Giving thanks

I am currently in Austin, Texas giving thanks to the man from whence I came for having snipped his vas deferens post-my-conception. Thusly, I'll be posting this at midnight central time and taking it down midnight central time. Consider it our way of saying "thank you" for having waited this long and paid attention this long and cared this long about our ragtag operation. Lyrics are on our Bandcamp site. Also, you can download "Opposable" and "Tarantula Type" for free there. The entire record will be out very early January. It is being released by Vitriol Records and Penguin Suit Records (jointly). Pre-orders will be up at the Vitriol Records store shortly. We will also be doing something swell for the record release. Keep the tour requests coming. Sans further ado:

A Face to the Name

Messy, Isn't It?

By DANGERS

1) Stay-At-Home Mom

2) I'll Clap When I'm Impressed

3) Pyramid of Empties

4) Save By The Buoyancy of Citrus

5) Check, Please

6) Opposable

7) Cure For Cancer

8) Cure For AIDS

9) Straight As She Wants To Be

10) Under The Affluence

11) Teenage Porno Hunter

12) Goliath

13) (Messy, Isn't It?)

14) Bottom of the 9th Ward

15) Tarantula Type

16) What Goes Up

17) No Vonneguts, No Glory

18) (Love Poem)

19) The El Segundo Blue Butterfly Habitat Preserve

LP+CD proudly available for purchase January 1, 2010 on Vitriol Records.

Will be streamed in its entirety on Thursday November 26, 2009 from 12am to 11:59pm on this site.

Touring to follow.

Thematically similar to: last second heroics.

Yours,

Al/DANGERS

Suck My Ovaries

Entrevista con el mitad de Dangers from Julia Stephanie Cabrera on Vimeo.

Above: an interview with Stephanie from SuckMyOvaries that details boy-kissing, teetotaling, outmoded derogatory slang, and porno. Below: where you should go this weekend!

SUCH big things in the works,

Al

Shows at Hyde Park Half

Dear World,

Sometimes you get so busy chasing the horizon that you don't realize that horizon is already here. By which, I mean: Hyde Park Half. After years and years of wanting to get involved with a permanent solution to the dearth of venues here, I think the future may be closer than I had thought. Los Angeles is one of those places that continually shoots itself in the foot when it comes to DIY venues for music and other community events. The graveyard of one-great-venues has claws of adamantium and they come ripping fast and furious: The PCH, The SOS Project, Headline Records, The Ojai Women's Club, and on and on ad infinitum. Hyde Park Half seeks to be a sort of antidote to this problem.

The aim is to create a space that will showcase wonderful music a few times a month. The aim is also to create a space that will provide free tutoring and educational support for the Inglewood community. The aim is also to provide free artistic outlets for the Inglewood community. In all, Hyde Park Half seeks to tourniquet our constant lack of venues while also offering much needed community outreach to the city of Inglewood, where the venue is located.

If you wish to play a part in this new project, please email Hyde Park Half directly at hydeparkhalf@gmail.com or check the Hyde Park Half website. There will be a meeting this Sunday, November 8th that you should plan on attending.

Upcoming shows will feature Final Fight, Head High, Let Live, Tigon, Ghostlimb, Rogue State, Forming, Touche Amore, Colorchromatic, Drowning With Our Anchors, Maladie, Acts of Sedition, Graf Orlock, and us.

Here are some details of DANGERS' upcoming shows:

November 28 @ TBA in Visalia, CA w/ Comadre and a bunch of other bands.

December 5 @ a house in San Diego, CA w/ Lewd Acts and Graf Orlock

December 11 @ Hyde Park Half in Inglewood, CA w/ Maladie, Drowning With Our Anchors, Acts of Sedition, and Graf Orlock

In Australian news, please keep bothering us about coming. Down under is the new horizon.

In parting, lady to greatly admire (listen to the interview!),

Al / DANGERS

Roy G. Biv

We hereby introduce you to our current zany multimedia extravaganza:

1) A new song called "Tarantula Type" available for download on the Comadre Mixtape #3 joint. It, too, will be on our new record. Here are the lyrics:

"Tarantula Type"

This sickness that's inside of me

Ain't a sickness that's easy to see

No rash, no runs, no potpourri

Of symptoms

Of woes

No bloody stool

No bloody nose

Just cause you can't see it's there

Don't mean that that shit isn't there

Stitched into this birthday suit

Oh grandmother, how I miss you

Like a banshee

Sid and Nancy

My double helix is coming unglued

It's in your blood

It clogs your veins

Eats your gorgeous brains

And it will drag you straight to your grave

Quick

A head in the clouds

Is a foot in the grave

A head in the clouds

Is a foot in the grave

But a foot in the grave is where I'd rather be

If a head in the clouds means I'm sick

I'm not sick

You're the one that's sick

Rick, serve me my goddamn breakfast.

2) A new song called "Stay-At-Home Mom" is also up for your viewing pleasure in full RGB glory. It, too, will be on the new record. The video and lyrics for that song are as follows:

"Stay-At-Home Mom"

Why didn't you kill yourself today?

What cross, what coupon, what cathode ray

Put the joie de vivre in your diseased heart?

How Anne Hathaway,

How Peg Bundy

Thou art.

Hey Sugar:

Prove to me that the air you breathe

Wasn't better served by the leaves of a tree.

You're but a breeder,

Tax break receiver

With menopause sweats

A TV tray and a mosh pit son

Who wastes the marrow of his bones

Jumping into these drums.

Please tell him:

Don't stand so close to me.

See, I know your children

Because I've been your children

And us children, hopeful children

Ain't worth the stretch marks baby.

'Cause we may sing these songs of protest,

Cast our ballots, too

Forgo meat and

Ride our bikes and

Get our band's stupid tattoo

But it means nothing - nothing - when we get eaten by the sun.

Que sera

Que sera

For, whatever there is will soon be all gone.

So what's wrong

With a song

That asks wherefore and why have you lived this long?

A purpose?

You want a reason?

Stop believing.

Or stop needing the answers.

There are no answers

Except the sun, the sun, the sun.

While you sit on your couch

And wait up for your boy

We're polluting his mind with this

(noise)

3) Our good friend Alvin keep getting us confused with No Doubt, but he is very good with his camera so we will allow it. Click his name if you enjoy this fine example:

4) Please go to shows at the Olhar de Vidro. And be aware: this place is going to blow up into a cornucopia of goodwill. Or: a horn of plenty of community goodness. Your pick. Stay tuned.

5) All signs point to a one-day-only stream of the new record ASAP. Beware. Also, Vitriol site is updated.

6) King James.

Write what you want to read,

Al