Wednesday, April 30, 2008

ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS

Sickels did an interview with Go and Crash, a UK website. Check it out to see just how charming and charismatic he is in print. And just to answer your question. Yes, he is that charming in real life. Lock up your daughters.
Check it out here:

GO AND CRASH INTERVIEW

M

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

FUCK EVERY OTHER YOUTUBE VIDEO EVER

To help you forget about Mark's grim, and downright repulsive news story, I give you this...



Isn't this the song from Rocky 4 or some shit? I seriously laughed my ass off for a good 10 minutes after watching this. I gotta say, that dog drives better than some friends of mine. Enjoy.

Josh

Dear People,

I'm gonna bug you about music a lot, cause that's what I like to do to people. So here's some albums I'm going to force on you.

In no particular order, I'm gonna get all Amazon here.

1. "Pussy Cats" by Harry Nilsson (Produced By John Lennon)- No, I did NOT discover this through the Walkmen's pointless rehashing. Just listen to Nilsson's cover of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross." Hair raising. Best snare pause ever.

2. "Oar" by Alexander "Skip" Spence - He was in the fucking awesome Moby Grape. He went to jail, somehow managed to get a solo record deal, got out, used most of his advance money for the album to buy a chopper that he rode to Nashville. Then he recorded an album in two days--or something like that (it's disputed). Then pretty much vanished. All that aside, his music alone makes Tom Waits jealous.

3. "Chocolate and Ice" by My Morning Jacket - Probably my favorite contemporary band. This e.p. (e.p. mind you) is like 70 minutes long. Just as good as "At Dawn" in my opinion--probably better. Listen to "Cobra". I kept yelling for them to play it when they came to Pittsburgh. They didn't.

I'll let you digest these albums for now and continue this later. The bar awaits.

Nic

CURRENT EVENTS

A big part of this page will be us just talking about what we're interested in: music, film, vegetarian food (Sickels only) and current events, etc.
That said:
ROCK ME AMADEUS
This recent kidnapping story coming out of Austria is fucking crazy. If you don't, know about it, read about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7371959.stm
This guy is super creepy. He kidnaps his own 18 year old daughter, imprisons her in an underground bunker beneath his house described as a "Soundproof dungeon behind 300kg steel door", and proceeds to rape her for the next 24 years, resulting in 7 children. One died in infancy. 3 others were left on the porch of the house he shared with his wife, leaving them to raise them. That's right, a wife. And she swears she had no idea all along. That leaves 2 other kids, who have never seen the light of day, including the oldest, a 19 year old girl. Look at his picture, this fuck is mega creepy, Candyman creepy. Not to mention that all of this happened in the German language. And they think those polygamist kids in Texas are gonna have a hard to adjusting to society?
This is a terrible story and all, but what I really wanna know is HOW THE FUCK DO YOU BUILD A BUNKER WITH 2 BEDROOMS, A BATHROOM, AND A LIVING ROOM UNDER YOUR HOUSE WITH NOBODY, NOT EVEN YOUR FUCKING WIFE, NOTICING?
Please, I need to know. I really need to know. I'm not asking how he kept these kids and woman down there for 24 years without arousing any suspicion at all from his wife or neighbors. It's the DEMON BUNKER OF HELL I'd like to know about? Do you hire contractors? What do you tell everyone? Then, after it's built, what do you pretend it's used for? Doesn't the wife ever wonder, "Gee Yosef, remember that bunker you built underneath zee house? Yah, zee one zat took 2 years and cost us 10,000 marks? yah, zat one. vell, vwat do you use it for? I'm just curious Yosef, don't get angry."
Mind blowing.

On the lighter side; I'm really into the new Mystery Jet's album "21". If you like our band at all, I think you'd be really into it. Check out their videos too, especially for "Two Doors Down". I'm a bit mad though, as they stole part of my idea of having cheesy 80's dancers dancing in the background. But touche, it's brilliant.
Also, I saw the new Harold & Kumar picture. Hilarious. Sure, there's some lowbrow moments, but all in all it's definitely worth checking out. "I'm serious about that Kool-Aid"... brilliant.

later,
M





Sunday, April 27, 2008

HELLO, HELLO

Welcome to The Takeover UK's official blog. That's right, we're joining the thousands or millions of other people out there on the cyberweb voicing their opinions, talking smack, telling jokes, and overall just thinking out loud.
All 4 of us will be posting to this, you've been warned. Things are really starting to pick up for us. Our first proper release, "It's All Happening", a 5 song ep drops in the US on Tuesday, May 20th. If you can't possibly wait till then, by all means head on over to Amazon and pre-order your copy today. You can find it here:


PRE-ORDER "IT'S ALL HAPPENING" from AMAZON.COM



I promise you this won't be your average band blog. We're not the kind of guys you meet every day. It might not always be pretty or even coherent really, but we promise it will be vastly entertaining. Look for almost daily updates.
That said, welcome, thanks for coming, and come back soon, ya hear?