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#331. William’s audition

January 1, 2010

WILLIAM: I'm WIlliam Jang. I'm here for the bassist audition?
DAN: Hi Will!
RONI: Have you filled out your application?

WILLIAM: Heh, yeah...
RONI: Um…this is... mostly BLANK.

WILLIAM: Oh… I… I thought it was, like, a JOKE.
RONI: A JOKE?!

WILLIAM: Yeah... I mean, there's an ESSAY section.
DAN: Aw, just let him play, Roni...
RONI: He didn't even solve the TANGRAM puzzles!

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#330. I unsubscribed

December 31, 2009

STEWART: John?
JOHN: I've got a show at Rockwood tonight, Stewart.
STEWART: OK… why're you at my APARTMENT?

JOHN: You took your name off my email list.
STEWART: I unsubscribed from your list because I don't care about your stupid shows, John.

JOHN: Whatever. Our set's at 11pm. I'm giving you a ride over. Let's go...
STEWART: No! JOHN! I don't WANT to! Let GO!

STEWART: Augh! John! NO! Unsubscribe! UNSUBSCRIBE!!!

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#329. Our Behind the Music is on

December 29, 2009

KEVIN: Turn on VH1! Our BEHIND THE MUSIC is on!
PETER: Shit, I can't, dude. I'm at the airport.

KEVIN: And it's right at the best part. You just hit rock bottom...
PETER: Aw, man…

KEVIN: Whatever happened to that junkie anyway?
PETER: SKEE-FI! I just got a Christmas card from him.

PETER: He's in Houston. He's well.
KEVIN: Here's that picture of him stabbing you! Ha! (sigh) ... What a FUN weekend that was…

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#328. People heard us

December 25, 2009

RONI: OK, so the little spike in web traffic didn't get us any new fans, but 100,000 people listened to our songs. People HEARD us. Isn't that the point of ART?

JOHN: ART? Who said anything about fuckin' ART?!

JOHN: I am in this band to get FAMOUS or get LAID.

RONI: Barf...
JOHN: And I don't care what order that comes in, Roni!

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#327. Traffic spike effect

December 23, 2009

CHRISTINA: Well, our site's traffic has returned to normal, and it looks like about 100,000 people downloaded our demo.

RONI: That's AMAZON!
JOHN: What's the point? They CAME and they LEFT. We got ZERO mailing list signups...

JOHN: And we sold ZERO t-shirts.
CHRISTINA: Actually we sold TWO t-shirts.
DAN: No, I bought those two.

JOHN: Great! We sold NEGATIVE two t-shirts...
DAN: Hey, is there a way for you to not, like, cash my Paypal thing until Friday?

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