another weird one and a lovely Memorial Day tour

nightime, distant future
a great escape
across the badlands desert of Planet America
we ran on foot until we hijacked a black Honda Civic
and finally lost them in a vast field of flashing firetrucks

hello world.

our tiny-mini-baby tour thru South Bend, Valparaiso, and Chicago could not have gone better. we cruised across the midwest in Seanny's white turtle-van and made it barely in time at Jumpin' Juice and Java in South Bend. we played a loud and intimate show there at the coffeehouse and were generously put up by Mikey K. where we played Contact in the pool, watched Super Mario Bros., wikipedia-ed rare birds, and got a delicious breakfast in the morning. at Valpo we met Heather and her delightful lady-crew at Uptown Cafe and played a long acoustic set for a free delicious gourmet lunch before heading off to Chicago. there in Lakeview we met up with old friends and loaded in at the fantastic Elbo Room. this story-and-a-half underground, blacklighted, alcove-ridden gem is a hip, hip place with great sound and friendly bartenders. thanks so much to Blake of Rally For One for hooking us up there! and especially to Adam R who graciously joined us onstage for this special night =) anyway we played with an odd mix-up of awesome acts, from the hard hard hard! metal fist of Sonic Pistol to the raphornsviolinsdreadlocks of B.R. & Timebomb (out of NYC), then crashed at my cousin Lou's place. There we were spoiled again with delectable bacon breakfast, and we left to return to OH in style (we all sported matching sunglasses).

i'll post again about this next thing, but FYI this week marks the beginning of Cincinnati's Fringe Festival, a theater festival in downtown Cincinnati of original plays and performances. i'm in a piece called Sophie's Dream and we open on Thursday at 8pm at Duveneck 3 on Vine. my friend wrote the music and the script, and it's beautiful. i want everyone to see it. if you're interested, visit cincyfringe.com or e-mail me at nicholaspetricca@gmail.com for details and tickets.

love,
WALK THE MOON

weird dream

we were leather-wing human angels
and we battled on the sandstorm sea
and found you held captive in the windowless house
and i pulled fire from two sides of the world and in my anger released it on our enemies
and we flew home in a giant winged VW van

new friends and friends with whom we hope to make friends

Saturday was a funny, incredible night of music. funny mainly because ye Grande Opening of the fancy new RADIODOWN venue took place not at RADIODOWN but next door, in the Mad Hatter. granted, it was still a great time, but who forgets a liquor license?

incredible because we played with some of the most wonderful bands in Cincinnati, ones i get all dreamy and ecstatic about. Pomegranates and Seedy Seeds were naturally their fantastic selves, but we were especially excited to make new friends of the members of Enlou a very verby, click-clacky, bright sunshine band. be sure to Czech them out.

there was also one man we don't know but we desperately want to: who are you, photographer man who looks like Super Mario? we must've met at a party, or a concert, or a Saturday morning in 1996. reveal yourself! bloop bloop bloop

Lisa Baby and The Expert

we have been scurrying around updating the myspace recently and there are a few presents you might find up there. among them is a cut of our song "Lisa Baby". it's a newer jam that most of you will not have heard unless you have been at a live show recently.

ALSO, secrets for you. this song is a bizarre reincarnation of a very very ancient melody from whay bhack when in the days of The Expert, Nick L's and Nick P's band from freshman year at Kenyon. listen to "Shameless Ways"



finally we're booking shows for the summer, and one of them is a biggun Saturday May 15th at the Grand Opening of Radiodown. used to be a venue last decade and it has been re-acquired, re-located, and is in re-construction as we blog. the owners took me in to see the ballroom today and it is huge and gorgeous and classy, somewhat unlike the delightful but mildly seedy-looking Mad Hatter next door.

ANYWAY we will be playing around midnight after the Pomegranates, the Seedy Seeds, Enlou, and the No No Knots. and it's bound to be a stellar night.

love,
WALK

Blueshort on the Debbie and AIM is so 2001.

baby shark doot doot, doot doot

WALK is playing a free show this Friday at Newport on the Levee, next to the beautiful view of the Ohio River and all the sharks in their tanks in the Aquarium nextdoor. 6-10pm, and inside if it rains, but it won't, damnit.

papa shark doot doot, doot doot

did you know "Ohio" came from the Native American term "Oyo" meaning "beautiful river"?



mama shark doot doot, doot doot

also, speaking of sharks, i've been startling my facebook friends recently with a little present. emoticons ;) =) %) are a thing of the past. type " (^^^) " next time you are facebook chatting (AIM is so 2001) and you will see!

heart,
WALK

we got written up!

....in University of Cincinnati's THE NEWS RECORD

if that doesn't work try this... walk

a short-but-sweet review of the show on Tuesday. we "elevate audiences' moods" like it's our bidness.

=)



thanks so much to everyone who came out in Covington and Indy this week.... we had a wonderful time with you and our new friends from Rally For One. also cheers to the F. Fathers and Go Analog for coming out to play. special thanks to Matt C! you're a hero of a man.

keeping you posted...

love,
Nicholas & WALK

Stained. Mince-print

indy tonight, in a few hours, but i just had the opportunity to go to the Music NOW festival in Cincinnati and see St. Vincent for the first time.

to me she sounds like if Winona Ryder's character from Beetlejuice studied with Maurice Ravel while secretly courting Sufjan Stevens and after graduating and spending a month alone in her room messing with her new distortion pedal released an album performed by Feist.

album's called Actor. the show was enthralling, if a bit Beetlejuicy.