Well! We suppose you're wondering what we've been up to...
It's been a long dry spell since the last Flawed email and we hope you've gotten some rest after all the yawning it produced.
We've been rehearsing like crazy in several undisclosed locations, and think we're finally ready to spring Murphy's Flaw 3.0 on an unsuspecting populace.
We'll be at Jones Coffee Company, 693 S Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 4. This sounds like the perfect Flawed venue: You apparently enter it from an alley and they have a coffee blend named Chuck Roast, after one of the bosses.
Into this heady atmosphere we'll launch the Flaw's latest flavor: "Eclectigrass!"
What is Eclectigrass? We're happy to share the recipe:
4 pounds bluegrass
1 ounce jazz
2 ounces country
1 large can of whoo-pee!
Mix thoroughly, let set for six months, top with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Enjoy!
Just imported from the green mountains of Los Angeles, where they grow the richest beans, are the Flaw's three newest members:
-- On string bass and occasional banjo, and belting out any tune you can possibly think up: Phil Connery of Valley Village.
-- On lead guitar, vocals and cello (yeah, cello -- can you smell what we're cookin'?), Jeremy Althouse of Los Angeles (not the suburbs but the real city, you wimps).
-- On rhythm guitar and lead vocals and winner of the recent, semi-secret "Flawditions," Beth Binggeli of Culver City.
The new additions bring the Flaw back to its septet status, (Don't judge us; adults engaging in septets should be no crime.)
We now have a rather stunning (a word that comes up a lot with the Flaw) array of educational achievement in the Flaw:
- Two Ph.D.s
- Three Master's Degrees
- A composer/arranger of film scores
- A college kid intent on jazz violin
We might yet save the college kid. As for the others' availability, you can blame the economy.
On that subject, fair warning: The Flaw is brandishing a tip jar on Friday and if you bring only enough money for coffee -- well, you should have thought of that before you left home.
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What: Murphy's Flaw reappears (meaning six more weeks of winter)
Where: Jones Coffee Roasting Company 693 S Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105
When: 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Friday, March 4, 2011
Why: Why not?
Cost: Freewill Love Offerings in the tip jar
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Photo: Like giant planets in the Flawed solar system, band members are thrown together in one of the worst Photoshop collages ever. From left, Beth Binggeli, Phil Connery, Peter Blackwelder, John Bryan, Jeremy Althouse, Dee Farnsworth, Ulrich Sinn.
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