The Minni-Thins

Hello from Brooklyn

So, obviously, it's been quite some time since we've updated. Life has taken us all in different directions: Damon has moved to Washington DC, Darin to San Francisco, and I'm in New York. Before moving off, we recorded our sophomore album, That Old Kentucky Blackgrass, and that album is on hold in post production for now. We'll wrap it up and get it to you ASAP, but I wouldn't expect it any time soon. Aaron came and visited me several months ago, and we recorded a third album on Aaron's four track recorder, tentatively called "Waking Up," and Wells is hard at work adding his parts and doing his Wellsian thing. I imagine"Waking Up" will be available early next year. Stay tuned for more...

Julia, On Her Prayer Stand

“Julia, On Her Prayer Stand” is our new song from our newly recorded album, That Old Kentucky Blackgrass (coming 2007), and is now available on our Myspace Profile. It’s a sparse and psychedelic ditty for the Baby Jesus’ birthday, and I hope you like it.

She keeps asking where the door goes. Well, dear, it opens a wall. Go and open it right now, reveal the great hall- let loose the hose that knows where all the words, they go; the point of this speech: This sequence of events is not coincidence.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from The Minni-Thins!

B&N X-Mas Mix

Here's the track listing for the Christmas Mix I made for the gang over at Barnes and Noble. Merry Christmas, everyone!

1) Vince Guaraldi - Linus and Lucy
2) The Minni-Thins - Apparent
3) All Tomorrow's Party - As Tears Go By
4) The Velvet Underground - I Know Where Temptation Lies
5) Beat Happening - Playhouse
6) Iron and Wine - Woman King
7) Pavement - Grounded
8) Spiritualized - Sound of Confusion
9) Pavement - Best Friend's Arm
10) The Flaming Lips - Mountainside
11) Wilco - Hell Is Chrome
12) Flake Music - Blast Valve
13) Track Star - I Don't Wanna Fight
14) Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Old Jerry
15) Sukpatch - Smooth Guys (American Mix)
16) Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
17) Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind
18) John Lennon - Well Well Well
19) The Pixies - I Bleed
20) The Spectacular Fantastic - Future Beat
21) Coltrane Motion - Pi Is Exactly Three

That Old Kentucky Blackgrass

zombie

apocalypso is the song of the

prudish

melody we're calling "god" and all his

daughters

are conjourring up six pagan dogs with their priestesses with fiery red flesh headresses on her

THAT OLD KENTUCKY BLACKGRASS

ACT I

1) That Black Black Grass Of Home (Putnam is twisted with all the green, blonde, and grey as Black)

2) The Devil Can't Dance (He is tempted and sways)

3) Germs (The Infection is politely introduced)

4) Apparent (Although it is not)

5) Prolific Shitter (Pleonasm, but he needs it)

ACT II

6) General Manley's Side (Oh, what a sorry saint am I)

7) Save The Nickel And Give It To Her (It gets worse before it gets better)

8) Becky, Go Home (His cousin stays over and stays over again)

9) Purple Wax (The part in which he spills it)

10) Julia, On Her Prayer Stand (Or the part in which it is spilt on him)

ACT III

11) The Itch (Where the infection becomes sentient and civilization grows green)

12) Do The Blackgrass (The dance craze sweeps the infant society)

13) Chorus Of The Zombie Apocalypso (The dead rise to sing along)

14) That Old Kentucky Blackgrass (Satan pays him a visit instead)

COMING SOON

Minni-Movies From The Dame (Lexington, KY)

Here is what happens when we all remember how it goes at the same time and also what it looks like when I dance.

Ugly Uda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZiThuK5mtw&search=Minni-Thins%20Dame%20Lexington%20Live%20UDA

Mad Matador: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iw96lyrVVk&search=Minni-Thins%20Dame%20Lexington%20Live%20UDA

Let Me Be Your Liquor Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIYiUZaIVp0&search=Minni-Thins%20Dame%20Lexington%20Live%20UDA

Twenty Six Seconds Of Exposure To Something Possibly Touched On The Doorknob Of The Washroom At Work, But, More Than Likely, From Your Favorite Mexican Restaraunt, Only Cranked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozWOfOVxteY&search=Minni-Thins%20Dame%20Lexington%20Live%20UDA More to come. And new songs too.

Back From Texas

South By Southwest was absolutely amazing, and Austin treated us better than the likes of us deserve. The streets were full of music and people smiling and dorks crying over some amazing set they just saw and us crying over the amazing sets we just saw.

The whole story is forthcoming on I See Sound, but till then, check out Citybeat.

Also, thank you to John, Jon, and Max at Elysium for being so accomodating and hospitable, and to Ron and Kyle for making the "Summercamp" family barbeque my favorite show we've ever played.

FREE SHOW ON FRIDAY - WITH BURRITOS!

This Friday, March 3rd, is our next I See Sound showcase at The Comet in Northside. This month's wackiness involves Cinci's own Lovely Crash, Baton Rouge's Eames Era, and a garbage truck, overfilled with Skin-So-Soft.

And it's free.

And it starts at 9pm.

And while I've got your attention, check this out:

The 20 Bunnies Project:
A somewhat successful experiment

Feb 24-March 25, 2006

Julia Ranz attempted to draw 20 bunnies every day of the year 2005. More process project than drawing show, the results of her effort will be shown at semantics gallery beginning Friday, February 24^th, 2006. Call it the application of a conceptual framework over something commonly perceived as cute and beautiful, or just call it an obsession with bunnies. The show will include the BunnyMart where visitors get a chance to draw their own bunnies or select handmade bunny items to take home.

Show continues with Saturday hours noon-4pm through March.

For more information about this show call 513 207-5262

You Would Look Damn Good In Black, My Friend

Crystal is not a scientifically designed half girl/ half bunny hybrid. She is a book whore. She is also the creative genius behind Modern Monologue, and, with her fiance, Matt, makes our t-shirts plus lots of other interesting and strange garment odditties. See it for yourself here: http://modernmonologue.com

Don't be shy to ask for something custom-made. Give 'em a challenge, by God!

And, oh, yeah, here is Bradley Beasley's website if you want more information on his new film, "Summer Camp": http://www.shiny.tv/home.htm

PS: If you would like a half girl/half bunny hybrid (who wouldn't?!?), Matt can hook you up as soon as he gets the rest of the raw genetic materials from Ebay.

South By Southwest

Our South By Southwest showcase will be Wednsday, March 15, at Elysium. We go on at 8pm, and will be one of the first acts to open SXSW. Our official SXSW page can be found at: http://2006.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/1417.html. We are also playing the private party for filmmaker Bradley Beasley (famous for directing Flaming Lips videos and his documentary on the band, called "The Fearless Freaks") on Saturday. This event is not, unfortunately, open to the public.

Sukpatch (I am the bassman for their set) posted these details about SXSW on their website:

"Look for Sukpatch to be playing in Austin at SXSW (MOSHI MOSHI PARTY). The show will be the first Sukpatch has played in over five years... The show details are as follows: Friday evening, March 17th @ Latitude 30 Austin, TX Sukpatch will be playing with Tilly & The Wall, Best Fwends and Au Revoir Simone (as far as we know)."

More information at: www.sukpatch.com

ALL AGES SHOW WITH NEWPORT'S FINEST PUNK BAND, PUBLIC DEFENDER!!!

Public Defender is comprised of a band of adventurers: a cleric, a thief, a warrior, and a drummer, named Tooth. I'm not even making this up. And those guys are on a quest, man. Of epic proportions.

They quest for The Rock.

But I know a secret. They already have The Rock, having found it in the hole under (bass player) P's Grandma's house a year or so ago. (Here's a story I wrote about it.) They will share it with you if you promise to dance. That's not too much to ask is it?

Public Defender: Baby, Come Back (download from I-See-Sound.com), From their Self-Titled EP.

This Sunday, witness The Rock in, dare I say, witness The Rock in Spectacle Form. Public Defender will be with us at The Poison Room on 5th and Plum in downtown Cincinatti, OH. It's an early show because it's a school night and ALL AGES, so show up around 5 pm. It's ten bucks, and Leonidas and Shotgun On Blonde will be there too!