Promo Pictures Day Diary Entry

So today woke up at 9am, drank a whole case of Red Bull and went to the sandwich bed...only to get into a fight with the manager because you're only allowed to have one man and one woman in one room. I was really sad. I mean, it was really seedy and we don't have $80...even if it's a bed that looks like a sandwich. I kept trying to tell him we weren't going to even touch each other or anything in the room. It was useless.

There was a lot of traffic in Chicago today. We drove for maybe five hours and shot pictures for one hour. We saw Matthias' left nut. Actually just Paul did. But he didn't say anything because it was awkward. We have street fighter style pictures though. And pictures of us jumping and doing other typical amateur band-photo things. We ate thai food and met old people and swung on some bars by some shirtless dude.

Our friends from Columbia, Missouri are here to play shows with us. They are staying with Shuuawn RoZenBLATTT while PeeWee Newmann sleeps on my futon. We played in Hyde Park tonight. Pachyderm didn't get a chance to play because some people wanted to sleep. That was terribly awkward. Those people don't know what they missed and also, what the hell? It was only 1am. Hyde Park is full of cry babies. We met some cool people though. We saw some kids drop acid for the first time ever. It looked like a baby's fingernail.

Last night the boys slow motion punched each other and played bloody knuckles for about 25 minutes straight. Needless to say, I was bored during the last five minutes. Thanks to Tom for being our favorite uncle out of all the uncles we have. We have a lot of uncles.

Tomorrow we play in Wicker Park. Across the street from Jewel/KMart above Belmont Army. I don't know the address. You should come!

Angie & Paul

FRIDAY 2/15

Netherfriends return with the BSOD guys for an electronic fuck fest

And next weekend:

I made this flyer, it's kinda ghetto.

One of my favs from Ghostly International, Mobius Band, is offering a V-Day EP for free today with covers from Daft Punk and Daniel D. Johnston. Love!

xsxwx x2008x

Hello friends. Our next show is February 23rd with A-Sides (Vagrant) and Division Day (Eenie Meenie) at Subterranean, 9pm $10...finally, an 18+ show! We're playing a party right after down the street at The Halfway House. We will play a huge game of spin the bottle, tongue usage mandatory.

At SXSW '08, we will be playing at the Black & Greene showcase/party on Friday, March 15 @ The Jackalope with Drug Rug, VIVA VIVA, Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears and a Special Guest. We play at 5pm.

This is months from now but on May 3rd, we're going back to my home to play at the CAID (Contempary Art Institute) in Detroit for the Curare Festival.

I found this incredible poster online somewhere from our show at The Empty Bottle with Black Ladies and Yea Big + Kid Static. I never saw it.

Artist.

Secrets

Firstly, let it be known that our dearest Paul Newmann initially titled this blog "Netherfirends all purpose blog sight".

On Friday, the three of us played our first "acoustic" set at the house of The Young Turks which was interesting since it was the first time we had even attempted it. We had a lot of fun and hugged a lot.

We just got a new van! It broke down... But we fixed it! and now it works. It took a huge dent out of our wallets so we are working on new merchandise, which includes shirts and buttons designed by Devin Nordmeyer. We are getting CASSETTE tapes for tour via I'm Drinkin' This from Omaha, Nebraska. I'm pretty excited about that...we need a tape player in our van.

Anyways, our last show before tour is next Monday at The Empty Bottle. Here's the temporarily-named schedule for January...

MIDWEST TOUR '08

Jan 2 Dekalb, Illinois @ A basement show courtesy of Lauren
Jan 3 Bloomington, Indiana @ The Cinemat
Jan 4 Lansing, Michigan @ Mac’s Bar
Jan 5 Detroit, Michigan @ Scrummage
Jan 6 Toledo, Ohio @ Mickey Finn’s Pub
Jan 7 Bloomington, Illinois @ Porch Honkey House
Jan 8 Bloomington, Indiana @ The Art Hospital
Jan 9 St. Louis, Missouri @ 2 Cents Plain
Jan 10 Des Moines, Iowa @ Vaudeville Mews ** %
Jan 11 Minneapolis, Minnesota @ Castle Greyskull
Jan 12 Milwaukee, Wisconsin @ TBA * (Need venue!)

** Looking for local bands to play with
% Need place to crash, e-mail us

There's probably other things I'd like to share but right now we're all freakin out about Finals. College, man.