Our heartfelt thanks to Michael Fortes for taking the time to visit us & to do a Parlour to Parlour episode on us!  We had a blast hanging out in the morning shooting for the episode, as well as a ridiculous amount of fun later that evening at the Hive Mind Halloween Party (c’mon guys, it was TOO successful for you to REALLY call it quits with no more of these).  A grand time was had by one & all.

In other news, we have solidified a date at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard for Wednesday, January 13th with our friends in Osaka Explosion.  We’ve been hammering & smashing up a few new song ideas as we get ready to track the second half of songs for our new album (trust us, we’ve tossed around a Meeeylion creative working titles over rehearsals, although all have been quite silly so far).  We’re to a point we know what we’re going to work with song-wise - now we just have to get them recorded.  We’re most assuredly hoping that minus any little unexpected bumps/quirks/catastrophes, we’ll be sending off a Batch O’ Songs for mixing/production by the end of May& get this thing out the door in the second half of 2010.

Seattle Weekly posted a brief preview for the festival yesterday (somehow they chose to run with some band called “Mudhoney” for the photo rather than us…)

Also, ”Sunday’s lineup begins in the middle of the day with the hushed, shoe-gazing intoxication of Half Light (12:45PM)” from the Seattle PI.

Look forward to seeing anyone who can swing by to catch our set tomorrow. One note - the process for loading bands in & out to keep the music on schedule is a little on the tight side… the organizers basically need every band to load & go after their set & get their one allotted vehicle the F Outta Dodge: ASAP, so we may not be lingering to socialize all that long after the set as we load & move The Silver Bullet Van.

Looks like our cd just got reviewed over at The Big Takeover by Marcel Feldmar.  Here’s a little snippet:

“This music feels like dusk and flows like dawn, and though it seems like it’s all tied to your dreams, it won’t let you sleep. It lifts you up and holds you brightly, showing you the chords and choruses that bring you back home.”