UGH! starting to feel an icky tickle in the back of my throat, which is just straight up BUNK. Those of you who know me well probably remember that this often happens to me before shows, but usually it's the result of something fun, like hot makeouts and crazy drunken adventures. This shit right now? Just out of nowhere lameness! I feel like the universe is making me pay for the awesomeness of the last month with a big fat ladle full of SUCK.

So shows! It's been a fantastic time for my band. We've been travelling out of town with increasing frequency and I've found that rather than being overwhelmed, I'm rather well suited to life on the road. I like the bizarre challenges that arise from showing up at random venue X and having to Macguyver shit together and making new friends and meeting old internet friends for the first time in real life and crazy late night diner visits with ex-cons who literally jump out of your car and roll into the bushes and out of sight when they spot cop cars (this ACTUALLY happened to us in CT)

Devil's Night and Halloween were incredible, and I'd do a writeup, but Crime already DID and he's a lot more eloquent then me! So go check it out and find out about that show and the final demise of Crime's keyboard. O_O

Speaking of awesome pics, here's a particularly awesome one from that show:
shot by our badass new photographer friend Ben Stimler

That's all for now, I'll do another post about the show we have coming up next Wednesday (our last NYC show for 2009!!!) or you can skip right on over to http://www.hateinthebox.com for the details if you're impatient ;)


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Wow, it feels like just yesterday I was kickin' it zombie style in Providence and it's already time for another show!

Get the most out of your costume and enjoy the cheapest, most action packed event you can find in NYC!

Want a party that doesn't break the bank to get into this Halloween? This party is just $2 if you're in costume, or $5 if you feel like going incognito!

How about a FREE Horror movie to get you in the mood? Still not enough? How about we plaster you with FREE Original Sin Hard Cider and enough FREE cupcakes to keep you bouncing off the walls to 4 live bands and 3 DJ's spinning rock, goth and industrial?

Doors at 8pm, Free Horror movie screening at 9pm,
Bands include:
The Saints of Pain- 10pm
Hate in the Box- 11pm
The Bambi Killers- 12am,


In the second chamber of this haunted tiki bar DJs Spaz, One Eyed Roxy and The Dutchman keep you rockin' all night long!

Make sure to RSVP for a chance to win a spooky trick or treat pumpkin full of perilous prizes at the show!

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Really looking forward to my upcoming Zombie show in Rhode Island this Sunday! Check under the cut for details on that if you're in the New England area! Been super busy designing fliers and promoting, promoting, promoting until I'm blue in the face. Got our first serious ticket on the Hate Mobile this week... MUCH SADNESS. Guess I have to chalk it up to experience but DAMN that was an expensive lesson learned... DOH!

In other news for those of you who know me in super incognito mode, I chopped a bunch of my hair off as a birthday present to myself and it's AWESOME. I didn't think I'd like it so much but it rules! And thank you so much to everyone who wrote, myspaced and called to wish me a Happy Birthday, you rock! For those of you in NY who want to help me celebrate, my official birthday party will be our NY show at Otto's Shrunken Head October 30th! I'll do a separate post for that and a fun making-of the super cute Angels VS. Devils poster I created for it ^_^

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I'm baaack!
Sorry for the lack of posts, my heads been swirling with a sudden influx of shows, I'll be in a couple of different states for the next month, starting with Connecticut tonight! Then in November I've got super special news for my lovelies I've missed so much on the west coast. Anyway, you can check out the details for tonight's show at www.hateinthebox.com if you are in CT. I'm super excited that a bunch of our friends from Rhode Island will be there too, apparently it's less than an hour away from there!

Busy packing up costumes and craziness for tonight, really looking forward to our evil school theme. Also, since it's a bar that is known for dancers of the sort that wear very little clothes, I must not forget to get my band a table dance ;) Of course, I will silently suffer while this happens....

haha! NOT!

Anyway, something really funny to share with you. Despite how many shows I play I always get SUPER NERVOUS beforehand. Do any of you still get nervous doing stuff that you've done a million times before? Usually before the show I'm a ball of energy zipping this way and that and can't sit still for more than 10 minutes at a time! What up with that?

Cool flyer (with awesome art provided by the amazingly cool Paul Sizer ) under the cut!

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Come enjoy a night of spooky Circus fun with the lovably lethal ladies of the Coney Island Sideshow, the female fronted, candy coated, horror rock of Hate in the Box and even more awesome music and evil antics after that!

Since this is a circus themed rock party and we love our craziest fans we're going to be giving special gifts to everyone who comes ready to clown around(in clown makeup)! Get together with your friends and help each other get clown faced and crazy so we know who to party with! =D

Who: Hate in the Box! - 9pm
Suicide City - 10pm
PUi - 11pm
Game Rebellion - 12pm
and the femme fatales of The Coney Island Sideshow!


What: Cirque du Rock -
an all ages night of underground bands and Circus mayhem!

When: Wednesday, August 5th doors open 8pm, bands 9pm

Where: The Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St btwn 9th and 10th Ave
New York, NY 10011
$10 in advance at www.highlineballroom.com
$12 at the Door

Directions (Subway): http://www.hopstop.com/route?zip2=10011&address2=431+W+16TH+ST&mode=s

Directions (Driving) : http://tinyurl.com/mulblg


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What with my circus themed CD release party coming up on August 5th, I thought it'd be a good time to post about my acrobalance progress!

You'll remember back in this post I was talking about how me and my guitarist Teddy went to circus school and took acrobatics classes together. When we did our last band photoshoot we actually got to take some pictures so you can see our progress! Forgive the blurriness in some of them, it was hard for the photographer to get us while we transitioning between the moves! COOLEST shots are at the end, this is a sequence of poses that we slowly transition into each other!

Here we are hamming it up before we get to work!


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Hope you enjoyed the shots, I'm really proud that we've gotten this far! They were all shot by the awesome Leda Resurreccion.

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*blows the dust off of her LJ page*

So when last you left your intrepid heroine we had gotten called in to do a last minute show with Das Ich for the Stimulate party. We kicked ass and it was fun hanging out with the guys from Das Ich. It's always great when bands turn out to be not only great musicians, but fun people too. We're pretty lucky in that we usually book shows with great acts and have made some amazing friends that way. My surprise of the night was that my little brother came out to show his support. It was my first time having a family member at a show and I was totally nervous for the first song or two. It meant a lot to have him there.

Aside from that, I moved Hate in the Box headquarters which was a truly HELLISH and annoying experience, not the least reason being that I have intense allergies to dust, and when you move you stir up ancient reservoirs of that shit that you never knew existed and it wrecked my respiratory system badly, to the point where even my inhaler and massive doses of claritin just barely made it so I could breathe.

In other news, we did an awesome photoshoot and I put up a bunch of pictures on the myspace page and the vampirefreaks page if you prefer that. I figured since they're up there I don't need to post them here, but if you want I can repost them either here on my journal or on the hate in the Box LJ community. Tell me which you prefer guys!

More news soon!

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Hey everyone!
We were so excited to wake up and find out we were the featured band on Vampire Freaks that we decided to celebrate by posting the final album mixes for 4 songs from the new album, including the super-pumped awesome mix of eLECTRIC dOLLS and the title track for the new album "Under the Ice"! Feel free to go check out our page there at www.vampirefreaks.com/hateinthebox And while you're there make sure to add us to your bandlist!

A little bird told me that if you guys leave us some comments on there about what song is your favorite, we'll make it available as a free download! ;)

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mood: accomplished music: final mixes from the new album

If you are too far away to make it to the show, you still can enjoy the bands from anywhere in the world, the audio will be broadcast live over the rockin' internet radio station WFKU Radio! Tune in at midnight (eastern time) and hear all the bands as they perform!

When:
Friday, May 22nd Doors open 10pm
Hate in the Box at 12am
Das Ich at 1am

Where:
The Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St
between 9th and 10th Aves
New York!

Who:
DJs Xris Smack, Chris #2,

How Much:$25 at the door, or $18 in advance at www.stimulate-me.com

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So long story short, we got booked for an awesome show at the Highline ballroom with the only catch being that it's short notice... as in this coming Friday, the 22nd! So we poured all of our effort out of studio land and back into performing and practice and played the whole set today over and over and kicked some serious ass. We have a BUNCH of surprises for the show and songs we've never played live and silly antics. I'm so, SO excited. Not only that but for those of you who live in faraway land, you can still hear the show because it's going to be broadcast live over the internet at WFKU radio. AW YEAH.

*bounces up and down*

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Rainbow Blight

You asked for it, you got it, here's the breakdown of how I finished my new painting. The title of this little darling is Medical Mermaid and if you're lucky enough to be in NY this week, you can see it face to face this Saturday, May 9th from 7-10pm at 407 Broome St. #7A. There will be free booze and tons of insane walking art pieces and eccentric weirdos to ogle (like me!).

Anyway, look under the cut to see the process that lead up to this piece BIG pictures ahead!
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So I finished up a new painting, just a scant 5 days away from the group art show I'm going to be in here in NY. In between two solid days of boozing, painting and caffeine soaked madness, I did manage to take some pictures as I took each step in creating the painting from sketching to the actual finished awesomeness. So I was thinking of posting it here to share with you all, but I'm not sure you all really want to be exposed to the caffeine fueled meanderings of my artistic process.

What do you say, wanna see the steps that lead to making my new painting or should I just post a shot of it all finished up and call it a day?

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Been getting back into acrobalance and busting my ass all over the place. Working out and stretching every possible chance I can get. I think it would be fun to do a little bit of acrobatics as part of a show or photo shoot since me and my guitarist Teddy Krueger are getting pretty good at it. To those of you who don't know what acrobalance is, it's balancing on people or objects and I've been studying it at my circus school and at home for like a year or so.

I'm still working on my hand balancing stuff but I'm pretty good at shoulder balances like this:



Those are Teddy's legs I'm holding onto for dear life ;)

In other news: sending album to be mastered tomorrow O_O''

oh shit! Guess I gotta get back to playing shows again. Can't fucking wait. I'll probably be posting little peeks at the album art as it progresses.

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Rainbow Blight

After much crazy staying up late action, I've uploaded the photos of the Evil Easter basket and made a lil' tutorial of easter goodness available for your viewing pleasure!

Click the cute bunny teaser pic and be transported to the Hate in the Box LJ community to see the rest of the pics and the Easter Basket tutorial!



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Feeling rather accomplished, I just finished packing up the prize for our last street team contest, a huge custom Easter Basket, for it's journey way the fuck out to AUSTRALIA of all places. I hope she fuckin' loves it, cuz it took forever to make and if ya'll wanna see it, then comment and let me know, I took photos during each stage of making it, with the thought of putting up a "how to make your own Evil Easter Basket" tutorial type thing. Good idea/Bad idea?

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Well, I'm already doing acrobatics and contortion, I would probably do more classes though, I really want to learn more trapeze! Also Chinese Pole (a lot of the skills in that are used in Parkour)

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tags: extreme sports, writer's block

So someone recently commented saying that our image was too erratic to be marketable and that even though they thought our songs were good that they wouldn't be able to take us seriously if we didn't look "serious"

My question to you is when did Rock music ever become serious? If I wanted to be serious I'd be in a fucking suit or behind a desk. Unfortunately I was born with a proclivity for neon hair, loud music and bunny suits and that doesn't fit well in an office environment.

When it comes to writing kickass songs, I'm dead serious. When it comes to spending hours designing costumes and coming up with cool show ideas and props? Serious as a heart attack.

When it comes to being onstage... it's play time. It's an emotional rollercoaster. It's moshing and headbanging and losing yourself in the music. It's cupcakes flying as I try to serve 'em up to as many people as I can before the next song. It's FUN.

Remember FUN? Nothing serious about it. We are there to help you forget the bullshit. We are there to ROCK. We are not serious and we never will be. I wear a frickin' bunny suit people. And I do it with love. And if people can't understand that then I feel sorry for them because they are missing the point.


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ok, so for those of you wondering, I have not fallen off the earth. I simply made a promise to myself to finish our album or die trying. Part of the motivation was that I also went on a booze-fast until the songs were done. Because I have found I cannot function in party environment without booze, I was that much more motivated to stay home and record. The day before yesterday we handed the tracks over to the guy mixing the album. That shit is almost DONE. It feels kind of unreal to think about. So tonight was my first day in a couple of weeks of finally letting loose and now I'm hammered with the internet at my disposal.

Woe be to you all.

Anonymous person picked up from last night kicked out... check
STILL drunk... check
Pizza on the way... check

All is as it should be. Going back to bed.

Turn the world upside down!

Rock on,
Rainbow Blight