mouse and the billionaire

Wednesday the 10th of March, two-Thousand and ten // yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

christmas kitty
Meow.

Drink some egg nog. Give a gift. Fall asleep in front of a fire. Dance with some sugerplum farries. Deck the halls. Bough the Holly. On Donner. On Blitzen. Trim the Tree. Find some Misteltoe and get yourself kissed. Eat a goose. Our Savior is born.

Merry Christmas.

Love,

Mouse and the Billionaire

beth, by kiss
This week John Moe's fabulous Pop Song Correspondences considers our favorite ballad to a forlorn band-wife from a member of a make-up smothered leather-clad rock band.

Beth, by Kiss

To: Peter Criss
From: Beth


Some highlights.

"You say you and the boys just can't find the sound. Here: loud guitars and lots of people bellowing in a not particularly melodious way. There. Done. There's your "sound." You ain't Bowie."

"Look, I swore I would never tell you this, but remember how this cat business came about? Gene was working on his demon designs, Paul was on his sci-fi kick, both were talking about how their characters reflected who they really were. So, when the suggestion was made that you dress up like "a total pussy," that was an insult. The fact that you took the idea as inspiration for a cat costume amused the other guys (and me also, to be honest) so much that no one ever let you in on the joke. Sorry."

It's true, you can practically hear the manhood running for shelter. It also slightly bends our rule that no good pop song can ever contain saxophone. Listen for yourself.

Beth - Kiss (mp3)

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This guy plays guitar.

No big deal you say?

Well, he plays Last Dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty.

So can you, eh?

Well, this guy plays it and sings a the same time.

No big deal?

Well, this guy has no arms.

Beat that.

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DMH had a dream one time where he was on an expedition. This expedition resulted in the discovery of the "best juice," a juice that made the drinker the best at only one thing.

The catch was this: it only made you good at one thing, and you couldn't pick what it was. The juice just picked for you. You wouldn't even know it. Then, one day, you would suddenly realize that you made the best smoothies ever, or you mowed the lawn better than anyone else.

This video drank the best juice.

It wanted to be best neon-light designer ever, or best motivational speaker. It would have settled on best World of Warcraft player.

The juice, however, had different ideas.

hammock meow
Oh you feline femme fatals.

You mangy minxes.

We did our semi-monthly stat-check and came up with some interesting findings, most importantly, this: Our number one search keyword hit for the last year was one word.

Cats.

In fact, 37.8% of the keywords used to get to this very site was the word "cat" in the last year. 90.3% in the last month!

Second place for the last month was "cute cats" with 3.6%.

Second place for the year was "mouse and the billionaire" with 7%. That seems a little unbalanced.

The jig is us kitties. We know you're googling yourselves. We know your game. Flood the keyword market with your little meowspionage. Well it won't work. You may be cute, you may be clean, but you can't control our internets.

Consider yourselves warned.

P.S.

As a side note, the 6th most popular keyword for the last month? Gwendolyn Meier.

Hmm....

synch in a cigar box
I want to make this.

A 4 voice FM synth in a cigar box. What better use for a cigar box? Ours has money in it. What a waste. Money is meant to be spent on a Critter Board to make a synthesizer out of a cigar box. If time were money then we would be in a Dorothea Lange photograph. Some day, friends. Some day.

View the video here.

link via the MakeBlog.

november, 2006: mouse and the mixtape
Yeah, we know.

We're fat and lazy and can't get anything out on time.

But it's worth the wait, we promise.

Download the mp3.

Download the cover art.

Let the sweet sounds of Amy Winehouse, Via Audio, Emily Haines, Delroy Wilson, Chi-Lites, Buck O'Neil, Peter Bjorn and John, Matt & Kim, Dr. John, and the Temptations wash over you.

Enjoy.

gloyd live
Ladies and Gentlemen,

J Glo has submitted a beautiful song to the Deluder.

Morphine is a kick in the head
Morphine is a kick in the head
Lay me down in a cold, cold bed
Morphine is a kick in the head


Give it a listen.

Morphine mp3

Also, Laurie Parker of Paper Plane fame lent her beautiful voice to A. Hamilton's Green, Green, Green and Green. We think it sounds fantastic. But don't just take our word for it, judge for yourself.

Green Version 4 mp3

It's really exciting to hear some of the songs filling out a bit more. Thank you all for your wonderful submissions. Keep 'em coming and we'll keep making music together.

east coast freeways
Hells bells!

Have Emily and Micah ever come through for the Old Deluder!

"Eastcoast, Westcoast we've lived on both and they both are dumb."

Give, Eastcoast / Westcoast a listen, and start adding your thoughts, comments, suggestions, extra harmonies, and whatever else you can think of (though as far as we're concerned...work of art, can't figure out anything to make it any better.)

Thanks kids.

By the way, Albertson's definitely has Dr. Pepper.



Happy Friday everybody.

Make sure to say hi to our new friend, Jen's Museum of Oddities in the Links section, and a warm welcome back to Those Three Winks! (Thursday Nights, this Fall on ABC)

(p.s. Emily and Micah, you still owe us some Deluder magic. We're parched, and only some sweet LamieGraw sounds will quench our thirst!)