calvin and myself will be showing some artwork along with Jesse Hernandez,
Grag Bahr, Kate McDougall and Chris Blay down at Studio 4 (side of the Wreck Room). There should be free beer, wine and food some come on down and get yer culture on bitches!
Friday, August 25th 2006:
Bad News first kids...We had to cancel the September 2nd show because
it got moved to the 8th and we couldn't do the 8th because of my
liver. You see I have been up in the Great Pacific Northwest
for my yearly sabatical and in the short time I was there I done
blew out my liver. And when I say blew out my liver I mean right
out of my body. It literally could not handle to volume of alcohol
I was running through it and it blew right out of my side and turned
to dust and blew away! Luckily I was in Chinatown up in Vancouver
and was able to get a Baboon liver pretty cheap from a street vendor
so I'm still kicking but Mister Vu
said I would need another one added like a double decker baboon
liver setup to maintain my lifestyle. I had him order me TWO more
baboon livers and I am going to stack them triple just to be sure.
Please don't make fun of my giant red
baboon ass either. That's just one of the side effects I guess.
But go and see Max Cady and Mescalero on September 8th anyway. You don't need us
to have a good time. You'll get yer nipples rocked off!
Now for the Good News...before my unfortunate Liver blow-out, I
was able to get the Double EP up to Chris Hanzsek at Hanzsek
Audio and have him master it for us. Chris is a great dude and from what I can tell he made our shitty songs sound pretty legit.
Anyone who can do that is worth checking out if you need mastering done. Me and Bobby Kennedy (Distant relation) drove up to beautiful Snohomish, Washington to Chris's
home and Audio/Visual studio and did it there. Now all I have to do is get my three baboon livers all functioning properly together, do the artwork and get the CD prodiced and we'll have em in our
fat sweaty little hands. I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel folks.
Piece out bitches. We'll see you on October 14th (Fredtoberfest
with Honky,
Stoogeaphilia,
The
Gideons and your's truly) if not sooner.
Tuesday, August 8th 2006:
Well, I am headed up to the Emerald City of Seattle next week to
drink till I shit out of my eyes. And that's the God-Damned truth
too. Not that I don't normally do that here on say a Tuesday, but
I'll be on Vacation up there so I don't have to pretend it was an
accident like I always do. While I'm up there I may even come out
of my stupor enough to get the Double EP mastered. Which brings
me to our dilema...we're having trouble deciding on a name for it.
Here's where you come in...email us here
with your ideas for the title to our upcoming Double EP and win
a Me-Thinks prize pack if we use your idea. This before mentioned prize pack may even include
a free CD, poster, sticker and the beer or shot of your choice when we see you next.
Now start sending them in. No idea is too stupid...remember who you're dealing with here. We are the fucking Kings of Stupid!
Big Dumb Rock all the way.
Before I forget, HellDamnCrap,
our Haltom City brethren, are playing with Double
Happiness at the newly reopened Fred's
Cafe in beautiful Fort Worth, Texas this Thursday, August 10th.
I'll be there and I'm bringing Marilyn
out too so look for her and say hi when you good people show up.
Upcoming Bullshit:
August 31st - Stoogeaphilia @ the Black Dog Tavern
September 2nd - The Me-Thinks w/ Max Cady and Mescalero @ The Wreck Room
September 9th - Pussyhouse Propaganda is showing @ Studio 4 for Fall Gallery Night
Wednesday, July 26th 2006:
What a week...Lance
Bass is the gay, Isreal VS Lebannon or the beginning of WW3, slow speed truck chases...it's
gonna drive us all to drink. Like we need an excuse to drink some
delicious beer and whisky. But I'm using it if anyone asks.
The Baby Marlon's birthday was a grand affair. So many friends
and so many babies I couldn't believe it! Corn Dogs and Beer for
the masses. Check out a few precious moments from the party. Here's
Marlon having his first beer
with Daddy. And here's Marlon with nunchucks
and then with the brass knuckles
we gave him.
And now for something completely different...actual Me-Thinks news.
Our little secret has gotten out of the bag but I still ain't gonna
say what it is yet. You'll just have to show up on Saturday, September
2nd at the Wreck Room when we play with Mescalero
and Max Cady to find out
what it is if you don't already know. And for the record I know
it's not the cure for cancer or anything. I'm just having a little
fun and building some suspense because once again we have no CDs,
no new stickers, new buttons or anything else to promote so I just
have to make this shit up. The new Double EP is coming though but it
won't be ready by the September show. Plus the Monster Truck Limosine
was booked already that weekend and we want to release the record
right. And to do it right we need this.
Stoogeaphilia
tomorrow at the Black Dog with your's truly and members of Impulse
of Will, The Great Tyrant, Pablo and the Hemphill 7, Underground
Railroad and Goodwin.
Thursday, July 20th 2006:
Today is the Baby Marlon's 1st official birthday. It's hard to
believe its been a year already, but what the hell do I know. I
Don't have to wake up in the middle of the night to change some
soiled baby drawers or listen to him cry as his teeth come in. Will
and I have the greatest jobs as far as babies go...Godfathers.
I remember my godfather...I guy I called Uncle Charlie. He was
a buddy of my Dad's from Vietnam who happened to live in Rochester,
New York where my family is from. I remember one year, probably
around 77/78, Uncle Charlie and his wife Eller gave me a Darth
Vader Tie Fighter for Christmas. That's one of the last memories
I have of Uncle Charlie and Aunt Eller. It's a good one, but still
I wonder sometimes what happened to them and why our families lost
touch.
That's why Will and I made a special trip out to Trader's
Village to get the Baby Marlon some gifts he hopefully will
remember us by for the rest of his life. Just like my Tie Fighter
(which I still own because not only am I a huge fucking nerd, but a serious pack
rat as well). Instead we opted for some things that only a Godfather
could buy for the tyke. Studded Nunchuks,
some Chinese Stars
and baby's first pair of Brass
Knuckles. He'll be stoked when he's old enough to realize it, but the Marlon and Liz...not so much. But that is the duty of a Godfather...at least while the parents
are still caring for the child.
He's having a kick-ass ninja party this weekend complete with Corn Dogs, Beer and now, thanks to the Godfathers, Weaponry.
Happy Birthday you little bowl-cut having, hot mom flirting, girlfriend juggling, Rock and Roll listening, 365 day living baby boy.
Monday, July 10th 2006:
In case you didn't feel like showing up...or were to drunk to drive
by 4 in the afternoon just like yours truly, The Me-Thinks have
won the Best Hard Rock category in the FW Weekly's Annual Music
Awards for the second year in a row. It's quite flattering to be
honest. Not because we get our name in the paper or get a trophy,
but because all of our friends/fans voted for us and there was actually
enough of you to make us win this category. This band started out
as a good time for us. Just an excuse to get together, drink booze,
bust each others balls, laugh at everything and have a good time.
We are glad this plan still holds true and a bunch of people from
the Big City/Small Town of Fort Worth get to have a good time with
us. Thank You.
OK...enough sappy bullshit. Just to show we still don't take anything
seriously we sent the Asian
Media Crew up to the awards in our places with 60 bucks (nicked
from the band fund) to spend on booze. Rat,
from the Asian Media Crew, didn't think we'd win so he was quite
surprised when he had to get up in front of the pretty sizable crowd
to give our acceptance speech. Thank the gods he was able to guzzle
about 8 Crown and Cokes before he got up there. Classic. Here it
is below:
"The Me-Thinks
couldn't be here tonight because they are lame. But they win again.
Two years in a row. I don't know how they do it. They don't even
have a CD! Anyways, thanks from the Asian Media Crew."
God Bless the Asian Media Crew. For being spontaneously funny,
totally original, willing to work for booze and for taking on every
crazy assignment we hand out to them.
And now for some secret Me-Thinks news that we will reveal in the
coming months little by little. We have something cooking up out
in our little super heated sweat box/tin shack/practice space out
in Haltom City. It's going swimmingly and we hope to reveal the
secret sometime in September. More on that later. I am also taking
my annual trip up to the Great Pacific Northwest in August but this
will also be a working Me-Thinks trip as well. And by working I
mean drinking. We plan on having the much anticipated/long over-due
Double EP mastered in Seattle while I am there and the CD should
be finished and ready for public consumption soon after. New T-Shirts
are coming too.
Thanks Again.
Love,
The Me-Thinks
Sunday, July 9th 2006:
The Asians are coming, the Asians are coming...
Thursday, July 6th 2006:
Kids, I have been on what we alcoholics kindly refer to as a "bender". I had some extra time off of work last week due to the
4th of July holiday and I, like many Americans, or at least the ones I hang out with, spent it in a drunken stupor. But yesterday I decided to
have a sober wednesday.
Marlin was reminding me of what he and some of our oldest and best
friends used to do on Wednesdays. Sober Wednesdays. Now true to
form, these "Sober" Wednesdays only lasted bewteen the hours of
9 and midnight and then inevitably someone cracked open an Old
Milwaukee Quart. I actually made it all night with no booze.
But the rules state only booze is omitted from the buffet of vices so I kinda binged on everything else.
Here's a list of what I got into on Wednesday:
We're nominated again this year for the FW Weekly music awards.
We actually got the invite to the awards ceremony this year. I did attend the showcase last Sunday and I thought the bands we rad. I was so burned out from our annual camping trip
out to Grayford for a relaxing and intoxicated canoe trip down the Brazos, I could barely put sentences together. But I enjoyed myself.
Thanks to everyone who voted for us, but we all voted for the Gideons
just to be fair. Plus the Gideons kick ass. Maybe we can talk the
Asian Media Crew into attending the event for us.
Tuesday, June 19th 2006:
Alrighty then...Passwords have been changed and all hostile parties (Marlin and Will) have been denied access to the site once again.
Control has been restored to the official press sanctioned "head" Me-Think...yours truly.
Don't believe Will's lies...believe my lies.
Monday, June 18th 2006:
Fuck Ray!
That motherfucker should have never gotten drunk and gave me the
login to the site. This is Will. Marlin and I have teamed up against
Ray because we are tired of him always being portrayed as "Head"
Me-Think. He ain't shit! Fuck Ray. This
is my band...You hear me?...MY BAND!
What songs has he written? All of them right? WRONG! I write all the good ones. He just screws up my words live on stage
and everyone thinks he wrote the songs. If the song sucks then he wrote it.
Fuck Ray!
Monday, June 12th 2006:
Twas a great time on Friday night. Here's how I know:
Selective memory.
Free drink tickets and I still dropped 30 bucks at the bar.
We left some really expensive pieces of equipment behind.
Almost every band had a member of another band playing on stage with them that night.
Girls were there.
A Loco Gringo's song was played.
Extra bartenders were needed.
We made money.
We got home at 5 in the morning.
I had a phone number in my pocket when I got home.
The crowd stayed the whole night - through 4 bands.
It hurt to speak for two days afterwards.
Someone from out of state called the bar wanting to by us a bottle of whisky.
Someone rode the "B" train.
Smoke Machine Dominance.
Yup, a good time was had by all who attended I believe. Stay tuned for more exciting news stories brought to you by the
purple nosed drunks of your Me-Thinks News Team.
Friday, June 9th 2006:
People are Gay.
The Me-Thinks Suck.
See you tonight.
Wednesday, June 7th 2006:
First things first...6/6/06 was total bullshit! Nobody burned anything,
no horned babies were born, the Trinity did not run red with blood
but stayed it's usual muted tones of green and brown. What a let
down. I think Slayer even had
to postpone the start of their 6/6/06 tour because Tom Araya's gall
bladder had to be removed. What the Hell? That's so not evil. I
was looking forward to at least a little weirdness from the Church
but they kept their traps shut too. I got one word for 6/6/06...Booooooo!
Busy week for us this week kiddies. Tonight I am performing with
Stoogeaphilia
at midnight down at Ye Olde Wreck Room. Come on down for soe Stoogey
goodness if you feel like getting Stooged.
Friday night we decend on the Wreck Room in true rock and roll
guerilla style. We haven't even practiced since before Fred's Fest
a month ago in May so it should be a fly by the seat of our pants
rock show. Fuck it...our songs are simple so it shouldn't be a problem.
As a matter of fact I think there are pretty good odds in Vegas
that we will crash and burn. What Vegas doesn't know, unless they
read these shitty Me-Thinks news updates, is that a top secret jam
is going on tomorrow night. We are going to attempt to perform an
old Loco Gringos
song on Friday and need at least 30 minutes to try and throw it
together. Show up on Friday to find out what Gringos song we're
going to do.
This Friday night: The Red Herrings (10:00), The Riverside Ramblers (11:00), The Me-Thinks (12:00), Darth Vato (1:00). These times are just approximate. Just show up at 10, start drinking with us,
buy us beers and shots, and enjoy a great rock show all fucking night long.
Tuesday, May 30th 2006:
Bloody Fucking Hell it took a while to get shit going again. No one's fault but mine. I'll let you in on a little secret...
I"M FUCKING LAZY!!! I do so much goddamn work at home that when I get home I never wanna work on anything if I don't have to. Well I guess it got to that point.
It is good to know that people have missed the site updates and whatnot.
We had some technical issues for a while but those have been resolved and we're fucking back bitches!!!
We have a show coming up with our friends in Darth
Vato so bring your drinking shoes on Friday June 9th. Also on
the bill are some fellow Haltom/Riverside Citizens... the Riverside
Ramblers. Good friends of ours from way back. It's going to
be a good time and at only *6 bucks what the fuck do you have to lose?
We have finally finished all the tracks for the Double EP. I know
it's weird to say too but it's true. I believe we are doing some
minor tweaking to the last 3 tracks and then it's off to the Great
Pacific Northwest to be mastered by whomever the
head of Indian Casino records gets it mastered by. We should
be having a special record release party sometime soon so keep your
eyes and ears open.
I have been moonlighting in a Stooges cover band (Stoogeaphilia)
with some of Fort Worths finest musicians from some of Fort Worth's
finest bands...The Great Tyrant, Impulse of Will, Pablo & the Hemphill
7, Underground Railroad and us. We're playing all over the place
right now. Next show is June 7th at the Wreck. Another Stooges at
Midnight show on Wednesday.
Check out the new Me-Thinks mobile, Marilyn.
If you see here around town give her a wave and for fuck's sake
don't pull her over (coppers). We're out on official Me-Thinks business
and to impede that could throw the balance of good and evil off
and Pat Robertson or Jeb Bush could be elected as our next president
or even worse if there is a such thing!
I'll be updating the site all the time now so please check back at least once a week for more tales from the Whisky bottle.
* This
price is just a guess. I don't make the fucking rules.
April 17, 2006:
What's up douchebags? Just wanted to let you kids know that we
have a few shows coming up soon. Saturday, April 29th is the 9th
Anniversary of the Wreck Room. The line-up looks like this: The
Fellow Americans, The
Gideons, then us. And last but not least...Dixie
Witch. Now you peeps need to stick around for Dixie Witch. It's
been almost 2 years since they have been back to the Wreck and it'd
be nice to show em we missed em.
We are also playing Fred's Fest this year too. This is going to
be a special show for us because we'll be even more wasted then
we normally are. See it's ole Boyo and myself's birthday on the
day we play. Yes, we were born on the same day but through differenet
Vaginas, in different parts of the world. Fred's Fest is Saturday, May 6th and Sunday, May 7th. We play on the 7th so come bring us shots for our birthdays.
Here is a list of the bands for both days:
Saturday,
May 6th
Sunday,
May 7th
12:00
John Burleson
12:00
Amy Royer
1:00
Hankshaw
1:00
Randy Brown
2:00
Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang
2:00
Maren Morris
3:00
Confusatron
3:00
Darrin Kobetich
4:00
SLEEP LAB
4:00
Jasper Stone
5:00
Sally Majestic
5:00
Standard Transmission
6:00
Barber Mack
6:00
The Me-thinks
7:00
Scott Copeland
7:00
Gideons
8:00
Honchie
8:00
BAGG
9:30
Goodwin
9:30
Stephen Pointer Band
In other Me-Thinks news...I think we finished the Double EP! I was wasted when we recorded the last vocal tracks so I honestly don't know
if they're keepers or not. But we are going to revisit those tracks after these next couple of shows are done. We are also going to have some new t-shirts really soon too.
Stoogeaphilia
this Wednesday at Midnight at the Wreck Room. Stoogeaphilia is me,
Ken Shimamoto, Matt Hembree and Jon Teague pulling off some Stooges
covers just for fun, This is a little precursor to the big show
we will eventually promote and play so come out this wednesday and
check it out before anyone else.
March 21, 2006:
Sorry it's been so long between posts but we have been busy as
all Hells and Taylor from Wagonboss
(who hosts the site for us) has been moving and setting
up new equipment so the site has been on and off for a few weeks. I think we got it all fixed up now so...on to the Bullshit...
Well if you missed the show on the 4th of March you missed a good
one for sure. Our first show in almost a year and it was super fun.
And of course I think we all got loaded. I know I did and anyone
that saw me afterwards knows. I was a mess. The crowd was great
(pat your selves on the back), the mood was right and I realized
just how outta shape I was! I thought I might drop dead on stage
before we even got half way through the set. Getting old sucks.
But Fuck It, dying on stage like Mark
Sandman from Morphine would be the second best way to go besides
dying underneath a steaming hot naked pile of greased-up conjoined midget lesbian contortionists while listening to
circus music and drinking liquid hydrocodone. I'd have a smile on my face either way.
Darth Vato kept it going
right up until the 2AM mark even with technical difficulties. True
troopers. The afterparty was pretty good too (Thanks Marcus!) ...I
think. By the time I got there I was spent and just stood there
all bewildered, drunk and tired. I handed out some more inaction
figures and they seemed to be a hit. How could you not love a Marlin
- Super Duper Outerspace Totally Kick Asstronaut with Anti-Gravity
Anal Beads? That's right...You can't!
Lots has been going on in our world lately. I think we finished
the Double EP! I don't quite remember because halfway through my
vocal tracks an old friend (Mr. Houston) from West Goddamn Virginia
stopped by and then we invited the whole neighborhood over to drink
Whisky and Beers. We drank about Eighty Creek. That's 2 fifths of
Forty
Creek to me and you! We mix down in a few weeks and should have this motherfucker finally out sometime in the summer.
Don't hold your breath though.
We got a lot coming up in the next couple of months too. Butter_Pantz
and I are showing some artwork at Studio 4 (3210 W. 7th) on
Gallery Night, April 1st. The the Me-Thinks are playing the Wreck
on April 29th for the Wereck Room's 9th Anniversary! This is going
to be out of control! Dixie
Witch...Us...The
Gideons...& The
Fellow Americans. Fuckin A it's gonna be a rock show! We are also playing Fred's Fest on Sunday May 7th (5:30pm) which
just happens to be both Will's and My birthday! Come get drunk with us in the afternoon under the hot May Texas sun. More details to Follow,
but I believe we play with the Gideons and Pablo and the Hemphill 7 that eveving.
And just because I have been busting Marlin's and My own balls
pretty hard on ths site lately...you guessed it... it's time for
little ball busting to go out heart-felt style to our drummer William
H. Risinger aka "Ballerina Boyo".
This ones for you Will!
February 17th, 2006:
Friday is finally upon us. Marlin is spending time with the Baby Marlon and Boyo is headed down to Austin for some R&R with his best girl, so no jam this weekend.
It's just like us to not practice for a month before our first show in a year. But if we were worried, we'd jam. We just don't care if we sound like ass.
The show for us is about playing loud, having a fun, tossing back drinks, busting each others balls and hanging out with friends.
Oh fuck, who am I kidding...it's about meeting girls! The only reason Marlin and Will are still in the band is because they feel sorry for me and they know as much as I do
(possibly even more so) that this band is the only chance I have to meet girls. Sad but true.
Its funny because I am almost 34, a tad overweight with some sweet
ass Male Pattern Baldness going on.
But none of that matters when you're holding a guitar. Look at Lemmy...look
at Rush...look at this awesome picture
of Celtic Frost for fuck's sake.
These guys are getting laid, right? Maybe, just maybe (ladies) it'll
happen to me.
Man, I got you again! I am so shitting you right now. Girls don't come to our shows! It's about the BEER and the BOOZE. You know I had you going there for second.
Gullable Suckers.
February 14th, 2006:
Valen-fucking-tines Day.
Valentine's Day sucks! Everybody knows it. Whether you're single
or not. Let's make all the couples spend money on stupid shit for
each other. Oh yeah... and let's make all the single people feel
so undesirable the streets will run red with the blood of the unloved
and unwanted. What a great fucking holiday! Thanks Hallmark... you
fucking cocksmokers! Eat a bag of dicks.
So while two-thirds of my band is enjoying the company of their
significant others down at Fred's,
I was planning a nice self-romantic evening myself. I was thinking
about making a nice romantic dinner of Sloppy Joes for me and my
3 cats. (Yes, I know even 1 cat is too many for a single guy to
have but don't give me shit, OK) Then maybe I'll finish off the
bottle of Weller 107 my Dad gave me while watching the Dirty
Dozen. Then when I am good and gooned, I'll lock the Cats up
in the bedroom (i can't bare to look at their precious faces when
I masturbate) and cry/masturbate myself to sleep watching one of
my many Lexington Steele
black ass crusher DVDs. I wonder if Lex is lonely on Valnetine's
Day too. Boo-hoo-hoo.
Kiss my ass St. Valentine. Lex Steele says you're next!
February 2nd, 2006:
I have been on a real bender this week and my liver (and wallet) is begging for mercy, but I did manage to stumble across this little bit of Herve Villachaize goodness.
Plus I just found out that we may be playing Fred's Fest with none
other than The Gideons featuring everyone's favorite Fort Worthian...Mr.
Carl Pack.
February 1st, 2006:
My Liver hurts and it is only Tuesday! I guess the weekend hasn't
quite stopped for me yet. Jealous? Don't be. It's hard out here
for a pimp. OK, that was super fucking
gay and I apologize. I can't believe I said "Pimp". I did watch
Hustle and Flow last week... What I meant to say was that it is
hard out here for a 33 year old, overweight, balding, burned out
drunk who is desperatley trying to relive the 10 years he lost all the while
treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and 22 year old college
girls. It ain't pretty and it ain't easy. Trust me kiddies...Have
fun now because it just keeps getting harder to keep up with these skinny good looking mutherfuckers.
Enough of that Boo-hooing bullshit. Buy me a shot and let's shut
the fuck up about it already. I gots some news for yous. Now this
isn't written in stone yet, but it's just too good to keep under
wraps. The Me-Thinks have been asked to play the Wreck Room's 9th
Anniversary with none other than the completely fucking baddass
dudes of DIXIE WITCH.
I'll keep you posted as it solidifies more.
And now for something completely different:
Here are our weekend practice scores for those of you who are playing at home in the Me-Thinks Fantasy Band contest:
Will -
Marlin -
Ray -
Cassette Tape Mania continues:
Cypress Hill - Self Titled Debut
Agent Orange - Living In Darkness
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Skatenigs - Chemical Imbalance
January 25th, 2006:
Marlin is doing well in his Wine Cooler Recovery. Dr. Wheatley did say he had a bit of a fit when they served a reddish sweet Kool-Aid type drink
with lunch one day, but he was given a few Miller Lites in a baby bottle and that always seems to do the trick. He'll hopefully be out next week. Wish him well.
What are you kids listening to this week? I don't really care I just needed a lead in sentence to this stupid post about what I am listening to this week.
Here's the catch...my portable CD player that I have been using for quite a while now, has conked out on me and I am back to digging
through all my old cassette tapes. So there are some real gems here...
Here's what I have been cranking up in the ole Nissan lately:
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
U.N.K.L.E. - Psyence Fiction
Big Boys - No Matter How Long The Line At The Cafeteria, There's Always A Seat
Muscle Car/RX - Demo
Beck - Odelay
Bad Brains - The Youth Are Getting Restless: Live in Amsterdam
Pailhead - Trait
King Crimson - USA
January 19th, 2006:
OK, OK, OK, so Marlin isn't dead. I'm sorry. I was just trying
to save what little dignity my good friend and band mate had left.
But he always said he'd rather be dead than have to go back to Wine
Cooler Rehab. Well guess what... He relapsed and he's back in the
Wine Cooler Rehabilitation
Center.
Dignity=Gone Forever.
Marlin's wife Liz had some sorta gardenpartybabyknittingwifetypethingy
and one of the neighbors musta left 3 strawberry daiquiri wine coolers
in the fridge not knowing of Marlin's struggles with the sweet demon
liquor. (Mental note: I should let my neighbors know about the problems
I have had with masturbating on mail.) Whatever the reason, he went
on a week long bender. We're talking Pina Colada, Margarita, Green
Apple, Wild Berry, Fuzzy Navel, Melon Splash, and Tropical Mango.
Hell he even slammed a bottle of fucking Arbor
Mist right in front of me.
That was a cry for help if I have ever heard one. That's when I
picked up the phone and called our old friend Dr.
Wheatley and started the ball rolling on an intervention. He
kicked and screamed a little but in the end he went willingly.
So I am asking everybody to pray, start a fire, punch a douche,
shotgun a beer or whatever it is you do to show your love for Marlin
in his time of need. And for fuck's sake, don't give him any goddamn
wine coolers! (beer and liquor is OK. Hell it's encouraged! Fuck...buy
us all a shot while you're at it.)
Our first show (in almost a year) is going to be with Darth Vato at the Wreck Room on Saturday, March 4th. Don't bring any wine coolers
or I'll have Carl put a crutch in your ass.
January 11th, 2006:
Happy New Year Muthafuckas!!!
Well, we haven't done a show since last April and a lot of people
have been wondering why. No we haven't broken up...You
wish bitch. Some of our smarter, more industrious fans have actually
uncovered the truth... Marlin is dead. The first
hint was on the back of our sixth EP - Haltom
Road. Marlin is barefoot and everybody knows when
someone is barefoot on an album that really means they're dead.
The second clue was the huge funeral we had for him and invited
everybody to, but that's neither here nor there.
We were actually thinking about including a small baggie
of ashes in each copy of the Double EP when it comes out this year,
but his family opted for burial. We may include a tuft of
Beard Hair instead.
I would like to thank the following bands for donating their Marlinish-looking
band mates to us so we can come out of hiatus and do our first show
since his passing: The
Fabulous Badasses, The
Von Ehrics and Those
Peabodys. They all just happen to have members that resemble
the Bearded One.
Our first show since last April will be on Saturday, March
4th with Darth Vato
at the Wreck Room. This is going to be a celebration
of the life of a dear friend, a new father and irreplaceable band
mate so put on your drinking shoes kiddies.
Here are our weekend practice scores for those of you who are playing at home in the Me-Thinks Fantasy Band contest:
