Helvetica film soundtrack favorites El Ten Eleven hit the road this week for a US tour. Be sure to catch them live if you can:

05.29.08 | Las Vegas, NV | Beatles Revolution Lounge
05.30.08 | Pasadena, CA | No Future Cafe
06.01.08 | Hollywood, CA | Hotel Cafe
06.03.08 | San Francisco, CA | Thee Parkside
06.04.08 | Eugene, OR | Luckey’s Cigar Store
06.05.08 | Seattle, WA | Sunset Tavern
06.06.08 | Portland, OR | Towne Lounge
06.07.08 | Boise, ID | Neurolux
06.08.08 | Salt Lake City, UT | Urban Lounge
06.09.08 | Denver, CO | Hi-Dive
06.11.08 | Kansas City, MO | Record Bar
06.12.08 | St. Paul, MN | Turf Club
06.13.08 | Madison, WI | The Annex
06.14.08 | Grand Rapids, MI | Founders Brewing Co.
06.15.08 | Chicago, IL | Schubas
06.17.08 | Cleveland, OH | Beachland Tavern
06.18.08 | Buffalo, NY | Mohawk Place
06.19.08 | New York, NY | Knitting Factory
06.20.08 | Brooklyn, NY | Union Hall
06.21.08 | Pittsburgh, PA | Brillobox
06.23.08 | Chapel Hill, NC | Local 506
06.24.08 | Charleston, SC | The Village Tavern
06.25.08 | Tampa, FL | The Orpheum
06.27.08 | Jacksonville, FL | Club TSI
06.28.08 | Atlanta, GA | AFTERLIFE @ MASQUERADE
06.30.08 | Austin, TX | Beauty Bar
07.03.08 | Prescott, AZ | the Raven Cafe
07.04.08 | Phoenix, AZ | Ruby Room
07.05.08 | Tucson, AZ | Plush
07.31.08 | Costa Mesa, CA | Orange County Performing Arts Center

You got it. Actually, if it were truly minimalist, this bag wouldn’t have any printing on it at all. But I digress. The “Film” bag is available now in the shop. No mention of my name, or that it’s a documentary, nothing. Just the word Film, in Neue Helvetica 75 Bold. ‘Nuff said.

Last week, this blog suffered from what’s known as a “denial of service” attack. That’s when spamming software floods a server with hundreds of thousands of bogus requests, effectively blocking all legitimate web traffic and slowing the entire server down to a standstill. After some tech maneuvering, we had to relocate the blog to a new directory on the server, which effectively changes the URL to all our past blog posts. So if you’re bookmarking this blog, or getting an RSS feed of it, you need to change the URL from helveticafilm.com/blog to helveticafilm.com/newblog

Death to spammers.