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About Me

formed in olympia, washington in august of 2003. since then we have changed line ups a lot, played a bunch of house parties, put out a live cassette, made a bunch of limited edition cd-rs, made a "real" cd, toured the united states, toured the west coast 4 times, played in the crawl space of scream club's bedroom, played a show over the phone, played cmj a few times, played sxsw, been on a few compilations, played in a fort made out of fliers and destroyed it, had a brief sponsorship with sparks, made a music video with a female body builder, made a music video of ben and marianne playing drums wearing curtains on their heads, spent 25 days in a honda civic, went to the rock and roll hall of fame and took our photos by the statues of psychedelic guitars, played a goth after prom party at a mansion, played in ben's back yard, played at the japanese garden downtown by the manmade pond across the rocks from our firends, played as a drum line backing sentai, played for our friends after making enchiladas, and recorded onto chavez' cell phone in the back yard of steve miller's old house.
we now live in brooklyn, new york and portland, oregon. yod willing, we will play again in late 2007
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/18/2005
Band Members: john chavez plays guitar, knobs, mouth, percussion, melodica, and other stuff
marianne kozlowski plays drums, percussion, mouth, and other stuff but mostly drums
benjamin parrish plays knobs, mouth, drums, percussion, keys, drums, and other stuff

there are some other people that used to be in the punks, and a few of them formed a band called ex-punks !
Influences:

Sounds Like:

"air it out" video from unanimous bangers on 5 rue christine
directed by adam kurland
BOOTLEG SERIES:

at the art institute of seattle:

Record Label: 5 Rue Christine, Every Label Ever
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

blogging is the best

WHAT IS UP HOMIESSS!!!!we trained these dogs to help us all record our solo albumsssscan you fell it!?coming soon:tour only cassette that also comes with a 10 minute back rub. it will cost 30 dollars...
Posted by punksss on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:28:00 PST

my new tape label + marianne and chavez are cool

it's my new cassette + zine publishing house. new shit coming out in time for the holiday season, okay!? can you feel it. it's 1 in our top 420 or www.myspace.com/everylabelever -------- thank y...
Posted by punksss on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:10:00 PST

discography

b>DISCOGRAPHY: working on getting this complete... maybe one day? "actuel 420" tour cd-r (edition of 15? 20? something like that) on summer2005comics cassette version on double fantasy (unreleased)...
Posted by punksss on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:42:00 PST

fliers

memories ///// more soon...............
Posted by punksss on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:21:00 PST

tour top whatevers

1. slim moon solo the band f/ portia, fon lin, and some crazy dude i'd never met and don't remember the name of human beatboxing2. the crazy homies of lancaster, pa and the delicious french toast we a...
Posted by punksss on Thu, 03 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

my food regrets from the no r.i.p.s tour

1. bad pizza in albany, ny (should have got the chicken parm sandwhich)2. failed attempt to make spanish rice "conceptually" from scratch at the silent barn for rsvpunkss dinner party (should have got...
Posted by punksss on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:45:00 PST

dc

was awesome!!! we played a super long (20+ minute) jam and then played drum line style doing back up drums for sentai. great times! thanks warehouse next door crew + thanks sentai
Posted by punksss on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:07:00 PST

east coast tour- see you soon?

we are going to try to find shirts like this while on tour, like maybe 20 or so, and make a tent out of them that we can play in at every show. wish us luck! 4/12 washington dc @ warehouse next door 1...
Posted by punksss on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:07:00 PST

tour in two weeeeeks

i am stoked. fuck yeahhh.we are going to have a ton of stuff that we have never tried to sell to you guys before and also some cd-rs that we have never tried to trade to you for nugs before.
Posted by punksss on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:15:00 PST

can't stop blogging!

WE JUST CAN'T HELP IT!!!!!! so shit, dude. i'm at marianne's apartment and the person down the hall keeps bumping "make it rain remix" in between yelling at his kids. it is so weird. about to fly ...
Posted by punksss on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:23:00 PST