Justin

Work! Podcast! Love!

2008-08-03T04:07:32Z

What I've been doing at work recently

Cape May County Library Teen Blog

Teen Podcast Episode 0

Enjoy!

PS. Our baby is now the size of an Apple. Woah.

I get paid to do this.

2008-07-19T19:55:39Z

I must admit. I have a pretty sweet job.

Here's some of the cool stuff I get to work on everyday. Click on the links!

The Cape May County Library Teen Zone Blog
-I get to update this every day and have free reign over everything. It rules.

The Cape May County Library Flickr Page
-People need to know how cool libraries are. I'm trying hard to get that idea across!

Justin The Teen Librarian @ Twitter
-Stalk me in library land.

Come January 2009

2008-06-09T02:08:19Z

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

It is time.

2008-06-04T23:06:08Z

I'll keep this short and sweet.

Haley is pregnant with our first child. We just found out last Monday and we think she's about one month pregnant now.

This means we'll be having a baby in January/February 2009.

Woo hoo!

Love,
Justin

"Triangle of Drunk" is here

2008-05-06T00:58:14Z

With much happiness, I bring you "Triangle of Drunk" by Zomo.

Feel free to purchase and support us.

If you have a lack of funds at the moment, email me at belsapadore at g mail dot com with your mailing address and we can work something out. I'll send you the cd's for free if you do some promotion for us (post blogs, send emails, anything that spread the word, etc)

I ask you please....help us out and spread the word about Zomo!

"For The Muses" is here

2008-05-03T03:56:38Z

It is here my friends.
Feel free to purchase and support us.

If you have a lack of funds at the moment, email me at belsapadore at g mail dot com with your mailing address and we can work something out. I'll send you the cd's for free if you do some promotion for us (post blogs, send emails, anything that spread the word, etc)

Coming up next...Zomo's new album "Triangle of Drunk"

First new Zomo music in 4 years..."Triangle of Drunk"

2008-03-25T14:43:55Z

Hello world,

Zomo is proud to present their new album "Triangle of Drunk"...

Click on the link below to listen to "Triangle of Drunk"" for free.

A music player will pop up, so make sure you have pop-ups enabled on your internet browser...

http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/314813
CLICK HERE to listen to "Triangle of Drunk" by Zomo

http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/314813
CLICK HERE to listen to "Triangle of Drunk" by Zomo

"Triangle of Drunk" will be available in stores (in Pennsylvania and New Jersey) and on the internet (ITunes, CDBaby) in April 2008.

Also! "For The Muses" will be availiable once again...

If you would like to pre-order a copy of this album, please send $5 check or well hidden cash to:

Justin Hoenke
c/o Zomo
356 Rose Lane
Meadville, PA 16335

Some history:
After we recorded 2004's "For The Muses", we kinda went our seperate ways. Zomo didn't look like it would happen again. Oddly enough, one day we (Dustin and Justin) got back together and a truckload of songs came out of the experience (A-Frame House, Green Box, Black Little Face) and the next thing you know we were recording the album. We hope you enjoy it. I find it to be one of those interesting albums...like the younger sibling that you really don't understand....they're a bit strange, wear weird clothes, etc....but no matter how much you don't understand them, you still love them. That's how I feel about "Triangle of Drunk". It's just great to be making Zomo music again.

-Justin Hoenke, March 2008

help us!

2008-03-15T03:37:00Z

Looks like we may be moving to Cape May County, NJ

I got a job there. The only catch is this: we have to find a place to live. It's harder than it seems. Rent is frickin' high and there are lots of weird rental situations due to the whole area being a HUGE tourist destination.

I want to take this job, but we need a home.

Any help would be great. If you know someone who knows someone etc, whatever...just let us know.

Love,

Justin

(and Haley!)

PS. More to come. School and work and the job hunt have kept us very busy.

A baby?

Get ready for the Zomo.

2008-02-26T04:37:24Z

Hello friends. It's Zomo time. Listen up, spread the word and help us out. PLEASE?

Love Justin

Listen to it.

Spread the word.

ZOMO AT MYSPACE CLICK ME BABY

Now featuring the following tracks:

From "For The Muses"
1. Harvey Wallbanger
2. All That I Want Is You
3. Dude Just Leave Me Alone

From "Triangle of Drunk"
1. This Is My Life In An A-Frame House
2. Alberta
3. Black Little Face

Zomo: For The Muses and Triangle of Drunk

Out on Arbacarba Records, April 2008

Who knows? You can dance.

FOR THE MUSES APRIL 15 2008

2008-02-17T19:15:34Z

Coming April 15, 2008...The muses will finally sing their song.

Zomo's first album "For The Muses"
Out on Arbacarba Records

Featuring the single "Harvey Wallbanger"

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO "FOR THE MUSES" FOR FREE HERE!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Zomo @ Myspace
Arbacarba Records
Zomo @ Reverbnation

January 2008 and a recap of 2007

2008-01-13T05:04:14Z

Hi everyone...
So 2007 was neato. I can't remember everything that happened, but here's a list of some cool things.

-Haley and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary with a trip to NYC to see "Xanadu" on Broadway. The whole time in NYC was really cool and the show was great. I recommend that everyone see it. Good music and good laughs all around. By the way, I've been married 1.5 years now...holy shit.

-I continue to create music. 2007 was a kind year for my music, as I released the album "Everyone C'mon Get Happy" with Belsapadore and completed recording "Triangle of Drunk" with Zomo. I also wrote and recorded a number of other songs I am proud of.

-I also continue to enjoy music. 2007 was a great year for expanding my musical horizons, as I collected and listened to gallons of vinyl. I now have about 1,000 records in my collection. I have not listened to them all but I plan on doing so at some point. I just got a Vinyl to MP3 player from Haley for Christmas and I have begun the journey of digitizing my entire collection.

Here's some music I enjoyed this year (Songs, Albums, and Discographies)

Queens of the Stone Age-Era Vulgaris
ABBA
Adam and The Ants-Kings of the Wild Frontier
Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
Billy Ocean
Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath-The Mob Rules
Bruce Springsteen-Magic
Bruce Springsteen-Nebraska
Chicago-The Chicago Transit Authority
McGuinn Clark & Hillman
The Church
Cyndi Lauper-She's So Unusual
The entire David Bowie catalog
Dexy's Midnight Runners-Too Ry Aye
Eagles of Death Metal-Death By Sexy
Frank Marzano-But Enough About Me
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Kate Bush-The Dreaming
Led Zeppelin-Presence
Matthew Wilder discography
Liz Phair-Exile In Guyville
Marvin Gaye-What's Goin' On
Marvin Gaye-Midnight Love
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
The Xanadu soundtrack
Paul McCartney-Memory Almost Full
PJ Harvey
Prince's complete discography
Queen-A Night At The Opera
Rivers Cuomo-Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Rod Stewart-Some Guys Have All The Luck
Scissor Sisters-Ta Dah
Slade-Greatest Hits
Sweet-Greatest Hits
Sly & The Family Stone-There's A Riot Goin' On
Styx-Blue Collar Man
T. Rex-Greatest Hits
Talk Talk-The Colour of Spring
Talking Heads discography
Tegan and Sara-So Jealous
Tegan and Sara-The Con
That Dog-Retreat From The Sun
The United States of America
A shitload of music from the 1980's

Here's some music I was let down by:
Foo Fighters-Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace
The Rentals-Last Little Life EP

I now work at the Clarion Free Library in Clarion, PA. After a rather successful Young Adult summer reading internship that I ran this summer, they asked me to come back and be the Young Adult librarian. It rules. I work with a gang of really cool kids and get to put on tons of cool events for the teens in Clarion and also get to buy a lot of cool books, graphic novels, etc for the library. It was really cool when the library gave me $1,000 and said "Spend it on video games for the library. You've convinced us that our teens want them." I bought an XBox 360, 4 controllers, Halo 3, Guitar Hero III and two guitars, and Dance Dance Revolution with two dance pads. The teens love it. The program was so successful that I have been asked to speak as a Young Adult presenter at the 2008 Summer Reading conference for the Oil Creek District in March. Woo.

School continues to go really well. I've managed to maintain a 4.0 after 8 classes (4 more to go before I graduate in May).

Other neat things I did this year:
-Saw Queens of the Stone Age live and danced in the aisles.
-Hung out more and more with my family.
-Spent time with many of my great friends.
-Watched my wife pull together a special screening of "The Business of Being Born" at her school Allegheny College to much success.

So far, 2008 is nice, but it is cold in our house. Haley, Oblio, and I are well

Places we may move in May 2008 (Both Haley and I graduate. I get a cool job in a library and she begins her grad school career studying Midwifery)

-Southern New Jersey
-Maine
-Chicago
-Albuquerque, New Mexico
-Somewhere in California

Other options may pop up, but those seem to be the most popular these days.

I love you all.

bandwagons

2008-01-08T03:27:49Z

89% Mike Gravel
89% Dennis Kucinich
77% Barack Obama
75% John Edwards
75% Chris Dodd
74% Hillary Clinton
74% Joe Biden
73% Bill Richardson
41% Rudy Giuliani
37% Ron Paul
30% John McCain
23% Mike Huckabee
23% Mitt Romney
17% Tom Tancredo
13% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Listen to Belsapadore's catalog for free

2007-11-05T01:52:22Z

from belsapadore and zomo...

2007-10-02T00:22:54Z

from www.myspace.com/belsapadore

Monday, October 01, 2007

the monsters have arrived (1 October 2007)

the monsters have gathered.

i am going at it alone.

11-10-07 and 11-11-07.

the monsters will be shown to the world.

you all will fall.

-belsapadore

from www.myspace.com/zomo

Upcoming Shows and New Album Announced!

Hello Everyone,

In anticipation of the release of Zomo's third album "Triangle of Drunk", we are happy to announce that Zomo will be playing some shows in 2007...

NOVEMBER 10, 2007
Zomo live @ Grounds For Change
WHERE: Meadville, PA...Allegheny College Campus Center
TIME: Show starts at around 7 pm
COST: Free

Zomo's new album, "Triangle of Drunk", is currently in the final stages of recording and mixing and will be available in 2008. The album features 10 new songs written and recorded by Justin Hoenke and Dustin Miller. To celebrate the new album, we will be streaming the new song "Black Little Face" on our Myspace site for the next couple of months...

Zomo: Upcoming Shows and New Album announced...

2007-09-07T15:14:04Z

Hello Everyone,

In anticipation of the release of Zomo's third album "Triangle of Drunk", we are happy to announce that Zomo will be playing some shows in 2007...

NOVEMBER 9, 2007
To Be Announced

NOVEMBER 10, 2007
Zomo live @ Grounds For Change
WHERE: Meadville, PA...Allegheny College Campus Center
TIME: Show starts at around 7 pm
COST: Free

Zomo's new album, "Triangle of Drunk", is currently in the final stages of recording and mixing and will be available in 2008. The album features 10 new songs written and recorded by Justin Hoenke and Dustin Miller. To celebrate the new album, we will be streaming the new song "Black Little Face" on our Myspace site for the next couple of months...

Click Here to listen to the new Zomo single "Black Little Face"

More updates to come...Please subscribe to Zomo's blog to keep in touch...

Subscribe to Zomo's blog here...

Have a good weekend,
Dustin and Justin of Zomo

Setlist: August 17 and 18: Belsapadore's New Jersey Tour 2007

2007-08-21T02:04:03Z

Setlist: August 17, 2007, Bridgeton, NJ

August 17, 2007: Bridgeton, New Jersey
Farmer's Market

Setlist
*****
The Ballad of Haley Read
Sherlock Holmes
A Long Time Ago...
You and Your Army
Shake, Shake, Shake
All That I Can Do
Checkmate
Come September
April Moment
Rubber Duckie
Love Love Love Me
Introduction (The Whale)
Little Paradise
The Juniper Tree

NOTES:
All songs performed with Dustin Miller

"You and Your Army" is a B-Side from the "a more colorful or easier somewhere else" album.

"Shake Shake Shake" and "Love Love Love Me" are new Belsapadore songs that have been recorded for album 4.

"Rubber Duckie" is a cover song from the TV show "Sesame Street"

Setlist: August 18, 2007, Millville, NJ

August 18, 2007: Millville, New Jersey
Bogart's Bookstore

Setlist
*****
Come September
Shake Shake Shake
Texas
Down in the Ocean, Lost out at Sea
Giraffe
The Brokenhearted
Do You Want To Be More Than Friends?
Black Little Face
To Raina
The Old Fools
Tomorrow
End of the World
Everyone C'mon Get Happy
The Juniper Tree

NOTES:
All songs performed with Dustin Miller

"Shake Shake Shake" is a new Belsapadore songs that has been recorded for album 4.

"Texas" is an old song (written in 1998) that comes from my first musical project, Jonas

"Down in the Ocean, Lost out at Sea"
was originally intended for the album "The Whale" but was never recorded.

"Giraffe", "Do You Want To Be More Than Friends?", and "Black Little Face"
are all Zomo songs.

"The Brokenhearted" was a song that was recorded for the album "The Sun and The Moon" but never completed.

"To Raina" is a song that was demoed in 2001-2002 but never officially recorded.

"Tomorrow" is a cover song from the film/musical "Annie".

Library stuffs.

2007-07-09T16:57:28Z

"A Hipper Crowd of Shushers"
Taken from the New York Times
Written by Kara Jesella
Published July 8, 2007

ON a Sunday night last month at Daddy’s, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than a dozen people in their 20s and 30s gathered at a professional soiree, drinking frozen margaritas and nibbling store-bought cookies. With their thrift-store inspired clothes and abundant tattoos, they looked as if they could be filmmakers, Web designers, coffee shop purveyors or artists.

When talk turned to a dance party the group had recently given at a nearby restaurant, their profession became clearer.

“Did you try the special drinks?” Sarah Gentile, 29, asked Jennifer Yao, 31, referring to the colorfully named cocktails.

“I got the Joy of Sex,” Ms. Yao replied. “I thought for sure it was French Women Don’t Get Fat.”

Ms. Yao could be forgiven for being confused: the drink was numbered and the guests had to guess the name. “613.96 C,” said Ms. Yao, cryptically, then apologized: “Sorry if I talk in Dewey.”

That would be the Dewey Decimal System. The groups’ members were librarians. Or, in some cases, guybrarians.

“He hates being called that,” said Sarah Murphy, one of the evening’s organizers and a founder of the Desk Set, a social group for librarians and library students.

Ms. Murphy was speaking of Jeff Buckley, a reference librarian at a law firm, who had a tattoo of the logo from the Federal Depository Library Program peeking out of his black T-shirt sleeve.

Librarians? Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?

Not any more. With so much of the job involving technology and with a focus now on finding and sharing information beyond just what is available in books, a new type of librarian is emerging — the kind that, according to the Web site Librarian Avengers, is “looking to put the ‘hep cat’ in cataloguing.”

When the cult film “Party Girl” appeared in 1995, with Parker Posey as a night life impresario who finds happiness in the stacks, the idea that a librarian could be cool was a joke.

Now, there is a public librarian who writes dispatches for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a favored magazine of the young literati. “Unshelved,” a comic about librarians — yes, there is a comic about librarians — features a hipster librarian character. And, in real life, there are an increasing number of librarians who are notable not just for their pink-streaked hair but also for their passion for pop culture, activism and technology.

“We’re not the typical librarians anymore,” said Rick Block, an adjunct professor at the Long Island University Palmer School and at the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science, both graduate schools for librarians, in New York City.

“When I was in library school in the early ’80s, the students weren’t as interesting,” Mr. Block said.

Since then, however, library organizations have been trying to recruit a more diverse group of students and to mentor younger members of the profession.

“I think we’re getting more progressive and hipper,” said Carrie Ansell, a 28-year-old law librarian in Washington.

In the last few years, articles have decried the graying of the profession, noting a large percentage of librarians that would soon be retiring and a seemingly insurmountable demand for replacements. But worries about a mass exodus appear to have been unfounded.

Michele Besant, the librarian at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Association of Library and Information Science statistics show a steady increase in library information science enrollments over the last 10 years. Further, at hers and other schools there is a trend for students to be entering masters programs at a younger age.

The myth prevails that librarians are becoming obsolete. “There’s Google, no one needs us,” Ms. Gentile said, mockingly, over a drink at Daddy’s.

Still, these are high-tech times. Why are people getting into this profession when libraries seem as retro as the granny glasses so many of the members of the Desk Set wear?

“Because it’s cool,” said Ms. Gentile, who works at the Brooklyn Museum.

Ms. Murphy, 29, thinks so, too. An actress who had long considered library school, Ms. Murphy finally decided to sign up after meeting several librarians — in bars.

“People I, going in, would never have expected were from the library field,” she said. “Smart, well-read, interesting, funny people, who seemed to be happy with their jobs.”

Maria Falgoust, 31, is also a founder of Desk Set, which took its name from the 1957 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy romantic comedy. A student who works part time at the library at Saint Ann’s School, she was inspired to become a librarian by a friend, a public librarian who works with teenagers and goes to rock shows regularly.

Since matriculating to Palmer, Ms. Falgoust has met plenty of other like-minded librarians at places such as Brooklyn Label, a restaurant, and at Punk Rope, an exercise class. “They’re everywhere you go,” she said.

Especially in Greenpoint, where Ms. Murphy and Ms. Falgoust live about 10 blocks from each other and where there are, Ms. Falgoust said, about 13 other librarians in the neighborhood.

How did such a nerdy profession become cool — aside from the fact that a certain amount of nerdiness is now cool? Many young librarians and library professors said that the work is no longer just about books but also about organizing and connecting people with information, including music and movies.

And though many librarians say that they, like nurses or priests, are called to the profession, they also say the job is stable, intellectually stimulating and can have reasonable hours — perfect for creative types who want to pursue their passions outside of work and don’t want to finance their pursuits by waiting tables. (The median salary for librarians was about $51,000 in 2006, according to the American Library Association-Allied Professional Organization.)

“I wanted to do something different, something maybe more meaningful,” said Carrie Klein, 36, who used to be a publicist for a record label and for bands such as Radiohead and the Foo Fighters, but is now starting a new job in the library at Entertainment Weekly.

Michelle Campbell, 26, a librarian in Washington, said that librarianship is a haven for left-wing social engagement, which is particularly appealing to the young librarians she knows. “Especially those of us who graduated around the same time as the Patriot Act,” Ms. Campbell said. “We see what happens when information is restricted.”

Ms. Campbell added that she became a librarian because it “combined a geeky intellectualism” with information technology skills and social activism.

Jessamyn West, 38, an editor of “Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out” a book that promotes social responsibility in librarianship, and the librarian behind the Web site librarian.net (its tagline is “putting the rarin’ back in librarian since 1999”) agreed that many new librarians are attracted to what they call the “Library 2.0” phenomenon. “It’s become a techie profession,” she said.

In a typical day, Ms. West might send instant and e-mail messages to patrons, many of who do their research online rather than in the library. She might also check Twitter, MySpace and other social networking sites, post to her various blogs and keep current through MetaFilter and RSS feeds. Some librarians also create Wikis or podcasts.

At the American Librarian Association’s annual conference last month in Washington, there were display tables of graphic novels, manga and comic books. In addition to a panel called “No Shushing Required,” there were sessions on social networking and zines and one called “Future Friends: Marketing Reference and User Services to Generation X.”

On a Saturday, after a day of panels, a group of librarians relaxed and danced at Selam Restaurant. Sarah Mercure nursed a blueberry vodka and cranberry juice and talked about deciding on her career after hearing a librarian who curated a zine collection speak. Pete Welsch, a D.J., spun records and talked about how his interest in social activism, film and music led him to library school.

But some librarians have found the job can be at odds with their outside cultural interests.

“I went to see a band a few weeks ago with old co-workers and turned to one and said ‘Is it just me or is this really, really loud?’ ” said Ms. Klein, the former publicist. Her friend, she said, “laughed and said, ‘You have librarian ears now.’ ”

The Dark Knight

2007-06-02T20:27:33Z

I love Batman and I really love the Joker. I was happy they cast Heath Ledger as the Joker in the new Batman film "The Dark Knight". He can pull off that creepy thing. Here's the first official picture of Heath as The Joker...I must say, it freaks me out.

Grad School Semester I: Results

2007-05-21T21:44:39Z

LS -501-01 DEVELOP LIB COLLECTIONS: A
LS -569-W1 MANAGEMENT OF TECH & ACCESS SERVICES: A
LS -583-01 LIB LIT AND YOUNG ADULTS: A

Current Term GPA: 4.000
Cumulative GPA: 4.000

Zomo drummer Dustin Miller releases his debut solo album "Serenading The Wall"

2007-04-12T22:07:41Z

Hello Everyone,
I'm writing to you today to announce the release of a wonderful new CD by one of my best friends and favorite musicians, Dustin Miller. Most of you probably remember Dustin as the drummer from Zomo. Some of you will remember Dustin as the guy who I always used to pal around around 2000-2004. Anywho, if you remember Dustin, then you must check out his CD. If you don't, this is a damn good time to get reacquainted with him. If you've never met him, I feel sorry for you. This is a good chance to meet him.

His new debut album "Serenading The Wall" seriously kicks butt. It's chock full of 9 amazing original tunes and is performed by both Dustin and another good friend/Zomo alum Zach Watt. It's a fantastic album full of wonderfully original songs, neat guitar passages, and some of the coolest noises you've ever heard. I listen to the song "Hiding in High Grass" and it just takes me away to another time. I feel like I'm in New Zealand on holiday with my wife and future children. "Extraterrestrialistic" has always blown my mind, and the album version wraps loopy images around your head.

You can check out Dustin music here...

Dustin Miller @ Myspace

and then go on over to his site and buy the cd...

Buy Dustin Miller's "Serenading The Wall" Here!

It comes highly recommended from me. Enjoy!

-Justin

1st run of limited edition Belsapadore "Trilogy" set SOLD OUT!

2007-04-09T23:19:22Z

hey world!
the first 100 copies of the limited edition, handmade set of the first three belsapadore albums are sold out! those who requested copies by mail will be recieving them shortly, as they are all packaged and ready to go.

50 more additional copies will be made. Please feel free to get in touch with us to reserve your copy!

-Justin of Belsapadore

Belsapadore!

2007-04-03T16:54:52Z

April 1 2007: Belsapadore Live and the release of "Everyone C'mon Get Happy"

The World,
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who made the Belsapadore album release party at Grounds For Change a great success. Thanks to all that helped set up (Haley, Jamie, and everyone else). I send out a great deal of thanks to my bandmates...Gypsy Dave, Kristel, and Dustin...for being super kick ass on their instruments and helping make my dream become reality. You guys are amazing friends and musicians, and it was a dream come true to share the stage with you. Maybe we'll do it again someday. Thanks to everyone who came to the show and danced, sang along, bobbed for apples, and played twister. You really made the show a lot of fun for me.

The setlist was as follows:
The Old Fools
A Long Time Ago…
Checkmate
End of The World
For Anna
Underdogs
Da Doo Ron Ron
The Ballad of Haley Read
The Modern Times
The Sun and The Moon
Vultures
Sherlock Holmes
Come September
Once Upon A Time
Tomorrow
Everyone C'mon Get Happy

The show also marked the release of the third Belsapadore album, "Everyone C'mon Get Happy". I made this album in late 2006 in Meadville, PA mostly by myself but with some very key contributions from Dustin Miller and Gypsy Dave. It was an interesting experience. I aimed to get a happy pop album that people could shake their ass to. I loved playing bass on the album. It was terrible fun adding layers of percussion to all the songs.

To mark the release of the album, I've put together a limited edition run of this album packaged along with the first two Belsapadore albums. 150 copies have been printed up, all handmade, and bound together (just like a book). If you're interested in a copy, feel free to send belsapadore a message on myspace (www.myspace.com/belsapadore), send me an email (belsapadore@gmail.com)or post a reply to this with your name and mailing address. The albums are free of charge...

Thank you, and we'll talk to you again soon.

-Justin and Belsapadore

Also, some pictures of the show...

Belsapadore...Live!

(l to r) Kristel Bastian, Gypsy Dave, Me, Dustin Miller

See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil, Crotch No Evil (this should be a t-shirt?)

Organ Freakout 2007.

Gypsy Dave: Guitar, Bass, Xylophone

Kristel Bastian: Perscussion, Xylphone, Violin

Belsapadore in the Newspaper!

2007-03-29T23:25:52Z

Hey folks...
We're just three days away from the release of the third Belsapadore album "Everyone C'mon Get Happy". To announce the release of the album and the corresponding album release show/party, I've done a few interviews over the past week and today a few articles came out. Here is one of the articles if you're interested. The other article (from the Meadville Tribune) is basically a rehash of the information on the website. I'll scan copies of both articles shortly...in the meantime, here's the article from the Allegheny College Newspaper.

From The Campus, Meadville, PA
by Brandon Lichtinger

Meadville resident and singer/songwriter Justin Hoenke plans on turning Allegheny's Grounds For Change coffee shop into "a 14-year-old girl's sleepover party." This Sunday, GFC will be transformed with Candyland, games of Twister, and silly string. Hoenke will bring his musical outfit Belsapadore to Allegheny for the first time at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 1.

A recent graduate of Edinboro University, Hoenke, 26, is a prolific singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist and has recorded three albums in the past three years under the moniker Belsapadore. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Hoenke started playing guitar at 14. Inspired to write music by Beach Boy Brian Wilson and Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, he started his first band while attending Edinboro.

"I went to college to start a band," Hoenke said. "I didn't know what I wanted to do, so I just found people to play with."

Out of a rotating cast of friends and musicians Hoenke started Zomo, which lasted for five years.

"We tried to be a modern classic rock band, and tried to be as artistic as possible within the confines of heavier music," Hoenke said. "But it's hard to be artsy when you're trying to be Black Sabbath."

Zomo recorded two self-released album during its lifespan, and was even briefly courted by Amorphous Records, a label owned by a Weezer roadie Karl Koch, but eventually disbanded. After Zomo ended, Hoenke packed up and moved to Washington.

While working as an optician and living in a trailer three miles from the Canadian border, Hoenke began writing and recording songs that would eventually become the first Belsapadore album, "The Sun and The Moon." The music was influenced by the electronic ambience of Brian Eno, but Hoenke eventually tired of company of synthesizers and moved back to northwestern PA to start playing music with human beings again. He moved into his parents' attic and worked at a thrift store. He moved back to Edinboro to complete his degree and managed to record a second album, "A More Colorful or Easier Somewhere Else," this time adding bass and drums to the mix.

"I was reading a lot of books at the time, and so the second one was my 'librarian album,'" Hoenke said. "I was reading a lot of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, I was into fairy tales a lot at the time, and I hope that comes out on the album."

After the completion of the second Belsapadore album, Hoenke moved to Meadville, where he recorded his latest album, "Everyone C'mon Get Happy." Recorded in a room of his house that also contains his cat's litter box, the album is a departure for Hoenke.

"I wanted to make an album that people could shake their ass to," Hoenke said. Taking cues from Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" and the girl groups of the 1960's and 1970's, Hoenke crafted a rollicking record with sing a longs aplenty. He also enlisted the help of local musician and GFC regular Gypsy Dave, who, in addition to appearing on the album, will be playing with Hoenke at the GFC show.

The occasion will mark the first time Belsapadore will appear as a full band and will possibly be its last performance for two years, as Hoenke devotes his time to life as a fulltime graduate student.

Hoenke packages and distributes all of this albums himself, complete with homemade artwork, and he will have 100 copies of all three of the Belsapadore albums on Sunday, to be distributed free of charge.

"The Sunday concert will be a pajama jamboree," Hoenke said.

Singer/songwriter Dustin Miller will open the show. The event will also coincide with the Student Art Society Telephone Decorating Benefit, a fundraiser for local resident Elizabeth Hillman-Huber, 21, who is seeking donations for a lung transplant. Donations will be accepted, and old telephones will be decorated for sale in the Student Art Show, with proceeds benefiting Hillman-Huber.

Many thanks to Brandon for the interview and full page article. Scans to come shortly

pee pee

2007-02-26T06:26:10Z

my wife and my mother in law didn't know anything about this until tonight...

Post-micturition convulsion syndrome, also known as piss shivers or pee shivers, is a phenomenon where one feels a shiver running down the spine following urination. This is a form of myoclonus. It is experienced mostly in males.

Although no serious studies have been done in this field, there are a few theories to explain this phenomenon:

* Sudden loss of temperature and blood pressure
* Stimulation of nerves in the tip of the penis
* Parasympathetic nervous reflex (a catch-all explanation for such things).

They thought I was just crazy...

P.S: I thoughts this was really funny.

Everyone C'mon Get Happy Release Party!

2007-02-26T00:03:07Z

Hosted by:
Belsapadore

When:
Sunday Apr 01, 2007
at 7:00 PM

Where::
Grounds For Change
Allegheny College Campus Center
Meadville, PA 16335
United States

Hello Everyone!
Justin here...

My band Belsapadore is releasing our third album, titled "Everyone C'mon Get Happy" on April 1st, 2006 through our record label, Arbacarba Records. To celebrate this event, we'll be throwing a record release party at Grounds For Change Coffeehouse in Meadville, PA on the same day.

We would love for you to come.

There will be free records for everyone! All guests of the show will not only recieve a copy of the new Belsapadore album for free, but you will also recieve free copies of the Belsapadore's previous two releases as well. Hot Dog! This is fancy!

We'll also have balloons!

We're going to have candy as well! There will be a lot of gum for everyone!

And finally, who wants to bob for apples with Belsapadore? I do! Don't you?

The night will be capped off with a performance from none other than Belsapadore themselves!

So, I ask you...please come celebrate with us!

I love you all.

Justin (of Belsapadore)

visit belsapadore on myspace!!!

Listen to some music from "Everyone C'mon Get Happy" before it is released!

FANCY!