email I got:

Hello Beastqueef, we listened to your music and think you would be perfect for a new compilation we are putting together. We would like to offer you a once and a lifetime opportunity to be heard by some of the biggest names in music. Our past compilations have featured such acts as Three Doors Down, Our Lady Peace and more. This CD is guaranteed to be heard by the top names in the industry, the people who make stars out of dreamers! Please send a CD of your material for review

Well, boys it looks like we've made it. The TOP names in the industry will soon be hearing what you all already know.
I fully intend to be a millionaire by this time next month.
Don't worry, I'll still post here with tales of decadence and luxurious living. Probably not as often, but I'm sure once and awhile I'll be on the bus headed toward another city, I'll look out the window longingly and I'll start to think about the old days. That's when I'll open up the laptop and give you guys a taste of what it's like. What it's like to be a star and not just a dreamer.

A long time ago I was working the gate at Midway for a flight to Miami. This Arab businessman who was giving me a bunch of shit the whole day about everything you can imagine left the notebook he kept scribbling in on the counter so I snatched it when he wasn't looking and hid it.
That's what you get for being a massive dick.
I assumed it would be business notes or something but once I got my coworker to translate it it turns out it's full of horrible 7th grade girl quality poetry.

I have started writing songs using lyrics taken and translated into English from the notebook.
The song called 'Steal some food give it away' is the first in what is sure to be a long running series.

http://www.myspace.com/gigantislobechicago

haha, we got the message a few months ago as well.
you have to like pay them to do this as well. there sure must be some suckers out there.

Ok, just got back from recording.

I am very pleased with how these couple new tracks came out.
If someone here would be so kind as to give me some feedback on the first two tracks here 'I know we can get along' and 'Mall Cop Manifesto' that would be ultra fantastic, let me know if I'm crazy.

http://www.myspace.com/gigantislobechicago

For those of y'all who don't do the MySpace thing, here's a "blog" from the Chrome Robes page there, a "blog" that makes available a song that didn't make it onto our forthcoming sophmore release.

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It's not that we don't like it, so much as it just didn't fit in with the rest of the songs. What? The new album isn't going to be full of tweaked out faux-punk pastiches? Surprising, but true.

So where the real songs got some attention and we made a point of trying to get things right and mix them proper-like and they'll be subjected to all the mastering skills etc etc, this one didn't really get so much love.

Poor unloved song. Give it a hug.

http://toomanyhelicopters.com/freestuff ... 080707.MP3

new band at work now. will have songs up in the coming weeks/months.

scott wrote:Poor unloved song. Give it a hug.

http://toomanyhelicopters.com/freestuff ... 080707.MP3

I am not hugging that song. I'll shake it's hand. Ok?

Marsupialized wrote:

scott wrote:Poor unloved song. Give it a hug.

http://toomanyhelicopters.com/freestuff ... 080707.MP3

I am not hugging that song. I'll shake it's hand. Ok?

Probably I shoulda wrote "pet it". Cause that's what one does to a kitty and all. Shaking hands with a cat is a pretty cool image, though.

scott wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

scott wrote:Poor unloved song. Give it a hug.

http://toomanyhelicopters.com/freestuff ... 080707.MP3

I am not hugging that song. I'll shake it's hand. Ok?

Probably I should wrote "pet it". Cause that's what one does to a kitty and all. Shaking hands with a cat is a pretty cool image, though.

I shake hands with my cat every day when I return home from work. He walks over and stands on his back legs, I reach out my hand and he accepts. I say 'Hello Cracker nice to see you again, how'd things go while I was gone?'
He fills me in on the details, anything I need to know about and then we go our separate ways. Him back to the top of the cabinet above the stove and me on the futon watching TV or the computer stealing music.

New Beastqueef single now up

"Calling for the assassination of Todd Stroger" b/w 'Contacted twice in one two hour period'

http://www.myspace.com/beastqueef