Silly Love Songs

Dave Ratzlow recorded our very first tracks so long ago in Anne's bedroom in Queens. He brought some kind of machine he bought on ebay and a microphone in his backpack. The walls were thin and there might not have been actual doors between the bedrooms. We had to make Blair turn off his Madonna so we could record (I swear he was listenting to Vogue). I believe we recorded Gay Boyfriend, Magic Ukulele and something else I can't remember.

Dave's been working on his own album and we've been dying to hear it for what seems like forever. Now it's finally done. Silly Love Songs! Rumor is that some of the songs have like 40 tracks on them. Wow! The Hazzards play ukulele on his song At The Zoo, which you can listen to on his site. Dave is nice and awesome. We love him. Also, he is friends with a lot of really beautiful women.

We HEART Flight of the Conchords

Our New Zealand brother band, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, are taping their HBO special this Friday in NYC. You should come see them, the Hazzards are HUGE fans and its sure to be an AWESOME time. Here's how:

FRIDAY APRIL 22, 2005
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS & BONNIE MCFARLANE
HEADLINING HBO'S "ONE NIGHT STAND"!
TWO TAPINGS: 6:30PM and 9:00PM
@ The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU
LaGuardia Place & Washington Sq. South
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Check out FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS in their first HBO ONE NIGHT STAND as they are joined by fellow alternative comedian, BONNIE MCFARLANE. Join the live audience as HBO goes back to its roots bringing the public the best comic talent in the country!

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS are the musical comic duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie. Native New Zealanders with a huge following in New Zealand and Australia, they have recently been taking European and American audiences by storm, winning Best Alternative Comedy Act at HBO's U.S. COMEDY ARTS FESTIVAL in Aspen.

THE GUARDIAN (UK) said of the duo "... there's so much right about Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement's act that an hour in their company is sublime."

BONNIE MCFARLANE's creative comedy has been showcased on David Letterman, The Drew Carey Show, Last Comic standing and Dr. Katz. She is also a talented in-demand writer who has worked on a series of successful shows. Howard Stern called her "very talented and a friend of the show."

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RSVP QUICKLY FOR FREE TICKETS TO THIS EVENT!
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YOU MUST LIVE IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA AND BE 18 YEARS OR OLDER.

EMAIL CONCHORDS@BROADWAYVIDEO.COM with the following information in both the subject line and body of your email:

1. Your full name

2. Your phone number(s)

3. Your email address (the one you pick up most often - be aware that many work email addresses mistakenly identify our emails as Spam so make sure you use an email address where you can receive our emails)

4. Which show(s) you want to attend, Put "ANY SHOW" if you can attend either of the two tapings including the early evening.

5. Number of tickets (6 tickets is the maximum number we can allow. If you need more tickets please have your additional guest request tickets under their name and email address)

Example:
Richard Pryor/(212) 555-1212 /wildcomic@pryor.com/ANY SHOW/2 tickets

Please refer to the shows as follows:

Show 3 - FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS AND BONNIE MCFARLANE
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005 - 6:30PM (ARRIVAL FOR AUDIENCE: 5:15PM-5:45PM)

Show 4 - BONNIE MCFARLANE AND FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005 - 9:00 PM (ARRIVAL FOR AUDIENCE: 8:00PM-8:30PM)

"ANY SHOW" - MEANS YOU CAN ATTEND ANY TAPINGS. DON'T PUT DOWN "ANY SHOW" IF YOU CAN'T ATTEND THE EARLY EVENING SHOWS. IF YOU ARE FLEXIBLE ABOUT WHICH TAPING YOU ATTEND YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET TICKETS!

We will contact you via email or phone with a detailed confirmation if there are tickets available.

EMAIL: CONCHORDS@broadwayvideo.com

Hey, do you like comedy?

Sydney and I do our best Rodney Dangerfield impressions tomorrow night at Stand Up New York...that's if Rodney Dangerfield was two girls in matching outfits who liked singing about wine coolers and temping.


Tuesday, April 19th
The Hazzards at STAND UP NY
236 West 78th Street
9pm, $12 cover, two drink minimum.
Tel: 212.595.0850

Hosted by Craig Baldo featuring the sketch comedy of Elephant Larry, The Royal We, Slightly Known People, MEAT, Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz, The Hazzards, To Be Determined, Katie in a Character Form, and also featuring Jim Gaffigan from That 70's Show, Sex and the City, and numerous appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman.

***We LOVE Jim Gaffigan! Fun fact: We appear on the same episode of The World Stands Up with Jim. Obviously, we're best friends.***

love,
Anne

Dear Diary: Parents just don't understand.

Dear Diary,
Today we were hanging out in the kitchen and Mom came in to ask us where exactly she could find the hip hop community. WE'RE NOT KIDDING! Dad came home from his Republican Town Committee Meeting just then too and also wanted to know. THEN they asked us what hip hop sounds like: "Is it called hip hop cause there's a lot of jumping in the dance moves?"

We told them the hip hop community was located in Weymouth, MA and left in a hurry.

SO EMBARRASSING.

One,
Anne & Sydney
The Hazzards
www.hazzards.com

Wednesday, 4/13
The Hazzards Wednesday Night Makeout Party!
Galapagos
www.galapagosartspace.com
70 North 6th Street btwn. Kent and Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
10pm
FREE!

featuring:
Soce The Elemental Wizard
If you've ever had to struggle, been in love, enjoyed a good role-playing game or just wanted to feel rap music where you can relate to every word spit, soce's music is for you.

The Hazzards
We are awesome. PS: Just WAIT til you see our hott new video!!!

Jollyship the Whizbang
These guys offer tales of piracy, madness and the ageless struggle twixt man and fish, which pitch and roll upon swelling synthesizers, accordion, and electric guitars.

We're in AMNY Today, listing our top 5 NYC music venues. Galapagos is our number 1! 

Some Internet Radios

Dear Blog,

The internet is so complicated. The Hazzards are on the playlists of some possibly awesome internet radio stations. But I can't really tell what they're like because the firewall at work won't let me listen to "media". It also won't let me visit anything dirty or any site labeled "personal". Anyway, here are the possibly awesome radio internets:

• Babes in Boyland - These girls from France have very cute cartoons on their site, but that's all I know. I can't tell what song of ours they're playing because of my firewall.
• Flat Four Radio - This UK site features "Girl Beer" on their program "The Ock Show". They describe the show as "Some music. Presented by an Ock." So, what's an Ock?

We are also featured in AM New York today listing our Top 5 Places to Hear Interesting Music. We're not allowed to look at "personal" websites at work, but I guess we are allowed to read the paper, because a ton of people at the office have mentioned how famous I am today. (Totally famous!) Historians will note that this is the first time the cocktail "Casino Royale" appears in print.

Love,
Sydney

Let's Get Romantic

It's not the awesome new video we just made, but it is a good live performance of "Let's Get Romantic" shot by Cas at Galapagos a couple of months ago. Watch it. Come see us at Galapagos on Wednesday, April 13th with Jollyship the Whizbang and Soce the Elemental Wizard. And get pschyed for the new Shut Up and Make Out video in a couple of weeks!

A Thought About Paul

Dear Blog,

Our harp player Paul is making a new play called The Snow Hen. Here are some sentences describing the play:

The populations of the world have been decimated in a global plague. A little girl has survived...and she is growing feathers. Her lonely existence is broken by a haunted wanderer who crashes into her world. They fall for each other and then fall apart.

He's very smart and talented.

Here's another story about Paul--sort of:

Paul is mad that girls never notice his harp on the subway. Paul thinks that girls would love to see a guy with a harp on the L train and they would love to talk to him and try to ask him on dates, but they don't. Anne and I thought that maybe it was because nobody could tell it was a harp when it was in its case. When we were waiting for the G after band practice, Paul was on the Greenpoint side, Anne and I were on the Brooklyn side. We called out to him "What is that, a harp?" from across the tracks, so all the cute girls would know what was in his case.

One time Will Rawls, who is a dancer and is friends with my friend Jennifer (who lives in San Francisco), and who I think is really nice but only ever see him when Jennifer is in town, was talking to Jennifer, because she was in town. He was telling Jennifer a funny story about how he saw me one time in the subway and I was making fun of this girl's date outfit. Then I met up with them and he told the story to me.

Will Rawls was waiting for the G train to Greenpoint in Williamsburg. There was a girl standing near him who was obviously dressed up for a date. She was wearing all red, like she was dressed up like a heart or something, only it wasn't Valentine's day, so it was weird. Then he thought he saw Sydney with some other girl waiting for the train across the tracks. The were giggling and looking at the girl in red. They called out across the tracks "What is that, a heart?" And then they laughed and walked to the other end of the platform.

Love,
Sydney