1 Sec Film visits YouTube and Google along Road to Oprah Quest (w/ PICS)

Digg Update: Remember The 1 Second Film anyone can produce for $1? They raised enough to buy a school bus, converted it to a bio-diesel RV, and are now driving it 10,000 miles to ask Oprah for a buck. To start the trip off, they got invited to give presentations at both Google and YouTube. Here's how...

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BEHOLD!

The new Evangenitals poster!

What do ya think?



Thanks to Misha Birmele for working his logo and design magic on this one... and thanks to Steve Diet Goedde for the awesome photo!

xoxo

I noticed on the Evangenitals web stats that a bunch of folks have been searching for the lyrics to the song Fuck 'em All (which is going to be on our upcoming album "Everlovin"... hittin' the streets officially on October 4th, though some advanced copies are already out and circulating) so I figured I'd write 'em down in here:

Fuck 'em All
- The Evangenitals

He works so hard
Almost paid off the car
Sleeps on somebody's couch
Saving up for the house

She lives with her toys
Had given up on the boys
Till he came along
Now she's singing a new song

He knows she's insane
And she knows he's the same
They ain't go a shot in hell
But they're taking the ride might as well....

Till the wheels fall off
Till the wheels fall off
Till the wheels fall off...

When you hear the call
When you hear the call...

Fuck 'em All.

As for Everlovin, the finished product is well worth the wait. Brett and Georgie have been finessing it to perfection. Evangenital bliss. We are so excited about sharing this album with the world at large, and equally excited about traveling the US and Canada with The 1 Second Film on the Road to Oprah tour.

We are fully aware of how completely insane the whole journey is. It's crazy. Truly crazy. And the fact that we're willing to go and do it even though it is so crazy is the stuff that LEGENDS are made of. This is how epic adventurous are born... saying yes, and the first step. Into the void! Unknowing, possibility, the road. It all awaits.

I'm guessing that some of those searches for Fuck 'em All may be from CalArts Theater students. Our little mini-gig up there was quite a success and I hear that Fuck 'em All has been declared the new school song by the student body. I love it. They were definitely one of the best, most enthusiastic, ultra-singalong crowds we've ever had. I loved it. I'm glad we're getting up there again soon. :-)

Alright, I admit it...

I'm a little nervous about our Universal Citywalk gig tomorrow night. There's supposed to be a LOT of people there, we're playing a big 'ol rock stage, and I'm not sure which t-shirt I should wear.

That what I call a LUXURY problem, people. :-)

I hope to see some friendly faces there, other than the ones on stage with me, of course.

Gotta take deep breaths and let the goodness flow through me. It's time for the big time! This is just another step of many steps that came before toward the shining and glorious glory of the next step on the path to the great whatever-the-fuck that's coming.... and I'm loving every minute of it.

Rock on.

The Evangenitals are closing out Indie 103.1's Summer Block Party at Universal Citywalk on September 1st. Sign of the apocalypse, or did the world just get a little more awesome for Genitals worldwide?

You be the judge:

I just saw the 11th Hour yesterday and it was incredible. The only disappointing thing, for me, is that neither The 11th Hour nor An Inconvenient Truth really got into the tremendous impact that factory farming has on the environment, deforestation, etc.

There are allusions made to it visually, but no one in these films ever TALKS about the connection between the massive meat consumption in the US, the degraded conditions of the animals, chemicals that go into the food and the land/air, and the tremendous waste, both in the land being used to grow grain for animals that feed the few, whereas the farming land could be used to feed the many, and in the "means of production" of the meat industry itself.

I wish that this connection would be made more apparent in these environment call-to-action films because, as expressed in John Robbin's Diet for a New America, if folks would just reduce their meat intake (thereby reducing meat production) by a mere 10% the impact on world hunger would be enormous... not to mention what the global effects would be if Veganism became as present and acceptable in the popular consciousness as Recycling.

All that aside... I highly recommend seeing the film. It was moving, intense, beautiful, disturbing, yet optimistic. Let me know what you think of it.

Drunken Sailor
Originally uploaded by juliocrockett

I just got home from the El Cid show and I've already uploaded the photos for your viewing pleasure!

It was a great, short, barn-burner set. I wore my long-sleeved cowboy shirt and paid the price by getting some sweaty pits from all my running about.

I figure it proves I was working hard. :-)

Thanks to those of you who came out to the show, played along, and for all the hooting and hollering.

If you missed it, this photo set (taken by Patrick Ian Moore) actually gives a pretty good idea of just what went on over there.

Hope to see you all next weekend at the Old Towne Pub. Until then, please enjoy, comment on, spread around all these Evangenitals pics that I've been obsessively uploading onto Flickr.

Love,
Juli & the Evangenitals

The Evangenitals take over Universal Citywalk with Rock Sermon

Former employees of a sex toy company have joined together in musical harmony to spread the gospel of love in the form of alt-country, indie-pop, psychedelic rock, acoustic ballad, folk tunes. Universal Citywalk has the cojones to let them close out their summer music series.

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Proud Meat Eater?

Please watch this (all the way through, no cheating!) and then enjoy your carne asada tacos:

Meet Your Meat!

There's a scene at the end that is priceless.

:-)

Did ya hear???
Originally uploaded by juliocrockett

I finally posted the wild and wonderful photos from The 1 Second Film's "Road to Oprah" fundraiser that took place at Mr T's Bowl in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Vermouth, Cousin Junebug, Ollin, 8 Bit, and the Evangenitals all threw down the music and mayhem at this awesome event... and if you watch the slideshow in fast motion while listening to Gasoline, it almost feels like you're at an Evangenitals show!

Thanks to Patrick Ian Moore for taking all the pictures. :-)

1 Second Film Drives 10,000 miles to ask Oprah for $1

Absurdly awesome one-second film that allows anyone to be a producer for $1 and donates the profits to charity. They are gearing up to drive a school bus 10,000 miles across America to ask Oprah for $1. Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Colbert already donated. What will Oprah do?

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Lisa and Juli

Lisa and Juli
Originally uploaded by alexiperplexy

This awesome picture was taken by Alexi at my birthday hooter-nanner on July 28th at Highland Perk!

Thanks Alexi!

You can click on the picture to see more and some other cool pix of Alexi's on Flickr.

:-)

1. A call to adventure, which the hero has to accept or decline
2. A road of trials, regarding which the hero succeeds or fails
3. Achieving the goal or "boon," which often results in important self-knowledge
4. A return to the ordinary world, again as to which the hero can succeed or fail
5. Application of the boon, in which what the hero has gained can be used to improve the world

Let's do this!

xoxo
Julio
The Evangenitals (aka The Love Punks)

As if I didn't already love Leonardo Di Caprio enough (have you heard the awesome Ukefink song in his honor?) he goes off and creates this:



I'm so friggin' excited.

p.s.
If you really want to help save the world, go vegan. :-)

We need you to show your love to The Love Punks: www.myspace.com/lovepunkslove

In other words, add our Love Punks profile as your friend on Myspace!

We need to transfer some of our Myspace pals over to our alter-ego profile in preparation for some Road to Oprah press. :-)

If you haven't heard the story yet, the Evangenitals (traveling as The Love Punks) are going on a 45 day tour with the documentary crew of The 1 Second Film all over the US and Canada in a bio-diesel bus (with composting toilet and solar power!), ending up in Chicago, IL where we will ask Oprah to give us $1.

Big fun, baby.

Add the Love Punks, please!
www.myspace.com/lovepunkslove

xo
julio

So much is going on, I don't have much time to share about it.

I started working full-time with The 1 Second Film, plotting our upcoming Road To Oprah cross-country bio-diesel 10,000+ mile adventure.

The Evangenitals will probably be traveling as "The Love Punks" considering that we're going to be heading straight through the Bible Belt and visiting Oprah Winfrey. We don't want the name of the band to be any sort of distraction from the amazing cause and vision that The 1 Second Film represents.

In other news, I started taking classes at IO West and have become utterly obsessed with long-form improv. Tonight Ptryxxx and I are going to go see "The Lampshades" which stars my improv teacher Scot Robinson (who was also in Anchorman) and Meredith from The Office, aka Kate Flannery.

I have to go to the xBiz summer forum at the HardRock in Vegas next week for my "other" job, and then my sister is getting married in Florida on the 22nd. I saw her wedding website, and it is just plain surreal. This will be the first time in a LONG time that all the Crockett's are going to be in the same place at the same time. Hopefully the wedding cruise doesn't sink and take us all to Davey Jones' locker.

I have to admit thoughts like that when they occur to me, or else I am afraid that they will actually happen, and then I'll be dying thinking, "are you fucking kidding me? I totally called that!"

What else?

After a strange period of seeming song-writer's block, a bunch of new material is starting to flow out of me. I'm writing a new love song about Ptryxxx that has was may be the cutest subtly vegan choral hook that was ever written.

Newlywed Jeff Jones is going to return to the Evangenitals for a mellow yellow coffee house set at Highland Perk on July 28th! I've decided that we're going to make this gig an open-house, sing-a-long, play-a-long, Evan-hootenanny! After so much rocking so far this year (and much more rocking to come with another Molly Malones gig and the Evangenitals playing Universal Citywalk's Block Party on September 1st) we thought it would be nice to have a calm, sit down with coffee evening where we can share favorite songs, simple chords, and tell some stories about how these songs were written and why.

Lastly, I just bought some red and purple vegan/animal friendly Manic Panic hair dye and I'm thinking I may do something crazy with it this weekend. :-)

Sunday in the Park with Juli

Juli Crockett
Originally uploaded by juliocrockett

Taken in the gardens of the Lummis Home in Highland Park while waiting to be on the news promoting the Lummis Day Festival.

Photo by Patrick Ian Moore.

I think I'm gonna debut my Vegan Cowboy Boots tonight. :-)

CIMG4873.JPG
Originally uploaded by the1secondfilm.com

I grabbed this from the 1 Second Film's Flickr gallery of pictures from the Lummis Day Festival, where the Evangenitals rocked the park and the 1 Second Film worked on signing up new producers and fundraising for our Road Trip to Oprah this Fall. :-)

Ptryxxx and I look like big dorks, but I love this picture.

In the last 48 hours I have interviewed to direct a new play (and gotten the job), stayed up late working with Nirvan Mullick from The 1 Second Film on creating the Road To Oprah Myspace profile and other planning for the Love Punks/1 Second Film road trip this fall, woke up early this morning to appear on TWO morning news show (Fox Channel 11 and KTLA), did an interview with KPFK about the Evangenitals and our performance at the Lummis Day Festival, and I went on a date to the Pirate of the Carribean 3 at El Capitan, where we had VIP seats and an awesome audience that was totally in the swashbuckling spirit.

Oh yeah, and there was a giant, and I mean GIANT, photo of the Evangenitals in the Pasadena Weekly today. So, the Evangenitals were in newspapers, on the radio, and on TV... all within in 24 hours. I dig it. Awesome, I say!

So, I'm feeling rather, as the saying goes, "Thank you Sir, may I have another" about things right now. Except for the cold. I'd like to give this stinky cold back, and keep all the good energy that seems to be surrounding all things Evangenital right now.

In short, it's been a good, long, wonderful day and I'm digging it.