The Chronic "what" cles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by Andrew Adamson

So I went to see NARNIA on Monday night and it wasn’t a total waste, but I sure was disapointed. I loved the books as a child and read them multiple times, but I haven’t read them in more than 20 years, so my memory of specifics is pretty vague, but the movie seemed to project a different milieu in general. The character development was great in the first half of the movie, but then everything started feeling rushed and ridiculous and by the end of the movie the cheese had weighed down the whole thing. I’m sure that the movie will be a lot of fun for 10 year olds, but I’d just rather that they read the book anyway … that way they could as least imagine that there was blood involved when Peter ran the wolf through with his sword.

Anyway, the SNL Sanberg and Parnell version is highly superior.

Sheeesh…

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody.

Free Things Are Cool Playlist for 12/14/05

My (usually, anyway) bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Jima / X-Mas Bush / The Dubya Cut & Paste Project / The Internet
Dirk Keysser / Silent Night / Happy Clucking Holidays / www.happycluckingholidays.com
Ed Shepp / The Christmas Story / Happy Holidays 2004 / self-release
The Wonderful World of Joey / What Sweet Child o' Mine is This? / CD single / Asphodel

Yello / Jingle Bells / 12" / Mercury (behind my voice)

Low / Blue Christmas / Christmas / Chair Kicker's Union
Bobbie Boyle with The Singers / Santa Claus Goes Modern / The American Song-Poem Christmas (v/a) / Bar-None
The Belrays / Rocket Ship Santa / Merry Christmas from the Belrays / Cheap Lullaby
The Qualities / It's Christmas Time / Sun Ra: The Singles / Evidence
Darlene Love / A Marshmallow World / Phil Spector's Christmas Album (v/a) / Warner
Dirk Keysser / Joy to the World / Happy Clucking Holidays / www.happycluckingholidays.com
The Bobs / Do You Hear What I Hear, Man? / Too Many Santas / Rounder
Droogs / Silent Night / A Midnight Christmas Mess (v/a) / Midnight Records
Benjamin Sears & Bradford Connor / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Rest You Merry: A Holiday Caberet / Oakton
The Salsoul Orchestra / There's Someone Who's Knocking / Christmas Jollies / Salsoul
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades / Little Rubber Boy / A Rubber Band Christmas / ada
Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra & Chorus / Do You Hear What I Hear? / 22 Merry Christmas Favorites / Ranwood
Dirk Keysser / Ode to Joy / Happy Clucking Holidays / www.happycluckingholidays.com

John Fahey / Christ's Saints of God Fantasy / The New Possibility: The John Fahey Guitar Solo Christmas Album / Rhino (behind my voice)

Twink / Let Me See How You Do It / The Broken Record / Seeland
Borful Tang / John and Mary in: The Restaurant / Root / Snurp
Childhood Friends / It's Cold Outside / Everything Is About to Change / self-release
Lou & Peter Berryman / Lexical Dude / Some Days / Cornbelt
Angel Corpus Christie / Still Feels Like Christmas / XMAS SNERTZ: Have a very Gulcher Christmas (v/a) / Gulcher
Harvey Sid Fisher / Sagittarius / Astrology Songs / Amarillo
Smegma / Happy Holidays / It's Finally Christmas (v/a) / Tim-Kerr

Acid Mother's Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO / Cosmic Introduction / Minstrel in the Galaxy / Riot Season (behind my voice)

Hopewell and The Birds of Appetite / Sugar in the Honey / s/t / Tee-Pee (Rubric)
Saxon Shore / Marked with the Knowledge / The Exquisite Death of... / Burnt Toast Vinyl
Espers / Black is the Color / The Weed Tree / Locust Music
Ennio Morricone / Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri / Crime and Dissonance / Ipecac
oRSo / Is Christmas Tomorrow? / Is xmas tomorrow? / binto family
The Dirty Three / Michele / Cinder / Touch-n-Go
My Life Is On The Line / Untitled#6 Epilogue / s/t (part3) / www.mylifeisontheline.com

Mizar / That Polish Girl / The King of the Stars / self-release

~fin~

That was fun. I traded Diana this week for next and then we're back to our normal schedule so that means that my next show will be on January 4th.

Okay. I need to get home and go to bed. Work in the morning. Love ya all.

Free Things Are Cool Playlist for 12/7/05

My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra feat. Marie France / Monster / Future Muzik / Scamp
Robyn Hitchcock / NASA Clapping / Jewels for Sophia / Warner Bros.
My Dad is Dead / Consequences / A Divided House / Unhinged
The Inkettes / I'm Blue (the Gong-Gong Song) / Beg, Scream & Shout / Rhino
Nothing Painted Blue / Take Your Own Advice / Taste the Flavor / Shrimper

Louie Gordon / Welcome to Rome Jose / JW 1 / Louie Gordon Productions
(behind my voice)

Broadcast / Corporeal / Tender Buttons / WARP
Sue Garner & Rick Brown / It's So Hard (Lennon) / Still / Thrill Jockey
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham / Ginger Snaps / Sonic Souvenirs / Jetset
Azalia Snail / I Feel Love (Summer) / Avec Amour / A True Classical CD
Low / Just Like Christmas / Christmas / Chair Kicker's Union

The Three Suns / Autumn Leaves / Space Age Pop Vol 3: The Stereo Action Dimension (v/a) / RCA
(behind my voice)

Ivone Lara / Nao Chora Nenem / Brazilian Popular Music (v/a) / Petrobras
Alarm Will Sound / Cliffs / Acoustica: AWS performs Aphex Twin / Cantaloupe
(behind my voice)

The Poppy Family / I Thought of You Again / A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 / What Are Records?
Edith Frost / Just a Friend / It's A Game / Drag City
The Magnolia Electric Co. / Doing Something Wrong / Hard to Love A Man / Secretly Canadian
White Magic / One-Note / Through the Sun Door / Drag City
Wilco / Heavy Metal Drummer / Kicking Television: Live in Chicago / Nonesuch
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy / I Send My Love to You / Summer in the Southeast / Sea Note
The Meat Purveyors / Little White Pills / For A Decade of Sin: 11 Years of... / Bloodshot
Danielle Howle & the Tantrums / Camero Power / Skorborealis / Daemon

Aaron Kruse / A Moment / Stuff 95-98 / self-release
(behind my voice)

Half Japanese / Frankenstein Meets Billy the Kid + My Bucket's Got a Hole in it / The Band that Would Be King / 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts
Twink / Pussy Cat / The Broken Record / Seeland
(Red Hot) Old Mose / Shrimp Man / American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) / Revenant
When People Were Shorter and Lived Near The Water / Autumn of My Life / Bobby / Shimmy Disc
Jerry Drake / Googie and Scogie / Songs From My Heart / self release
Ennio Morricone / Paura E Aggressione (short version) from the film Giornata Nera Per L'Ariete / Crime and Dissonance / Ipecac
Bobby Sherman / Time / s/t / K-TEL

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band / God / John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band / Capitol

~fin~

It's way late. I'm going home. Hope you enjoyed the show. Goodnight.

Crazy busy, life is good.

Holiday time is always like this. I work in a retail environment, so christmas time always hits like a load of bricks and beats me silly. This year has been no exception. Overtime and a desk that's overflowing with paperwork. I really don't have time to blog but I just wanted to say "hey everyone, I'm still here!"

Gillian is growing in leaps and bounds. She's so funny these days. Such a sense of humor. It really is the best sound in the world... the sound of your child laughing. I know it sounds cliche, but oh my god. It boggles the mind.

This morning she walked down the hall and Mindy noticed that she didn't toddle at all. She just walked with confidence from one point to another. It's incredible. She's gonna be one year old on the 17th. I can't wait to make her cake. What kind of cake should I make her? It's funny, 'cause it's not like we're gonna let her eat a lot of cake; she's small.

I think I call her small fry or just small more than anything else these days. Nicknames are funny. They rotate rather rapidly in our household.

Gillian got her first snow the other day. Lots of fun. She thinks it tastes great.

I need to go to bed. It's another busy day tomorrow.

Goodnight

Planes on a Van!

Planes On a Van!
Originally uploaded by Domenica the Mouse.

See!!!!

Airplanes on vans!
Snakes on a plane!
What's next????

Update:
Someone made a website for the plane!

Free Thing Are Cool Playlist for 11/23/05

Fuck a goddamn duck.

I just erased my whole entry just before posting it.
Well... gotta start over... here goes...
At least I don't have to work tomorrow morning, right?

My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Edith Frost / If it Weren't For the Words / It's A Game / Drag City
Bright / Secret Form of Time / Bells Break Their Towers / Strange Attractors
Valentine Dyall & Tim Souster / The Answer / The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Hannibal
Kate Bush / An Architect's Dream / Arial / Columbia
Death By Chocolate / The Salvidor Dali Murder Mystery / s/t / Jetset
Dungen / Stadsvandringar / Stadsvandringar / Astralwerks
Peace Orchestra (Peter Kruder) / Shining / s/t / G-Stone

Esquivel / Surfboard / Space-age Bachelor Pad Music / Bar/None

Ennio Morricone / Ricreazione Divertita / Crime and Dissonance / Ipecac
Bobby Conn / Winners / The Golden Age / Thrill Jockey
Carla Bley & Nick Mason / Can't Get My Motor to Start / Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports / CBS
Blackouts / Young Man / History in Reverse / K
The Detroit Cobras / Cha Cha Twist / Baby / Bloodshot
Johnny Keeting / Jesus Christ Superstar / The Sound Gallery (v/a) / Scamp

Great Lake Swimmers / Imaginary Bars / Bodies and Minds / MISRA
Bettie Serveert / The Ocean, My Floor / Log22 / A Hidden Agenda!
The Renderers / Outer Mongolia / The Surface of Jupiter / AJAX
Richard Buckner & Jon Langford / Rolling of the Eyes / Sir Dark Invader vs. The Fanglord / Burried Treasure
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy / May it Always Be / Summer in the Southeast / Sea Note
Supersystem / Devour Delight / Always Never Again / Touch-n-Go

Mizar / Electric Storm / The King of the Stars / self-release
Olivia Tremor Control / A New Day / Black Foliage: Vol. 1 / Flydaddy
Azalia Snail / Alcazar / Avec Amour / A True Classical c.d.
The Yahoos / Love Train / For A Decade of Sin: 11 Years of... / Bloodshot

Negativland / Piece a Pie / No Business / Seeland

~fin~

It was a good show! Transistions were smooth in the main and I even had some of the sets planned out ahead of time. It was nice to hear from a few friends on the phone. Thanks for listening.

Thanks to Diane for hangin' out with me while Chuck was preparing for his slot. Diane is also responsible for requesting Piece a Pie. She was howling with laughter... She'd only heard it once before. Funny shit, mang.

Well, I should go. I need to drive 50 minutes north to the inlaws house... a strange bed awaits.

goodnight

Monday Night Date

Gillian and I had a wonderful date tonight. Mommy was working at the diaper service, so we were on our own. My original plan was to go for a night-time run around Capitol Lake, but it was too cold for that, even with Gillie all bundled up like a cozy burrito.

So we decided to wing it. I drove and she "sang." We left my work and drove downtown and called Jenny Jenkins who I haven't seen in a long time. She wasn't home so I left a message. I wasn't exactly sure where we were going at this point but then we saw Domenica walking along State street. We whipped into the parking lot of that place where christians scare girls out of abortions and flagged down D. It turns out that her car is on the fritz and she was headed to the bus stop and downtown. I offered her a ride in the bed of the truck and she thought that that sounded like a lot of fun since she'd never ridden in the back of a truck before. Breakin' the law! When we got down to the library we parked next to this van with a dismantled airplane on the top of it. No shit. Really. It had a cockpit and everything. You think I'm kidding. I couldn't make up something that good. Not something you see everyday.

The library was great. Gillie made friends with a vivacious mom as soon as we walked in the door. She's so social. Domenica went off to study and Gillie and I found a Bill Bryson audiobook that I haven't heard yet. I'm excited to start another of his works. He's a great writer (Unlike me.)

Again, I was sort of at a loss of what to do when I left the library. Gillian was kind of grumpy and wanted something to do. That much was obvious. She gets really bored with being at home and riding in the car. Like I just said, "she's social." "Social! That's it," I thought. She needs a buddy! So I called my friend Melissa who's got a little boy that's a month younger than Gillie. Sure enough, they thought that a little play-time sounded like a nice idea, but they were just getting ready for dinner so I had to kill a half an hour.

Again, I started driving without knowing where I was going. Hmmm... They were sitting down to diner... "So should we!" So I pulled into the Old School pizzeria parking lot and we were on to the next adventure of the night.

We had a nice time. Daddy got a beer and a slice and Gillie had tons of fun flirting with one of the dudes that works there. She's so social! She also ate an entire jar of pears. mmmmmmm...

On the way to Melissa's Jenny called me back. She was sorry that she'd missed the chance to hang out with us. That's the problem with spontaneity; you never know when it's gonna work out for you.

Gillian and Keenan played alongside each other but I wouldn't say that they played with each other. Gillie's idea of playing with another child usually consists of taking whatever toy it is that said playmate has. Fun all around. Gillie did like Keenan's dad, Patrick, however. She gave him some of Keenan's toys and it was "all good" as they say. We partied hard for about 20 or 30 minutes and then it was time to go home.

Gillian konked out in the truck on the way home and this is what she looks like now. She's out! Fun times.

Free Things Are Cool Playlist for 11/9/05

Yet another playlist.
My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

MC Solaar / Solaar Pleur / Cinquieme AS / WEA
Suckadelic / Galactic Crisis / STAR WARS Breakbeats / Suckadelic
Broadcast / America's Boy / Tender Buttons / WARP
Melvins / Second Coming-Ballad of Dwight Fry (Cooper) / Lysol / Boner

Drums & Tuba / Complicated Sorrow / Battles Olé / Righteous Babe
Little Joe & the Thrillers / Peanuts / The Doo Wop Box II (V/A) / Rhino
Denny Wright & the Hustlers / Shout About Pepsi / The Sound Gallery (V/A) / Scamp
Negativland / Voice Inside My Head / dispepsi / Seeland
Joan of Arc / The Cash-in and Price / Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain / Polyvinyl
Messerchups / Super Sonic Vibrator / Crazy Price / Ipecac
Sun Ra and His Outerspace Orchestra / Rocket #9 / the Singles / Evidence
Deerhoof / Spy on You / The Runners Four / 5 Rue Christine
Nitre Pit / Wild Talents / Lo! / self release
The Dirty Three / Dream Evie / Cinder / Touch n Go

Destroy All Dreamers / Ghost Guitar in the Shell / À Coeur Léger Sommeil Sangiant / Where Are My Records
Peace Orchestra / Who Am I? / s/t / G-Stone

Norm Scott / The Sandbox Legacy / Psycho Pop Vol. 1 (v/a) / Acidsoxx Musicks
Men's Recovery Project / In Khartoum / the Best of... / 5 Rue Chistine
OOIOO / T{T{tune / Gold and Green / Thrill Jockey
Electrocute / North 14 / Troublesome Bubblegum / Emperor Norton
The Orb / Captain Korma / Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt / Kompakt
Roger Miller / What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings) / King of the Road (Box Set) / Mercury
The Kleptones / Play / A Night at the Hip Hopera / Kleptones.com
Ed Shepp / Eat the Censored / Five / self release
Evolution Control Committee / Diner / Plagiarhythm Nation / Seeland
Lou & Peter Berryman / Dem Deer / Some Days / Cornbelt
The Starkweathers / Burn the Flag / For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records / Bloodshot

Command All-Stars / Theme from Polovetzian Dances / Persuasive Percussion Vol. 3 / Command

Great Lake Swimmers / When it Flows / Bodies and Minds / MISRA
Grace Braun / Tonight You'll Take Her Home / I'm Your Girl / Dark Beloved Cloud
Donovan / Maria Magenta / Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan / Epic
Vashti Bunyan / If I Were / Lookaftering / DiCristina-Fat Cat
Kath Bloom & Loren MazzaCane Connors / How it Rains / 1981-1984 / Megalon
Legendary Pink Dots / Go Ask Alice / Asylum / Play it again, Sam
My Dad is Dead / Maze of My Mind / A Divided House / Unhinged
Devendra Banhart / Some People Ride the Wave / Cripple Crow / XL

Azalia Snail / Honeysuckle / Avec Amour / True Classical CDs

~fin~

It's late and I need to sleep. I'll add notes to this at a later date... maybe...

No new post,

but there's a new fancy flash button linking to my flickr account. I stole the idea from Raymi. So there.

P.S. > What the hell is this thing I saw on the beach a couple of years ago? Anyone know?
Some kind of transluscent jellyfish. With the consistancy of a gummy bear. I didn't touch it... No effin' way!

The Toast (inspired) Post

Toast reminded me that I have a blog. I must post. What must I post? I dunno.

It's been a nice week... Lots of nice family time over the weekend. I'm just kind of stressed about money and the overwhelming lack of free time that is my life. But it's weird. I had all kinds of "free time" while driving all around western Washington this weekend but you can't really do much on the road. I don't want to sound like a whiner, (though I am) but everything just seems so fucking hard today. Go away Monday, go away!

Anyway... Tomorrow is a new day and I've got my radio show on Wednesday night. That should be fun. I was going to try to get together some sets of music in advance on my computer at home so that I'm not so frantic when I'm actually at the show, but I find that: (1) I have no fucking free time and (2) I feel like a painter without an easel when I don't have a stack of CD's and a big broadcast mixer. Freeform radio is easy and natural to me. Anyway... I guess if I had all my music in the computer and didn't have to digitize everything just to put it together it'd be less daunting too.

I remember the good ol' days of making mixed tapes when I was 19 or 20... It was so all consuming. I don't have a 5 hour block of time to devote to a mix tape anymore. It's sad. I used to make a new mixed tape for myself every xmas consisting of all my favorite stuff that I'd been listening to for the past year. Now that seems like an unbelievable amount of work to put into something that doesn't bring in money or fix my house or car or bump-a-dump-bump-a-dee-doo-da, etc...

Blah freakin' blah.

I love you all. Thanks for reading. We'll return to our regularly scheduled efervescent self soon. Stay tuned. After these annoying messages.

~B~

My baby is cute.

In case you didn't realize. My baby is cute.
She looks cute when she's naked too.
She uses the loofa when she's in the bath, don't'cha know?

Glow in the Dark Bomber T-shirt

Oh my god. So I was reading the Washington State section of Roadside America and found out that not only is Richland, WA's (near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation) high school mascot "the bombers," but that they have an allumni site that sells t-shirts and other goodies.

I NEED a glow-in-the-dark atomic bomb school spirit shirt.

Need IT!

I can wear it when I'm not wearing my Gay, MI "Gay Bar" shirt.

Who's buying me one for xmas????

Free Things Are Cool Playlist for 10/26/05

Here's another playlist.
My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Gang Gang Dance / Track #6 / God's Money / The Social Registry
Broadcast / I Found the End / Tender Buttons / WARP
Ruins / FFILHIZABMN / PALLASCHTOM / Skin Graft
Leon Pappy Selph / Florene / Stompin' at the Honky Tonk: Western Swing in Houston 1936-41 / String
Patrick Wolf / Night Train / The Enlightened Family (V/A) / Voodoo-EROS
Sun Kil Moon / Dramamine / Tiny Cities / Caldo Verde

Charles Farrell / Three / Noise (V/A) / Performance

Delta 5 / Mind Your Own Business / GRLZ (V/A) / Crippled Dick Hot Wax
Elliott Sharp / L-L-Love / In the Land of Yahoos / SST
The Detroit Cobras / Everybody's Gone Wild / Baby / Bloodshot
The Bad Livers / The Adventures of Pee Wee the Sailor / Delusions of Banjer / Quarterstick
Barry Louis Polisar / A Bee Will Sting You / Off-Color Songs for Kids / Rainbow Morning Music
Idyll Swords / Kashalin in Rag Pilu / II / Communion
Espers / Afraid (Nico) / The Weed Tree / Locust
Rod McKuen / Kaleidoscope / Greatest Hits Vol. 1 / Laserlight

Triptych Myth / Spiraling Out / The Beautiful / AUM Fidelity

Chuck Swaim with the Dead Air Fresheners / Face of Evil / Live 2/15/03 / Self-Release
Wade Denning / the Specter / Famous Ghost Stories / Pickwick
David Moss / #6 / Terrain / Cornpride
Psychatrone Rhonedakk / Can You Travel in the Dark Alone? / Disturbs the Air / Black Plastic Sound
David Byrne / Cloud Chamber / The Catherine Wheel / Sire
Jerry Fels / the World is Flat / How to Make Enemies & Influence Strangers / www.nobodysfavoriterecords.com

Lou & Peter Berryman / We Don't Do It / Some Days / Cornbelt
Light Crust Doughboys / Beer Drinkin' Mama / String Band Swing / Longhorn
Mary Lou Lord / Cold Company / For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records (V/A) / Bloodshot
Dorsey Brothers / Annies Cousin Fanny / Screwballs in Swingtime (V/A) / Bandstand
Great Lake Swimmers / I Saw You in the Wild / Bodies and Minds / MISRA
The Dirty Three / In Fall / Cinder / Touch n Go

The Legendary Pink Dots / So Gallantly Screaming / Asylum / Play it Again, Sam

Not much of a Halloween show this year. I'll try to do better at xmas time. Light on the spooky, that's for sure.

Guess who was in the studio when I arrived at the station tonight? You'll never guess. KRS ONE! He was freestyling and being interviewed on the air on Jose's show. Kick ass! I unfortuately didn't have my old BDP CD with me or I'd have been in autograph heaven.

Brand new Lou and Peter Berryman record out! Ya-woo! Can't get enough middle-aged accordian music --- I'm so hip-hop.

Anyway... I'm outta here. Home to sweet nocturnal bliss...

My favorite hot dogs in the world

My favorite hot dogs in the world
Originally uploaded by mayoknave.

So,here's an interesting piece of archetecture.

I took this picture of my favorite hot dog joint when I was back in Oak Park, IL for my grandmother's funeral a few years ago. I used to LOVE Parky's when I was a kid and revisiting it as an adult did not disapoint. You can see Mindy getting her fries out of the transluscent-with-grease bag in the window. If you're ever in the Chicago area I recomend going to Parky's for dinner and Peterson's Ice Cream for desert. Nummies! It'll make you fat, but fat and happy.

What? The weekend is over?!?

Monday morning.

I thought that I'd do some blogging this weekend but I didn't even get all the important stuff scratched off of my list. Now it's almost 8:30 on Monday morning and I still haven't showered. I theoretically work at nine and it's a 25 minute drive to work.

Whatever. It was a beautiful foggy sunrise over the lake and I woke up in a good mood. Gillian was cooperative with her diaper change (which is a rarity these days) and has been a doll for the past half hour since we've been up.

Anyway, I'm off to the shower. Wish I didn't have to go to work. I miss my baby the worst on Mondays.

Snakes! On a Plane!

So Toast found this great picture the other day and I haven't been able to stop laughing since. But, as it turns out, Snakes on a plane is real, man!

Snakes on a plane central.

Buy the t-shirt.

Here's an excerpt of an interview with Samuel L Jackson:

Beaks: One of those films that you’re working on right now is... well, it’s called "Pacific Air 121"—
Jackson: Snakes on a Plane, man!
Beaks: Exactly.
Jackson: We’re totally changing that back. That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.
Beaks: Snakes on a Plane! That’s everything!
Jackson: You either want to see that, or you don’t.

Free Things Are Cool Playlist for 10/12/05

So here's another playlist.
My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Unknown / The Happy Dragon's Tounge / Sounds For Little Ones / Dish
The Scramblers / Mister Hot Rod / RE/SEARCH:Incredibly Strange Music vol. 1 / Caroline
Spaceheads / Devil's Claws / Ho! Fat Wallet / Dark Beloved Cloud
Refect Refect / Sue's Future / The Future 7" / Kill Rock Stars
Gypsies Maledon / Lurking In The Shadows / Vampire Music Vol. 1 / Terrascape
Billy Synth / Real Cool Time / State of Confusion 7" ep / Tragik
Rodney & the Brunettes / Holocaust on Sunset Blvd. / 7" / Bomp!
Splatt / the 60s were so beautiful, man / World of Splatt / recombinations.com

Dick Hyman / Topless Dancers of Corfu & the Legend of Jimmy Pot / The Electric Eclecticsof Dick Hyman / Eastlake Music

Saxon Shore / With A Red Suit You Will Become A Man / The Exquisite Death of... / Burnt Toast
Messerchups / Anton LaVey 66.6 FM / Crazy Price / Ipecac
Broadcast / Corporeal / Tender Buttons / WARP
Angel Corpus Christi / I Want To Boogie With You-Je T'aime / Louie Louie / Gulcher

Stephen Vitiello & David Tronzo / Long Walk (for a Slow Loris) #4 / Scratchy Monsters, Laughing Ghosts / New Albion
Alarm Will Sound / Meltphace 6 / Acoustica: AWS performs Aphex Twin / Cantaloupe

Dirty Three / Rain On / Cinder / Touch-n-Go
Great Lake Swimmers / Falling into the Sky / Bodies & Minds / MISRA
Freakwater / Buckets of Oil / Thinking of You / Thrill Jockey
Rainy Day / I'll Keep it With Mine / 7" / Rough Trade
The Magnetic Fields / Long Vermont Roads / Listen to the MF 7" / Harriet
Spires That in the Sunset Rise / The Walker / Four Winds The Walker / Secret Eye
The Detroit Cobras / Hot Dog (watch me eat) / Baby / Bloodshot

Bari Watts / Plastic Bag / ALMS: a benefit for Ptolemaic Terrascope (v/a) / Fleece
Subverts / TV Personality / Independent Study / Clandestine
Duck Hunt / Holiday / 7" / K
Calvin Johnson / Red Wing Black / Before the Dream Faded / K

True Believers / Death By Freezing / Accept It! 7" / New Age
Spin-17 / Slow Rock 2 / s/t / Quodlibet
Sebadoh / Sister / Soul & Fire 7" ep / Sub Pop
OOIOO / unu / Gold & Green / Thrill Jockey
Jeffrey Dahl / Rock & Roll Critic / 7" / Doodley Squat

Crispin "Hellion" Glover / These Boots (are made for walkin') / the Big Problem / Restless

Thanks to Richard for coming in and writing down my playlist so that I could do other stuff. I still did a shoddy job and was frazzled. Fuck Red Bull. Wings, my ass. I was tired and sloppy tonight. Oh, well... Two hours that is now over. Let me know what YOU thought of the show. Questions? Comments?

Quoth Brave Sir Cartman: "Screw you guys, I'm going home."

Photos of The Deed

Brooks and Sonal pose before...
Ack! Mine pony!
Should I go for the Truman Capote/John Cale look?

Aiii!!! What haf I done?!?

Three posts in one day!

When my friends and I were in high school we used to make super 8 and camcorder vhs films and other stupid comedy stuff. You know the type of stuff---editing old star trek epsisodes and audio-dubbing different dialogue... Totally had ourselves in stitches. Really funny. And homophobic. And offensive in other ways. I'm alternately relieved and sad that the broadband internet of today wasn't around then. Our movies would have SURELY been posted on the internet and I'd have to live down a lot of embarrasing stuff. Anyway I've been thinking about that kind of stuff a lot lately and decided that putting really personally embarrasing stuff on the web is really a funny idea in-and-of-itself. Way funnier if you put your own embarrasing stuff up than if it gets up there in other ways. Anyway, this started out as a reply to one of Toast's entries but I think I'm gonna post it as an entry on BAWC now. Yeah, that's what I'll do. Post.

P.S. - So I guess I'd better encode some bad old Diplomatic Immunity (my first band) songs for my reading public to ridicule me about. Yeah! Fun!

Words

So Gillian has been chiming in with some words now. It’s really cute as you can imagine. There has been the usual babbling of ma-ma and bu-ba and so forth, but now she’s actually saying bu-bye and waving (whether you’re coming or going) and this morning she reportedly said up to grandma when she wanted to be picked up. She’s so freakin’ cute!

She’ll be ten months old next week. It’s amazing how time flies. We’ve got her in jeans and a sweatshirt on today. That’s my favorite style of clothing for her. She looks like a little hoodlum, my li’l hoodlum. What a doll. There she goes. I’m going to give chase. Oh, now we’re in grandma and grandpa’s room. I thought that’d be fine until I saw her headed towards the open toilet. Yikes!

Toilets are another charming feature of babies that I’d never really given much thought to before having a baby. I just figured that babies that play in toilets like the baby on the cover of Sebadoh’s Bakesale album were kooky rare cases. Boy was I wrong. Gillian will play in a toilet like it’s a champagne fountain if you let her. The trick is: don’t let her. She’s not alone either. This other baby I know, Tarkin, will likewise drown his sorrows in the nearest porcelain soda fountain like a drunk at a company holiday party.

Okay, so I just lost a paragraph about her cute jeans and sweatshirt ensemble and how cute and gangsta she looks in it, but this sentence pretty much makes up for what was lost. This isn’t really supposed to be a baby blog but that’s just about all I can think about today since we’re hangin’ so tight. Yo. Dave Berry wrote this column recently (well it was published recently anyway) where he said that parents’ IQ scores are on par with “a lump of charcoal” because of the singularity of thought that is required of you in the performance of your parenting. I feel it. Oh yes, I feel it.

I’m gonna go play with my little demon seed now.

“May the force be with you.”

This Evening's Entry

Dear Diary,

So. I’ve got this desire to blog. I really think about blogging all the time, but for some reason, it’s rare that I actually sit down and just do it. So here we are. Tonight I’m gonna blog ya, tonight.

I’ve been coming to my in-laws house for the occasional overnight stay for a very long time, a lot longer than I’ve actually been a married person. My wife and I were together (mostly) for ten years before we were married in 2001. But now that we have Gillian, I’m finding myself here in lovely Allyn, WA a whole lot more than usual. I’m often really bored when I’m here since I’m separated from my stuff. How can I keep myself busy doing projects when I’m not home, right? Wrong. I just realized today that I can totally blog! Like, ohmygod! Totally!

Well, that was a valiant effort. The first two paragraphs were written three hours ago! The main reason that I don’t blog is because I’m busy being a dad. Between dinner, diaper changes and being Gillian’s court jester, my evening was full. Oh, and Sonal (Mindy’s sister) gave me a trim. This having short hair stuff is for the birds. I used to get annual haircuts. Now it’s like two in less than a month. Good thing there’s a beautician in the family.

I’m gonna watch the rest of Kung Fu Hustle which I started watching the other night and see if it gets any better. It’s been kind of irritating so far. I’ll let you know.

This is the point where I would upload this text to blogger if this house had wireless Internet, but no. The parental units have Direct TV and an enormous big screen but just dial up when it comes to Internet. Gillian’s sleeping in the room with the base for this laptop so I guess I’ll upload it in the morning.

I love you all, each and every one of you. God bless.

Ok, here it is.

Thanks Min. Thanks a million. You're totally the best wife ever.

No, you go to hell!

Free Things Are Cool playlist for 9/28/05

So here's another playlist.
My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Alarm Will Sound / 4 / Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex Twin / Cantaloupe
Lambchop / Up With People / split 7" w/ Dump / Third Gear
Weekend / Drum Beat for Baby / b/w Sleepy Theory / Rough Trade
Anne Waldman / Uh-Oh Plutonium! / 7" / Hyacinth Girls
The Melody Unit / Exercise 1 / Songs for the New American Century / themelodyunit.com
Gary Wilson / The Midnight Hour / 7" / self-release
Unnatural Axe / They Saved Hitler's Brain / 7" ep / no label listed
Crispin Hellion Glover / Oak Mot excerpt / The Big Problem does not = the solution. the Solution = Let it Be / Restless

Knitting By Twilight / Audrey / Someone to Break the Silence / It's Twilight Time

Wilma & the Wilbers / Poor Little Joey / 7" / Break'er
Westside Lockers / Fushsia Rayon / 7" / Mr. Brown
Suburban Lawns / Gidget Goes to Hell / 7" / Suburban Industrial
Bay of Pigs / Addiction / 7" / Subterranean
Vibrant Fiasco / Lizard Lips / 7" ep / Disturbed Pyramid
Deerhoof / Spirit Ditties of No Tone / the Runners Four / 5 Rue Christine
Trans X / Monkey Dance / Living On Video / ATCO
Jandek / Come Over Here / This Narrow Road / Corwood
S.Weisser / contexts / 7" / Subterranean

The Fingers of Doom / Yellows / 7" / Tombstone
Quintron & Miss Pussycat / Chatterbox / s/t / tigerbeat6
Viva Satellite / Episode d'ammour Matinee / 7" ep / Happy Go Lucky
Sharkbait / P.H.L.A. (psychedelic human liberation army) / 7" / Primtech
Benedict Gehlen / Song for a girl I like / s/t cassette / self release
Denny Ward / When I Get Home / 7" / Needles and Pins
Calvin Johnson / The Leaves of Tea / Before the Dream Faded / k
The Rocking Clones / (love in the) Twilight Zone / 7" / Edible
Jr. Chemists / Bizzy Worms / Arizona Disease split 7" w/ Les Seldoms / Subterranean
Monitor / Beak / 7" / World Imitation
Reesa / Groove City / 7" / Reesa
Big Tom the Lithuanian / Labor Day 2 / CD single / self-release

Ozel Turkbas / Fasulya / How to Make Your Husband A Sultan / Traditional Crossroads
Crayon / Snap-tight Wars / 7" / Harriet

Broadcast / America's Boy / Tender Buttons / WARP

Rena & Her Men / This is Goodbye / b/w Call Me / Rena Records

~fin~

Obviously somewhat of a theme show, but only 'cause I got caught up when I was going through the old 45s. I've still got a lot that I didn't get to that I'm saving for next time.

I asked for help over the air with playlist keeping and I got a taker! Wha-hoo! Richard is gonna come in and be the official playlist monkey when I do the show again in 2 weeks! That's awesome! Thanks Richard! Leah was maybe gonna do it tonght, but it turned out that she couldn't. I'm always looking for volunteers if you're interested. I just can't keep up with all the transcription when I play so many short songs. Write me if you're interested.

Goodnight all. I'm goin' home.

Sorry Lynda

Lynda called me up to lambast me for not getting a hair pic up yet. She's right. That's totally lame, dude. Mindy has to take a picture. We'll get it together soon. Maybe I'll put a lotta gel in and go for a Feargal Sharkey look. Whatta ya think? Sound good?

Gillian has been so freakin' cute lately. She's figured out how to wave but it's still a primative wave. It's more like what Tonto did in the old Lone Ranger movies. She doesn't wag it side to side. Not yet anyway.

My radio show is tonight. Y'all should listen. It's streaming at www.kaosradio.org. 9 to 11 Pacific time, yo.

I swear I'll blog at some point. I really want to, it's just a matter of making time.

Now playing on my mp3 player- "She Fucks Me" by Ween

Haircut

Don't be shocked the next time you see me. Yes. I had my hair cut. I had the same hair cut for just about 15 years. Now it's new. Pictures to follow.

In unrelated news, I keep thinking about a million things that I'd like to blog about but I never get around to them. That defeats the purspose of a blog, doesn't it? I should just write when inspiration hits, right? Well I'm too busy most of the time and right now I need to get to sleep so that the morning isn't too brutal, so again, it'll have to wait. Before I go, I'll mention a couple of things that I want to blog about in the future: Edith Frost, Bill Bryson, duckhugger.com, Chicago, how I got both ALLMUSIC and IMDb entries, The River's Edge, High Fidelity, etc... I could do this game all night... I need sleep.

Last Weekend

Last weekend was really tired and sleepy as you can see from this pic. I was stupid and got drunk on Friday night, so I had a nasty hangover on Saturday. Dumbass. Anyway, that's not gonna happen this weekend. Hopefully we'll have a fun and productive weekend. There's lot's of stuff to do.

My baby is so cute these days. She's got so much personality. She's gonna be 9 months old on Saturday. She's been out of mommy for as long as she was in now... crazy. I've got a total redhead on my hands. Oi vey. I love that little girl.

Free Things Are Cool 9/14/05 - Playlist

So, again, this'll be breif. Just a list. It's late and I need some sleep.
My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

The Tributes / Here Comes Ringo / Del-fi Pool Party / Del-Fi
Justin / I'm a Rock-n-Roll Boy / Party Fun With Recorders / Comfort Stand
Neung Phak (mono pause) / Drew Tob, Drew Tob / s/t / Abduction
41 (& Mason Williams) / Toad Suckers / Red, White & Orange / freelove41@earthlink.net
Hair & Skin Trading Co. / Kinetic / Psychedelische Musique / Freek
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / LS Bumblebee / Beatlesongs: Best of Beatle Novelty Records / Rhino
Brian Wilson / Mrs. O'Leary's Cow / Smile / Nonesuch
Z-Rock Hawaii / I Get A Little Taste Of You / s/t / Nipp Guitar

Gate / King / Golden / IMD

Atari Teenage Riot / Deutschland Has Gotta Die! / 7" / DHR
41 / Don't Be a Litterbug / No More Mayonnaise / freelove41@earthlink.net
Dungen / Sjutton / ta det lugnt / Kemado
Bjork / vessel Shinenawa / Music from Drawing Restraint 9 / One Little Indian
Odd Clouds / #2 / Liquid Moon Ritual EP / Casanova Temptations
Old Time Relijun / Lions & Lambs / 2012 / K
Rip, Rig & Panic / Storm the Reality Asylum / GRLZ (v/a) / crippled dick hot wax
New Bad Things / Rasputin Lover / c-sides / blackbean & placenta
The Clouds / No, You Can't Take Them / s/t / Innova
Saxon Shore / track#2 / Luck Will Not Save Us From a Jackpot of Nothing / Burnt Toast Vinyl

Jerry Goldsmith / The Monument / Logan's Run / MGM

Ed Shepp / Angels We Have Heard On High / Superpowerpussy / self release
Serge Gainsbourg / Requiem pour un c... / Love and the Beat 2 / Mercury
The Kallikak Family / Nov. 22nd 2003 / May 23rd 2007 / Tell-All
Boduf Songs / Our Canon Of Transposition / s/t / Kranky
Suzanne Vega / Stay Awake / Stay Awake (V/A) / A&M
Yann Tomita & the Doopees / Air by Bus / Doopee Time!!! / For Life
SANDMAN / Rock Star Lover From Xanadu / A Year in the life of Slippery Goodstuff / Loner
Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade / Sitar Piece / ...is coming / Twist UK

Sleeping People / Technically You... / s/t / Temporary Residence

Carly Simon / Anticipation / Best of Carly Simon / Elektra
Dead Moon / In the Waiting / Dead Ahead / Tombstone
Calexico | Iron & Wine / Red Dust / In the Reins / Overcoat
Devo / Jocko Homo / Q: Are We Not Men? A: No, We Are Devo / Warner
General Electriks / Brain Collage / Cliquety Kliqk / Quannum Projects
The Kleptones / Play the Gay Bar / A Night at the Hip-Hopera / www.kleptones.com/
Brother Cleve / School 4 Robots / Dimension Mix (v/a) / eenie meenie

Foscil / Massive Moves / s/t / fourthcity.net

And so it goes... I'm gonna go to sleep. Maybe I'll start blogging again this week instead of looking at the trainwrecks of profiles on myspace and friendster. We'll see. Easier to gawk, don't'cha know?

I'm old. How about you?

I really have not much to blog about, but I thought I'd use up a little bandwidth for a second. Text. Really inconsequential. Remember when we (we oldies anyway) were kids and computers saved memory by having file names only have 8 positions for letters? like brooksie.txt or whatever? Yeah kids, it's true. Oh, and no graphical interface either. I spent hours and hours playing text only infocom games. This post is lame. I'm gonna go home and play some ATARI. Fuck, yeah.

Hey, You Got Something To Eat? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Oh.my.god.

I got an onion this poor goat could eat.

Free Things Are Cool Playlist 8/31/05

The Robert Moog memorial show.

artist / song / album / label

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion
Wendy (Walter) Carlos / 2 part invention in d minor / Switched On Bach / East Side Digital

The Cars / Moving in Stereo / Just What I Needed / Elektra
Helios Creed / Flying Through the Either-Ub the Wall / Lactating Purple / Am-Rep
Gary Numan Tubeway Army / I Nearly Married a Human / Double Peel Sessions / Strange Fruit

Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson / OK Robot / Listen, Compute, Rock Home / Emperor Norton
Kraftwerk / Atherwellen / Radio-Aktivitat / EMI
Robyn Hitchcock / Messages of Dark / Eaten By Her Own Dinner 12" / Midnight Music
Donna Summer / I Feel Love / The Disco Box / Rhino
Broadcast / We've Got Time / Work and Non-Work / Drag City
Wendy Carlos / Prelude & Fugue #2 in C minor / Switched on Bach / East Side Digital
Men Without Hats / Moonbeam / Pop Goes the World / Mercury

Lipps, Inc. / Funkytown / The Disco Box / Rhino
Mocket / Flyspeck / ProForma / Kill Rock Stars
Dead Air Fresheners / Fear is Nature's Warning Plan to Get Busy / I Try to Show My Love / Plastic Duck
Hawkwind / Sonic Attack / Space Ritual / United Artists
The Vocokesh / 12 Monkeys / Through the Smoke / Strange Attractors Audio House
Jessamine / Oscillations / Another Fictionalized History / Histrionic
Hawkwind / Electronic Vol. 1 Pt. 1 / Space Ritual / United Artists
Wesley Willis / Chuckie / Greatest Hits Vol 3 / Alternative Tentacles
April March / Keep in Touch / Chrominance Decoder / Ideal
Enoch Light & The Light Brigade / Walk On By / Spaced Out / Total Sound
Juana Molina / Tres Cosas / Tres Cosas / Domino
Hawkwind / Electronic Vol. 1 Pt. 2 / Space Ritual / United Artists
Satisfact / Alawat / The Third Meeting At The Third Counter / K

Thor / The Coming of Thor / Thor Against the World / Smog Veil
Witchy Poo / Olympia Must Die / Public Works / 5 Rue Christine

Mountain Goats / Song for Tura Satana / Zopilote Machine / 3 Beads of Sweat
~fin~

So the theme was Moog or Moog influenced songs...
I used my Rouge Moog for backing "music" between songs when I was back-announcing. I love that thing. Makes me so happy. Just what I wanted and didn't know it when I was 10 or something. Exactly what I wished my 200 in 1 Electronics Kit would do. Now if I can just get the bomb that I could never make with my chemistry set when I was that same age...

Anyway...It went over pretty well, I think. What did you think?

Hmmm... Time to go to sleep. Thanks to all the listeners.

I'm a bad blogger

REALLY...

I just haven't had it in me to blog lately... I want to have a good blog but I'm having trouble prioritize it. Being a new dad and having to work certainly get in the way of blogging, huh?

Anyway, this entry is hardly going to count either as I'm at work now and have no time for a propper entry. Bah!

I'm doing my radio show tonight. You can listen Wednesday night at 9PM (Pacific) on KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia, WA or online at http://kaos.evergreen.edu/listenlive.html. Tonight will be a requiem for Robert Moog who passed away shortly after my last show 2 weeks ago. I'll be playing lots of synthesiser music and a few songs that specifically feature Moog synths. I'll also be bringing my Rogue Moog up to the station to demonstrate the range of the instrument and provide backing music for my voice. I'll post my playlist after the show. Maybe I'll even start blogging again this week.

Kisses,
Brooks

My baby has a serious case of the cutes.

Free Things Are Cool 8/17/05

An acceptable show I think. I was a bit ditzey, but that's alright I guess.

Artist / Title / Album / Label

the Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion

Low / I Started A Joke (Bee Gees) / Pure Sweet Hell (V/A) / Mammoth
Spanky & Our Gang / Distance / s/t / Mercury
Psychatrone Rhonedakk / They Moved the Moon (Zevon) / Disburbs the Air / Black Plastic Sound
Dungen / Le jonet & kulan / ta det lugnt / Kemado
The Lickets / Moo Moo / Apartment Tree / International Corporation
Pelican / Aurora Borealis / The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw / Hydra Head

Paul Robinson / Fly Me to the Moon / The AStronomical House Of Aquarius / GWP (behind my voice)

Currituck Co. / My Home / Ghost Man on Second / Troubleman Unlimited
Nick Castro / Zoey / A Spy in the House of God / Records of Gaudh
Quintron & Miss Pussycat / God of Thunder (KISS) / s/t / Tigerbeat 6
John Cale / Fear (Is a man's best friend) / Fragments of a Rainy Season / Hannibal
Gogol Bordello / Illumination / Gypsy Punks / Side One Dummy
Foscil / Simple / s/t / fourthcity.net
JFK Singers / The Trumpet / The Happy Listener's Guide to Mind Control / WFMU
Liz Brady / Palladium (The Hip) / Swinging Mademoiselles / Silva

M. Bentley / Sixteenths / Thing Asunder (V/A) / The Foundry (behind my voice)

Van Morrison / Want a Danish? / In Session / Dressed to Kill
Hopewell / Square Peg Teeth / Hopewell & the Birds of Appetite / Rubric
Fabulous Five / Ooh! Aah! / Countryman soundtrack (V/A) / Island
The Drift / Fractured Then Gathered (reprise) / Noumena / Temporary Residence
Prefuse 73 & The Books feat. Caudia Maria Deheza / Pagino Ocho / Prefuse 73 Reads the Books ep / WARP
The Satelliters / World of Bubbles / Sexplosive / Dionysus
Cats Tapes / Hard Reset / Sticky Buttons / Tigerbeat 6

Sara Debelle / Them Bones / Grunge Lite / C/Z (behind my voice)

Lozenge / No Fair / Undone / Sickroom
Inflatable Boy Clams / I'm Sorry / 7" ep / Subterranean
Dawgisht / Blues-01 (12-10-96) / Amoeba Music Comp Vol V / Hip Hop Slam
The Free Design rmx by Styrofoam & Sarah Shannon / I Found Love / The Now Sound Redesigned / Light in the Attic
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra / Cha Love / Moods and Grooves / Ubiquity
Erkin Koray / Sahdalci / Tutkusu / Kervan
Numbers / Funny But Sad / We're Animals / Kill Rock Stars
The Slits / FM / Cut / Island

Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio / Jesus etc (Wilco) / Other Valentines / Atavistic
The Brass Ring / Carrot Top / The Now Sound of the Brass Ring / Dunhill
(both behind my voice)

Jandek / It's Forever / Raining Down Diamonds / Corwood
Encyclopedia of Fun / Iceberg / Comprehensively Stuffed / self release

And that was, as they say, it. Time to go to bed.
Good night Johnboy.

Free Things Are Cool

Tonight I'm gonna rock ya.
Tonight I'm gonna rock ya.
Tonight.
Listen to my radio show Wednesday night at 9PM on KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia, WA
or online at http://kaos.evergreen.edu/listenlive.html

I'm thinking maybe Low's version of I Started a Joke, maybe some Burl Ives, maybe some digital hardcore, I dunno... What do you think? Requests?Let me know.

Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight.

Ego surfing the light fantastic

So, there's been this game making the rounds on friendster and myspace that's kind of fun and funny. But it's particularily funny when your first name is also a last name. You type "{your name} is" into google and find all the funny phrases about yourself. You pick out the 5 or 10 funniest and send the list on to your friends. Fun, fun...

Unless you're me.

If you're me you develop it into a large-form piece. I'm a maniac. A nut job. I need help. But anyway, here it is.

Have fun! Type "{your name} is" into Google and see what you get.

Brooks is content
Brooks is a real-life example
Brooks is an influential, brilliant and encouraging teacher.
Brooks is a new name to me
Brooks is not afraid
Brooks is content to describe a moment in the lives of very ordinary people
Brooks is at his most enthusiastic
Brooks is essentially arbitrary in that he chooses only one method to interpret

Brooks is excellent!
Brooks is "free"
Brooks is the public intellectual of the moment.
Brooks is a leading speaker and author on such themes as resilience, self-esteem and family relationships.
Brooks is very much on display here.
Brooks is a humanist before he is a humorist.
Brooks is not aggressively partisan enough
Brooks is an amusing neo-con, no more.
Brooks is an old-fashioned liberal
Brooks is required to contradict himself.
Brooks is the hothouse flower of the Times' op-ed page -- its token conservative.
Brooks is waiting for Larry King to die
Brooks is now known around the world as the man
Brooks is considered the lesser two evils
Brooks is luke-warm about the nuclear option
Brooks is a Republican
brooks is charged with 12 counts of embezzling or stealing
Brooks is a "libertarian"
Brooks is from Oklahoma!!!
Brooks is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association
Brooks is SUCH an ass.
Brooks is a partisan hack.
Brooks is a lucid and fair-minded guide through the brambles of eclecticism
Brooks is a pragmatic Machiavellian in the best sense of the word.
Brooks is throwing some of the lobbyists to the wolves
Brooks is out of his depth
Brooks is a proponent of civic participation and a champion of youth
Brooks is a mild mannered, conservative podiatrist
Brooks is off Rupert Murdoch's payroll
Brooks is at His Best Today... ... which is very good indeed.
Brooks is staying put.


Brooks is specifically interested in questions of "temporal sequence and progression"


Brooks is not a culture warrior in the traditional sense.
Brooks is that short, funny Jewish guy
Brooks is the second youngest person to serve as president
Brooks is active in various professional organizations
Brooks is sipping cheap lager and eating crisps

Brooks is anxious for camp

Brooks is not your typical house music producer.
Brooks is an architect responsible for the future
Brooks is primarily concerned with the suburbs, but not the inner-ring suburbs like Bethesda.
Brooks is in the French village of St. Martin
Brooks is a protest poet
Brooks is a brightly-colored, low-hanging piñata
Brooks is neither a journalist nor a poet.
BROOKS IS no common gagster.
Brooks is just weird....

Brooks is mostly an enthusiast for the Bobo ascendency

Brooks is dramatically improving
Brooks is like a smiling waiter who explains the menu
Brooks is far more concerned with their sexual appetites.
Brooks is your ideal
Brooks is well equipped.
Brooks is the biggest
Brooks is not merely a very good player
Brooks is the only player
Brooks is the flavor of the week
Brooks is without a doubt, the most beautiful woman ever
Brooks is the only serious saddle out there.
Brooks is hoisting a white flag for the donks.
Brooks is playing catch
Brooks Is a Turd.
Brooks is also a center for oil & gas production
Brooks is just offensive.
Brooks is Forgiven Some Sins
Brooks is also known to stretch his legs
Brooks is the Funniest Man in America
Brooks is an insult to just about everyone.
Brooks is feeling pretty good himself these days
Brooks is such a masterful writer
Brooks is being honest about this
Brooks is arguably wrong
Brooks is the canary in the coal mine and he just fell off his perch
Brooks is not that
Brooks is under attack.
Brooks is offended
Brooks is actually up to something interesting.


Brooks is back in moderately fine form
Brooks is going to the well a third time
Brooks is an energetic but technically limited singer
Brooks is considered by many to be one of the world's foremost Zombie
Brooks is trying to build robots with properties of living systems
Brooks is shrewd in how he allows us to glean how alike the two women are.
Brooks is pleased to see more development in the area.
Brooks is excellent at taking us inside the world of television
Brooks is trying to have it both ways
Brooks is a holier-than-thou ass.
Brooks is trying to figure out what was done right, and what was not
Brooks is sailing west to discover America
Brooks is surveying people
Brooks is intellectually secure enough to resist.
Brooks is just an amateur.
Brooks is incredibly sharp and informed.
Brooks is the only Museum
Brooks is blazing a trail of firsts
Brooks is said to be taking the unprecedented step
Brooks is a winner of numerous prizes and awards
Brooks is affable and says many worthwhile and intelligent things
Brooks is saying that as a people, we're *tolerant*
Brooks is also right
Brooks is so full of hot air, on average, I can never tell when he's being serious
Brooks is at the very least watchable

Brooks is a man of integrity
Brooks is puzzled
Brooks is building

Brooks is the wild one.
Brooks is secretly shrill
Brooks is now up to his eyes in the mess.
Brooks is at home gently parodying the world
Brooks is the reason that Oregon is a national power.
Brooks is helping create a biodiversity
Brooks is among roughly 6 percent of the population that has "cut the cord.
Brooks is deputy director of a nonprofit association
Brooks is telling lies well or truths badly.
Brooks is right about this
Brooks is very careful and serious about what he does.
Brooks is the proud husband of supporting wife
Brooks is looking for a different kind of fix
Brooks is a public company
Brooks is the starting goalie

Brooks is an Environmental Scientist
Brooks is the ultimate testament
Brooks is subject to a maximum $5000 fine for each day of training camp he misses.
Brooks is noted for an arm
Brooks is of average height but is rail thin and often cannot run
Brooks is fun to read.
Brooks is the psychic
Brooks is one tiny dot in 4 million acres
Brooks is renowned
Brooks is quick to point
Brooks is working to overcome one obstacle
Brooks is also on that side.

Brooks is a familiar voice to NPR listeners.
Brooks is a very familiar voice to public radio listeners.
Brooks is scheduled to speak
Brooks is a fine storyteller
Brooks is effusive in his praise
Brooks is an American music icon.
Brooks is on a quiet side street that spans a long block
Brooks is the director of an underground music video
Brooks is a thriving bioscience
Brooks is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School
Brooks is back on campus
Brooks is a Phi Beta Kappa
Brooks is working as a crossing guard.
Brooks is passive-aggressive
Brooks is the crown jewel of the NFL
Brooks is precisely that
Brooks is also taking action
Brooks is very odd.
Brooks is not an apologist for Muslims.
Brooks is dealing
Brooks is fascinated with Buster's face
Brooks is employed
Brooks is at work
Brooks is our best option..there's no one else.


Brooks is given the opportunity to put his theory into practice
Brooks is currently Owner of Fork
Brooks is still riding the wave of his bestselling work
Brooks is mistaken if he believes that diva behaviour has comic worth.
Brooks is the Garth Vader of country music
Brooks, is why you do not deserve music fans
Brooks is a highly skilled facilitator and charismatic speaker.
Brooks is even more country-pop than Jim Reeves.
Brooks is only a one hit wonder
Brooks is a seeker
Brooks is particularly interested in the workings of the large molecular machines
Brooks, is wrong and that proves that you never were a Christian.
Brooks is celebrating twenty years of continued success
Brooks is a great author


Brooks is out of the office until mid-afternoon
Brooks is being held without bail
Brooks is the highest
Brooks is far more confident
Brooks is a comedic genius
Brooks is just being modest
Brooks is in effect asking the Judge to believe
Brooks is now one of 16 women
Brooks is a pivotal figure



Brooks Is Back
Brooks is well aware of the moralistic, even ascetic side of all this self-indulgence.
Brooks is a Fellow
Brooks is a Senior
Brooks is like good wine - the older, the better.'
Brooks Is Old Dot Com
Brooks is sufficient
Brooks is considerably younger than Judi
Brooks is the second youngest person to serve as president
Brooks is now semi-dormant
Brooks is dead.
Brooks is currently bein' inhabited by his new personality
Brooks is an American and was an Army infantryman who was captured by the Germans
Brooks is the first African American
Brooks is a bluesman
Brooks is featured in the first-ever Jazz Concert
Brooks is NFL ready
Brooks is Rodney
Brooks is Caucasian
Brooks is Steven
Brooks is very upset—about Mitch
Brooks is Todd
Brooks is walking a tightrope under which there is no net.
Brooks is Benjamin
Brooks is getting at something a bit more amorphous

Brooks is what is called in the biz a women's artist.
Brooks is incredibly disingenuous
Brooks is the son
Brooks is lead actor Kurt Russell
Brooks is just flotsam in Douglas' wake
Brooks is going back to the Olympics.
Brooks is #1
Brooks is singlehandly responsible
Brooks is my favorite

Brooks is among the leaders as they close in on Nome.
Brooks is rapidly unraveling
Brooks is allegedly done
Brooks is looking out for the best record deal available
Brooks is available for download

Brooks is sent to stay with an aunt in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania

Saturday in the Park

What a nice morning we've had! Mindy had a gift certificate for a massage that she hadn't used and today was the day.

Gillian and I took the time as an opportunity to run around Capitol Lake. It was hot but there was a nice breeze and the sun was pretty much directly overhead so I was able to keep Gillie in the shade of the jogging stroller's canopy, so she looked pretty comfortable. She's just so content in her stroller watching the trees and water. What a cutie. We generally start our run at the Tumwater Historical Park and run under I-5, along the trail to the old interpretive center and then along the parkway to Marathon Park. From Marathon Park we run around the lower lake and through Heritage Park, sometimes stopping at the fountain to watch the "big kids" playing in the water. She thinks that's pretty weird; I've gotta tell you. The loop goes back around to Marathon Park and then it's on back up the parkway to Tumwater Hitorical Park. Today we lost one of Gillie's toys so we doubled back, but someone must've absconded with it 'cause it was nowhere to be found. I think that's the first toy that she's lost. I'm sure there will be many more. It was a beautiful day. Hot, but otherwise perfect.

After the run with met up with mommy and took a walk down to the Olympia Farmer's Market. Got some yummy German brats and watched some jazz while we were there. It was nice. I feel so freaking old sometimes. Oh, well... I'm a dad. I love it.

We stopped at Safeway on the way home and I waited in the truck with the sleeping baby reading my daddy book. (The New Father---I always just call it my daddy book) Anyway, now we're home and thinking about taking Gillian down to the lake (Offut Lake) to splash around. Sounds like fun!

Off we go!

I'm up to no good.

Work Sucks.

Boring, boring, boring...

I just had to get that off my chest so that we're clear.

Free Things Are Cool 8/3/05

I really need to blog about my vacation (it's over) but at the very least I'll post my playlist like a good boy.

Artist / Song / Album / Label

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion

People like Us / My Son Jim / Recyclopaedia Britannica / Mess Media
Fetchin' Bones / Chicken Truck / Galaxy 500 / Capitol
Richard Hell and the Voidoids / Lowest Common Dominator / Spurts: The R.H. Story / Rhino
Amps for Christ and Two Ambiguous Figures / Enids Jig / s/t / Shrimper
Negativland / Car Bomb / Escape From Noise / SST
Beck / Fax Machine Anthem (Hell Yes remix by Dizzee Rascal) / Remix EP#1 / Interscope
Bob Cargile / Buckin' / Buckin' / Dub

Hubert Laws Group / Something to Feel Good / A Hero Aint Nothin' But a Sandwich (soundtrack) / Columbia (behind my voice)

Bonny Billy / A Dream of the Sea / More Revery / Temporary Residence
Dogbowl & Kramer / When the sun goes down / Hot Day in Waco / Shimmy-Disc
Colwells / Design for Dedication / Up With People! / Pace
Thor / Thor Against the World / Thor Against the World / Smog Veil
Four Tet / Turtle Turtle Up / Everything Ecstatic / Domino
Champion Jack Dupree / Clog Dance / Asch Recordings 1939-45 Vol. 2 / ASCH
Syd Barrett / Birdie Hop / Opel / Capitol
Old Time Relijun / Cha Cha / Cha Cha Caberet / K

Heldon / Virgin Swedish Blues-Psylocybine / IV / Aural Explorer (behind my voice)

Of Montreal / Mimi Merlot / Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies / Kindercore
Mountain Goats / There Will Be No Divorce / The Coroner's Gambit / Absolutely Kosher
Drekka / Fracture / Take Care to Fall / Blue Sanct
Jim O'Rourke / Please Paronize our Sponsors / Eureka / Drag City
Sergio Mendes / Samba de Una Nota-La Pulga Espanola / s/t / A&M
Pajo / Ten More Days / Pajo / Drag City
Daddy Hotcakes / Hawaiian Dream Blues / The Blues in St. Louis / Folkways
Dungen / Om de vore en vakthund / ta det lugnt / Kemado
Jad Fair and Jason Willett / Invisible Ray / Enjoyable Songs / Alternative Tentacles
Kraftwerk / Nachrichten / Radio-Aktivitat / EMI
Hopewell / God is Near (a diamond suture) / Hopewell and the Birds of Apetite / Rubric
Al Larson / Real Moonlight / The Hardline According to Danny & the Dinosaur / Property is Theft
Cat Power / Wild is the Wind / The Covers Record / Matador

Lali Puna / Left Handed Dub / I Thought I Was Over That / Morr
Arthur Doyle / Chemistry of Happiness / The Songwriter / Ecstatic Peace

~fin~

I go home and sleep now. More stuff in a bit.

FREE THINGS ARE COOL 7/20/05

Kind of a rough show tonight I think. Oh well. Freeform radio is dangerous.
It went down like this...

(Artist / Song / Album / Label)
The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (show theme)

Jimmie Rodgers / Lullaby Yodel / The Early Years, 1928-29 / Rounder
Silkworm / In the Black Midwinter / split 7" w/ Engine Kid / C/Z
Silkworm / Grotto of Miracles / Libertine / El Recordo
Silkworm / Moving / Italian Platinum / Touch & Go
Mirah / Don't Die in Me / C'mon Miracle / K

Cozmic Corridors / Dark Path / The Krautrock Archive Vol. 1 / Caroline (behind my voice)

Jad Fair / Movies / Short Songs 7" / smells like records
Palmer Rocky / Scarlet Warning / Yee Haw! The Other Side of Country / QDK
Glenn Phillips / Sex is So Strange / Echoes 75-85 / ESD
Dagmar Andrtova-Vonkova / Carsky Soud / mili moji / Indies
Juana Molina / Salvese Quien Pueda: Juana's Epic Re-Version (edit) / Wire Tapper 13 / The Wire
The Aluminum Group / Impress Me / Pedals / Minty Fresh
Little Joe & the Thrillers / Peanuts / The Doo Wop Box II / Rhino
Nihlist Spasm Band / I'm a Meateater
Dungen / Det du tanker i dag ar du i morgon / ta det lugnt / Subliminal Sounds

Wendy Carlos / The Overlook / Rediscovering Lost Scores Vol. 2 / East Side Digital (behind my voice)

Serge Gainsbourg w/ Jane Birkin / La decadance / Love & The Beat 1 / Mercury
Serge Gainsbourg / Lunatic Asylum / Love & The Beat 2 / Mercury

Don Voegeli / Plain Song / Oscillations Three / Nat'l Center for Audio Experimentation (behind my voice)

Robyn Hitchcock / Broken Heart / More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album / Birdman
Jonathan Richman / When She Kisses Me / Having a Party with Jonathan Richman / Rounder
Martin Denny / Temptation / Afro-Desia / Scamp
The Voco Kesh / Nothing Implied / Through the Smoke / Strange Attractors Audio House
Frances Bebey / Pygmy Divorce

Kinski / Hiding Drugs in the Temple (part 2) / Alpine Static / Sub-Pop
Blood Lines / The Lie of I / Blood Lines ep / The Social Registry
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band / (meet) The Flintstones / New Orleans Brass Bands / Rounder
Fortyone / Be Nice / Always Be On My Head / freelove41@earthlink.net
Sleeping People / Nasty Portion / s/t / Temporary Residence
Gang of Four / Natural's Not in it / entertainment! / Rhino
Atempo & Woodoo / Ney, Ney, Ney (come, come, come) / Sleeping in the Market: ethiopian music & sounds from amhara / Latitude

Jandek / You Ancient / Raining Down Diamonds / Corwood

~fin~

Tonight, tonight...

I'll be on KAOS tonight doing Free Things Are Cool from nine to eleven. You can expect a whole lot more playlists online in the near future as my friend Jami is kindly doing the data entry for me. What a peach. I don't know If I'll be posting them on this blog or just making an archive somewhere online. But the point is that they'll be digitized and proliferated for posterity. It's a relief. It's somehow validating to be able to google your work and show that you've actually accomplished something --- even if it's only playing records. I'm just glad that I've succesfully held on to them for long enough to see it happen. There's a bit of a hole somewhere in the late 90s when the music directors at KAOS were being bad about getting the playlists back to the programmers but other than that, I have a complete record of all the records that I played on KAOS from August of '93 til the present. Now you can complain about I didn't play YOUR band enough. I look forward to hearing from you. Tonight's playlist later.
In other news: I'm going to Copper Harbor for vacation on Friday and plan to have a very nice time indeed. So, perhaps it will be much later that the playlist is posted, but I'll try to get it up (no crude pun intended) before I leave.
The picture is of me on our Rocky Ledge (otherwise known as the coctail rock) about 4 years ago. I plan to be swimming and consuming there soon.
Amen.

I'm well!

I was sick and now I'm well. And hyper. Being well is such a frickin' relief! I was a pukin' sickie and now I'm a bloggin' homie. I was just going through old bookmarks and found this one which must've been one of Min's but I did it and it's fun. It's a checklist where you check all the states where you've been and it shades them so that you can see.

create your own personalized map of the USA
I did a similar thing when I was a young lad, but I've been to a lot more states now. I don't know why it had to make them all Red States. Ewww... That's pretty annoying. I've been to 44! Some of them hardly count though... Driving through the panhandle of Texas when I was 12... Going to Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine when I was under a year old. But strictly speaking, my body has been in 43 states (and DC---I lived there, fer chrissake). And British Columbia. Nyuk, nyuk. Um, And Netherlands, Holland, Italy, Germany and France. All in 2 weeks. Other than that, I haven't been anywhere. I wish I could travel more. Who's got a good travelin' job for me? Not that I want to be away from my sweet baby right now anyway. She's a cutie.

So last entry I said I'd post more... You know... Number two and everything? Okay:

#2 - A week ago Sunday
HIKE!!!
The whole family got out of the house and went on our first hike. Gillian was a slave driver in her jogging stroller. We joked that she was like Cleopatra being pushed around on a little mountain expedition. I was WORKED. The thing is that the trail we went on is a little overgrown and for a good deal of the uphill portion (1000' of ascent in 2 miles) I was having to hold her up on just the front wheel of the three wheel stoller so I was getting a great chest workout in addition to the cardio and leg workout from the climbing. It was great. Lots of fun. This trail is the same one where we saw the Trillium (so kindly identified by Nathan) flower of which I previously posted a picture. There were even cooler flowers this time. Okay, Mr. Smartypants botonist Nathan, what kind of flower is this?It's a weird one eh? I'm thinking maybe it's some kind of orchid? I dunno. I really know nothing about flowers. They look great when you get in with that Macro setting on your cam though, huh?

Anyway... I'm actually starting to feel sleepy, so I should get my beauty rest now. It's midnight and I'm gonna turn into a pumpkin. But first here's another picture from our hike. Goodnight.

Blogging a week behind.

It's been a busy week or two. Or three. Or a busy 7 months. Being a dad is really busy. I thought I was extra busy during the pregnancy when my wife was tired and unable to contribute to the housecleaning and stuff as much as usual. But that was nothing. Now I'm really busy. But you know, upon reflection, it's not so much that I'm busier than other times in my life, it's just that now I'm busy and I'm old. I was really busy when I was going to school full time and working 25 hours a week. Somehow I still had time to go to lots of rock shows and everything then. The difference is that I was 25 then and now I'm 35. It's really a big difference. The blogging is cool and I feel like it's a great way to get my thoughts in order, but I'm a slow writer and I'll always be somewhat of a slacker --- it's my generation, right? Anyway, all that aside, let's review some of the highlights of the past week.

#1 Last Friday:
Fun times! It had been a hard week and I was looking forward to a 3 day weekend. Mindy and Gillian picked me up from work and we went down to Capitol Lake to take a walk and get some dinner. The weather was great and the food was excellent. We went to El Guanaco on Water street. I've been there a couple of times before and always been really pleased. It's a Salvadoran menu and the people who run it are really nice. Gillian was being kind of grumpy and only let one of us eat at a time (pretty typical of late actually) and the owners actually offered to hold her so we could eat! And the place is smoke-free! I love it. I had the best fried plantains I've ever had. Sooo good. And the beef tacos were perfection. And the Dos XX was, well, just what I needed after a long week of toil.

Then for the main event. Jenny Jenkins was having a punk rock cake walk at Manium to benefit Ladyfest. Mindy made a cake for it and so we headed down there. Fun stuff. Unfortunately we only got to watch one band 'cause Gillie was getting tired and cranky. We needed to get her home and into bed.

That's all for now. #2 to follow...

Free Things Are Cool 7/6/05 Playlist

So, this'll be breif. Just a list. It's late and I need some sleep.
My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

John Zorn / The Good, The Bad and the Ugly / Film Works: 1986-90 / Nonesuch
Barry Adamson / 007, A Phantasy Bond Theme / Soul Murder / Mute
The Slits / I Heard it Through the Grapevine / Cut / Island
Milk Cult / Drag Strip Riot Dream Sequence / Love God / Boner-Tupelo
Autistic Daughters / Rainy Day in June (Davies) / Jealousy and Diamond / Kranky
Vincent Gallo / Cracks / When / Warp

Sue Ann Harkey / bass.bar / fulcrum / Cityzens for Non-Linear Futures (behind my voice)

Tone / Theory / Build / IPR-Dischord
Get Hustle / Russian Wedding / Earth Odyssey / 5 Rue Christine
The Uphill Gardeners / Dreaming of a White / s/t / WIN
ZNR / Naive description de la formation d'un sentiment / Barricade 3 / R~e~R
Curlew / Breakfast / A Beautiful Western Saddle / Cuneiform
The Molecules / Long Tall Sally / Down Under the Black Light / Megaphone
David and the High Spirit / Itsy Bitsy Spider / Complete Jewish Kids Party V / Worldwide Success
Anal Solvent / Wild 'n' Free / Wild 'n' Free / Soleilmoon
Randy Greif / Curiouser and Curiouser / Alice in Wonderland 1 / Soleilmoon

Equations of Eternity / Set Rising / Veve / Word Sound (behind my voice)
Mikroknytes / sub-tanner / s/t / Crank Automotive (behind my voice)

Laurie Anderson (w/ Lou Reed) / In Our Sleep / Bright Red / Warner Bros.
John Zorn / Word for Bird / Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman / Nonesuch
Davey Williams / Baby's First Words / Charmed, I'm Sure / Ecstatic Peace!
John Oswold / ohmigone / OHMIX / Dame-Ohm editions
AMP / November / Sirenes / Petrol

Fontanelle / Just, Go, Crazy / Style Drift / Kranky (behind my voice)

The Feud / The Solar Temple of R. U. Sirius / ...versus yr Universe / The Rosewood Union
Brian Eno / Bone Bomb / Another Day On Earth / OPAL
Andy Moor / AK-47 MH / Kaffe Matthews / Unsounds
Negativland / New is Old / No Business / Seeland
Tracy & the Hindenburg Ground Crew / Go to Sleep / Margaret Dumont / Action Box
Lali Puna / Dntel:Faking the Books (remix) / I Thought I Was Over That / Morr
Out Hud / The Stoked American / Let Us Never Speak of it Again / Kranky
Nobody / Spin the Bright Sun Rose / And Everything Else... / Plug Research
The Apes of God / Spider Take a Ride / Edge of Arrival / Oracular Laboratory
The Philistines Jr. / Analog vs. Digital / We Don't Get the Respect We Deserve in Today's Scientific Community / Tarquin

Crawlspace / Triple Justice / Law Where Prohibited By Void (behind my voice)

~~~fin~~~

My baby 'n' Me.

No time for love Doctor Jones. No time for blog! Time to shower and eat and go to work. Gotsta makesa moolah for da baybee. Here's a shot of the two of us taken by mommy from the driver's seat. Gillian is the boss. Can you tell?

DEAD FRED.CO.UK

DEAD FRED.CO.UK

Oh my... Listen to "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" GREAT COVER!!!!

Music From the Underground

I subbed Martha Copeland's psychedelic music show on KAOS a couple of weeks ago and this is the playlist. It was great fun. Martha is a hoot and it's always fun to fill in for her show.

Included here is a picture of Dr. Doom. ;)

Artist / Song / Album / Label:

The Open Mind / Magic Potion / Rubble Collection Vol 1 / Bam-Caruso
Lord Buckley / Marc Antony's Funeral Oration / The Best of... / Elektra
Shays / Brainwashed / Essential Pebbles vol. 1 / AIP
Mutantes / Banho de Lua / Mutantes / Omplatten
Blue Cheer / Out of Focus / Vincebus Eruptum / Phillips

(Music behind DJ = Paul Robinson / If I Had A Hammer, Baby, the Rain Must Fall / The Astromusical House of Aquarius / GWP )

Pink Floyd / Green is the Colour / BBC Archives 1970-71 / Harvested
Edith Frost / Blueish Bells / Telescopic / Drag City
Erkin Koray / Korkulu Ruya / Elektronik Turkuler / Dogon
Tyranasaurus Rex / Seal of Seasons / The Collection / Castle
The Deviants / Nothing Man / Unknown Legends of rock n roll / Miller Freeman
Blossom Toes / Peace Loving Man / Black Light Vision / Pontiac
Kim Fowley / The Trip / Nuggets Box Set / Rhino
The Pretty Things / LSD / Get the Picture? / Original Masters

Windy and Carl / Sirens / Depths / Kranky
Robyn Hitchcock / If I Could Look / You & Oblivion / Rhino
Frank Zappa / Peaches En Regalia / Hot Rats / Bizzare
Shuggie Otis / Strawberry Letter 23 / Insperation Information / Luaka Bop
Sir Walter Raleigh / Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day / NW Battle of the Bands: Flash and Crash / Beat Rocket - Sundazed
Yol Aularong / Come Again Tomorrow / Cambodian Rocks III / Khmer Rocks
The Riot Squad / I take it that We're Through / It's Hard to Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek / Razor & Tie
Butterfingers / Key / Music for Gracious Living 2 / QDK Media - Shadooks

(Music behind DJ = The Brass Ring / Monday Monday, Amy's Theme / The Now Sound of the Brass Ring / Dunhill )

Acid Mother's Temple / Untitled / Private Tapes Vol. 3 / AMT CDR
13th Floor Elevators / Dr. Doom / Bull of the Woods / Decal
Red Crayola / Place for Piano and Electric Bass Guitar / God Bless the Red Crayola and All Who Sail With Her / Decal
The Third Eye / Young Folk and Old Folk / Love Peace and Poetry: African Psychedelic Music / Normal - QDK
Hawkwind / Welcome to the Future / Space Ritual / MGM

Olivia Tremor Control / Can You Come Down With Us? / Dusk at Cubist Castle / Flydaddy
Davis Redford Triad / Targets of Opportunity / It's Gonna Be Hot in the Cannibal Pot Tonight / Ptolemeic Terrascope
Of Montreal / City Bird / Satanic Panic In The Attic / Polyvinyl
Neutral Milk Hotel / Two Headed Boy Part 2 / In the Aeroplane Over the Sea / Merge

The Tell-Tale Hearts / Bye Bye Baby / The Now Sound of the Tell-Tale Hearts / Voxx

I was banned from here when I was 6 or 7.

I was a only a first grader when I had my first taste of crime. I had a neighbor that lived kitty-corner across the alley from me and he was a bad seed. Well, apparently... That's what my mom said anyway. A bad influence for sure, a bad seed --- he was a first grader, how bad could he have been? What is true is that he taught me that it was really easy to just take candy from 7-11. So... shoplifting.

I knew that it was wrong, but my mom didn't let me have candy very often. It was all tiger-milk cookies and carob bars at my house. Once the aforementioned bad seed showed me how easy it was, I just couldn't stop. The worst part was that this particular 7-11 (pictured--on Chicago Ave in Oak Park, IL--it's still there!) was right on my 3 block walk to school.

It doesn't take a supergenius to figure out that something is amiss when the same kid comes into the store every day at 2:45, always goes over to the candy aisle and never buys anything. The jig was up after a week or two. Now, remember that this was 76 or 77 and I was in Chicago. The afro on the clerk was at least 6 inches and she was rail thin and 6 feet tall if she was a foot. She towered. And she had zero sense of humor. Grim. I was scared of her before she busted me. Everything was going according to plan and proceeding as usual... I had watched until she was helping someone at the register and then I put the candy bar in my pocket. I walked out the door and started walking across the parking lot towards the corner where the crossing guard was waiting to help me across Chicago Avenue. I was just barely out the door before I had taken the precious chocolate out of my pocket and started opening it as I walked. She swooped down on me like a nazgul and said (I'll never forget this) "Gimme back that Kit-Kat!" And with that she spun me around knelt down and yelled at me "I don't evuh want ta se you in my store again!" And that was it. The worst part was the sobbing embarrassmentt when I had to wait for the crossing guard. I don't think she said anything to me. Not that I even looked up at all. I was absolutely crushed.

It's all hella funny now, though!

A lot of kids have similar experiences. I think they're really interesting to hear 'cause it's those common experiences that bring us together and excite us. I mean, does that make sense? I love the weird and unusual but I think that deep down that's just because I've always liked to identify as "outsider." You know? I and we as a race mostly seek community. So even in having a passion for Tuvan throat singing or exotic beer or whatever, it's ultimately the identification with the unusual in-and-of-itself that forms that initial bond. A genuine taste or affinity can follow, but attraction is so basic. It's just not that subtle. Anyway... That's a whole other topic, and, as usual, I'm late for bed. Tomorrow's an early morning too. Yikes.

The Rainbow Connection

This was our lovely view from the house the other day, all rainbows and gentle mists. I love the way the air looks when it's like that out. It's magical. It makes me feel as though I'm in Narnia or something.

BTW... I saw the preview for The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe the other day and it looks so fun. I read all of those books to death when I was a pre-teen and I can't wait to see the movie. Something about it troubles me sometimes, though. I don't want Gillian (my daughter) to be deprived of the joy of reading them and using her imagination to visualize the characters. I mean, ever since the LOTR movies came out, I can't even remember how I had imagined the characters and locations. I totally see Sean Astin when I think of Sam. Admitedly the casting and scouting and sfx were superb so that might be part of it... Anyway... I can't wait to read books like that to her. I loved it when my mom read them to my sister and me.

The blog is coming along. I'm still learning, but it seems to be getting better. Format-wise if not content-wise. I'm off to sleep.

A flower.

Mindy and I went on a hike last year on the day that we found out that she was pregnant. Now we've got a six month old girl. I took this picture on the hike. I love the way that the pollen has spilled out onto the leaves.

I haven't much time for hikes this year. Having a baby changes everything. When she gets to be a big bigger we're gonna go on lots of hikes, though. She loves being outdoors. We call her our "little nature girl." We were sitting down at the lake last night and she was having so much fun watching the birds swoop around and eat the bugs. I let her pick some grass and she was so cute holding it up and looking at the seeds... Of course, she tried to eat it and I had to put the kabosh on, but it was fun while it lasted.