Hey, There

Are you sitting down? Are you in a see-how-long-I-can-stand competition? Because if you're not, then you should sit. Relax. Breathe deep. Because an OK Go newsletter just came into your life, and it wants you to be happy. And how could you not be, with news like this? Read on:

* We've Got a New(ish) Website:
* The OK Go Exploratory Committee Playlist
* Two New Videos From The Boys

We've Got a New(ish) Website:

The last time we updated the OK Go website, George Bush was president. I know what you're thinking: he's still president. Well, we've got a prettier website, anyway, and that's a start. This is just a preliminary gussying up while we work on a whole brand new site, one with all the crazy cyber doodads you've come to expect from your favorite thing in the whole world, the Internet. Check it out, and tell us what you think of the new look: http://www.okgo.net

Speaking of US presidents, OK Go octuple-handedly elected the next one, Barack Obama. Each band member voted exactly thirteen million times, which helped out quite a bit. But what really put Mr. Obama over the edge was this video, hailed by many as the greatest campaign video in recent history, with the exception of the Ford/Rockefeller halloween wrestling match of 1976, the original "October Surprise." Here's OK Go meeting then-candidate Obama:

The OK Go Exploratory Committee Playlist

When the boys first went into the studio, they made a playlist to give them inspiration, direction, and guidance in their spiritual journey from songs-in-head to album-in-stores. Each gentleman picked three or four songs, then they put them together, got drunk, and sprawled out on the studio floor at 3am to listen straight through the list. They did not hold hands. But they did come up with a pretty decent selection of tunes. Don't think of it as what they want the album to sound like, but rather what they want it to feel like. If this were a playlist of silly food analogies, it would include groove steaks simmering in your brainpan and hot jams on your mindtoast. But it's a playlist of songs instead, and yes, both Neutral Milk Hotel and Ol' Dirty Bastard made the cut. Sounds like a good combination to me.

Listen to the whole thing here: http://icanhaz.com/okgoplaylist

Two New Videos From The Boys

The boys haven't just been playing around with guitars. They've also been messing about with video cameras. Making stuff is fun.

Dan is amazed.
http://emi.emreact.com/go.asp?…..EMI002/mNQ…uTRGEII2/xN1HEL

Damian is amazed.
http://emi.emreact.com/go.asp?…..EMI002/mNQ…uTRGEII2/xN1HEL

And You, my friend, are amazing. No really, you are.

Hugs,

Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore