STOLEN TRANSMISSION PARTY TONIGHT!!!

You can be here with out being here!



brad walsh says: sarah lewitinn is a boozehound and i have had intercourse with her on several occasions.

karen says: this whole thing is a lie. sarah has never stopped drinking. ok maybe for like 20 mins or so but that was only because she was trying to figure out how to webcast this shizz.

LIVE FROM STOLEN TRANSMISSION

for those of you who cant make it to the Stolen Transmission party at Hanger Bar tonight! check it out!!! now you can watch it live!

IT'S BEEN A WHILE!

Sorry I've been so MIA. I guess I've been actually having too much fun with life lately, which is a good thing. I havent felt this calm and relaxed and back to myself in years. It feels amazing. I've been watching insane amounts of Law & Order and falling in love with Vincent Di'Onofrio. I've been going out to parties and walking into rooms dancing(!!!). I've been riding my bike and clipping coupons and cooking up storms. I made a salad with citrus dressing and tempura goat cheese balls and gnocchi (store bought) with gorgonzola sauce (from scratch!) Brandon's family bought me a 12-piece cooking set for the holidays and so, i'm a little too excited about that (thank you !!!!!). I've been living on a budget, but drinking champagne. I went to see Innerpartysystem open for the Bravery and stood up front and danced til I got dizzy and said hi to everyone i used to work with and gave them hugs and demanded that they buy me drinks. I was on this MTV2 show as a "celebrity judge" which made me laugh... but I predicted the winning band, which made me delighted. I went to NJ with IDJ peeps for Milo's Christmas party and was saddened by the lack of mexican items in his house... however, we arrived on his doorstep singing "Feliz Navidad". I went to Leigh's boyfriend's Max's housewarming party and then to Feng-Feng's Happy Ending party with Geo and was whisked to a table and had a bottle of champaign thrown infront of me. We saluted to life but i had to leave early since a "last toke ever" ruined my ability to stand. Last night i went to Joe Mccaffreys and his parents are amazing and decided to share their knowledge of alcohol/cheese/cookie pairings... so i had stilton cheese and primadonna cheese on oatmeal crackers paired up with port wine (which tastes a lot like manishewitz.... the kosher wine i drink on shabbat), and chocolate cookies with whiskey! I also tried espresso vodka for the first time and it's delish.

A lot of fun things have been happening and I need to document them! I need to document them here!

Tomorrow, Ollie Stone from the Oohlas and Ryann from Schoolyard Heroes are both coming to crash at the new ST headquarters (my apartment!). We're gonna have a little bit of a lost weekend, i think, that might last a week.

Today I came home from Brandon's family's place on Long Island and accidently took a full pill of adderoll (i've finally been diagnosed ADD), instead of my normal half pill and did 2 loads of dishes, made balsamic pasta salad, 5 loads of laundry, changed a lightbulb that's 12 feet high, cleaned the kitchen... woooooooooooah. I finally crashed after 2 glasses of champ, a glass of wine, and two beers. I was put in bed and woke up about an hour ago and started cleaning my bathroom.

Now I'm sitting in my livingroom, watching L&O, updating my blog, and waiting for Ollie to land in 1.5 hours. I'M SO EXCITED!

I need to sleep but i can't. ack!

If you've missed the friday night party at the hanger bar that karen and I throw, you've been missing a legitimately fun time. Its a friend-type hang, like orchard bar was, where you lose time, get drunk, have deep conversations in some corner, dance like a bar mitzvah kid, get boozed up, leave with stories.... last week Kele from Bloc Party showed up outta no where to DJ for a bit at like 3am. This week, Ollie from the Oohlas and Ryann from Schoolyard Heroes will be lending their musical tastes.

STOLEN TRANSMISSION FRIDAYS
The Hanger Bar
3rd street btw B and C. NYC
11pm - 4am.
Dec 28th. 2007.

DJs the Tarts of Pleasure (ultragrrrl & karenplusone), plus: Ryann from Schoolyard Heroes and Ollie from the Oohlas.

Now, time to find some Tylenol PM!

BUY MY SHIRT!

I designed this shirt a while ago and decided that since i've spent the whole week hungover, that i should finally make it. The shirt is $14.95.

WHY BARON RULES

Wednesday started off a little different than normal with Brandon leaving for a short UK tour. Additionally, I had a 1pm lunch date with my friend Ron in the garment district and had a terrible idea of attempting to ride my bike there. I hopped on my bike and everything seemed ok... I had my bike on a gear combo that was comfortable and was striding by nicely when suddenly, I became really tired. I trudged down the street getting more and more worn out, but figured that if I just kept with it, at least to the 1/9 subway, that I would've worked out enough to give me a lot of lasting energy for later that evening when I was due to hang out with my friend Baron and his girlfriend. I WAS RIGHT! Oh, and I nearly hit Tina Fey while thinking about how amazing 30 Rock is. Next time I'll fantacize about what a great person Brad Pitt is.

So I go to meet Baron and Gina (his gf) at Cube63 on Clinton St at about 9 but he's running so I sit down and wait for him and start listening to the couple next to me.
Guy: "Are you jealous by how comfortable I am."
Girl: "No."
Guy: "Lemme see your boots. I'm hard now from your colorful socks. Lets
get out of here and get stoned."
Girl: "I don't want to smoke."
Guy: "What?! Then why did I just make that call?!"

It was bizarre, but by the time Nick Snow and Gurj came to meet up with us, and we moved onto our second bottle of sake our conversations turned outrageous. The thing about Baron is that he's your friend most likely to get naked and cover a bar with crisco so he can slide down it (he has), or get naked and start hulahooping in your bedroom while Brian Battjer films him (which has happened). Everyone needs a Baron in their life. I thought the coversations couldn't get any worse than Baron loudly announcing a story about the time he tried to embarass me by thrusting his balls in my face but then Gina started telling an unrepeatable story that ended up basically clearing out the restaurant. It couldn't have been *that* bad since some lady from Lola y Maria gave gurj two coupons to the store.

So we left Cube63 and went back to my house to play guitar hero to kill time before heading out for the night. About 30 min later Baron went running towards the bathroom, but not before projectile vomiting on my wall. I know this sounds dumb, but that was fucking awesome. I had no problem cleaning it up cos it meant that the night was heading in the right direction.

We leave my apt around 12 and head over to Annex for High Voltage where we met up with Vin Galvin. It was fucking packt like sardines in thereso we had a quick drink and went to 205 to see what was going on there. When we arrived the door girl asked if we wanted to get a bottle. Naturally gurj and I said no but Baron was like "yeah, lets get a bottle!" So we got a bottle of Kettle One and sat around drinking. Nick Snow ended up puking in the middle of dancing. An hour later we finished our bottle and went to 2nd on 2nd, but it was closing and Lucky Chengs was too, so we went back to Annex, but Nick and Vin decided to take a piss on the street so we lost them. When we got back to Annex it was still crowded so Baron and Gina loaded me and Gurj into their cab where we headed up to the Waldorf Astoria where they were staying (why not?). Gina popped open a bottle of champagne and an hour later we were doing the cartwheels down the hall.


Here's me and Gina playing Guitar Hero!


Me and Baron and a bottle K1 makes three. At 205


Vince, Gina, Gurj and Nick Snow ... who happens to look very happy just before puking on the floor.


the four of them again.... vinny lurkin.


Me, Baron and Nick met on a message board in 2000/2001. We've been friends ever since and I've had some of the strongest relationships I've had with the people I met on that board.


Gina and Baron


This photo sort of describes the night.


If this photo could speak, it'd say "SPRING BREAK!!!!"


failed gang sign, obviously.


The end of the night... at the waldorf.

CARTWHEEL VIDEO!

Here's a video of me and gurj doing cartwheels. it's kinda ridic.

THE WALDORF ASTORIA

Right now I'm in a lot of pain. I'm in a lot of pain because I was doing cartwheels with Gurj in the hallway of the Waldorf Astoria at 5am. There was video taken of this event and Gurj tells me that at the end you can hear me say "People over 20 years old should not be doing cartwheels" and a day later I stand by this comment. I can't walk right. I can't stand right. I want to get a cane. I think I might be an old lady. Yesterday afternoon I was riding my bike to a meeting, and got exhausted about 5 blocks from home and I also nearly ran over Tina Fey on Houston and 6th Ave (on my bike) about 5 seconds after thinking about how much I love "30 Rock."

Ladies and Gentlemen, my adventures are back!

I will post an extensive blog tomorrow which will detail exactly how I ended up at the Waldorf doing cartwheels. My friends have been saying they havent seen me so happy with life in TWO YEARS! It's like since friday november 30th (you know, THE date) my smile has been wider, my energy higher, my hunger for life more intense... i'm doing cartwheels in the hallway of a fancy hotel at 5 am for goodness sake! My soul is back. MY FUCKING SOUL IS BACK!

MONKEY IS TERRIBLY CUTE

About a year ago Dan Hunter from PlayRadioPlay came over to do a "Casa De Ultragrrrl" in my apartment. Monkey decided to sit in on the cuteness:

INNERPARTYSYSTEM TONIGHT 8pm AT PIANOS! EARLY SHOW!!!!

TONIGHT InnerPartySystem is playing at Pianos!!! 8 PM!!!

EARLY SHOW!!!! EARLY SHOW!!!! EARLY SHOW!!!! EARLY SHOW!!!!

check out this video of them performing at Annex during CMJ


Check out these target="_blank">great photos that Meik took last week at the Annex:

STOLEN TRANSMISSION PARTY TONIGHT!!!

If you werent there last week, believe me... we noticed.

ST Fridays at the Hanger Bar are officially off the ground and running, and if you can't remember last week's launchfest, you:

a) weren't there and therefore have a ton of explaining to do and a lot to make up for.

OR

b) were there and partook in our DJ booth bottle of mind-eraser, thus ending up in a deserted bathroom, making out with one of My interns.

Which category do YOU want to be in?

Come together. Tonight. 11 pm - 4 am.

THE HANGER BAR. 3rd btw B and C.

HERE ARE PHOTOS FROM LAST WEEK:

COME TO THE CHARITY EVENT I'M DJING TOMORROW!

There will be gift bags!
There will be an open bar!
There will be cupcakes!

Here is more info: alexist.com/holiday

WATCH THIS!!!!

THIS is InnerPartySystem! They played at the Annex during CMJ and they're gonna play again TONIGHT AT 11:30 FOR HIGH VOLTAGE:

SOME AWESOME SHIT HAPPENING TONIGHT

Stolen Transmission is repping in two shows tonight. Both of which, you'd be stupid not to go to:

First off:
Permanent ME: 8pm at the Knitting Factory.

Secondly:
InnerPartySystem 11:30pm at the Annex.... plus open bar. Download IPS's "Don't Stop" here.




click here to rsvp


And this isnt ST related, but it's a good thing regardless:

I'M DJING ON SATURDAY!!!!

BRAD WALSH'S JUNK!

Besides being really hot, fucking nice as shit, and an amazing photographer... Brad Walsh just revealed himself to me as being a pretty fucking sick remixer.

Check out this remix he did:
Ashlee Simpson - Outta My Head

And check out his photos of friday's Stolen Transmission party RIGHT HERE

Here are two of my favorite photos:

This is Ginny and Chris. I just love the composition of this photo and the all around adorableness of it.


And this photo of Brian making out with my intern Kerri...


Which kind of looks like the cover of this My Chem album to me:

I LOVE CHILDREN'S TV

Melissa Sabo sent this to me this morning... it shows what I'll be doing all day today (cleaning... not skanking):



Best AIM of the day so far:

MarcSpitz: time off is good. go to berlin and reinvent yourself
MarcSpitz: with eno.
MarcSpitz: not emo.
MarcSpitz: more eno less emo.

THIS IS STILL A STOLEN TRANSMISSION

Thanks everyone for all your kind words and support. It really means a lot to me to hear you all say such nice things about the artists on Stolen Transmission.

Stolen Transmission started IN MY BEDROOM as an indie label putting out hand made cds of bands that me and Rob Stevenson believed in. We werent funded back then, and we were really happy. We did everything because of how much we loved music. Now that I've had my experience with Island/Def Jam, I know how to actually do what's necessary to release an album and develop artists, and I helped set up 9 amazing releases from Permanent ME, the Oohlas, Monty Are I, Bright Light Fever, the Horrors, Schoolyard Heroes, PlayRadioPlay!, Innerpartysystem, and the Photo Atlas. I'm so fucking proud that the label went from me and a bunch of interns sitting in my bedroom smoking and watching degrassi and eating guac i had just made to me sitting in meetings once a week with JayZ and now it'll just go back to being run from my apartment again. We plan on continuing with Stolen Transmission and are really excited to be returning to our indie roots.

I'm also glad to say that the Stolen Transmission party coincedently started at a new venue yesterday (a new beginning all around Check out the photos)! That means no more Angels & Kings, and now we're going to the Hanger Bar (3rd street btw B and C), which is also more aligned with the vibe the party had when the label was run out of my bedroom. This is all very very exciting for me. I havent been this happy or excited in about a year.

So it's business as usual here! we're just working from a different location. we're still working all the bands we released (no bands we were working with had anything unreleased -- cept for innerpartysystem who are still in the studio and will remain there til they're done). We're still doing everything the same as before, for the most part. this is actually an incredibly liberating and exciting thing and i can't explain how happy i am. we're still supporting our bands because we've made a commitment to them and we love them.

Our departure from IDJ had nothing to do with the performance of our artists (we were a label focused on developing artists). Our departure was due to restructuring. On my last day, I gave everyone that gave us a chance a hug and thanked them for an amazing experience. I learned so much being there and was put on a very fast track to learning how to A&R.

Keep your eyes out for handmade singles from stolen transmission in the future! i think we might start that up again. I had so much fun doing those.