Old faces same scene

Sometimes it is very nice to play shows in your old element. Sometimes. Had a blast rocking out and you remember why you did it so much. All the smiles and cheering was awesome. The late night shenanigans that turn into drunk on drunk suck but that is part of the danger i guess. Where's my limo driver man?

Stress Reducing Kit for the overworked

Please do not do this exercise on your home computer. We recommend doing this on your work PC or MAC. The harder the surface the better. You can also just draw a circle on nice brick or concrete wall but for something more forgiving plywood or a sheet-rock wall works just as well. The last thing helps in relieving stress besides the obvious self help is to crank some rock-n-roll really, really loud. If that does not work just punch a co-worker in the face. Preferably one nobody likes.

"Do You Wanna Get It" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosions [mp3]
"Delay Your Pressure" by Young Widows [mp3]
"When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty" by XTC [mp3]

What's that damn sweet smell in NJ?

North Jersey is known for bad smells but there was a mystery smell like maple syrrup wafting in the air every once in while for past 5 years. Sensitive noses that were out and about picked up on it. I sure as hell didn't. I try and keep my windows closed and doors locked whenever I'm up in the JC, Newark or Hoboken area in my car. AC or heat. Whatever the case the mysterious smell has been discovered. Now we a can go on with our lives and all you other people can stay away.

Unless if you are so inclined make to it a miller night out by going to the noise pollution reunion show featuring aviso'hara and the ankles at The Lamp Post Sat Feb 21 in Jersey City, NJ. Do it.

Download some Aviso'Hara mp3s:
Bradley Wake-up
Raspberry Barret (by Prince)

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Plug into one cubicle for fun and one for work

As I joked, I did status this week and say I am "a cold Italian pizza and could use a lemon squeezer" but instead of a Monkey Man here is the Savage Chicken sticky note version. Ha! Distract yourself with some music stuff or get some DJ SPORK podcast. ya that is what you should do. Subscribe to the podcast RSS.

Download:
Chicken Blows Guided By Voices Alien Lanes [ buy ]
Monkey Gone to Heaven The Pixies Doolittle [ buy ]
Monkey Man Rolling Stones Let it Bleed [ buy ]

Star Wars retold by somebody who never really saw it

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo. This goofy girl who was definitely born in the 90's retells the story of the Star Wars saga from having only seen it in bits and pieces comes via fishrockit.com. If you have friend that is this sci-fi challenged you'll get a kick out of this.

Here are some songs with Star Wars themes that you should download.

Red Five (standing by) by Aviso'Hara [ BUY ]
Red Five (reprise) by Aviso'Hara [ BUY ]
The Cantina Mambo by DJ Slink. This is actually really fun with tons of movie samples.
The original Star Wars Theme song.

I'll find more and post.

Beer Pong for iPhone

I played the iPhone beer pong game this morning and it was pretty cool. So if you need another reason to avoid getting a wii this might solve that issue but is certain to test your dexterity and gamer wrist. In general games are fun. There was a period of time where gaming sucked the life and creativity out of me. I do make a lot Flash stuff for living and it is amazing that everybody wants a game to help bolster their brand identity. So good for me and my team. Come on America get with the program.

Westfield Indoor Tennis pick-up Clinic

Thanks to my friend Adam who used to work at the Westfield Indoor Tennis Club who hipped me to a pick-up Tennis session at the Indoor club in town Sundays (2:30- 3pm) and Wednesday (9:30- 11Pm). The clinic moves fast and if you are looking for good work-out or just want to hone your skills this might be the thing for you. This is not for beginners or pros. The clinic will run you $30 but more than reasonable if you break it down in 30 minutes increments. Ask for Anton.

Little Rock Been Around Records

So one of the advantages of having relatives that move to weird parts of the US, that are not in the tri-state area, is that it forces you to break new ground. On this holiday trip I found an awesome record store in Little Rock,AK called Been Around Records,CDs & Tapes (1216 S University Ave). That has so much vinyl it is literally stacked between the stacks. You have to sort of walk sideways. I am going to have to go back with a list. I found a mint XTC vinyl copy of Oranges & Lemons. For the car and summer time garage I had to picked up Let It Bleed on cassette. Sort of my catcher in the rye - I can't help myself. A Link Wray & The Wrayman CD Law Of The Jungle! The Swan Demos '64. There was a whole stack of stuff that i just didn't have the time to sort through. I left behind a Troggs record and a couple sun 45's which i am sure were more than $10.

Halloween costume ideas made easy

Seriously, this will cut down on your search for the perfect Halloween political costume. My doughter is going to be a lady bug but you can be Sarah Palin (just need go-go boots), John McCain(army jacket), Joe Bidden (eeww- a suit?) or break-out your under-roos and be super Barack Obama. here are some more odd-ball costume ideas ones. A couple years ago I was my punk rock pal Chris Gobo Pierce. Complete with his checkered vans and glasses at his own party. He said no one ever had the balls to do it. I guess I am ballsy.

RIP Lorenzo the blue amazon parrot

He was 31 years young and was supposed to live to be 80 human years but I guess he wasn't in it for the long hall like I had imagined. We got him in Guatemala when he was whee little bird rescued from scientists doing testing on birds or so the story goes. He's made every move with out a problem and it has been inside fight who was going to get him next amongst the wifes. He even endured a Chicago winter or two along his years and if could only talk, he'd have a lot of stories of his travels to tell and miss-haps with mountain lions, other birds and squirrels. It is a very sad, sad loss for my family and I personally am going to miss his skreeches and whistling very much. Most of the people who have ever been to my parents houses in New Jersey to California have partied with Lorenzo and tried to make him say more than the few words he knew. I even had him in College for awhile and nursed him when he had a very bad cold and he bounced back. So I was very shocked when I got the news this morning. So please lets have a moment of silence and hug your pet.

Best geek convo ever Sales vs Admin

You've been through this before. You know the admin has a million important things going on in their sphere. You just didn't know their ADHD was this bad. You know the Sales dude does not realize that everything he says is always taken so literally. Here is proof. I pissed myself.

Air traveling via bombadier driven by propellers?

Travel log: It has been a long time since I've gone up in the air in anything but a jet. They totlly look cool and I wonder if they burn more or less fuel? As I siteon the tarmac I wonder if they recent lower gas prices have helped or is this part of the strategic cutt-backs? According to CNN the economy is at an all time low since 911. Nobody's retirement money seems to be safe. So those little IRAs have shrunk even more. The ony thing you can seem to count on is earning and saving physical dollars and fly via balloon, I guess, and work to earn 2x as much since every 5 years to be safe. In theory we could all be millionaires but will be meaningless since trillian is the million.
Inflation is going to consume us. Paranoid maybe but the RNC and DNC need to get our economy back on track and my confidence leans to Obama/ bidden.

Palin and Clinton spoofed on SNL

The best SNL introduction in years Tina Fey had me pretty convince at first glance she was Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler did her Hillary Clinton. They really laid into Palin's positions in politics and rightly so. I am still trying to figure out why having Russia in my backyard would make anybody a part of global politics. So Floridians know a lot about communism because Cuba is so close? Come-on totally dumb. Speaking of which, the latest hub-bub is that Republican Woman are going after Oprah? Are you kidding me? Just because she refuses to have Sarah Palin on her show; a group of Florida woman are going after her. Boy are they in for a surprise, can't wait till it backfires on them and Oprah's viewership and subscriptions go-up. Florida of all places should be careful to get the hive all worked up, it's like messing with Mother Teresa when you poke Oprah.

What you need to decide is do you want to pay attention to Sarah Palin being an anti-semite or check-out the GILF in a bikini totting a gun? Oh so much fun for amateur Photoshop artists. You know nobody would ever do this to Hillary (ok maybe nobody) but there are different rules for men and women in politics and now clearly for Democratic women and Republican women.
Digging deeper, not only is she a member of the NRA (even Michael Moore belongs to this one) but it is also reported that Sarah Palin also supports shooting Wolves from airplanes as a sport; as a close ally of the Safari Club International (does DCheney belong to this too or is that the fat old rich white guy club)? Reportedly she also used the Board of Game of Alaska, who spent $400,000 of public money on brochures and radio ads, to influence the election.

RNC Sarah Palin the nasty pitbull insights a riot

There is nothing more dangerous and more untrustworthy than a pitbull and in
particular when you put lipstick on it. Gross and scary. According to the ratings
people; Obama received the most TV views and Palin second for any convention to date over 38Million. But alas I was one of them, plugged in and forced myself to watch the Republican convention on CNN out of sheer fear for what they would say and I must say McCain was really, really boring and they delivered some of the same old, same old political annoyance, avoiding the issues. He serioulsy was Homeresque drooling boring. He talked with war metaphors too much and it did not help that all the other pundits were screaming USA! USA! USA! Every time a distractor was acting up.
And she besides being a bully, was an ass, and neither of them (McCain) addressed any key issues that should be at forefront of voter's minds like the economy. Hello? Any body there? Bill Burton a Obama spokesman said they had their best contribution drive within 24hrs of her speech. 10 Million!

Watching the cut-aways seemed liked the RNC folks were at playoff game and there with drunken arrests ( I wonder how the hookers did?). Seriously, apparently there were over 300 arrests of protestors and photojournalists. I don't think there was a single one for the Democratic national convention or at least CNN did not show anybody ( I think people really like Hillary) getting tear gas thrown at them or kicked out of the Hockey rink. Forget about the other networks. They are too afraid to ruffle any feathers with their fair news coverage but these folks sure were prepared to get their riot on. The funny in jail demand from the alleged rioters in the county lock-up was that the trans-gender prisoners be treated fairly and get their own room? Radical. This is the sort of thing Hunter S Thompson would be proud of; the anarchists are pissed and I'm sure booking Rage Against the Machine in town did not help either but alas there was rioting to be had and money to be made. Can't till the debates. Biden is pumping up.