bustedpuppet:

I’m posting this video mere hours after cutting the last shots together! We shot some of these scenes almost two years ago, and with all the touring and moving we haven’t been able to finish shooting until this past Monday. It’s soooooo good to finally get this one out there. Riding Home is our only official video since Lullaby #2 in 2009 - but hold on to your socks because we are looking to have another 10 official music videos to publish in the next 3 months or so to complement the upcoming album!

corpus-callosum:

Dearest Corpus Callosum fans: repost this until your fingertips bleed, until your real friends unfriend you, until the waters rise and tardigrades of outrageous proportions kidnap all the heads of state and we are forced to abandon our home planet and find new digs in outer space.

[Riding Home is Corpus Callosum’s second official music video, shot entirely DIY in and around Oakland, CA. Thank you to our friends and family for loaning us your hands, cameras, lights, furniture & wheels.]

Hey watch this! What else do you have to do for the next three minutes?

(via villainest)

corpus-callosum:

we are live streaming it RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!

corpus-callosum:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In less than two weeks, Corpus Callosum is climbing into a schoolbus and embarking on our first national tour!  We would be ever so pleased to see you at one of these shows.  As this is a DIY tour, it is only possible with your help:  please pass these dates along to your friends in these towns, as we would love to make their acquaintances.  For a more complete show listing (start times, addresses, and updated information), please visit our website corpus.cc/shows.  See you all soon!

Fri 7/6 San Francisco, CA @ Hotel Utah with Paper Bird, Muralismo

Mon 7/9 Santa Fe, NM @ High Mayhem with Cloacas

Wed 7/11 San Antonio, TX @ Green Casa books

Thu 7/12 Austin, TX @ house show (email for address) with Some Say Leland

Sat 7/14 New Orleans, LA @ Mudlark Public Theater with the Mudlark Puppeteers

Sun 7/15 Memphis, TN @ Courthouse Co-op

Tue 7/17 Knoxville, TN @ Groundswell Collective

Wed 7/18 Durham, NC @ Casbah with Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands

Thu 7/19 Baltimore, MD @ Whole Gallery

Fri 7/20 Brooklyn, NY @ Goodbye Blue Monday with Monsoon in Bloom, Carroll, the Gradients, Marigold

Sat 7/21 Providence, RI @ TBA

Sun 7/22 Boston, MA @ Lily Pad with Speaker for the Dead

Mon 7/23 Brattleboro, VT @ Headroom Stages with Wooly Mar

Tue 7/24 Brooklyn, NY @ TBA with Not Waving But Drowning

Wed 7/25 Philadelphia, PA @ TBA

Thu 7/26 Columbus, OH @ Cafe Bourbon Street

Fri 7/27 Bloomington, IN @ Rhino’s

Sat 7/28 Milwaukee, WI @ Riverwest Public House with the Celebrated Workingman, Shiloh

Mon 7/30 Chicago, IL @ Burlington with the Jeff Harms Singers, Cpt. Captain

Tue 7/31 Minneapolis, MN @ TBA

Wed 8/1 Fairfield, IA @ TBA

Thu 8/2 Columbia, MO @ TBA

Fri 8/3 somewhere in KS @ TBA

Sat 8/4 Denver, CO @ Mercury Cafe with Cloacas

Mon 8/6 Bend, OR @ TBA with Rural Demons, Spirits of the Red City

Tue 8/7 Tacoma, WA @ TBA with Spirits of the Red City

Wed 8/8 Seattle, WA @ Beery House with the Mongrel Jews, Spirits of the Red City, Wild Reeds

Thu 8/9 Olympia, WA @ Oly Art Kitchen with You Are Plural, Eleanor Murray, Spirits of the Red City

Fri 8/10 Portland, OR @ house show TBA with Spirits of the Red City

Sat 8/11 Portland, OR @ TBA with Spirits of the Red City

Sun 8/12 Eugene, OR @ TBA with Spirits of the Red City

Tue 8/14 San Jose, CA @ Anno Domini with Whiskerman, Spirits of the Red City

Thu 8/16 San Francisco, CA @ Hotel Utah with Spirits of the Red City, Suzanne Vallie

Here is a list of cities (click the link above to see dates and other information):

Santa Fe, NM

San Marcos, TX

Austin, TX

New Orleans, LA

Knoxville, TN

Baltimore, MD

Brooklyn, NY

Providence, RI

Brattleboro, VT

Bloomington, IN

Milwaukee, WI

Chicago, IL

Bend, OR

Seattle, WA

Olympia, WA

Portland, OR

These are all of the confirmed cities, and we are still waiting to hear back from a few more. Stay tuned! Yay!

(Source: corpus-callosum)

We’re at 130 backers now! Wow!!! Thank you, everyone, for your support! Just 14 hours to go!

By the way, you should totally watch this video of our newest (finished) song. :D

corpus-callosum:

A few days ago, with all your help, we hurtled past our Kickstarter goal of $5500, and currently count 129 backers and rising.  As a meager thank-you, we sat down in our dining room on Friday to make a video recording of a new song, “The Dream of Sailor.”  We hope it’s to your liking.  (We also apologize for the absence of Qarly and her ukulele in the video, as she was still hard at work setting up a fantastic presentation for Maker Faire.)

Our Kickstarter fundraiser will close today, at 3am EST!  We would be grateful for any last-minute pledges, if there is anyone else you know who has yet to see the video.  Thank you for giving us a better boost for this tour than we ever could have imagined.

Yours,
Corpus Callosum

corpus-callosum:

Thanks to our brave fans, friends and families, Corpus Callosum has raised over $5500 for our Summer tour through our Kickstarter fundraiser!  We are bouncing off the walls to have the opportunity to tour nationally, are deeply in your debt for all the help, and will do our utmost to reach as many new fans as possible.

$5500 is our expected minimum cost for the tour (500 gallons of gas, 39 promotional packages, 1 used tour van), but with even just a little more cash we can do quite a lot:  an extra $1000 will seriously open up our options for what vehicle we can purchase (maybe something with working windshield wipers; possibly one with a more recently rebuilt engine; perhaps something with new tires; please please air conditioning).  It is likely that each dollar above the goal will go farther than the first $5500.

http://kck.st/IN2Wpv

Our Kickstarter fundraiser will be up for another 4 days (through midnight on Monday).  We would love to hand out a few more albums if you can throw us $15.  Dax has raised the limit for the watercolor reward from 8 to 16 for the $50 level (with an unlimited number claimable at the $75 or $150 level).  We also do not mind if you want to increase an existing pledge to capture more rewards, like the on-the-road postcards from Stephanie and Andrea, Avery’s mixtapes, or Stevie’s podcast.

Thanks so much!  Thanks so much!  Stay tuned for official tour dates!

Corpus Callosum
corpus.cc

Wow! Even the San Jose Metro is spreading the word! Awesome!

http://kck.st/IN2Wpv

We only have 5 days left to make this happen, and we’re still short $1500! Eeeek!

Thanks everyone for the signal boosts so far! Keep ‘em comin’! <3<3<3

mollypeck:

ruzzdotorg:

6 freaking days left to help these crazy mother’s get it done. they are close now. $1100 away i think. c’mon. 

this is exactly what the internet is for. 

and kittens. 

and porn. 

but this too. 

weakmeatstrongeat:

Corpus Callosum is over half-way to our Kickstarter goal, with 16 days left to go! Tell everyone! Especially your rich arts-loving friends who are looking for ways to get rid of their surplus of dollars!

(Thanks to everyone who has donated and spread the word so far. Every dollar and reblog helps.)

(via Corpus Callosum’s first national tour — Kickstarter)

I’m sort of confused that this hasn’t been re-blogged more, because I think of Andrea as one of the most supportive and inspiring people I’ve met here, and I imagine that many, many people share that feeling, and would love the chance to show the same support in return.

I also (super selfishly, yes) really want this project to succeed because I want to see them perform.

Andrea has been so restrained with posting about this— I think her respect for this space and the number of things competing for our attention, and her natural maybe humbleness— are sweet and lovely, but I worry that lots of people who might want to back this kickstarter may not even know until it’s too late (but I do admire her for not passing the hat all day for thirty days)!

(I’m crossing my fingers now, and I’ll use my next available wish?)

Corpus Callosum is over half-way to our Kickstarter goal, with 16 days left to go! Tell everyone! Especially your rich arts-loving friends who are looking for ways to get rid of their surplus of dollars!

(Thanks to everyone who has donated and spread the word so far. Every dollar and reblog helps.)

(via Corpus Callosum’s first national tour — Kickstarter)

***ATTENTION TUMBLR FRIENDS!***

Corpus Callosum needs your help. We’ve launched a Kickstarter to raise money for a tour van for this summer, and if we succeed, we may just be able to get ourselves to a city near you!

Take a look at the page, watch the video, donate if you can, and please please spread the word! <3<3<3<3

corpus-callosum:

Corpus Callosum is going on our first national tour this Summer! Thanks to everyone who has helped us get this far. As you might imagine, touring a 7-person ensemble with all our crazy instruments and puppets is quite a challenge, which is why we haven’t yet been able to make it past the West Coast. This is how it’s going to work:

(http://kck.st/IN2Wpv)

If our fundraiser succeeds, we’ll be able to journey across the entire United States this Summer! If we make it across the entire United States this Summer, we will be able to lay a more solid foundation for future tours, such that we would be able to do this every year on our own.

It would warm our hearts if you passed this video along, re-posted it to your blog or social network, or even just showed it to someone else in your office. The farther the news of our tour spreads, the more successful it will be, even if your own pockets are turned out at the moment.

Our tour dates will be posted to corpus.cc by June.

All our music is available to listen to online at corpuscallosum.bandcamp.com.

Thank you all so much, and we’ll be in touch!

bustedpuppet:

Ever since I stepped into the Heart of Gold in Chicago, I’ve been working towards having a real performance space for a living room.  At last!  At last!  Mahahahaaaahhaaawaaa!

corpus-callosum:

Saturday April 28th Corpus Callosum Housewarming Concert at the Corpus Callosum studio (message us for address) with Kate Stewart & Banty Hen 6pm doors, 7pm music all ages, no cover

From the email announcement:

“Although this is a housewarming party, the idea of any more kitchen appliances on our countertop is laughable and we really don’t need your re-gifted wine. However, if you’re one of those people who was so quick to criticize our earthquake safety,we’re still in need of an earthquake kit, so if you have the inkling to bring by a signal flare or a gallon of water, we supposedly need 21 gallons in 1-quart bottles. We also would never refuse toilet paper. In fact, consider a roll of toilet paper to be the cover charge, because this show is otherwise free (!). If you prefer sliding-scale payment systems, consider that warehouses can never have too many fire extinguishers (or early pledges to our as-of-yet-unannounced kickstarter fundraiser).”

Send me a message for the address if you’re in the area and want to come!

(Source: corpus-callosum, via villainest)

Oh you HAVE to see Eleanor Murray! She is so so so so good.

corpus-callosum:

Friday
April 13th
at the Subterranean Arthouse
2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
with Eleanor Murray (WA) and Ayla Nereo
8pm, all ages, sliding scale