Happy Star Wars Day! Our new EP “Cool Hand, Luke” is out TODAY!

Featuring a duet between Anakin and Padme about the merits of sand, a ska cover of a blink-182 song (featuring saxophone by Joe DeGeorge), and a fan theory about Jar Jar Binks being a Sith Lord. 

May the Fourth Be with You! 

http://bluemilkrun.bandcamp.com

It would appear as though it is the First of May, and you know what that means… Jonathan Coulton is out there fuckin his squirrel and chipmunk friends.

Here’s an edit I did of First of May by Jonathan Coulton a few years ago. Mostly he just swears a lot more.

Explicit warning: There’s roughly 75 F-bombs in this, so you probably shouldn’t listen to it at work. 

This is what Nintendo didn’t want us to know.

Planned Parenthood’s website says that all donations between now and midnight tomorrow (Dec 31st) are being triple-matched, FYI. 

My pals Blue Milk Run have a new EP out, and I drew the cover art. JOIN THE RESISTANCE! 🎶 https://bluemilkrun.bandcamp.com/album/join-the-resistance

My 5 and 3 year old nieces tried to make a BB8 cake for my birthday and I can’t stop laughing. 

We made it.

THE 25 DAYS OF LAST CHRISTMAS

Day 25 - Neil Cicierega feat Smash Mouth and Wham!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

Last year I texted @neilcicierega and said “You have 4 days to find a way to mash up All Star with Last Christmas.” (4 days before we were to hop in a van with @harryandthepotters again) He replied “EASY” and then didn’t say anything else about it.

The next day I picked him up and he simply handed me a flash drive without saying what was on it. It contained this.

Perfect.

I put it on in the van without telling @truegoof and @joedegeorge what it was, and then worried we were going to get into a car accident from the amount of laughter coming out of them. 

Happy Smash Christmas, everyone! 

^^^ true story. 

Also, @mingdoyle gave me the original to this last night and I have spent no less than an hour staring at it today. Heart eyes emoji times a million.

My pals Blue Milk Run have a new EP out, and I drew the cover art. JOIN THE RESISTANCE! 🎶 https://bluemilkrun.bandcamp.com/album/join-the-resistance

Do you love Star Wars and also hate Donald Trump? If so, this is the EP for you! 

“Join the Resistance” is available now: https://bluemilkrun.bandcamp.com/album/join-the-resistance

Album art by @mingdoyle​!!! 

It’s YULE BALL WEEK!!!

We’ll be performing in D.C., NYC, and Boston with Harry and the Potters, The Moaning Myrtles, Draco and the Malfoys, and Kwikspell next weekend!

Friday, December 15th The Black Cat (Washington D.C.)  Tickets Saturday, December 16th The Bell House (Brooklyn, NY)  Tickets Sunday, December 17th The Middle East Downstairs (Cambridge, MA) Tickets

I guess I’m gonna let this run again. I won’t keep rebloggin’ here though. Follow @face-of-a-lover if you’d like to get a daily dose of Last Christmas from now until Christmas! 

THE 25 DAYS OF LAST CHRISTMAS

Day 1 - Wham!

Before we started our journey I was the only one who actually liked this song, but my other 7 vanmates suffered through this version to give us our baseline. As we got deeper and deeper into the covers (most of which were horrible) everyone started to appreciate Wham’s version more. By the end of our weekend I started to feel kind of uneasy whenever Last Christmas /wasn’t/ on.

Our favorite line of this song is undoubtedly the whispery “Happy Christmas!” bit, and we gave extra stars to people who used it more than once. Someone could make a version with just the whisper looping over the entire song and we’d probably love it.

Having listened to just under 500 versions of this song I feel pretty well versed on it, and I’ve gotta say, though some of the covers I’ll be posting over the next few weeks are really good, I still find myself needing to go back to Wham’s from time to time. 

We gave this version 4 out of 5 stars. 

10 years ago today we went to see @harryandthepotters play a show in Harvard for the Deathly Hallows release and I still think about this day a lot. After the show we went to the Borders (RIP) midnight release in our hometown where a lot of people knew who we were and it super freaked me out. (We had done exactly one Potter Puppet Pals live show at that point so things were still pretty new here.) People were singing The Mysterious Ticking Noise together in the store which was incredibly surreal but also exciting. Sometimes I can't believe it has already been 10 years and other times I can't believe it has ONLY been 10 years, but today i'm just feeling very thankful for everyone who has been involved in this magical journey with us one way or another.

I mashed up the old 2005 video of The Ultimate Showdown (of Ultimate Destiny) with our 2009 full band studio recording out of boredom yesterday. Enjoy!

Somehow it has been 10 years since we made The Mysterious Ticking Noise, so we did a 4K remake to celebrate!

Umm my niece is a tiny nerdfighter today??

My friend @mingdoyle made this Giraffe Love redesign and I love it!

Available for pre-order now!

Giraffe Love 3.0 is now here! Add the new version to your collection!

Designed by Ming Doyle, creator of the Pastoral Pizzamas shirt!

GET IN ON THIS!!!

MOUTH MOODS

New mashup album

Listen now

http://neilcic.com/mouthmoods/

A month later and I'm still running off of those good Yule Ball vibes. One thing that I've been thinking about a lot as tomorrow approaches is how important it is to invest time in yourself. Life is frequently chaotic and stressful, and I think taking the time to do something for yourself now and then is the only way to get through it. I missed out on a fun event last night due to trying to be “responsible” or whatever, and today I'm wishing I had tried harder to make it work. Of course not everyone can go to the Yule Ball and this isn't specifically about the Yule Ball in particular, but rather that when an opportunity presents itself for you to do something fun you should try to make it happen if you can because we need those fun and happy moments to help us survive the darker days. Today my light guiding me through the impending darkness comes in the form of these Yule Ball memories, and I am so thankful to everyone who helps make these shows so special every year. Photos by @wizardpunk!