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In honour of Halloween, we have included a few videos from our infamous Halloween show at Cafe Ballistico in 2003. We dressed up as Super Mario Bros. 2 villains and forced Princess Toadstool to play with us.
THE ENTRANCE -- THEME FROM "MILLENNIUM" -- LEVEL 2:
BOBBY BROWN'S "ON OUR OWN" FROM GHOSTBUSTERS 2:
DEBUT PREMIER OF "BUMBLEBEE WON'T DANCE":
We travel with our families in covered wagons.
It appears that our full-length debut is almost ready for public unleashing! We have definitively chosen "Explodeo!" for the title. We plan on playing at least two record-release shows, one in late December and one in early January. This is a People Will Blink special engagement (i.e., after this, we probably won't be playing again for a long time) and is not to be missed. In other news, Ed still will not put the band in his top friends... even though he has left enough space for his sister's pet rabbit, Bunnaroo.
The album was recorded between 2003 and 2007 by Mark Yoshizumi at Studio Chicago and his apocalypse-equipped apartment. It will be released on Reformer Records in December. The album will contain 8 tracks, all of which will periodically appear on this page. And it will be fantastic.
Here is a video of us recording "The Coat Hanger Song."
If you're still reading about us, that's very sweet of you. Here's a little more information. People Will Blink formed in 2002 and played several shows, traveling from practice to practice and venue to venue with our families in covered wagons. In 2004, we took some time off. Some of us quit, traveled, went to school in California, rejoined the group, quit, moved, joined for the first time, and moved again. People Will Blink is currently Azeem, Charlie, Ed, Mark, and Patrick. In our songs turkish wedding music coexists with thrash metal, sea-faring shanties evolve into free jazz, and ambient sound collages turn into video game soundtracks. We use bass, guitar, drums, keyboards, clarinets, remote controls, and whatever else happens to be lying around the basement. We often yell our heads off, try to sing four-part harmonies, and disparage each other on stage. We have no manifesto, no overarching theme or purpose, but we like playing. We think you'll like our playing too. But probably not.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/2/2004
Band Website: peoplewillblink.com
Band Members: MARK DRISCOLL: fashion bombshell and supergenius.

bass, guitar, clarinet, remote control number one, voice

AZEEM KHAN: cornucopia of creativity and confusion.

voice, keyboard, Korg futuristic mini-keyboard, sampler, melodica, drums

PATRICK GUNDERSON: encyclopedia of useless musical facts... and a great big man-baby.

drums, keyboard, percussion, sampler, recorder, voice

EDWARD GOODMANN: deep lover of self and a Stones guy.

guitar, bass, Korg futuristic mini-keyboard, hair, voice

CHARLIE DREWS: quitter.

bass, piccolo bass, guitar, drums, remote control number 2, glockenspiel, voice

Extended People Will Blink Family:

Annalise Nelson-Balock, Mark Yoshizumi, Jessica Ambrozy, Kimberly Marolf, Brian Hartman, Melissa Gleason, Aaron Weiner, and Lenny Zieben.

Influences: Mr. Bungle, Primus, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, The Residents, Ween, They Might be Giants, The Talking Heads, Cheer Accident, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faraquet, Captain Beefheart, The Flaming Lips, Cornelius, Estradasphere, Wu Tang Clan, Secret Chiefs 3, Magma, Rush, Bjork, anticon, cLOUDDEAD, Deerhoof, Blackalicious, Aesop Rock, Oingo Boingo, Brian Eno, Wonderloaf, Dive, Baba Yaga, The Foibles, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Syd Barrett, Dismemberment Plan, Modest Mouse, John Zorn, Naked City, Morris Day and the Time, Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys, Julian Cope, Haco, After Dinner, Hoahio, Cheer Accident, The Boredoms, The Roots, Fantomas, King Crimson, David Bowie, Lightning Bolt, Pretty Girls Make Graves, U.S. Maple, Mos Def, Black Star, Olivia Tremor Control, Outkast, Mercury Rev, Tori Amos, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, Beck, Danielson Famile, Battles, Ooioo, TV on the Radio, Robert Wyatt, Animal Collective, Busdriver, Ruins, Devo, The Pixies, Sigur Ros, Pere Ubu, Kraftwerk, Can, Acid Mothers Temple
Sounds Like: Being thrown out of a moving vehicle by the KGB, then going home to watch Pee Wee's Playhouse.
Record Label: Reformer Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Pictures from Ballistico Halloween show; 11/1/03

Four years ago, we played a Halloween show dressed as villains from Super Mario Bros. 2. Enjoy. Mark Driscoll as "Shyguy." Charlie Drews as "Snifit." Patrick Gunderson as "Tweeter." Azeem Kh...
Posted by People Will Blink on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:14:00 PST

An interview from 2003 that I just found

I just found this. It's an interview that our friend Jane conducted for a class project. I think that it ultimately ended up in the DePaul University newspaper and that there ended up bei...
Posted by People Will Blink on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:28:00 PST

Pictures from our first party; Marcus' house, 5/10/03

azeem has been driving me crazy about getting these pictures up. they are pictures of our first party, which was about four years ago, and represent what is probably the funnest show we've ...
Posted by People Will Blink on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:17:00 PST

Pictures from our second show; Lyons Den, 4/19/03

greetings. these are some pictures from our second show, which happened to be the day before easter. the pictures aren't terribly exciting, nor was the show. we opened with a demented...
Posted by People Will Blink on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:23:00 PST

Pictures from our FIRST show; Lyons Den, 3/1/03

it is very odd looking at these pictures. our first show was nearly 4 years ago. oddly, i can't recall many shows that were as fun as this. this band meant so much to all of us and t...
Posted by People Will Blink on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:52:00 PST

Pictures from recording sessions, 12/19-20/06

greetings. i hope all holidays went according to plan and that none of you are sad or dead. after 4 years of existence, people will blink is recording a full-length album, which will...
Posted by People Will Blink on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:37:00 PST

Pictures from Darkroom, 8/14/05

these pictures were posted in a previous blog and represent our first show as the reborn People Will Blink featuring ed goodmann. thanks to aaron (who is pictured below. frequently.) f...
Posted by People Will Blink on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:16:00 PST

Pictures from Byte Studios, 4/21/06; the Mutiny, 5/12/06

hello. it has been a while, hasn't it? next week, azeem will be back in town. like voltron, we will reconnect and wreak havoc on evil all about the land. also, we will be reco...
Posted by People Will Blink on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:27:00 PST

Pictures from Lilly's Tavern on 3/24/06

below is further documentation of the carnage we leave upon every stage we visit. this show took place in march. it was a lot of fun for us. very.............. goofy, let's say. probably on...
Posted by People Will Blink on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:49:00 PST

one of the perks of being a well-known, albeit ineffective superhero

... is the name of the third song posted on this page. i tried to make an icon. the letters were too small. i was too lazy to fix it. i live in a snailshell. my name is patri...
Posted by People Will Blink on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:18:00 PST