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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 3, 2010.
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Stock in the band Why I Must Be Careful. You will own a small share in the band! A stock certificate will be proof of your stake in this band and what we're doing! Please note: this is a stock certificate symbolizing your camaraderie with Why I Must Be Careful and can only guarantee potentially great emotional returns. This certificate in no way represents a monetary investment with any potential financial return.
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Bee Button! Since honey bees only live for 6 weeks during the busy Spring & Summer season, and the queen lays anywhere from 1000 to 2500 eggs a day (more than her own body weight!), there are a lot of naturally dead bees outside of a hive. We've collected these dead bees and given them a worthwhile tomb, a 1 1/2" button! That way you can spread the word about the need to help the honey bees!
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Lim. Ed. WIMBC Poster on a 6" x 9" Datacard from the 1970's (38 available). If we run out of these, you'll get the same silk-screen on a page of the Braille edition of "The Emergency Procedures Handbook." Please let us know if you prefer this over the Datacard.
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We took the liberty of the second amendment to shoot our band t-shirts. Brand new American Apparel t-shirts have been screen-printed with "WHY I MUST BE CAREFUL" and then with Seth's Dad's shotgun, we filled the shirt with holes by carefully and artfully shooting them!
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A one-of-a-kind map of your city/state with "Why I Must Be Careful" burned into the map using a heat gun and hand-cut tin stencils. Gorgeous!
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A Brick. ¿Seriously? You're giving away a brick? Well, this brick is handmade by Why I Must Be Careful out of the infamous clay soil of Oregon. This brick has WIMBC pressed into it in a "sunken-relief" style and is accompanied by a list of national banks who received bail-out money from the government. You make the connection...
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A box of 20-guage shotgun shells that we have hand-loaded with care. The local recycling place doesn't accept tempered glass for recycling. So we decided to use it to shoot our t-shirts. Tempered glass (a.k.a. "safety glass") breaks into tiny pieces that are not sharp so they don't kill people. Unless you shoot them at people with your shotgun. PLEASE: We don't advise this. But we're happy to have made shotgun shells that are environmentally acceptable, unlike traditional lead shot. Use these with abandon in wild places you wish to keep safe.
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Braille booklet of Why I Must Be Careful's syllabic lyrics. What!? I know, right? All of the lyrics used to structure most of WIMBC's music, but in Braille. Better file off those guitar calluses folks.
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A digital copy of this album on a usb stick (filled with extra movie, image, & text files we deem necessary) encased in beeswax and housed in a jar of WIMBC honey harvested from these bees.
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Reserved copy of the honeycombed 12" vinyl record plus every other pledge item to accompany it.
Project By
Connected as John Niekrasz (672 friends)
two comrades playing hyper-structured, heart-wrought music with room to improvise.
rhodes electric piano, drumset and voices are the sounds we use.
said of WIMBC:
"The terrific control is killing: their mathematical precision cuts like a razor blade through the otherwise black prog."
"Expect to be jarred in a decidedly unrock, but totally enrapturing and palate-cleansing way."
"It was rather awe inspiring really."
