travis betz » riki lindhome http://travisbetz.com where the chicken tastes like people! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Garfunkel & Oates http://travisbetz.com/garfunkel-oates/ http://travisbetz.com/garfunkel-oates/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:00:06 +0000 travis http://travisbetz.com/?p=488 I consider myself very fortunate to be surrounded by talented friends. They are often great sources of inspiration and allow me the pleasure to promote them. I met Riki Lindhome about seven years ago when she came to a party we threw out our house (the very same party in which some drunk asshole peed in my guitar). She was brand spanking new to Los Angeles and had come out here to be an actress. We got to talking and discovered she lived across the street from us. We quickly became friends and I even ended up casting her in my very first short film…a film that no one will ever see due to its mind-numbing badness (no fault of hers, all fault of mine…yikes!).

Riki went on to play some pretty great roles in some pretty great flicks. She was Hillary Swank’s sister in Million Dollar Baby, The evil nurse in Changeling and bad girl, Sadie in The Last House on the Left .  She’s done plenty more of the whole acting thing, but I’m actually here to promote her band/musical duo. Cause they rock. And are hilarious.

Garfunkel & Oats is best described by me as two girls armed with guitars, keyboards, ukuleles, keytars, and flutes, sing funny songs that can be  heartfelt, topical or of-the-wall. Playing Oates, to Riki’s Garfunkel is Kate Micucci who you might best recognize for her role on Scrubs. Together they have been charming live audience all around the Los Angeles area as well as maintaining a growing YouTube channel where they post songs and music videos. I highly recommend checking out their website for music and show dates: Garfunkel & Oats, as well as their youtube page for videos: rikilind. The video I have posted here is one of my favorite songs from them. Enjoy!

Much love 

Travis

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