Future endeavors and goings-on

Gangstas and gangstresses, we've been up to good and no good as of late. A whole lot of this and that. I can't say much for the other, but nonetheless. More printing, more frosting, more songing, and more muppets are all upons. In fact, there was a recent get-down-and-boogie-fest with the incorrigible Elegant Bachelors (seen here). Times were had. They were good. Now, not to be outdone by ourselves, the hootenanny to end all hootenannies is being realized in ways both epic and awesome...

Yes.

As for the rest of the happenings and goings-on, why, i'll just let Baby Jane give you the run-down...

Hot frosting

I totally suck at bloggering. However, you have to admit that when i bring it, it's absolutely worth the wait. After all, photos of Baby Jane and cake are pretty much enough to get the most cheerless chap through another drab day. "Why the cake?" you may ask. Well, somebody had a birthday recently and it may or may not have been yours truly. Here's how the special day went down: slinging coffee with the brew ladies, japanese cuisine and iced cream with the family, ridiculous sinus headache and earache while watching mst3k, pepperoni pizza and ed wood's glen or glenda. All in all, pretty much rad. The next morning, i worked eight and a half hours at the brew and came home with this...

I worked for three and a half years at the sbux and never once had a watermelon cake bestowed upon me for my birthday by my boss. Suck on it, sbux. When i arrived home i was greeted with kisses and the following...

I'm not real sure why it took us nearly seven years to ice that fireplace, but i'm diggin' the crap out of it. I gotta say, i'm pretty much inspired to attack the kitchen cabinets next. At the moment, Mama Jane doesn't seem to share my enthusiasm for such an endeavor. Stay tuned to see how this one pans out. And now, let us commemorate the fireplace as she used to be with a strange photo featuring a ghostly Baby Jane...

Later on, we went nuts at half-price books and threw down three coupons and some cash for some eels, muppets, and richard scarry. The best part is that Baby Jane is now singing 'the rainbow connection'. I'll just let you imagine how sick with cute that happens to be.

In closing, apparently there is a show on a&e about midgets and pitbulls.

It may or may not be called 'the pit boss'. Mama Jane says, 'clever, huh?'

Later dudes.

Look at all these songs

Well, by-freaking-golly, the time has come for another dose of audibles from the ARHC library. As mentioned in previous postings, we've been busting out some "dope tees" for peeps near and not quite as near. During the pseudo-monotonous procedure of printing dozens of t-shirts, we are never without more than a few generous portions of tasty vibes. The following collection is a selection of tracks taken from hot afternoons in the garage, slow rides home, and late night documentary viewing. So what are you waiting for? Stare deep into the sonic face of these delicious ditties. Dig.

Download: Look At All These Songs - A Rockey Home Companion Mixtape (zipped folder 81MB)

Side A:

1. Turd on the run - The Rolling Stones
2. High in the morning - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
3. Goodbye girl - Squeeze
4. The india song - Big Star
5. Older - Band of Horses
6. Red-eyed and blue - Wilco
7. Speed of life - David Bowie
8. Sinister kid - The Black Keys
9. Everybody's hurting - Jakob Dylan
10. Complicated life - The Kinks

Side B:

1. Arkansas - Damien Jurado
2. Mathilde - Scott Walker
3. Forever for her (is over for me) - The White Stripes
4. Come on - Lucinda Williams
5. Love me like you - The Magic Numbers
6. Lousy weekend - Daniel Johnston
7. Black sand - Jenny Lewis
8. I won't ask again - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
9. Motion pictures (for carrie) - Neil Young
10. Goodnight rose - Ryan Adams

Computers are magic

What you are looking at is an optical illusion conjured by the sleight-of-hand dealings of computer wizardry. For you see, the storm door which appears to be black in this photo is not black at all. However, using the magic of computers, we at A Rockey Home Companion were able to manipulate the photo in order to imagine the storm door in a different colour as we considered replacing our current one. Well folks, we were convinced.

Ala peanut butter sandwiches...

So after only several months of procrastination, the front entryway is practically, officially complete. And there was much rejoicing. The Mustard Room was quite productive during the late weeks of june / early weeks of july. We've been burning screens, mixing ink, and swiping squeegees across t-shirts like nobody's beeswax. Thanks again to all of our friends and clients who have kept us busy as of late. You are the rocks in our stars. Also, we'd be remiss if we didn't thank the goode folks at albanese confectionery for keeping the fire burning with their savory sour gummi worms. Cheers! By the way gang, if you're ever interested in hanging out with us during the printing process, you will most likely be treated to iced coffee, selected tunes by the kinks, bowie, and neil young, and most notably this getup...

The preceding image seemed to merit some soft-focus.

This is how you will find us rolling.

Now, let us enjoy a playful child hunting for fireflies in a thunderstorm...

The Mustard Room Recordings presents...

Cyber 45 #2

In the grande olde tradition of the double-sided 45 rpm record, The Mustard Room has been making available unreleased songs from the Joel Rockey songbook via digital download. The second installment in the series features two songs recorded in the spring of 2003. New vocal, drum, bass guitar, and percussion tracks were recorded in The Mustard Room in june and early july of 2010. Download both tracks by clicking here for the low low price of free.