Todd Stadler's blog

fly high away

My friends in The Tritium Miracle are playing a show tonight - their first Saturday night show! - so in honor of them, I'd like to talk about myself.

More specifically, I'd like to bask in the glory that will undoubtedly be bestowed upon them (as it is upon all rock musicians) by mentioning what I did to help.

I was called upon to create a stir in the music community - a buzz, if you will - by announcing to all in Portland that my friends would be gracing this town with their sweet melodies. In other words, I made the street flyers. Again.

This time, I decided to have some fun and make a flyer that appeared to have been created by an obsessed mental case. Although that does not make it unique among the pieces of paper on Portland's telephone poles, it does make it interesting, I think. And it wasn't much of a stretch for me ha ha.

I got the idea after I realized that I tend to enjoy the rantings of loons more than I do the typical music poster with some band names and a nice image. Maybe it's just me.

So I sat down at my wonderful typewriter and banged out some incoherent paranoid message. Just like the pros do! Old school!

And then I made up a fake newspaper article, replete with a picture of Bush speaking at "Masoncon '02". Other flyers had pictures of Kofi Annan speaking at the same event. Of course.

Sure, I realize that the flyer doesn't make it completely obvious what is going on. That wasn't the point. Most people aren't likely to go to a show of a band they've never heard of. So I just tried to make their name better known in the most entertaining way.

And in the end, it's not facts that are important - it's entertainment.