‘Tis the Season — The Way-Too-Early Christmas Song

Way-Too-Early Christmas MonsterIt’s that time of year again, gang!

That time of year when we all exclaim, “Are you f***ing KIDDING me, retail stores?!?”

Sadly, the decorations actually started weeks ago. But here’s a freebie from the back catalog to ease your pain. Download it, share it with friends, buy it, whatever; just do your part to help us all tolerate the next 52 (!!!) days.

The Way-Too-Early Christmas Song (Right-click and choose “Save file as…” or however the heck you do it on your computer)

Way-Too-Early Christmas Monster art by Len Peralta.

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Posted November 2nd, 2012
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BOO!…FREE Halloween Music

We’re changing things up this year by giving away Lame Monster Party for COMPLETELY FREE! (click to download, right-click then “Save As…” or however you do it on your particular machine; you should know how to do this by now!) But if you’re the kind of person who loves a bargain (and who perhaps also loves to support independent creators), you can pick up the Halloween Super-Fun Pack for the stupid-low price of $2.

YOU HEARD US RIGHT: six (6!) spooky songs—Live; Cruel, Cruel Moon; Jim Darkmagic; Lame Monster Party; Here Come the Dinosaurs; and The Way-Too-Early Christmas Song—for the MANIACALLY low price of $2. (NOTE: Yes, The Way-Too-Early Christmas Song isn’t really “spooky,” per se; but it’s Halloween-themed, so shut up.)

FUN FACT: people who don’t pick up the Halloween Super-Fun Pack may be swept away by a zombie apocalypse. Why take that chance?

Posted October 30th, 2012
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Show #131: Sushi Dragon Boat

The hoodoo-third-one episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.

This week’s episode: first day of filming for LearningTown, our awesome and fun crew, crazy costumes, and Non-Disclosure Agreements; jumping right in and eating invertebrates; resist the urge to be a douchebag, and Hollywood Douchebags revisited; concurrent bonus material; Getting Excited About Space: meeting Bobak Ferdowsi, discovering planets, and terraforming; losing sleep to Civ 5 and Atari Adventure; Roderick on the Line; Clean Giant, Dirty Giant, and the entitled mobs shopping at Whole Foods; and here we come, Hal-Con!

Show #131: Sushi Dragon Boat

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Posted October 24th, 2012
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Celebrate “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” with Paul and Storm

It’s that time of year again: the wind is in the sails, the bounding main beckons, and nerds everywhere are annoying their classmates and office-mates by talking like pirates. But it’s not because they want to; it’s because they have to. After all, today is International Talk Like  Pirate Day.

As usual, we’re rolling out our pirate-themed songs in honor of the day. (We have TWO of them now!) Listen to them, download them (by right-clicking or whatever on the links below), play them for your friends, BUY THEM, whatever your heart tells you is best..

The Captain’s Wife’s Lament

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The Pirate’s Feast (as heard in Season Four of The Guild)

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Posted September 19th, 2012
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Show #130: Herring and Blondes

The hunter 3-teeny episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.

This week’s episode: Paul and Storm are in the SAME ROOM AS EACH OTHER, as they contemplate crapping randomly; their current LearningTown progress; dogs appear and disappear; their mutual procrastinatory tendencies, and possible Kickstarters to overcome them (and to take your money from you); their evolution from being Novelty T-shirt Guys; PAX Prime and the “rock star treatment;” mutual ignorance of most things Swedish; RyanAir complaints; and JoCo Cruise Crazy 3 excitement and site inspection cruise bragging.

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ALERT: If we were to take your money in a Kickstarter, what would you want us to do?

Show #130: Herring and Blondes

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Posted September 14th, 2012
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August/September Shows – US and Europe

So we’ve got some P&S live shows looming. (because P&S shows are ominous things, like Snoopy when he’s pretending to be a vulture) First, our shows in the US in August, which include some SPECIAL GUESTS. How special, you ask? Well, here are some apples; let us know your degree of approval…

Somerville, MA – August 22
Johnny D’s, 8 pm
with Chris Collingwood
Tickets: http://bit.ly/PSBoston

New York, NY – August 24
Le Poisson Rouge, 7:30 pm
with Mike Phirman
Tickets:  http://bit.ly/PSNYC

Alexandria, VA – August 25
The Birchmere, 7:30 pm
with Mike Phirman
Tickets:  http://bit.ly/PSBirchmere

We’ll also be at PAX all weekend long August 31 – September 2; tickets are all sold out for that, but if you have tickets, come by the merch table and bump elbows with us*.

Next, we form up the ol’ Acoustic Voltron with Jonathan Coulton for our return visit to England (plus Sweden):

Stockholm, Sweden – September 17
Södra Teatern, 7:30 pm
with Jonathan Coulton
Tickets: http://bit.ly/JCPSStockholm

London, UK – September 20
Union Chapel, 7 pm
with Jonathan Coulton
Tickets: http://bit.ly/JCPSLondon

Birmingham, UK – September 21
MAC Theater, 7:30 pm
with Jonathan Coulton
Tickets: http://bit.ly/JCPSBham

Bristol, UK – September 22
Colston Hall, 8 pm
with Jonathan Coulton
Tickets: http://bit.ly/JCPSBristol

Manchester, UK – September 23
Manchester Academy 2, 7 pm
with Jonathan Coulton
Tickets: http://bit.ly/JCPSManchester

See you out there!

*We’re bumping elbows rather than shaking hands, to avoid the dreaded “Con SARS.”

Posted July 31st, 2012
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Freedom is…a FREE SONG

patriot_with_flagIn celebration of our nation’s birthday, we offer you a FREE! FREE! FREE! thematically-appropriate song of explosives safety—or the lack thereof: Ten-Finger Johnny. (We’d call it a “ten-finger discount,” but that would be incredibly lame) Please share it with all your patriotic friends.

Have a safe and happy 4th!

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Ten-Finger Johnny

(click to download, right-click then “Save As…” or however you do it on your particular machine; you should know how to do this by now!)

Posted July 4th, 2012
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Show #129: SwishAdidases

The hunter 2-niner episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.

This week’s episode: not paying attention to themes; leveling up through the power of video; the power of collaboration; why some of Prince’s music sucks; a challenge to Freddie Wong to make a fart video; Air Kicks and SwishAdidases; “doy” vs. “duh;” a reiteration of Paul’s Frat Boy Theory; EAT ME, the (mostly) completely edible restaurant; serrated matzoh and Doy Jews; ice cups and drinking troughs; freakishly sweet Orange Juliuses, fortnightly; Paul looooves hot dogs; Storm is a centipede; Freedom vs. Liberty; motorcycle repair and nuclear detonations; Dr. Higgs and Dr. Boson; getting excited about space; Freedom Liberty Spacewagon; a tour of our very own; the Kings of Con; and Hal-Con.

Show #129: SwishAdidases

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Posted July 4th, 2012
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Write Like the Wind (George R. R. Martin): New Song and Video!

The long-rumored and promised studio recording of “Write Like the Wind (George R. R. Martin)” is here at last! It’s actually been done for a couple months; we’ve kept it under our helms while we worked to pull together a video. Which we did!

Wanna buy the song? You totes can!

Buy “Write Like the Wind”:  on our website  |  on Bandcamp  |  on iTunes

All proceeds go towards allowing us to monkey around like this more in the near future.

Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont were kind enough to give the video its world premiere on today’s episode of Sword and Laser on the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel—an episode, we’d like to mention, that also has a great interview with GRRM himself! (Our video is at the end of the episode, but the whole episode is worth watching)

Special thanks to Geek & Sundry for producing the video, in particular ÜberProducer/ShePriestess Kim Evey, line producer Lindey Koens, and director Chris Darnell. Mondo-thanks to Jeff Lewis for lending his hysterical self to the video.

SuperThanks to Shawn Strider and his Labyrinth Masquerade Ball for the schmancy duds and wicked arms. Mega-thanks to Veronica and Tom for debuting the song in such style. Extra thanks to Chris Dillon for helping this baby gestate.

Eternal perturbedness to Jonathan Coulton, whose Game of Thrones proselytizing got us hooked in the first place.

Guest Artists:

Eddie Hartness – bodhrán
Mike Phirman - accordion
Aubrey Webber – cello
Kevin Murphy - additional Drowned Men Chorus vocals

(complete video credits are on the video’s YouTube page)

George R. R. Martin – not your bitch

Posted June 22nd, 2012
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Show #128: Fruit Borg and Zombie Cat (LIVE from NerdMelt)

The hundork ‘n’ tweighth episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.

This week’s episode: lying in front of an enthusiastic audience of 500 at NerdMelt; doing lots of work in Los Angeles; Mexican food and wall yogurt; franchising Yogurt Gloryhole; Kim Evey and Amy Berg join us for chatskies and it gets all sexy; the one TV in Los Angeles; Berg’s TV career synopsis, and announcement that she’s leaving Person of Interest; putting words and things in Michael Emerson’s mouth; Kim’s goings-on as web show creator and producer; making Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day kiss; how to be secret in show biz; the path to becoming a Hollywood writer; meeting Joss Whedon for reals; keeping shit straight when producing multiple shows; what the heck *is* a producer; doing things differently, craft series, and Hawaiian shave ice; is there a nerd cuisine, and is it cupcakes? Or bacon?; chocolate = nazis; valuing cultures by their cuisines; gastronauts and commissioning Alton Brown; Wil Wheaton is Jerry Lewis; Wil vs. Felicia (surviving a zombie apocalypse); Wil’s weak ankles; the Yamato vs. the Enterprise (surviving Adam Savage); starting a wikipedia page for Kim and enhancing Amy’s; filming a video for Write Like the Wind (GRRM song); hooray for Lindsey; more craft service; the Fruit Borg; working on Leverage and Eureka; Queen Elizabeth II’s panties; the juggernaut that is TableTop; apologizing on the part of cats; “puppies are assholes”; cat and dog zombies; and impending awesomeness with Written by a Kid.

MINION TASK: Create a wikipedia page for Kim Evey, and beef up Amy Berg’s.

Show #128: Fruit Borg and Zombie Cat (LIVE from NerdMelt)

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Posted May 21st, 2012
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