Cody Peterson | SecretPenguin

Bear Country (a band I play drums in) did a daytrotter session last summer.  It got put up today.  I look weird in the illustration.

http://daytrotter.com/article/1619/bear-country

We put up a song we learned and recorded last spring on the Slumber Party site.  Check it out here…

http://slumberpartyrecords.com/2009/01-honeybee-tonight-you-belong-to-me/

Albums

Mount Eerie - Dawn
El Perro Del Mar - From the Valley to the Stars
Beach House - Devotion
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Women - Women
Why? - Alopecia
High Places - High Places*
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

*Just started listening to it this month but I think that’s as low as it would go on the list, I could see it going higher, maybe before fleet foxes or something but am not sure yet.

I also liked these albums…

Jonathon Richman - Because Her Beauty is Raw & Wild
Herman Dune - Next Year in Zion
Thee Silver Mount Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons

And does the third vinyl on the Glow Pt. 2 reissue count as a new album?  I really really like that too.

1. Going to Chicago in early summer with Honeybee and Lindsay to play a show with Colour Revolt and Snowden and staying a few days there with our amazing friend Erin.  It was amazing, we also got to meet and hang out with some of Lindsay’s good friends which was  blast.
2. Going to L.A. with Lindsay to visit the ridiculously awesome Laura and her other amazing friends.  There were beaches, Pink Berry’s, Family, Ooga Booga, Laura and Lindsay obsessing over a waitress and how cool she is, Lindsay doing a flip in a huge wave and water poring out of her nose a few hours later, and many other fun happenings.
3. Honeybee and Bear Country getting a residency at the Bemis to work on our albums!  Five to Seven practices a week is killing me but it is worth it!
4. Hanging out and falling in love with all of the Honeybees!  Such awesome and nice and caring and cool people.
5. Moving into a beautiful house with Lindsay!  Pictures to come.
6. Hanging out with K.C. more.  So fun!  Nature drives, grilled cheese at B&G and tons of Mount Eerie listening.
7. New co-worker!  Matt is suuuuper rad!  I hope he stays for a long time!
8. New what-cheerio!  When did this happen?  I can’t remember, but hes very good!  I envy his action-script skills.
9. Turned 24!  This was five days ago.
10. Last two Mr. 1986 shows ever :(  both were on my top 10 shows of the year list though!
11. I will maybe add to this list in the future

Last night was the Sigur Ros show at the Orpheum. Lindsay and I went after eating at Goldbergs II. It was also the night of the second worst storms of the year. When we got there they weren’t letting people sitedown yet because they wanted to make sure the Tornado warnings would be over before the band played, so we, along with a hundred or so other people, just sat outside in the pouring rain. It was really fun. There were two casualties though, my socks, and Lindsay’s umbrella. The Umbrella broke while Eric, Mary, Lindsay and I were putting our umbrellas together to make a giant umbrella. It was working well for about thirty seconds until the force of a giant gust of wind pushed our umbrella inside out and broke some of the metal pieces. As for my socks, I had to throw them away. I was wearing my toms (http://tomsshoes.com), which was not a great choice for a rainy night, and they got soaked along with my socks. So I threw the socks away. Oh, and the show was freaking amazing!

Here is a photo of some people running into the Orpheum right after they opened up the seating.

So we put together an album of Mel’s original recordings of our songs.  We did all the design and packaging in less than 4 hours!  I really like how it turned out.  Mel’s recordings are so amazing.  They are $7 dollars and are limited to 100 copies.

We got the new Honeybee and Bear Country shirts in. Heres a look at them.

Honeybee “Drippy” (Collaboration with Melissa)

Bear Country “Lady”

Bear Country “Nickels”

Bear Country “Pennies”

Meet & Potatoes was at SecretPenguin/What-Cheer this month and it was amazing. I met a lot of really nice designers. It was a really really good time.

I had to duck out a little early though to play a show at Slowdown with Honeybee. Our good friends Pomegranates and Capgun Coup played as well, it was a really fun show. Capgun Coup is soooo amazing.

Photos courtesy of Dave! I was too busy having fun to take any!

This week Honeybee was the fifth installment of the City Weekly’s “Meeting the Band” column. They interviewed us after our show last Friday at the Box Awesome in Lincoln. Here is the first page of it. Will Simons did the interview, he’s a great guy, and the amazing Lindsay Trapnell took the photograph! Mom, if you want to read it they are available at gas stations and Hu Hot’s all around town!