matthewvanasselt:

theworldisa:

Our good friend, Matt Van Asselt, is trying to raise some funds for his art show. He is selling some prints and posters (including the TWIABP poster above). Consider picking up some stuff here:

http://matthewvanasselt.tumblr.com/store

http://cargocollective.com/matthewvanasselt/No-Place-Benefit-Edition

Thanks again to everyone who came out and everyone who performed on sunday, we had a blast.    It is the best to share the stage and the room with so many friends.  The Act of Estimating as Worthless will now be settling down for a little while.  As I write this Zoe is on a bus somewhere en route to Utah, where she will remain for a little - while I (Matt) will be here finishing up school (and dutifully working away at the Circadian Tremors packages).  Though we previously announced this would be the end of AOEAW, I’d like to edit that now to say this will not be the definite end, though we will be keeping quiet most of the time.  We have some hazy but exciting ideas for the fall, but at least until then we’ll be taking a little rest.  

I would also like to take a quick moment to say thanks to all the past members of AOEAW - in playing with us and recording with us you made The Act of Estimating as Worthless what it is.  We owe a lot to you all - Esteban, Jon, Lily, John, Pete, Tom, Gabby, Maria - Thank you.

Circadian Tremors as been a long and drawn out project for us, and though it is far from finished,  we are happy to finally have the music finished and public.  It has been a very different record - there was not really a band before the last record, the songs just got pieced together in the studio as we went.  This time we set out to write fully-realized songs for a specific line-up, which was a pretty new process for us.  As has become AOEAW tradition, the bulk of the song writing took place while we were away, in drastically different places, with demos and arrangements being exchanged through endless emails.  We would go through periods of all being together and having a chance to workshop some songs, but still other songs had never been played as a full band until a couple days before sunday’s show.

As we now enter another period of being away, I will only say that we are not gone for good, but I do anticipate a good amount of quiet time from here on out.  But we labeled ourselves as “quiet” from the start…

And lastly, I think I speak for all of us when I say thank you - to everyone who has listened, downloaded, sent us kind words, come to a show, bought a tape, anything.  Thank you, it means the world.

-Matt, Zoe, Mike

The Act of Estimating as Worthless

dbldblwhmmy:

Totally Ruined Circuits is a boutique effects and electronics company owned and operated by our very own Nick Corbo (of LVL UP and Spook Houses). How cool is that? TRC just launched this kickstarter campaign for their very first fuzz pedal and it sounds incredible. Check it out and consider backing if you’re into this type of thing! 

I am the proud owner of the mouthbreather prototype which will be providing the act of estimating as worthless with all future distortion needs.  Nick is running a kickstarter to fund the first run of these, so you too can be the proud owner of one of these beautiful pedals.  Check it out!