An open letter to the Burrito Tally

To whom it may concern,

As a life long eater and fan of frivolous contests I am writing to take issue with the rules and bylaws of the “Burrito Tally.” In short, I was shocked to learn that self-prepared burritos were to be excluded from the tally. The partisan approach of only including store bought burritos is a barbaric policy and completely undermines the ethos on which all Spinto Band tallies are built.

As far back as I can remember, the Spinto Band’s extracurricular activities have provided a jovial backdrop for the bands exploits and enabled us to pass and/or waste time in an enjoyable manner. Unfortunately, the current rules of the Burrito Tally threaten the band and their cohorts’ freedom to choose how they consume burritos by pressuring them to buy store bought burritos. Furthermore, by excluding homemade burritos, the Burrito Tally begins to marginalize resourcefulness and frugality, some of the characteristics that the Spinto Band has relied on for survival since it’s inception, the grift perhaps being the preeminent fruit sown from these ideological seeds.

As a citizen of this band I urge one and all to strike down this hypocrisy and up hold the precedents set by the bands founding fathers.

"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." –Roy Spinto


Concerned,
Nick Krill

Based on a True Story

"It's about kookin' time!" blurted a young midwesterner when discovering the latest news from Delaware gringo-pop six piece The Spinto Band. Quickly slipping on a pair of Vans and hopping onto her motor-scooter, the excited corn consumer went uptown to climb the tallest steps of the public library to the uncongested computer cluster housed behind the architecture books. She swiftly uploaded and downloaded the latest feeds from dot coms and dot co dot uks and a few dot nets until she realized she was late for her garden club meeting and exited the way she arrived.

The kookin' time news was all about the prementioned band being back in the studio to record a few songs that will undoubtedly form a record and be released sometime, somewhere in the midwest and maybe even Australia.

The band thought it was a good idea to let people know. The next five weeks or so will be filled with guitar intonation, tape head alignment, drum sounds, microphone mumbo-jumbo, proper mood lighting, and a fuckload of burritos. Hopefully, keeping with a deep hearted promise they made to themselves, they will keep everyone informed with news and other such happenings at the very URL you stand before. Keep in touch.

Damn Straight

Jokers

Since we've run out of Cisne episodes and are restocking the backlog, I found myself desperately wanting to click the upload now button on YouTube. So, while Treasure of the Cisne is preparing for fall sweeps, here is a video from our tour last March that I found laying around.




If you are wondering who the bearded man in the vid is, it is none other than Joel Alter of the Martha Dumptruck Massacre. If you like his jokes, leave him a comment on his Myspace. Also on that myspace is a chilled out sleepy time cover of an old spinto tune. So make some eggs and instead of reading the newspaper's crappy funny pages, watch some youtube on your new Sony.

sock it to me!

Treasure of the Cisne Episode 10: Dream of the Cisne

Here is the 10th episode of "Treasure of the Cisne"



Well, friends. It looks like this series is on the verge of wrapping up. What will happen in the next couple of episodes? Will we discover the treasure of the cisne? Will we learn a lesson? Will we stop producing poorly-planned, hastily-written internet serials and make another album? Stay tuned.