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STILL MAKING A NEW SLAB OF WAX TO LAY ON ALL THE KIDSPosted by Chris on September 17, 2007so we are well on our way to having this record in the can…most of the tracking is done and it looks like we are going back to Martin Feveyear to mix this record…he did the last one and in all the in stores and radio stations and juke boxes that I heard the last record in it kicked some actual physical ass so we are gonna get his talented fingers to touch our knobs again on this one….I think we have a track list too so here it is…so low so high, mixed up sob, ghosts are everywhere, more bad times, french girl, ladybug, sharpen up those fangs, rot in the sun, truckstop butterfly, flame is love, warhead, deleter, poor turtle, loose balloon….subject to chance of course but these are the 14 that we are gonna concentrate on till the end of the process…I am in west seattle at a wee coffe shop having a jalepeno egg bagel (yums) this morning on my way to meet with the people that I am scoring a movie for…it’s a documentary about mega-churches…and I am putting some fonky fonky tunes in there…augie and jo jo are back in school and the frost is on the pumpkins in the morning here…well not really but the dew is on the melons anyway…went camping for the last time last week and I am wearing a jacket today (not jennifers) so there be chills in the airs…oh and you may have noticed that I cancelled my Myspace and BEBO pages… just not into that thing really…too much time in front of a computer and not enough outside walking around….make sense? I think so…I just felt like people that know me can call me up or email me and people that don’t can find me here on the pusa site and I never really looked at those pages anymore and they felt a little dusty because of that so I decided to end the experiment…not trying to be less reachable just cleaning house…ok that’s all for now…bye bye!
View comments - 0 comments ON THE VERGE OF AMAZING ROK AND ROLL MAKING POWERPosted by Chris on June 3, 2007well…the kids are in bed and the house is clean and the dishes are in the dishwasher and the neighborhood kitties are making screeching noises and the clouds are gathering and the sun has set and in the morning we will take on the most noblest of missions…one that since the dawn of time has confused kings and made armies tremble with fear at the very thought of having to face the raw nerves of pure steel that is required to do battle on the most hallowed of ground in a place called THE RECORDING STUDIO…the quest? to try to capture the fun of rok and roll and make copies of it. sounds simple but it is a daunting task to be sure…to quiet the chatter of distractions…too access the fearless bravado to hit the highest notes available to humans….to relax and have a cold brew and still perform like a well oiled machine…to tamp down the ego long enough to accept the fact that your instrument is actually too loud….all this and the soul gathering courage to smile through the tears…this is our mission…and we accept it with high hopes of delivering a truly fine suite of imagination tickling party numbers….whew…now…to sleep… View comments - 0 comments LETTERS FROM 5 A.M. IN TEX-ASSPosted by Chris on March 20, 2007W to the O to the W....this was the best SXSW of my little life....all the other times I went I had to work alot and this time there was space for meeting people and having party times and watching the sun come up and eating drinks and ALSO roking the house with the PUSA style rok...the air was cool and the sun was worm...warm....so much to tell but basically we roked at the Ballard (the neighborhood in Seattle where I live) party on friday afternoon in the hazy could sun for a small but loving crowd that grew as we roked...so fun to see the hometown friends in the texas sunshine..ate tacos out of a wagon and made sweaty rok sounds...those little wagons are the b-o-m-b...spent alot of time at the PUMP audio party friday and thursday nights swallowing free vodka and talking to funny people...even saw a good band or two there but I couldnt tell you who they were...met some cool video directors from la and had many funny times with them...Morgan and Kim...good people...hung with my buddy Jess from Pump and her friend Rachel...silly rabbits...trix are for adults...slept and drooled during the day and spent the night time prowling for laughs...then sat night we played at Maggie Maes at midnight to a killer crowd...I got all upside down on a pole during the first song...just felt tlike the right thing to do!..so fun...played French Girl (our new song) and felt like an old friend...we also roked What the Hell? and it grooved nicely...cant wait to get a whole set of new up and running for recording...hopefully we do that in June...back to SXSW...stayed up till the wee hours on suday mornig then got on a plane and came home all fuzzy...cant wait to do it again nxt year...see ya! View comments - 0 comments 3 HOURS OF SLEEP AND IM READY TO DO IT ALL AGAINPosted by Chris on February 18, 2007hey-low....Im sitting here in the early morning light with my baby daughter (shes 6 but I call her my baby!) working on the set list for tonight...the third show in a row at the showbox!!! the first two were really cool...saturday was a wee bit smotther for us in the band than friday....we got our sea legs on the second night!!...hope you all are diggin the new songs...we are loving playing freshness for you all...I stayed and talked a bunch last night so I am mister whisper and silence all day today...hee hee...gotta have the pipes in working order for the last show tonight...then Im off to the ocean with the kiddies for a few days to just chill-ax and swim in the pool and sit in a hot tub and walk on cold beaches and murder crabs...augie likes the crab but jo jo do not...she will have the salmon please...and watch movies and sleep and just be may-low...then home to get back to work on the new record!!! weeeeeeeeee.....we have about 6-7 songs in the final stages of being and I think we will try to learn at least 20 or so before we go in to record so only the strong will survive...seems like we are gonna mix up acoustic and electric...probably record the acoustic ones at my house and the electrics at a studio with a producer type...who is yet to be determined...we will do each song both ways and see what wins i rekon....theres some nuggets of information for y'all!...titles of new songs.....WHAT THE HELL?...SHES A NURSE...MORE BAD TIMES...TRUCKSTOP BUTTERFLY....SLOW SLOW FLY (reworking of a giraffes tune)...FRENCH GIRL...FLAME IS LOVE...WARHEAD...DRUNKEN PROMISES MADE UPON ROOFTOPS IN SPAIN...etc etc...its really fun working on this new batch cause I walk in with the song only half baked and we really hammer them into shape as a band...it relaxing and fun....like it should be right?...ok better go put my dirty little daughter in a bath and get the tangles out of that nest of hair thats sitting on her head!....Josie wants to know if you like pie? well do you?....ok bye bye! View comments - 0 comments AAAAAAMSTERDAAAAAAMED!!!!!!Posted by Chris on January 3, 2007Hey all you PUSA MONKEY-BEARS….as you may know we played on New Years Eve at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and it was possibly the best show ever…Im actually serious…the mojo was FULL FULL FULLY flowing and I had multiple religious experiences as I dispensed the pure music that we sometimes make…the club has a very relaxed security policy so that people can get up on stage and jump off into the crowd as many times as they want. This combined with the fact that people in Amsterdam are very chill and funky makes for a dynamic fun show where the line between the corwd and the band is blurry at best. We like it like that! at the end the stage was almost completly full of audience members singing along and dancing....I couldnt see Jason or Andrew at all!! they all sang along with the end of video killed the radio star like a chior of very drunk angels!....even the terminally shy Nicola was up there on stage!!!! I was so proud of her...The fireworks outside before the show were great too...we only had to walk right out of the club and look up to see them.....most of the noise came from these huge bricks of firecrackers that people in the crowd were setting off....one brick was so big that we couldnt even look at it the smoke and noise were so intense....good times were had by all....i will be heading home in a few days and buying a house!! Its a little 1944 post-war bungalow with a bedroom for each of the kids upstairs and a backyard for songwriting and a firepit for drinking and talking aroud...just the right size for me....so I am starting 2007 with a bang bang bang a gong!!! I hope you all are off to a killer start too...OH AND I AM WRITING SONGS...some of them are even good...haw....see ya... View comments - 0 comments WHERE TO FIND AND HEAR MEPosted by Chris on November 5, 2006hey all...I just wanted to let you all know that I am home safe from the land down under and the tour ended up being really fun...jason got better and andrews back held out and we rocked the socks off of perth and brisbane...so you can find me at home in the fall wetness of seattle or in ireland with my girl OR on BEBO at http://cmaballew.bebo.com I have a page on there where I am posting little bits of noise that I make form time to time that I am into...check it out... I like BEBO alot better than MYSPACE...easier to use and navigate...join up!.....ok Im off to take my son to perform in his marimba ensemble at the seattle center....see yall... View comments - 0 comments OZ IS STILL ROKINPosted by Chris on October 26, 2006wow....the people in australia are cooler than flies on a rare steak in the summer sun...hmmmm maybe I didnt say that right...is that cool? anyway they are cool...the shows have been stellar and the crowds really excited after the cancelled tour and all to come out and put thier love in the air for us...the weather is so sweet down here now...we are out in perth and the sun is warm and the air is cool and we are relaxin like worms at a funeral....wait...is that relaxing? hmmmm...my metaphor machine isnt calibrated right today!...I go home for a week then off to ireland to see my girl Nicola for a week YAY!!!!!!!!!! cant wait....jason has the floooooo so he is wobblin all over the drum kit but no matter...we are rock and roll professionals and it will all be good...I remember playing a party in seattle when I had NO voice at all...I sounded like darth vader with a throat diease but I hobbled through it...big shot of Nyquill before the show and a BIG shot of whiskey about half way through and I made it...whew...ok time to go get on a plane and fly from perth to brisbane to do the last show....then home sweet home....stay weird kids... 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