GET STOP TICKET

Get Stop Ticket "B.F.V.P.A.F.S."

2010-07-21T22:39:00.000-07:00

Horrorshow

2010-01-08T11:19:00.000-08:00

Remember a couple weeks ago when you got up in the middle of the night for no reason? No impending urge to use the toilet. No dry mouth. No strange sounds or lights. So, why did you wake up?

We here at Get Stop Ticket offer two possible reasons:

1. You simply completed a full sleep cycle and awoke prior to entering another sleep cycle. We ran this explanation by the Creation Science Academy, however, and they claimed it was impossible: too simple and rational. No room for God's secret magicks.

2. You experienced a ripple in space-time caused by the release of the decade-spawning new hit Get Stop Ticket tune "Horrorshow."

DOWNLOAD GET STOP TICKET'S "HORRORSHOW" HERE.

And stay alert for future Get Stop Ticket updates in the form of bed-wetting night terrors.

Still available for free download is our album DEAR BRIAN,
Download the debut album HERE.

The Shirtcast #12 - Cosine

2009-12-15T11:50:00.001-08:00

Cosine plays some music for us on this week's Shirtcast...

"When I was asked to do something for the LGS podcast, I didn't really think I should do another one... because the first one was kinda choppy and disorderly and not very DJ like.
I have righted this...?"

Cosine's Lime Green Shirtcast Mix-Tapestravaganza!!!

Artists: (More or less in order)
Yes, NoMeansNo, Alarm Will Sound, TC, Say Anything, B52s, Maps & Atlases, Venetian Snares, YMCK, Michael Jackson, Alter Ego, Crotchduster, Astrobotnia, Cosine, Imogen Heap, Owl City, They Might Be Giants, Lyrical Giants, Paulson, Volcano Choir, Minus The Bear, Ram Rider

Stream, download and / or subscribe to The Shirtcast HERE.

Thanks for the ears!

Elijah's Cupcake Future.

2009-11-20T13:19:00.000-08:00

My Cupcake Future Is In Your Hands is a two part DJ mix compiled to showcase the music I am listening to and making now. These mixes are kind of a followup to my last DJ mix, Explosions... Like Explosions, My Cupcake Future Is In Your Hands features remixes by myself as well as previously unreleased material from the Elijah and Get Stop Ticket projects.
Also, it has a silly name.

My Cupcake Future
intro
jj - Ecstasy
Elijah - Extended Eye Contact
Colorpulse - Glorious Dawn
Virtual Boy - Anything Goes
Olive - You're Not Alone (Kill Light Remix)
Tapage - M17W
Four Tet - Our Bells
The Field - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes
Florence and the Machine - You've Got The Love (The XX Remix)
Royksopp - Tricky Tricky (Elijah's Infinite Space, Infinite Terror Remix)
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Valentine Boast
Burial & Four Tet - Moth
Atlas Sound - Quick Canal
Jon Hopkins - Small Memory
Get Stop Ticket - I'll Be There (reprise)

Is In Your Hands
intro
Bell Orchestre - The Stars In His Head
Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
TV On The Radio - Shout Me Out (Willie Isz Remix by Jneiro Jarel)
Prefuse 73 - Speeds Of God 2000
Aether - Nothing Brings Me Down
Elijah - Petty Just Seized
Bonobo - The Keeper
XX - Shelter
Get Stop Ticket - Horrorshow
Radiohead - Nude (Unknown Dubstep Remix)
Burial - Fostercare
Flying Lotus - Endless White
A Day Of Moments - When Did This Happen? (Elijah's Cupcake Future Remix)
Nite Jewel - Universal Mind

enjoy.

The Shirtcast #8

2009-11-12T12:32:00.001-08:00

Alan Rickman was born to Irish and Welsh parents in 1946. He attended the Royal College of Art; he wanted to be a graphic artist. At age 26 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he spent 3 years. Started out in the theatrical version of "Dangerous Liaisons" His first major film was Die Hard (1988) where he was cast as Hans Gruber.

this weeks playlist:

Noisia & Foreign Beggars - Contact (D&B Mix)
Jesse Rose - Touch My Horn
Artful Dodger feat. Craig David - ReRewind (HavocNdeeD Remix)
Freeland - Under Control (TC Remix)
Matias Aguayo - Minimal (DJ Koze Radio Edit)
Moony - Dove
Chromeo - Night By Night (Siriusmo Remix)
DJ Fresh - Hypercaine

DOWNLOAD or SUBSCRIBE HERE.

Thanks for the ears!

Kittens on a Vacuum

2009-11-05T14:16:00.000-08:00

I don't usually get obsessed with YouTube videos. I'm obsessed with this YouTube video.

The Shirtcast #7 - Stonecypher

2009-11-02T21:36:00.001-08:00

Stonecypher's latest mix has been a long time coming. After two years of no mix recordings he sat down and decided it was time to put something out again. This is a product of about 20-25 hours of digging through his drum and bass catalog and finding just the route he wanted to take.

"Thanks to The Shirtcast for getting me back in the mood to do some searching and recording again. More will definitely be on the way."

Stonecypher - Devil's Night

Play in the Dirt - Dirty Flamingo
S.W.A.G. feat Devlin Love - The Qemists
Airplane - Sub Focus
Don't You Know feat Elisha Kim - Shock One
Rainman - Brookes Brothers
More Trouble - Dub Tao
Dog Hill - Danny Byrd
Like A Rag - Mindscape
Dread or Alive - DJ Panik
Mafia - Drumsound, Simon Bassline Smith
Alive - Logistics
Tear You Down - Brookes Brothers
Take Me To The Hospital (Sub Focus Remix) - Prodigy

More Stonecypher HERE.

Download or subscribe to The Shirtcast HERE.

Thanks for the ears.

The Prophesy Fulfilled

2009-10-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

"I got some Kung Pao Chicken, but I took it to go."

And so it came to pass that I ate Kung Pao Chicken for the first time today. The earthly host of Chinese food delight was so ample in its magnitude that it became necessary for me to get it in a to-go box. Thus the prophecy of the Get Stop Ticket song "Hey Gang" from later 2007 was fulfilled. Make a joyful noise, mo-fos. On this auspicious occasion, I want to make it known that you haven't heard the last of Get Stop Ticket.

The Shirtcast #6 - Matthew Clarke

2009-10-24T15:21:00.001-07:00

Matthew Clarke takes over The Shirtcast this week to play some hot acid house fire.

Matthew is opening for Bassnectar at St. Andrews in Detroit on November 7th.

thanks for the ears!

download the mix or subscribe to The Shirtcast HERE.

An Evening With GST

2009-10-16T09:08:00.001-07:00

Just in case you missed it the first time around, here is a DJ mix we put together some time ago. The mix was meant to show off some of our tunes, play out some remixes by friends and name drop our influences... Hope you download and enjoy...

AN EVENING WITH GET STOP TICKET

Get Stop Ticket - Laugh Track
Ace Of Base - All That She Wants
Get Stop Ticket - Hey Gang (Cosine remix)
Get Stop Ticket - Hey Gang
Get Stop Ticket - God Made Him Simple, Science Made Him A God
Roxette - Joyride
Prince - Erotic City
Get Stop Ticket - College Blues (The Hardest Working Girl I Ever Knew)
Get Stop Ticket - College Blues (After Hours (feat. DJ Big Balls))
Tears For Fears - Mothers Talk
Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa (Archangel remix)
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa (Sylock remix)
Radiohead - Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
Bob Dylan - North Country Blues
Get Stop Ticket - I'll Be There
Get Stop Ticket - Out Partying

The Matrix: Refurbished

2009-07-25T12:12:00.000-07:00

Singing Robots

2009-06-26T08:03:00.001-07:00

I know there are at least a couple of talented DJs who read this blog. If you're reading these words, I have a request. Remix this tune. It'll be almost as cool as remixing a celebrity's angry rants.

"I'll Be There" Music Video

2009-06-19T10:34:00.001-07:00

All My Girlfriends Volume I

2009-06-01T18:50:00.001-07:00

You've heard of the It Girl, right? Well, Mr. Taste's always got a Now Girl. What's a Now Girl? That celebrity female who's really entertaining and enticing, and who never seems to last. The unfortunate side effect of a Now Girl is that within time, Mr. Taste gets bored with her, needs to find another, hence the NOW.

The up side of the Now Girl? She's pretty fun while she lasts, and get this: Volume I brings us two Now Girls...

1. Fire Down Be-Loh - Drag Me To Hell's Allison Lohman

"Loh-rider"? I guess "Fire Down Be-Loh" works better. They both have the innuendo value going for them, and they're both pop song references*: these are keeping in character for Mr. Taste. But "Fire down Be-Loh" reflect's Lohman's amazing performance in Drag Me To Hell. Who knew the little girl from White Oleander could be Sam Raimi's next Ash? Who knew the girl who hasn't been in a good movie since, well, White Oleander, could pull off such a performance?** And who knew that fighting a disgusting old hag in a grave filled with water could be so hot?***

2. Baby's Got the Benz - Sci-Fi/Horror Beauty Julie Benz

I knew that chick in Saw V looked familiar! And yes, I saw Saw V! She's the woman from the original vampire romance. You see, Julie Benz first caught Mr. Taste's eye on Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, where she played the former lover of David Boreanez's dark and brooding character Angel. But get this: not only were they lovers, but turns out Darla was the vampire who turned Angel into a vampire. OMG, right? What does this all translate to? Well, she's very attractive, and... Well, I know there's a "cherry popping" inuendo in there with that whole siring someone into the life of vampirism. It's just not coming to me.

Oh, yeah. And she's going to be in the sequel to Boondock Saints, which is the only good movie several idiots that I've met have ever seen. And they just keep going on and on about how it's the best movie ever...

Back on topic: So if you're out there, and you're thinking, "Golly, I sure would like to do a live cover of Get Stop Ticket's hit tune All My Girlfriends Have Boyfriends, Paul, and I would sure like to video tape it for the edification of the band and all their fans," I want you to consider adding these two names when you're listing off your celebrity girlfriends.

* Bob Seger "Fire Down Below", War "Low Rider"
** I haven't seen "Things We Lost in the Fire," so this judgment may be jumping the gun.
*** Just add nipples.

The Official Leather Jacket Music Video!

2009-05-15T19:12:00.001-07:00

Enjoy.
Song dedicated to Smokey.
Music video dedicated to Lauren and Chuck as a wedding gift.

V is for...

2009-05-08T14:49:00.000-07:00

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

My Very First Youtube Video

2009-04-23T11:06:00.001-07:00

totally saw FOTC live

2009-04-16T17:03:00.000-07:00

Saturday, YO.

2009-04-12T21:59:00.000-07:00

sssBANG! Sha-bang, boom! CRACK! Pow chicka powpowpow... Boom pap boom-pap, boom pap boom-pap... pockitchicka pockitchicka pockitchicka pockitchicka SHHHOOOM... I am an excellent sweeper. If I was not making such a good living working as a Spooning Expert, a Hug Technician, Dance Party Starter, Pizza Taster, Top Shelf Reacher, Refill Getter and Funnel Cake Vomiter, I would be very happy as a professional sweeper. I will let you in on the secret... are you ready? The key is speed. It's all in the pacing of the bristles. If one sweeps too fast, they scatter the debris. A sweeper with the true desire to sweep must sweep at a slow steady tempo. This will allow the bristles of the broom to move the swept rubbish accurately and efficiently. Oh, to have a broom powerful enough to sweep you, my sweet friends, to Northeast Kingdom on the night of Saturday, April 18th! All I can do is invite you, so you may sweep yourselves there... and be swept off your feet.

LIME GREEN SHIRT @ NORTHEAST KINGDOM

DJs:
ELIJAH
ARCHANGEL
ADAM GREALISH

Saturday, April 18
10pm-3am(ish)
$0 / FREE

http://www.myspace.com/djelijahmusic
http://www.north-eastkingdom.com
http://www.lgsproductions.com

SNEAK PREVIEW:

A New York Minute 04/09/09

2009-04-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

A Conversation Between Tenants in the Written Word

POSTED: To anyone who was expecting a phone in the mail, I took the package to my room, so no one would steal it from the hallway. You can call my phone at 917-2527, unless of course you don't have a phone... in which case you can stop by my apartment, which is number 205, to pick it up. Have a nice day!

RESPONDED (in scrawled letters below): Whoever wrote this, you are going to Heaven!

SHIRTCAST #80

2009-04-07T13:04:00.001-07:00

So DJ Archangel moved to NYC. We are having good times. We totally wrote "BALLS!" on Michelle's leg. Anywho, here are some jams and banter for you...

Filthy Dukes - Messages
Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Breakbot Remix)
Fake Blood - Mars
Jesse Rose - Miss Taker
Yuksek - Tonight
Alan Braxe - Addicted
SL2 - On A Ragga Tip
The Qemists - Lost Weekend
Nite Club - Good Life
Kris Menace - Stereophonic

MYSPACE.COM/LIMEGREENSHIRTPODCAST

Download here or SUBSCRIBE!

Matrix: RePuppied

2009-03-27T21:41:00.003-07:00

This is what the Matrix sequels should have looked like...

New Elijah DJ Mix...

2009-03-26T21:58:00.000-07:00

Hello,

ExplosionsAndHeartPalpitationsStarsSpinningInBlackEndlessSpace is a DJ mix I put together to share, with you, the music I am making and digging on lately. I have a few of my remixes on this one as well as a couple original tunes.

Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think.

-Elijah

Elijah - ExplosionsAndHeartPalpitationsStarsSpinningInBlackEndlessSpace

Pink Skull - Ssilt
Tuomas Kantelinen - Beginning
Radiohead - Reckoner (Elijah's Horrible Wind Remix)
Dert - Dert Is Full Of Love
Panda Riot - Paper Planes
Get Stop Ticket - Ideal Day Off
Gang Gang Dance - Dust
Odd Nosdam - Cut
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Elijah's Beat Generation Remix)
Flying Lotus - Infinitum (Exile Remix)
The Album Leaf - Enchanted Hill
Elijah - Loved Song
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth (Elijah's Stuff And Things Remix)
Arcade Fire - Black Mirror (Elijah's Swamp Of Sadness Remix)
Radiohead - Reckoner (Julianna Barwick Remix)
Alexis Taylor - I Love My Home

God Help Us All...

2009-03-25T12:29:00.001-07:00

!!!!!!

2009-03-19T23:17:00.000-07:00

Coldplay getting cooler...

2009-03-15T22:48:00.000-07:00

Backstage Radiohead!

2009-03-10T15:17:00.001-07:00

SHIRTCAST #77

2009-03-09T17:18:00.001-07:00

On this weeks very special Shirtcast, DJ Alex Liberatore swings by the LGS Clubhouse to play some rekkids. Dig dig dig.

Check out more LGS Podcast junk right here.

Download this episode here or, hell, just subscribe.

BONUS!

Alex Liberatore - Fyrewater (Elijah's Getting Butterflies Remix)

Oh, Please Don't Suck...

2009-03-04T14:24:00.000-08:00

So the nerds now own Hollywood. Since The Dark Knight made a gazillion dollars, comic geeks have a lot of power. But with great power comes great responsibility. Once we start turning over our beloved characters to these giant movie studios, we run the risk of them churning out a shitty adaptation. Or worse, tarnishing our favorite works.

Watchmen is unfilmable. Wolverine should keep his mystery and not be our main protagonist. Oh man, what if these movies suck? An altered ending to Watchmen?!? Nipples on Batman? Cyclops dead? Jessica Alba?

If you had told me in 1997 that we would get three (3!) X-Men movies, I would have creamed my tiny nerd shorts. But if you had told me that one film would be okay, one would be good, and the last was shit... then I'd probably have to wonder if it was worth it at all.

These stories will be made into films. It is inevitable even if it is not called for. But these stories are comics first and that must be respected. They deserve the respect that comic geeks give them and, more than that, they deserve a well-executed adaptation.

And so as I head to the theater tomorrow night to see Watchmen at 12:01am, I will look to the heavens above and plead to the nerd gods, "Oh, please... please don't let this suck."

2NiTE

2009-02-20T09:26:00.000-08:00

Duder,

DJ Elijah and his groovy DJ pals are returning to Northeast Kingdom on (tonight) Friday, February 20th for a night of tasty musics aimed at your eager ear-bins. Are you excited? I know I am. Wowsa. Sometimes I just lay in bed and stare at the ceiling, wondering why my life feels so empty and my soul feels like it has a DJ Elijah-shaped hole in it. I get so frustrated (livid, even) when people try to fill that hole with golden retrievers, candy, board games and other worldly, worthless things. It's like, "Hello?!?" Am I right? Right? Anyways; DJ Elijah will come correct with some choice tunes just for you and your buddy-pals. The cure for your winter blues and post-Valentines Day depression is so obviously DJ Elijah & Friends playing jammy jams on the 1's and 2's of your heart. Did I mention that there is no cover? If I didn't, I apologize. But yeah. Totally free ($0.00). Also, Northeast Kingdom kicks several forms of ass with cheap beer and a Den that looks like the set from Evil Dead 2. So I guess I will see you there, polar bear.

18 Wyckoff Ave
Brooklyn, NY

http://myspace.com/djelijahmusic
http://north-eastkingdom.com
http://www.myspace.com/northeastkingdom

This is a real product

2009-02-19T21:40:00.001-08:00

kittens kittens kittens

2009-02-16T07:37:00.001-08:00

New York Minute 02/15/09

2009-02-15T09:17:00.000-08:00

It's been a long day of dropping off resumes at obscure ends of New York and Brooklyn. I have a job now, but I don't think it will make me happy; it's even less likely that it will pay all the bills. So I've become devout to craigslist- as my aid; the structure to my days, and the aspiring salvation of my financial needs.

I try not to think of this as I'm returning from one more out of the way stop. I try to think instead of the rooftops of the brick buildings that pass by the train windows. I'm pretending I'm out just to explore the city of my own desire, and watching the same little version of me running along the roofscape and climbing walls, terraces and scaffolding as the little me that would climb the curves of my face and lie in the crevaces of my lips and eyes when I was a young girl losing myself in my own reflection in the mirror.

A large black man sits down across from me with a ridiculously blank smile. He says loudly, inviting the whole train car into the conversation,

"What's that you're eating, is it peanuts?"

He's not looking at me, but greedily addressing a frail old woman hugging the middle rail of the subway car and apparently chewing something.

"Yes, they're peanuts" She says, taking a step backwards.

"Can I have some, can I have some peanuts?" Eyes wide, smile big as ever.

The man's enthusiasm is mocking the tired ache in my legs.

She hesitates, but steps forward to pour some peanuts into the large, eagerly cupped hands, then hastily retreats.

"Oh, wow" he exclaims.

"They're salted"

"What's that?"

"They're salted"

"Oh! That's great!"

(Munch munch munch)

Thank you very much!"

"What?"

"I said thank you!"

She takes a step in.

"I said thank you!"

She takes off her earmuffs.

"I said thank you!"

"er...I'm sorry"

"I said thank you, I said thank you!"

"Oh... you're welcome."

Two stops later on the F train heading into Manhattan and I look again out the window to see Elmo on the platform playing the xylophone, next to a pink gorilla on base.

Who Done It?

2009-02-09T09:10:00.000-08:00

One Man

2009-02-07T08:21:00.000-08:00

Is This Real Life?

2009-02-05T20:44:00.000-08:00

Better Know A Beatle

2009-01-31T23:41:00.000-08:00

Being a four-piece band, we of GST are always trying to figure out which Beatle we would be. But to do that, we might need to get to know them better...

All I Need

2009-01-27T20:31:00.001-08:00

Tasty Tracks

2009-01-25T21:34:00.001-08:00

Now this is what I call artistry.

And if the picture doesn't move, that's OK. It's just a song on Youtube.

DJ Elijah Digs...

2009-01-22T10:14:00.000-08:00

Animal Collective

Music nerds are all cupping Animal Collective's collective balls right now in response to their new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, and rightfully so. It's pretty excellent. The standout tune, 'My Girls', just got this dope video treatment.
It sounds like every time these dudes sit down to make music, they wipe their minds clean of any preconceived ideas of what "music" might be. And they just make some beautiful noises.

Dug.

We Like Sportz

2009-01-21T13:33:00.000-08:00

Changefest '09

2009-01-20T07:48:00.001-08:00

A special high five to Barack Obama today.
Yes we did.

New York minutes 01/19/09

2009-01-19T12:38:00.001-08:00

(scruffy subway guy)- "You gonna survive the winter?"

(me)- "I think so."

(scruffy subway guy)- "What?"

(me)-"I'm planning on it."

(scruffy subway guy)- "What are your plans for the spring?"

(me)-"I plan on surviving that, too."

(scruffy subway guy)- "Hm. No vacations?"

(I shrug) "Eh, who's got the time."

(scruffy subway guy)- "Oh."

...

(scruffy subway guy)- "The subway is New York's fastest method of transportation."

(me)-"I'm sorry?"

(scruffy subway guy)- "The subway is New York's fastest method of transportation."

(I smile and nod slowly) "Ah."

One skin... Two skin... Three skin...

2009-01-19T00:10:00.000-08:00

I Snuggle You.

2009-01-18T15:37:00.001-08:00

I Think I'm Secretly Richard Simmons...

2009-01-15T20:35:00.000-08:00

...and the reason I say that is that Richard Simmons does just about exactly everything I would do in his situation. Except I'm a much taller deck chair.

So Soon...

2009-01-12T15:22:00.000-08:00

DJ Elijah Digs...

2009-01-10T12:18:00.000-08:00

Fuck Buttons

Sure seems like there are a lot of "fuck" bands out these days...
Fuck Buttons is a duo from the United Kingdom. They make some really insane music. It sounds like they start with a lovely melody and then distort the hell out of it until all that's left is a revolving psychedelic drone.
Psychedronica?
Psychenoisica?
Noisatronica. Yeah.
Fuck Button's album, Street Horrrsing is easily in my top 3 albums of 2008. It is very much worth checking out.

Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth (Elijah's Stuff And Things Remix)

Diiig.

OMG

2009-01-10T00:14:00.000-08:00

Get Stop Ticket's OUTSTANDING "Dear Brian," is now available on Last.fm. If you're a last.fm member, make sure you have a copy of the album and scrobble the heckle and jeckle out of it. If you're just a Get Stop Ticket fan, you might consider joining last.fm, a community for music listeners. Every time you listen to a GST tune while a member of last.fm you are basically shouting really loud that you support the band, and the band supports your support of the band. Thank you for supporting us. We support you!

Look for Get Stop Ticket & Cosine to appear at last.fm in the future!!! Excelsior!!! Exclamation marks!!!!!!! Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck

& Cosine

2009-01-08T16:47:00.000-08:00

So, on November 21, 2008, the planet earth was introduced to Get Stop Ticket's Dear Brian.
And it was good.
Shortly after the release of our EP / Album / cluster of MP3s, our old friend Cosine started sending us our own songs. They had entered Cosine's mind and been transformed.
He chewed up our material and pooped out something beautiful. And promptly emailed his remixed poop to us, for our approval.
And now we give these reworked, remixed and re-awesomed songs to you, the listener. We give you Dear Brian re-imagined.
We give you...

GET STOP TICKET - & COSINE

(click to download)
(play to enjoy)
(smile to express your joy)

With Child

2009-01-06T17:06:00.001-08:00

Lovin' a lady
With a baby
Ain't shady
But when daddy comes around
Just make sure you can't be found

DJ Bexxx got a Wii

2009-01-06T13:54:00.001-08:00

Wii Gift Scream

Just A Sec...

2009-01-05T09:40:00.000-08:00

We've kind of been neglecting the blog lately, as all the members of GST have been on a much deserved vacation. But we will be back in full effect soon.

Things to look forward to:

- a not-so-top-secret remix album
- our best of '08 lists
- silly videos
- music recommendations
- Robocop selling fried chicken;

Be Right Back...

Elijah and Fi-Rocket Dancing.

2008-12-14T18:09:00.000-08:00

Here is an awesome little video of GST's Elijah and Fi-Rocket getting yelled at by a bouncer for dancing in a bar.

Shoes

2008-12-12T10:13:00.001-08:00

My baby bought a shoe that she never learned to tie
That was my job until she left me high
"You can have your flirtin', you can have your fun.
But don't come cryin' when your lace is undone."

DJ Elijah Digs...

2008-12-11T12:35:00.000-08:00

Passion Pit

Michael Angelakos needed something to give his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. So he sat down and recorded a six track EP that turned into Passion Pit's Chunk OF Change. It is less than thirty minutes of fan-flipping-tastic electro-synth-love-pop.

Above is the video for Sleepyhead, which has spread across all the music blogs like the ebola virus. Below is my remix of this contagious jam.

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Elijah's Beat Generation Remix)

Dig.

-eebs.

Sympathy For A Machine

2008-12-09T12:45:00.000-08:00

Robo-friends, but he wanted more
Looking for to open up her pod bay door
Well, I comma lover, Commodore sixty-four
I just wanna get into your Pentium core
Life can be a blast or it can be a bore
I got robot, Robot, ROBOT soul

NEW POST

2008-12-08T16:02:00.000-08:00

hey member that episode of step by step where frank and cody get in that bar fight and it was totally random because it was just a family sitcom and all of a sudden there's choreographed fighting and stuff. y'all watched tgif every friday too, right? don't tell me you were off at high school football games or something...

youtube has my respect forever now. for your step by step and carebears needs, try youtube.

Messed Up Catch Phrase 2 (Holiday Edition)

2008-12-08T08:40:00.000-08:00

"My nuclear resolution is to quit smoking."

DJ Elijah Digs...

2008-12-06T12:50:00.000-08:00

The Prodigy

Everybody In The Place:

The Prodigy is one of those special bands that is secretly just one dude. Liam Howlett started recording music as The Prodigy in 1990. In 1992 The Prodigy released Experience, which might just be the best dance album every made.

Putting together an electronic dance music album is no simple task. The genre is dominated by the release of singles, aimed for DJ and club play. The album is almost unnecessary in the EDM scene. Usually when dance music albums are released, they end up actually being a compilation of previously released singles, making for an awkwardly paced album.

The Prodigy's Experience is a beautiful example of a dance album done right. The music is groundbreaking, immensely influential, and perfectly sequenced. The album flows magnificently from the driving horns in "Jericho" to the conceptual "Weather Experience" to the dancefloor madness of "Ruff In The Jungle Bizness"

In 1994, The Prodigy released Music For The Jilted Generation.

Poison:

In stark contrast to the so-called "kiddie rave" hardcore sounds that failed to impress critics of Experience, Music For The Jilted Generation gets dark. Scary dark. Howlett keeps his furious synths but adds distorted guitars to rock-influenced tracks like "Their Law" and "Voodoo People".

Music For The Jilted Generation is another masterfully sequenced album, ending in a sequence of blissed out tracks, dubbed 'The Narcotic Suite'.

It is my fav.

In 1997 The Prodigy released The Fat Of The Land.

Smack My Bitch Up:

I think that makes me the first one to post something with nudity on the blog...

The Fat Of The Land was The Prodigy's most commercially successful album. It's release in the states was perfectly timed with the odd boom of hip-hop-rock-rap-electronica-korn-angst music. The Fat Of The Land found a cozy place in the walkmans of the young, thanks to its heavy rock and punk influences.

An extremely decent album.

Girls:

Seven long years later, The Prodigy released Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. The album left most people disappointed. Hardcore fans had been waiting too long for the album and hoped for another Jilted while the newer Fat Of The Land fans, looking for more rock tunes like "Breathe", were turned off by an album full of dance tunes.

There are still a few gems on there.

Which brings us to the present. The Prodigy's new album, Invaders Must Die, drops in March of 2009.

From the sound of the first single, Howlett has been influenced by the new sounds coming from drum & bass (& rock) acts like Pendulum (who were of course very influenced by The Prodigy's early work). It sounds very promising to this DJ.

The ant is back. Dig.

Invaders Must Die:

LOL Double Drop!!!

2008-12-06T12:47:00.001-08:00

I can't stop laughing at this:

Messed Up Catch Phrase 1

2008-12-06T00:50:00.001-08:00

"Resistance is fertile."

New York, I love you

2008-12-04T18:51:00.001-08:00

Politics, Part Two

2008-12-03T15:27:00.000-08:00

Jack Black. Neil Patrick Harris. John C. Reilly. Also featuring [Insert Other Names of Awesome People].

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

I'M EFFIN FAMOUS

2008-12-03T00:33:00.000-08:00

Gentlemen! and Gentlewomen! and Roughwomen!

I'll bet you're wondering why I gathered you here today.

Well, when I was at Lollapalooza my friend Josh mentioned that he saw me on the big screen during the Blue's Traveler show. I've been looking to find a video of this big screen sighting ever since. And today I've found a sighting!

You see, your very own DJ Taste: The Vengeance had his right arm raised high with his index finger curved into a hook the entire set.

It wasn't until the song "Hook" played that this curved fingerhook became relevant. And it wasn't until I found someone's Lollapalooza video of Blue's Traveler's "Hook" that I realized that, yes, I was on the big screen for a little while.

Pay special attention from the 3:03 to 3:07 mark in the video. If you've spotted a pumping arm that appears to be making a hook with the index finger, then you've spotted me. I was there. I guarantee that I was the only person doing this. The others must have thought it too '90's to do.

But they aren't quite as timeless as the one and only DJ Taste: The Vengeance.

Raise your hooks high, watch this video, and love the man with the hooked finger, for that man is me.

Until next time,
DJ Taste: The Vengeance / The Coolest Guy You Know (Bum Bum)

Stephen King, Really?

2008-12-01T16:14:00.000-08:00

A couple months ago I was baffled by the fact that Stephen King has a weekly column in Entertainment Weekly. This week my baffling continues as King ranks the best albums of 2008, with Girl Talk's Feed the Animals at number four. What did King have to say about the album? "Girl Talk's Feed the Animals is as dense as Ulysses, only you can dance to it." Mad hot samples meet James Joyce... I'll take it.

DJ Elijah digs...

2008-11-30T13:04:00.000-08:00

Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreak

After releasing three dope albums chock full of award winning hip hop craziness, Kanye West submits his best Phil Collins impression on the superb '808's and Heartbreak'.

A dramatic (well maybe not that dramatic) departure from his previous work, it is paced differently from all his other albums (and most other pop albums as well). It opens with the slow and moody Say You Will which clocks in at 6:18, making for a long, dark intro into Kanye's new world of electro-doom & gloom.

Kanye has apparently been through some isht. Most every tune on the album is drenched in pain and (you guessed it) heartbreak. Gone are the trademark, pitched-up, soul samples. They are replaced by Kanye's own auto-tuned singing and taiko drums.

Stand out tracks include Robocop, Paranoid and the already pretty huge Love Lockdown:

NPH for GOV

2008-11-29T18:29:00.000-08:00

Ever since BFVPAFS surfaced, we here at Get Stop Ticket have gotten quite our share of translation requests. It seems that many of the acronyms in the spelling portion of the song are difficult to understand. "I understood them all when I wrote them," commented DJ Taste: The Vengeance, AKA me.

Because we wish to quiet the uproar while maintaining large portions of power ourselves, Get Stop Ticket has chosen to translate one line from BFVPAFS for you.

"I want NPH for GOV" actually means "I want Neil Patrick Harris for Governor." And if you don't know why we want Neil Patrick Harris in command of a state or two in this union, then the following film written by Joss Whedon and titled Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, ought to show you all you need to know. You can even witness one of the entries on DJ Taste: The Vengeance's short list of songs he really really really wishes he had written. It's called "My Freeze Ray." You can't miss it.

Behold!:

Politics, Part One

2008-11-25T14:54:00.001-08:00

GST WEEK: The Seventh Day...

2008-11-21T14:09:00.000-08:00

A wise man once said, "It's taken me six days to create this universe and now I'm going to take a fucking break already and just listen to some tunes."

That man was, you guessed it, Jesus / The Holy Ghost / God. And not to diminish God's wondrous creation, but where is his album?

You have followed us through a week of discovery. You have peeled away the layers of the GST onion. You have opened the hatch that was buried on the GST island. You heard our DJ mix. You saw DJ Taste's mullet. You got to know DJ Sylock. You watched our first music video. You learned how we have changed oh so many lives. You learned of the great history behind Get Stop Ticket.

And it all leads here.

To this, The Seventh Day.

And on The Seventh Day, Get Stop Ticket released their album, 'Dear Brian,' for free download.

click the images to download

Also:

You are invited to the official Get Stop Ticket album release party TONIGHT at Northeast Kingdom in Brooklyn. GST members will be playing records and tunes from the album all night.

10ish - 2ish

$0

Northeast Kingdom
18 Wyckoff Avenue, BROOKLYN, 11237

GST Week: Day Sixxx

2008-11-21T08:56:00.000-08:00

1. THE ORIGIN OF GET STOP TICKET

By Justin Tiemeyer / DJ Taste: The Vengeance

All of our parents reflect back upon their experience with popular music, and one thing that they tell every one of us when we are children is that there was one pairing of musicians that changed the face of music forever, and that on one fateful day, these two musical masterminds came together for the first time, not knowing that they would be the band that future generations would look up to, be compared to, fall short of… That pair of gentlemen was David Paich and Jeff Porcaro, and the band was Toto. Similarly, in 1995, I had the privilege of meeting Elliot Mayo, a man who one day would become DJ Elijah. The two of us were in the seventh grade at Forest Hills Central Middle School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I had lived in that town my entire life, and Elliot was freshly transplanted from Florida. My first memory of Elliot was in gym class, sitting in lines as the teacher called attendance, and when I learned that his last name was Mayo I thought I’d give him a really original welcome.

“Hey, how’s it going, Hellman?” I asked him, and he didn’t seem as impressed as I thought he should be. Someone beside me suggested calling him “Miracle Whip,” and I scathingly stared him down, hissing that Miracle Whip is not really mayonnaise, but simply a dressing, whereas Hellman’s: that was real mayonnaise.

Despite this encounter, Elliot and I became friends. We would discuss art and comic books and music while surviving through some asinine activity in gym class, or perhaps before classes began in the morning, and we became good friends by the time we entered high school. Elliot had some training as a drummer, but in our freshman year he changed his musical direction, buying turn tables and becoming an actual DJ. Elliot and our mutual friend Ken Jepsen rechristened themselves DJ Elijah and DJ Archangel respectively, and they were the first kids in our school to become DJs.

In those days, our growing group of friends was listening more and more to electronic music. Daft Punk and Moby were big. I saw the album “Fat of the Land” by The Prodigy in my share of backpacks. For a period of time, Fatboy Slim was one of the only things anyone talked about. At that age, however, I hated electronic music. I would site the repetition as annoying, the sampling as theft, and the hype as unfounded. I thought it was ridiculous for my friends to sit with their headphones on while listening to dance music --- wasn’t this a contradiction of terms? It was also at that age that “I got my first real six string” but not “at the five-and-dime;” I bought it at A1 Music and it was a blue Squier Stratocaster by Fender. Riding home in the back of my mother’s car with my Strat pack, consisting of a gig bag, an amp, and some picks, the first song I heard was a Bad Company song stating: “It’s all part of my rock n roll fantasy. It’s all part of my rock n roll dream.” I listened exclusively to classic rock music, thought I was the reincarnation of Jimi Hendrix, and I owned my own electric guitar.

But better than turn tables and guitars was what happened our Sophomore year. In American History, I was introduced to DJ Bexxx, who was going by the handle Becky Prevette at the time. This was during a strange period when girls had begun to intermingle with our all-guy group. Mostly, they were girlfriends of the guys, and of those, mostly girlfriends of Elliot, but Becky was different. She had charisma and staying power, and in many ways she became the centerpiece of our school experiences from then on.

Becky was in choir, and she came from musical stock. Her dad and brother were musicians. I remember hanging around at parties at the Prevette residence when her dad Bob would break out his acoustic guitar and strum some chords while singing an Eagles song. In a short period of time, I found Becky capable of wowing me vocally, on the piano and on the guitar. The musicality that Elliot and I aspired to seemed to come naturally to Becky. I’ve since stated that if all the other members of Get Stop Ticket were The Planeteers, then DJ Bexxx would be Captain Planet, because in my opinion she has all of our musical powers combined.

During our Senior year in high school, the Battle of the Bands that the school hosted became incredibly important. The year before I had sat in and voted for which bands I thought ought to be showcased, but during Senior year, I wanted to be a part of it. After my little brother Micah, then a Freshman, had departed from the punk-pop band Invalid, he and I began conceiving of a band called Your Mom. We hooked up with drummer Jeff Kingsland and guitarist Jake Bourjailey, both of whom we had known for a significant portion of our lives, and began the arduous task of making a demo disc. Recording was hell on earth. The tape recording didn’t seem to work for some reason, and we attempted to record in the school’s band room, but my vocals weren’t powerful enough to reach the microphones in the ceiling, or to be heard over the drums. All this time, the entire four-piece band was never once seen in the same room together. One of our cover songs, “Love Rollercoaster,” called for female backing vocals, but we couldn’t scrounge up anyone to play the part. Finally, we recorded into a computer program called Cakewalk, and instead of just singing lead vocals, I was forced to learn the guitar parts and the female vocal parts as well. The demo was terrible and we didn’t make it into Battle of the Bands.

But my brother hooked up with DJ’s Elijah and Archangel and guitarist Brian Inman as the band Vinyl Babies. They were selected as the House Band and asked to play one number between sets. I was chosen as the Master of Ceremonies for the event and I asked fellow rock nerd Dave Rogers to join me as my co-MC. The Vinyl Babies were magnificent, playing songs like “Renegades of Funk” and “Crazy Train.”

DJ Elijah began to play more and more shows around town, and as we went our separate ways for college, he even ended up in a band in Florida called Pumping the Prophet, creating two hits, “Random Acts of Orgasm” and “Your Mom’s in Porn.” Back in Michigan, I had been working to have my own serious band. Micah, Jeff and I were pretty tight in our band interests, and Your Mom changed into Micah Tiemeyer and Funk Tank, Featuring Jeff Kingsland, before Jeff stopped practicing his drumming skills and began to pursue other interests. Eventually we stole guitarist James Hungerford and drummer Ryan Rasikas from a band called Full Figure and formed a real band. I named the band Craig after a sign I had seen on the side of the road pushing a man named Craig for some public office. The name was perfect: it was short and sweet, easy to remember, we got free advertising from the Craig For Such-and-Such signs, and we could have fun conversations with people asking “Which one’s Craig?”

In a year with Craig, I had written several songs, we’d played our share of local shows, the best of which being a benefit concert for a guy named Tom Mitsos who needed help paying off medical bills for his cancer treatment, and we’d recorded the Greatest Hits EP. We gathered a tight group of fans and soon my brother was being hailed as a brilliant musician while I was considered a lyrical mastermind.

But Craig had some problems. I was in college and the rest of the band was still in high school, which meant that we were encountering divergent necessities and priorities. Guitarist James Hungerford was getting really close with my brother Micah, and this made me fairly jealous. The situation was exacerbated when I started dating and began to put the rest of my life on the side for the sake of a pretty girl. I was quietly kicked out of the band, which in my absence changed its name to Craig and the Cowboys, and for the next few years it seemed that I wouldn’t be involved in the creation of music ever again.

That changed when we’d finished college and Elliot and I found ourselves in the same state again. I was touring the karaoke circuits trying to regain that feel, and Elliot was packing venues for his DJ performances, but we both expressed that we ought to be in a band together. Long before, I had resigned my battle against electronic music, and I even fancied some of it. I had come to see DJ Elijah as a musician as any other musician, someone who is passionate about the music he makes and who puts his all into its creation. It was fun to go to his shows. We’d be a perfect match.

The year was 2004 and the first band we tried to put together was called Düdmangai 1999 (pronounced Dude Man Guy Nineteen ninety nine). It was a concept band of time travelling musicians with a massive mythology, and I played the part of a character named The Ghost of Five Years Ago. The songs I had planned included the title track, a funky number where we repeated our name over and over, and a tale of what happened in 1999 that we need to return to the past to change where every verse began with the phrase “I am The Ghost of Five Years Ago.” But there were practical problems. Our drummer didn’t have a set, I was not a very accomplished guitarist, and we didn’t have any other musicians save for our friend Dave Rogers who was willing to impersonate 80’s metal vocalists as our lead singer. This band never happened.

But Get Stop Ticket. That happened.

Get Stop Ticket happened the summer before I moved to Toledo for graduate school. Elliot and I, accompanied by good friend Brian Fucking Vandenberg, travelled to New York City as our last summer blast in order to visit Becky Prevette, who was living alone there pursuing a successful career in the fashion industry at Liz Claiborne. On the way from Michigan to New York, we had to get on a couple of Turnpikes, each of which had a STOP sign that said Get Ticket, except that the phrase Get Ticket was interrupted by the text of the STOP sign, resulting in Get Stop Ticket. Donning our best gangster rapper voices, we kept repeating the phrase “Get Stop Ticket coming straight from the underground,” deciding that it would be our band. The three of us had been in a fake band before called The Mariachi Folk Hiphop Vigilantes, where we’d run into restaurants and hotels in the middle of the night, play some ruckus on an acoustic guitar, maracas and whatever hand percussion instruments we could get our hands on, and then run away.

That band was fake, but Get Stop Ticket became real. Elliot moved to New York city to room with Becky, and I had become good friends with Fiona Maier when I found out that the two of us were both planning on moving to New York City, and when we got there we became roommates. The idea of being in a band again came up between me and Elliot, and I was skeptical, seeing that the practical issues of Düdmangai 1999 were still present. But Elliot suggested that he make beats on his computer and then we could record the rest of the vocals and guitars and synth on top of it. We recruited Elliot’s roommate Becky and my roommate Fiona, AKA DJ Fi-Rocket, who also had a good deal of choir experience, and we donned the name taken up on that first trip to New York City. We were DJs Taste: The Vengeance, Elijah, Bexxx and Fi-Rocket. We were Get Stop Ticket.

2. HEY GANG MUSIC VIDEO SCRIPT, THE FINAL CHAPTER

EXT. SEA – NIGHT

High waves. Troublesome. A Viking ship rises atop a wave at a 45 degree angle and then smashes down.

The focus shifts to inside the ship. Vikings sit in rows, each manning an oar that propels the ship forward. Water splashes over the side and drenches the warriors. Yet they continue to row.

EXT. RIDGE – NIGHT

Over the shoulder of a knight, we see a bumpy view of other knights in front of him and beside him driving their horses hard.

The perspective changes to far off, where we see a sideways view of the ridge against the full moon. the ridge. Against the light of the moon one can see knights atop their mounts riding toward their destination.

EXT. BEACH – MORNING

A beaten and weathered pirate ship is seen in the background. Between the pirate ship and the beach are several row boats with a variety of characters in each, pirates missing eyes, limbs, teeth, replaced by patches, pegs, hooks and pieces of wood.

The pirates dismount from their boats and become the third group gathered just outside of an imposing obsidian temple with no apparent entrance. The image is backed off to show vikings, knights and pirates alike standing awe-stricken with eyes fixed on the temple, guaranteeing that this is the destination telepathically inserted into their memories.

We focus on the space between the pirates and the Vikings. A gust kicks up some sand directly between the two transfixed groups of warriors, and directly behind it shoots an orb, much larger than the original three, the apparent combination of the original trio of messengers.

The perspective backs off again as the orb hurtles like a missile into the obsidian temple, but instead of destroying it, it appears to irradiate the building with a surging energy.

OBSIDIAN BUILDING:

“This beach is a place of peace, but within you will find a place of war only. Once you’ve entered, you shall not know peace until the champions of the winning party drag the wounded and dead back out into the light of day. But those few will score unknown treasures, all the desires of the human mind and more. Such are the spoils for the victor.”

Surging with a bright electric current, three separate entrances begin to open.
The perspective pans across the three separate groups in their last moment of peace as they pull out their respective weapons, the pirates with their cutlasses, pistols and powder kegs, the Vikings with their axes and crude swords, the knights with their broad swords and shields. Slowly, each group moves forward.

INT. OBSIDIAN TEMPLE

The battle is immediate. We see from the perspective of warriors from each of the three groups as they cut one another down, engaging in brutal combat. This battle continues until there are only one pirate, one Viking and one knight remaining.
The perspective backs off and shows the pirate, Viking and knight as they circle around one another, looking to the left and to the right at the warriors on either side, looking around at all those slain in this battle.

We see each of their faces as an idea dons upon each of them. The losses are great and the reward no longer seems to great. Their smiles and grimaces change into frowns.

The focus changes to the ground near their feet. The weapons of the three warriors fall to the ground.

The perspective moves wider to show that the obsidian temple begins to shake violently. The warriors cover their ears as some sort of siren pierces into their minds, dropping them to their knees.

OBSIDIAN BUILDING:

“Pick up your weapons, warriors! There is no substitute for death. The only key to peace and all your desires is the blood of your every enemy.

“ And blood will be drawn, for consider the alternative. For should three enemies survive, the penalty is a slow and torturous death for each.

“So, consider the arithmetic. One is greater than zero. Make no mistake in that calculation.”

Again, we see the faces of the warriors, who look anxiously from one to the other. They no longer see enemies, but fellow selves who simply want to survive in the face of this terrible fiend, bent on bloodshed. But then the faces look upward.

The perspective backs off as the warriors’ visions converge on the central portion of the ceiling, an area where the energy surges seem strongest.

When we see the faces again, they seem to have a plan shared between them. The smiles and grimaces of war continue.

Our perspective focused on the ground, we see the warriors pick up their weapons.
The battle continues from several different angles. The three warriors clank swords together, dodging and jumping, all the while making for an obsidian stairway. They fight as they climb the stairway. Atop the stairway, they dodge the attacks of one another as they move through a series of corridors. The Viking’s axe falls hard on the knight’s shield, and though it does not cut the knight himself, it forces him backwards into a stone of a different color. The stone is apparently a door, which opens with the force of the knight’s full armored body slamming into it.

The three enter a central room. At the center of the room radiates the orb itself.

ORB:

“What is the meaning of this?”

VIKING:

“We wish to put an end to this war… to put an end TO YOU!”

The three warriors rush at the orb. Pregnant with power, the orb remains in the center of the room, and instead of fleeing, it shoots pulses of terrible power at the three. It does not vaporize them, though the orb contains this kind of power, but living up to the promise, it eats away at the men bit by bit, causing agony, but not ending their lives.

The warriors push forward against the energy blasts. They join together behind the knight’s shield and push onward, though it doesn’t keep them from harm. Each has layers of skin melted away as they advance, each step harder than the one before. Finally, the three approach the orb in the center of the room.

We see three swords rise into the air, three very different weapons, and then they come down.

There is only white, the explosion being so immense.

EXT. BEACH – DAY

The view is centered upon the Obsidian Temple once again, and the normal radiating energy bursts from the building, turning this view entirely to white as well.
The white changes to wafting currents of white, and the bodies of the pirate, Viking and knight can be seen strewn across the sand. One stirs, then the next, and then the last. They crawl slowly to their knees and then to their feet.

The white smoke disappears entirely as the three men get finally to their feet. They look each other over.

And the pirate, the Viking and the knight jump into the air and give each other one big high five, Get Stop Ticket style.

3. SEE YOU TOMORROW FOR THE CONCLUSION OF GET STOP TICKET WEEK

Get Stop Ticket Week Day Five

2008-11-20T06:55:00.000-08:00

The boys and girls have been hit left and right with new and sensational material. Who exactly are the California Sugar Thieves? We'd like to know! We certainly got sucked in to that slammin' tune Blackhole Generator. And the Hot Cocoa video? Holy balls, right? Even with the nausea and fear of the ghost that the video created, I think this video is sweeping the nation faster than The Hop.

It's a new dawn. It's a new day. The first feature of the day is an associate of Get Stop Ticket named Adam Friedli. You may remember him as Kid A, a Radiohead fanatic who became so obsessed with Get Stop Ticket that Radiohead became his number two for a period of time. Well, we might be able to squeeze a few more secrets out of Kid A. Check this out:

GST: Hello. What is your name?
Kid A: Adam Friedli
GST: Are there any aliases the GST fans might know you by?
Kid A: Iscabis or Kid A, I guess. Kid A is the only real alias I might have, dubbed by [DJ Taste The Vengeance] and [his brother DJ Sugarbear], of course.
GST: Are you a cute girl?
Kid A: No, but I will be a groupie. That is not out of the question.
GST: If you’re not a cute girl, then why am I interviewing you?
Kid A: Because I could be lying about not being a cute girl?
GST: Doubt it.
Kid A: And the intrigue of that makes you want to continue.
GST: Again, doubt it.
GST: What is your connection to Get Stop Ticket?
Kid A: Justin Tiemeyer, AKA, DJ Taste: The Vengeance.
GST: Now, there are literally billions of fans of Get Stop Ticket. LITERALLY.
Kid A: Right.
GST: And we chose to interview you for the blog.
Kid A: I feel honored, then.
GST: What do you think afforded you that privilege? What makes you closer to GST than most?
Kid A: I was one of the first to have my mind blown away by your distinct sound. Plus, I am close friends with a member of the group.
GST: You’ve also been afforded some secret information. Did you know that? Get Stop Ticket’s self-titled song: Get Stop Ticket, still hasn’t been released to the public.
Kid A: No way!
GST: Has the witness listened to this song before?
Kid A: Oh yes. I think?
GST: [OBJECTION! Just kidding…] Yes, you have.
Kid A: I thought so.
GST: Hence the “I think?”
GST: So, what is different in your life now compared to when you started listening to Get Stop Ticket so long ago?
Kid A: I became obsessed with electronic music again. I always have been, but I have almost exclusively been listening to it since then. I wish I could think of something better, but the fact that I took time off of school and had the most [expletive deleted] summer of my life does not seem as relevant.
GST: What would you call the music Get Stop Ticket makes? What is Get Stop Ticket’s genre?
Kid A: Right… I am thinking about that… The first thing I thought of was Fatboy Slim, so electronic, definitely, but I am trying to think of specifically what that sound is. You are a blend of multiple sounds with heavy Fatboy Slim overtones.
GST: [I want to praise you for that answer.] You’ve nailed an early influence. When most of the band converged in high school Fatboy Slim was a very prevalent sound.
Kid A: …Electronic FUN, I guess… Fectronic?
GST: FUNtronic?
Kid A: Yeah. That is what my brain was trying to say.
GST: Electro-fun?
Kid A: Anything is better than Fectronic. LOL. It is just feel good music that makes it impossible to be anything but elated when you listen to it.
GST: And how do you feel about that?
Kid A: About my statement about how I feel?
GST: Yes. Pretend you’re laying back on a couch and getting to the inner Kid A.
Kid A: Hehe.
GST: How do you feel about your statement about how you feel? It’s a meta-question.
Kid A: It lets me float away from anything holding me back from enjoying life. That is my special feeling of how I feel when I think about that statement.
GST: Now, in your opinion, what is the downside to the early methods of radiocarbon dating?
Kid A: Is this also known as carbon dating?
GST: Yes.
Kid A: OK.
GST: Your answer, please.
Kid A: Getting there…
GST: Are you looking this up on the internet? That IS considered cheating.
Kid A: No. LOL. I am seriously thinking… I think it was fine the way it was. There was no need to change it. The only thing I can think of is that they had the half life of carbon wrong at first, maybe? They didn’t consult Gordon Freeman?
GST: Well, in the early technique there were certain things that couldn’t be carbon dated. For example, bones did not have enough carbon remaining to be dated.
Kid A: Ah.
GST: …so they would date things nearby, like carbon left from fires.
Kid A: That makes sense.
GST: …but the trouble there is that the fire might have been built thousands to millions of years later, thus skewing the results… I think.
GST: What question should I be asking you?
Kid A: Where does Gordon Freeman fit into the Half-Life of carbon dating? That is the question.
GST: No. I already wikipedia’ed that. It’s your video game, right?
Kid A: Of course. WWGFD: Valve made a bumper sticker for that. It had a crowbar on it. If I had a car, I would get it.
GST: What is the Greek letter on that game?
Kid A: Lamda… Checking spelling for that… Lambda.
GST: I once invented a Greek character called kramda. If they have a letter for TH [theta] then I want a letter for KR [kramda].
Kid A: Agreed.
GST: I knew you’d agree. That’s what you’re good for. Haha.
Kid A: Haha.
[Long pause]
Kid A: [Expletive deleted], my internet puked again. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/world-warcraft-sweden-lich-king,news-2974.html. I sent you that while I was nonexistent, I guess.
GST: Are you back?
Kid A: I have been since 6:23 [PM Central Standard] time, but I think I was disconnected or something.
GST: Zowie.
Kid A: I was here, but lost connection to the AIM server, and never connected again.
GST: Hmmm. Do you know why we’re celebrating Get Stop Ticket week?
Kid A: Yes. One year anniversary.
GST: So, you did remember? What did you buy us?
Kid A: I am giving you the gift of time so you can conduct this interview. I will buy your CD when you release it. So time… and a CD.
GST: Some strange changes happened to Get Stop Ticket at the beginning of the summer that threatened the band’s existence. Do you know what I am referring to?
Kid A: Yes. The need for DJ Taste to leave NYC.
GST: Now that the band is spread apart, what would it take to prove to the people that it’s not over just yet?
Kid A: The release of material or the debut album.
GST: So, if I told you that before this week is over you’ll be listening to new material, including the butt-breaking song BFVPAFS, you’d feel like Get Stop Ticket is here to stay?
Kid A: Definitely.
GST: Then BOY, OH BOY are you in for a treat!
GST: Let’s look forward! What do you expect from Get Stop Ticket in the year to come?
Kid A: Hopefully their debut album. That would be most excellent.
GST: If Get Stop Ticket could cover one song for you, no matter how ridiculous or normal it is, what would it be?
Kid A: LOL.
GST: I’m not familiar with that one.
Kid A: “Idioteque” by Radiohead [off of the album Kid A]. No matter how it turned out, it would blow my mind wide open.
GST: Do you think Get Stop Ticket could transform Radiohead’s political cynicism into, well, FUN?
Kid A: Why not?
GST: What would be the most unexpected song Get Stop Ticket could cover?
Kid A: It would probably have to be something I have never heard of. I think “My Name is Mud” by Primus would be out there, kind of. But hold on… Oh yeah! Any Frank Zappa song.
GST: Well, I suppose it wouldn’t be all that unexpected anymore…
Kid A: Right… Zappa would!
GST: Did you know that College Blues is actually an old Otis Redding song that Get Stop Ticket covered?
Kid A: No, I did not. That is cool though.
GST: That’s because it’s not. I just made that up.
Kid A: Oh. Well then I am either really naïve or overly optimistic that cool things can come true. I prefer the latter…
GST: Or both. Don’t forget the conjunction, brother. It’s a logical necessity. Your naivety does not preclude your optimism or vice versa.
Kid A: I just like thinking something cool did happen, even if it is totally false. I use naïve as a condescending term though, and I would certainly not want to be condescending to myself.
GST: All right, I’m gonna throw some names at you and I want you to type the first thing that comes to your mind. Ready?
Kid A: Yes.
GST: DJ Elijah.
Kid A: Uh oh ---
GST: DJ Bexxx.
Kid A: I am bad at this. LOL ---
GST: DJ Fi-rocket.
Kid A: Red rocket.
GST: Leather jacket.
Kid A: College blues.
GST: College blues.
Kid A: That one girl [the song] is about…
GST: DJ Taste: The Vengeance.
Kid A: X-Men.
GST: Craig.
Kid A: Ultra Ego sucks.
GST: Düdmangai 1999.
Kid A: Prince.
GST: Micah Tiemeyer and the Funk Tank, Featuring Jeff Kingsland.
Kid A: OMFG.
GST: Your Mom.
Kid A: Micah joke.
GST: Hey Gang.
Kid A: First GST song I heard.
GST: All right, final question. What is your favorite minute in any Get Stop Ticket song ever, released or unreleased?
Kid A: Oh, [expletive deleted]. I will need a moment. There some I don’t have because I forgot to back them up. I have most of the songs. I need to peruse them for a bit. I know what I am looking for. I just need to remember where it is…
GST: You will be allowed an extension of time.
Kid A: Cool. I will go to your Myspace. That would be the best bet for the songs I have lost.
GST: You mean http://www.myspace.com/getstopticket?
Kid A: Yes.
GST: Where you can listen to several of Get Stop Ticket’s best songs on the Myspace music player?
Kid A: Yes, that very one. Listen within the next twenty minutes and get twice the happiness for FREE!!!
GST: Guaranteed.
Kid A: OMG, what is being sampled in BFVPAFS? In the beginning? I have heard that in a DJ Shadow song, unless it is just a sound effect that is easily reproduced.
GST: Well, the talking is a recording of a voice mail. The sample is called “Disco Duck.”
Kid A: The guitar noise…
GST: Well, it has a little bit of wah to it.
Kid A: It is identical to what is used in the song I am thinking of.
GST: I’d feel much better if you said similar, or better, reminiscent… Identical has certain legal connotations to it.
Kid A: Oh. Well, he used it as a sample anyway.
GST: Or something similar…
Kid A: All of his music in the albums I own are only samples he put together in different ways, so it is not his anyways.
Kid A: Listening to [BFVPAFS] right now. Then I will get on with your answer.
GST: The world is on the edge of their collective seat…
[Long pause.]
GST: While you think on that question, I am going to run and get something to eat, but feel free to answer at any time.
[Long pause.]
Kid A: [Expletive deleted]. It happened again. What was the last thing you got from me? I sent my response six minutes ago. You still there?
GST: The last thing on my screen is me saying “While you think on the question…”, and then nothing from you until “[expletive deleted].”
Kid A: All right. Got it. Exactly. Naturally. My favorite song of any band is usually the one that first brings me to them. In this case, Hey Gang, and more specifically, at 1:19 where it goes from the repeated piano portion and breaks right into the awesome groove. There you go.
GST: Awesome.
Kid A: I really need to figure out why [my computer problem] happens. I don’t get a warning anymore. It just disconnects without doing anything…
GST: Any last words before we conclude this interview?
Kid A: Thank you for the experience, and Happy Birthday GST!!!
GST: Well, I’m sure we’ll hear from you again, Kid A / Adam Friedli. Have a good night and a happy Get Stop Ticket week!

What a revealing interview! But now there are so many new bits of intrigue that are buzzing around in our heads. What is this song "Get Stop Ticket" and when can we hear it? Who or what are Düdmangai 1999 and Craig? If you found yourself asking these questions, we here at Get Stop Ticket wish to tell you that those are the right questions to be asking. Perhaps the essay by Get Stop Ticket's biggest fan Stephan Mathos titled "How I Learned to Love Get Stop Ticket" will provide some further depth. Perhaps it will give us more questions... Well, see for yourself. Here it is:

I will never forget being properly introduced to Get Stop Ticket during the epic road trip back to Michigan I shared with DJ Taste: The Vengeance. It was the beginning of Christmas Break 2007 when I picked up DJ Taste: The Vengeance from the wintry streets of Baltimore, from which we began our drive listening to GST’s feel-good , hip-hop number “Get Stop Ticket”. Justin was awestruck by how cool his band’s music sounded on my car’s speakers. As a result, we listened through GST’s entire EP about a dozen times, literally. It wasn’t until we entered the Ohio Turnpike that I discovered the real-life inspiration for the band’s name. I believe we were listening to “Hey Gang” when I read my first GST sign – it was magical.

I’ve always dreamed of seeing at least one of the Brothers Tiemeyer make it big in the pop music industry—whether by accident, like Radiohead, or by relentless pursuit, similar to Justin Timberlake’s career. Based on his work in Get Stop Ticket, it is clear that DJ Taste: The Vengeance lends himself most to the latter. However, as few may know, Get Stop Ticket is not DJ Taste: The Vengeance’s first musical pursuit. Formed in 2002, Craig started writing and rehearsing in the Tiemeyer Basement in Grand Rapids, MI. Lead by his music-theory powerhouse of a brother on bass guitar—Micah—Craig started jamming out funk rock classics, such as “My Brain Wants to Eat the Human Race”, that not even the Red Hot Chilli Peppers could ignore (“Torture Me” anyone?). DJ Taste: The Vengeance, known only as Justin at the time, served as Craig’s frontman and is credited with the majority of the band’s lyrics. Serving as Craig’s webmaster and photographer, I had the opportunity to observe Justin in his formative years—from live gigs at the Liquid Room to their “Greatest Hits EP” recording sessions. I was blown away with the quality and originality of Justin’s lyrics—listen through “Funkilepsy” and you’ll know what I mean. It was in Craig that Justin developed his signature lyrical style that Get Stop Ticket enjoys today.

From DJ Elijah’s spirited beats and moody atmospherics to DJ Taste: The Vengeance’s catchy, soulful (Leather Jacket) lyrics and DJ Bexxx’s sometimes scandalous (Hot Cocoa) lyrics, I cannot understand how one couldn’t dig Get Stop Ticket, if not just a little bit. I can’t forget DJ Bexxx and Fii-Rocket for their awesome vocals that give the band a slight Prince & the Revolution feel at times.

DJ Taste: The Vengeances’ brother and past bandmate, Micah, serves as GST’s unofficial 5th member, providing the band with brutal criticism that is expected from the musician and musicologist he is. Having been pronounced GST’s “biggest fan”, I feel like I’m the foil to Micah. But despite my immense love for, and faith in, Get Stop Ticket, I have had to resolve in my heart the reality that the band is not making it onto the pop charts any time soon. No MTV, no record deals, no behind the music, no cover page on Rolling Stone. Not just yet. But if there’s one thing I have learned from Get Stop Ticket, it is how much fun it is to believe in the band’s mythology—pretending that I’m a part of a musical movement as important as say Prince or the Smashing Pumpkins. I’ve learned most of GST’s catalogue on guitar, and would totally play in its first cover band.

Golly. We're excited to learn more about the future and past of Get Stop Ticket now. After listening to eye-witness statements of the rise of Get Stop Ticket and finding out that there's material out there that hasn't even been released, we find ourselves geeked at the possibilities and ready and a rarin' to read another blog tomorrow as a way of holding us over to the conclusion of Get Stop Ticket on Saturday. OMG. It's like holding it during a long movie after you've drank a lot of carbonated beverage, but the movie's too good and you're going to have to risk the damage to your excretory system, but when you finally get to the rest room the stream flows freely for long periods of time and the relief washes over you (not a literal washing, of course, because that would be gross) and you find that it is pleasurable to urinate. We imagine that's what the conclusion will be like.

Catch you on the flip side, comrades.

GST WEEK: Day Quatro

2008-11-19T09:21:00.000-08:00

GET STOP TICKET presents The California Sugar Thieves

GST has stumbled across this amazing tune from the mysterious band, The California Sugar Thieves... We thought you might dig it, so here it is!

The California Sugar Thieves - Black Hole Generator

GET STOP TICKET'S HOT COCOA VIDEO PREMIERE:

see you tomorrow as GST week continues!

GST WEEK: Day III

2008-11-16T20:59:00.000-08:00

It's no getstopsecret that we're good buds with Lime Green Shirt, a collective of like-minded music makers and event planners. Our DJ mix, An Evening With Get Stop Ticket, featured remixes from a few LGS members including one DJ Sylock. GST's DJ Elijah recently sat down with Sylock for this exciting interview:

Elijah: Whats happenin?
Sylock: Nothing.
Elijah: How bout' that Obama???
Elijah: Woo!
Sylock: I knew he was gonna win.
Sylock: Do people read your blog?
Elijah: Yeah.
Sylock: Neat.
Elijah: Have you read it?
Sylock: Nope.
Elijah: hahah
Sylock: Blogging is probably the only thing that i havent really gotten into with the powers of teh intrawebz.
Sylock: Like i still dont understand the purpose of a blog, is it a review forum? or like a biased news pit for idelogical contrivances of the thought provoked?
Sylock: What would you say best summarizes a blog?
Elijah: Uh, I guess there are different blogs for different things.
Elijah: Its just a page that people can easily add things to. Like an online journal thing.
Sylock: Oh, a journal.
Sylock: That makes sense.
Elijah: ...
Sylock: Dead serious btw.
Elijah: Okay.
Elijah: So, DJ Sylock, how long have you been making jammy jams?
Sylock: Um, i have been actively producing tracks for 8 years.
Elijah: Thats super neato.
Elijah: What sort of music would you say you make?
Sylock: Are we doing this blog thing? Is this live right now?
Elijah: Live?
Elijah: We are chatting.
Elijah: And yeah, this is going on the blog.
Sylock: Dope. So lets see, lets see - how would i describe what i do?
Elijah: What would you call your music.
Sylock: Well some people call it noise, I like to call it alot of things.
Elijah: Like what.
Sylock: Ideas. Audio concepts.
Elijah: Hm, I see.
Elijah: Do you have any sort of goal or idea that you are striving for in your music?
Sylock: I guess really to come across a popular idea or emotion i suppose, I mean essentially i make music for myself. Its my ideas and my emotional disposition, but I think a good goal is to allow others in on what you're feeling.
Sylock: If I can paint a sound for people, I guess what i strive for.
Elijah: How has Get Stop Ticket touched and changed your life?
Sylock: GST are a bunch of thieves and they still owe me 30 dollars and 58 cents from that night in Mexico City.
Elijah: It was our understanding that all debts were cancelled when we saved you from that donkey...
Sylock: Hrm.
Sylock: The things you say when you're ass-deep in a bad situation.
Elijah: Yeah.
Sylock: Literally, it was a donkey
Elijah: You should make a tune about The Donkey Incident.
Sylock: Thats probably not one of those emotional dispositions i would like to share with other people.
Elijah: Heh. Right.
Elijah: What have you been listening to lately?
Sylock: Oh man, tons of stuff.
Sylock: Let's see.
Sylock: The new Qemist track, lost weekend, good shit.
Sylock: Upbeats remix to Pacman by Ed Rush and Optical, super crunchy and heavy - I loves it.
Sylock: Hrm actually went back a few years in my listening habits.
Sylock: Checking out some early Nightmares On Wax.
Sylock: And a bit of minimal, nothing in particular.
Elijah: Do you prefer Pepsi or Coke?
Sylock: Which one makes Mr. Pibb?
Elijah: Coke I think... maybe Pepsi
Sylock: What's the other one that uses alot of flavors in it?
Elijah: Dr. Pepper.
Sylock: Yeah, that one.
Elijah: Yeah, thats some good stuff.
Sylock: I wonder who would win, Mr. Pibb or Dr. Pepper.
Elijah: Did you like the movie, Congo?
Sylock: Congo, with all the gorillas killing people for the diamonds?
Elijah: Yeah.
Sylock: Never heard of it.
Sylock: :-x
Elijah: Oh... you know, Michael Crichton just died.
Sylock: No shit?
Elijah: Yeah.
Sylock: Did a T-Rex eat him?
Elijah: Dude... too soon.
Sylock: He died recently?
Elijah: Yeah, like yesterday.
Sylock: Ah.
Sylock: Well, give that blog posting a half week. Let it marinade a lil bit.
Elijah: Okay.
Elijah: Whats your favorite flavor of Doritos?
Sylock: Oh man, I actually have one.
Sylock: It's like a buffalo flavor one.
Elijah: Is that new?
Sylock: Yeah.
Sylock: I can't remember the whole name.
Elijah: Sounds gross.
Sylock: Nah, good shit.
Elijah: Remember when they had the Taco kind?
Elijah: And the Salsa Verde?
Sylock: Yeah it beat that stuff.
Sylock: It won in the flavor wars.
Sylock: The Doritos Flavor Wars of 2007
Elijah: I heard your apartment is really messy. Care to comment?
Sylock: Actually, it is incredibly clean, despite circulating gossip.
Sylock: Granted its only been this way for a matter of weeks.
Elijah: I will need photos to prove this.
Sylock: Okay.
Sylock: You know why they call it skim milk?
Elijah: Why?
Sylock: They skim it from the top. Soo icky.
Elijah: I drink skim.
Sylock: Sick
Elijah: Sor ray.
Sylock: Why not just buy half the size u normally buy, then get an 8 oz glass of cold water and 1 cup of 2% milk.
Sylock: Success!
Elijah: Uh.
Elijah: Yeah, I dont really like milk.
Sylock: Why not?
Elijah: Eh.
Sylock: I'm pretty sure thats unamerican.
Sylock: So how long do these blog things usually go for?
Elijah: What do you mean?
Sylock: We are blogging right now right?
Elijah: No. This is not a blog. This is a conversation.
Sylock: Oh good, i gotta go poop.

How about that? Thanks to Sylock for that informative and entertaining interview. And an extra special thanks for passing along this super-dope DJ mix:

Sylock - August' Night Dreaming (right-click, save as)

Xplorer - Spiral
Status and Chase - Brazil
Logistics - Beat Box Master
Utah Jazz - Back In Time
Shock One - Further Away From Me (Logistics remix)
Danny Byrd - Weird Science
Hard Fi - Hard to Beat (London Electricity remix)
Klute - Our Leader
Syncopix - Nightlistener
Ant Miles - Spirit Chaser
Moby - Alice (Noisia remix)
DJ Samurai - Underworld
Drumsound and Bassline Smith - Rock Your Body
Sub Focus - X Ray
Liftin Spirits - Hypnotiq
Drumsound Bassline Smith - Harder
Justice - DVNO dnb remix
Upbeats feat. Teknik - Ghobi Ghost
Noisia - Diplodocus
Sub Focus - Timewarp
Klute - Never Never
Matrix and Futurebound - Universal Truth

See you cats tomorrow, as GST Week continues!

GST Week: Day 2

2008-11-16T19:16:00.000-08:00

1. “HEY GANG” MUSIC VIDEO

Script by DJ Taste: The Vengeance

Lyrics by DJ Taste: The Vengeance

EXT. SPACE

A background of star clusters and planets.

Three flaming balls encircle each other as they plummet toward viewer.

EXT. NORTHERN SEASIDE – DAY

Overcast. Tide beating against gloomy shore.

Enter giant troll from right, skulking along the shore, head moving from side to side, looking for easy prey. Troll’s head perks up as it looks ahead. It has spotted something.

The view shifts to the troll’s perspective and centers on a horse tied to a single wooden post. It is encumbered by warrior’s gear, making it ominous to a human observer, but trolls are not as smart as humans.

The focus is once again on the troll, whose muscles ripple as he jumps into action, running toward his sedentary prey. The view changes from the troll’s perspective to a side perspective of the troll as he runs toward the horse. Before the troll reaches the horse, a spear is hurled from off screen and it lands between the troll and the horse, halting the slaughter. The troll begins to look around as he is surrounded by deep menacing masculine voices.

EXT. SPACE

A background of star clusters and the earth in the center.

The three flaming balls come from behind the viewer as they rocket toward the earth, their final destination. As they approach the atmosphere, they split into three different directions.

EXT. NORTHERN SEASIDE – DAY

Gloomy shore occupied, in the distance, by the troll. Perspective is from a single running Viking warrior behind a charging mass of Viking warriors covered in metal and fur, weapons and voices raised high. As the men approach the troll, they begin one by one to slash at it, to jump on it, clutching its thick hide and climbing to a better slaying vantage point, to throw spears.

VIKING:

"Valhalla!"

The Viking whose perspective we are following jumps into battle only to be batted away by the one free limb not beset by Vikings. He flies through the sky and we see his first person view of the world tumbling around him.

EXT. EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE

Speed and burning. The three space sphere’s plummet downward through atmosphere. Friction. Sparks. Flame. Noise. The perspective cuts from one to the other rapidly.

EXT. NORTHERN SEASIDE – DAY

Panned back. Mountains and plains beyond the seaside. In the far background, a heavenly object crashes down with an enormous eruption of sound. A dust cloud arises.
Closer up, the troll is on the ground, all but defeated. The sound carries to the Vikings who simultaneously turn their attention to the land beyond, where the object crashed to earth. This is enough of a distraction for the troll to throw off the Vikings and escape, grabbing the warhorse on its way as its prize.

INT. CASTLE – DAY

Round table. Surrounded by knights. Knights of the round table. The knights eat and are jolly. In the background there is a window in the stone masonry in which we see another heavenly object strike the ground. The minute earth quake that follows shakes the castle, causing dust to fall upon the table of the Knights and silly faces as their meal is soiled.

EXT. BEACH – DAY

Beautiful beach. Pirate snoozing on the shore, water licking his boots. Snores. Reaches over to grasp a bottle of rum. Takes a drink. Continues to sleep.
Rumble. Something has hit very near by. Dust flies up. The ground shakes.
Pirate continues to sleep. Rolls over. Stray dog approaches and runs off with rum. Pirate reaches for rum, finds it’s not there and wakes up

EXT. SMOKING CHASM – NIGHT

Perspective of smoking chasm looking up. Smoke surrounds the perimeter of the frame. Successively, intrigued Vikings, then Knights, then Pirates appear peaking into the chasm, each looking in upon one of the three glowing orbs.

Orb rises from chasm into night sky of its own power. It is radiating energy. Without voice it begins to speak telepathically to the onlookers. Again, we cycle through Vikings, Knights and Pirates during the speech that follows.

ORB:

"The orb is but a messenger.

"The message belongs to you, the greatest of warriors on this planet, the strongest, bravest, proudest. The best this planet has to offer.

"My master, he who sent this message --- he shall not be spoken of. His identity will be revealed at the time of his choosing, if at all.

"My master promises the greatest of earthly pleasure. Ask and you shall receive. Only remember this --- you must earn your keep. And earn it you shall IN MORTAL COMBAT!

"Other warriors have been summoned and given the same promise. Only one team shall claim final victory.

"Will it be you, proud Vikings?

"Will it be you, noble Knights?

"Will it be you, wily Pirates?

"The answer will be written in blood. The question you wish to ask is answered. The location of this epic battle has been inserted telepathically into your memory. Gather your forces. Battle awaits you."

TO BE CONTINUED...

2. AN EVENING WITH GET STOP TICKET, THE MISSING SONG

Carole King's "Care-A-Lot" from the Care Bears movie. I simply could not find any trace of this song anywhere other than You Tube and the movie itself. TRAGEDY!

The last time I watched this I noticed something very off putting when the video got to 1:05. ALERT: If you want to maintain your untainted childhood memory of the Care Bears, close your eyes when this video gets to 1:05.

3. EXCLUSIVE PICTURE OF DJ TASTE: THE VENGEANCE WITH A MULLET

GST WEEK: Day One

2008-11-16T08:33:00.000-08:00

Dear Fans:

Fans you are, and as fans you deserve something greater than the masses who exist outside of your circle of influence! Believe it or not, there are people who have yet to hear of Get Stop Ticket. Feel free to shout about our band on the hills and dales, to tickle the ears of passersby with that ditty that you have on your laptop! But
today, think not of your tribute to Get Stop Ticket. It is time to begin thinking of Get Stop Ticket's tribute to you!

A year ago, a much smaller audience started hearing about this little band forming in Brooklyn, and they gave much support and critique. Your masses have grown since then, as has the mutual love between Get Stop Ticket and its fans! Today is the beginning of Get Stop Ticket week, as Get Stop Ticket celebrates its first anniversary. This is the
anniversary of Get Stop Ticket's marriage with its loving fans!

As a result, we've planned a week worth of activities, a veritable Get Stop Ticket carnival or --- WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY!!! --- a joyride even. There was recently a kick-off party thrown in the Dallas area by Get Stop Ticket's DJ Taste: The Vengeance, with such guests as his little brother DJ Sugarbear and Get Stop Ticket's biggest fan (who remembers reading that blog?) Stephan Mathos. Following Get Stop Ticket week there will be another party, this time in Brooklyn at Northeast Kingdom (more details to come!). And in between, we wish for you to savor every moment as Get Stop Ticket posts a blog a day with joy for all the girls and boys. Get ready for interviews with Get Stop Ticket heavy-hitters, for the release of a brand new free Get Stop Ticket EP, and IF YOU'RE LUCKY perhaps even Get Stop Ticket's first music video!

And now, to hold you over until tomorrow, here's a link to "An Evening with GST," a DJ mix created by Get Stop ticket which, until now, was only available from your friends at the Lime Green Shirt Podcast.

simply right-click, save-as to download.
Or control-click, save-link for MAC peoples.

http://elliotmayo.com/evening.mp3

Get Stop Ticket - Laugh Track
Ace Of Base - All That She Wants
Get Stop Ticket - Hey Gang (Cosine remix)
Get Stop Ticket - Hey Gang
Get Stop Ticket - God Made Him Simple, Science Made Him A God
Roxette - Joyride
Prince - Erotic City
Get Stop Ticket - College Blues (The Hardest Working Girl I Ever Knew)
Get Stop Ticket - College Blues (After Hours (feat. DJ Big Balls))
Tears For Fears - Mothers Talk
Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa (Archangel remix)
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa (Sylock remix)
Radiohead - Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
Bob Dylan - North Country Blues
Get Stop Ticket - I'll Be There
Get Stop Ticket - Out Partying

See you tomorrow,

-Get Stop Ticket

Chromeo on Conan

2008-11-11T08:56:00.000-08:00

A full album like this please.

SHIRTCAST #71

2008-11-06T19:04:00.000-08:00

Get Stop Ticket put together a DJ mix for The Shirtcast!
Please enjoy.

Legendary band, Get Stop Ticket steps behind the decks to play some of their favorite jammy jams. Hold on to your balls.

Get Stop Ticket - Laugh Track
Ace Of Base - All That She Wants
Get Stop Ticket - Hey Gang (Cosine remix)
Get Stop Ticket - Hey Gang
Get Stop Ticket - God Made Him Simple, Science Made Him A God
Roxette - Joyride
Prince - Erotic City
Get Stop Ticket - College Blues (The Hardest Working Girl I Ever Knew)
Get Stop Ticket - College Blues (After Hours (feat. DJ Big Balls))
Tears For Fears - Mothers Talk
Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa (Archangel remix)
Get Stop Ticket - Hot Cocoa (Sylock remix)
Radiohead - Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
Bob Dylan - North Country Blues
Get Stop Ticket - I'll Be There
Get Stop Ticket - Out Partying

more GST at myspace.com/getstopticket

lgsproductions.com

MYSPACE.COM/LIMEGREENSHIRTPODCAST

HERE IS A DIRECT LINK! (right-click save as)

Aerosmith recommends voting.

2008-11-04T14:45:00.000-08:00

What was true in 1992 echoes true today!

GST recommends voting.

2008-11-04T08:37:00.000-08:00

Sunny Beats

2008-11-03T19:24:00.000-08:00

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is Get Stop Ticket approved.

Xmas Gift Idea (ahem)

2008-11-03T12:41:00.001-08:00

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

The Apple

2008-11-01T15:38:00.001-07:00

How far does it fall from the tree? You decide.

A couple of days ago I began getting strange messages hinting at some debauchery at my cousin Ashley's wedding involving my father, booze and karaoke.

I'll warn you, watching this video might be painful, but you'd be doing Get Stop Ticket a favor if you could figure out what my father is rambling about. Or, better yet, put your own subtitles approximating what he's saying. That could make for some good fun.

Ladies and gentlemen, my father performing (eventually...) White Wedding. He's the one with the Charles Manson beard and the hunch of a Russian novelist in a bleak white nowhere town.

Brace yourselves!

I Learned This Song Today

2008-10-16T10:12:00.000-07:00

No Wonder

2008-10-15T22:28:00.000-07:00

Lynda Carter recently characterized Sarah Palin brutally as the anti-Wonder Woman. I think it's clear who I'm going to be voting for this November!

...that's right, I'm voting for Wonder Woman.

Hey, Dig My Leather Jacket!

2008-10-15T17:29:00.000-07:00

SHIRTCAST #70

2008-10-14T00:00:00.001-07:00

How is iced coffee more expensive than regular coffee? The ice can't cost that much, and it robs the vessel of coffee. So you have less coffee. And its been cooled, which takes a while, so its old coffee with ice. Regular ass hot coffee: $2. Iced coffee: $2.75? I dunno. Write to your congressman.

Streetlife DJs - We Love The Disco Sound
AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Tittsworth remix)
Purple Crush - Get Digital
The Herbaliser - Gadget Funk
Matias Aguayo - Minimal (DJ Koze remix)
LA Riots - If I Could
Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam (XXXchange remix)
Ursula 1000 - Electrik Boogie
AutoKratz - Stay The Same (80kidz remix)

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I Feel Terrible!

2008-10-06T12:41:00.000-07:00

All right. Here goes. You are the fans and you deserve the truth.

Some of you remember a little ditty called All My Girlfriends Have Boyfriends. The second verse to this tune is devoted to the lovely Scarlett Johannson, and it ends with my admission that "if I meet her I'm'a tell her that her boyfriend's gay," a tactic that I would use to separate her from an unworthy suitor. Couched in the story of beautiful women whose "boyfriends are dicks," the assumption is that Scarlett Johannson's boyfriend is a dick who ought to be driven away by lies and misinformation if necessary.

What I have to admit is that this song was written before the marriage of Scarlett Johannson to Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds is not a dick. He's hard, but he's not a dick. And Ryan, if you've been listening to our music and/or reading our blog --- if you know anything about this band called Get Stop Ticket at all --- I want to make sure that we're still cool.

Oh, and Blade Trinity would have been so lame if you weren't in it! That's my second confession.

sibling rivalry

2008-09-14T01:59:00.001-07:00

my little brother puts me in my place
cuz he can play a mean electrostatic bass
i feel like marky mark watching nkotb
i need a funky bunch to come and rescue me

Elijah - The General Idea

2008-08-07T10:06:00.000-07:00

Get Stop Ticket's resident beatsmith, Elijah has just released a full album of original tunes.
For free.
GST heartily recommends you download this beast stat.

ELIJAH - THE GENERAL IDEA:
(click to download (for free ($0.00)))

songlisting:
Psycho Killer For President
Into
Cute Lemonade
Please
She Wakes Up Twice
Metric Shit Ton
Speaks Through
Apples & Stars
Alone Time
Time Flies
Task
Nothing / Everything
Fuck Face / Band Together
Murmur

Thanks for your earbins.

-Elijah & GST

Nerdapalooza

2008-08-05T12:50:00.000-07:00

SHIRTCAST #66

2008-07-29T14:29:00.000-07:00

Hey. So this podcast is a classic mix from DJ Archangel. It's called 'Speed Hump' and it has aged like a fine wine. Or cheese. Or... fish. We don't have a tracklist because Ken isn't a big fan of reading. So instead, here is a video of him doing stand-up:

Thanks for your ears. Peace.

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SHIRTCAST #65

2008-07-28T09:05:00.000-07:00

So I cleaned my sheets today. I hate folding those sheets that go over the mattress. The ones with the elastic band to hold it to the bed? How do you fold those? its impossible. I always end up just bunching it up into a ball. Sigh.

Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
Yo! Gabba Gabba - Party In My Tummy (Ursula 1000 B'More re-think)
Danger - 19h11
House of Pain - Jump Around (Deadmau5 remix)
Chase and Status - Brazil
Gotye - Heart's A Mess (Supermayer Supermess remix)
Junkie XL - Clash
Coconut Records - Nighttiming

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Do You Like Joy?

2008-07-11T09:07:00.000-07:00

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

July 6 is DJ BEXXX DAY!

2008-07-04T09:18:00.000-07:00

Be sure to wish our beloved DJ Bexxx a Happy Birthday this Sunday, July 6.
This is Get Stop Ticket's first official endorsement of a new national holiday.
To help celebrate, we just uploaded Elijah's remix of 'Leather Jacket' to our remix myspace!

SHIRTCAST #64

2008-07-04T08:56:00.000-07:00

Cheap beer, Narwhals and a fine selection of tunes. What else would you expect from the Lime Green Shirt Podcast? Asshattery? We have that too...

Jamie Lidell - Hurricane
The Presets - My People
Young MC - Bust A Move (Diplo remix)
The Orb - Vuja De
Ratatat - Falcon Jab
Koop - Summer Sun
John Dahlback - Blink
Shinichi Osawa - Star Guitar

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GST HEARTS COSINE!

2008-06-30T10:12:00.000-07:00

We here at Get Stop Ticket sure do love us some Cosine.
He's been working his way through our entire catalog of tunes and rejiggling them.
So we just uploaded Cosine's remix of our epic ballad 'I'll Be There' and our controversial smash hit 'Hot Cocoa' to our remix page!
Let us know what you think. And, hey, let Cosine know what you think too.
More more more.
Soon soon soon.
Keep the dream alive.

-GST

Footage From Get Stop Ticket Music Video Leaks in Asia

2008-06-24T15:14:00.000-07:00

Those of you who watch LOST may know of a thing called Spoilergate in which spoilers regarding the season finale of the third season as well as the plot of the entire fourth season were leaked onto the internet. Well, Spoilergate has struck again as Asia sees glimpses from Get Stop Ticket's first music video.

Well, we're tossing that music video like a mother bird abandoning its baby when it smells human hand oils on its body. I guess we're just gonna have to do something with a giraffe instead. Or perhaps a marmoset.

GST Remix Myspace Up!

2008-06-15T09:36:00.000-07:00

Hey, whats happenin?

We started getting so many awesome remixes of our tunes that we ran out of space on the GST myspace. So we made a new one just for the remixes!

And to celebrate the new Myspace page, we uploaded a brand spanking new remix of 'College Blues' by Cosine.

Add the GST Remix page here:

myspace.com/gstremix

Let us know what you think!
Keep it real.

-GST

DJ Elijah: Because The Man Deserves the Spotlight Every Once In A While

2008-06-14T00:28:00.001-07:00

Haven't been over to the soquitcherbitchen blog for a little while? Shame on you. The dude really knows his music.

Well, if that's the case, then I'll dangle something in front of you: soquitcherbitchen just conducted a bitchen interview with our very own DJ Elijah.

And the interview is epic. How epic? More epic than Faith No More. Less epic than the Homeric poems. If epic were the three bears, this one would be just right.

And I'd be sleeping in it.