Archive for January, 2007

random photos

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Like the title says: random photos (click to enlarge)

Foo_2

   
TV off = angry Foo!

Backyard_2

Frank in snow. Frank is a goose that lives outside my back window.

Step
Foot. Hand. Foot.

Hero
Guitar Hero. Oh yeah.

Car

Bench1

Cupcakes

Birthday cupcakes! Sweet!

Press! Press! Press!

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

The press machine rolls on. We’re mentioned in Anderson’s Herald Bulletin. Full story here: Wanted:Musicians

Choice bits:

"Belinda
Short felt the need to branch out. She could sing, she could play a few
instruments. She had been in school bands but she wanted more.
So she decided to join a rock band."

"About
a year and a half ago, 23-year-old Shayne Gasaway, bass player and
co-founder of Courting Disaster with drummer Aaron Haltom, was looking
for a lead singer.

"The hard part was
contacting these people who seemed really good on paper or the computer
screen, and you’d meet them and it wouldn’t click," Gasaway says. "We
lucked out on Amir (Zaid, guitarist) — he’s really good. But it took a
few months to find a singer."

Gasaway
said some of the prospective lead singers he met before Short came with
unreasonable demands. One wore a mask (like those worn by masked heavy
metal band Slipknot) throughout the entire interview and wouldn’t
reveal his identity. One asked if he could snort cocaine around the
band and another required gas money to travel to and from practices and
shows.

Finally, they found Short.

 "Not
only does she sing, but she has learned to play guitar for us. She’s
been really good. She writes all the lyrics, makes the T-shirts and is
really good overall," Gasaway says."