The City Veins

I’ve been in and out of bands for the last 14 years of my life. In that time, the press that I/my bands have accrued is probably 3-4 articles aggregate. That is to say that one article is written every four-ish years. To be fair, there was no press in the first 7 years, no articles written, and general disgust meeting my early “work”. So I guess you could say that things have really picked up in the last 7 years, in that ascending from nothing to 3-4 “somethings” is a pretty large increase. But to sum it up, no-one really writes about us, or at least not more than a line or two. And by “us” I mean me. Because, lets be honest, as a narcissist I hardly notice that Charles and Spencer are there. There is not “Roosevelt” press separable from “City Veins” press, there is only Aaron press. It is a monolithic historical viewpoint, but that’s what you get with me.

So in the last few weeks we have been contacted by two separate media peoples with interest in the band. As a reader of this blog, I am assuming a level of intelligence enough for you to calculate how statistically significant two separate and unique media requests are. (And to weed through my cumbersome English).

Two is a lot. The first media outlet—making it sound like Fox News—claimed a million hits a day. A million little City Veins followers! That would be amazing, and is certainly a more than likely proposition given how impressionable blog-readers are.

(Aside: We need to think of some inside lingo to go along with City Veins fandom….like “The Replacements” are “The Mats” to fans of the band. Please leave suggestions in the comment section—I fully expect Jon to come up with the best, like “The Main Veins”, or something border-line inappropriate).

The second “media outlet” made no such claims, so I actually trust them. Actually, I trust both because there’s really no incentive for them to lie to us. What were we going to say: “you’re not big enough for access”? I contacted the Lo-Fi Social Club for some press passes at the behest of both groups of journalists, but I felt ridiculous doing it given the fact that access is really not an issue. If they wanted to they could probably jump up on stage and no-one would know the difference or question their actions. These are not tightly-run ships; they are run by individuals that envisioned a grander existence. And while that may be true for us all, many of us operate in what is at least a partial meritocracy, while I’m certain they do not. Thus, there’s not always a whole lot of “caring” about how things go down at the small clubs. It is for precisely that reason that we love playing Velvet; that they actually give a shit about the musical product on every single night, and they do the most they can in order to put the artists in a position to deliver quality. I’ve heard Lo-Fi is the same way, just with fewer resources (ie-no Rob Curtis). So we’re psyched about that show and our millions of potential fans located in the mid-west who have yet to read of our excellence but almost certainly will by February 10th.

By my count, it has been 20 days since Aaron posted on this thing. 20 days!

Where has our fearless lead singer gone? Well, physically nowhere but mentally who the hell knows. I think he thinks WAY too much about what to put on the blog. Each posting tries to be more profound than the last. I think he over analyzes what to write about and puts this pressure on himself, giving him blog-tile dysfunction.

So, in an effort to 1) motivate him to blog and speak for himself and 2) publicly humiliate him until he does, we will posting facts about Aaron until he gets his ass on here to post.

Today’s Tarr Watch 2007 Fact is: Studies have shown that trained monkeys are proven to use a computer more effectively than Aaron.

Also, if you see Aaron, please don’t tell him about Tarr Watch. We want to see how many days it takes him to catch on on his own.

ALSO, we’re in The City Paper this week. Click HERE to read it.

We got mentioned in this week’s City Paper. It is a nice writeup, and Aaron did a good job on the interview. He managed to sound like less of an idiot than normal.

Also, Spencer and I are pretty sure that Aaron doesn’t actually read the blog. He certainly has no interest in updating it. So we are just going to continue to insult him on it, until he says something.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention this, but here is the song referred to in the article:

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