The Braindead Monkeys

The Braindead Monkeys - One of the more original mixup / mashup / random clips of audio groups I've run into. Which is more fun, wondering what the heck they're going to throw in my ear or the brilliant prose they're throwing at my eyes.
Here's a sample from their album, Blood Sausage -
Thirteen pack burros gave their lives transporting Chaz's unfathomably large synthesizer to the hallowed burial ground that became our studio, and we all suffered massive headwounds during the third day while making the fight game keymap. We will never be able to hear anything in that frequency range again.
The next six weeks were spent recording Forest of Monkeys. A court order prevents us from discussing the details, but we can say the scar tissue is finally starting to lose that puffy red color.
On the last recording day, we destroyed all of the equipment in a finely tuned blast of pure anger. As each component exploded, we finished another section of Beatings. The shorts you hear during that track are from the blood drying in the compressor.
No thanks to Doris for showing up four weeks late after running off with circus midgets.

No Idea Fest for this afternoon. Why?

Helen left this morning around 9:00 to run some errands. I had grand plans for the day, which mainly included heading down the the Idea Festival. It's now 2:20 and I'm still at home. What's up, Yoder?

The answer is partly waffle, partly vulnerable. (Waffle being the deep trance a geek of any flavor gets in when delving deeply into a topic)

I started checking out some other blog sites because Live Spaces won't let me add other blogs. I can only have the one. Then, when I got Helen's phone call that she was on the way back home, I couldn't leave because...

I love my wife.

I love everything about her, even the things that drive me nuts. They're all part of this amazing package of humanity that not only accepts my love, but gives me hers in return. What an incredible, amazing feeling to be loved by someone.

I knew that she'd be busy doing laundry, and I'd be geeking out on the computer, but just the thought of spending time together softens me, mellows me...

I love my wife.

Idea Festival Update

Great stuff from the Idea Festival today. Craig Neville-Manning from Google gave a great presentation on the challenges of growth. I have some video of his presentation that I'll be making available later. Tiffany Shlain showed us some of the thought processes that went into her new film. She also demo'd some new software called 'Personal Brain' that she uses to help retain between thoughts .I just got out of a session called Deep Survival that talked about the traits and behaviors common to those who are able to survive traumatic incidents.Next up is Soaring, a talk by the youngest person to fly around the world.

IdeaFest - Chef Cantu from Moto in Chicago

Chef Cantu shows us his take on Green Eggs and Ham... which includes a liquified egg reconstituted in cube form with a green center.
Read more about the ideafest here.

Happy Birthday Dave!

Happy birthday to our friend Dave Murphy. Even at the tender age of 37, he's already earned the right to not have as many candles on his cake as years in his pocket.

Styx Foreigner Def Leppard

Sunday night the 26th, Freedom Hall, Louisville Ky. No one was home at the trailer parks. All the roadhouses were empty. Where would you go to find the salt of the earth in Louisville? Styx, Foreigner and Deff Leppard concert at the State Fair.