“Dejected Arrr” Shirts Are Here!

Folks who saw us live in the past two weeks already know this, but: the oft-requested, long-awaited "Dejected Arrr" shirts are finally available for everyone! Major kudos to our good buddy and artist extraordinaire Len Peralta (a.k.a. "Captain Awesome"), who did a brilliant job capturing the melancholy tone of our song "The Captain’s Wife’s Lament".

This sad, droopy pirate (so unlucky, even his parrot has a hook!) who sets just the right tone of sorrow and melancholy to inspire reassuring hugs from pirate lovers everywhere. Complete with treasure map-like P&S website listing on the back–because you are, after all, only a walking billboard for us.

The shirts are available in Adult men’s sizes S through XXL; and there’s also a special ladies’ version (with cute red-capped sleeves, and curvy where it needs to be, because we loooove The Ladies; see below) in S through XL. So how can you get one? You’ve got three options, and you can find the choice that best works for you:

1) Buy them at our live shows. Advantages: personal service; autographs upon request; seeing our grateful little faces; cheapest for you, most profit for us. Optional hugs for The Ladies. Disadvantages: waiting until we perform somewhere near you.

2) Order through our online store. You can also order either version of the shirt via Bulletproof, our order fulfillment house. Advantages: The same shirts you would get at live shows; quick, reliable service. Disadvantages: slightly more expensive to you.

3) Order through our CafePress store. The design is also available in a variety of shirt styles (as well as other items–mugs, mouse pads, posters, magnets, panties, etc.) through our CafePress store. Advantages: many more sizes, colors and items available. Disadvantages: more expensive; no printing on shirt backs (due to cost); least profit to us (if you care about such things).

ADDED BONUS: Ye who dons aforementioned garment is granted unlimited license to talk like a pirate, shiver timbers, and otherwise behave in a pirate-y fashion. There’s never been a better time to get your pirate on–order today!
 

Posted May 14th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Latest News | Comments (5)

Coulton Amidst the Bison

We’ve gotten a lot of great feedback from folks regarding our "Wild Adventure! Tracking the Coulton" video. (And thank you) A couple people requested copies of the "artwork" from the historical background section of the video. We’re happy to oblige.

Click on any picture below for a larger-scale version.

Coulton Amidst the BisonCoulton Brings Peace to the Exchange with the White Man

Coulton Population Distribution (Long Ago)Your Guess Is as Good as Ours

Posted May 14th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Whatever | Comments (4)

Westward Ho! (But Not the Naughty Kind of “Ho”)

We’re on our way to the American west again: covered wagons, crazy prospectors, cattle skulls in the sand, cowboys and farmers refusing to be friends, and fabled ghost towns like San Diego and Phoenix.

Come join us ("us" being the two of us and our traveling companion/back seat driver Jonathan Coulton) this weekend:

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Thursday, May 15 - Brickhouse Theater
1 East Jackson St., Phoenix, AZ
8 pm
tix: http://tinyurl.com/56fztv
with Jonathan Coulton
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Friday, May 16 - Fishlips
1517 18th St., Bakersfield, CA
8 pm
tix: call (661) 324-2557
(no Coulton on this show; just us!)
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Saturday, May 17 - Lestat’s Coffee House
3343 Adams Ave., San Diego, CA
9 pm
tix: at door only - (619) 282-0437
with Jonathan Coulton
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Sunday, May 18 - House of Blues Sunset Strip
8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
8:30 pm
tix: http://tinyurl.com/6xnkl2
with Jonathan Coulton
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Posted May 13th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Latest News | Comments (0)

Happy Mother’s Day!

It’s that time of year again: that one day every 365 that you buy a card, maybe some flowers; make an obligatory phone call, or a half-assed stab at breakfast in bed. All just to vainly attempt to thank the woman who went through 74 hours of excruciating labor to give birth to you, her ungrateful progeny.

Well, not in our house; we’re all love, kisses and ice cream in our house. We’re talking about the rest of you unappreciative louts.

But you know what you can do to show Mom how much you appreciate and love her?  Play her Paul and Storm’s "Mother’s Day Song". We like to think it sums up the sentiments of the holiday quite touchingly and succinctly.

Sincerely, though; thanks, Mom!

Posted May 10th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Whatever | Comments (3)

Superfriends and Wild Adventure!

We just smacked the Netterwebs upside the head* with two new videos. Come waste some time with us!

Video #1 is the pilot episode of our new nature/exploration series "Wild Adventure!" In this first episode, we attempt to track one of the last remaining specimens of the great American Coulton.

The second video comes from our adventures last month at New York Comic Con, during which Paul openly defies the advice of Jim Croce…

*The Internets has no actual head.

UPDATE: If you want to download the hi-res, 181MB MPEG-4 version of Wild Aventures!, Ctrl-right-click, or CMD-right-click (or whatever the hell key combination does it on your computer), and then choose "Save as…" (or whatever) on this link right here. Note: DON’T JUST CLICK ON THE LINK! You’ll just get a big page of nonsense text, and you’ll make us angry. You wouldn’t like us when we’re angry.

Posted May 7th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Latest News | Comments (10)

Masters of Song Fu

So it’s just been announced that we’re taking part in a brand new musical contest, courtesy of Quick Stop Entertainment:

Masters of Song Fu

Okay, first off: we take no responsibility whatsoever for that name; That’s all Plumey’s doing.

Next: what the heck is it? Well, you can follow the link above for the complete details; but the short version is that it’s a sort of musical Iron Chef: musicians may sign up to participate on the Quick Stop website; once 20 competitors are selected, everyone will be given a specific songwriting challenge—such as, say, "write a song that includes a valid rhyme for ‘orange’," or some such (but not that one)—and are given one week to complete and submit their songs. Then the public votes, and the top 5 vote getters move on to the next round. Easy, right?

But on top of that, everyone also competes with a series of "Masters" to raise the stakes. The Masters for this round: us (such as we are); Internet Superstar Jonathan Coulton (and you all know who he is); and co-creator of [adult swim]’s The Venture Bros. and all-around multimedia juggernaut Doc Hammer. (Doc is the one we’re really worried about: partly because we’re intimidated, as we’re both huge Venture Bros. fans; and mostly because Doc has genuine Musician HairTM)

Once things get rolling in earnest (the musician selection process is going on as we speak), we’ll let you know what the first challenge is. Wish us luck!

Posted May 4th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Latest News | Comments (3)

Paul and Storm…and Robert

Please welcome the newest member of Paul and Storm, Robert Hsu. (Son of our former DVN bandmate Richard)

He’s a big hit with the ladies, he already knows the lyrics to one of our songs, and he’s easy to get along with. (as long as we remember to cut the crusts off his bologna sandwiches) Check him out…

Posted April 30th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Look what YOU did! | Comments (4)

Gumbo Pants for the WIN!

We’ve been fortunate enough to work with artists who are able to take the roughest of ideas from us and turn them into pure Awesome. And it seems that the art establishment knows it, too. In the words of Gumbo Pants illustrator Chris Pyle himself:

"I am pleased to announce that the artwork for Gumbo Pants has been given perhaps the biggest honor in the illustration biz, inclusion in this years American Illustration Annual. A group of esteemed judges picked the piece out of 7,500 entries from all over the world to be published along with the other approx. 360 other winners."

Congratulations, Chris! We’re proud to have been able to prod your genius, and equally pleased that an artifact of Paul and Storm is going to be included in something genuinely classy.

Posted April 21st, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in In the Media | Comments (3)

Now You Can Be Us (Or At Least an Us Cover Band)

Super Dave (a.k.a. "Dave") has been recently posting videos on the YouTubes of guitar lessons for various Jonathan Coulton songs.

He has now given us the same treatment, posting a quick lesson on how to play our song "A Better Version of You". This makes him that much more super in our eyes. Thanks, Dave! We now have visions of college sophomores across the world sitting on their various quads, lamely trying to seduce young women by singing our song to them. And that makes us happy.

Posted April 21st, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Look what YOU did! | Comments (1)

David Lee Roth “Tribute”

Much like the ocean, the internet frequently tosses pleasant surprises up onto the beach, and it is up to us to make the best possible art out of the driftwood bounty.

If you haven’t heard it yet: some while back, Chunklet unearthed David Lee Roth’s isolated vocal track from "Runnin’ With the Devil", and it’s…well, it’s frickin’ awesome. (Kindly check your "Sammy Hagar was better" comments at the door–Sammy is fine, but that’s not what this is about*.)

Now, for your A.D.D.-addled spans of attention, we present the Condensed Awesome DLR RWTD Tidbits as a special tribute. It’s like having the ’80s stuffed into a small box you can open anytime.

As an added bonus, we’ve saved all of the individual yowls, yelps, screams, grunts and exclamations as individual sound files (MP3 or WAV) so that you can roll your own. And there’s a special prize goes to whoever can tolerate DLR’s "WHOOOOOOOoooooo!" as their OS alert sound for the longest.

And as an extra added bonus, we’ve put together a video for it as well and we’ve posted it to the YouTubes. Because that’s what we do.

UPDATE: Previous video not embedding properly for some odd reason; re-uploaded and re-embedded, should work now.

*though Storm’s wife thinks that Sammy’s hair is the best of all time.

Posted April 13th, 2008
By Paul and Storm | Posted in Whatever | Comments (6)