fluffyvera

hungry eyes tour.
here's our tour info!
be sure and tell your pals we're coming!

SCHWERVON! "HUNGRY EYES" LOW BLOW FALL EURO TOUR!!

NOVEMBER
FRANCE!
12 Paris - Pop In (w/ Formica)
13 Lille - Drugstore Cafe (w/ Formica)
14 Paris - International Bar
15 St. Etienne - house show (w/ Angelo Spencer & Desolation Wilderness)
16 Geneva - L'Usine (w/ Angelo Spencer & Desolation Wilderness)
17 Montpellier - Up and Down Bar
18 Toulouse - Les Pavillons Sauvages
19 Bordeaux - Saint Ex
20 Nantes - Blockhaus DY10 (w/ Formica)
21 Rennes - 1929 Bar (w/ Formica)

GERMANY!
23 Mannheim - Der Bock Mannheim
24 Koln - Blue Shell
25 Oldenburg - Alhambra
26 Berlin - Schokoladen
27 Dresden - AZ Conni
28 Regensburg - W1
29 Gunzenhausen- Cayman
30 Munich - Kafe Kult (w/ Jenny Lund)

DECEMBER
1 Darmstadt - Oetinger Villa (w/ Mine)
2 Wetzlar - Franzis (w/Confusion Avantgarde)

UK!
DECEMBER
4 Glasgow - The Music Inn (Acoustic house show- please rsvp to themusicinn@gmail.com if you would like to go!)
5 Edinburgh - Henry's Cellar Bar (w/ withered hand, Pineapple Chunks & Les Enfant Bastard)
6 Newcastle - Head of Steam (w/ Ladies & Gentlemen of the Canyon, Cath & Phil Tyler, Mushi Mushi, & Blackflower)
7 Preston - Continental (w/ Lovely Eggs)
8 Manchester - Sake Bar (w/ Lovely Eggs)
9 Sheffield - The Harley (w/ Nature Set)
10 Norwich - Take Five Crypt
11 London - Buffalo Bar (Twee as Fuck night!)
12 Brighton - The Lectern (w/Foxes!, My Sad Captains, and Superman Revenge Squad)

oh yeah i got an extension with unemployment.
things are working out.

gummo got 7 teeth pulled this week. it's true there were some nasty things going on in his mouth.
he is on the mend though.
he looks brighter and his fur is softer and he's playing with toys more....he's got a new lease on life!
he loves the soft cat food we're giving him too.

My friend Clement in Paris started this online music magazine! it's awesome!!

The Drone

he's one of the most talented video filmmaker guys around!
(you may remember him from underthrust "i like giants" video. he shot that IN AN HOUR)

matt is back from the beast tour. i missed him!
he played a great show last nite at sidewalk with the purple organ and brian & the aardvarks and toby and barry.
his sister sherry is in town till tomorrow.
i think they might go see a musical today.
i have vampire practice.

the cat is out of the bag.
come to goodbye blue monday on october 26th.
i have a new project with jenknee of cmonkey and julie delano.
it's called You're So Pretty.
there IS a theme. if you've read the twilight books you might understand more than most people.
here's the whole lineup!

monday october 26th
@ Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 broadway
nyc

8 mike nicolai
8:45 susan hwang
9:30 you're so pretty
10:15 old hat
11:00 jack lewis/fisherman three

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now if i can just figure out a way to get money for living, i'm golden.
remember all that unemployment benefit hoo ha? they finally paid me and things were much better for a couple weeks.
well now i think i ran out of the extension.. i may qualify for another round....
but things aren't looking good - i'll find out for sure if i can reach the dept of labor tomorrow.
there is barely any temp work to be had.
but maybe something will pan out over the next 2 weeks. pllllleeease.

every time i start to trust and not worry about things so much...something else drops out of the floor.
there's nothing i can do today
though - it's sunday.
i will heat up casserole and go rock out.

10 reasons you want to sublet our apartment mid-nov to mid-dec!!
and this is just the beginning of the list....

1) it is in a funkyass neighborhood of Lower east side of the big apple.

2) you get to pay CHEAP rent on a large-ish apartment for a little over a month. seriously how much you wanna pay? we can probably work something out....

3) you get to spend time with the cutest cat in THE WHOLE WORLD!

4) you get to make music in our music room...

5) you get a huge bed to sleep in.

6) you will be at an excellent halfway meeting point for friends in manhattan and brooklyn.

7) you are close to 2 cupcake shops - one vegan (babycakes) and one dairy (sugar sunshine).

8) you are close to the essex market and chinatown.

9) you are close to cakeshop. (good coffee and good music)

10) you have access to arguably the best rooftop ever, complete with a mini-garden.

gummo woke me up early today pulling papers and cassette tapes off my desk.
i tried to ignore him...i know these games.
he just wanted to be fed.
he's back to his old self. he was a little sick (kind of dehydrated) for a week there and i took him to the vet....
but his fur is glossy again and he's biting again so things are back to normal.
he still has to get two "blue cheese teeth" (the vet called them that!) removed next week.
his breath is so bad you just pray he doesn't yawn anywhere near you....

what a stunner!

this morning i'm hopped up on coffee, cereal and listening to new songs from solo Frankie Rose, the ex-drummer of vivian girls and currently the drummer of crystal stilts.
also i found this drum magazine i can't believe i didn't know about - head under a rock i get so focused on my own deal.
it's tom tom
matt is away for a few more days on 3 headed beast tour.
i've done things i don't normally do.
like have extended solo time in the music studio
and go to slumber parties and eat a lot of frozen bean burritos.

the schwervon tour has come together in a great way.
once again, friends save our asses.
flights are booked, trains almost.
i'm going to do the tee shirts this week! we're going to have official LOW BLOW tee shirts. you know you want one.

today austin is coming over to jam with me on some raps. cause live i just don't know what music to put on a couple of them.....
it needs something subtle. not too much cause focus is me and words and beat, but still...texture never hurt anybody.
my solo record is very close to being done.
working with mark on wednesday.
maybe release in the new year.
i have so many one nite stands can you imagine if they ALL played one show with me?

october is SO MUCH BETTER than september in case you were wondering.
not in as much of a hole since dept. of labor came through again.
okay laundry time.
i tried to watch some sunday political shows cause i miss matt, but las vegas vacation with griswald's was on....

tour holes...
hi friends
if anyone can help schwervon! get a show in these places, give me a holler. email me at
fluffyvera@yahoo.com

1) GERMANY - Friday November 27th - somewhere between Berlin and Regensburg

2) FRANCE - Mon November 16 and /or Tues Nov. 17th - somewhere between St. Etienne and Toulouse.

3) UK - Wednesday December 9th - somewhere between Manchester and Norwich....
have tried leeds, sheffield, leicester and it's not panning out. help?

i am emailing plenty of contacts people have given me for all these places --- no one is biting.
heeeeellllpp.

tiedo from oldenburg arrived late last night.
he is a burly ray of sunshine. you might've heard me mention him before. he built (yes built) an adapter last tour for my laptop so it'd work in germany. he's put on at least 3 or 4 shows for us there that are always fun.
he is a physicist as well as a vegan chef. he just left this morning to buy a bike for his visit in nyc. matt said to me, "man, tiedo does everything".

the lovely eggs stayed with us for a few nights before tiedo got here too. they are hilarious but also genuinely sweet people... they recorded with matt and we laughed a lot and hung out on the roof and drank pbr's.
they just left us yesterday...though they're in town so i'll see them tonite at our show and hopefully monday when we storm bowery poetry open mic together.

we are so lucky to have met such wonderful people through playing music.
it's making me feel a little lighter this week having these friends here....

i worked 2 days this week (and have to tomorrow) at a job i said i'd never go back to.
funny thing is - it was totally easy and doable and everyone was nice. and i got free lunch and breakfast. and it's only a few days.
makes me think i was either in a very different place when i worked there last - or i'm simply desperate so any work is good. probably both.

matt is going to leave for his solo tour next week.
i need to tie up many loose ends for our schwerve tour - like fill missing dates & travel stuff
and deal with posters and merch
so i'll most likely be doing that when he's away.
i need to finish my solo record too.
and practice with you're so pretty for our one off show.
if i'm not working that might be good to do all these things & i will feel less overwhelmed.
if i AM i'll just have to figure it out around it.

meanwhile....there is today and tonite.
come out and dance!!!
9/24/09
goodbye blue monday
1087 broadway
brooklyn, ny
J to Kosciusko

9pm schwervon!
10pm kung fu crime wave
11pm elastic no-no band
12am joe crow ryan

i love goodbye blue monday
I have to tell you I really love this venue.
I think it is a nice combination of casual party/hang out place and venue.
All the shows I've played there this summer have been fun and bordering on magical. I love all the junk and art in the place and also I love that their drinks are cheap and that they have a backyard stage and I also love steve the owner, cause he is not your typical venue guy....he's part of the community and he loves music and he believes in giving artists a shot. RARE! and their coffee is freaking good.
Also I've started helping susan hwang (beautiful talented susan!) with some PR stuff for them, and that is fun too. I guess this is a little PR isnt' it? But I honestly think that place rocks.

Matt and i are both playing solo there on Thursday Sept. 17th and then on Sept. 24th Schwervon! is playing there.

here's details.

THURSDAY sept. 17th
@ goodbye blue monday/ BACKYARD STAGE
1087 broadway
brooklyn, ny

8:30 nan & the one nite stands (they're back for one nite! am so psyched)
9:15 art sorority for girls
10:00 sebastian troll (our friend from regensburg, germany.)
10:45 major matt mason usa

THURSDAY sept. 24th
@ goodbye blue monday/ INSIDE STAGE
1087 broadway
brooklyn, ny

9pm schwervon!
10pm kung fu crime wave
11pm elastic no-no band
12 joe crow ryan

show tonight! 8:30 cakeshop! be there!

The past year has been very HIGH/ LOW....the first part of the year was fun and productive with the release of the schwervon cd and tour planning and being able to get unemployment benefits. The tour was incredible. Man, I had no idea how great that time was when i was in it! i mean i kind of did but i'm already nostalgic for a few months ago.
After the tour was blissful with the paying off of debt and the total relaxation/enjoyment that comes after a lot of work. like sivasana after 200 downward dogs.
June was hard but in a good way. A working on my solo record hard/ doing oj fest lots of work way.....it was a very positive hard.

July is when I got an inkling of foul odors. the bedbugs. I thought "if i can get through this, i can get through anything". and guess what? i got through it! matt and i both got through it. we cleaned our apartment out of years of junk. And no more bugs.

Most of August felt busy and productive with tour planning and new songs matt and i are working on and some shows and a couple days off in there - one very nice one to the beach.
But still, throughout august there was an undercurrent, a prickling under my skin of being really poor.....having hard time paying my bills poor and no cash poor. frustration and not knowing what to do.....anger at myself for getting into this situation again.
but i was managing. by skin of teeth i was holding my own.

and now it's gotten harder. with DOL withholding my benefits.
the shit was slowly hitting the fan in august. i was dodging the little shit pellets and figuring it would stop soon enough. instead it has been turned onto HIGH and
the shit is spinning out from the fan hitting me in the face with wet runny shit plops.

I have two days of temping next week.
This won't cover the back rent that I owe. but it is something.
I'm wondering how we can afford to go on tour.
But on the other hand, my sanity/my health/my heart says we can't afford NOT to go.

and there's rodney!
this show is gonna be fun.

shittastic!
am screwed.
staffing agency claimed i refused work (which i didn't! i have no record of what they're talking about)
so they're withholding my unemployment for up to 3 weeks while they investigate the claim. regardless of whether they reinstate my unemployment or not, I'm screwed.
i can't pay rent (matt is already below poverty level trying to make rent). I
have 5 dollars to my name (hey at least i have 5 dollars right?)
i am really not feeling well
I'm trying to pull it together
but i gotta be honest and say i feel PRETTY SHITTY right now.
sending out resumes to work for the devil again.

having tough time today.
am broke broke broke.
doing a tiny freelance thing for goodbye blue monday.
the thorn in my side is that it's difficult to even do that because
myspace is down.
i think it must be our computers - i called myspace - they have "no customer support" !!! just an emergency line for security...
the guy said, "well it works fine for me...sorry."
um, am freaking out a little. i even called Mac Apple Support and the guy told me that I'd have to pay 50 dollars to get service from them. um, no.

help.
if there is anyone internet savvy out there reading this....
what can i do?
i tried downloading a different browser..same problem.
can access everything online but myspace.
i installed all my software updates.
emptied my cache.
normally i would just wait. see if the bug sorted itself out.
but i really need it for tour booking and this work thing.

it's much cooler today.
matt made omelets.
took a walk.
made up a new jam.
i figured out the secret ingredient for good vegan cookies too.
agave.

it's so hot. i'm dripping sweat. but more than that i'm very sleepy. i have heat exhaustion in my own apartment. i am drinking so much water but i really want an iced coffee. i crawled to the coffeepot to see if there was some leftover coffee in the pot from this morning. someone drank it! mother of god. who is that someone? obviously my boyfriend. he is working though. he needs his strength.
me? i can sit here and die. it's all right. i have done tour booking today (germany, you're my only hope). and a little loafing let's be honest. (first day of the week i actually loafed though i'll have you know)
i would leave but i don't have the energy. my friend in passau wrote me and said "the sun is shining mercilessly on bavaria ...it's all i can do to creep to the fridge..."
yes, it appears dog days are worldwide.

last night matt and daoud and i were walking down avenue b and matt was arguing that dog days were not about HEAT persay, but more about a having a bad day and a lady stopped and told us the definition of dog days "it has to do with dogs panting through their mouths because it's so hot....it's SO HOT it's a DOG DAY"
If i'd had more strength in the heat, I would've raised my arms in victory that i had been right.
somehow the conversation turned to "jeremiah was a bullfrog" and "3 dog night" which led the very knowledgeable lady to tell us this wintry expression, "it's so cold it's a 3 dog night"...meaning you need to have 3 dogs lie on top of you for warmth. it's THAT cold.
Matt singing "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" down avenue b might have been my favorite moment of the week.
we saw a little dog in the chinese takeout place, and all of us pointed at it panting through its mouth and said, "DOG DAY!"

please bedbugs be gone.
two bites on legs.
i hope they're mosquitoes!

i'm on email fire today, soon to play drums and jam with matt and daniel.
then it's out to jenknee's house & playing a show with her at zebulon at 9pm tonite.
just a few songs on light drums.
light drums are a good challenge for me.

tour set up is stalling.
i got anxious today and sent like 50 emails.
fingers crosssssed.

looking for sheffield show on december 9th
hopefully manchester on the 8th
all of france is on holiday right now.
they're smart it's too hot to work.

i vow every time not to set up a tour in august. hahahahhahahahahhaa.

i am kicking ass and taking names.

FIRST - 2nd treatment for bedbugs this morning.....
i think we got them.
haven't seen em around here for a while now.
house is disaster but who cares they're gone.

SECOND- am setting up our tour like a maverick.
i'm quick i like to type and i like to email. it's happening.
if you want schwervon in your town in germany, france, belgium, netherlands, or czech republic, NOW is the time to tell me.
UK booking is going swimmingly which is a nice surprise. still not too late for uk though got a couple openings around dec 8/9.

THIRD - i have strong arm muscles from free yoga class & hauling laundry.

FOURTH - MAGICAL ROCK SHOW IS TOMORROW at goodbye blue monday!

SHOW PLUGGGGG
This saturday matt and i are pleased to play the BOOG CITY ANNIVERSARY PARTY!
and guess what? you will be surprised to learn we will be playing ACOUSTIC for this. If you have trouble understanding our words or "what the hell are they saying?" at our usual rock shows, then this is the show for you. I feel like we may be naked. Not literally but maybe. Take away the decoration, come see the bare bones, the smooth skin of our songs as we play them HOMESTYLE, in David Kirschenbaum's living room. Perhaps we will do a little "rubber baby buggy bumpers" theatrical vocal warm up to get the old pipes ready to go. You don't wanna miss it!
It is also free and BYOB.

Please come celebrate

Boog's 18th Anniversary!!!!

with readings from
Sean Cole
and accoustic sets from
Schwervon

This Saturday, Aug. 8
7:00 p.m. door
7:30 p.m. performances

We'll have light hors d'oeurves and snacks, just bring you favorite drink

at David Kirschenbaum's apartment,
330 West 28th St., Apt. 6H
NYC
Directions: A/C/E or 2/3 to Penn Station, 1/9 to 28th St., C/E to 23rd St.
Bet. 8th/9th aves. Buzzer 7153, enter through the left-hand door.
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If you do miss our acoustic marvel,
then fear not!
we have another show next wednesday with seth of dufus and urban barnyard, and german band the WOOG RIOTS,
who are incredible. they remind me of the b52's. i really am beside myself they're coming to new york. you will fall in love.
http://myspace.com/woogriots

Wednesday august 12th
@goodbye blue monday
1087 broadway
brooklyn, ny
(take J train to Kosciusko)

9 urban barnyard
9:45 seth faergolzia of dufus
10:30 woog riots (from germany)
11:15 schwervon!

the show is free
but we will have a "donations" bucket (help support our touring pals!)

see ya there!

i see the light ELWOOD.
i slept better last night than i have in a while
all the germophobe behavior is paying off with getting rid of bedbugs. i could cry with relief.
today matt and i are practicing with daniel
(he's jamming with us on some new songs)
and then i want to go to bushwick book club because they're doing the bible which is hilarious or just wierd and either way it seems interesting. plus i can put up posters for our show there next week.
it's too late now but i should've written a "god is dead that's what nietsche says" song.
also they're going to have a bbq in the backyard and free dinner
sounds good to me.

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