Da7e Gonzales

Da7e currently works on MTV's 16 & Pregnant, Teen Mom, and Teen Mom 2 while running his production company and making freelance web content on a daily basis.

He's a digital addict, borderline narcissist and all around great guy.

Posts

S is for Space Jockey.

Anxiety.

Ain’t ever gonna let it rule me.

Can’t let it out.

Just gotta fight it.

At some point, next week, a new 3D Bipolar Bear EP will drop at 3dBiPolarBear.com. Go there now to see another preview track off “Subways and Smoke Breaks.” It’s named that way because I made the entire thing on subway rides and during smoke breaks. Including the cover art. It’s 100% phone.

WATERHOLE! Independent Bar Drama is Available on AMAZON!

Hey-oh!

Latino Review has moved to Latino-Review.com. That’s a hyphen! A hyphen meant for speed and unity of purpose and less rambling from Da7e. : ). 

That means that my 6 Things W/Da7e articles have gone the way of TheBadAndUgly.com. 

BUT! Since Waterhole is now available to you easily.

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I thought I’d re-print what I had to say about it. So you can see it. Then we can talk about it.

I was sent this independent film, The Waterhole, by the official Twitter account of the movie @WaterholeMovie. I was intrigued by this particular slice of independent cinema because of a producing experience I’ve had in my past, namely, shooting in a bar for The Four-Faced Liar (an indie I did some associate producing on for my college friends).

The Waterhole is about that time in a young person’s life where they realize they need to get their shit together. I guess I’d say quarter-life crisis. It’s between a college movie and that time period currently being discussed on television in Perfect Couples and Traffic Light. It was a Sundance Lab Finalist screenplay about Miller (Patrick J Adams), a guy getting out of a failed relationship and slowly sinking into alcoholism.

It’s one of those indie films that isn’t based on a big premise or hook idea, it’s about watching the three (arguably four, but really three since the bartender is more of a sounding board) friends work through their personal drama. Miller just dumped his girlfriend who cheated on him, another guy just got engaged and that sort of spooks him and the third – memorably named Cracker and memorably performed by an actor named Joey Klein – is really an alcoholic whose disease is destroying his life.

The Waterhole was shot in Reno at an actual bar and is about alcoholism, so occasionally I forgave the indie film “empty bar syndrome.” Believe me, it’s tough scheduling extras to sip apple juice mixed with seltzer water for three hours, repeating the same mimed conversations. So having one character own the bar and the other characters end up at the bar at seemingly bizarre hours had be buying a partially full bar. I had some trouble buying a bar that didn’t have constant music on TVs on, but some things you forgive indie films.

The Waterhole was a pleasant experience, even if the story has trouble integrating all three concepts under a unifying theme. I’m not exactly sure what everyone has learned at the end. We certainly know that alcoholism is dangerous, but beyond that, I just wanted Miller to man up and realize that actions have consequences even if you want them to or not.

And to be fair, I dealt with that reality for half a decade, easy, when I was that character’s age, so the few months covered in this film’s timeline is pretty good timing for emotional growth.

Oh, did I mention there are some really talented and hot women playing the female roles in this movie? (Since it was shot in Reno, they’re probably all LA based, you lucky West Coast bachelors you. ) Their emotional stories take place largely off screen, but to the credit of the women playing the unseen side of these relationships, they came off believable. That goes for all three of them, with their three sets of beautiful eyes.

Last I head, Amazon was sold out of Waterhole DVDs, but I bet you can find more by poking around the official site.

 

Thanks BATTLESHIP Trailer.

Friendsgiving VIII 2011 Montage!

Ack. ARRRRRGH. AAAAAAAAACCCCCRERRRRRRGGGG!

So frustrating.

Disney's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

Hello Friends! Some of you might remember that I used to run a gossip/movie-news hybrid site called The Bad And Ugly. That site is still around content wise (though the formatting of the site has changed), so I thought I’d migrate this Halloweeny post over to the Tumblr and replace the broken YouTube videos with links to working ones!

Because Fall = Halloween = Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

I grew up in Boulder, Colorado. That wasn’t where I was born, but that’s where I spent the majority of my childhood and school-years. Living in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains reinforced my association between the autumn season and Halloween.

Living in Brooklyn, nature isn’t exactly all around me. When I suggested to a friend that they “just go outside and get a rock” to prop open their door, said friend looked at me like I was crazy. Because there isn’t anywhere within miles of me where I could pick up a rock that wasn’t really just a chunk of concrete.

So, around this time of year, it’s always nice to get in a spooky mood. Back in the days of grade school, where the entire month of October was dedicated to Halloween and harvest activities (yes, I grew up in the West where things like the yearly harvest were still celebrated), I would watch cartoons and “scary” movies. These days, the “scary” movies I see are usually adult-themed and very gory. Which is totally fine, but I can’t go watch SAW V and recapture the childhood feeling of a spooky Halloween season. It doesn’t help that whichever theater I go to, when I emerge to rejoin reality, I’m always greeted by a cityscape and not multi-colored trees and houses with jack-o-lanterns.

That’s why I spent last night watching Disney’s Halloween Classic “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow,” narrated and sung by Bing Crosby. The flick was originally a segment in a tow-part film RKO Radio Pictures and Disney released into theaters on October 5th, 1949 as The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The film was based on two literary stories (Kenneth Grahame’s Wind In The Willows and Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and both were narrated by then-celebs. Bing Crosby took on Sleepy Hollow and Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes, Captain Blood) narrated the Wind In The Willows portion.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad was the final “package” film released by Disney. The studio had begun to bind two semi-related stories together before bringing them to theaters because of WWII related budget cuts. After The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Disney returned to doing single-narrative animated films.

So, courtesy of YouTube, I present Disney’s The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow after the cut. Because Halloween as a kid was fun, and now it’s just a week where I have to go shopping for a costume to get drunk in.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Part 1

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Part 2

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Part 3

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Part 4

OPKINO CUT: “Drawing Heart Out Of Something Technical And Seemingly Lifeless That I Like”

Some of The Real Steel review (Reel Steal? Reele Steele? Authentic Alloy?) got caught between segments. And @misterpatches had some good points.

FULL EPISODE EVERY FRIDAY AT OPKINO.COM

“OpKino Cut” are segments that make good audio material, but ultimately got left out of the podcast. (Or you could have listened to the Temple Grandin episode where we actually left the rant in, and if so I apologize)

Here’s the two you missed if you’re only coming to this blog:

OpKino Cut: Little Katey Rich (off Moneyball)

OpKino Cut: Dare To Be Stupid (off 50/50)

I know dinosaurs aren’t around… (ahem…anymore). But they are also one of my secret fears. This photo is kind of terrifying. 

vincentpeone:

Some days are much cooler than other days- like last Friday when Josh and I got yelled at for running at the Jurassic Park ride.

"Suffrage"
  • INT. APARTMENT LIVING ROOM
  • Two guys watch the news, sitting on a couch, drinking coffee and juice.
  • Jim: I am so happy I have a job.
  • Dale: Seriously.
  • Jim: Could you imagine trying to get through all this political posturing on a week-to-week basis?
  • Dale: What?
  • Jim: I mean, watching the news everyday and watching these idiots talk about things they'll never do, knowing that their next stupid decision could be, like, the end of my income.
  • Dale: I don't think you'd watch the news if you were unemployed.
  • JIM: All I did when I was unemployed was news and X-box...and Law and Order. But it was unavoidable in those days.
  • Dale: I don't find the news interesting. I'll watch the Daily Show but, it's, like, it's too hard to tell how serious everything really is when everything is treated like it's an apocalypse.
  • JIM: It doesn't matter, man, the government is broken.
  • Dale: Saying that doesn't fix anything, though. You have to, like, vote and shit.
  • JIM: Voting doesn't fix anything.
  • Dale: Sure it does. It makes the politicians responsible to the people.
  • JIM: In theory...but in practice...Let me punch you in the face.
  • Dale: Why? No. I mean, No, what are you talking about?
  • JIM: No, come on, let me punch you in the face. I'll give you-
  • Jim pulls out his wallet. He puts $5 on the table.
  • Dale: No. Five bucks isn't enough.
  • Jim puts a $20 on the table
  • JIM: Twenty-five bucks.
  • Dale: Why? Why do you want to punch me in the head so badly?
  • Jim looks into his wallet. Puts another $20 down.
  • JIM: Forty-five bucks to punch you in the face, no questions asked.
  • Dale: I broke my nose like that in high school, man. Just tell me-
  • Jim gets up and leaves the room.
  • Dale: - why? Why? Dude? Is it because I told you to vote?
  • Jim is back with his checkbook. He's writing a check.
  • JIM: Here. One-thousand dollars. I will pay you one-thousand dollars to punch you in the face.
  • Jim rips off the check and hands it to Dale. Dale looks down at the check.
  • Dale: And I get to take this and the cash if you can punch me in the face.
  • Jim plucks the check out of Dale's hand and puts it on the pile of cash.
  • Dale: Fine.
  • Dale sits up straight. Jim sits down next to Dale.
  • Dale: Just try to-
  • POW! Jim punches Dale right in the nose, re-breaking it and sending blood spilling down his face. While Dale holds his face in pain, Jim picks up the check, rips it in half, then stuffs the money and ripped check into his pocket.
  • He turns and looks at the TV as if nothing happened. Drinking some juice out of a glass.
  • Dale: Ah! FOOK! MAH NAASE!
  • JIM: That's what voting is. Except you get a sticker that let's you act like you're better than people.
  • END
It's A Small World Of Small World Remixes

Tomorrow’s Operation Kino Podcast Ep #28, Drive and the Toronto Film Festival are discussed and the lightning round question involved everyone’s favorite Disney Musical number. 

I decided that what we needed we remixes of Disney songs for all the music breaks. I really tried to make them varied and pleasant to listen to (because I tend to have weird taste in music, especially remixes).

The only weirdness I faltered on was the ending track which is the above remix of It’s A Small World.

But - hey - it could have been worse, it could have been this weirder one:

Little Dude Teaser

I’m glad someone else drew this, because that means there are kindred spirits out there.

See You At The New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival!

The press release manages to remember my name is spelled with a 7. EXCELLENT:

In addition to numerous premieres, NYHKFF devised a number of exciting panels to provide a unique opportunity for festival goers to hear insightful discussions from a variety of film industry experts. Among these is a special live recording of Operation Kino, the popular weekly movies and pop culture podcast from Katey Rich (Editor and Chief of Cinemablend.com), Matt Patches (Movies Editor of Hollywood.com), David Ehrlich (Criterion Corner, Movies.com) and Da7e Gonzales (LatinoReview.com). Anyone can join the specially formatted “Film Court” show featuring three debates about film topics, tidbits, prizes and the ever-popular Lightning Round. (Find more Operation Kino at OpKino.com and on Twitter at @OpKino.)

OPKINO LIVE! Film Court will go down 9/5 at 7PM at the Producer’s Club on West 44nd. Maybe I’ll make a Facebook invite to make you all click “Maybe”

delbertshoopman:

Just a reminder to the East Coast here is the official Earthquake scale. So just chill. (via: Dan at Irrational films)

A List Of Things To Come (Or Things That Recently Came)

Despite the bad wording of my title, this is not sexual, but content based.

SERIOUS BOB

- Album one “I’m Going Off Into The Dark Woods To Investigate Alone” is on iTunes, Amazon MP3 Store and Spotify.

- Album two “Serious Bob Vs. Boo Radley” will be on iTunes, Amazon MP3 Store and Spotify by 08/26

- Album three “One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State” will be on iTunes, Amazon MP3 Store and Spotify by 09/15

WRITING

- 6 Things W/Da7e has started it’s third cycle at LatinoReview.com and will continue to appear weekly until November

PODCAST

- The OPERATION KINO Podcast still posts episodes every Friday at OPKINO.COM and will be doing our first QUARTER QUELL show this week and our first OPKINO LIVE! on 9/05 at the Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival.

3DBIPOLARBEAR

- Album one “Some Music” now available on iTunes. 

- Album two “Friends” will be out by the first week of September

FLICKS

- New York Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival will be screening PROPOSALS from 9/1-9/11

- The New York Television Festival will be showing POWERLESS as part of their 2011 lineup 9/19 - 9/24

- LITTLE DUDE, a new short from myself and the guys at GUY MANLY will most likely land in early October. 

- TOOTHBRUSH, the short by Matt Thompson of GUY MANLY, from myself and RED ELEVATOR PRODUCTIONS will debut in October. I’m guessing, but they have picture lock, so it’s just figuring out where to debut it by this point.

- DAUGHTER, the potential fourth short of the year, is gearing up to shoot in November.

Audio

  • Anxiety. Ain’t ever gonna let it rule me. Can’t let it out. Just gotta fight it. At some point, next week, a new 3D Bipolar Bear EP will drop at 3dBiPolarBear.com. Go there now to see another preview track off “Subways and Smoke Breaks.” It’s named that way because I made the entire thing on subway rides and during smoke breaks. Including the cover art. It’s 100% phone.
    15 plays
  • OPKINO CUT: “Drawing Heart Out Of Something Technical And Seemingly Lifeless That I Like” Some of The Real Steel review (Reel Steal? Reele Steele? Authentic Alloy?) got caught between segments. And @misterpatches had some good points. FULL EPISODE EVERY FRIDAY AT OPKINO.COM “OpKino Cut” are segments that make good audio material, but ultimately got left out of the podcast. (Or you could have listened to the Temple Grandin episode where we actually left the rant in, and if so I apologize) Here’s the two you missed if you’re only coming to this blog: OpKino Cut: Little Katey Rich (off Moneyball) OpKino Cut: Dare To Be Stupid (off 50/50)
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Sets

3 tracks (16:23)
  • Dream MLK 3
    32 plays
  • Mlk dubstep mix
    11 plays
  • I have a dream too
    12 plays
an EP made on an iPhone.
7 tracks (18:18)
  • Clunk
    15 plays
  • Time's Run Short
    5 plays
  • Product
    5 plays
  • I'm Done
    7 plays
  • Cool
    4 plays
  • So Well
    3 plays
  • Rule Me
    15 plays
10 tracks (30:03)
  • 01 This Time
    4 plays
  • 02 Watching You Waiting
    2 plays
  • 03 Notice
    2 plays
  • 04 Let's Do It
    2 plays
  • 05 The Spins
    1 plays
  • 06 It's Gonna Burn
    1 plays
  • 07 Didthey
    4 plays
  • 08 The Drama
    4 plays
  • 09 Hopelessness
    3 plays
  • 10 Don't Keep Pretending
    5 plays
8 tracks (25:45)
  • Oh hello
    13 plays
  • chipper
    8 plays
  • aches
    21 plays
  • tequila
    15 plays
  • plugged in or ed up
    12 plays
  • 4lokoh
    4 plays
  • pills
    9 plays
  • solitary confinement
    6 plays
4 tracks (13:28)
  • Noise1
    2 plays
  • Notice (Boogie)
    9 plays
  • Notice (Depressive)
    2 plays
  • Notice (Manic)
    2 plays
These are the complete Incomplete sessions from Serious Bob. More info at ListenOrDont.com
20 tracks (57:55)
  • 01 To Investigate Alone (Lyrics)
    6 plays
  • 04 Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Serious Bob (Demo)
    4 plays
  • 06 Pie Eating Man (Original)
    3 plays
  • 07 Jesus Was A Jew (UnMastered)
    3 plays
  • 08 Obligatory Song About Cannibalism (Beat Boxed)
    1 plays
  • 09 Pie Eating Man (Live Drums)
    1 plays
  • 13 That Cat's On Fire (Insturmental)
    6 plays
  • 15 Orch (demo)
    1 plays
  • 15 That Cat's On Fire (Alternate Mix)
    5 plays
  • 17 Eat The Vegans (Insturmental)
    1 plays
  • 22 Robot (Demo Again)
    1 plays
  • 23 Serial Killer (Ironic Dressing Version)
    2 plays
  • Stand Out (Serious Bob remix)
    9 plays
  • FBI (version that sucks)
    0 plays
  • Fuck All You All (a drunken opus)
    4 plays
  • If My Ass Was an Insturment
    4 plays
  • Indie Anna Jones
    8 plays
  • Music for the 24th Century
    3 plays
  • Reefer Man (Cover)
    11 plays
  • The Calender (Demo)
    4 plays
Much like Mirrors & Masks glosses over 3 years of my personal diary music, distilling it into one album's worth of tolerance, The Marcy Project is the second volume, collecting the "Hits" from my personal music project (Citizen Nowhere) and the albums that came out from 2008-2010: the years I was living between Woodhull Hospital and a closed down Pfizer Plant in Marcy, Brooklyn, NY.

This period of time also saw me increase the array of sounds I used to make music and saw me slip into something I'd best describe as electronic depression.

If you have Mirrors & Masks and The Marcy Project, you basically have the diary entries I don't mind sharing with the public.

Let's hang out, then.
19 tracks (1:05:40)
  • 01 Get Ur Laffs Out
    15 plays
  • 02 Everything Is Going To Be Fine
    19 plays
  • 03 Gotta Start Somewhere
    2 plays
  • 04 Deep
    1 plays
  • 05 Wont Stop Dont Stop Cant Stop
    60 plays
  • 06 Miss You Too
    5 plays
  • 07 Gotta
    8 plays
  • 08 010101 (From The Future Instrumental)
    15 plays
  • 09 In My House
    4 plays
  • 10 Bring It Down
    3 plays
  • 11 Rescue
    1 plays
  • 12 bReakbEatlUllaby
    1 plays
  • 13 Loose Lips
    6 plays
  • 14 Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle
    14 plays
  • 15 The Winning Team
    0 plays
  • 16 Bruce Willis Was Dead All Along
    7 plays
  • 17 Perpetual Motion Machine Gun
    5 plays
  • 18 Falling Birds
    1 plays
  • 19 Just Find A Place To Fall Asleep
    8 plays
Citizen Nowhere 8 - 2010
13 tracks (43:42)
  • Pissed
    77 plays
  • 10-02 Debris
    25 plays
  • 10-03 Doorknobs And Keyholes (by Ty Hart)
    11 plays
  • 10-04 Wandering Pleasant
    10 plays
  • 10-05 Twisting
    10 plays
  • 10-06 Rescue
    3 plays
  • 10-07 Eulogy For Robert Kennedy (by Nate Patterson)
    13 plays
  • 10-08 Gotta
    4 plays
  • 10-09 Face Golyāṯ
    2 plays
  • 10-10 Loose Lips
    5 plays
  • 10-11 Bruce Willis Was Dead All Along
    5 plays
  • 10-12 Too Big To Fail (by Elliott Goldbaum)
    10 plays
  • 10-13 Just Find A Place To Fall Asleep
    4 plays
Instead of downloading or listening to Citizen Nowhere VOL 1-4, you can dig on this "Best Of" compilation.

Mirrors & Masks covers the first four Citizen Nowhere albums whose purpose was to give me a musical outlet during college that was different than this blog, which strangely has the same years of operation of Citizen Nowhere.

The tracks are in no particular order, though this is the order that I have been listening to them in, followed with a short description of each one and why it was included in the overall mix.

Tracks were EXCLUDED because they sucked, were 7 minutes long or ended up being foolish in one way or another.
19 tracks (1:24:37)
  • 1 The Longest 3 Days Are When You're In The Ground (Discliamer)
    23 plays
  • 2 Sugar on the Sunrise
    7 plays
  • 3 Miss You
    5 plays
  • 4 Cross Continent Conversations (feat Jess Frantz)
    5 plays
  • 5 In Her Eyes (Sex is Not The Answer)
    2 plays
  • 6 Cigarette in the Shower
    3 plays
  • 7 Press 4
    2 plays
  • 8 All Hopped Up And Loving It
    2 plays
  • 9 Allah, Who
    10 plays
  • 10 Rockafeller Seller (Pretention as Faith)
    2 plays
  • 11 Midsummer's Night-Dream
    7 plays
  • 12 Personal Hell
    3 plays
  • 13 The End of The Beginning (Resurrection In The City)
    1 plays
  • 14 Sick Of Sharing
    0 plays
  • 15 Smiles Ain't Free
    1 plays
  • 16 What You Don't Understand Can't Hurt You
    3 plays
  • 17 They Take Your Soul
    2 plays
  • 18 Looking Forwards and Backwards
    4 plays
  • BONUS The Atlas Complex (Reprise)
    2 plays
Citizen Nowhere 5 - Valhalla - 2007
14 tracks (36:54)
  • 5-01 Digital Meditation (Insturmental)
    24 plays
  • 5-02 Whispers
    1 plays
  • 5-03 Glimmer
    8 plays
  • 5-04 The Winning Team
    0 plays
  • 5-05 Tribal Dance
    10 plays
  • 5-06 Deep
    0 plays
  • 5-07 Wash It All Away
    2 plays
  • 5-08 If It Keeps On Raining
    1 plays
  • 5-09 Miss You Too
    1 plays
  • 5-10 Drift Away
    0 plays
  • 5-11 Follow
    1 plays
  • 5-12 Sun Touches The Battlefield Breifly
    4 plays
  • 5-13 Invisible Accomplice
    0 plays
  • 5-14 Something Above (Insturmental)
    15 plays
Serious Bob's first full-length album
16 tracks (41:00)
  • 01 I'm Going Off Into The Dark Woods
    5 plays
  • 02 To Investigate Alone
    4 plays
  • Skin
    11 plays
  • 04 FBI
    18 plays
  • 05 6 Billion People
    10 plays
  • 06 Robot Song
    5 plays
  • 07 Serial Killer
    6 plays
  • The Mysterious Adventures of Sancho
    4 plays
  • 09 Settle The Score
    1 plays
  • 10 The Love is Gone (toast)
    2 plays
  • 11 The Park In Which Bacon Speaks
    0 plays
  • Jesus Was A Jew
    10 plays
  • 13 A Modest Proposal
    19 plays
  • 14 Cannibal
    2 plays
  • 15 Kings Of Yourkshire
    4 plays
  • 16 This Place (Where I Belong)
    1 plays
Citizen Nowhere 6: Out Of Insight Out Of Mind 2009
11 tracks (36:24)
  • 6-01 Dont Bring Me Up (Intro)
    3 plays
  • 6-02 Everything Is Going To Be Fine
    2 plays
  • 6-03 Get Ur Laffs Out
    0 plays
  • 6-04 Gotta Start Somewhere
    0 plays
  • 6-05 Sour Patch Kid
    6 plays
  • 6-06 Wont Stop Dont Stop Cant Stop
    14 plays
  • 6-07 Feeling Useless (Insturmental)
    15 plays
  • 6-08 The Phone
    0 plays
  • 6-09 Perpetual Motion Machine Gun
    6 plays
  • 6-10 Bring It Down
    0 plays
  • 6-11 Falling Birds
    0 plays
The second, substantially more drug-fueled Serious Bob album
15 tracks (44:27)
  • 01 From Whence All Life Springs
    8 plays
  • 02 Unstuck In Time
    7 plays
  • 03 Insane Joe
    5 plays
  • 04 Eat The Vegans
    1 plays
  • 05 Dicks B4 Chicks
    3 plays
  • 06 Stairway To Hogwarts
    27 plays
  • 07 chest wound
    1 plays
  • 08 Interlude to Life
    1 plays
  • 09 The Next Episode (Smell-Factor X Remix)
    35 plays
  • 10 Across The Street Love Song
    4 plays
  • Communism Would Work In Theory
    16 plays
  • 12 John Ashcroft's Night Out On The Town
    2 plays
  • 13 Thanks You
    1 plays
  • Hidden01 Fortune Cookie To Man - Murder is in your Future
    2 plays
  • Hidden02 If The Ass Was An Insturment
    5 plays
Serious Bob’s third, and thusfar final, album is one that I’m really proud of. I will take the mantle of being the only one proud of it, because Tai has - several times - described “I’m Going Off Into The Dark Woods To Investigate Alone” as the only properly mixed album. Yes, I could be pithy and point out that he’s the one who mixed that album and I mixed the other two, but he’s sort of right. Sort of.

Here’s what the History Of The Bob has to say:

Unable to stop themselves from recording material, summer and winter 2005 saw all five members of Serious Bob re-uniting to work on a new album, one that would prove to be their best sounding to date. Still using the USB mic, that had served them well, in conjunction with a direct-plug adaptor like ones used during the Demo Sessions, the Bob updated their recording process, banging out multiple tracks a day.

Setting up in Da7e’s basement, Da7e would work with once musician at a time as the others wrote songs in Da7e’s bedroom down the hall. Keeping a constant rotation between new songs and open session files, the recording process went smoothly. Although mainly mixed and produced by Da7e in New York, there was a long period in between the initial sessions and the final release of One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State (named after the horrible elections of 2004 that continue to haunt Serious Bob) in 2006. This time was spent honing the mix and adding parts as much as possible to refine the Serious Bob hybrid sound: part acoustic joke rock and part electric loop/sample based music. A few tracks were cut from the album and have yet to be released, and many alternate versions exist to the tracks on OSTSRSSBS.

The album that was released in 2006 lived up to several Serious Bob album stereotypes. All our albums have 15 tracks. Each one has a “_____ Place, Where I Belong” track. Each one has a song about food.

When Serious Bob died it’s final death, I started taking account of the tracks we had to compile into a project that was never finished, though never abandoned, The Unlistenables, a digital dump of all Serious Bob’s demos and unfinished tracks.

Because OSTSRSBS spent so much time solidifying, and because the theory that a single person can only take, like, 40 minutes of Serious Bob in a row, many tracks were abandoned, pushed into other releases or simply not finished in some sort of way. The first tracks to go while trimming the fat were skits, like “Last Time…” The full (and partially racist) introduction to the album:

“Last Time…” By Serious Bob

Which, of course, leads into “County Road Five (Freedom),” our chain-gang song Nate and I wrote by slamming a small shovel into a bucket full of rocks. This track was just called “Freedom” on the original release, but I’ve restored it to it’s original length, for better or worse.

“Indie Anna Jones” got added to the tracklist because that demo was always good enough to be on a Serious Bob album.

“You Think You’re Right” was never on the original release because the drum-mixing had some tempo problems and the file mysteriously disappeared, probably locked away on the damn broken hard drive I haven’t fixed since 2007. It’s about the cops and the pope and authority, and it deserves to be heard, because it’s damn catchy and one of Tai’s better song writing efforts.

“Funky Rockafeller Pimpjuice” Is something Nate, Tai and Jason did as sort of a musical skit to follow “Who Makes The Rules,” which was actually a skit. That one just got cut because there was too much “fat” at that point in the album. That track has been restored.

“Famous Women I Can’t Have Sex With” is a song that pisses everyone off. It pisses Tai off for some reason, it pisses me off because I could never get on tune. It pissed Nate off because it was the same riff, looping over and over again. So, one night, Nate and I added a bridge that changed the mood of the song. Tai hated that even more, so it was scrapped. However, now it’s back as “Famous Women I Can’t Have Sex With (Bi-Polar Version).”

“Douchebag Full Of Love (w/skit and drums)” Yeah, that skit was funny. At least I thought it was. But when OSTSRSBS was first released, “Douchebag” didn’t make the cut. Which is sad, because it’s a sweet song. And a song we re-recorded in a version I can’t distribute yet. But, it’s important that this demo see the light of day, as it’s the first song Jess and Jason Frantz are both on.

“Obligatory Cannibalism Song (Gangsta’s Paradise Breakdown)” Has the original breakdown for the song that Jess and I recorded, which Tai said was derivative. He was right and I agreed. However, I think pop parody is okay, and I think we don’t use the tune long enough to get sued. Also, those two melodies work together and in acknowledging it, we take that criticism away from the haters. All the haters.

“What Did You Learn? (Drums)” Ah Elliott’s War Song. No one ever liked my drums that I put at the climactic part of this song. There is GREAT instrument work on this track, it just never made the cut because we couldn’t get it to sound like it’s potential.

“The Cockfighting Adventures Of Sancho” The Sancho sequel about Cockfighting. We always thought it needed drums. It turns out that we just wanted it to have drums, it doesn’t need it at all.

So, yeah, here’s the album with these restored pieces. It makes the album a little too long, and some jokes drag on, but this gives a hint of how much work we did for OSTSRSBS.
15 tracks (34:50)
  • 01 Freedom
    483 plays
  • The Pie Eating Man
    237 plays
  • 03 Get Serious
    175 plays
  • 18 Wheels of Justice
    141 plays
  • 05 Techno Monks
    220 plays
  • 06 Its Hard Being A Zombie
    143 plays
  • 07 Know The Place (Where You Belong)
    235 plays
  • 08 That Cat's On Fire
    265 plays
  • 09 sExcluding Butt-Play
    101 plays
  • 10 Who Makes The Rules
    75 plays
  • 11 Famous Women I Can't Have Sex With
    197 plays
  • 12 Obligatory Song About Cannibalism
    50 plays
  • Smokey Pork Chili
    59 plays
  • 14 Ain't As Bad As It Seems
    63 plays
  • 15 The Life of Bullfrog Hopkins
    39 plays
The 3 song demo of my first high school band: VOID
3 tracks (09:37)
  • 01 Everything Falls Apart
    18 plays
  • 02 Hemophiliac Cop
    3 plays
  • 03 Stay
    3 plays

Tracks

  • Confused
    4 plays
  • I have a dream too
    12 plays
  • Mlk dubstep mix
    11 plays
  • Dream MLK 3
    32 plays
  • Clunk
    15 plays
  • Product
    5 plays
  • So Well
    3 plays
  • Cool
    4 plays
  • Rule Me
    15 plays
  • Time's Run Short
    5 plays
  • I'm Done
    7 plays
  • Operation Kino Podcast #42: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed And 2012 Trailers Discussed
    22 plays
  • OpKino Cut: We'll Do It Live
    14 plays
  • OpKino Cut: Professionals
    16 plays
  • 07 Didthey
    4 plays
  • 08 The Drama
    4 plays
  • 09 Hopelessness
    3 plays
  • 10 Don't Keep Pretending
    5 plays
  • 02 Watching You Waiting
    2 plays
  • 03 Notice
    2 plays
  • 04 Let's Do It
    2 plays
  • 05 The Spins
    1 plays
  • 06 It's Gonna Burn
    1 plays
  • 01 This Time
    4 plays
  • ZELDA!
    8 plays
  • OPKINO CUT: "Drawing Heart Out Of Something Technical And Seemingly Lifeless That I Like"
    29 plays
  • OpKino Cut: Dare To Be Stupid
    14 plays
  • OpKino Cut "Little Katey Rich"
    15 plays
  • You Have A Voicemail From Julian
    23 plays

Favorites

  • Deuntjesmaker - Murray, Bill Fucking Murray *Free DL*
  • Daymanstep
  • Vlad Solovjov - Dubstep Christmas 2011
  • That Tree DubStep
  • Macklemore X Ryan Lewis - Make the Money
  • You Have A Voicemail From Julian
    by Da7e
  • I have a dream - The Holy Mash
  • If Only Spiderman Were Filthy (Spiderman 1967 Dubstep Remix)
  • I TALK ABOUT
  • 16 Bit Lolitas - Personal space (Guy J mix)
  • Flying Lotus - Stereolab - GalactagonFINAL2rMX
  • Bomber
  • Groundhog Day - Brown and Gammon *Free Download*
  • Alego - I Have A Dream
  • Break (AOTL)
  • Groundhog Day
  • Ellie Goulding - "Heartbeats" (The Knife/Jose Gonzalez Cover)
  • The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (The Glitch Mob Remix)
  • Here You Come feat Dolly Parton
  • drbora - Rave Against the Machine
  • starcrusher - mlk weekend dubstep minimix
  • 15 - Seattle Yodel
  • 11 - The speak it mountains
  • 04 - Detroit
  • 03 - Hillbilly man
  • 01 - Phoner to Arizona
  • The Legacy of Tron - Part 8 - Everything Comes To An End
  • The Legacy of Tron - Part 7 - The Battle Continues
  • The Legacy of Tron - Part 5 - Sam Busts His Head Wide Open
  • The Legacy of Tron - Part 4 - Dolph Lundgren Visits Tron
  • The Legacy of Tron - Part 3 - Its Only A Game
  • The Legacy of Tron - Part 2 - Tron Goes Ghettotech
  • The Legacy of Tron - Part 1 - program.boot.
  • I've got you babe
  • CATS N RABBITS - final edit (disney remix)
  • You Ain't Got That Swing TASTER
  • Chiptune?
  • Serocee & Rukaiya - Sound di Vuvuzela
  • Disney Remix 2
  • Disney Remix 1
  • Metallica - The Unforgiven (Cottonmouth Remix) DOWNLOAD: http://www.reverbnation.com/cottonmouthdub
  • The Hood Internet - The XX Gon' Give It To Ya (DMX x The XX)
  • Thom Yorke - Harrowdown hill (eleventhirtyeight edit)
  • Cave of Wonders (Aladdin Remix!)
  • Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Dave Spritz Rmx) ||BOOTLEG||

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