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Stars Are Bullets

About Me

We recently decided to post an actual bio.Stars Are Bullets has been known by many names. It's A Trap!!!, Naked Tuxedo, and Jon and Seth's Magical Musical Monkey Magic.
Stars Are Bullets consists of four people. Joe and Steph who are married, and Jon and Seth who are also married but only to their loneliness (Actually Seth has a steady girlfriend and Jon has a wife. THROW YOUR PANTIES ELSEWHERE LADIES!!! However if you do bring clean underwear to the show Jon would appreciate it...)
We have been together for a little less than a year but haven't done nearly as much as we would like because of various entanglements, jobs, and bass player debacles.
We practice in Highland at Joe and Stephs house. Their cats are our biggest fans! Their neighbors...not so much.
Individual bios:
Jon: Besides being the lead singer/rhythm guitar player for Stars Are Bullets Jon is also a DJ at 89.9 WLCA. You can hear him every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 6-9 hosting The Wake Up Call. With his band, and disk jockeying Jon likes to give people as much cause to hate him as possible.
Seth: Besides being the drumster for Stars Are Bullets Seth is also a professional smart-ass. He writes for Something Awful.com and really really really really hates you if you've posted a video to youtube recently where you are trying to be funny. Knock that shit off. Seriously.
Joe: The lead guitar player/backup singer for Stars Are Bullets enjoys video games, doing things with his bassplayer wife, and from what I (Jon) understand is employed at some hospital somewhere where he gets paid to fix paper jams in the printers.
Stephanie: The newest addition to our band. Steph was at first just a gracious wife who allowed her husband (Joe) to practice with his band at their house. However after losing more bass-players than Jon's dad has lost fingers to loan-sharks (three) Steph finally decided to step in and play bass for us. YAY!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/11/2007
Band Website: You're looking at it (for now)
Band Members: Jon Wier: Vocals, ryfm guitar, freaker outer

Joe Szoke: Lead Geetar, sage advisor, owner

Steph Szoke: Bass guitar, cat handler, arts n' crafts, token female, not having Autism.

Seth Bailey: Drums, Hurdy Gurdy, Glockenspiel, guitar parts that Jon doesn't know how to play, not very good at growing a beard.
Influences: Modest Mouse
Radiohead
The Flaming Lips
Neutral Milk Hotel
Of Montreal
The Smiths
The Shins
Sunny Day Real Estate
Weezer
Foo Fighters
Spoon
Built To Spill

Note: We sound nothing like any of these bands and you have just wasted 5 seconds of your life by reading this.
Sounds Like: We use (like you care) and are in no way endorsed by:

Jon: Fender guitars (Classic '69 Tele), Marshall amps (MG100HDFX), sometimes Electro-Harmonix effects (USA Big Muff Pi)

Joe: Gibson (Les Paul Studio) and Fender (crazy-ass 90's HM and Floyd Rose Deluxe) guitars, Peavey 5150, Boss (DS1) modded Dunlop Crybaby, Behringer (V-Amp) and various other effects. Also goofy pawnshop guitars as much as possible.

Steph: ESP and Ibanez basses, Peavey amps (Combo 115)

Seth: Pacific drums (FX-series), Pearl hardware (PowerShifter Eliminator double pedal, Eliminator high hat stand, various boom cymbal stands) , Sabian cymbals (Paragons), Remo heads (Ambassadors on the toms), Evans Heads (Emads on the kick, Power Center on the snare)
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Meh

I can''t really offer any more information than Seth's earlier blog post. 1: Yes we are broken up. 2: Yes it's all because of me. 3: Seth likes pie. The reasons for the break-up are not the explosive ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 18:25:00 GMT

Apparently we have broken up!

Though perhaps we haven't because I am unable to get ahold of anyone to confirm what is going on! However, the facts support my hypothesis (outlined in the subject of this blog):1) I got a text messag...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT

Our first CD is FINISHED and FOR SALE

After long months, our first full-length CD is FINALLY DONE.  We just got them back from the disc making people, and they look and sound fantastic.  The discs are actually freaking professional, and n...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:27:00 GMT

New Songs! CD coming soon.

Today I posted 4 new songs that will be on our upcoming CD, which is tentatively called A=A.  The CD is 99.5% finished - all of the songs and artwork are done, layout is done, it's all ready to g...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:38:00 GMT

Snickersfest....

Well WE had fun. The turnout was a lot lower than expected, and quite honestly that was surprising, but the few people who did manage to straggle in off the Alton streets to see us and many many many ...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:27:00 GMT

New lyrics new song

We've kind of been stalled by various diabolical entanglements lately but we have recently written a song called Out Come the Spiders...here are the lyrics:Well you look just like you did when you wer...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:05:00 GMT

What a week...

So here is how the week went for your favorite band named Stars Are Bullets. We played three shows.The first one at the Creepy Crawl. It was unremarkable aside from the fact that it was the first time...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:03:00 GMT