Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Quick update

Yes, I'm still alive. Since I quit my job, I've been between Fort Worth and here. The Clock Tower was beyond awesome and if you missed it, you suck. Whenever I stop moving back and forth and can catch up on my 1000+ Reader posts, I'll write more. Anyone going to Freezerburn? I'll be there, come visit...

Real quick, check out Bob Odenkirk as 'Craigslist penis photographer'! Modern Americana folk art indeed...

Uh, more sometime, just dropping a note saying 'I'm not quite dead yet'.