Streaming Twi Music

Hello folks, good to see you again. Rather than mention the fact that I haven't updated anything in like this whole year, please enjoy my latest gift to you.

I recently installed and got working this marvelous piece of technology called Vibe Streamer. Basically, it lets you share MP3s on your home computer with the tubes. Check mine out:

http://twitch23.dyndns.org:8081/

User name: guest
Password: acce55

Anyhoo, if you want to set up your own, check out http://www.vibestreamer.com/ and follow the directions. It's a bit of work to setup your static IP (ie you need to create a dynamic DNS - check out dyndns.org) but it's totally awesome. Enjoy my music; it's not all of it but enough to keep your ears fulfilled.

Because

Well for the majority of humanity it seems like the last few months to the present have been hell and shit - there is still this.

Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.

New theme song/video

Thanks, Police.

Resolutions: A Month Late and 3.8 Billion Short

OK. So I realize I have been incredably lax on keeping up with this blog since I quit my job. Well, today I was out walking and realized it's not 'Writer's Block' or anythign that stops me, it's simple laziness. So I went and got a giant bottle of Jim Beam and now I will drink and write. Or write and drink, as it were. Maybe this will motivate me? I'm gonna try to at least write a blog every other day. Weekday. Like, Mon - Wed - Fri or some shit. Something needs to be done! And I needs to do it.

To start with, I'm still pretty pissed at the whole Michael Phelps incident. I mean, I could give two shits about swimming, but now he's an icon for the 'Winners Use Drugs' campaign. I mean, even Geraldo agrees - sorta. (See videobelow; holy damn something worthwhile on FOX?! )

Still using something other than gMail? Need an excuse to leave yahoo,MSN or (eck) hotmail? Well, now it's even easier. Check out the new 'Merge Emails' feature on gmail. (Now if only they'd pay me, I could be a proper gWhore...)

When I was in college, I wanted to be a writer. And now, almost four years after I graduated, I've not completed a single short story. Or anything, really; other than this blog and a crapton of posts to austin-chat, I've really not been on the ball as it were. I mean, things like this are being published in the New Yorker. I'm glad to see it - I enjoy short stories very much and it's good to see a semi-sci-fi-short-story (or SSSSS, as I calls it). 

Well three shots in and I have to go. But at least it's something! On track, again, for now. 

Phelps, Kellogg’s — and a Boycott?

As you may have heard, Kellog's has dropped Michael Phelps endorsement because he got pictured hitting a bong. Anyhoo, this great blog LRC has Kellog's Chief Marketing Officer's contact info, relayed here for your convenience. Oh also, I'm boycotting Kellog's and I encourage you to do the same.



Mark Baynes
Chief Marketing Officer

+1.269.961.2561
mark.baynes@kellogg.com

Kellogg Company
1 Kellogg Sq
Battle Creek, MI 49016-3599

My letter is below. Please join me in ending this bullshit.

Dear Mr. Baynes:

It has come to my attention that you will no longer be endorsing 14-time gold metal Olympian Michael Phelps due to his perceived recreational use of marijuana. Although I understand you may simply be saving face, you have lost a customer. As a recreational pot smoker myself, I enjoy eating your cereals when I have the 'munchies' as they say; from here on out I will dine soley on the puffed rices and sugar of your competitors. Re-instating his endorsement and a public appology might convince me otherwise. I am an active blogger and activist and will encourage my readers to follow suite. Thank you for your time, and please find the additional time to see the error of your ways.

Your former consumer,

{My Name}

Econic Stimulation of the Prostate

Well, I've been slacking (and jacking) off too much this year; sorry to disappoint. I've been back and forth and back and forth from here to Fort Worth and can't seem to force myself to settle down and create a useful entree, so here's my attempt right now. Starting with the picture to your left - this was sent by a very good friend who took it in upstate New York. Cool. 

Anyhoo, let's start with: I need a job. Still looking; I turned one down that paid shit and made me dress like a monkey and drive to north Austin. I would have taken it for more money, but not 11.00 an hour. But I digress, no one wants to hear me bitch about how shitty it is to have to find job, or have a job, or whatever.

The 20th of this month, I guess a week ago, was my one year non-smoking day. That's something to be proud of, I reckon. I am. It's been OK. I still enjoy smoking other things, like crack and cleaning solution, so I'm good there. I would like to get into shape more, but yeah no one wants to hear about resolutions now. Fuck.

Hope you guys got your Flipshit ticket requests in the mail - the deadline was yesterday. Oops for you if you forgot, but hey, there's always !Bobs list, right?

Happy New Year from China! It's the year of the bull. Bullshit, perhaps? For dinner? Sounds like a plan. For me so far this year has been a lot of blah and apathy. Working on resolving that, but it's hard when I don't care that I don't care. Paradoxial! 

So John Updike is dead. Less than 24 hours after I picked up and started reading 'Run, Rabbit'. I've had that book for months, got it at a thrift store - just picked it out to read when I went to eat some fine Taco Cabana for the 'All I can Eat' special. And now he's dead. SynchroniciTwi indeed!

Fuckin' Lazy

(Bloggerists's note: All I did today was cut and paste from a thing I wrote to austin-chat to here. So if you read both, I'm sorry. But this is all I have to think about and write for until I force myself to sit down more often. Also: Final Cylon?!)

For some reason, the whole songsmith meme has yet to show up here, so I'll introduce it: (I donno, it might be confined to POE-TV but I think it needs to expand to the masses)

Anyway, the original commercial for the future product from Microsoft is here ("It's by microsoft - so it's gonna be easy, right?") - http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=50852

Yes, it takes what you 'sing' and produces 'music'. So cool, you may think. Ah, and you would be correct.

But what if you say, take the vocals from a known song (Roxanne?) and apply it? You get - http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=51604

What about David Lee Roth? http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=51613

Notorius B.I.G.? Yes, him too - http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=51637

Or what if you are infamous burner/mashup/performance artists Evolution Control Commitee? Why, you'd get all meta and put the songsmith commercial into songsmith! - http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=51650

And a whole fucking slew more of them are here: http://poetv.com/search.php?searchtext=songsmith&x=0&y=0

So anyone, as soon as a for real copy becomes available, I can't wait to play with this. In public. Very loudly. Enjoy!

-Twimbledoor Busketvillagrio Melloncamp

P.S. Happy Obama day.

P.S.S. Happy me not smoking ciggies for a WHOLE FUCKING YEAR as of today.

P.S.S. S. The lady at the chinese place I et at today said the Chinese new year is Jan 26, get ready folks.