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Magazinepalooza

Magazinapalooza (yes, not a word) but still the best word to describe the craziness of the boys in THREE magazines this month.

Sorry if this news is a little old but I’m still catching up. The guys are on the cover of 2 magazines and have an article in another. Let’s take a look:

bpm Magazine, issue 91
You can read the article, and well the whole magazine on-line. Very Cool. Not cool is that they misspelled Jemaine name. Argh..The article itself is pretty good. Amy Buesing talks to the guys about fame, their on screen characters and names the top ten Conchords lyrics.

Filter Magazine, issue 30
This issue is not on-line so you’ll have to get your hands on a print copy.

Blender Magazine, issue June 2008
One of the best articles is from Blender Magazine. Josh Eells gets phone calls from the boys during their tiring tour. You can read the article and see some great photos on-line. So yeah..

Some great quotes:

Bret- “So far we haven’t seen much of Utah. I think on the way in we flew over the Great Salt Lake. It looked like it was iced over; it looked kind of white. [Blender: We think that may be the salt.] Oh, right.”

“Sorry for the difficulties. I still don’t have an American cell phone; right now I’m calling on my friend Pauline’s. I tried to buy one yesterday, but they needed a Social Security number. It’s harder to buy a phone in the U.S. than it is to buy a gun. I’m thinking maybe I should just buy a gun, then steal the phone.

“We’ll be writing here in Los Angeles for two months, so I need to find a flat. Yesterday, I looked at one without a kitchen. The lady said, ‘Oh, you like to cook?’ I saw a place today with a koi pond. There’s no koi yet, so right now it’s just a really skanky pond. But it’s got potential.

“This week was probably a low point for the band’s integrity, but it was good to start doing gigs again. We got to meet the Pussycat Dolls, make some money. The only bad thing is, I’m exhausted, I’m dehydrated and I think I’ve got the flu. I can’t imagine people whose tours last longer than three days.”

Jemaine- “Today is an off day. We were thinking of going to the Grand Canyon, but we found out it’s a four-hour drive, so it would take eight hours total. And that doesn’t even include the looking part. I’ve never been to the desert, so to me it’s exotic. It sounds like cowboys. Maybe we can drink at a saloon, or rob a train. Except trains are pretty fast these days. And all we have is a rental car.”

“Then this morning in Chicago two students from the university picked us up at the airport in their … do you call them station wagons? There’s certain nouns where the names are different. Like somersaults—in New Zealand we call them roly-polys. And those sprinkles on cupcakes, we call them 100s and 1,000s. Anyway, they picked us up in their station wagon, and there wasn’t room for all our gear. At least they recognized us. But they might have just seen a JPEG. ”