Diplo vs. Lego
Category: Quiz/Survey

The links below don't work, so if you want to befriend us click on the pictures on our list of "top friends". If you like hookers click on hookers, if you like ribs click on ribs. If you like hookers with your ribs, you will be my new myspace boyfriend.

Sorry for being backwards about the technology.

Later

Shilpa

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YES MY FRIENDS THE BAND HAS BROKEN UP
Category: Life

So the rumors are true, Beat the Devil is no longer a band. You can now reach us:


Shilpa Ray

http://www.myspace.com/shilparay

shilparayandherhappyhookers@gmail.com


Mishka Shubaly

http://www.myspace.com/mishkashubaly

mishka777@gmail.com


Mitchell King

http://www.myspace.com/mitchellnking

Mishka and Mitchell continue to play together in RIBS: http://www.myspace.com/wetheribs

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Zebulon Show Has Been Cancelled...

due to a fire. Live with it.

Shilpa

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We’re in a Movie!!!

On-the-Side" with Beat the Devil
Friday, February 22
7 p.m., doors 6:30 p.m.

A night of music, film and art, featuring New York City's Beat the Devil

The premier of an untitled documentary on the band by filmmaker Ben Clayton
Plus an exhibition of work by artists Jason Frederick and Mitchell King.

Admission: Free. Due to limited seating, RSVP rsvp@dimaproductions.com
Location:

@Seaport
219 Water Street (at Beekman Street in the South Street Seaport
historic district)
Subways: J,M,Z,2,3,4,5, to Fulton Street or A, C to Broadway-Nassau


A movie that I'm too chicken to watch, cause I'm probably picking my
nose, touching my face a lot or scratching off the fleas from my body
from beginning to end. In any case, now that I'm in my late 20's and
officially a woman, my womanly instincts tell me it's gonna be good,
just like they tell me I got a clock that really really really wants
to have a baby... for dinner... it's the new beef.

No! Don't listen to me. Babies are sexy and should not be eaten.

Honestly, I can't bare to look at band photos, videos, or read
articles and reviews about us, which means you got to do it and then
describe it to me in the most gentle, sugar coated, white-washed way
possible. Oh, and to the girl who wrote, " She looks possessed when
she performs", it's true, when I'm on stage I'm actually channeling
every one's dead relatives. Joe, your great great grandmother tells me
she is very disappointed that you didn't become a gynecologist as she
had hoped. Please refer to  "Chelsea Clinic Physical".

Movie screening is first, then we perform. See you there!

Shilpa

--
Beat The Devil
http://www.myspace.com/beatthedevil
www.BeatTheDevil.com

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BOLLYWOOD DHAMAKA
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Been dreaming about escape to the mother-land sometime in the 70's. Even in a different country I wish I was born in another era.

Music to dance in ya unda'pantz to:

S.D Burman

R.D Burman

Kalyanji Ananji

Laxmikant Pyarelal

In honor of the van of course! Is it too soon to talk about anything else besides the van? I always feel awkward at funerals, so before I get hate mail from a crying lot of indie rockers, here's my Hindu take:

The Previa will come back as a Dodge Caravan owned by a protestant Mishka named Micheal, who works as an accountant for Lockhead Martin, father of two, and husband of soccer mom Martha. The Caravan will get bored and lonely in dull suburban life and will one day drive itself across the country several times to play gigs, huff gas and sleep in random garages. It will mingle and play with many other vans, and quite possibly get shipwrecked? Years later it will release an album called "How to Make a Good Situation Even Better" join a rock band called Eat the Devil and scratch it's aging weary head...OH WHY, OH WHY, MUST I DEAL WITH THAT GRUMPY LITTLE INDIAN GIRL??????

Happy Birthday to me,

Shilpa Ray

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ain’t good lookin’, but she was hard to kill
Current mood: sad

It seems like just the other day I was whistling down the highway with two of my greatest friends and we were all remarking how great the van was running and how sad we would be when it finally died on some distant day too faraway to conceive. We talked about our future, grown-up selves setting it on fire and jumping it over the Giraffes van, driving it into the East River or even entering it into a demolition derby. Mitchell, selfless coward that he is, volunteered to man the camera from behind a flame-retardant concrete barrier. I think Shilpa was asleep, but I'm sure that for any of the above stunts, Shilpa would have been buckled into the passenger seat, if not strapped to the roof wearing one of those dorky aerodynamic helmets like Bill Cosby had in Leonard Part VI.

Well, it was just the other day that we were having this conversation, a week ago today to be exact, and the van barely made it through the night. It died about half an hour outside of our first road show, which we made only by the heroics of Jim Paradise from Fresh Kills, who had traveled out to Ohio to play with us (and kicked much ass). We ended up being in Athens for 4 days, played three shows there (one as Creedence Clearwater Revival, yahoo!) and would still be there if it wasn't for some big sacrifices from a friend we made in Ohio and our old pal, Danny Barria from the Big Sleep, who gets a big fucking gold star for picking up Mitchell's car and driving through the night to retrieve us and our gear for the show this weekend. Big thanks also to Zack from We March who wandered around looking for some poor sucker to eat the worm from a bottle of tequila on Friday night and to Mitchell for pointing him to where I was taking a much-needed nap in a booth. Apparently, I am sucker for all occasions...

The van was a 1992 Toyota Previa. I bought it in 2003 for $1100; it had 179,000 miles on it. I put 65,000 miles on it that year, playing shows in something like 37 states. I played with Metric, Broken Social Scene, the Dirtbombs, the Bronx, the Decemberists, Quintron and Miss Pussycat and a million other bands that nobody's ever heard of that meant way more to me than the names I just dropped. I drove it from Portland down through the Redwood Forest with my great friend Kris Gravesite to LA, was driven down the Pacific Coast Highway from Oakland down to LA by another great friend so hungover I felt like I was tripping, drove it through the Palm Desert into Phoenix... It went up to Montreal with The Big Sleep and I brought it as far North and West as Stanwood, WA (where they really know how to do biscuits and gravy, you'd be amazed) and I went down to Mile Zero on Highway 1 in Key West with The High Strung, the only band that will be left standing when everyone else has been voted off the island. When I joined Beat the Devil, I got great pleasure again and again from introducing Mitchell and Shilpa to my friends around the country and have them infallibly remark "Holy shit, man, you've still got the same van? I can't believe that thing is still running!" And yeah, I guess a lot of folks have stories about driving me home in it when I was too drunk to drive myself.

When I sold it to the garage for scrap for $150, the van had over 288,000 miles on it. I felt like I was shooting my horse. So here's to you, baby-- a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

We will be celebrating the life and death of our fallen comrade this Saturday, February 9th. Here's the details:

Beat the Devil w/ Stray Volts, Renminbi
Europa
98-104 Meserole Ave (at Manhattan)
Brooklyn, NY   11222
show starts at 9, we'll hit at 11
$10

best,
Mishka

Currently listening : In the Future By Black Mountain Release date: 22 January, 2008

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SOLO SET/SIDE PROJECT THIS NEW YEARS EVE!!!
Current mood: excited

Shilpa Ray and Her Pity Party w/ ShellShag, Yeasayer
DJ's Micheal Leviton, Rekles, and someone else I can't decode form this Flyer

The Party is @ Shangri-La
Monday January 31st
100 Sutton St. between Norman and Nassau in Greenpoint
Doors are at 10pm...there's free Bass Pale Ale and Vodka all night,
but the event costs $15 if you RSVP at myopenbar.com/nye and $20 if
you just show up.

I still have no idea what planet I've been smokin' on, but here goes
nothing! I'll be playing some songs solo, some with a band, some
covers, and some non BTD originals. You tell me!

Members of the Pity Party:

Andrew of the Creaky Boards: Piano and Backing Vocals
Vin of Soft Black: Guitar and Backing Vocals
Matt of Nervous Cabaret and various other projects: Drums

Micheal Leviton will be spinning sex in the forms of Surf Rock and Rockabilly

Should be a good time if you plan to kiss someone in Brooklyn when the
clock strikes 12!

Want to kiss someone in Manhattan instead? Then be sure to catch
Mishka Shubaly tear it up on the bass with;

The Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival @ Otto's Shrunken Head
The Chooglin' is set to start @ 9:30pm
(Check your listings)

No worries kids! Mom, Dad and Baby still love each other! Beat the
Devil is set to play a quatrillion shows starting Mid January.

Hope you guys had fun on the Holidays!

Yours,

Shilpa Ray

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ASSASSINATED!
Current mood: sad

For every grotesque Jessica Simpson, or Brittney Spears, we at least had a righteous
lady like Benazir Bhutto. If you think the war in Iraq is gonna get any better now kids, you might well get some trashy blonde extensions, fake tits, or a tribal tatoo and become a news media porn star.

This Blows!

Love,

Rocky Kristin

P.S Rocky was our guinea pig in Calcutta. Kristin Way is the street name from my childhood. Did I get it right? I'm new to the porn industry.

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More Medication
Current mood: Kudos Suck Snicker Bars Are Better
Category: Kudos Suck Snicker Bars Are Better Music

Blogging cuts time out of my "extracurricular activities"

Here's the latest:

Roky Erickson and the Aliens - The Evil One

Fats Domino- all I have are cheap comps.

Todd Rundgren- K. this is uncharted waters for me.

Hank Williams- I Saw the Light

Heavy Trash- Going Way out With Heavy Trash

Lonnie Johnson - A random burned copy I found with my death pile of burned CDs. I miss packaging and liner notes.

It's tough to find or buy older recordings that aren't random comps or greatest hits records. Call me stupid, but is it true that full length records are more of a 60s, 70s, and 90s, thing?

No, please call me stupid, I never liked the name Shilpa anyway:)

Love,

Stupid Ray

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Reefer Madness
Category: Music

My doctor recently switched my medication from whiskey to pot. Side effects include, drowsiness, paranoia, wasting time, potato chips, addiction to headphones, and becoming the Big Lebowski.

Here's some stuff I've been digging

Oblivians
Compulsive Gamblers
Tennessee Tearjerkers ( I know I'm going through a Jack Yarber phase 10 years too late. Whatevs)
Flying Burrito Brothers
Neil Young-Tonights the Night
Rick James
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Mahalia Jackson - Holy fucking god damn! She has a voice!
Janis Joplin- Kozmic Blues
Baby Shambles- Make fun if you want but I swear "The Blinding" is a really cool song
Love- De Capo (minus the really long jam everyone hates. I lie. I've been listening to it , it's ok.)
Brian Jonetown Massacre- The kids tell me that's what your suppose listen too when your high
United States of America- What you're really suppose to listen to when you're high

And whoever wrote the song "My Girl is Red Hot Your Girl is Doodley Squat"?

Anyway I'm still hungry, so if you got any suggestions throw them in my trough! Also if you got some Christmas cookies or pumpkin pie, you can throw that in my trough too.

Thanks

Shilpa

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