May 2010
1 post
April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
7 posts
“Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.”
– J.D. Salinger
RIP
WatchMany many thanks to everyone who came out to the show on Tuesday. And of course, special thanks go to Magnolia Memoir for inviting us to play with them. If you missed it, you can come check us out this Friday at the Verity Room in Canoga Park. It’s gonna be a killer show!
HAPPY 2010!
What better way to start off the new year than with an award:
The wonderful people over at Amped Sounds have voted White Lights 2009’s Group of the Year! We’re honored and grateful to all our fans for voting. Thanks for making last year such a success, here’s to the new decade!
We’ll be celebrating in style at Molly Malone’s on January 26th with the unstoppable...
December 2009
4 posts
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us Friday night at the Joint! We’ll be scattering for the holidays but we’ll be back in full effect next year with a big show at Molly Malone’s on January 26th opening for Magnolia Memoir. Have a happy winter solstice and new year! See you all in 2010. Until then…
November 2009
8 posts
Well its 9th and Hennepin
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
And the moon’s teeth marks are on the sky
like a tarp thrown all over this
and the broken umbrellas are like dead birds
and the steam comes out of the grill like the whole god damn town’s ready to blow
And the bricks are all scarred with jail-house tattoos
and everyone is behaving like dogs
and...
Neve (quadrilemma)
1. The ice melts beneath each step. The further she goes, the deeper the puddle at her boots. Her surroundings veiled in white, she circles blind, the snowfall in bed with gray sky. She is caught in a void, too far out to see the shoreline. She is alone, the blizzard having swallowed up her friends & lovers. The glass floor reflects the vague blank sky, the two conspiring against her. ...
The world I long to join hums
on past midnight, and you, a life-
time and several states away, lie
sleeping in your thoughts. But if I
think hard enough, could I stir you,
or perhaps imprint the memory of
me on the morning rays that greet
you, the residual longing
of an unremembered dream?
If you wake suddenly in the midnight
hours, with that common jolt of free
fall,
you have...
6 train
You seem surprised to see me…
I am humbled by your very presence.
Its been much too long since i have seen your face with any regularity.
A fact riddled with regret and yet, joyful exuberance.
Do you have a light?
***********
a transcript, the latter two thirds of a ‘speech’ by a real man:
10:45 PM - Brooklyn, NY - Manhattan bound 6 train
a man tip-toes on to the subway...
October 2009
7 posts
The Shape of Things to Come
Leave the war. Buy a van. Load your gear. Fitter, Happier, More Productive. Put the iron on the pavement and the pen in your hand and write till your fingers bleed and your liver fails. Buy a mad dog that wont sit still. Fashion an idea for a fireworks display. Be ready with a stainless steal machete. Drink a half a pint of Ballantine’s each day. Maybe hole up in a room above a hardware...
Hey check out this review of our single, “Ponzi Scheme” over at AmpedSounds.com!
Watch“Sand” live at the Key Club 10/09/09
Watch“Ponzi Scheme” live at the Key Club 10/09/09
Venice
So last night we played our pick-up gig at Venice Bistro in preparation for tomorrow night’s big CD release party at the Key Club. The show went very well in spite of a clusterfuck of technical difficulties sprung on us at the last second. We forgot an important chord for the electronics, our drummer Joey broke his finger and the sound guy refused to let us use his precious 3rd mic. But...
September 2009
3 posts
The wait is over! Check out our brand new single...
Timelapse
Take the world in fast-motion: clouds brew above mountains before hurrying across the landscape, dissolving to raindrops absorbed by the sea. A daily ritual of infinite days. Peaks and crests emerge from the hills, like sinews of muscle swelling with strength. A green film of stubble spreads over the rolling knolls, the yawning blossom of fauna reaching for milky sunlight. There the mineral...
August 2009
19 posts
Many many thanks to everyone who came out to the Palms Bar last night and also to Max for setting the show up. It’s a dark, intimate venue with a positive crowd. Last night was the first time in a few years we gigged with our buddy Max. Back in college, we played annual Halloween shows together and did a couple regional tours. It’s good to know the tradition lives on. Follow him...
Voodoo Economics
The banks reported record profits this quarter thanks to the billions of taxpayer dollars the government doled out to them. It’s bad enough that the people who ruined the economy are the ones siphoning even more of the poor’s wealth, but to take the bailout money and then call it a profit is perverse. While Goldman Sachs reports nearly $4 billion in profits, the public is docile and...
Retrograde
In the end, post-production on this 4-song EP will have taken 2 months. This statement isn’t a complaint by any means; we were prepared not to expect results to stay on schedule. With music as in movies, everything takes twice as long as it should. This 2 month waiting period reminds me of the last semester of college.
Stay with me for a moment…. My last year of college I had...
Today we found out that Joe LaPorta is out of town until the 27th which pushes our whole schedule back another week. Realistically, we probably won’t have hard copies of the EP available until September 10th or so. That’s quite a bummer since we’re playing a free show on August 30th at the Palms Bar with comedian Max Goldberg and we wanted to have them ready by then. Well,...
So yesterday we sent off the masters to the Lodge in New York City to be mastered by Joe LaPorta. He’s worked on some of our favorite records of the past few years, so it’s pretty kickass that he’s mastering our EP. It will arrive in New York tomorrow so hopefully we’ll have it ready by next week, at which point it will get sent off to be pressed. Then it’s only a...
“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once in the sky, that would...”
Thanks to everyone who came out to the show last night! It was a blast - waves of positive energy came off the crowd and it felt great to be apart of it. The Lupins and Dino rocked it long and hard, and the place was packed. As I said to Alex last night, the best thing about this community is that the kids aren’t afraid to have a good time. In the rooms next door to us, a couple metal and punk...
It’s not that I’m surprised that there’s such inane opposition to healthcare reform, just that it seems to be working. While I remain optimistic that some sort of public plan will come through for us, the sheer extent to which lobbyists and the right wing are going to derail this progress is astounding. Of course the insurance & pharmaceutical companies want to keep things...
Many thanks to all those who came to our house party last night at Babar. We played a preview of tonight’s set at the Knitting Factory and it went over really well. Tonight should be a really great show with the Remus Lupins and Secret Secret Dino Club. This gig will be our first show since holing up in the studio for most of the year, so we are bursting at the seams to hit the stage. We...
moth
The salt shaker was empty so he popped off the top. He opened the metal slat on the iodine jar with the lady in the yellow raincoat. As he poured the salt from the jar into the shaker, a full-grown moth fluttered out of the container and careened wildly toward the light. He looked at the container and the saltshaker, now half-full. He threw them both in the garbage and went out to buy more...
