P.O. Box 69
Franklin Lakes, NJ
07417
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October 31, 2009
Last night PT Grimm performed at the AGBU Rocktoberfest Fundraiser. A video of Saint Vartan's Cathedral from the event is available on the Videos page.
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October 12, 2009
It's my birthday, and your present is that the video for Hush has been added to Youtube and our Videos page. The Exile is coming soon, really this time.
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April 24th, 2009
On the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, it occurs to me that we no longer have the following things to worry about: A manager, a record label, a publicist, or a reputation. We are completely free to do and say whatever we want to. So to that end, we proudly but humbly present two new songs off of the forthcoming 'Exile' album. "Saint Vartan's Cathedral" and "A Pig in a Fez" are now available on the Theatre page as one long format MP3 file. The world stood by and watched us die. Fuck the whole world for closing their eyes...
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April 1st, 2009
We didn't play an April Fool's Day joke this year because we're planning to do something bad when you least expect it. "Inside Her Crippled Mind" has been leaked on the 'theatre' page, "The Exile" is 100% finished and we are currently finalizing plans to release this album that we are extremely proud of simultaneously on CD and digitally. There will be a video, a store, and even live performances again very soon.
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March 3rd, 2009
I am writing from my basement after having had the distinct pleasure of suffering from viral labrynthitis for a second time. If you're anything like I was 2 years ago, you're wondering what the hell "viral labrynthitis" is. Viral Labrynthitis is an insidiously simple ear infection with horrific consequences which was probably caused by the earplugs I wear during PT Grimm practices to spare my hearing. Viral labrynthitis has almost no symptoms, no pain, and no fever. The only symptom is that the infection attacks the part of the human ear which is responsible for balance and stability, resulting in unbelievable vertigo. This means that every time the afflicted person raises or moves his/her head the result is an overpowering feeling of vertigo and seasickness which begins an uncontrollable cycle of vomiting. Trust me when I say that your worst night of drunken dry heaving doesn't even come close to the wretched stomach lacerating hell that I have recently experienced. Like you, I once simply took it for granted that I could raise and move my head at will.
After suffering through this hellish torment for over 16 days some 2 years ago, I was taking a bus ride home last week when I began sweating profusely and my head began to spin out of control. A sleeping Asian woman and a fat white man were sitting to my right, blissfully ignorant to my condition. Without a bathroom in sight, all I had to quietly vomit in (again and again) was a once favorite navy blazer that would soon wind up filled with puke and abandoned. I calmly phoned my mother and asked her, in Armenian as to not alarm the other passengers on the bus, to pick me up from the next stop and be ready to take me to the emergency room. When we arrived, I painted the side of my mother's car with stomach acid as she sat nervously, watching my father nervously drive me to the emergency room, while suburban asswipes took every yellow light opportunity to honk at us.
I've been to plenty of hospitals to visit sick friends but I've never been a patient myself. Even during my last bout with viral labrynthitis I refused a trip to the emergency room and wasn't ready to be the center of attention. As it turns out working in the ER is maybe the worst job that I can imagine, with a bunch of sick and injured dimwits constantly yelling about while having to wait. Upon arriving at the emergency room I met a bunch of sweet nurses and was given a battery of tests including an EKG. My girlfriend Nika showed up and seeing her face was just about the best thing in the world. The doctors spent more time being fascinated by my test results than helping people who really needed it. As doctors have remarked several times in the past, I heard our current doc (who had the creepy too perfect face of a male model) telling my parents and girlfriend Nika that my white blood cell count was remarkably high, ready to slay disease, and that I have the type of low steady heartbeat that is typically only associated with professional athletes. "Ok doc, I'm glad that you're so thrilled with my meta-humanity but I'm still fucking suffering here." They finally shot me up with some steadying injection used for sea-sickness, which stopped the puking, but resulted in a monster of a headache. Six hours later they gave me a prescription for oral Meclizine, which again stops the vomiting but makes me even more dizzy and shitty, and sent me home to enjoy the next several days of hell. Ugh...
Back to the beginning, I am writing from my basement after having had the distinct pleasure of suffering from viral labrythitis a second time. Unfortunately, PT Grimm will be unable to release our new album, 'The Exile,' on March 3rd, 2009 as expected. A more solid release date cannot be determined at the moment, but will be announced soon. However today, I am posting a copy of "Hush (Strangers in Exile)" to both our website and our myspace page, to tide you over until the actual release date which will hopefully be in April or May. I know that many of you have written to us and are waiting for a response. You will get one in due time, but I hope that you will understand that I am currently using my last drop of energy to post this new song and will then be lying around watching bad television until I am better. The only thing that I can assure you of at the moment is that we recorded an album which we are genuinely thrilled with and proud of and that everything will be out very soon.
Sincerely,
Mike Nashanian on behalf of PT Grimm
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