Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Some of my old friends, part of my madness...
Octo-Scott
This makes that woo-woo sound
that's jus for dec-o-ra-shun,
strings and things
heart of the world. spot the NDOF tape and the Ohio Arts Dynamic.
This is crazy. spot the apple II synth, the chemistry hotplate, arp axxe, and the Emanee Audion
more madness on chevy, oh how I loved that Crumar Performer.
Some old Mississippi musicians
The Unreliable Characters, Scott Panther, Russ Smith, Leann King, Gene Tibbet.
Stretch Armstrong, happy carnival mister. Pat Sansone ( now of The Autumn Defense, & Groovy Mike
I do think this is Paul Tucker, someone playing Forrest's drums, & Scott Rogers in Oxford, MS halloween years ago.
Forrest, drummer extraordinare , Oxford, MS halloween years ago
'crazy john' Oxford, MS halloween years ago
RoboTwinkle VanWinkle, Oxford MS Halloween years ago...
The ass kicking White Trash Superman at Tals
and Jason of The Grumpies
So, who's your favorite reggaeton artist?
My tape player in my truck is broken, so I can't play my booty of grarage sale 80's metal. And my antenna is broken, so all I get is the music of the land. Colorado is quickly becoming the northern edge of the new mexican nation, so I've got lots of latin radio. See my earlier post on latin radio...
After listening to lots of latin radio, I know what the the newest music craze sweeping the nation is. It's Reggaeton. If you haven't heard, it's a pretty universally repeptitious beat with smatterings of latin jive. Mega95 is all that. Radio Tricolor has been holding the line on more traditional mexican music, the kind with a ommpah tuba, accordian, a marching snare and marching bass drum.
So, as humor, and I'm a white guy, and as a language lesson, and to feel cultural, I listen to that stuff on the radio.
Luny Tunes Music is kinda like Little John level of influence, you know, on every track....
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Word of the day - "Trackle"
Trackle.
"I'm going to trackle that problem."
track and tackle it.
Friday, December 02, 2005
I've got arcade money in the pocket on my 'roos.
I was raised as a videogame player. I quickly went from Atari 2600 to an Atari 800XL and a 1200 baud modem. Those were the days of using the same MCI 5-digit long distance access code for years. Things changed. MCI changed codes, Sprint went up to 9 digits. Codes still abounded across the BBS's. I spent many hours in the arcades, were I was a winner. Recently I had a hankering to play 'Raid On Bungeling Bay' on the C64. So, I get my c64 emulator setup and I'm there, back in 1984. Then I had a notion to play some obscure old video game, such as Mr. Do! or Space Duel. So I loaded up MAME emulator and downloaded whatever games i desired from ROMNANTION. That place is wonderful. Get all yer emulator fixes there.
My favorites are Chiller, Gunbird, and the dancerrific Moonwalker. You really should learn how to get all of it setup just to play a shooting gallery that consists of a dungeon torture chaber (chiller).
Dumpster diving for money.
Monday, November 28, 2005
Inherited Knob Fiddling Ability
Monday, November 14, 2005
My Cyborg Biolab on EBAY
I posted my Cyborg Corp. Biolab on ebay earlier today. Ever since I saw this thing I knew it would be headed for something good. It has always garnered the "What in the world is that thing?" from every person who has ever crossed it. It's too complicated to explain fully. It's always been better to just let it sit there and go 'beep beep boop boop beep bleep bleep' . It's been part of the spaceship console I had assembled back in Hattiesburg. Now it has been picked up by Musicthing. Awesome. I check musicthing all the time to see what kinda crazy stuff is on there, and wham, The Biolab is there. I almost feel like Leoncie! must feel like when she makes that crazy music.
This was used at the University of Southern Mississippi for research. The program was closed down, and now I have it. I have been entirely unable to find any information from the University about this device. The entire department was discontinued! There was a page up from some university last year that referred to one of these in it's graduate research dept. resarching biofeedback. There is some old reference about a program from 1987 using one. Let me know any additional information ANYBODY might have, I'm curious.
Mounted inside this aluminum 19" rack with sloped front is (from top to bottom) :
EMG BL900 Dual Processor - Measures electrical activity in muscles (muscle tension)
EEG BL541 - Measures brain waves
Thermal BL562 - Mesures peripheral skin temperature
Q880 Data Accumulator - logs values from other units
Open storage drawer - it slides out and holds accessories - right now it has an old probe with deteriorated rubber armband, old original 9 volt batteries.
Biolab BL550 Matrix Control - provides reference tone and calibrations
Electroencephalogram is brain mapping with emg eeg signal generator for lie detector analog it is vintage to stress reducer Psychophysiologic response patterns EMG activity was measured with Cyborg Quick-stick surface electrodes and a Cyborg P303 EMG amplifier connected to a Cyborg BL900 EMG Dual Processor . the Surface Electromyography psychophysical Duchenne cortical brain waves muscle tension neurotherapy in Meditation Cyborg Corporation in Boston Mass MA into Transcendental Meditation and Biomedical Engineering Bioelectric events of Physicological EEG effect
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
More entertaining than a far flung paper airplane
You really should get an eyefull of this stuff. It's totally user-submitted content, user-selected playlist, and full of really cool clips. I've been trying to get a wad of Angry Samoans videos up there to share. Once I get my audio sync problem fixed, I've got the espisode of the Incredible Hulk on LSD in a recording studio with McKenzie Phillips singing necktie nightmare on stage with the hulk busting out and shooting lightning bolts thru the drumset. He hates drums in this espisode.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Webapp revolution
All kinds of things are becoming web apps these days. I'm sure you can drive up to a fast food place by now and order your food over the internet from your car computer connected over the fast food restaurants' wireless connection. Why talk to anybody? Why get out of your car? You can web order your domino's pizza, why not a McBig? Anyway, sometimes a webapp comes along that is so fresh and cool that it has earned it's place in internet history within it's first few weeks of existence. Google maps and all the overlay applications are here to stay, forever. The newest thing I'm trippin on are COVERPOPS. There are everything from handdrums to SciFi book covers to Indie CD covers all arranged by time and hue as if splayed across a ginormous coffee table. You hover over one item, it zooms up to you, click zoom, click open. There are many types of items to peruse. There is also a detailed explanation of how it works that is pretty cool, too. I wonder what data this webapp will be the most handy at. Medical stuff? Geneology?
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
The end is surely near.
Browsing around this morning brought me upon this item. It's a MP3 playing toilet lid!
I'm convinced more than evar that this excessive consumerism is a signal of the end of capitalistic democracy. I wonder what tunes would be good on there? It even heats the seat! I would put a book on tape mp3 on there so I could listen to a book and read another one while doing the number 2. Now that's multitasking.
Friday, October 28, 2005
MC Chris Owns
If you don't know, MC Chris has been out on tour. You need to go see MC CHRIS. He is probably best known for the MC Pee Pants character on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as well as voicing the character of Hesh on Sealab 2021. His 'Revenge of the Nerd' tour has been going strong across the country and has quite a few more dates to go. Go to MCChris' page to hear his tunes also see Audra's MCChris Page for sound clips and more. I really enjoyed the show. Opening up for him were The Ergs
and SNMNMNM. Ergs were good, but I really enjoyed the unexpected combo of tuba, accordian, keyboard, trumpet, guitar and drums from SNMNMNM. Nice stuff indeed.
Friday, October 21, 2005
Well, I just had to. That's why.
So, here as promised is the full Joseph Newman page of the Proof Of God. missing pics, most of them were scanned press releases of this madman. And ahh. what the hay, here's some more loop ready audio from the tapes of neverending goodness... The levels are low...
amyz loop
anitgrav loop
antigravwalkdown loop
neverfill loop
witchcraft backbeat loop
Heck, even take a gander at some free place holder stuff (former obfurrscating website)
Joseph Newman really knows his stuff. It's part of the effect I experienced living on the edge in southern Mississippi for so many years. It's a weird thing that happens when there is nothing to do, nothing going on, nothing to be influenced by, nothing to impress, nothing to share, nothing to worry about. It's almost as if the remoteness of the DEEP south allows for a certain form of creativity to develop. When you feel the need to create something, and no real, actual desire for people to see/hear/feel/experience it, and no expectation of that, you naturally create a true form of something. I know W.Andersen and G.Ohr both appreciated the remoteness of their creativity in southern Mississippi, and I'm sure mr. Newman feel the same. I got that feeling many times creating music in southern mississippi, it's like a folk art that burns quickly, only to be appreciated at that instant, only for those in attendance with no other records of it's existence other than faint fuzzy memories. Of course this happens everywhere, but there is a certain something doing it in the DEEP south that makes it more legit somehow. Sure, it's easy to be a big fish in a small pond, but when many of the fish have legs and wiggly tails, you quickly find out once you are out of your pond, that there are thousands of ponds just like yours, you feel insignificant again. What then? Three legs? Four? how about some plumage? I just take some pride in getting to experience life at such a slow pace. And by slow, I don't mean backwards, just real slow. Like, where notice the sidewalk bulging upward from the steady growth of tree roots over a period of years. Lotsa people live life real fast and never see that.
Amazing Energy Ringtones
Get This Saucer Going.amr
Get This Saucer Going.mp3
Vakuum Energ.amr
Vakuum Energ.wav
Walking Tolerance.amr
Walking Tolerance.wav
also, see authentic existence
instead of a cat pictures (lord knows there is enough kitty on the net) , that's a pic of my poppy dog.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
More old pix
And here we have The Stumpgrinders. I think this may have been their first show. We were at The Cooter's Estate in Oxford, MS one halloween many many years ago. You must go and take a gaze at the totally wicked wall of flyers they have .
Take a close look at the first several flyers, there are lots of Hattiesburg bands from wayyy back in the day. Atomic Jefferson, Before I Hang are just some of them...
The Stumpgrinders pictured here are: Duffy Chase, Stoo Odom, (stoo's radio show) and Jay Mueller.
I did find an unusual reference from some CA college board: "
Stoo is still pretending to sing for the
"Stumpgrinders' Saturday Morning Otterpop and Boobies Review" (10 am
Saturday, Hattiesburg Mississippi local access, after Bill the Klansman's
"Man Must Not Mate with Ape Makeover Showcase"). Stoo has always known
"
that fucking was not the same as mating.
209 Chevy Chase Drive Hattiesburg
Even in flames, Chevy Chase is still colorful. (hattiesburg american pic)
Radio radio in Denver
So, other radio stuff, Here in Denver, my radio listening of late has been mostly Latino. With a broken antenna, it's what my truck picks up best. I'm learning spanish via the radio. So I've got: Super Estrella 92.1 - top latin pop hits : Mega 95.7 Latino and Proud - loud latin dance stuff and spanish rap and remixes : and 96.5 Radio Tricolor - more traditional latino stuff.
then I listen to 106.7 KBPI for my hard rock fix. And of course 97.3 KBCO
and 99.5 The Mountain
I gotta fix my tape player.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
too much to see.
and let it serve me pages of random video clips. It's like being an instant voyeur. Never tiring...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Early October Snow
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
men at work
Nikola Tesla pondered about his tasks alot. He got alot done. We will never know the full extent of his work. From the latest possible HAARP
stuff to the smartest remote vehicles in the desert, who knows?
That is just what we see on the surface.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Excellent Space Station Watching Weather
Today is a panic day, so is the next 7 days or so... My big project is going live this Sunday. Not just for one city, but for 7 major metropolitan areas. So, my baby hasn't left me, but I've got a new place to dwell. It's in the Network Operations Center for the new DirecTV HD system. Not too bad, I've got over 1000 channels for my eyeballs to dwell upon. I may try to escape early today and hunt a geocache.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Van Morrison, the working man's hero
Please to yourself a favor and at least listen to 'Want A Danish'
'Ring Worm' and maybe 'Chicken Coo'
Van screwed the man good.
Here's where I'm at today.
I used to be a rock and roller. Now I'm an engineer and a husband, and a father, and a homeowner. Not a rock & roller no mo. It's still in me, but the time and drive for those things has diminished. I currently am living in Castle Rock, CO, 20 mi. south of Denver, named for a prominent geological feature you can see from my backyard. It's a fine little place, formerly population of 20k or so, it is now undergoing the population explosion routine at maximum speed. More on that later. Back only a couple of years ago, I was stuck in the rut of Hattiesburg, MS. I met a wonderful woman who wanted the same things I did, so we got the heck outta there. We are now happily married. She is an art teacher for the local school district. We have a little baby named Ryan Parker Smith. He is 11 months old, starting to walk, and gabble words. He's gonna be quite a man one day.
Just like most of the best things in my life, A wonderful job has found me. Luck? Ya, I eat it for breakfast every day. I am involved in corporate-top-secret stuff. I hang out with nearly a billion dollars worth of high tech stuff everyday. I work on the software that monitors and controls all of it.
There's more, you just can't see the small ones from this far away...
See this pic? Take it and multiply it by 8. It's an incredible sensation to stand in front of something like that. Elvis would have quit playing music with a setup like this. I'm working on getting HD signals from local stations around the country and delivering them digitally to your home. It's huge. Rethink TV. really.
I can't divulge any juicy info, or revealing pics. I love my job.
Gotta catch em all
And I could not leave out my friends who I have kept some form of contact with:
Hattiesblog - purveyor of the DeadManDancing website, host of Hattiesburg musings and music.
Barebones, baby!
The South Mississippi Music Sampler - Fine live recordings from the birthplace of blues and rock and roll.
Must share.
MusicThing - absolutley the best thing one the web right now.
Meats Meier - doing things the right way.
John C. Dvorak - Good insights from a guy who has been doing it for a long time.
- when John Stewart becomes preisedent, I want this guy for V.P.
Government Liquidators - Because the govt. has too much stuff
We Get Buck - What's better than slangin drugs and poppin caps?
- also see: KrumpArena - you gotta check out the hot demo videos. 4 real.
CD Baby - they have some of the most unheard of music to sample. check out
Leoncie there. Inspirational stuff.
So, now that's off my chest, I can get on with it.