Posted At : August 20, 2009 2:42 PM
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THANK YOU, Thank You, thank you to all who came out to the Power & Light for the show on August 7th. It was a blast. I have included a link to the photos taken that night by Brian Rice as well as a video he took. He is offering all of his photos for half price until the end of the month. When he was there he took a lot with the crowd in them there so if you were there, there is a good chance you are somewhere in a photo there.
Here is a link to Brian Rice's photos:
http://briantium.smugmug.com/gallery/9196450_kE6QU#616570370_3CDYR
Here is a link to "Never Tear Us Apart" featuring Mr. Trey DeBose ladies and gentlemen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lg75mPBaw *Also courtesy of Brian Rice
WE NEED YOUR PHOTOS! On the Perpetual Change website is a section where you can upload the photos YOU took at Power & Light (or any Perpetual Change show you have photos). Dave Shulz or I will review them and put them up on the site, give you credit for them if you like, and then the whole world will be able to share your experience. We would really appreciate it if you could take a couple of seconds and upload your pics...we are appreciative people.
Here is the link for you to SHARE YOUR PHOTOS WITH THE WORLD ON THE PERPETUAL CHANGE WEBSITE:
http://www.perpetual-change.com/upload1.cfm
We are playing this weekend at Jerry's Bait Shop in Lee's Summit on Saturday August 22nd from 8pm -8:45pm if you are in the area.
August 29th we will be at The Brooksider and would like to tear the place apart if you can fit it in your schedule.
Thank you for supporting our band. This has been an incredibly fun ride.
Jim
The Motionless Rocker
Posted At : August 3, 2009 11:50 PM
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Please join us at the Power & Light District's LIVE stage August 7th from 9pm - Midnight. It is a "buy your favorite drink" night so be sure to order what you like...that way you have nobody to blame but yourself when you wake up in a strange place after the show. "Buy your favorite drink" night won out over "bring a hooker" night, "Bring two bunnies in a cage" night, and "Bring a plastic friend" night. But the last one was a close second. Life is too short to sit home and watch T.V. Get off the couch, get your thumb out from the inside of your boxers, put away the potato chips, free your caged guy (like the one from Pulp Fiction), and get ready to enjoy the great experience of the Power & Light with us. I ran out of funny again so please bring 10 of your favorite jokes to the show (Ensley is stuck in Boston) and be ready to have a joke-off to see who is the funniest during the break. "Hey Bob, what are you doing Friday night?" "Well Bill, I am going to P&L to joke-off!" "Wow Bob that sounds disgusting?" "Maybe Bill, but I am going to joke-off while everyone is watching." "Eeewwww Bob! Bring a towel I guess." I think you get the idea. We hope you can make it out. This should be a rager. -Jim The Motionless Rocker
Posted At : July 7, 2009 11:52 AM
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Hello!
Okay...I have had it with celebrity deaths. This needs to stop for a while and I have talked with the folks at TMZ.com to give the world a frickin' break. Some things are out of our control but while YOU are still breathing you have a choice...you can choose to sit and watch the world pass you by on a Saturday night, or get off your buttocks, celebrate life, and join us for a cocktail July 18th 2009 at The Brooksider. Michael Jackson, David Carradine, Steve McNair, Billie Mays, Ed McMahon, and Farrah Fawcett won't be there. But we will be resurrecting 80's music just like JC demonstrated resurrection in the milleniallistically correct 4-digit year of 0033. People probably won't still be talking about Perpetual Change 2000 years from now but you have to shoot for something...and it worked for Bill S. Preston and Ted "Theodore" Logan right?
The last show at Coach's was a blast. Thank you to all who came out and endured my dancing. I had a rough bout with Jaeger-bombs and various shots that made me play and behave in an unusual way. The band stopped about 12:45am but I think I was still playing at 2:30am. Nobody told me it was over and I woke up on Coach's patio the next morning at 6am in my underwear with pink bunny ears on my head, a dog collar around my neck, a halter top protecting my newly tattooed nipples, a toilet seat cover for a life jacket (Ensley), sitting in a plastic kiddie pool of beer-water with a homeless guy named Fred who kept asking me for a smoke in between his cuddling and singing of 'Jimmy Cracked Corn'. It was a crazy night. The back of the cop car was nice though and the only reason I tell you the story is because my parole officer is coming to The Brooksider on July 18th at 10pm to see if I do it again.
Life is short. Death sucks. Regrets are no good so get your life right, love your parents, family, wife, kids, apologize for being an azz...and once all that is done, get out to The Brooksider and have as much fun as you can with Perpetual Change before you pass-on and hover next to the 70's poster version of Farrah Fawcett in the front row of the Vatican sponsored 14,000 seat 'Heavenly Arena', with your halo-lighter lit, eating your nachos & cheese fries, laughing a bit and drinking a beer as Ed McMahon introduces Michael Jackson before he starts his opening night of the "I was acquitted so I'm in Heaven" run-on-sentence tour. I know...Chuck Norris isn't dead because death is afraid of Chuck Norris...
Okay enough of that. Did I mention we are playing Saturday night July 18th, 2009 10pm at The Brooksider?
Hug'em if you got'em.
Jim
Jim Parker
The Motionless Rocker
"Swaying is good, movement is scary."
Posted At : June 17, 2009 7:34 AM
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Hello,
Although I am sure most of you have www.perpetual-change.com set as the home page of your web-browser, and know it from start to finish, I thought I would just send out a quick update of the new features available on the Perpetual Change Website.
1. PC Merchandise. I am still looking for the brave soul who is going to purchase the Creepy Wall Clock. Not only is it a brilliant piece of art but NO ONE who sees it will be unable to notice it...and then of course be unable to watch anything else but a scary movie. Once again I digress (from 2 years worth of emails), PC Merchandise is unique, exclusive, different, unlike anything else, rare, and uncommon, but in addition to all that you won't find stuff like it anywhere else. http://perpetual-change.com/pcstore.cfm At least get a PC shirt and wear it to a topless beach. 2. Vote Us into Playing Your Songs! If you go to our home page (or homie page if you are in the Perpetual Change gang), on the bottom left you will see a link to "Help shape future PC shows - vote for your favorites from our set list!" Look at the list of songs...vote for the ones you like. We will play any song in the world...as long as it is on this list. Have an idea for a song we should play? Here is the official process for requests: Get really drunk and tell Mike (the lead singer of Perpetual Change) what your song idea is in the middle of us doing a set...preferably in the middle of a song while he is singing or playing bass...scream really loudly at him...it will appear he can't hear you...but you know he can...so scream it louder...until he writes it down...he loves that! :)
3. UPLOAD Your Own Photos! If you look down on the right hand side of our website you will see the grammatically fun blurb that says "Got some photos from one of our shows? Upload them here and we'll post them!" It is right under the PC Pics thing with the camera icon. This where you can upload photos you have taken from any Perpetual Change show and we will post them. Please nobody read the following: I am not asking you to upload inappropriate photos of yourself anymore Kevin H., but just so you know if you do, it is only me who will see them and not Playgirl. I had to have eye surgery, a new trash can, Pepto Bismol, and a shrink...
4. PC RADIO! On the left side of our website is a button/icon that says "Launch PC Radio". There are all kinds of different songs that are available for you to play. How they got there...I have no idea. How long they will stay...no idea. Click it, launch it, sit back and enjoy.
A poem titled "Launch PC Radio"- by Jim Parker:
Some songs are Perpetual Change, some are not, some are 80's, and kinda hot, most are good so few are bad, listening to PC Radio will make you glad. You can't get that kind of beautiful expression of soul just anywhere.
One last thing...we are playing this Saturday night at Coach's on 148th and Metcalf...9pm-12am. From what I can tell, this one is going to be a rager. Come early and get ready to go at it. The owner of Coach's would truly appreciate it if you would bring him some kind of sports memorabilia for his walls. He doesn't care what it is as long as it is sporting related like a...hockey stick, puck, badmittion racket, basketball net, sideline chalk, bowling lane oil, scoreboard, wooden floor, bench chair, tape, soap from the shower, tough actin' Tenactin, inspirational speech, socks, turf, grounds crew, a refereee, rule book, coin for a coin toss, Polo jockey, curling stick, basketball goal, cheerleader, you get the picture.
I hope to see everyone of you reading this Saturday night.
Peeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
Jim
The Motionless Rocker
"Great poems like 'Launch PC Radio', actually move me."
Posted At : June 9, 2009 7:34 AM
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Wow...
I just wanted to thank all who came to The Brooksider show Saturday night. It was a blast. There was craziness in the audience, craziness on stage, and I counted 3 people that face-planted into the stage steps after having one too many drinky poos...shweet.
We were blessed to have guest appearances from John Henderson of KC/DC (the AC/DC Tribute band), as well as Tony Trevino of Rattle & Hum (the U2 Tribute band). Those guys are amazing.
There was creative tambourine activity as many body parts contributed to the rhythm of the music via the gluteus maximus, jumping, raised hands, and hair shaking. I am sending out a call to all tambourine players who can keep time...practice up for June 20th at Coach's...we need you. We are doing an EARLY SHOW Saturday night June 20th at Coach's on 148th and Metcalf starting at 9pm and going to 1am. Call your neighbors, bring your friends, give the fathers in your household the ultimate Father's Day gift...a night out drinking so that he has a reason to sleep in on Father's Day. Eh?
Saturday night...June 20th...Coach's on 148th and Metcalf...EARLY SHOW... 9pm...9PM...9PM...9PM!
See you there...
Jim
Posted At : March 22, 2009 12:15 PM
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All-Star Jam Night & Benefit for Jim Parker & Family
Featuring Perpetual Change, the Zeros,
Rattle & Hum, Symetrix, Lin Buck and more!
Saturday, March 28th
The Brooksider - Kansas City, MO
10:00 pm - 2:00 am
$5 Cover
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Can I get a JIMMY P?? |
Hosted by Perpetual Change along with guest appearances by the Zeros, Rattle and Hum, Symetrix and other local friends to honor Perpetual Change Guitarist Jim Parker in his recovery from major surgery. (Appendix/Calf implants*) The members of Perpetual Change invite you to join us for this special event to assist Jim, Amy and the Parker family following Jim's surgery. If anyone has an appendix please bring one for Parker as his is now MIA courtesy of Shawnee Mission Medical Center. *Jim's elective calf implant surgery was part of a package deal (#3) and I hear he looks 10 years younger (despite the Popeye legs) and doctors say this should take 4 to 8 seconds off of his best 40 time (1 min 50 secs set at SMNW circa 1987). Great News -- Jim was released this week and is doing well but not up to Rocking the B-Sider just yet. With Jim recovering - we've elected to make this night an "All-Star Jam" with friends from The Zeros, Rattle and Hum, Symetrix, Lin Buck of Cyclamatic, and numerous other local friends/musicians. This will be a BIG NIGHT and is sure to be a memorable event with a Woodstock type atmosphere at the now infamous Brooksider. Bring your tie dies, love beads and for those of you still blessed with an appendix bring that too. Heck bring any organ you want just be at the Brooksider Saturday! PC, The Zeros, Rattle and Hum, Symetrix will have a Jagerbomb(or two) waiting for you. As an added bonus, our favorite concert photographer, Brian Rice, will be taking photos of the show and ensuing melee in the crowd. You've no doubt seen Brian's amazing photos of past shows and he has graciously offered to sell photos from the evening's festivities and donate all proceeds to the cause - thanks Brian!
Photos will be available through Brian's website or visit our friends page and follow the link to his site. Photos will be available through Brian's website or visit perpetual-change.com, click on the "friends" link, and follow the link to his site. See you next Saturday, March 28 and the Brooksider! - MBoz
PS - Lest you think that Jim was slacking when he went into the hospital, rest assured that he was not. In fact, he was spending his time working on his soon-to-be infamous PC fashion and accessories line. That's right, perpetual-change.com has gone ecommerce in a way only Jim is capable of dreaming up. The store is open, so be sure to visit the latest addition to our website at perpetual-change.com!
Posted At : January 26, 2009 12:41 AM
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Saturday night January 24th at the 148th and Metcalf Coach's was amazing. For those of you inside, you turned the place upside down and it was an incredibly memorable night...thank you. Whoever left the thong panties with the words "Australian Kiss" on them can pick them up at the hostess stand. Devers...do you know about this? And for the folks who were not allowed in due to the capacity crowd, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience of coming all the way to the show and not being able to get in. Please understand this was driven strictly by the capacity limits outlined by the fire department. If it were up to the owner it would be one big party. He felt terrible. On a serious note, whoever took the bowling ball (and one of the bowling pins off the wall), if you could get those items back to Coach's, their bowling league starts next week.***** And finally, we will be finalizing when we will play at Coach's again soon. I'll update the website and send out an email to the email list. If you are reading this and are not on the email list, please sign up on the email list on our website. Thank you for your support, Jim *****NOTE: Coach's had a frantic patron with a Swingline stapler wearing his numbered team shirt, newly sprayed bowling shoes, button-popping-beer-gut, expandable polyester pants with matching hail-mary comb-over (worse than Bill Murray's in King Pin), looking to pick up the bowling ball Sunday. Whoever took it, please get it back before he freaks out, eats a whole case of beer nuts, slaps somebody with an entire skinless chicken, and starts looking for random Mormons to join his bowling team (anybody see KingPin or doodie in a urinal?). I have no problem with you people being slapped with a skinless chicken...its the Salmonella I am worried about. And...I have nothing against Mormons...I sat in their church and followed along for years until I realized they were spelling it with an extra "m" and figured out why I never belonged.
Posted At : January 8, 2009 12:05 AM
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We are mixing it up a bit and playing out in Southern KC. Please wear your Izod or Polo, pink sweater over your shoulder and sport a hair cut from a Flock of Seagulls. This night is going to be one to remember as the Good Dr. Andrew Moore "Maker of Smiles" won't be wearing any pants behind his drum kit...sweet. Ladies bring your cameras, men bring your barf bags, I'm bringing those glasses you wear in the suntan booth so as not to scorch my eyes if I accidentally look down there(he is my dentist for Goodness sake). There is a $5 prize for the coolest Fiero, a $15 prize for the first couple to hook up and make out in the back of an el Camino, and a $25 prize if you win the Hannibal Lecter's "Show Me Your Skin" contest. We'll be serving Fava beans and Chianti to the judges...please don't swallow your tongue. If you aren't creeped out by all this, pick up your copy of St. Elmo's Fire, put the shoulder strap on your mobile keyboard, and make some plans to be at Coach's on January 24th where 'The Passion Burns Deep'. See you there! Jim
Posted At : December 15, 2008 7:52 PM
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Please join us at The Brooksider two days after Christmas on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 10pm for "Perpetual Change's Festivus 2 Days After Christmas Show". If it ends up being anything like the night before Thanksgiving at The Brooksider, it should be a "Rager"...(any 'Major Rager' fans out there?).
Festivus is an actual Holiday that has been celebrated since Ancient Rome...when Toga parties were a daily thing. Festivus has had many variations. We will be celebrating what I would coin as 'Frank Castanza's Festivus'.
PLEASE WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CLIP. You will need this critical background so that you can come to the show prepared:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8g4Ztf7hIM Turn the sound up...kind of a bad recording
The schedule for the night will go something like this:
8:30pm History of Festivus
8:45pm Discussion of the Meaning of Festivus
9:00pm Decorating of the Pole (just a test...no decorations)
9:15pm OPTIONAL: Pole Dancing (ladies only)
9:30pm Airing of Grievances
9:45pm Feats of Strength
10:00pm Festivus Miracle: Perpetual Change Live
Please RSVP to nobody. Just show up with a chinchilla in your boxers, and a long list of people that have disappointed you...and why.
See you two days after Christmas... -Jim Parker
The Motionless Rocker
"Swaying is good, movement is scary."
Posted At : November 2, 2008 11:04 AM
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Hello! We have good news to all of you who have said, "I go to bed at 10pm. Don't you guys ever start any earlier?" The answer is YES! The night before Thanksgiving, November 26th, we are starting at The Brooksider at 9pm. You could "go out" at 7:30pm, get liquored up by 9pm and enjoy the music until your cab arrives to take you home. We will be playing until 1am...and even longer if drunk people keep saying "Encore". Do you ever wonder when the day is that you go from being young to being old? For some of you it will be today...the day you are reading this email. IF you still say 9pm is too late to go out, you have now crossed over...you are old. My advice: get yourself down to the funeral home, pick out a casket and a cemetery lot, then on your way home stop by Wal-Mart to get all the fixin's you need to make a really cool shawl, some prunes, a colon cleanser, a tasty fruit cake, liver and onions, a compass for your dashboard, an XM radio subscription to Muzak, a metal detector for the next time you go to the beach, a diary to keep track of the food you eat (old people love to talk about food), on your way home call Time Warner from your bag phone and add The Weather Channel to your basic cable subscription. Then you will have everything you need to really enjoy yourself the night before Thanksgiving should you choose not to go to The Brooksider. As you sit home and write $5 Christmas checks to everyone in your family, you can also be that old person who will call the police on "those kids" in your neighborhood for making such a racket. Yeeesh. Anyhow, if the above isn't you, we have just equipped you with the perfect reason to sneak away from your in-laws and family the night before Thanksgiving (should you need a way out). Or...maybe you can bring your in-laws and family with you. The music is so loud you won't be able to hear them talk. Comments? Is starting earlier better? Does Wal-Mart really carry all that stuff? -Jim
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