oh sime

in response to sime's post - i recently was told that mixtapes are illegal, much like downloaded music and burned cds.. all i'm saying is that if gov't cracks down on the mixtape scene, relationships are seriously going to suffer... cause i mean, do you ever really know a person until you've listened to their mixtape? it's like the sparknotes of their soul.

think about it.

Freshman

Hi y'all. I'm Rachel Bloom...a new member of the team. And the only freshman, I believe. I'm scared and lonely, so be my friend and use my willingness for servitude to your advantage. You know. Tell me to get pizza, clean your socks, do away with a family member...I'm a dishrag.

In all seriousness, I'm really happy to be a part of the team. My goals include

1. Not screwing up

Uh, that's the only goal for right now.

As they said in the 60's: "Peace out."

As they said in the 90's: "Do you think the Spice Girls will be together forevor?"

As they say now: "Bye."

Handjobs for the Holidays.

So today I did one of my favorite things to do here in New York City.

I strolled on over to Other Music and bought some cds using the mighty, and often misunderstood Campus Cash.

My mission, once I arrived, was to obtain the new Broken Social Scene album.

If you do not know who Broken Social Scene is, then you are seriously deprived. Go out and buy their last album,You Forgot it In People. It's one of my favorite albums of all-time. Plus they're Canadian. Cmon.

How does this one compare to their last album you ask?

Well, I've only listened to it once, but I do like it. However, I would say that You Forgot it in People has a more memorable and classic feel to it. This one seems more....fun, I guess you'd say. Maybe I just need to listen to it a few more times and let it soak into ma bones.

I would recommend it. Especially as stocking stuffers or to give to trick-or-treaters.

That concludes my weekly music report.

Tune in next week when I discuss the essentials of the perfect mixtape.



Adieu.

300+

my darlings i do have a task for you
our facebook group "hammerkatz nyu"
needs have 300 members, or ev'n more,
by our next show - october 29th.
if this you all complete by that set date
a special prize we will have for you all!

join up, one and all. we love you.

exposition

Well.

Let's see how this goes...


Hi, my name is Sime Viduka. I'm...new here.
I'm...I'm...so, super...glad that I have become a Hammerkat...katz...umm...yea...


Uh...that wasn't so...bad...





And now with the glory of the magical Google image search we can find out what a hammerkat actually looks like:

Sure.


I really don't have anything to say.
Unless anyone has any questions about me. Like for example, what I like to do on my spare time? What do I look for in a life partner? Who the fuck stole my laundry hamper?

That last question I cannot answer....for I do not know.


Now that I've completely soiled the Hammerkatz name with this mindless blog, I'll end with another nonsensical picture. Because I like those:

Hail mighty synth.


Catch ya on the flip side.

i stalk hammerkatz.

i recently stumbled upon a facebook group entitled "i stalk hammerkatz" - amazing. now that i think about it i remember donald talking about it last year, but it definitely made me laugh. i was tempted to join. .. i resisted. i don't really have anything to post - i just want to put this up so that the world can see the glory of big chicken, m.d. ... that guy has moves.

Show Tonight!

Hey everyone - hope to see you at the show tonight!!

Kimmel - 8th Floor
9pm and 11pm
FREE, as always.

Bring your friends!!
NYU ID or Gov't issued ID at the door.

hammerkatz = hammerDANCE

pics from rehearsals: top to bottom: daniel as the african storyteller, helen lauren daniel robbie matt, lauren & robbie as "the spider", robbie lauren matt and helen, helen & matt "rapper mom", robbie "scat dad", matt "depressed kid".... this show is gonna rock. be there!

TONIGHT: Hammerkatz IMPROV right by NYU

TONIGHT, a team of Hammerkatz NYU alumna and current students (Donald, Fran, myself) will be performing longform improv comedy in the style taught by the Upright Citizens Brigade. Behold: HAMMERKATZ IMPROV.

Details:

Red Room (above KGB Bar)
85 E 4th btw 2nd and 3rd
Here's a map!

10:30 PM
Five Bucks

Also performing is Best Boy, featuring Hammerkatz founder AJ Morales. They're an awesome group that performs completely improvised movies.

If you've never seen improv before, or you have nothing to do between the hours of 10:30 and midnight, or this will be BETTER than what you have planned between the hours of 10:30 and midnight ('cause it will), show up.

Also: BYOB! You cannot beat brown bagging a forty and watching comedy. So stop trying.

Auditions: NEW TIME ADDED!

In addition to the previously posted audition times (Tues Sept 20th/Weds Sept 21st 4-6 PM, Kimmel 908), we've just added a new time for those of you who couldn't make it to the other two:

WEDNESDAY SEPT 21st
9 PM - 12:30 AM
PALLADIUM COMMON ROOM

The Common Room is accessible the same way as the Palladium Dining Hall. There'll be signs and all kinds of fun stuff.

The streets can't wait, and neither can we.

HKATZNYU facebook group is OPEN

The Hammerkatz NYU facebook group is open for bizness. Join! The benefits of membership are as such:

- More exposure to people's pictures, movie, and music preferences for you to judge them by

- More chances of meeting people for awkward, ill-advised, Facebook-inspired hook-ups

- Poking. What is poking? We're not sure either.

Search for "Hammerkatz" under "Search All Fields." Fuckin' join!

parapluie-revel

at rehearsal tonight for the september show (9/24), i was told to post some pics from our trip to syracuse last semester .. but first a little backstory.
so we went to syracuse university and participated in a comedy festival and our host was mr. belding from "saved by the bell" - yeah that's right.. although he was about twice his 'belding' size and still toooootally playing off his one successful gig.
so right before we go on to perform, he's backstage with all the performers giving us a pep talk - and he's like "this night is about you guys, let's go kick some ass" - what follows is an evening of him reminiscing about his days on "bell" and promising the audience that he would "give you all his autograph after the show" (which he did).. we did an awesome set that night but belding was the really funny one - and when i say funny, i mean sad - very, very sad.
so now, the pics!

Top Picture: Matt, Lauren, Belding (as he looks now), Donald, DC, Harry
Middle Picture: Trip up to Syracuse - DC and Donald in the back.. i got shotgun :)
Bottom Picture: Belding's autograph opportunity - a memento we will cherish forever. Does he have a real name?

soooo...

so basically, DC, you're going to buy an ice cream for yourself.. twice?
in other news. i have a confession to make. i am having a love affair. it began a few years ago but recently (this summer) it got pretty intense. now that i am in this relationship, i have a lot less time, and money, but it's going well and i'm entirely faithful. we see each other usually a few times every week. sometimes we see each other too many times in one week and then there's nothing there that interests me.
before you think i'm heartless, i must tell you that my lover is the strand bookstore, which i frequent so often (really only the plays section) that there is often no new merchandise for me to browse through. today was an especially good day though.. i made out very well, scoring two anthologies - Eugene O'Neill and Sam Shepard, and The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson.
now if only i had the time to read them.. sigh. off to boring reading (aka academic textbooks)...

HKATZNYU auditions

We'll have official dates/times posted by tonight.

Watch this space for updates.

hey you!

today i was recognized on the street by someone who saw the orientation show the other day. a girl stopped me and goes "hey are you in the hammernats? you were really good." i politely told her it was katz and said thank you and as i walked away i couldn't help but think how funny our logo would look if we were the hammernats instead of the hammerkatz, because i mean, could a nat really hold a hammer in its mouth? i don't THINK so.

i heart the strand

so, i'm not gonna lie, i'm one of those girls who kept "journals" (aka diaries) for pretty much her whole life. i valued the privacy that they allowed me and i keep them safely in my basement bookshelf at home in PA, where i suppose now anyone could read them if they really wanted to hear the silly things i wrote in elementary and middle school. (the post-middle school ones are kept safely with me)
i've flitted around with the online journal thing.. because let's be honest, it's much easier to type than it is to hand-write an entry.. and who has time for the decoration that makes a handwritten journal truly unique? for most of this summer though i did the old fashioned journal thing and only now am i coming around to, once again, see the benefits of "blogging" ... (although in cyberland you can't cut out prophetic sayings from magazines and gluestick them next to your entry... you know you do it girls) but i must say that one of the best things about a technologically-run journal is that instead of some clipping from a victoria's secret ad campagin saying "we wholeheartedly support your love affair" or something ridiculous like that (okay that's really in my journal) i can now paste next to my entry... this..

hell yeah.

Thanks 2009!

So the orientation show last night was an unqualified success. Thanks to all 900 freshmen (and a couple other people, too) for showing up and rocking out. Sorry to the eleven o'clock show for having run out of t-shirts, but our promise to you is FREE T-SHIRTS AT EVERY HAMMERKATZ SHOW so come check out the next show when you're low on clean clothes.

Auditions soon. Official website soon. Hit us at hammerkatznyu@gmail.com if you wanna be on the e-mail list.

Love,
DC

pictures from tech last night

donald and matt - "prodigy birthday"
daniel and lauren - "rookie cop"
dominic and dan watch matt - "girls are not to be trusted" robbie and harry - "rookie cop"

robbie's "jesus" picture
daniel, robbie, and lauren - "newscaster" daniel, lauren, robbie, harry - "rookie cop"
robbie and lauren - "newscaster

Pictures from Rehearsal this week

Matt, Harry, and Steve, watching Donald be.. Donald (Top) Donald and Harry laughing at "Three Thieves" (Middle)



Matt, Steve, and Harry rehearsing the lotion bit of "Three Thieves"

Second Annual Orientation Show, FREE SHIRTS

Hammerkatz NYU's best material from all last year, plus a thousand freshmen. HKATZNYU proves why we're the reason you came to NYU, whether or not you know it yet.

TWO SHOWS!
Tues. August 30th 9 and 11 pm
Kimmel Center For University Life - 10th floor (Rosenthal Pavillion)
FREE with NYU ID or any gov't issued ID

After the shows: Free HKATZ t-shirts, until we run out!

We love you!