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A Future That Never Happened

April 13, 2011

This evening I looked — like, REALLY looked — at the Super America logo for the first time, despite the fact that I worked there many years ago for a few months.

I realized: it’s really bad!

It has a Dated Futuristic look, if that makes sense. As if some executive back in 1986 told his graphic design team, “Look to the future. That’s where we want to position our brand. Imagine a gas station 25 years from now; make a logo for that 2011 gas station.”

Well, despite many things about the current era being less-than-awesome, at least we don’t live in a world where that stuff is the norm, where every bank logo looks like this:

and people who look like this walk into those banks:

See? Things aren’t so bad.

Gateway District Stuff

April 3, 2011

Hello, just a quick note to let you know that you can listen to the new Gateway District album Perfect’s Gonna Fail, over at Punknews. I suggest you go do so.

If, after doing so, you’re so blown away that you would like to purchase the album, you can pre-order it from It’s Alive. If you’re like, “Nah, I’m cool with this free stream,” then, well, fair enough cheapskate.

The album doesn’t come out until later this month but we already did our two Record Release shows here in Minneapolis and both were a blast. We probably won’t be doing any more shows until summer or fall, so you really should have checked them out.

The final bit of GWD news is that the fine folks over at Punknews also posted our video for the song Run Away a couple of weeks ago. The shoot was stressful and took many hours, and the added weight of knowing just how over budget we had gone made the entire experience rather nerve-wracking. So it’s really great to have it finally come out. See the video below.

-Nate