As a band that's kind of scattered throughout Long Island and Brooklyn, we've made a lot of use of email to stay in touch and make decisions.  As a result, we've built up quite a sizable archive of exactly what we were thinking and talking about at a point in time.  In light of this, we're publishing a continuing series of snippets of our email conversations.

To kick things off, we have us naming both our band and EP.  A bit of context is probably necessary to understand the following exchange.  We were calling ourselves Dreaming Kids at one point, but decided we didn't really like the name.  Secondly, Andrea and Eric used to play together as Vampires. Hope you enjoy the emails below.

Dev Gupta Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:46 PM

To: Eric Cardona, Bryan Ujueta, Gabel D'Amico, Andrea Estella

So we have a band name... next hurdle, the name of the EP?  I liked Gabe's suggestion of "Blue Teeth."

Gabel D'Amico Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:11 PM

To: Dev Gupta Cc: Bryan Ujueta, Eric Cardona 

id be fine with:

- Dreaming Kids
- Blue Teeth
- Nectarine 

Bryan Ujueta Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:14 AM

To: Gabel D'Amico Cc: Dev Gupta, Eric Cardona 

What is the band name?  Is it Twin Sister?  As far as the E.P goes I like all that hippie shit, Mood Ring, Psychic Friend but that's old news. Ash said something like "gost"? I think it means friend? Is that right Dev? Anyway I thought that sounded cool.  Let's get this over with!

Dev Gupta Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:33 PM

To: Bryan Ujueta, Gabel D'Amico, Eric Cardona 

I think it's twin sister although eric suggested novi. Friend is dost in hindi.

Dev Gupta Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:54 PM

To: Bryan Ujueta, Gabel D'Amico, Eric Cardona 

So, twinsister.com is taken, by a children's educational music site.  dreamingkids.com was taken by a children's apparel site.  Man, we love kids.  Anyway, I was thinking twinsistermusic.com would be good for our website?  It's not smart or funny, but pretty easy to tell people....  Thoughts?  If you guys are happy with that, I'll buy the domain name.

Gabel D'Amico Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:56 AM

To: Dev Gupta, Bryan Ujueta, Eric Cardona 

I'm totally fine that website... but last I heard Andrea hates Twin Sister

Dev Gupta Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM

To: Gabel D'Amico Cc: Bryan Ujueta, Eric Cardona 

wait, I thought andrea liked twin sister.... what the fuck

Dev Gupta Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM

To: Gabel D'Amico Cc: Bryan Ujueta, Eric Cardona 

Mike is demanding I pitch the following names:

Crystal Mirth, Coconut Radio, & Toucan Telephone.  I am not liable in any way for how terrible those suggestions are.

Eric Cardona Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:27 PM

To: Dev Gupta 

She's okay with it, but likes Novi better. I like both of them equal.

Bryan Ujueta Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:24 AM

To: Dev Gupta Cc: Gabel D'Amico, Eric Cardona 

Oh man I miss you Mike.  All great band names. The first is good I like Crystal as a word.  The last too are very Gilligan's Island.  Here are my new suggestions- Italian Suit, Beach Party, Slumber Party, Dad's Hands, Godoug & LizardBand@spit.gov. 

Eric Cardona Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:50 PM

To: Dev Gupta Cc: Bryan Ujueta, Gabel D'Amico 

I made a Gmail and Myspace:

Gmail - twinsistermusic@gmail.com, password is [redacted]

Myspace- same email and password

Which songs should we post? Last Gabe and I spoke we were thinking Ginger and House. 

Also, the google related links for twin sister are fantastic:

Twins Clothes, My Sister, Dad Twins, Got Twins

!

Dev Gupta Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:32 PM

To: Eric Cardona Cc: Bryan Ujueta, Gabel D'Amico 

I bought twinsistermusic.com.  The gmail is kind of unecessary as we'll have eric@twinsistermusic.com or band@twinsistermusic.com or whatever the fuck.  I think we should post up all 4 songs, I don't see a reason to hold any back.  

As for the practice space, that location is amazing for me, not so great for everybody else.

Dev Gupta Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:53 PM

To: Eric Cardona Cc: Bryan Ujueta, Gabel D'Amico 

So seriously ep name?  I really like the idea of calling it "Dreaming Kids."  It's a nice way to say goodbye.

Gabel D'Amico Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:30 PM

To: Dev Gupta Cc: Eric Cardona, Bryan Ujueta 

1. cool news about the website purchase- its good you just bought domain, that made our band name decision for us

2. the practice space is priced well- as for location, it makes no difference to me, ill be trekking to BK regardless. as long as its off the L or the 4...

4. about the MySpace songs, my and erics reasoning for just putting up 2 was just to avoid overload for first-time listeners, and also to give people some initiative to go toward the web page for download. but on second thought,  4 is cool too- theres no element of trying to rope people into something. So im down with 4 or 2. 

5. as for the EP name, i like dreaming kids cause it kinda wipes the slate clean with that name, and also that is what we were playing under when we made it,  but i would be fine with basically anything- if dre or eric or bryguin has an idea, lets go with that

- or we could be REALLY confusing and call it:

Twin Sister- Vampires with Dreaming Kids

ahHH!! takin' out the trash. kinda cool though...

cööl,

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Dev Gupta Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:50 PM

To: Gabel D'Amico Cc: Eric Cardona , Bryan Ujueta 

I like Vampires with Dreaming Kids