Fresno!

Show in Fresno was awesome. Here's a video of Vince from TERA MELOS just being the savage that he is.

The ultimate show

Pretty much anyone who lives in a 3,000 mile radius of Fresno should consider coming to this show. The secret performance is the Nirvana reunion feat. Courtney Love as Kurt. Be there!

The nakedest thing i saw all weekend...

...was the band SEXY PRISON.

Make it a double

If you are looking for some hot BRL-on-BRL action (and let's be honest here, you are), simply head over to Aaron's mp3 blog to read Aaron interviewing me. Many aspects of the folklore as well as our awkward first encounters will be revealed to all.

And you can dowload some free King Crimson songs.

Tasty riff

From the recording of "Tender Colors"

BRL Comment Contest: winning submissions

So a couple of weeks ago, we instituted a hilarious MySpace comment contest. We chose 4 winners, who received a mix CD and a commissioned picture. We thought we'd share the results with you....

Manuel and Kameron were dual winners for their "flipping the car while listening to BRL" and "condom falling out of pocket at the dinner table" stories and are the proud owners of this "BRL as llamas" picture.Ca-los put up all sorts of crazy shit and got this "teddybear destroying a city" gem.
Evan introduced "boner jam" to the public venacular and got this abstract interpretation of the band Tera Melos. As snowmen. In the summertime.
Kevin didn't even really submit anything. He just imagined and picture for himself and suddenly, it appeared. This one had something to do with the Loch Ness Monster, pancakes and Hulk Hogan dying.
And for their troubles, they also got this bangin' mix CD that was really weird.

Tracklist:
01. Shiner "Surgery"
02. Nickel Creek "Stumptown"
03. Jon Brion "I Believe She's Lying"
04. Silversun Pickups "Um, can't remember the name of the new single"
05. !!! "All My Heroes Are Weirdos" feat NOAH!
06. Aqua "Doctor Jones" (yes the same band that did "I'm a Barbie Girl")
07. Queen "Don't Stop Me Now"
08. Lily Allen "Everything's Just Wonderful"
09. The Cardigans "I Figured Out"
10. Commodores "Easy"
11. Elvis Costello "Every Day I Write Book"
12. Prince "The Dance"
13. Bjork "It's In Our Hands"
14. Princess Superstar "Bad Babysitter"
15. The Killers "Why Do I Keep Counting?"
16. Cinemechanica "Brain Tarp"
17. Aloha "All The Wars"
18. Tera Melos "Driving To Mount Hood *live"
19. Mahavishnu Orchestra 'Eternity's Breath, Pt. 1"
20. King Crimson "Pictures Of A City"

Stay tuned for the next re-diculous contest and all this and more could be yours!

Updates from the future

Hello all:

We're knee-deep in the midst of the new and have basically spent the last couple weeks buying a lot of mic cables and creating a complete mess of microphones, instruments, songs and cables. Here are a few shots from this wonderous experiment.

~The Staff

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Noah laying down a tasty lick.These guys are knee deep in something else. Don't worry, this poster is directly outside of the men's bathroom.
This is what 3 bass amps looks like.
Don't even ask what the hell this is.
And a small preview of Noah playing some crazy shit

Go read Aaron's mp3 blog

Every so often, Aaron slaves away at his computer to bring you the finest free mp3s and commentary. Please enjoy the fruits of his labor and let him know he's doing a great job. Most recent post is WALLPAPER, the truly extraordinary FACING NEW YORK side project.

Simulation of Aaron slaving away at his computer:


brilliantmp3s.blogspot.com

Noah handles his business with !!!

So a couple of weeks ago, !!! came through town on tour. For the Sacramento show, they had our friend Jonno and Dave, along with BRL's own Noah Clark come out and recreate the glory that is "All My Heroes Are Weirdos" live. Homeboys layed down some percussion tracks a few months ago when !!! were recording and this is the glorious result.


And when I was looking for this video, it linked to another video labeled "Noah Clarke interview", which can only be funny too

What happens in LA, stays in LA

So we played in LA last Monday night with Socratic and it was great. The only other time we'd ever played the main room was like 2 years ago and there were only 8 people there but one of them was John Philip Theodore for some reason (dude was TALL). Anyway, we were hanging out in the parking lot after Socratic and this crazy old drunk woman rushed outside, bit Noah's nipple, almost got ran over by a car and then crashed face-first into a dumpster as she was chasing us (because we had to run away from her). Security informed us that she was passed out in the alley later on in the night. Awesome

So remember a few weeks ago when we sat in on a Mandy Moore video shoot?
Well well well. Look what we have here

Drunk Guy Jenga

We played a rad show with our friends SECRET STOLEN, POLAR BEARS and THE NEW TRUST in Chico, CA last week. After playing a set, then losing in flag football despite a hefty amount of trick plays, we headed back to the Stolen manor to kick it. When a way-too-drunk guy passed out, I (finally) got an opportunity to play "drunk guy Jenga", where you stick as much shit as possible onto the passed out guy before he wakes up. Luckily he was not dead the whole time, or else it would've been real awkward. Noah threw a shoe at this guy that hit him directly in the face and he didn't even stir. I love Chico.

Guy solving a Rubik's cube at a Starbucks

Seriously, where do we find these people? At a Starbucks in Davis, CA - that's where. I love anyone who will immediately compare themselves to a world record-holder.

BRL Spring Break / What's up, dudes?

So BRL is on "spring break" right now where we're playing less shows and writing a ton of new songs. The result? A bunch of new songs. A comprehensive list of said songs would look something like this:

1. World Leaders
2. The Ultimate Yes
3. Tender Colors
4. The Gift of Rediscovery
5. Culture of Nemesis
6. Outstanding Conditions
7. Tawdry Safari
8. The Tollbooth
9. Actualism
10. Neoism
11. Small Regrets

Now, guess which name on that list is fake.

Anyway, to update everyone on the happs and in the spirit on making brilliantredlights.com our main blog/website, I've compiled a "what we've been up to" guide.

Much love,

~Evan

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Like I said, we've spent a ton of time at our practice space. The best part has to be either the blacklight OUT KAST poster or the giant scientific poster right next to it about the Atmosphere that I stole from a UC Davis science building.

Me and Aaron live together in downtown Sacramento. This is a blurry picture from the outside balcony. Springman Records himself, Mr. Avi Ehrlich, lives in the pink building on the far right (after graduating from our couch).
This is my room.
This is Aaron's room.
This is our governor giving a speech in front of the Capitol (2 blocks from my work, 1 block from Aaron's work). Don't worry, he is still using his movie quotes in his speeches. Aaron's co-worker Chad plays a game called "shoot Chad's mom", where he tries to shoot a rubber band into his mom's (mail)box.
We went to see LIGHTNING BOLT in Oakland and Aaron's afro hung out with Max from Tenebre.
Pretty much looks like some Texas Chainsaw Massacre shit.
Total anarchy.
The guy in the middle wearing glasses looks like what would happen if me and Noah had a kid.
Aaron getting his creepy stare on.
It was seriously one of the craziest shows I've ever seen. Best Monday night ever

We saw the AUDRYE SESSIONS play at UC Davis at the on-campus pub (which I never knew existed after going there for 4 years). Don't worry, they were almost sober.

Aaron's been wearing these sunglasses constantly. Even indoors at 11 PM at a Chinese restaurant. Look at how much Noah despises the decision.
If you look closely, you'll see that this guy was in fact driving around with a video camera and tripod in his passenger seat. So yes, he was driving around and filming you in your car like a pervert.
Most offensive sticker, possibly ever.
Most offensive magazine advertisement, possibly ever.
We drove to Stockton to see BRL's official merch girl/vanity photographer ARIEL and her roller derby team. This picture was taken 8 seconds before a girl that could easily out arm-wrestle me annihilated her.
The guy who looks like Sean Bustos by way of "Blades of Glory"-worthy sparkly rainbow pants is her coach, And a champion competitive rollerskater.
A band played at halftime. Called ANGST. It was adorable! Notice the brand-new guitars, amps drums and banner, which would lead me to be full of Angst too.
Total highlight: drunk old guys dancing

Here is Noah sitting in our kitchen writing a letter of recommendation for one of his drum students. For Harvard. At 3 AM.

Noah's other band THE FUTURE FORCE played a fucking sweet show at the Mezzanine in SF opening for European techno careerists BOOKASHADE
And yes Noah is the lead singer. And yes that outfit is the same outfit that JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE was wearing in a Japanese tour video we youtubed a long time ago. And yes, me and Aaron did actually own http://www.myspace.com/justintimberlake for over a year until MySpace revoked it. We used it as the MySpace page for COMPASSION IN ACTION, the ultimate side project.

And yes there were in fact 3 drumsets on stage. Like I said, this shit was off the hook

The infamous "4 cowbell part"

When we were in LA a couple of weeks ago, we called up CHUCK SPANO, who produced our "Numb Songs" music video. He told us to come by a video he was working on, which turned our to be a MANDY MOORE VIDEO SHOOT.

Pretending like it was our music video when the crew breaks for lunch.
And then enjoying the catering, courtesy of Mandy's label. I shit you not, there was swordfish. And some old guy sitting next to us that complained for a half an hour about how bad the swordfish was. I believe he compared it to "sweaty gym socks".
Afterwards, we played with FACING NEW YORK, who have a 2 drummer thing going on right now

This is where I went on vacation with my girlfriend.

BRL song sesh in the car. Don't worry, we only know:

-DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL - "Vindicated"

-JENNY LEWIS - "Rise Up With Fists"

-FOO FIGHTERS - "Everlong"

-and a couple of BRIGHT EYES songs

This was a party at Springman Avi's parents house that had a wizard band for reals.
Called Pablo a couple of times.
This is me and Aaron recording "robot compliments" onto my computer.
This is the Greenbelt that runs behind our old apartment in Davis. "Touch Like You Want It" was basically conceived here.
Hanging out with the AUDRYE SESSIONS backstage.
Hanging out at KCSC in Chico.
Hanging out in the UC Berkeley cuad, where I once saw THE BLOOD BROTHERS.
Learning (courtesy of Bryce from STREET TO NOWHERE aka STNR) that I want his bass hella bad.

Unloading the van always suck when you get back at 4 AM. This is one of the rare times Aaron is actually helping *burn*.

Aaron mugging in front of BUSTA RHYMES' tour bus. Flipmode!
I went to go see TERA MELOS play in a San Jose record store.

And of course, who could forget this gem, where we watched this crazy dude hop a barbed-wire fence in San Francisco because he was missing TERA MELOS.

Nice move.

Come back soon for more inane commentary and whatever else pops into our heads.