Hate in the Box

Greetings toys and ghouls! Halloween is over, but my cheer has yet to dissipate!

As we spend more and more time rehearsing, booking, traveling and other behind the scenes invisible stuff we realized we’re having less time to spend on IM with you. Well that sucks! For those of you who don’t know, Teddy, Blight and I take turns on AOL IM as HateInTheBoxBand chatting with you all. Or we did anyway, before getting too many show bookings to chill out on there with you as often.

So at some point along the way, probably the point where we were mixing up conversations flipping between way too many windows, we started using Xat.com to make one big chat room to hang out in. That’s at http://xat.com/brokentoys . Apparently the word Hate isn’t allowed on 80% of the “civilized” internet. We all hate, but that’s a one sided argument for another day. Anyway, we linked the chat box into http://www.hateinthebox.com so you’ll be able to find it if you lose the link above. Praise be to the Tech Gnomes!

So anyway, that started at random basically. Sometimes Blight or myself would be on IM at 3AM and… hmm, it’s 3:49AM right now actually so there you go. Yeah, so we’d get a bunch of IM’s coming in and suddenly think “Self, what if we put all these people in that one chat room?” Then we’d do that and have a big silly time together. But then we’d feel the guilt of knowing we never told anybody else and kept all the fun to ourselves. Ok, so maybe we weren’t really feeling that guilty. But still… it was a bit more fun for being spontaneous and unplanned but some of you suggested we try telling everyone to be there at a given day and time and see what happens.

What day? I don’t know. Comment and pick one I guess

As for my beloved keyboard, it is fucking wrecked. Fortunately, our new bassist knew of a white haired wizard on a magical island whose magicks are far more powerful than my science when it comes to things like this. I humbly went on a voyage with Thadius the Wise to visit the bespectacled mage known only as Flash. Finding the unmarked door, solving the puzzle at the gate, and intoning the correct incantations we gained entry to his tower, clearly in the presence of one who’s abilities commanded respect.

Humbly presenting the lifeless husk I carried so far with my hopes, his eyebrows rose. There was no sense of worry, only curiosity. This man, if he is still among the race of man, could actually bring this love of mine back to the world of the rocking. I was ecstatic!

Only the correct spells would require sacrificing many parts to the fates, and accepting new parts from a faraway land where gnomes and fairies grow the necessary components. A land so far away and so secretive that locating the creatures and convincing them to give up the parts wouldn’t be possible until after the New Year. NoOoOOoOoOo!

Leaving the wizard to his wizardly deeds, we returned to the land of mortals and puzzled over what to do. Thadius being a bit of a cantrip flinger himself, located a clone of my beloved in the far off exotic land of Maryland. Apparently a land so far off and exotic that Blight, Holly Horror, an Australian ladyfriend and myself could party and not have our loose morals and disregard for social norms reflect poorly on our band.

So yes, we did venture into Maryland and abduct a clone so we can perform for you the rest of this year. And it was awesome. I feel like I’m cheating a bit playing this other keyboard, but I can’t cancel these shows and miss seeing you!

Speaking of playing for you and New Year’s, we’ve been trying really really hard to put together the best New Year’s party ever for you since it’s going to be twenty motherfucking ten! That’s like some hardcore sci-fi cyberpunk Ministry meets the Jetsons shit right there! If my imagination could make an event for that brains would melt. It’s so rich for imagery I can hardly stand to type it all out.

Instead of driving myself berserk with the impossible, we’ve decided to pick a place where reality meets imagination a little more easily. A place far from anywhere we’ve been before. A place where the steel beasts that roam free in classics like Mad Max, Tank Girl and other fan fave post apocalyptic mindscapes take form in real life. For the start of the year that marks the beginning of the FUTURE!

Detroit 2010! Motor City Apocalypse!

Yeah, if we can pull together everything we’ve been imagining it’s going to be out of control!

Ok this blog post is way longer than I expected, and I can’t sit still long enough to find pictures for this right now so I’ll end it here.

Thanks all for listening to our creations and following us on our eccentric journey to your city, wherever you may be!

Noise and Beauty,
Optimus Crime

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