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.”

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!)

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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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

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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Mother’s Day 2012

In celebration of mothers everywhere, we are once again giving away our “Mother’s Day Song” for ABSOLUTELY FREES NO MONIEZ!

Click here to download (do the whole “right click/”Save as…” or whatever the hell)

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Show #127: A Sophist in Memphis

The one-dread twosvens 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: Tuesdays sucks; knowledge for knowledge’s sake; is Storm a sophist? is Sarah Palin?; our grudges against the Cub Scouts; Mensa Scouts; talking about music; a long speculative discourse about why songs classified as “Standards” are called “Standards”; why later-career pop artists sing “Standards”; the sheet music barons of the early 20th century; the one gigantic textile mill where everyone in Pittsburgh worked; Potatochipsburgh, where potatoes were invented; the no-mouth, bark-licking mummers of yore; Paul is vindicated in his naked-drying ways; and more smoochies for Geek and Sundry.

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ALERT:What would a Sophistry Merit Badge look like?

Show #127: A Sophist in Memphis

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Show #126: Carthago Delenda Est

The oney-honey tweddy-stritch 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: the machine is chugging; that scraping teeth feeling that oogs you out; LearningTown, our new comedy musical on the new Geek and Sundry YouTube channel; Wil Wheaton’s TableTop; smoochies for PAX; perfect songs; cockeyed theories involving music and brains and stuff; music that sucks but that you respect anyway; a technical boo-boo; and GET EXCITED ABOUT SPACE.

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ALERT: What song or songs do you believe are “perfect”, and why? AND…

Show #126: Carthago Delenda Est

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LearningTown: our new show on Geek and Sundry!

You know how on our podcast or on Twitter we keep mentioning “things we’re not allowed to talk about yet”? But that we’ll shout them to the skies once we can? Well, the good news is we can now tell you that WE HAVE AN AWESOME NEW SHOW CALLED LEARNINGTOWN, THAT WILL BE ON FELICIA DAY’S BRAND-SPANKING NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL, GEEK & SUNDRY!

We hear you shouting out: so what’s it about? Who else is in it? Well…we’re not allowed to talk about it yet. LOL—no…from the Geek & Sundry LearningTown press release:

“Nerd music duo Paul and Storm bring their harmonies and smartly offbeat humor to this new comedy musical. The learning curve is steep when the two are tasked with reviving the flagging educational show of their childhoods in the face of villainous hipsters, ghosts who give bad advice, and flammable puppets—lots and lots of flammable puppets.”

Us? Taking over a children’s show? You’re right: it practically writes itself! But we’ve gotta look like we’re earning our paychecks, so we’ve been busy over the past few months “working” with our head writer Josh A. Cagan to put it together, under the watchful eye of producer Kim Evey.

We’re not allowed to tell you much beyond that, but we CAN tell you the following two facts:

  • LearningTown won’t debut until late 2012. Boooooo!
  • The show will co-star Maurissa Tancharoen (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Dollhouse, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, The Guild). Yaaaaaay!

We promise to tell you LOTS more about it between now and the end of the year. (We’re certain you’ll be totally sick of hearing us talk about it soon enough) In the meantime, you can enjoy Geek & Sundry’s nerdtastic slate of shows that includes The Guild (Season 5), Felicia’s The Flog, Wil Wheaton’s TableTop, Sword and Laser with Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt, motion comics from Dark Horse, and the hysterical Written By a Kid. Thusly:

We are as excited about this as two little children who are particularly excited, and we can’t wait for you all to (eventually) see it! For now, the best thing you can do is to subscribe to the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel and enjoy their awesome lineup. And then wait. Patiently.

Show #125: Paul Lynde as Grand Moff Tarkin (LIVE!)

The ownhunder-twinnie-5’st 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: A special, extra-size LIVE recording of the podcast! Recorded during JoCo Cruise Crazy 2, with a whole slew of special guests: webcomic creators Rob DenBleycker, David Willis and Joel Watson; professional podcast guest and funnyman Paul F. Tompkins; Joseph Scrimshaw as Ed McMahon; and special musical guests Molly Lewis, Marian Call and Vi Hart (with some nerd named Wil dropping in for some reason).

Action-packed topics include living off of t-shirt monies; why is Rob so lazy?; comics artists as rock stars; the joys of a teenage fanbase; becoming a web comic drawing-person; success through internet; explaining what MySpace was; Watterson vs. Larson in a Safety Instruction Card battle; other awesome web comics; drawing dicks; building a fort out of cake…or pie?; the proper way to burn; a strained snake/stream of consciousness comedy metaphor; the comedy uniform; grumpy cruisers; boater or skimmer?; wrecking people with hubris; cake fort supremacy; the Thrilling Adventure Hour; and the King of Coffee vs. Cake Boss in a wedding catering showdown.

Show #125: Paul Lynde as Grand Moff Tarkin (LIVE!)

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