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WRS at Headhunters March 11, 10PM & Nomad March 20, 6PM

Holy Springtime Racketeers!

March Shows:
March 11 at 10pm-ish at Headhunters
March 20 at 6pm at The Nomad's Alternative showcase

Spring GoddessSpring is Coming!

The weather keeps wandering in and out of the gorgeous zone, and The Squad is ready to leave Old Man Winter behind and start drinking in Spring's sweet nectar.  And the only way we know to help Spring out is to both rock and roll for you!

Headhunters SXSW Primer

Before the international filmmaking, blogging, and guitar-lugging crowds take over downtown, WRS plays the surreal patio of Headhunters Cannibal Stage on SXSW Eve, Thursday, March 11th.  We take the stage around 10pm, neatly sandwiched between Swing Teresa and Paul Edelman.

Nomad Infranational Music Festival

Like the old song says, it's the most batshit crazy time of the year. World Racketeering Squad celebrates the festival madness by playing a 6PM showcase at Reed's favorite local bar, The Nomad.  We'e the first band on the bill, so join The Squad for our showcase, then stick around for Blue Channel Jazz, Rich and the Obits, and Introverb.  We're especially excited to see and play with Rich and the Obits, so this is a treat!

And if you cannot resist the siren call of SXSW downtown, hit The Nomad early, then take it downtown to indulge in South by Southwest's final night of music, movies, and madness.

See you Thursday,
Reed, Bruce, and Isaac

Headhunters Cannibal Stage
Thursday, March 11
  9PM Swing Teresa
10PM WRS
11PM
Paul Edelman

The Nomad
Saturday, March 20
6PM WRS
7PM
Blue Channel Jazz
8PM Rich and the Obits
9PM Introverb

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Patton Oswalt's writing a Firefly comic!

Hoban Washburne

Patton Oswalt is not only a very funny fellow, he was part of one of the real standout episodes of "Dollhouse".  Apparently he is writing a one-shot Serenity sequel comic:

Post-'Serenity,' a bunch of Wash's friends who we haven't met on the show, they're basically buying a new ship and christening it... It's called a 'float-out' when you christen a ship. As they're christening a new ship, they're telling stories about Wash, and we're basically seeing what could be the start of a new adventure.

Awesome new T-shirts on the way from Conquistador Inc

Check out these new shirts from Conquistador Inc:

Conquistador Inc t-shirt

Go to their page. Buy their shirts!

 

Your daily Summer Glau

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

Summer Glau 

Your daily Summer Glau

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

Summer Glau 

"Magic Fly" by Space - proto-DaftPunk electro from 1977

It also featured prominently in Jackie Chan's "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow":

Your daily Summer Glau

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

 

"Serenity" in The Onion AV Club

Nice feature on "Serenity" from The Onion AV Club's New Cult Canon:

For whatever reason—let’s just say the general suckiness of humanity—Serenity wasn’t a box-office smash, which dispelled for a while any hope that Whedon would carry George Lucas’ populist science-fiction mantle into an infinitely cooler future. But it realizes a fantasy that advocates of other brilliant-but-cancelled TV shows usually only experience in fan fiction: It brings a beloved series to a natural, satisfying close. (Let’s face it: Even successful TV series don’t often come in for a graceful ending. Most of them overstay their welcome or peter out meekly.) And the only way to account for that is passion. A few loud voices raised in unison sounded like a much larger chorus to a studio, and with Serenity, Whedon and his followers got away with something. 

 

 

Godzilla haiku

From Neatorama:

Godzilla must go/So you cannot see the depth/of his loneliness 

Your daily Jewel Staite

In place of your daily Summer Glau, here is Jewel "Kaylee" Staite's latest Twitter profile pic:

 Jewel Staite

Electro song about Ayn Rand written, recorded and released in one day

Frank from Conquistador Incorporated has a side project where he and a buddy write, record and release a song in one day.

Here's the latest, a song about Ayn Rand by "The Glenn Becks":

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