The City Veins

 Last night we met with our friend and part-time band consultant, Amber, to talk to her about a few ways to spice up promotion.  (By part-time consultant I mean person who gives us free advice).  One of the things she came up with was to have a fan-of-the-month feature on our blog.  So, for our first month we have chosen the one and only Stan Chow.

Profile:  Stan is best known as the artist responsible for the artwork on the latest White Stripes album, similar in tone to that of the profile picture above.  Stan also managed to win himself a grammy in early 2008 for this great work.  Stan is by far the most high-profile fan of the City Veins, though my childhood friend Josh Green is getting pretty big with those Accuvue commercials.  I don’t know–I’d say Stan’s Grammy wins it.  I think Josh probably needs an Oscar, or at the very least a Golden Globe.

How He Came to Be A Fan:  Funny story, actually.  Charles, in a previous blog, ridiculed the Grammy’s for being irrelevant, citing the completely assinine Grammy awarded to Mr.  Chow as evidence.  As it turns out, Mr.  Chow scours the internet fairly regularly to monitor traffic associated with his name, because he contacted us regarding our post.  We’re not certain if he was being sarcastic, or if he didn’t quite absorb Charles’ sarcasm, but he thanked us for the comment.  Then, to prove that we will apparently star-fuck even the most marginal of stars available, we thanked him for thanking us, turning ridicule on its head.  Spencer commented to the rest of us something like,”It would be awesome if this guy would do some art for us”, and we all agreed.  We contemplated whether or not the apparent rift between us would prohibit this, but ultimately came to the conclusion that he must love our music and appreciate our social commentary relating to the grammies because, although it took away from his marvelous achievement, the observation was undeniably correct.

So here’s to Stan Chow.  I hope he understands that this is not sarcastic, and that I really do want him to love our band,  although in my mind he’s already a super-fan.  So Stan: if you read this, and you hate our stuff, please just allow us to delude ourselves for a bit longer.  After all, you are our very first Fan of the Month!