limited edition poster print

hello monkeys.
we have a new album coming out in march. so for the next few weeks we'll be offering some album one related limited edition poster prints, to make way for all the yummy new album two stuff we'll have! i'm gonna send out a mass email about it, once the posters are printed, but i thought i would post here first, in case any of you little fuzzies wanted to pre-order.



the poster is 11"x17" and is a limited edition of 200. each one will be signed and numbered on the back. they are $10 each. i tried to get em scratch-n-sniff, but to no avail. the only scent they had left was 'june beach volleyball sweat'.

anyway, click here to preorder: poster print pre-order

thanks!
-pete

a very petey year in review: 2008

well this is it. the end of a beautiful year. tomorrow is a brand new one. as my hot chocolate cools down, i take a wiggly flashback-style look at the montage of 2008.

• i got to be on vh1's 'i love the millennium' for almost 35 seconds, talking about spiderman. woohoo!
• 'sweep the leg' featured in MLB 08, on the playstation3 and xbox360.
• directed my first animated music video, and got to work with one of my favorite animation studios: ghostbot.
• went to billy zabka's wedding and didn't spill anything on my suit.
• neil and i wrote and recorded our second studio album, due out march 09. yay!
• played some great shows: linton music fest, sky show in new hampshire, … in san diego, .. in denver. met a lot of really great people.
• cornell university's renowned acapella group, the chordials, recorded a version of 'sweep the leg' for their CD 'smash'.
• finally put some artwork up for sale online at daspetey.com. hooray for procrastination.

some great moovees and music came out this year. here are some of my favorites:

top ten movies:
1 the dark knight
2 wall-e
3 iron man
4 hulk
5 kung fu panda
6 quantum of solace
7 horton hears a who
8 pineapple express
9 tropic thunder
10 cloverfield

top ten songs:
1 grounds for divorce - elbow
2 lost - coldplay
3 modern guilt - beck
4 gran torino - jamie cullum
5 i'm good, i'm gone - lykke li
6 robots - flight of the conchords
7 another way to die - jack white + alicia keys
8 the scrolls - el rick haun
9 love save the empty - erin mccarley
10 ghosts - nine inch nails

so that's it i guess. i hope you all are having a great new year's eve. and i hope next year is superawesome.
-pete

happy holidays!

i was joined by a few close friends to sing you all this holiday tune!



i hope your holidays are awesome!
-pete

rock for hunger in orlando

hello everyone,
i'm gonna be at the 'rock for hunger' in orlando this weekend. i'm gonna have a booth there, and try to sell some artwork. so if you're in the area, please stop by! i'd love to say hi. (that rhymed and i didn't mean it (anybody want a peanut?))

this from the official site:

"On Saturday, November 15th, it's time for Orlando to Rock for Hunger once again! This year ROCK FOR HUNGER FEST 3 will be held at The Plaza Theatre. The lineup features over 20 artists including top local names, rising regional acts and chart topping artist KARDINAL OFFISHALL. The festivities will take place from 2pm until midnight with three stages filled with live music, arts and crafts and many great vendors. "

for more info, check out their site: rockforhunger.org

hope to see you there!
-pete

sweep the commentary

hello leg-sweepers,
i just posted the audio commentary for the 'sweep the leg' video. it's from the DVD that we're selling on the astonish store. (feel free to buy that puppy if you don't have it yet)

here's the video with commentary by me and billy z.



(thanks jordan for putting this together. you rock!)

-pete

interview with ’inner ear’

http://www.last.fm/user/innerearmedia/journal/2008/10/28/28v58x_interview%3A_no_more_kings

be sure and leave a comment on their page, so they think people like us. =)
-pete

elbow

hello,
neil turned me on to this awesome UK band called 'elbow'.
check em out: http://www.myspace.com/elbowmusic
especially their song 'grounds for divorce'. holy crap. pure awesome.

i hope you're having a good wednesday. i might play volleyball a little later.
-pete

lost

hello.
my good friend jacob courtney helped me cover a coldplay song.



-pete

appaloosa

i just got back from seeing appaloosa, the new ed harris/ viggo mortrensen western.
i really liked it. it's the second time ed harris directed a film, and the second time he stars in a movie he's directing ('pollock' was the first). it's capably directed, if not a little clunky.

the movie is slow, deliberately slow. it is meant very much to be a classic western. the dialog is fantasticly curt and wry. the humor never seems out of place, and is never distracting. the two leads are as great as you would expect them to be. and it's fun to see them as partners rather than enemies ('a history of violence'). the sparse dialog allows for some great moments of silent understanding, and sometimes even tension.

to say the movie is slow, does not mean there's no action. with an 'unforgiven' flavor, the gunfights are appropriately real and explosively short.

it's a good movie. it's definitely worth seeing. but i'd love to hear what you guys think.
-pete

saturday in the park with george

ok, well not really in the park. in my gloomy room.



oh, by the way, if you haven't heard it yet, or don't own it, you need to get hanson's new cd 'the walk'. holy crap! it's fantastic.

happy saturday
-pete