THE LONESOME HEROES: Vantastic (Our Blog)

After an in depth conversation with our new friends who understand the inner workings of the World Wide Web a bit better than Landry and I, we have sighned up for a blog at Blogspot.com
It seems that this is where all the hip cats hang in the cyber underworld these days.
Here's our URL:  
http://lonesomeheroes.blogspot.com/
Any comments ideas or recipes are welcome anytime of day.

Echo Curio and Exclusive After party on Sunset BLVD:
 
The Echo Curio is an art/performance space in Echo Park just down the street from the Echoplex. There was an odd mingling of hipsters, anarchists, artists, general weirdoes, and a few cowboy boots assembled for our show. We passed up a happy hour gig at The Joshua Tree Saloon to play there, so we were hoping that it would be a good show. Sometimes it seems that backwater saloons and Anarchist Artspaces are the only place that we truly make sense, even though we don’t really fit into either.
 
We played with four awesome Bands:
C-horse was our favorite band with awesome Harmonies and some sweet pop songs sung by two total babes (& their two handsome counterparts.) Here’s a bad photo of them:


 
We will play with them again for sure either here, or back home in Texas.
 
We had an awesome show with a packed crowd standing in total silence for every song, so I am glad we ventured past [...]

Los Angeles, CA
Meeting with Everloving
After 3 hours of sleep and a 450 mile drive we made it to Claremont CA to meet with our new friend and owner of Everloving JP Plunier. JP is a Lonesome Hero of sorts running like 9 businesses at once while keeping a very positive attitude.  We met at his warehouse from which he runs a record label, clothing company, designs clothes, has about a million bicycles/skateboards/amp parts, and is managing some of our favorite bands.
 JP worked with both Ben Harper and Jack Johnston to get there careers started, and I remember very clearly the first time I ever saw a lap steel at my first Ben Harper show in the late 1900s.  He currently works with Herman Dune, The Entrance Band, Akron Family, The Growlers, and our new friends Leslie & The Badgers.
You should check them all out here:
http://www.everloving.com
It’s a really awesome collection of eclectic sounds and all these bands make the sort of music we respect
 
We got our [...]

Flagstaff AZ, 2/18/2010
Flagstaff rules!
We drove up from the desert into the snow-covered mountains to stay with our amazing friend Chelsea Jr. She is a sculptor, river raft guide, and recently became our Arizona promoter.  Rumor has it that she always has a flask of whiskey & bottle rockets stashed away in her cowgirl boots, however she sleeps in her boots and is cunning as a cat, so we have no confirmation other than a vague memory of a wild night in Veedawoo, Wyoming from a few summers back that ended with a flash of lights, a dozen police cars, and a high speed chase through the mountains in our lightning fast VW Van.
 
The Flagstaff weekly wrote a nice write up about our show, it said we are:
“Like a hooker at the church bake sale…”

 
We are not exactly sure what they mean, but it sounds pretty punk rock and we do love baking, so we think it’s great.
 
My new fancy phone fell into a bucket of mud at Chelsea’s art studio.
This [...]

Load in @ The Starlight Theatre in Terlingua 2/15/2010
We have decided to join the 20th Century and begin keeping a Blog.
We will try to write interesting things that y'all want to read. A random assortment of Dutch oven recipes, hidden campsites, Landry's new art projects, and all the rad people we meet on the road.
No more will I write in my journal with the weird feeling of someone reading over my shoulder in the distant future when they find my mispelled scribblings at the bottom of a Goodwill bulk bin. So now all our exaggerations and forgotten memories have a new space called:
Vantastic...
 It's a concept that predates the World Wide Web for me (most everything predates the World Wide Web for me.) It's some sort of Walt Whitman wanna be Jack Kerouac compulsion to drive through the night and sleep on the side of the road with cars rushing past, afraid of bears, insane truckers, ghosts, or whatever, so that you can wake up in the morning and discover something new and distant, [...]