Besides this and life on the road , we are in general very interested in social justice, conspiracy theories, the great ‘alligator versus the wolverine’ debate, tour photos , The Feesh and Paris the Pony, learning stuff , making fun of Carlos , and good books . Additionally, we would like to thank the following things, organizations and people for making our touring adventures possible: our volunteers and the coordinators at ONE, DATA, Oxfam, CARE, and Witness that are so supportive of our work and partnership, Vitamin Water, Luna Bars, Jet Blue, Coldplay, the Dave Matthews Band, U2, the entire production team at Warped, the Indigo Girls, Pearl Jam, Budget Rental Car (when they don't make us mad), Kinko's (even though they always make us mad), Whole Foods, Mary's Sidekick (it's still a love-hate thing, even though she tells us she no longer has it), Priceline.com, Dunkin Donuts, Josh’s Boston accent that always makes us think of Dunkin Donuts, Southwest Airlines, Brande's mom , Dan's mom, Intern Brian's dad for giving us pudding, Fed Ex (when they don't screw up), Aunt Annies Instant Mac and Cheese, Mapquest and Google Earth, Alex, Allyson and Bo on DMB,
Bofunk on Warped (to go with the 'Bo' theme) and merch guys in general that are nice to us, out of control truck stops, Taco Bell, Apple computers (we are officially all Mac dorks) Red Bull, Staples, Eagle Creek, Pirate Booty, ipods, those machines where you can use the arm to grab a toy to win, Bennigans, Holiday Inn's, and caffeine in whatever form it may come. If you are affiliated with one of the products listed above and would like to give us free stuff for thanking you, we welcome any of your generous gifts, especially those from Apple and Vitamin Water.
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You. There are a lot of people that think like we do, and we wanna meet them. We wanna meet VOLUNTEERS that want to join us in rockin' social justice. We want to meet more extra cool volunteers that will help us out AND bring us cookies. Other non-profits, campaigns and organizations that would like to partner with us. Band and record labels that want to partner with us. We want to meet activists, teachers, organizers, artists, musicians, and do-gooders in general working to make the world a better place. We want to ‘re-meet’ people that we met on tours the past few years. We use this Myspace page to let you know about volunteer opportunities where you can join us and help out, so if you're interested, be sure to add us! We also post news, funny road stories, internship openings and lots of other stuff. Check out our tour blog and photos for more info on us and what we do.
Music:
Punk rock, hip-hop, metal and David Cross. (Seriously, we listen to him over and over and over again...) Otherwise everyone listens to lots of different things, but we have observed that: Carlos and Brande once spent 12 hours on the road listening to nothing but Pavement and Sonic Youth, but they also listen to a lot of punk and hip-hop. Dan is known for blasting Metallica and Slayer at 2am to ‘keep awake’ both himself and the rest of the car while driving. Arron is the reason that we have 12 Billy Joel CD’s in our truck, and he takes it as a personal attack if you change the radio when ELO is on. Josh likes DMB, Mike Doughty and other stuff that Brande and Arron call ‘hippy music’, even though that’s not true and they secretly like a lot of his music. Intern Haley likes stuff similar to Josh, but she gets mad if we say that. Intern Brian mostly has his headphones on and never gets to pick music, so all we know is he likes Incubus and Muse. Kara and Amy are too nice to argue about music. And Intern Pratchi fessed up to being a big ‘ole Sean Paul fan. Our team members that come out for short stints don’t seem to passionately fight over music the way the rest of our crew does, but once Jessica started to cry when Carlos went to play Jay Z’s ‘The Black Album’ for like the 55th time in one day. And of course, we heart those bands that are nice enough to take us out on tour...
Movies:
We like to play DVD's while in the car. South Park, Ali G, and lots of other stuff....
Television:
Is for hotel rooms.
Books:
The End of Poverty, Democracy Matters, and random bad magazines.
Heroes:
You can sit on your ass and complain. Or you can do something. Our heroes are those that do something, in every way shape and form possible. We get to meet them everyday. It's a cool job...
