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.