Simple Pleasures

4 quarters = 1 Dr Pepper from the soda machine (with secret beer option!) at the rehearsal studio where my band practices.

Going to band practice makes me realize that I have a BAND to PRACTICE with... and this makes me insanely grateful and giddy.

Very excited for the now and the later. :-)

xoxo
julio

Houseparty Hootenanny Potluck - Thurs Oct 1st

You may have heard we recently made a new EP! WE DID!

You may have heard we recently took a PLAY and the BAND to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland! Well, WE DID!

You may have NOT heard the Evangenitals play live in the US recently! That's because WE HAVEN'T!!!

So on THURSDAY OCTOBER 1st we're having a HOOTENANNY POTLUCK to celebrate!

We'll fill your ear holes with music & stories and your eyeballs with smiles & slide shows from our UK travels! You can pick up the new EP and get filled up with Evangenital joy. Good deal, eh?

Bring a dish, we'll bring the cheap wine & beer for a donation bar (tohelp us recoup some more travel expenses!), and together we can get reacquainted under the stars.

On the musical platter... we will put an end to our long separation from are darling accordion player Ari DeSano by enjoying the incredible tunes of ODIOUS ARI & THE SYPHILITIC SYCOPHANTS from 8-9pm.

Then the Evangenitals shall croon from 9-10pm!! At last, at last!

It's all going down at our Sancho's... I mean.... actor Chris Goodson's awesome home (with terraced backyard and outdoor stage!) located at:

611 Isabel Street
Los Angeles, CA 90065

7:30pm - 10:30pm

Bring a dish, or just bring your sweet self!!!

RSVP's are welcome but not required. Just come, come, COME N' GET IT!!!

http://ping.fm/FHSul?eid=134111144361

See you there!

Love,
Juli, the Evangenitals, and the Quixote crew

*** Too far away to make it to the party?
You can check out the new album on CDBaby.com here:
http://ping.fm/f7rvN
And don't be shy... write me a note and you can be my bona fide pen pal!
xoxo
juli

Improbable Perversion

While eating a handful of small, peeled carrots I noticed a slight slimy and tart residue on one of the morsels. My first (and quite surprising) thought was a mildly panicked "Semen?!"

The improbability of this was immense, as I am a woman living alone and cannot imagine the circumstances in which one could have feasibly ejaculated on my bagged carrots.

The fact that it was my first thought disturbed me. Later I found it amusing. "First thought, best thought."

Cash'd Out is back in Cali this weekend!

We're back in California this weekend! Check us out at the following venues/events:

Friday, September 25
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA
http://ping.fm/qb8Dv

Saturday, September 26
The Mint
Los Angeles, CA
http://ping.fm/EtELf

The Mint show will be a living room acoustic experience. Therefore, we'll be playing Tennessee Two style with no drummer. This is a great opportunity for all you Johnny Cash purists to hear us play a lot of the old school Sun Records songs.

Sunday, September 27
Adams Ave Street Fair
San Diego, CA
FREE! 4:45PM
http://ping.fm/QnMEi

Upcoming Schedule:
Friday, September 25: Catalyst (Santa Cruz, CA)
Saturday, September 26: The Mint (Los Angeles, CA)
Sunday, September 27: Adams Ave Street Fair (San Diego, CA)
Friday, October 2: Wasted Space at HRH (Las Vegas, NV)
Saturday, October 3: Kount Customs MotorPsycho (Las Vegas, NV)
Sunday, October 4: Hogs & Heifers (Las Vegas, NV)
Friday, October 9: Diablos at Monte Carlo (Las Vegas, NV)
Saturday, October 10: Belly Up Tavern (Solana Beach, CA)
Thursday, October 15: Bluebird (Denver, CO)
Friday, October 16: Ghost Ranch Saloon (Steamboat, CO)
Saturday, October 17: Belly Up (Aspen, CO)
Monday, October 19: Knuckleheads (Kansas City, MO)
Thursday, October 22: Lee's Liquor Lounge (Minneapolis, MN)
Sunday-Tuesday, October 25-27: Oneida Casino (Green Bay, WI)
Friday, October 30: Eagles Ballroom (Omaha, NE)
Saturday, October 31: The Bottleneck (Lawrence, KS)
Friday, November 13: Blank Club (San Jose, CA)
Saturday, November 14: Thee Parkside (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, November 18: Urban Lounge (Salt Lake City, UT)
Friday, November 20: Knitting Factory (Spokane, WA)
Saturday, November 21: Knitting Factory (Boise, ID)

Thanks for your support!

Lest I forget...

A couple images I'd like to hold on to:

the eerie beauty of a blank white billboard hazily shining through the fog on a dark mountain road

a very pregnant about to pop young girl at a truckstop smoking cigarettes and laughing with her friends

lonely town

I'm sitting in this truck stop city somewhere in Portland, Oregon. The place is called "jubitz" and it's a whole town in itself... truck stop, country music venue & dance hall, mini-mall with an arcade, food court, movie theater, a restaurant, hotel... all in a small corner of nowhere, it seems.

Played a show with Cash'd Out here tonight and all was well until I was walking through the hallway and got slammed with a profound wall of sadness that had the peculiar flavor of being NOT MINE. I checked my heart and soul pockets and sure enough, I'm doing fine. No profound loneliness, no deep melancholy... not today... so I've been roving the halls trying to figure out exactly where the "hot spots" are... what residents, current and/or ghostly, are emitting this powerful mood?

I've found the spot. THE spot where the feeling is for sure most intense. And I'm sitting in it. Soaking it up. I think I feel a song coming on. :-)

Cash'd Out Northwest mini-tour this weekend!

Cash'd Out is returning to the great Northwest this week! See details below:

Thursday, Sept. 17
Ponderosa Lounge
Portland, OR
http://ping.fm/TWhwq
http://ping.fm/l7Wmd

Check us out on Thursday morning in Portland on the KUPL-FM 98.7 morning show for a live in-studio performance! To listen online: http://www.kupl.com/

Friday, Sept. 18
John Henry's
Eugene, OR
http://ping.fm/5PwX7
http://ping.fm/gE4om

Saturday, Sept. 19
Seattle, WA
Tractor Tavern
http://ping.fm/MpIST

Future INSANE Schedule:
Friday, September 25: Catalyst (Santa Cruz, CA)
Saturday, September 26: The Mint (Los Angeles, CA)
Sunday, September 27: Adams Ave Street Fair (San Diego, CA)
Friday, October 2: Wasted Space at HRH (Las Vegas, NV)
Saturday, October 3: Kount Customs MotorPsycho (Las Vegas, NV)
Sunday, October 4: Hogs & Heifers (Las Vegas, NV)
Friday, October 9: Diablos at Monte Carlo (Las Vegas, NV)
Saturday, October 10: Belly Up Tavern (Solana Beach, CA)
Thursday, October 15: Bluebird (Denver, CO)
Friday, October 16: Ghost Ranch Saloon (Steamboat, CO)
Saturday, October 17: Belly Up (Aspen, CO)
Monday, October 19: Knuckleheads (Kansas City, MO)
Thursday, October 22: Lee's Liquor Lounge (Minneapolis, MN)
Sunday-Tuesday, October 25-27: Oneida Casino (Green Bay, WI)
Friday, October 30: Eagles Ballroom (Omaha, NE)
Saturday, October 31: The Bottleneck (Lawrence, KS)
Friday, November 13: Blank Club (San Jose, CA)
Saturday, November 14: Thee Parkside (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, November 18: Urban Lounge (Salt Lake City, UT)
Friday, November 20: Knitting Factory (Spokane, WA)
Saturday, November 21: Knitting Factory (Boise, ID)

Thanks for your support!

On Clarity & Snow

We the people should have AT LEAST as many words for the shades and phases and varieties of LOVE as the eskimos have for snow. Lumping it all into the one term is disastrously confusing in this incarnation.

BACK in the US. New EP of OURS.

We made it! 3 weeks in the UK... 7 brave souls... approximately 30 shows later... and we're BACK! Hello America!!! We can't thank you enough for the love and support that carried us overseas. So we'll just keep thanking you every chance we get. Thank you!

It's all still a bit of a blur. We're catching our breath, sorting our photos, and getting ready to burst back onto the scene... or rather, its more of a cheeky jig. We had an amazing adventure over there in Scotland and we've got a ton of stories to share. We'll dish 'em out gently. One at a time.

For now, first things first:

Just DAYS before we left town, our new EP was printed! Seven tracks of solid gold recorded at Del Boca Vista Studio in South Pasadena with Tracy Chisholm. It's a real beauty. A hit in the United Kingdom already! And now YOU can have one, too.

PAYPAL or MAIL us just $12, and we'll mail you a copy of the new EP. How's that for an lovely exchange? Simple as Pi. ;-)

You can PAYPAL 12$ to: info@evangenitals.com

Or MAIL 12$ to:
The Evangenitals (yes, you can make a check out to the Evangenitals!)
PO Box 70318
Pasadena, CA 91107

Do that, and we'll send you the shiny new EP with a sleek Evangenitals Ultra Crest eco-friendly cover, no questions asked! Except for your mailing address. We'll need that.

Stay tuned for upcoming shows and other exciting news. We've got some good buns in the oven.

In the meantime, there's already a video on Facebook (the first of many to come!) from our show in London at The Sheep Walk for your viewing pleasure:
http://ping.fm/G17jT

So much love,
Juli & the Evangenitals

Tomorrow's Insane Travel Itinerary

All this trouble for ONE SHOW!!!!

**
San Gabriel to Downtown LA (my car)
Downtown LA to San Diego (george's car)
San Diego to Phoenix, AZ (cash'd out van)
** play show at Rhythm Room in Phoenix**
Phoenix, AZ to San Diego (cash'd out van)
San Diego to Downtown LA (george's car)
Downtown LA to San Gabriel (my car)

... profound weeping for my HUGE carbon footprint ensues...

:-)

going to see Accidental Nostalgia AGAIN tonight because it is SO FRIGGIN' GOOD! :-) #edfringe

Set List - The Forest, 20th August

I can't vouch for the correctness of this. I wildly diverted from the set list and rode the crowd energy. I was a huge, mad, sweaty, crazy show... And I think it went something like this:

Evangina:
Love You Forever
When You Walked Out On Me
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Evangenitals:
1. Ahab's Leg
2. Bad Town
3. Hard Luck
4. Can You Picture That?
5. Sun is Shining
6. The Hole
7. Vagina Song
8. 30 Days
9. Weezer/Medley
10.Fuck 'em All
11. Sergio
12. So Sweet
13. Gasoline

Whew! :-)

Set List - Voodoo Rooms, 17th August

This is the most gorgeous venue we played in Edinburgh. Amazing room, amazing sound (thanks Ben!) and amazing people running the joint! Beautiful!

1. Hey Y'all
2. Hello
3. Ahab's Leg
4. Hard Luck
5. Sun is Shining
6. I Just Forgot (by request)
7. The Hole
8. Quee Queg
9. Can You Picture That?
10. Sergio
11. I'm Sad
12. Vagina Song (by request)
13. Fuck 'em All (by request)

John Maus

Just bought a bracelet from India at a little shop in Scotland with 12 different images of Christ crucified on it. Very, very awesome.

"Everybody wants to be on the cross."
- John Maus

Set List, 13th Note, Glasgow (short set!)

We had to rush this one, as Lisa and I had to catch the night train home to Edinburgh by 11:30pm!

We played with Billy (solo) from Glasgow Glam Bangers, Scunner, and a really cute boy/girl duo that I need to look up their names!

In a room full of total strangers (except for the Scunner boys who played the Forest with us) we played:

1. Ahab's Leg
2. Bad Town
3. The Hole
4. Hard Luck
5. Can You Picture That?
6. 30 Days
7. Vagina Song
8. Gasoline

*Strangely enough, Neko Case is playing at the 13th Note as well on her September tour! It appears she's following us! :-)

Set List - The Sheep Walk - London

This is mostly for Michael, but if anyone else cares, that's cool too!

Here's the set list, as close as I can recall, from our show at What's Cookin' at the Sheep Walk in Leytonstone, London, England.

We deviated from the plan a little bit on this set, cuz the audience was AWESOME, and we had to come up with FOUR encores, cuz the audience was AWESOME... but this is how I remember it. I will check with the boys and see if it seems true... and there is some video from this show coming home with us.

1. Hello
2. Ahab's Leg
3. Bad Town
4. Hard Luck
5. Work Song
6. Sergio
7. 30 Days
8. The Hole
9. So Sweet
10. Gasoline

Encore 1: Sun is Shining (?)
Encore 2: Fuck 'em All & Vagina Song
Encore 3: Weezer Medley
Encore 4: Quee Queg

Just landed in London! Next stop... Customs!!! Oh lord, help me... :-)

LL Cool J is on my plane!!! :-)

Our Brand New Album - Get it NOW!!!

Hot Off The Press! The BRAND NEW Evangenitals record is HERE!! And YOU can have a copy RIGHT NOW!!!

Demo... EP.... 7 songs to Heaven... call it what you like.... We like it! We're insanely proud of it. It's the best recording the Evangenitals have made so far (thanks to Tracy Chisholm at Del Boca Vista Studios in South Pasadena) and it's friggin' GREAT! At least, that's what I think... so why don't you take a listen and tell me what YOU think??

Since the Evangenitals are taking off for the UK in just a few days (and we still desperately need $$$ for important stuff like FOOD and TRAINS and INSTRUMENT INSURANCE) we are offering the following SPECIAL OFFER:

If you Paypal us $25 before midnight on Friday July 31st, we will mail you a copy of this beautiful recording (with its awesome eco-friendly ultra-crest cover) BEFORE we leave for Scotland!

Simply Paypal $25 (or more!) to info@evangenitals.com, include your shipping address, and we'll get it out to you! Heck, we'll even AUTOGRAPH it for you!! How cool is THAT???

Your $25 will help us ENORMOUSLY on our journey, and the Evangenitals album will help keep you warm on the insides until we can properly croon to you in your ear holes in person.

So do it NOW! Paypal $25 to info@evangenitals.com and be the first on your block to spin the sweet red disk! :-)

And....if you miss the deadline, or would like to mail us a check or Paypal us $15... we'll ship one out to you when we get back (Sept 1st).

Checks or money orders can be made out to "The Evangenitals" and mailed to:

The Evangenitals
PO Box 70318
Pasadena, CA, 91117

Love, love, love,
Juli, The Evangenitals, and the Quixote crew

Thanks for Nothing

We tremble, thinking we're about to dissolve
into nonexistence, but nonexistence
fears even more that it might be given human form
- Rumi