Hoth

It is fucking cold.....we just cut benson open and are warming up inside of him

eric

BABY SMASHING

DRUNK
PETE
vol. 1

Chapter One
So this morning I woke up at 1:30 hung over as balls with blood on my face, a bandaid on my hand that looked as if it was applied by a monkey, and that horrible feeling that I did something retarded the night before. Of course, I was correct in this assumption. I swear, blacking out is the closest thing to time travel that I will ever accomplish. It is like an exact scene out of Terminator: One day I am bro-ing out with the band, having a couple of drinks, then suddenly I am naked in the fetal position the next day nauseous ready to fucking kill somebody. But I digress; what sort of night led to this trainwreck of a friday morning? Unfortunately, I don't have enough time nor the actual recollection of last night's events to accurately describe what took place. However with the aid of my associates, we have been able to compile a rough list of the events that took place from 7:30 pm to 5:00 am....


Chapter Two
So yesterday was the day Hello Midnight designated for our annual Secret Santa Holiday Party. After picking up a bottle of the world's shittiest Cognac for Prolow, I headed home to find a bright orange reminder of just how destitute we are on the door. That's right. The officials of Jersey City officially condemned our house saying that it is "UNSAFE FOR HUMAN OCCUPANCY." Stellar. Naturally we decided to celebrate this dubious event after practice by exchanging Secret Santa presents (all of which were alcohol) and having ourselves a private holiday party. Now to be perfectly honest, none of us can say with any certainty exactly what happened over the course of the night because we all got as shitfaced as we could possibly get. However, after sitting down and fleshing out what we all could remember, we were able to create this rough list of last night's events...

Shirtless iPod karaoke (Bon Jovi was a particularly popular selection)
Smashing of the Baby Bass
Smashing of the Prolow
Cutting open my Hand/War-Painting my face with blood
Secret Santa
Flexing Contest
Clap Push-up Demonstration
HITZ domination (Eric, suck a dick)
Cigarette Scavenger Hunt
Shitfaced Landscape Painting
Summer Sausage Smorgasbord (there was actually a piece of deli meat)
Inventing of Secret Handshakes
ERIC FINALLY SLEPT IN HIS BED

Here is a video of when the baby got smashed....


When I first sat down to write this, I thought I was going to have to give a play by play account of how the night unfolded. However after listing all the stupid shit we did, I feel like the night sort of describes itself.

Alright my babies, that's all for now. Right now we are all just sitting around recovering and watching some amazing seventies movie called Cheerleaders Beach Party. Honestly, I'm not 100% sure that it isnt a porn. Anyway, keep listening. stay classy.

xoxoxoxoxox
BENSOAUHHNasnfdasflkjsaifudsafasldslksamdalsfdvmda

THE CHALLENGE IS ON

ITS HAPPENING....

BENSON VS ERIC.

Happy Belated Tuesday (Burnt Out Stars)

hello.

We have just released our new song "Burnt out Stars" on Facebook, Myspace, and here on our Awesome Blog. Please Check it out and let us know what you think. There will be an informative entry to follow but i must run. Check it out now!

Safe

M

LINKS

Burnt Out Stars

Official Response to Mr. Yowaiski's Challenge.

With respect, I, Peter Rudolph, decline the proposed NHL Hitz/Cottage Cheese/Pushup Challenge.

xoxoxox
bensoansodansfla

ps: eric go fuck yourself

Two things

1.) "Burnt Out Stars" is going to be next week's song, which I'm very excited about - you should be excited too.

2.) I want to publicly challenge Benson to a best of three match of Hitz 2002 - Capitals vs Bruins. Loser has to eat a large quantity of cottage cheese and then do 100 push ups. (Other suggestions for the loser's fate will be considered).


Cheers,
Eric

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IT IS TUESDAY: WIRED (GET AWAY)

Hello All.

We are releasing this new demo exclusively on our blog. It is Called Wired (Get Away). I would believe it is like our Helter Skelter (ha). Please check out our other sites and stay tuned for updates on shows. We possibly will be cutting out of nyc and end up playing in philly in the next couple of weeks. Also we are planning a big party very soon so you can hear these amazing tracks live.

Much love

M

P.S
Benson hates this song. Matt loves it. Prolow doesn't give a fuck. Eric lives somewhere else.

P.S.S. Yes we have a song with parentheses

LINKS


WIRED

NEON VOODOO

hey party people,

so apparently the burden of keeping this blog from spiraling into the depths of emo-itude as matt langner drinks himself into a coma and discovers his "inner pussy" has fallen firmly on my broad, muscular shoulders. rowr.

so after a robust thanksgiving filled with the usual turkey, stuffing, and not being able to stand my family, i find myself back at our palace in jersey city heights. In addition to most of the food in my parents house, after this most recent visit i also obtained a kickass blender. to celebrate the new kitchen appliance, matt and i decided that the only acceptable way to spend the rest of the night was to drink a ridiculous frozen drink until we were shitfaced.

and so we arrive at NEON VOODOO...

neon voodoo is:

"1 part apple juice
1 part vodka
3 parts Mountain Dew® citrus soda

Combine the vodka, apple juice, and mountain dew in a blender with about 6-8 ice cubes, and blend on high for about 10 seconds. Add more vodka if desired." (naturally, more was desired)

Basically, matt and i looked for the drink with the coolest name to drink for the rest of the night. well, that and a couple of bottles of andre because our fridge takes like 70 hours to produce 4 ice cubes.

To help speed up the process of inebriation, i am teaching matt the "Intervention" Drinking Game, developed by my girlfriend jackie and myself. this is where we watch the show intervention and drink certain amounts for certain scenarios in this horribly depressing show about people struggling with addiction. i know, i know, its completely tasteless, but honestly the show is so formulaic that the rules are guarenteed to work from episode to episode.

INTERVENTION DRINKING GAME RULES

Drink whenever someone cries

Drink whenever the person says they dont have a problem

Drink twice if they admit to the problem but say they dont care

Drink when there is childhood abuse

Drink when there is parental absence

Drink when there is parental drug abuse

FINISH YOUR DRINK when they relapse

THEN try not too cry because if you played the game correctly, shit probably got way, way too real

So, short story made shorter; we came, we drank, we got drunk.... straight up 'vini, vidi, vici-ed' a couple of bottles of andre and a good amount of smirnoff.

ttfn my loves
xxoxoxoxoxoxo
BEANSAUGHNASAIDHASDkasldnmasfkjnsa.fmas,f a

http://thepartydolphin.blogspot.com/

http://thepartydolphin.blogspot.com/


awesome

I would really like

I would really like. To be disconnected from most past experiences. Not saying i regret anything... because no one should. But i feel that high school and home should be left where it belongs... in the past. Granted that there are happy moments but they are laced with horrible ones. But being home i have gained some material.

The writing has consisted of where i have been and the apprehension of where i am going. I know reliving the glory days will never satisfy, while reminiscing is entertaining. I know that this band is great. And i pumped to be a part of it.

I am wating for things to go wrong
I was left with the smoking gun
Holding on and being strong
Given up and all i need to do is run

Dig or not dig. I am blacked out.


will be back to work tomorrow.

Much love

m

THAnKs Given

Ello.

Firstly, I hope everyone survived their food coma from thanksgiving. I think i ate more in these couple of days than i have eaten in the last 5 months. So i am good for another 5 more. Anyway. I thought i should check in and hopefully some new people are going to end up checking this.

I went to my hometown for thanksgiving. The wood. And it was very much a high school Reunion/ drunken embarrassment. It was nice to see some people that i have only been stalking through facebook (ha...is he joking?). But to all the new comers that i strong armed into checking out the band. I say come play with us. And tell your friends.

I must get going and fill up on more turkey. I swear the next entry will be interesting.

M

P.S The new Kanye and Tv on the Radio blow my mind.



Links:

Facebook

Myspace

Summer Sets

Hello All.

We are releasing our new song "Summer Setting" at midnight tonight on Facebook and Myspace! We have kept our promise. Tell your friends.

Check it out before anyone else can at the link below.

Much Love. And stay tuned for updates.

M

LINKS

Summer Setting

Myspace

Facebook

Mixing Update

I am mixing down song #2 'Summer Setting' right now as I post this. Its a little darker sounding, but with a huge chorus. Everyone stepped their game up a bit on this one people. Look for it on Tuesday.
-Prolow

Recording Video/ Drum tracks

This is a video of me and baby Benson laying down some tracks. Eric is directing and i believe it is a masterpiece. Look out cannes. Watch us. Much love


m

Our Heat is off

As i sit here with a cold nose and dressed in winter gear i could not help to realize that i have not written in a while. So with my cup of tea and a bottle of Jameson i hope to increase my body temperature. (our heat is off)

We are recording like crazy. Everything is sounding really good. And it is sounding different than our other stuff. We have established some good songs that i think will you will like. Not this stupid stuff that is happening now.

I was browsing the inter-web today and stumbled on cache of these teeny bopper bands that are dominating pre-teen audiences. Bands like boys like girls, cobra starship, the kings and queens or something .... and i think they fucking blow. Like seriously. I am all about melody and hooks and even willing to sell out a bit but these bands are bent over holding on to their ankles.

Music...more specific rock and roll.. is an expression of ones conflict, perception of the world, and loves won and lost . Not robotic voice sounds and synths speaking about sexual innuendo that comes off sugar coated. It is kind of like disco with all those teen beat singers with the fluffy hair. All the power to them of course because they are getting attention and living the dream. But i would personally be embarrassed.

Anyways more about the band. We are now planning to release a new song each week. Hopefully with a video that will accompany it. Depends how good we get at editing videos. The song will be put up on myspace and facebook each Tuesday. So stay tuned for the release of each song.

We have a plan. Annalisa and the rest of our support team are going get our music out there but we need you to dig it. So please spread the word and we will do our best. Much love. I will write a less heavy post once my body temperature rises.

Safe

Matt

Links

www.myspace.com/hellomidnightmusic

My first posting

Well hello everyone,

My name's Eric, I am the singer/rhythm guitarist for Hello Midnight, and I thought it was about to time to say a little something on this cool new blog...so I'm gonna tell you a little about myself:

Right now I'm sitting in a Starbucks basement using the free wifi i get here for being a "partner"...which means i can mess around a little bit online before slaving away as a barista here in Hoboken's newest Starbucks. For a while I was the only band member with a source of income other than cashing out bonds or selling guitars, but now the lovely Benson is also dedicating some of his hours to a reputable restaurant - Cosi. I think it's a restaurant, I'm not sure, Benson can tell you more about what he does there than I can.

But if anyone's ever in Hoboken on Washington Ave between 3rd and 4th they should stop in and say hello to me...that would be cool, and I'm sure Benson would love if you came into his place of employment as well. I don't have to wear a hat and he does - that might be the biggest and most important difference between our jobs.

Alright...I have to go to work. Maybe next time I'll tell you about my favorite foods, color, dream date, etc... but those questions will have to wait. I'm gonna go throw on my Starbucks smile and make some fucking amazing lattes now.

Love,
Eric

REVELATIONS

matt and i just discovered the dynamic of our friendship/shared alcoholism: we each instigate one another until we arrive at a consensus which allows us to cooperatively enable our drinking.

throw that motherbitch up on wikipedia, cuz its mad scholarly..... or jstor. yeah jstor.

kbye

M/B

safe?

BREVITY, MATT LANGNER. BREVITY.

Hey everybody we started recording in our makeshift studio and things are going well. check us out.

There. that didn't take 2 and a half hours or 6 paragraphs to write, so somebody tell ol' master's thesis matt langner that he isn't writing for the times so he can cool it with the editing and proofing of this effing thing.

Anyways, the whole point of this insanely popular blog is to tell you kids what we are up to so here it is. matt and i are sitting in our empty house drinking box wine and watching intervention and top chef. intriguing? not so much. romantic? more so than either of us are prepared to admit. whatever, we are getting shitty to shake those monday blues.

so thats that. check out our shit on the links below and give us a shout out.
talk to you later my babiessss
xoxox
Bensauhnaousfnsalnfsaoifaxzvf cxzxvxznnnah

Links:

The Link to our New Song Losing Ground

MySpace

STARTED RECORDING

To WHOM this may Concern-

We have started recording. We are now doing demos. There is a link to the new song "Losing Ground" at the bottom of the page. As you have gathered from the other guys' posts--we are learning as we go. I think the songs are going to sound massive. And create some interest in what we are doing. I am doing a lot of writing so we are going to record as many songs as we can.

We are planning to release a song a week accompanied with a video to show our progress while demonstrating our antics of being such "ROCKSTARS." I guarantee that we think we are funny... maybe you will too.

You have many things to look forward to. Like the stimulating competition of NHL "hitz" and the occasional star wars/matrix arguments between Eric, prolow, and benson. In general we will entertain. We are going to share with you drunken debauchery and what else we can post pertaining to the band and our lifestyle. Hopefully through these videos we can start turning people on to our music while turning you on to us. (that sounded forward. but i mean it)


Here is our first crack at it. We are learning how to use my photo camera and not editing it. Think of it as recording #1 (Also look for it on youtube as well)




We are having a meeting managment this week to come up with a plan. So stay tuned. Tell your friends. Check out the demos and our myspace. Also comment on the songs! Much Love


Safe

M

Links:

The Link to our New Song Losing Ground

Hello Midnight on MySpace

TRAIL BY ERROR?

what do you get when you swing 3 xlr cables from prolow's window to matt's window, thus joining prolow's computer with a couple of mic-ed up amps in matt's room? if you said "a fire hazard," you are partially correct. and an asshole. but the correct answer is a makeshift RECORDING STUDIO, WOOOOOOO YEEEEYEEAH. so what we are doing now is moving around equipment, daisy-chaining powerstrips, digging for microphones and taking all other necessary steps to turn matt's room into a functioning studio to demo songs in. anyways to paint a more descriptive picture of what 135 terrace avenue now looks like, matt has beeen singing some song about punching vaginas, prolow is walking around making sure everyone knows that he has triumphed over technology, and i have absolutely been in the way for the last 15 minutes. and i folded my laundry. all in all, today will most certainly go down in the annals of hello midnight history as a day of momentous significance or whatever. if all goes according to our "plan", you can expect to hear some freshly recorded demos in the near future. stay classy.
xoxox
BENSAUHNNflmfasdlfkmadfv

RECORDING

Matt is setting up his drums, Benson is yelling, and I am currently up 1-0 in my daily battle with technology. We have begun recording the Hello Midnight debut in our spot. Mic cables are being strung from window to window, as Hello Midnight Headquarters has been turned into our recording playpen. All it needs is a ball pit for Benson.
-Prolow

FOUND THIS!

HEY GUYS

FOUND THIS! Welcome to our lifestyle






SAFE

M

Dr. Thunder

hello all.

I promised that this blog would be worth checking. Well i hope. So we have started checking things off our list. Mobilizing to relaunch the band with a new look and a newer sound. As for look... NOT matching clothes or something but more how our online sites look and the direction the band will go in. I think we are now shaking off all the trail by error bullshit and have something worth getting turned on to. Right now i have posted up in the rehearsal room (our sunken living room) with a bottle of rum and a soda called Dr. Thunder to mix and an almost empty pack of cigs. Not that bad. i am finishing up lyrics and demoing. getting ready for the lads when they come back for practice tomorrow and the next day. They are voting at home like good guys... don't worry i am driving home tomorrow morning.

Before i forget. We are headlining a three day festival this Thursday at Red Star in Brooklyn (summer 07 memories). If you have looked at this then you have the facebook info... if not www.myspace.com/hellomidnightmusic for details. Apparently there is supposed to be a lot of press and industry people there so obviously i need to make a scene.. Ha.. check the blogsssssssssssssssssssssssss yo

But we are doing well. And the new stuff is going to be massive. We are hashing out a date to relaunch the band late November early December. So please comment on the blogs. If you are into the band or whatever...

AND OBAMARAMA


Safe

m

Start Using This

Hello Beautiful People-

We are going to start using this as an outlet, updater, vent er (is that even a word). So please check it out. First. I hope everyone is well. It very cold out here and hibernating seems the only logical thing to do.

Whats happening with us personally?

Well first. The Philles have won the world series Prolow is pacing back and fourth receiving and making phone calls. He is off to the parade. Benson is now working at COSI in next to the Newport stop on the PATH in Jersey City. Go say hello and show him some love while makes sandwiches. Eric is at Starbucks working hard to put on a smile for all the caffeine addicts. I am.... yeah... I just quit a promotion job so i am searching. Can anybody help me?

What is happening with the Band?

Lots and Lots

First we are getting our shit organized. We have made many lists and hopefully we will start crossing off some things. We are currently getting material together to record. We are planning to have new tracks up with in the month. these new tracks have a more mature/original sound to them. Those of you who came out to our show Tuesday have heard a taste. It is really hard picking which ones to record because we have an excess of 20 + songs that could be good. The songs have made me very happy and the brand new stuff that is going to be demoed is prob the best stuff we have done in our short time together...

As for our online sites. We want you guys to be patient. The whole infrastructure of how we are using it and all that is being redone. Our friend Jade is redesigning the whole site. She is very talented. If i knew how to do html i would give a link to her blog... it will come.. But in any case we are going to relaunch hello midnight with a new site and new tracks very soon.

We are planning a TOUR!
That is right we are going to get the fuck out of the city area for awhile and hit the road. We are now planning our route so we will let you all know. If anyone has contacts let us know.

As it is approaching a year of jamming together (including the time at school) it is great to see progress. We have really only been putting in the time for a couple months because of school and in that time we have done a fair amount.

Lets get political? As for the election i hope obama in 08. And my bro turns 21 that day as well... it could be a massive day.



Safe

m

Check back this will be a constant thing. MUCH LOVE