I have a new life goal, I want to get on Ace of Cakes and have them make this for my birthday and i want everything to be edible. Including the flames. That’d be sweet.

Have you seen the *EXTENDED* Ponytail video?

In all the hubbub surrounding going to London, playing with weezer, getting sick, Halloween, etc. we totally forgot to blog up our new *extended* Sophisticated Side Ponytail video. Well it's out right now! We went in the studio with John King in May and worked on finally making Ponytail a longer song, because it was too good to be so short. Then this August, on Claire's birthday, we went with creative collabos and all around great dudes and directing team, THAT GO to built a green screen in the garage of a mansion on the water and shoot the exciting second half to the vid. It is here now in *HD* for your viewing pleasure.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgA5qxEy_Y

(p.s. You can pick up new versions of Sophisticated Side Ponytail and Me + Yr Daughter on iTunes)

There are also a tonnn of video production stills from our pal Chona Kasinger that can be found HERE. See the behind-the-scenes hijinks and candid portraits.








xoxo, NPSH

I LIKE BIG BUNDTS

And I cannot lie.

Rainy days are good for going through bookmarks you didn't know you had. Today I discovered a segment on BIG BUNDTS via The Food Librarian. I like the pun. And the delicious looking banana chocolate marble bundt cake. Yum.

Now back to important music related things & hard hitting journalism from the NPSH action news team...

Weather Fun with Obama

Do you want to know the weather and ALSO how Obama would dress in such weather? Well hooray because this special part of the Weather Channel website does just that. This is what it looks like for us in Seattle this week:



Big surprise there...

Check it out for yourself http://obama-weather.com/

For some reason it pops up in Celsius, so for us silllllly Americans who do it differently than the rest of the world and the scientific community, you can change it to Fahrenheit at the bottom.

Pearl Jam vs Devo (well not vs so much as cover)

This is one of Liam's favorite things mixed with one of his least favorite. I'll let you guys try to figure out which is which.

We make a cameo in this sweet new Blakes vid

At long last, The Blakes video for Ramshackle Hearse is out! We were on set one day of this shoot last year and we make a very brief cameo (see if you can spot Shaun, David or Luke), along with some other great Seattle bands. Now the Blakes album is finally out and so it the video. It's cool to see it all come together in this very slick vid. Congrats guys.

LDN Day 3

Oct 13th, 2009 (London SoHo, The Den)

We got up earlish to go to an interview for a magazine and then did a quick photo shoot with them down by the Camden market right on the water. It was right after the interview that we found out about getting to open for Weezer for a secret myspace show (which still is blowing my mind that we actually did that). We got food and then headed over to The Den where we were playing our second show. We knew this was going to be kind of a weird show because the venue got change the week before. The venue itself was amazing though. There were trapezes, hanging hoops and a giant stripper pole in the middle of the floor. We were told that they periodically had Burlesque shows there and they used them for that. They got us a table at this spectacular restaurant where they paid for everything and there was no menu. They just brought down a bunch of food and didn't stop for a looooonnngg time. It started with pâté, muscles, and a spinach salad. Next was ribs, salmon, and cheesy potatoes. I’m sure there were a couple of other things in there but I can’t for the life of me remember what they were. The show wasn't as packed as the night before but it was still really fun. We decided to just go as balls to the wall as we could, literally. At one point, Shaun jump on to the wall and was hanging on the fabric that covered it. It was fucking awesome. After the show we got invited to go down and hang in the club which was right below where we were playing. Shaun, Brian and I all walked down there to see the entire club packed with people dancing. This was my first introduction to DubStep. It’s a mix of techno, reggee and hip-hop. I don’t really know how to describe it other than that but it’s awesome. It's not the type of thing i think i'd listen to while at home but it makes for some awesome dance party music.

Winter Boots

Winter is coming. Do you have cozy, stylish boots?? Maybe, if you are KanYe. For the rest of us we will dream...






These boots are from here. They are handmade on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay!!! In Maine! How cool. Dream dream dream.

LDN Day 2

Oct 12th, 2009 (London, The Flower Pot)

I got up around 10am and went on a journey to go find porridge and try to figure out the difference between that and oatmeal. It didn't take me long to find it but i still don't know what the difference is. After breakfast, we grabbed all our gear and hopped on the tube to head off to The Flower Pot in Camden. We made an agreement with the backline company so they would take all our personal equipment and keep it with the gear we were renting because we were renting the exact same thing for four days straight, which was a life saver. The green room at The Flower Pot was the manager's flat upstairs so it was really cool. All they asked of us was to not draw any penises on the wall. We got our rental gear and set our stuff up, we went out to have our first pub meal which was amazing although we had to scarf it down so we could get back to sound check. We finished sound checking and headed off to the Camden locks to wander around the awesome market that was there. If i lived in Camden i would go there every day. There was good food, cool clothes and anything else you could possibly think of they sold there but most importantly, I’ve never seen so many good shoe stores in a row. We walked around there and got a little tour of where Amy Whinehouse likes to party then we headed back to the venue. We got back about an hour before we were supposed to go on and there may have been 10 people there, but one of those people was one of our good friends Travis from the States who I hadn’t seen in a couple months. We hung out with him playing apples to apples (for those of you who don't know what Apples to Apples is, check it out!!!) in the flat upstairs until it was time for us to play the show. We walked downstairs and were blown away by how many people showed up in the last 45 minutes cause the club had filled up a lot since we last looked down there. It was a fun show because the audience was dancing the whole time and actually got into it. I had a few instrumental issues with my rental gear, but that just happens whenever you rent stuff so no surprise there. We ended up hanging out at the club for a couple of hours just enjoying being in London and to be honest, i was still a bit in awe that we were actually playing in London. We called it a little bit of an early night so we could get up early for an interview the next day.



P.S. This has nothing to do with anything but it's pretty cool. My only questing is, what is she supposed to be?

Love Is In The Air

The new Whitney Houston jam is jammin! I saw the vid on MTV jams or something. Time to jam out. Smooth disc0 funk for you.

Hype Machine it! Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill

Some songs I really wish I wrote, and this is one of them. But the writing credit goes to my girl Alicia Keys. That's fresh.

Happy November

It's November 1st! Today is the day after Halloween. Hello. Today is a day! It's starting to really feel like Fall, right?






How was Halloween for you? Ready to move on to some pumpkin pie and November Rain???

xoxo

London Pics Slideshower

pics are a lot more interesting with captions, SO go to our flickr and look at thee candid pics with our wordz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/npsh/

or click the fish and chips!

rock out! london invasion 2009!

LDN Day 1

Today was the first time in about two weeks that i've woken up not feeling exhausted so here's a recap of our adventures in England.

(Sorry in advance to those of you that can't stand bad grammar)

Oct 10th-11th, 2009 (Flying to the UK)
We had to be at the airport by four in the morning so we could check all our gear and make sure we were there in time to get on the plane. We were flying from Seattle to Toronto and then from Toronto to London. The first flight from Seattle to Toronto was five hours and we each got our own row which was awesome. I watched Moon, which i highly recommend all of you watch, and then slept the rest of the time. Once we got to Toronto we had a four hour layover. During that time, Liam and I took the opportunity to have a jam session in the echo chamber that’s in the middle of the Toronto airport international section (We have footage of it that we'll post up soon). It was me playing my guitar with no amplifier and Liam just wailing on his snare drum. I guess it was really loud cause everyone was staring at us when we walked out. Luckily, it didn’t actually matter. The next flight was six hours and again we each got our own row to sleep in and that’s exactly what I did.

We got to LDN at eight in the morning and we were all pretty messed up from jet lag and just general flying. We grabbed our bags, hopped on a tube and then took a taxi to our hotel. I knew that I was going to have to just walk around all day otherwise I would pass out and I wanted to get jumped straight into that time zone. I barely remember what we did that day because I was so out of it, but at one point Shaun and I went to a pub to get some internet and some coffee when some old drunk guy wearing a sliver track suit told Shaun he’d rip off his balls if we took a picture while in the pub and then proceeded to demonstrate how he’d do it. I realized two things while sitting in that pub, that London is a pretty amazing city and that it has more gorgeous women in it than any other city I’ve ever been to. It’s almost unbelievable. That night we went and got some really tasty and expensive curry. It was then that I realized you can’t be thinking about how much everything is in US dollars because it’ll just mess with your head. We paid close to 15 pounds for some curry that would cost 8 bucks in the US. I slept better that night than I think I ever have.

Pictures to come soon...