Grab A Snickers!

Hey, "Start The Fire" is in a potential Snickers commercial! Made by our friend Paul Whiteside. Groovy, man!

http://www.poptent.net/media/20279

Peroxide Mocha vs. JUSTiNB!

Oh look, a crossover between my two projects!

I asked our good friend JUSTiNB to take a crack at remixing something from the Peroxide Mocha album, and he did an absolutely fantastic job at turning "Blow My Mind" into a big trance-inspired anthem that.... well, blew my mind! It seemed perfect for the compilation I was putting together for my happy hardcore label Disko Warp which is out in iTunes now!!!

Check it out on iTunes here!

Talk With Tim interviews Peroxide Mocha!

We just did an interview with Portland's own Talk With Tim. Check it out here!

http://www.talkwithtim.com/interviews/peroxide-mocha-the-electro-party-duo

boo.

I have a cold and I'm miserable, so I guess we won't be recording "Girls On Film" this weekend. That sucks.

I'm consoling myself by watching horrible butt-rock videos on youtube. Did you know that the girl in the "Cherry Pie" video by Warrant is named Bobbie Jean Brown, and that's her one claim to fame? She never did anything even close to that significant ever again.

In other news, my cat bite is healing nicely. CAT BITE.

My I.D

Dear miserable elderly cashier at Anzen: Please don't break my ID in half trying to determine if it's fake or not. First, there's no way in hell I look underage, and secondly if I was going to buy alcohol with a fake ID it's not going to be a $5 bottle of sake.

New release on Donut Nook + KId Whatever Remix!

New album from Washington-based Graz called "Dust In My Console" is available NOW! from my tiny tiny record label Donut Nook. It's chiptune-breakcore-IDM-tastic and features a remix by yours truly. Limited to 100 pieces, full color pro-printed CD-R with 4 panel booklet and awesome cover photos by Dave Tilchin featuring the always entertaining Leland Jazz Radburn. Only $8 + ship!

Check it out at www.donutnook.com!!

Some Words About Sending Me Demos

I get sent a lot of demo recordings, either by other DJ's who want to test out their tracks, or people who are pitching various remix ideas to me, or people who are just starting making music and want some feedback on their stuff.

I listen to everything that I get sent, but sometimes it doesn't happen for a few weeks. I have a folder called "Demos", and I'm going through it today and literally have files in it with names like "demo_6.mp3" and I have no clue what I'm listening to. If you don't put your name in the file name, I will forget what it is.

Put your name in the file name of the mp3.
Put your name in the file name of the mp3.
Put your name in the file name of the mp3.

Thank you!

Well Hello There!

I was just thinking about one-hit-wonders and how amazingly terrible they can be. What is your favorite worst one-hit-wonder ever? Here's a couple of mine:

Where Is My Boyfriend?

Tater has been outside for a really really long time. I have no idea why.

Also, do you know about cooperative snapping? Let us show you.

Give me Killer B's

What could possibly be more awesome than a video for Killer B's?



Nothing, that's what.

More costume ideas

Here's some other great Halloween costume ideas I've had kicking around, since Rachel decided to share hers. Feel free to steal any of these:

Shirttails
Bowl of Soup
Disneyland
Braille
Giant Parsnip
A Shed
The Internet
The lady from the cover of "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" by Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass



Also, some bonus costume ideas going with Rachel's sexy theme:
Sexy Construction Worker
Sexy Doula
Sexy Copy Editor
Sexy Giraffe
Sexy Rodeo Clown
Sexy Cardboard Box
Sexy Helen Keller

LPs

Today at work I'm listening to the soothing sounds of Martin Denny's Exotica. I have it ripped to my computer in mp3 format, but I've also got the LP at home. If you don't own a copy of this, I highly recommend heading to your nearest Salvation Army Thrift Shop and picking one up now. It'll be in the third stack from the right, behind the torn up copies of Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass' "Whipped Cream And Other Delights", which I'm convinced everybody in the 60's must have owned 10 copies of.

Seriously. This record is in Spectra-Sonic Sound. Mindblowing.

Sexy!

Hey, when I said I was going to update more often, I was not lying.

I just realized that it's almost Halloween again! Holy shit! I think this means we need to bring back the "Sexy Halloween Costume" theme posts.

As I'm sure you recall, loyal reader, last year around this time we compiled lists of Halloween costumes that may or may not be funny when you put the word "sexy" in front of them. Now, without looking at last years (do you like that? That's my way of deniability in the event of a repeat) list - here are some Very Sexy, Very Special Halloween Costume Ideas:

Sexy Cable Installer
Sexy Dog Catcher
Sexy Business Manager (I dress like this every day)
Sexy Tech Support Drone
Sexy Knitter
Sexy Kool-Aid Guy
Sexy Sweat Shop Employee
Sexy Customer Service Representative
Sexy Grammar Nazi
Sexy Blogger
Sexy Welder (Flashdance?)
Sexy Valet

10,000 BFF points to anyone who actually makes one of these costumes and sends me photos.

Internets!

I finally moved boldly into the 20th century and have gotten INTERNETS in my HOUSE.

I know, I know, what took me so long? Mostly I didn't want to pay the Rat Bastard Cable Company, and besides that two of my neighbors have unsecured wifi. Password protection is your friend if you don't want to be "feeding" (providing free internet to) all of the "feral cats" (freeloading neighbors), yo!

Anyhow, I cross my heart hope to die stick a needle in my eye I will update this blog more often now.

Songs from the Internet

Is there anything better than other people's homemade Songs From The Internet? The answer is a resounding NO. Here are some other things I'm enjoying right now.

"Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell" by Das Racist

A chip-crunk-fidget-house-booty-rap anthem that I'm surprised hasn't been adopted by the dubstep community yet.



"Shit'n On You Hoe" by Geisha 305

Thanks to the Matts of Microfilm and Davitron for passing this along. All homegirl needs is an 808 and a camcorder. I'm enjoying this 100% unironically, I promise. Catchy!



"Havin' A Time" by Donnie Dumphy

Passed along from Badinia - there's nothing quite like watching something filled with nothing but inside jokes only someone from Newfoundland would get!

Hair

I really hate bus rides when somebody else is doing something that invades your space. Usually it's them coughing or the fact that they smell like pee, but lately for me it's been women (or men on occasion) with looooooong hair sitting on the seat in front of me, oblivious to the location and positioning of their hair, and I'm talking about hair long enough that's it's sitting in my lap and our touching my coffee.

Is there anything grosser than other people's nasty hair touching you on the bus?

Microfilm "Blips Don't Lie" EP!!

Our good friends and Chicago->Portland translants Microfilm just released a fantastic new EP called "Blips Don't Lie" - It's a "Triple A Side" single of dark, slickly produced electro pop, and some of it super 80's freestyle inspired. I did the remix of their song "His N Hers Hibernation". The EP also features Del Marquis of the Scissor Sisters, and Sarah Nixey from Black Box Recorder. It's out now in iTunes and Amazon, or you can get it directly from the band at www.microfilmmusic.com.

You'll hear more from Microfilm soon, as they just finished up an absolutely stunning remix of our song "Port Angeles" that we'll be putting on our remix album very very soon!

-Pete

Kid Whatever vs Little Nobody

Well this is exciting! I did a remix for our friend Little Nobody out of Tokyo, for his track "Compulsion" - the whole remix package is out via Juno Download today, so you should go check it out! My track is "The Motherf****ing Kid Whatever Remix"!

Get it here:
http://www.junodownload.com/products/1474712-02.htm

New Free Song!!!!1

HOLY CRAP THERE'S A NEW PEROXIDE MOCHA SONG!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tzofozwzmva

It's called "Do The Divorce" and it will make you shake your ass.
Just when you thought your life couldn't get any more awesome...

Movies

I just recently re-subscribed to Netflix because I don't feel like paying the cable company 20 bucks a month so I can watch network TV and because I'm completely addicted to "Lost" but also don't feel like buying Season 4.

So, first few days of new Netflix subscription: I watched the first disk of Lost Season 4 (OMG! Ben is the puppetmaster!) and "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans." I now realise that since the mega thrifty garage sale girl in me (90% of my body mass, for the curious) knows that the more movies I watch in the least amount of time possible, the better the deal is - my movie watching standards get lower. I will watch just about ANYTHING on Netflix just to keep the movies coming as fast as possible. My queue is currently weighing in at over 70 disks - and that's just because I haven't logged in since Thursday.


Note: If anyone comments on this post and tells me what happens next in Lost, I will hunt you down and kill you. This does not mean I do not love you.

Another Note: By "I will watch anything on Netflix," I mean anything that does not have Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, or Jim Carrey in it. Or anything that looks really, REALLY lame. Which is actually quite a lot. Maybe my standards haven't lowered as much as I thought they did. Of course, I'm still going to watch the most recent "Mummy" movie even though it looks pretty awful... hmm...

Seattle

This weekend I went to Seattle, where I:

- DJ'd happy hardcore at a Pokemon-themed rave for many teenagers
- Due to a hotel reservation snafu, ending up sleeping alone in a suite with *5 beds*
- Went to "hempfest" to watch our good friend Goa Constrictor play a rockin' set - Music was awesome but I can safely say I'd be perfectly fine without ever going to this event again
- Went to a drag show run by old friends I haven't seen in at least 10 years

Needless to say, every trip to Seattle for me winds up being incredibly surreal.

Cats are just tiny ninjas in fur suits

On Tuesday, my kittens Nimbly and Pimbly (who aren't actually kittens any more, but retain their title) decided to rip a hole in the drywall in my bathroom. Pimbly hung out under the tub until we discovered her shenanigans, but Nimbly decided to go all the way. He discovered a hole to under the very floor of the house itself! How thrilling! Then he spent 45 minutes taunting Tater and me before he allowed himself to be caught and brought back inside like a normal kitty.

The moral of this story is: cats are destructive jerks.

The end!

Moving is hard!

For almost two weeks now, Tater and I have been trying to move in to our new place that we bought that is ours that we will live in (we're very excited about this.) However, everything takes SO. MUCH. LONGER. than you think it will. Since 2 weekends ago, I have repainted the kitchen, replaced all the knobs on my cabinets, ripped out the old bathroom sink & counter, ripped out two walls and part of the floor in the bathroom, replaced the sink two walls and part of the floor, replaced the innards in the back of the toilet, picked up all the random bits of junk that were left in our yard, and of course cleaned everything. Despite my initial optimism on the amount of time these "small repairs" would take - we're still not moved in. I can, however, gladly report that we are ready to move in. Sure, there might be a little bit of exposed plywood left in the bathroom, and don't even get me started on moulding - but it's livable. There's no leaks, drips, holes, or mold!

Film at 11

OMGOMGOMG!

I'm totally moving today! I'm also listening to Goldfrapp.

That's it!

Site update & awesome news

I did a tiny tiny site update and shuffled a few things around today. Some things might be in different spots but it's largely the same

Also, I have some FANTASTIC news:

Long long long ago, our website used to be "peroxidemocha.com". I'm not sure how much Rachel wants me to say, but due to an unfortunate error involving somebody that wasn't either of us, the domain name did not get re-registered. This was probably some time in... 2000? It immediately got purchased by a cyber-squatter. Hence why we've had a hyphenated domain name for so long. We tried in vain for many years to track when it would expire so we could get it back, only to have them renew it at the last possible minute. This last time around they actually tracked us down and contacted us, making a last ditch effort to extort and unreasonable amount of money from us to get our domain name back. We wisely ignored it. I just checked it again today and to my surprise it was AVAILABLE! I GOT IT! I GOT IT BACK! WE OWN PEROXIDEMOCHA.COM AGAIN!!!!!

I haven't re-directed it yet but I will keep you all posted and hopefully very soon it will be working again. Hurrah!

Sticker Strip Sparkle Trout

Tuesday is superior to Monday in pretty much every way imaginable. If I were still in Portland, today would be Special Chicken day, but since I'm no longer in Portland (sad face!) I packed a chicken sammich for lunch.

I'm really looking forward to moving in to my own place this weekend - I kind of feel like a kid who is about to go off to college. Whee! I wish I still had some of my posters from college, that would rule.

This blog entry has very little content, so I think I'll end it now. Awkward!

I am cranky!

I just had a really great weekend which of course must be followed up by a singularly irritating Monday morning.

Friday night Tater and I drove 6 hours north to our nation's capitol, where my Mom is doing some kind of convention / teaching / grant reviewing thing. I'm fuzzy on the details, but I do know that if your mom is anywhere within 12 hours of you and you haven't seen her for 7 months and you have any kind of relationship with her at all, you should probably go see her. So we did, and had a pretty great time in the 14 hours we were there - we saw the White House, the Washington Monument, and a tiny little corner of the Smithsonian.

Sunday we drove around some more and hung out with friends at a friend of a friend's mansion. At first I was completely awe-struck my the sheer magnitude of the house, but then the anal-retentive practical part of my brain kicked in and I decided that I really wouldn't enjoy living in a huge house - but, visiting one sure is fun.

So basically, my weekend pretty much reached the maximum capacity of driving and having fun - victory!

This morning I noticed that the company that I have my old retirement fund with sent me a letter on Saturday - what could it be? Turns out that the forms I sent them almost 3 weeks ago weren't form-y enough or something and they couldn't process my request to send me money. Money that I need... TODAY. I called them up, spent 10 minutes trying to reach a human being (which is normally something I'm quite adept at - but their phone tree was extra specially guarded against human interaction) only to find out that the letter was sent in error. Thank goodness! However, they still hadn't processed my request: in fact, I can just forget about seeing that money until at least Friday. Why? Because apparently "7-10 business days" translates to "12-14 business days plus some more just because" if you're a large financial institution. JOY! Hopefully, it really does come on Friday and I can move in to my new place this weekend.

I really wish I had some tea.

I. Love. Tazo "passion" flavor iced tea from Starbucks.

I'm serious, I can't get enough of it. It is pink and fruity and delicious. If you get it unsweetened I think it has very few, or possibly no calories. I don't know, does tea have calories? I don't think so.

Well, technically it's a "tisane", as a co worker once pointed out to me.

I'm going to look it up.

Alright, I looked it up. NO calories. You can get a big venti one and not feel guilty about it. I should probably buy a box of it and make a big pitcher.

I'm serious, go try it. It's a summertime treat.

Rachel Interviews Pete

Pete interviewed me, so it's only fair that I return the favor! Following please find the most fascinating interview ever conducted:

Why hello there. What's your name?

Pete.

Hi Pete! I'm interviewing you because you're in an amazing band. Please tell me about your band.

Yes, I'm in a band called Peroxide Mocha. We are amazing, but the rest of the world doesn't quite know it yet.

I'm sure they'll figure it out someday.
If you were on tour, who would be your opening act?

I think maybe some kind of German techno group that does Kraftwerk-style covers of Carpenters songs, but with robot voices.

Excellent answer! Speaking of robots, what's your favorite food?

I like Thai food, mostly dishes that have unfortunate names like "Pad See Ew" "Pad Prik King" or "Chan Pad Poo."

Other cultures are often quite the comedy goldmine, aren't they?
What is your favorite phrase?

I really like it when sombody says "I'll bet you donuts to dollars" - where does that even come from? I like donuts though.

Oh, me too - but not quite as much as dollars, to be honest.
If you were to pay someone to do something you could easily do yourself, what would it be and why?

I really, really hate cleaning the bathroom. It's not that it's difficult, it's just gross and I'm lazy and it usually slips pretty far down the priority list. When I'm rich and famous I will hire a "bathroom consultant" (that exists right?) to come clean and organize my bathroom once a week and make sure it is well stocked with toiletries, color coordinated towels, soap, etc and always smelled nice. Like gingerbread or something.

That sounds really great! You're going to be really good at being rich and famous.
If you could only smell 5 smells for the rest of your life, what would they be?

In no particular order: Toast, Cinnamon, Coffee, Melon, Cucumber. Thanks, now I'm hungry

You're welcome, and thank YOU for this awesome interview. Let's go get something to eat!

You're quite welcome. Any Time.

Pete Interviews Rachel

I decided it might be a good idea for me to interview Rachel. You know, so you could get to know her a little better.

Pete: Hi Rachel! Thanks for agreeing to do this interview for our blog. So, what did you have for breakfast this morning?

Rachel: I had some delicious "Tastee Ohs" for breakfast this morning, which are in no way, shape, or form to be confused with the famous General Mill's brand breakfast cereal, "Cheerios."

Were they delicious? Did you eat the recommended serving size? Where did you purchase said "Tastee Ohs"?

Yes, they were very delicious and satisfying because I ate an amount that was probably two or three times the recommended serving size. Have you ever measured an exact serving size of cereal before? It's insanely small.

I believe that Tastee Ohs can be found at your friendly local Dollar General in the breakfast foods aisle.

What other fabulous treasures can you find at the Dollar General?

Besides amazing bargains on whole grains? Well, let's see... I'm pretty sure you can also buy roach bait and beautiful garden "decorations" at the Dollar General. I hear some people also buy things like toilet paper and shampoo there.

Wow, it sounds like they have some great savings. I'm sitting at the back of a bus going to work right now, and there's a man twitching and glaring at me. He appears to have a bike chain wrapped around his pant leg. I can see his underwear. What do think about that?

Are you sure he's glaring at you? What if he's just glaring at the space around you?

He's definitely glaring at me. He snarled, just now. How does that make you feel?

He snarled at you? That is bizarre. I don't know how I feel about that.
Akward, I suppose.

Tell me a funny story about something that happened last week. Keep it brief, please.

Last week someone broke into my camper and slept in it. I knew because they put all the blankets on the counter and tracked grass clippings all over the place. They didn't steal anything.

Was there anything in there worth stealing?

My hello kitty phone and sandwich maker

Let's say you're having a party this weekend. All of your co-workers are coming over. What would be the 3 worst choices of board game to play at said party?

Does Twister count as a board game? That's a game I absolutely would not want to play with my co-workers. As for standard board games, I think the worst choices would be Charades, Parcheesi, and this Garfield board game that I loved when I was a kid, but probably isn't the best now that I'm all grown up.

Isn't that always the way it works though? You enjoy something as a kid, and then as an adult you see it again and you think "wow, this is really lame. I really thought I was smarter than that as a child." But you weren't. Nobody was. What else did you enjoy as a youth that you now think is ridiculous and stupid as a grown-up?

When I was in 4th grade, I read way too many "Sweet Valley High" books and decided that if I was going to be cool at all in middle school I was going to have to start my own club. So I made baseball-style cards with cardboard and pictures I cut out of a Horse Fancy magazine and started my own horse club. I really don't know what the cards had to do with anything, or why I picked horses to be the central theme of my oh-so-exclusive club. I think 3 or 4 of my friends joined, though.

I also used to play my own version of MASH, but instead of using it as a magical charm to figure out who I was going to marry and what kind of car we'd drive, I put numbers, colors, and body parts on the board. So I'd get results like "You're going to live in a Hut and have 4 blue arms!"

Magical. If there was a Peroxide Mocha Saturday morning cartoon, what would the plot be?

I imagine it would probably star Pete and Rachel and their magical recording studio. An evil villain would always be trying to sneak in and steal their records, but would be foiled at the last minute by Pete & Rachel's wacky antics.

What's the evil villain's name?

I'm trying to think of something really clever, but nothing's happening. Perhaps he'd be a Nameless Villain, referred to only as "The Mean Guy."

What advice do you have for aspiring young musicians who look up to you and want to be like Peroxide Mocha?

Never try to be anything that you're not. Be kind to people. You don't have to be cool.

Another True Story

AS I TYPE, my boyfriend is driving in a truck cross-country with his cousin Andy. A while ago, I asked how he and Andy are related, since I know they're not really first cousins, but are indeed kin of some kind.

He was unable to answer this question, and was only able to offer as evidence: "We grew up across the street from each other and have the same last name. He's my cousin."

This is North Carolina, my friends.

A True Story

So last night around 11:00 pm I was rudely awoken because Granny was screaming "Rachel! RACHEL! RACHEL!"
I of course assumed she was dying, bleeding, barfing, or whatever and leapt out of bed and went running to her, prepared to call 911. She was all thin and gasping and generally looking pretty pitiful, and she said to me...

"I want a cup of coffee and a peanut butter sandwich."

Holy Crap, I moved a whole bunch

Did I tell you guys I moved? No?
Well, I moved, and so did Pete. He's now back in Portland, and I'm in North Carolina.

Other than the fact that I'm ONCE AGAIN 3,500 miles away from my BFF, life is pretty good out here. There's lots of delicious meats to eat and everyone is always frying stuff that normally just gets steamed or even left raw. If you are a vegetarian, I don't recommend living anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon: there's pig meat in absolutely everything here. I'm not even kidding.

But for seriously-reals, things are good. I'm working at a newspaper, just like a modern-day Lois Lane, but with more spreadsheets and less falling into giant pits or being captured by villains. Can't complain, really.

Speaking of how amazingly great everything in the whole world is, Pete and I are committing ourselves to be more dilligent in updating this blog and maybe even making some new friends.

STAY TUNED!

Help Peroxide Mocha!

Dear Friends Of Peroxide Mocha,

As you may know, it's an uphill battle to promote a new music act, and even though we've been around for 11 years in some capacity, we're still pretty "new" - and we need all the help we can get in promoting our band and our album "Making Out With Strangers". Here are 3 super easy things you can do right now to help us out!

1) If you have an account on iTunes, please submit a quick review of "Making Out With Strangers" - it doesn't need to be long, just say something nice about it and give it a rating. If you don't have an iTunes account it only takes a second to make one.

Here's the direct link to the album in the iTunes music store:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=302429761&s=143441

2) If you have an account at CDBaby, or have a second to make one, please post your review there too - you can even re-post the same review from iTunes if you want!

Link to sign up with CDBaby:
https://cdbaby.com/account

Link to our album:
https://cdbaby.com/cd/peroxidemocha

3) We've sent a promo to KEXP radio in Seattle, one of the only radio stations with a history of playing our older material, but it doesn't look like anyone has played it yet - so please take a quick second and fill out this request form, requesting your favorite song from Peroxide Mocha's "Making Out With Strangers":

http://kexp.org/about/email.asp?email=dj

Thank you in advance for your time & energy! We really need your help to spread the word!

Love,
Pete & Rachel

You Totally Want Bread

Do you like bread? How about home-made bread? I bet you'd do pretty much anything for a nice warm loaf of home-made bread right about now... I know I would. Well have I got a deal for YOU!
Any person who can prove that they have forced a DJ to play a song off of our awesome new album "Making Out With Strangers" either on the radio or in your favorite club will get a nice fluffy loaf of bread baked just for you! Plus, we'll even post a picture of you holding your loaf of bread right here on our website so all your friends will know how cool you are. What could possibly be more awesome than that?

Making Out With Strangers! And stuff!

Sorry we have been so quiet lately right after the release of our album, but Rachel and I both have a ton of things going on these days and you know how life sometimes just gets in the way. I'm still adjusting to life in San Francisco, and Rachel has made a move to the other side of the country for a while. We've done this countless times before though, and thanks to the miracle of the internet we aren't going to disappear or anything.

So! Making Out With Strangers is now out in various digital music shops including iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, CDBaby or whatever shop you usually buy music from. If there's some digital shop that doesn't have it and you think we should sell it there, please let us know! We had a few pro-duplicated CD-Rs printed with full color printing and nice inserts with lyrics and everything - they look really super awesome. I just started mailing them out to radio and mags and such this week. We've got some available for purchase from the donut nook records shop too, and they're on their way to CDBaby right now in case you'd rather purchase from there.

We're getting a lot of cool remixes back now and have a couple single/promo/EP things planned with some b-sides and whatnot - we'll be announcing that very shortly.