the reptilian

Changing it up....

2011-05-11T18:39:00.000-04:00

We are switching over to tumblr now...check it

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Fuhgetaboutit

2011-05-11T12:00:00.000-04:00

Tonight I leave for a three week excursion with good friends/close personal roommates Forget the Times. I'll be guesting with them on the road as we make our way through Canada to New England and then back by way of Pennsylvania and Ohio. It's going to be a fun-filled, international adventure in experimental noise rock and roll hedonism. Check out the tour dates here and if you happen to have had the foresight to live anywhere near any of the locations we're hitting up, then come hang out!

Also, everyone on the trip will be working to keep a tour blog updated. You can find that here.

Once I'm home, the Reptilian will be recording four new songs for a couple of split 7" releases. We have shows booked around Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids in June, starting on the 5th with our Milwaukee boys Living and Wrestling down at the Anthill. All kinds of other exciting things will be happening and more on that will surface as we get to it.

Love Actually,
Russ

Show just announced this Friday!

2011-04-26T15:55:00.002-04:00

We were just added to the bill this Friday at Louie's Trophy House Grill (est. 1918) with Pile, on tour from Boston, as well as local area boys Chinook and Joshualien. The show will be starting at 10PM and will cost you a reasonable three dollars.

Come on out and show some support for East coast musicians a long way from home. Excited that this will be the first chance we've had to play with Chinook, whom if you're not familiar with, kick mad ass.

Check the old fly shit

2011-04-04T16:30:00.008-04:00

There's still so much that could be said about our last tour, but one of the best parts about the trip was getting to hook up some huge shows with some of our best friends Annabel and Joie De Vivre on the way down to Texas and at SXSW. On the road with them was filmmaker/enthusiast/all-around-rad-dude Matt Youngblood who is working on putting together a documentary on DIY music culture.

Matt's done work with Joie before, which you may be familiar with, and he recently put together a trailer for his latest effort. It looks amazing and I wanted to share it with you. There's even about four seconds of live footage of us in there.

You can find out more on the project as it develops through the DIY or Not facebook page.

Reptilian Empire

2011-03-30T02:13:00.003-04:00

We're back! Just wrapped up our two and a half weeks of touring with Empire! Empire! and it feels great to be home, especially after a homecoming show like the one we had last night at the Strutt.

The tour was a wild success.

Made some new friends along the way...

Saw some old friends as well...

Experienced some amazing hospitality...

And partied. Hard.

All praise be to Malthar.

Up on Stilts

2011-03-02T01:14:00.003-05:00

We just made it back from our lavish tour with Canyons. Some of the nicest fellows we've had the pleasure of touring with. Thanks to Bobby, Punch, Black Iowa and Matt for showing us such a great time in your neck of the woods. Thanks to everyone who set us up a show, let us crash on their floor and gave us some food/beers/weed. Smooth sailing in the midwest.

On March 11th we will be heading out on the road again with Empire! Empire! down to Texas for SXSW and then wrapping back around East. We will have new shirts, posters and brand new tapes of "Full Health". Empire! Empire! has unfortunately lost a member of their band. So Jon will be covering on bass for them and I(Dan) will be playing drums. So essited! Here are the dates.

Sick but Nasty March Tour w/ Empire! Empire!:

March 11th-Milwaukee,WI: The Borg Ward w/ Empire! Empire!, Living and Wrestling and It's Just Vanity

March 12th-St. Louis,MO: LEMP w/ Empire! Empire!, Joie De Vivre, Annabel, Family Might and At Yalta

March 13th-Aurora,MO: Aurora Community Center w/ Empire! Empire!, Lord Okkoto, Wolfmouth and Treebeard
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March 14th-Tulsa,OK: Tulsa Backwards w/ Empire! Empire!, Joie De Vivre and Annabel

March 15th-Ft. Worth,TX: 1919 Hemphill w/ Empire! Empire!, Joie De Vivre, Annabel, Caravels, Two Knights and Star Commander
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March 16th-Austin,TX: CYLS/Topshelf Records Showcase @ Plush w/ Empire! Empire! and many more!!!!
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March 17th-Austin,TX: The Diaz House w/ Empire! Empire!, For Want Of, Touche Amore, Innards, The Saddest Landscape and many more!!!
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March 18th-Houston,TX: Vinyl Junkie w/ Empire! Empire! and Football, Etc.

March 19th-San Antonio,TX: The 1011 w/ Empire! Empire! and Sohns

March 20th-Hattiesburg,MS: TBA

March 21st-Nashville,TN: Belmont University w/ Empire! Empire!

March 22nd-Columbus,OH: The Carabar w/ Empire! Empire!

March 23rd-Baltimore,MD: TBA

March 24th-New York,NY: The Party Expo w/ Empire! Empire!, Zona Mexicana and Miles Apart

March 25th-Troy,NY: Ground Zero @ RPI w/ Empire! Empire!

March 26th-Philidelphia,PA: TBA

March 27th-Akron,OH: It's A Kling Thing w/ Empire! Empire!, The Ground Is Lava and Northwestern

March 28th-Kalamazoo,MI: The Strutt w/ Empire! Empire!, Pan and Binary Marketing Show

We will be playing one show before we leave in Kalamazoo. March 5th at The Ant Hill w/ Ackley Kid and The New Yorker. TBA's will be filled in soon. Can't wait to see sooo many friends this month!!!

-dan

Welcome to February

2011-02-01T19:11:00.007-05:00

Is it as snowy for you as it is for us?

We've got a show this Friday with a ton of friends including the best budes/best band Joie De Vivre. This was going to happen in Sturgis but when the show wasn't coming together and in danger of not happening, our boy Jack stepped in and moved it to Generic in South Bend. Thank goodness for good people.

Get ready to get your carpool on this weekend...

And the next...

Dan is going to be filling in on bass for Empire! Empire! at this show. Besides, you would just be a darn fool to miss a lineup this good. Plus, the night before we'll be playing at Juke's with Charles the Osprey and Cain Marko. It'll be a good weekend to be in Grand Rapids.

Also we are making our way to SXSW this year with Empire! Empire!. We are doing a two and a half week tour there and back March 11th-March 28th. Here are the tentative dates for that. Get at us if you can help with any dates, we will update once we get more confirmed.

Sick but Nasty March Tour with Empire! Empire!:

11-chicago,il
12-st. louis,mo
13-joplin/springfield,mo
14-oklahoma city,ok
15-ft. worth,tx
16-austin,tx
17-austin,tx
18-houston,tx
19-new orleans,la
20-birmingham,al
21-nashville,tn or louisville,ky
22-columbus,oh
23-baltimore,md
24-new york,ny
25-new haven,ct
26-philly,pa or lancaster
27-akron,oh
28-kalamazoo,mi

We leave for tour with Canyons on Feb. 18th. Check out those dates here!!! Swag on full attack!

Last Name: Ever. First Name: Greatest.

2011-01-03T01:49:00.002-05:00

Happy New Year!

Have you emailed us lately? Well, I just got to responding to a bunch of back emails so our apologies if we move slowly sometimes. Working on starting off the new year on the right foot.

We've got two awesome shows this week, including tonight. The World Is A Beautiful Place will be making their way around from Connecticut and we would love to show them a good time. Listen to their stuff today if you have not had a chance.

The week of shows we're putting together for February is coming together nicely - and in record time. The only date we're still in need of help with is the 23rd in Iowa or anywhere between Kansas City, MO and Rockford, IL. Write, call, text, or whathaveyou if you want us to come play your basement, living room, art space, or all-ages friendly bar. We're looking to do most of these dates with Missouri Hardcore Heavyweights Canyons who are rocking a new three-way split LP.

And finally, we will be heading back down to Texas in March with our friends in Empire! Empire! to be a part of South By Southwest for a couple days. Gotta drop by and visit our Austin boys For Want Of for some promising, extra-legal, lifelong memories. We'll have those dates up when we finalize our route and we'll be needing quite a bit of help. If you have any interest in seeing us play somewhere along the way, feel free to email us now and we'll happily work it into our plans.

Do Right And Kill Everything

2010-12-23T18:47:00.006-05:00

So we are back from our midwest trip with For Want Of. Although we couldn't make two of the shows happen, we had a blast with our new Texas friends. Many thank yous are in order...

-Our Cloudy boiz, Matt, John and Zach for setting us up one of the best Chicago shows we've played, letting us crash two days in a row and tearing it up as always.
-Jack Senff and the Analecta boys for setting us up a show in South Bend even though the weather prevented it from happening.
-Greg from The Dan Akroyd House for the show, place to crash and letting us get back into his house cause we are a bunch of forgetful assholes.
-Eric and Will in Louisville for setting us up at Skull Alley. We weren't able to make the show because of van troubles but they tried their best to make happen for us.
-Jay at Gas America in Crawfordsville, IN and his brother Tom Ross for being the nicest strangers I've ever met. When our van broke down Jay got a hold of his brother and he fixed our van on the real real cheap in the parking lot of Advanced Auto. Can not thank them enough, they saved us around 800 dollars. Without them we wouldn't have been able to finish the tour.
-Andy at The Monster House for the food, show and awesome place to crash.
-The dudes in Annabel for letting us play their record release show and Corey, Scotty and their room mates for letting us crash at the Kling Thing house and step on people's shoes.
-Victoria and The DAAC for consistently booking us excellent shows in Grand Rapids.
-All the new and old friends we got to see and play with all the nights of tour: The New Yorker, Goose, Sweet Talk, Graphite, Oh! Goliath, Last Legs, Leonard Hatred, Maryn, bst.cr, Drug Money, Into It. Over It., Two Handed Fools, Nigel Thornberry, Boy With Mace, Good Teeth/Gold Teeth and Cain Marko.
-Last but not least the dudes in For Want Of. Without those dudes, we would probably still be stranded in Indiana. They consistently stayed positive and made the tour 100 times more awesome. I'm so glad they could make it to the midwest and become some of our best friends.

Now that is all out of the way. We are excited to announce that this March we will be doing a 2 to 3 week tour with Empire! Empire! to make it down to Texas to play SXSW. So pumped for this and there will be more details about that soon!

Before that happens we are gonna do a little 7 days run out west a little farther then we usually do. If anyone can help us out, get at us. Here are the dates for that:

Feb. 18th: Indianapolis,IN
Feb. 19th: Champaign, IL
Feb. 20th: St. Louis, MO
Feb. 21st: Columbia, MO
Feb. 22nd: Kansas City, MO
Feb. 23rd: Cedar Falls, IA
Feb. 24th: Rockford, IL

After the holidays we have some excellent shows coming up in January. Check them out in the upcoming shows section of our blog. Happy Holidays!!!!!!!

Shine Blockas

2010-12-05T19:45:00.003-05:00

Our December Tour with For Want Of is completely booked. We are sooo excited for this shit, so many friends to hang with. Thanks to everyone who has booked a show for us. We have some new songs and new merch. Here are all the dates and the facebook links for our winter excursion!

December Tour with For Want Of:

12/11/10

Strangelight w/ Cloud Mouth, Sweet Talk, The New Yorker
Chicago, IL
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12/12/10

Generic w/ Analecta
South Bend, IN
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12/13/10

The Dan Akroyd House w/ Leonard Hatred
Champaign,IL
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12/14/10

Skull Alley w/ Evil Grimmace
Louisville, KY
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12/15/10

Monster House w/ Drug Money, Maryn Jones, bst.cr
Columbus, OH

12/16/10

Musica w/ Annabel(7"Inch Release Show!!) w/ Into It. Over It and Two Handed Fools
Kent,OH
FB Event Link

12/17/10

The DAAC w/ Good Teeth/Gold Teeth, Nigel Thornberry and Boy With Mace
Grand Rapids, MI
FB Event Link

12/18/10
The No Fun House w/ Cain Marko
Kalamazoo, MI
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After the new year we have some awesome shows coming up. On January 3rd we will be at the No Fun House with TWIABPAIANLATD(members from My Heart To Joy, click the link for the name, its really longggggg) and Black Churches. TWIABPAIANLATD just released a 7" on Topshelf Records. Check out the preorders here.

On January 7th, Snowing and 1994! are coming back to Michigan and we have the pleasure of playing with them at the DAAC. Snowing just put up their brand new album for download on their website. And on January 16th we will be playing with Maps & Atlases and Charles The Osprey at the Strutt. We are very excited for the new year!

Count Your Lucky Stars are having sales on their releases for the first 13 days of December. Swoop up some Christmas gifts at their website here.

Also we will no longer be using myspace. It is becoming very frustrating so all of our updates will be on here and Facebook. We will be putting all of our music on our Bandcamp as well. Here is the link for our Dec. tour on Facebook. We are stookkkkeeeeddd!

Candy Yams and Collard Greens

2010-10-26T17:49:00.002-04:00

This December we will be doing a week with For Want Of from Austin,TX. They play some real fast thrashy noodly screamo that will melt your face. They just put out a 7" and it rules so hard. Check them out: http://www.myspace.com/forwantof

Saturday 12/11- Chicago,IL
Sunday 12/12- South Bend,IN
Monday 12/13- Bloomington,IN
Tuesday 12/14- Louisville KY
Wednesday 12/15- Columbus,OH
Thursday 12/16- Akron/Kent/Bowling Green,OH
Friday 12/17- Grand Rapids MI
Saturday 12/18- Kalamazoo MI

We will update this as soon as more of the dates get confirmed. Gotta show these southern boys how the midwest was won.

Talkin About That Country Shit

2010-10-19T19:10:00.014-04:00

Get out the way, pretty Joie coming through!!!! This weekend was an amazing one. Even though our tour with our best friends Joie De Vivre couldn't happen. We salvaged what we could and made an excellent weekend out of it. On Friday, we played the 3rd last show of the Cabana House in South Bend. I don't think we have played anywhere else in South Bend except the Cabana House in the last year. It was sad to see it go but it was a great night. We got see many friends and make a lot of new ones. If you haven't checked out Analecta, William Bonney or Into It. Over It. yet, do yourself a favor and give them a listen. Our friend Dave Summers took some rad pictures:

After our show, we slammed some Del Taco, made our way back to Kalamazoo with Joie De Vivre and rested up for the DAAC. In the morning there was much NBA Jam and wiffle ball to be played.

The DAAC was amazing as always. William Bonney kicked off the night right. It was awesome getting to spend the weekend with those dudes. We go way back with Jack and Michael and their band is amazing. Charles the Osprey followed and melted our faces. Seriously one of the best Michigan bands playing right now. They just put out a 12 inch record on Friction Records. Check it out! Thanks so much to everyone who came out and yelled along, the DAAC is our home away from home. It was awesome to see so many friends. We had to end the night right and our friend Arthur had a little favor to ask Russ. So we did it up as shown here:

BOOM! Chewbacca Mask! After the show we said goodbye the only way we know how...arm wrestling competition. Russ of course won.

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us this weekend. We had a blast. Thanks to Joie De Vivre for playing some of my favorite music and being some of the most solid guys I've ever met. Next weekend we are doing a weekend with The New Yorker from Chicago. Grand Rapids on Friday and Kalamazoo at the No Fun House on Saturday. BOOYAH!

-dan

Words and Shit

2010-10-13T20:29:00.002-04:00

We've been meaning to do this for awhile, so here are the lyrics to Full Health.

Also if anyone is interested, here is the link to purchase Full Health on Itunes:
Full Health on Itunes

Pretty Big Doses:
Those long loud nights spent underground. Watching and singing in the crowd. This may lead to broken bones./Half of you went crawling home with your tails between your legs./Structures. Fractures./Make your way right up to your room and take yourself right out of our lives. Oh god, what a good way to make some life long friends./I won't forget my time spent in this place. These memories make for great stories./Embrace your surroundings.

Dungeons and Dragqueens:
Face it, your memory's been erased by gift registry and table arrangements./ Move along as we move forward. I've lost another good friend./ Face it, she's faceless. Her ink stains erased us./I wish this winter would end. The air has left me frigid and doubtful./ It's not a means to an end./ Now I wear the things I learned on my sleeves. With my sights set straight as we take next steps./ It's not a means to an end. You're half-hearted lack luster. You can't find your own way. Release my friend./You've failed him./Beaten him in./You failed him./Release my friend./You failure./You are decay.

Bulls on Patron:
Lets start the new year right. My clothes are layered thick and they won't leave my back for the next two weeks. But there's one thing that doesn't sit quite right and it lingers like an awkward silence./Listen to your friends. Tell them what you think you oughta know. And if they're your friends, they'll tell you what they've been told./Days have been passing, he doesn't acknowledge. And in his final moments he knows that they follow him home./Bad moons and dirt roads wont get us very far. Does this not feel right? Tensions will rise. Friendships will end. New ones begin. Lets start over.

Peyote Ugly:
Footsteps made heavy trace our way./I don't know where I'd rather be than sitting on this porch with you until the summer goes away.

Roman Sideburns:
Hey feline, watch me do cartwheels through your front lawn. Spend my time in dirt and trees. It clears my mind, helps my breathe. Hey feline, check this out./My shoulder cracks as I wear down this wheel. There is a line for some gratuity. I feel so unaccomplished. I've got what you want so pick up your goddamn phone. There is no way I'm coming back here in this fucking cold./I don't want to waste my time in this whole with you./This youth can last.

200% Sweater
I can't believe I've found my calling. Face up to the sun with my arms stretched through the roof. I can't believe that I've found my calling./Throw your habits in the fire. Days are dead long. I tend to break my own rules from time to time. Put it out./Face down in the sand, I've made a real impact on this town. I've found my calling. All it is is just call and response. Just call and response./My good friends are outside, don't mind them. Try not to wake the neighbors. My parents are gone all weekend. Don't worry about the mess here. We'll clean up when you come back over.

Aerosmith Kids:
No I didn't study but still I had to take the test. Things aren't looking up for me academically. Barricaded in my room hoping that no smoke would go through. Day dream about things I wish I could do. Don't bother me before noon./More of these heavy rock riffs wear out the speakers at my place of employment. I'd rather enjoy my friends riffs in my car where I can get some enjoyment out of my best friend's gifts./Now I'm living for my self. Varsity blues can't bring me down and stop me in my tracks. Don't bring me down./My best friends write the best riffs./ Don't bring me down. We'll stay to the end.

Big Time Stuff

2010-09-22T16:08:00.002-04:00

Preorders for our 10 inch release of Full Health are now up. Thanks so much to Keith and Count Your Lucky Stars. Also Count Your Lucky Stars has a brand new website that everyone should check out. Very excited for the upcoming month! Lots of shows and brand new 10 inch!

PreOrders:

http://countyourluckystars.bigcartel.com/product/the-reptilian-full-health-cd-10-vinyl-pre-order

New Count Your Lucky Stars Records Website:
http://www.cylsrecords.com/newpage/

Fuck Signs Always

2010-09-12T15:29:00.003-04:00

So we have some bad news...our October tour with Joie De Vivre is no longer going to happen. We have to decided to play a bunch of local shows instead, some of which will be with Joie De Vivre, to help with the release of our new 10 inch, Full Health. It will be released on Count Your Lucky Stars at the beginning of October. Hopefully at all our shows in October we will have Full Health available on vinyl, tape and CD. Fingers crossed! Here is a sneak peak of the cover of the 10 inch. Our good friend Sam Allen painted it for us. We will be updating more soon about the release in the next few weeks.

Here are our shows for October:

10/10/10
The Strutt w/ La Dispute, Cain Marko and Koji
Kalamazoo,MI

10/15/10
The Cabana House w/ Joie De Vivre, William Bonney, Into It. Over It. and Analecta
South Bend,IN

10/16/10
The DAAC w/ Joie De Vivre, William Bonney and Ackley Kid
Grand Rapids,MI

10/22/10
The Turtle Den w/ The New Yorker, Good Teeth/Gold Teeth and Jazz Hands
Grand Rapids,MI

10/23/10
The No Fun House w/ The New Yorker and Pan
Kalamazoo,MI

Home From Tour and Upcoming Tour with Joie De Vivre

2010-08-16T21:53:00.020-04:00

So we made it back safe and sound from our summer tour with Victor! Fix the Sun. It was long but we had a blast to say the least. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us. Also thank you to everyone who has come out to our last couple local shows we played. They have been some of the best Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids shows we've had ever and we helped out a lot of awesome touring bands. Please check out these bands if they come through your town: 1994!, Big Kids, Former Thieves, Native, Snowing and Pansori.

This is what we did all summer:

We went on many tours on this tour:
GHS String Factory in Battle Creek,MI!

Busch Beer Factory in St. Louis!

We got to hang with a ton of awesome people!
Bobby from Canyons!

Adam from Jersey. Nicest guy I have ever met.

And my baby Shiflet!

We did a lot of swimming. In pools...

And off cliffs in to lakes!

Sometimes things got real road hard.

When things got tough, Jeffe got nasty...

And more nasty...

Until he got me to join his nasty crew.

And I got way nasty.

But overall, things were awesome and we got hang with our best friends
Victor! Fix the Sun and watch them melt our faces 32 nights in a row. Even in the smallest of knooks.

Thank you to everyone who gave us a place to play or stay, something to eat or just hung out and was nice to us.

Now that we are back in the midwest and all settled. We are excited for our next tour this october. We will hitting the road out east with our good friends Joie De Vivre. Also we will have our new 10 inch record "Full Health" available thanks to our buds at Count Your Lucky Stars. We will be updating more once these dates get confirmed but here are the towns we are hitting up.

Oct. 6th-Kalamazoo,MI
Oct. 7th-Lansing,MI
Oct. 8th-Akron,OH
Oct. 9th-Philadelphia,PA
Oct. 10th-Lancaster,PA
Oct. 11th-Baltimore,MD
Oct. 12th-New York,NY
Oct. 13th-Pittsburgh,PA
Oct. 14th-Columbus,OH
Oct. 15th-South Bend,IN
Oct. 16th-Grand Rapids,MI

Live Wyld,
Dan

2010-07-14T00:38:00.002-04:00

And now people are about to start boxing. This is bad news.

Holy cow

2010-07-14T00:32:00.003-04:00

The name of the game here in Greensboro tonight is a down-home Southern style BBQ courtesy of the boys in The Bronzed Chorus. Tour rules. Look to see those dudes up our way in September. Hunter's going to be selling bottles of his own secret family recipe barbecue sauce when they come.

200% Sweater video

2010-07-14T00:01:00.003-04:00

A couple weeks before we left for tour we got the chance to play shows with Pianos Become the Teeth while they were in Michigan. Our boy Chad from Pianos shot some video of us doing one of our new songs in Mt. Pleasant. Check it out. Thanks to him and much love to all those guys.

http://blip.tv/file/3776733

Savannah to North Carolina

2010-07-13T00:50:00.003-04:00

We played Savannah, Georgia last night and it was wicked. Seriously, that town is really cool and I can't wait to go back. Everyone at the Pony Pen is top notch. We had a stupid fun time. On top of getting to see our boy, Midwestern ex-pat Cameron "Baby" Shifflet, in Circle Takes the Square's home turf I managed to pick up a never-played copy of As the Roots Undo on vinyl for only five measly bucks. Score.

Got into Greensboro earlier to hang with the dudes in the Bronzed Chorus for our day off. We've been feasting on grilled food, relaxing, and listening to those two make ridiculously intricate music. Rad times.

Mid-tour update

2010-07-10T19:48:00.004-04:00

We're two weeks in and here's a quick update about what's been going on: Tour started off with a bang. The kickoff show at the Strutt was a blowout and a perfect way to begin a solid trip. Afterward we visited friends in Bloomington and St. Louis, had a great time, and then set off for uncharted territory. Our ventures into the West and Southwest proved defeating with long drives and some less than encouraging incidents in new places. Not to say it was all negative, and we thank everyone who we made friends with and helped us out along the way, but tensions ran high and the future outlook turned occasionally bleak. After a recharge in the Fort Worth/Dallas area of Texas with family members we so infrequently get to see, things began to look up. As of Austin we have had nothing but solid, revitalizing shows - a couple to remind a person why you took an entire month off of work at your stupid, sandwich-making job to begin with.

We're in Florida kicking it with our boys in Antarctic. They are showing us nothing but a great time. We swam in the ocean today, sneaked into something like our fourth or fifth pool of tour, and are now being treated to a St. Augustine grill fiesta, complete with plentiful beers and a dope porch to enjoy.

That's what I can think of for now! More to come as soon as motivationally possible.

Michigan to Michigan - by way of America

2010-06-25T02:40:00.002-04:00

This is it. The tour kickoff show was tonight and it was a blast. Big thanks to everyone who came out and everyone who partied afterward. I am truly thankful for all the friends I got to see tonight before leaving for the next month. We'll try to update from the road. To those at home, see you 30 days from now. To those along the road, see you soon.

Old 'Tilian and New 'Tilian

2010-04-26T18:50:00.004-04:00

we had three songs recorded that we never did anything with and here is a link if you would like to download them.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e1f18e6ebf80c46a0dec85adfe0a530ad5ddf45a3ac0bf4bf0a154af670496da

also we just put up three brand new songs on the player on myspace if you want to check that out. we just played an awesome weekend of shows with joie de vivre and annabel. some of the most solid dudes around. check out their music as well.

http://www.myspace.com/joiedevivreband
http://www.myspace.com/annabelrock

here is a video of us playing at the cabana house in south bend,in this past weekend. thanks for the video scott.

Reptilian - d&d queen from Scott sloth on Vimeo.

Holla At Ya Boi!

2010-04-15T00:28:00.001-04:00

Here is a video of us playing two of our new songs. "Pretty Big Doses" and Dungeons and Drag Queens" ITS GUCCCCCCCCIIIIIIII!!!

The Reptilian at The DAAC 4.9.10 from Somewhere for the Rest of Us on Vimeo.

My PNC Bank

2010-04-14T17:24:00.004-04:00

We've never posted pictures before! This is exciting! These are pictures of us recording with Chris French (from Chris French and the Joie de Vivres).

Dan finally became a man.

Russ did not.

Chris was fucking pissed the whole time.

This isn't us recording but it's proof that we never liked Brok anyways.

We're super stoked to have the new stuff out for all of you to hear (soooon!). We MIGHT have some stuff up later today. Only if we get to 35,000 friends on myspace by the end of the day, that is.
Jon

Recording

2010-04-04T16:26:00.003-04:00

We're in the middle of our third and final day of recording. Jon and Dan are taking care of vocals while I kick back and enjoy doing nothing. Chris French (of the Joie De Vivres) is doing a great job with the recordings and I'm already more proud of what we've done here than anything else we've committed to record. Expect some unmastered versions of a couple songs to be online soon.

Clash of the Titans sucked. Don't go see it.

Swimmingly,
Russ

Next weekend

2010-04-04T16:20:00.002-04:00

We've been busting our butts in the last few weeks practicing and writing songs. We're ready to play some shows this next weekend. What is unfortunate both for us and everyone else involved is Charles the Osprey will no longer be joining us. Regardless, hope to see you in Grand Rapids or Chicago.

What is up

2010-02-21T04:17:00.003-05:00

Our tentative scheduled time to record is some long weekend in mid-March. Song five is finished as of today, minus vocals. That's out of six or seven that we're shooting for. Our desire to pump some post-quartet Reptilian into your ears is overwhelming.

Other things that kick ass on the horizon are: a weekend with Bad Words, Charles the Osprey, Good Teeth/Gold Teeth, and The Midwestern. Both days, all five bands. Grand Rapids then Chicago.

And THEN: a string of three or four shows with Annabel and Joie De Vivre at the end of April.

ALSO, this Summer we set out on the road for a month beginning June 26. We'll have specifics on that soon.

PLUS Jon got an iPhone so in the future he better be doing all kinds of updates from the road.

This is all the good news swirling around us at the moment.

Three's Company

2010-02-09T07:47:00.003-05:00

Coming off our first show as a three-piece this weekend, we'd just like to say thanks to everyone who was there. This past Saturday was something else. It felt great to receive such a positive reaction to what we're doing now. It was fun. Let's do it again soon.

It's a point of pride that we were able get 1994! and Algernon Cadwallader out here all the way from Philadelphia and show them such a good time. Same goes for our old friends in Empire! Empire! as well as one of the coolest bands to pop up in Kalamazoo in a long time, War Dogs of the Pacific. We love that such wildly successful shows happen right here in our hometown and that we get to be a part of them.

Something cool

2010-01-25T05:15:00.000-05:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/three-six-five-project/

This is our friend Dan Lane, in one picture a day.

Blog Fail

2010-01-25T03:41:00.002-05:00

I wish I had been able to update more from the road. One day maybe we'll have the technical wherewithal to make such feats possible. Suffice it to say, tour went well. Mostly. Nothing but thanks and love goes out to Cloud Mouth for the being the best dudes to share a van with and get to see perform for two weeks.

I was impressed and delighted by turnouts nightly. It's reassuring and encouraging to visit so many far away cities and see so many people come out every single show.

We were nearly entirely wiped out of all merch we had to our name. Also terribly encouraging, terribly flattering. We'll be working on getting more together but bear with us if we see you soon and are out of something.

Some quick highlights:
-Getting to watch Former Thieves not once but twice throughout tour. That band is sick and if you don't know about them already, you'll undoubtedly be hearing much more very soon.
-Cougar Den, you best believe. Always, ALWAYS good.
-Recording Mana Burn with Chris French. Song sounds rad if I do say so.
-New Year's. Best I've ever had. Shout-outs to Hannah, Megan, and Katie for the New Year's bubbly heist.
-Multiple stops throughout Texas for margaritas with fun-loving Zonk Wonkbonk.
-Texas in general. They've got palm trees by the coast and sell beer in fast-food restaurants.
-Reuniting with our brothers Lawrence, Wes, and Guillermo.
-Little Rock, Arkansas: bloody fucking mess. Only night ever our sensibilities have been so jarred we had to get a hotel. Wreak Havoc! still rules and at least live up to their name, so to speak.
-New Orleans: I made it there before I died. Really would like to actually get to tour the city sometime though.
-Dolcim. That band fucking owns.
-Any night we got to play with Native and La Dispute. Geezohpete those guys make a show fun.

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Aside from all the good, it is unfortunate to have to announce that the end of this past tour was marked by the decision for Brok to depart from our band. It's been discussed more fully already on our myspace page so I won't go into it much. We played our last show with Brok this weekend in Traverse City. The Reptilian will remain Jon, Dan, and Russ from now until the end. Jon will be taking over on bass and we will be undergoing a major overhaul.

Randomly

2010-01-05T03:53:00.003-05:00

Dan: "I am not watching Ernest Scared Stupid."

Lawrence: "This isn't your house, is it?"

Shortly after...

Jon: [in reference to a space heater] "That is one thing that should not be propped up like that."

Lawrence: "Is this your house?"

Truthfully...

2010-01-05T03:17:00.006-05:00

Right now Brok is utilizing the T-Pain app on Lawrence's iPhone to autotune his voice.

There's a lot over the past few days that should be covered but it's currently being overshadowed by how rad our stay in San Antonio has been. We got in late last night to crash with our brother Lawrence from Sohns. Old boy has the hookup in this town. His house is like a museum to nerd-goodness and horror movie history. We got to see the Alamo today. And we were treated to an absolutely free trip through the Ripley's Believe It or Not haunted house.

By the way, Texas is the only state I've been to where you can by beer (AND margaritas) at a fast food joint.

Tour has been so good to us. But it's only been better since we hooked up with Cloud Mouth. There is so much that should be mentioned that I can't even begin to go into.

For now, here are sick photos from New Year's Eve at the Lemp in St. Louis, taken by all around good guy Dave Summers. I'm still sore from that night.

Also...

2009-12-31T04:42:00.003-05:00

It looks as though we've now got a show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana after we wrap up in Texas. That is some fantastic news. Never been to Louisiana, this gets me pretty excited. It's also just good to know we'll most likely end up with only one day off.

The clubs are just letting out here in this part of Chicago. The conversation of Latino guys wearing cowboy hats and tuxes periodically become completely audible as they walk by the windows out front. So there's that.

The last three days

2009-12-31T04:09:00.002-05:00

We just settled down for the night at John and Matt's place in Chicago. Here's a quick recap of the last few days.

We had a great experience for our first time visiting Milwaukee. Though trying in its own way, with something like 14 bands on the bill and our severe lack of sleep, it was a hell of a show. I'd like to thank the security for absolutely not giving one shit. Other than that, it was awesome of Rod and the Miramar for hosting such a huge event and no small feat providing that many bands free pizza. So hell yeah. And much love goes to Kelsey and Joe for putting up about 13 dudes in their apartment.

Yesterday we recorded with Chris from Joie de Vivre and his co-conspirator Mark. Mana Burn is done, roughly mixed, and will hopefully be online fairly soon. We're all very happy with how it turned out and surprisingly not as sick of hearing it as one might think. We've got some good photo and video documentation of the recording process to share eventually.

As for DeKalb, Illinois; DeKalb is a raunchy place, full of characters. I'd recommend visiting. Tonight's set was the most fun I've had so far. Felt good to be in a basement. We also got to play with Joie de Vivre for the first time tonight and it has made us all the more excited to be part of a vinyl release with them.

-Dan's favorite thing about DeKalb was how spicy his burrito was at local hotspot El Burrito Loco.

-Jon's favorite part of the night was when a very drunk character who was attempting to sell pocketknives and illicit paraphernalia to house guests unceremoniously fell on his ass in getting up the basement stairs.

-Brok is too asleep to ask what the best thing about our DeKalb experience was.

We leave for St. Louis with Cloud Mouth tomorrow afternoon. I believe both Brok and I have yet to change our clothes. New Year's Eve looks to be ridiculous. We've been told there will be waffles afterward.

I'll probably be awake again in five hours or less. The lack of sleep continues. Here's hoping things like that don't have a way of catching up with you.

-Russ

Day one down

2009-12-28T06:17:00.003-05:00

Grand Rapids was awesome last night. That was the best DAAC show we've ever been a part of. Turnout was ridiculous. So many good people crammed in one room. Thank you for that.

We'll be in Milwaukee later today. This will be our first visit as a band to not only Milwaukee, but the state of Wisconsin altogether. Ridiculous times are ahead as we have Native, La Dispute, and Cougar Den to look forward to hanging with.

-Russ

So this is happening

2009-12-26T21:49:00.001-05:00

Tour starts tomorrow. Packing starts tonight.

2009-12-21T10:41:00.000-05:00

The urge to make use of the Daily Puppy gadget is strong...

Anyway, please take note that all month long Count Your Lucky Stars is selling every CD in their catalogue at buy one, get one free.

What a night

2009-12-21T03:56:00.000-05:00

Here's us in Staunton, Virginia (Pronounced Stanton by locals) from back in November.

Let's begin at the beginning

2009-12-21T01:03:00.000-05:00

It's about time we had something a little more personal than just our myspace. We'll be using this blog to keep you more frequently updated about what's going on with our band.

In a few short days we'll hit the road for our fifth tour ever. We'll be doing a handful of days here in Michigan, in Wisconsin for the first time, and in Illinois - along with taking a day to record in Rockford with Chris from Joie de Vivre (more momentarily) - then meeting up with the good, good dudes in Cloud Mouth to make our way to Texas. We'll be bringing in 2010 by piling all seven of us in their van in Chicago and driving to St. Louis to play the big New Year's bash at the Lemp arts center.

With this blog, we're going to do our best to keep you updated from the road. Keep an eye out as that unfolds.

As for the new recording, Count Your Lucky Stars will be doing a four-way split 10" vinyl release with a song a piece from us, Annabel, Empire! Empire!, and Joie de Vivre. It's terribly exciting for us to not only be doing our first vinyl release but to share it with these three kickass bands. For our contribution, we'll be recording one of our newest songs 'Mana Burn,' which is part a calculated plot to become the first band ever sponsored by world leader in hobby games Wizards of the Coast and thus receive free Magic: the Gathering cards for life.

New shirts are on their way for this upcoming tour. Us and CloudDog will also have tour posters on hand.

Live fast.