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Screaming Females: The Affordable Alternative

Here are some pictures from our Terminal 5 show with the Dead Weather. It is a really, really big room. During sound check, Mike and I can hear Jarrett's drums five seconds after he actually plays them. I'm a really lousy photographer. Sorry.

So far I've taken a lot of fruit home...and bottled water...we're bringing tupperware for the rest of the trip...













A brief, candid interview with Mr. Joe Steinhardt on 'making it', 'hittin' the big time', 'cuttin' the cheese', and 'makin' it rain':

WEST COAST IS THE BEST COAST!

well... let's not take it too far but we are super psyched to be hitting the West Coast with our good buddies and new Don Giovanni signees, Shellshag. Most of the dates have come together and the other two are in the works. Anybody know anybody in N. California who wants to give us a show? We have a back up plan though. OPEN MIC NIGHT! Not even joking.





Also, super big apologizes to all the west coast underagers. This tour has way more 21+ shows then we would like it to have. It is just kind of the way it all came together. Beggars can't be choosers! We will try our best to not let this kind o' thing happen in the future. Till then I guess!

-jd

What if... Reissue and Buried in the Nude

Don Giovanni Records is reissuing What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.? on CD. It is officially re-released on July 14. All orders through the Don Giovanni Website will have a limited edition bonus disk with a live set we played on the radio once. Copies with the bonus disc will also be available from us at shows.

The Buried in the Nude music video is now up on YouTube so you can watch it full sized style. Watch it HERE!



Watch these videos to see our inspiration.

Video 1

Video 2

-jd

Rolling Stone

This is funny!

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/07/01/breaking-screaming-females/

-jd

POWER MOVE LYRICS

BELL

one foul swoop on the jaw of man
may pull apart his frame
in for the money
i'm suspect
to me it's just the same

you'll have me
with or without
until our ship floats away

golden tongues for more respect
and some quiet time
kiss the carpet
you're suspect

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SOUR GRAPES

maybe the day
that she met mama
her tiny fingers framed
her face, in light
it was so flawless
that she was a ghost

ok, it's fine to hold her ransom
on her wedding day
deflowered, reviled
and tossed aside
it's useless anyway

i find your son dead in the alley
i find your friends decayed
i see sour grapes on the table
for all the guests to take

i'll run back home
in the old man's slippers
and take the widest route
so i can see the west and
what animals i should shoot

okay, i beat the beanbag open
the kids cried in their seats
parenting, it just seems to hopeless
with the way they look at me

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SKULL
the beast was born
he slithered out of his hole
i starve my pets
chained to a linked fence

i am forced to guard the mile
you are not my mother's child
history is at the door
they tell secrets in their sleep
you wake up and wet the sheets
my good friend is at the door

boys in big shoes
make authority look so cool
and you french the ground
on the other side of our town

relax my bones
put my nail on the gramophone
sounds of the week
are always so bittersweet

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TREACHER COLLINS

eighteen hours i tooled the worst
getting older could bounce back best
nothing could prepare you for this

since my blood was stolen
my heart has been dying

my bones are my teachers
but i have none
D.U. birth defects emit
and bombs
your young gas masked task force
stomp them out
my bones are my teachers
but i have none

love was made for all high school queens
and their faces angle in seams
you can watch it all on T.V.

my bones are my teachers
but i have none
if skin sheds i'm worthless
so hide your sons
my void is my person
a heart to home
visit and you'll find yourself alone

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STARVING DOG

i have found a way
to steep myself under the ground
and all the million ways
you'd convince me to be found
but this ship is cast
my routine is in the can
we will paint this town
you will see how brave i am

i have found the sense
a haunted house
a starving dog
if you come back to me
then i will drag you along
and only you can breathe
in the center of the lake
will the summer girls
i will give
and you can take

office of the brave
i look into your eyes

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LIGHTS OUT
let's not all forget about feeling
and frame it through the hole in your skull
let's not all forget about feeling
the big gun always forgets

lights out for sally at midnight
she doesn't listen when i say
ears to the ground eyes in the sky
she doesn't listen when i say

old men are awake and dreaming
young girls lip the sides of their graves
let's not all forget about feeling
the big gun always forgets

let's not all forget about feeling
i would love to forget about love
let's not all forget about feeling
the big gun always forgets.

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I BELIVE IN EVIL

you aimed right for the eyes
where your invitation dies
and i am subject to
irrelevance
and all your secret spies
you'll be the nexus in the dark
i'll be the spade that digs your grave
youth is bored
youth is short
youth is for the brave

i believe in evil

you whistle all the tunes
and you irrigate the wounds
you are a prisoner
best left unkempt
propped up alive
by fools
next to a black hole by the clock
where all information stops
youth is bored
youth is short
youth is for the brave

there is no wrong way to read this book
my darling
please come sit down by me
let's have a look
at scripture

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ADULT ARMY

forward on the right
when day turns into night
muscles flexed
your turn is next
join in the fight
baby, they're waitin' for you

i've had enough
this rolling laugh
no captions on the photograph
so i play on
if you're miserable
it's clear now
we never liked you anyhow
so i play on

when i die don't leave
i'll take it all with me
and if you need a nail to save
jump into my grave
baby, they're waitin' for you.

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HALFWAY DOWN

down by the corner
half back hotel
i spoke with murder
i spoke with hell
i pulled the peach pit
i stirred the way
how do you do it
the modern way?

halfway down the stairs is where i tend to sit
i coast the north and south chewing at the bit
i'm nursing on the bill
and scraping at the hide
everybody knows
that i lied

she had no pain
she saw the queen
zipped up his pants
what does it mean?
trouble at home
trouble abroad
a stuffy room
with no crowd at all

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BURIED IN THE NUDE

stretch your legs to fill the coffin
vacation in your clothes
casual friday
it's all a mess
when affairs are exposed

the curtains part
the shades are flesh
second hands turn to knives
you are buried in the nude

invitations in the face
they suffer for the bored
holy wars
dark lithium
when affairs are exposed

i bet you want it
these are the greatest times
oh i bet you need it to feed
i bet you need it to feed

DINOSAURSZ

Dino Jr has really expensive t shirts in every shape and style anybody could possibly want. Some have funny little snails on them and some have Ents on them. For everyone who doesn't know what an Ent is, this is an Ent.



It's from Lord of the Rings. Duh.

bla

So I haven't written in here in a while do to the overwhelming amount of stuff I want to put into words. So I guess I have to get over that or else this blog is doomed to extinction. I have been very busy. Busier than I have ever been probably. There has been an amazing amount of paperwork to get done in regard to our tour with The Dead Weather. And just to make that one clear. As of now, I am still doing our booking! And for the last two weeks that has meant 8-14 hours a day of paperwork and yelling on the phone. I never thought I would be yelling on the phone about contracts. I never thought I would be running around getting Marissa and Mike to sign Canadian T1261s (Application for a Canada Revenue Agency Individual Tax Number for Non-Residents). It is becoming far too much for this one little human to handle. I will continue to book a lot of our shows while we are home from tour but I we are going to try a booker for next tour. I can't do it anymore! I hope everyone understands that. I do the best I can at organizing stuff for this band and that has meant a LOT of work over the years but lately it has meant so much work that I think I'm on the verge of losing a few marbles. I haven't had time to take care of things that I find more important than contracts and yelling on the phone. An important one: being able to play more music! Also I want nothing more than to be able to set up a legitimate all ages space in New Brunswick, NJ but that is never going to happen if I am swimming in Screaming Females paperwork. I rather be swimming in paperwork to get a non-profit gallery/ arts space off the ground than be yelling on the phone with someone from Live Nation.

Also you should go listen to all of your Talking Heads records again. Because they are amazing!

-jd

Show

Some much shiz!

There is so much stuff to write here but I've been on the computer all day and don't feel like doing it anymore!

1. We are playing a super awesome homecoming show at Maxwell's in Hoboken on 5/30/09 w/ Shellshag, Pregnant and Mimi & Cristian.



2. Holy Crap! The Dead Weather, the new project from Jack White (White Stripes, The Raconteurs, have you heard of him?), Alison Mosshart (The Kills, Discount), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age), and Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), has asked us to open for them on their first US/ Canadian tour in July! We are totally there! Check out the dates - HERE - on our myspace!

3. Good ol' Henry Rollins chose Power Move as one of his Picks of May. Sweet! - See it HERE

love y'all!
-jarrettD

Road Dogs

I barely took any photographs so here is documentation of about 15% of our tour.