Verm Plays Gracious Host

Good times had by all Sat. night in Vermillion with our friends and cohorts Hollander.
Thanks to all our friends for coming out.
Thanks to Prairie Fire for the article.
Thanks to my mom and pops for being so attractive and then doubling that power on me to make me extra fine.
Thanks to me for being so humble.
You're welcome, its a quaint little quality I have.

How To Totally Screw Over Independant Promoters And Touring Bands All At Once,

by the Washington Pavillion


HI! WE BOOK TWO ROCK SHOWS ON THE SAME NIGHT IN THE SAME BUILDING! WE'RE CHARGING OUTRAGEOUS ADMISSION PRICES TO BOTH SHOWS, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS ALCOHOL AVAILABLE AT ONE OF THE SHOWS!! WE COULD HAVE COME UP WITH SOME DISCOUNT DOUBLE ADMISSION THINGY, BUT THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED KIDS TO WANDER BETWEEN ROOMS WATCHING ALL THE BANDS, INCLUDING THE AMAZING OUT-OF-STATE AND TOURING ACTS THAT WILL BE PERFORMING!! BUILDING UP THE SCENE DOESN'T EXACTLY BUILD UP THE POCKETS IF YA KNOW WHAT IM SAYIN!! GOOD LUCK PROMOTERS!! HAVE AT YE!!

SINCERELY,

THE WASH PAV, YO

RECOGNIZE

my apologies...

Dear Jack,
I'm sorry I told you to "get a life" today.
I didn't mean it. It just seems that all you do is follow me around and wait outside of the bedroom door for me to come out. Seriously, dude, I'm not that cool. Find a new role model. How 'bout your sister? She's pretty cool. After all, she does poop in the toilet everytime.
Think about it.
your pal,
D

kiss my grits

This morning on my usual walk along the beach, I came upon a most excitable event. A crowd of people were gathered at the end of a dock. They were all watching what appeared to be a man. This man appeared to be an artist. He also appeared to have enraged the crowd surrounding him. Interested, I asked an onlooker on the edge what was all the commotion.
"This pig who calls himself an artist is painting the ocean the color red! RED!!"
"Why, that's quite ridiculous," says I, "the ocean is quite obviously blue. For quiteness."
"Let's string him up!" yells my new friend. The crowd approves.
"Wait!" I climb upon a large rock to address the crowd, "I have a better way of punishing this poser of the passions! To hang him from a rope would bring a quick death to which we receive no satisfaction!! I say, kill him with apathy! Ignore his cheap attempts to bring original thoughts to the world! Starve him with your continued acceptance and brainless pleasure in the common art of blue oceans, yellow suns, precise lines, and clear factions.!!"

"Hooray" they all cried. And we were all most jolly.

Who is Punker than Us?

a promoter recently asked us before playing a show if we would play more of our "ska" material. Uh, we don't play any ska and that's totally punk of you to ask. Anything you can slap a little label on is the opposite of punk in my opinion. wake up kids. take a shower. listen to sleepeater. shop at hot topic. Walmart and Hot Topic and Sleepeater. Corporate Corporate Corporate. In the Walmart grocery section of the Walmart Super Store, milk is almost 59 cents cheaper than at the Autozone. Hot Topic sells the coolest little replicas of John Denver and Kennedy flying a plane together. Sleepeater has a secret space at their top secret headquarters in which is hidden the very secrets of the time-honored tradition of something very important, I'm sure.

why you should pay me to play music instead of work a real job...

cheerful
friendly
of a good repore
sweet disposition
friendly with elderly
deadly 12 foot jumper
good speller
not that ugly
aims to please
toilet trained
charmingly vulgar

corporate pig

i am.
a corporate pig.
don't mistake me.
for anything other.
i am.
in charge of distributing.
over the northwest section of the southern.

Pay Attention--Win A Prize!!

For those paying close attention, every sleepeater song has a word used twice but in different places. These special words then reveal the lyrics of the buried track on the upcoming album. Those who complete this word map and return their correct results to sleepeater will receive the code to unlock the secret song! Within the secret song is a subliminal message that, when played backwards, eliminates stress and anxiety and improves overall flexibility.

sleepeater @ Riverwalk -------------------Thanks Kris.

May All Acquaintances Be Forgot

except for you, of course.

sleepeater rocked out its final show of the year in the basement of the Harvester building (Riverwalk Cafe). Not only was it the last, but for sure one of their best performances of the year. They transitioned seamlessly between songs which is not so easy when you're moving from guitar to piano and back, as well as using about 5 different tunings. The Poo actually had to re-tune for every song! We could have made it easier on ourselves by grouping certain songs together, but no. Certain people like to do things the hard way and it's quite possible that D stands for Dictator. Or, just dick. Either way massive fun was had. Massive.
We rolled out in a hurry at 11:30 to unload all our gear at the studio a few blocks over. Done at 11:47, Danny scooted on home to toast the new year with Kris. The Poo and I had a quick "toast" and he left at 11:52 to find a new year smooch. The D then proceeded to toast himself, before leaving at 11:57 to renew a memory with his lovely wife.
The plan was almost ruined by a red stoplight. However, the clock down in the club must have been a bit slow because I walked in on the countdown at 8 seconds. I'm like James Bond. A Knight in Flannel Armor. The Man for the Moment.