Sassy!

Hey I took all the pictures for this cd for my good friends Trixie Delicious and
Kitty Largewood. The cd turned out great. Check out Sassy on myspace and you can pick up a copy on interpunk.
Sassy on Myspace
Sassy on Interpunk

Stunt Double at the Lemon Tree

HELP! Does anybody know electronics

I need a gristleizer.
Chris Carter's Original Gristleizer
The Gristleizer Schematics and Video

The Carlos Confusion

Many sellers on eBay list similar artists in the title of their listings to expand their search range as sort of a...if you like this artist you will like this artist.

I listed this item on eBay.

180290559691 - Wendy Walter Carlos Beauty in the Beast LP 1986 VG++

Vero removed the item because it is in violation of intellectual property rights according to Serendip, LLC. eBay told me to contact Serendip to find out why it was removed from eBay.

Serendip's response was simply, "The artist's name is Wendy Carlos, as clearly shown on the LP."

Now not only is Walter Carlos a similar artist to Wendy Carlos but they are the same person but I guess different enough artists according to California Civil Code Section 3344 so you are not allowed to sell any Wendy Carlos merchandise under the name Walter Carlos.  Someone could have been polite enough to contact me and I would have changed the listing but instead the listing was removed from eBay via Vero and now my compliance to eBay Powerseller Regulations are failing.

I did a little bit of my own research and according to Wikipedia, "In 1998, Carlos sued the songwriter/artist Momus for $22 million for his satirical song "Walter Carlos" (which appeared on the album The Little Red Songbook), which suggested that if Wendy could go back in time she could marry Walter. The case was settled out of court, with Momus agreeing to remove it from the CD and owing $30,000 in legal fees."

So in honor of Serendip, LLC removing my listing from eBay for reasons I am not quite sure I can entirely wrap my head around, I am now proud to present to you for your listening pleasure, Momus: Walter Carlos!

You know it

Creating a new store on cafepress (which I still haven't sold anything on) I came across this gem.  You know it!

Click on the shirt to check it out.

While I'm at it I guess I should promote my own cafepress stores.
check out:
This Link
This Link
This Link
...And This Link

Blue

Pretty much every author on the history of punk rock writes books that chronologically go from like MC5 to Black Flag then from Nirvana to, I don't know anymore, the present, My Chemical Romance? Fall Out Boy? Skipping most of the nineties as if nothing happened. Arguably, that is when a lot of punk went metal and punk rock (which was always dead) broke up into a million different genres. There were a bunch of labels with great bands like Amphetamine Reptile, Touch and Go, Wax Trax.

I went to college in Philadelphia so a lot of great bands like The Jesus Lizard, The Cows, Butthole Surfers, The God Bullies, etc. would come through town and there were a lot of great Philly bands during the nineties. I didn't realize until I left Philly the only bands anybody has ever heard of from that time period are the Dead Milkmen and G. Love and Special Sauce. I don't know how this happened but I sat at the bar and cringed with my PBR at the Khyber Pass every time I saw G. Love open.

Here are a couple of songs from Blue. Two from the Angels on Hogs / Evil Snake 7" and their "hit" song, Big Black Boots which is not on this seven inch. Blue never played Big Black Boots live. I think it was because they always played everything different and either they could never play that song live the same way they recorded it or they weren't very good musicians and they forgot what notes were in the song.

Sharpie, the lead singer / guitarist would never use a pick so by the end of the second song everybody in the front would be covered with spatters of blood from his fingers because he would be flicking it all over people as he played. They played at the Khyber Pass this one time and (all of this information may be wrong because this was like three life times ago but...) somehow somebody in the band started knocking the acoustic tiles out of the drop ceiling which were being stacked up and stuck on the sink in the back by the door. My friend Andrea was dressed in some kind of Goldie Hawn / Laugh-In Ghett-outfit throwing raw fish at the audience which prompted fish fights and everyone in the bar is covered in raw fish. The lead singer decides after his set to take a bath in the sink so the acoustic tiles get stacked up blocking the back door. Someone calls the cops, probably because it was too loud in there after all the acoustic ceiling tiles get knocked out. The cops show up. The rear exit is blocked which is a fire hazard. The bar gets shut down by the police for a couple weeks.

The raw fish clogs the drains at the bar. My friend Mike is hired to replace the pipes and gets dysentery.



Angels with Hogs


Evil Snake


Big Black Boots

Jimmy Carter as Robotoid

Everything I am about to write is heavily documented on the internet. Do an internet search for any of these facts and you will get plenty of hits if you don’t believe me. This is pretty much the funniest story I’ve heard in a while.

In October 1969, Jimmy Carter saw a UFO while he was the Governor of Atlanta and reported it to the International UFO Bureau. He was 44 years old. He said, “It was the darndest thing I've ever seen…If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.”

That’s when it started. After that encounter, Jimmy Carter didn’t last too much longer. During his presidency, Jimmy Carter was replaced with a humanoid that was made of cow parts. The technology was not too good and the FBI had to use a lot of cows to maintain the humanoid. That is the reason for the increase of cattle mutilations during the Carter years.

The media started to catch on so the technology had to be upgraded. In 1979, Jimmy Carter the humanoid was replaced by a robotoid. The robotoid was much easier to maintain.

It sounds like it is a pretty intense process building the robotoid, according to Audio Letter No. 46. By Dr. Peter David Beter, “Robotoids are "manufactured" first by copying the memory of an entire brain. A holographic image is made of the host’s brain and that is transferred into the biological matter functioning as a brain of the robotoid, but adjustments have to be taught and programmed into the mind of the robotoid since the body and brain of the robotoid are not identical to the original person being copied.”