Paul Furgale - drums, computer programming, autonomous airplane crafting, gadget making, furniture inventing, falsetto, math
Jo Snyder - guitars, lead vocals, crust projecting, surly drunking, blogging, university newspapering, crappy comic making, smoking while marathon training
Sarah Sangster - bass guitar, back-up vocals, graphic designing, pot smoking, swinging, nice haircut-ing, teaching herself how to drum-ing, awesome comic making
A Computer - bleeps and bloops, bits and bytes, filling in for when Jo can't play the guitar part, south park playing, video game-ing, zeros and ones
Andrew Filyk - new guitar part playing, googly eyeing, spermy costume making, chest denting, directly competing with A Computer for parts (who's going to win the ultimate battle of sweet riffage? Come to the shows to find out! It's Andrew versus A Computer!)
Influences
Weezer, Superchunk, That Dog, Liz Phair, Jawbreaker, The Weekend, Elvis Costello
Sounds Like
"...somewhere between the riot grrrl umph of Bikini Kill and the simple, driving melodic pop of Weezer" - Exclaim Magazine, November 2002.
Record Label
The Company with the Golden Arm & Smallman Records
Go check out Anthem Red if you want to listen to a band that still exists. Otherwise, read on.
One afternoon a guy in a green shirt went into the Underground cafe, sat down, and ordered a Sunburger. "Do you want cheese on that?" The waitress asked.
"No," replied the guy in the green shirt, "I'm vegan."
"Well, we put eggs and cheese right in the Sunburger dork hole," said the nasty waitress.
"Well in that case, I'll just have the lentil pate, on bread, with peanut butter."
"Good choice," said the waitress. "That's what John K. Sampson likes to eat too, and look how successful he is."
The guy in the green shirt eyed up the waitress for a moment then said, "Say, aren't you Jo Snyder?"
"Who's asking?" She snapped.
"It's just that I heard you were looking for a drummer. Have you found one yet?"
"Are you interested?" She looked at him intently, something had changed, and she became warm.
"I like you shirt," the guy in the green shirt nervously rolled and unrolled his unused dinner napkin.
"I'll see you at the practice space at seven tonight. Don't be late."
"Thanks. Thank-you," said the guy in the green shirt. He got up to leave forgetting all about his sandwich, too excited to think. As he ascended the stairs leading out to the street, the waitress yelled, "Hey boy!"
The guy in the green shirt turned around and caught the peanut butter and lentil sandwich that was flying through the air toward him neatly wrapped in tin foil, shaped like a seagull.
"See you tonight, boy." She smiled.
The guy in the green shirt smiled back, turned on his heel, and went outside into the bright white afternoon.
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July 28, 2006, . . us (along with Ben Sigurdson on drums) as PINKERTON, the all-Weezer's-Pinkerton-album cover band. Our one and only glorious show:
I love this band.
Memories of the U of Winnipeg, early 2000, yup, veggie dogs and cold Fort Garry Dark.
I heard that their new band is pretty cool as well.
they sure have big shoes to fill.
Anthem Red I think it is?
Cool, See you at the next Anthem Red Show, I will be right behind you girls (literally).
Word.........
p.s. I won't be behind Paul though cause unfortuntely for him I don't swing that way.
So I finally figured out, after all these years, that you're named after the book of short stories by Donald Barthelme. Am I right? Anyway, good to see you all rocking it '07 styles!
you know, i'm mad at myself for singing christmas songs instead of going to your show. next time i will bring my mum and the christmas tree and together we will sing weezer and madonna and sixty stories christmas songs.
