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| 4/30/2004 |
| True Work Stories, Part 2 |
In the hallway, returning from the men's room, I just overheard two fellow workers discussing their foosball technique. One was soberly telling the other that he "needed work on his follow-through, as it will really help you."
Foosball!
I have a weird job. |
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| True Work Stories, Part 1 |
For the last three weeks, I have done almost nothing of any use at work. Not because I'm lazy, or surfing the Net all day or anything. There's just been nothing for me to do. Except cash my weekly checks, I guess.
Please note that I am not complaining. |
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| 4/27/2004 |
| Poultry Of The Damned is up and running! |
| Just a brief note to mention that Brian Timpe and I successfully hosted our first Internet radio show on Sunday. You can listen to it right now at the Poultry Of The Damned Web site, and the next new show is this Sunday, broadcasting live at 2 PM Pacific time. Have a listen! Have a hot dog! Hear weird music from disparate genres combined in intruiging ways! Huttah! |
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| 4/26/2004 |
| Adaptation |
Yesterday's first Poultry Of The Damned show went better than I could have reasonably expected a first show to go. I'm real happy with the final playlist, and the overall vibe of our show. It can only get better. You can listen to the show anytime you'd like if you missed it, it'll be streaming until the end of time, or, until next week when we do another show.
Spent some more time in the studio with Darin and Lizzy this weekend. Much work was done, and even more video was shot. That's it for studio activity until Memorial Day, when Darin's back from vacation. Looks like the single and demo will be done around July or so.
Funny story: yesterday morning I was in full-on Rush Around Like A Crazy Man mode, as I was getting things ready for our inaugural broadcast. This is what lead me to the Issaquah Radio Shack store at about 11 AM. Radio Shack, which you may know from those really embarrassing commercials featuring Howie Long and Teri Hatcher (ah, Teri, poor Teri... SIGH), is where you go when you need little cables and adapters to be able to hook one audio source to another one. Y-splitters and that sort of thing. You need adapters, Radio Shack has got 'em, and they last a million years. Good stuff.
Now, I don't think it's unfair to say that there is indeed a stereotypical "Radio Shack employee" that exists in the public consciousness. Someone that looks sort of like this:
You've been to Radio Shack, right? You know what I'm talking about.
Well, let me tell you, at the Radio Shack in Issaquah, I'll just say that they are breaking the stereotype. And that's all I'm gonna say, because if I elaborate, then I'm just gonna sound like a really creepy-lecherous-sort-of-old-guy. So, fill in the blanks yourself, mmm-KAY? I've definitely found my new favorite Radio Shack. |
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| 4/23/2004 |
| I'm Listening To Madonna Right Now |
Oy vey, I haven't been too .Bloggy of late, that's not so good. The days have certainly been full recently, and I like that, in general. I'm trying to learn to live with less sleep, I read somewhere recently that adults really only require around six hours of shuteye a night, so I'm trying to maintain that sort of sleeping schedule. So far, I'm none the worse for wear, although I do catch myself yawning a little more often during the day.
Poultry Of The Damned is getting going this weekend. The first show is Sunday at 2 PM. That's just the LIVE broadcast, though. If you miss it, it will be repeating for the rest of the week starting a short while after we do the show. B-Naz sent me his half of the playlist earlier in the week, and coupled with my half, we'll have one heck of an interesting first show. Eccentric, that's a word that fits. We have a decent amount of overlap in our musical tastes (good thing, since we play in a band together), but there are definitely areas where we differ - B-Naz is into the funk and the "musician's music" a tad more than I, where I have lots of things on my shelf that fall into the "twisted pop" realm. There's things that he's bringing in that I've never even heard. That's cool! Hopefully, there's lots that YOU haven't heard before, too, and that's going to be one of the draws for the show, the whole "anticipation of discovery" angle. Plus, there'll be breaks where we talk about whatever silly things pop into our heads. Indulge us, won't you?
Work continues on the recent Half Zaftig recordings this weekend. I'll letcha know how it goes. I'm hoping to have a little piece to play on the first POTD show, we'll see.
My jobby-job got extended through the end of August. Yay! Always good to know that the ducats will continue to show up in my bank account every week. My assignment had been scheduled to be finished at the end of next week, and even though I had been asked to stay, you never know. So, I updated my resume. If you are incredibly bored, and enjoy geek-speak, you can see it here. |
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| 4/15/2004 |
| Ask Again Later |
| This answers an age-old question. I wonder how The Oracle at Delphi would respond to such treatment. |
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| 4/14/2004 |
| Poultry Of The Damned Is Coming For You! |
You know, I wonder if having a "news" section on this Web site is even necessary anymore. Most of my primary communication happens on the .Blog page now, or the rotating headlines on the front screen. Hmmm. I'll have to think about that.
But anyway, there is some news, so. For one thing, my band and I have just decided to shorten our band name to "Half Zaftig", rather than continue as "Yogi & Half Zaftig." I always hated the idea of being in a band that followed that hallowed naming routine of "XXXX McGoo & the XXXtones" but it sorta made sense back in 2002, when I first put a live band together to open for Keneally. I had two solo albums finished under the name "Yogi" after all. But now, this band and I have been playing together for almost a year, and we're moving into new terrain, and I hate the idea that my name, or nickname, somehow puts me out in front as if I am somehow greater in some way than the rest of the ensemble. I like Half Zaftig a lot as a band name, and the band is cool with it, so that's what we shall be. All of our recorded work we do will be released under that name.
And speaking of recording, Half Zaftig is in the midst of some of that right now! We're making a demo for gig-getting, and recording a couple of tunes to release as a single. I've got some video clips posted of the works-in-progress over at the Half Zaftig Video page, which you should check out if you haven't seen them. Making those clips is great fun, I'm getting a chance to indulge my inner Spielberg.
The other item of note is that HZ bassist Brian Timpe and I are planning on hosting an Internet radio show! Where we'll play music we like and talk about random crap, and promote the hell out of our band! We've got a name for the show, too: Poultry Of The Damned, which came from the title of a recent .Blog entry I wrote. Timpe was so enamored with that phrase that we had to find a use for it. We're working out details now about the program, but we should start broadcasting it soon.
And that's it! |
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| Radio Goo Goo |
| So confusing. I just posted something at the News page that looks a lot like a .Blog entry. Do I need both of those sections anymore? Hmmmmmm. |
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| 4/13/2004 |
| Brian's New Friend |
| I stayed up way too late last night finishing the latest episode of "behind-the-scenes" Half Zaftig video. Like the already infamous "Satanic Turkeys" clip, this new one was shot during the recent recording sessions for the new Half Zaftig demo and single that'll be coming out soon. Sadly absent for the first episode, bassist Brian Timpe is all over this one. Go and meet his new friend, won't you? |
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| 4/11/2004 |
| Table For One |
| Lost in all the talk of "family values" and such "sacred" institutions as marriage are the rights of people who choose to be single. It's nice to see that somebody hasn't forgotten about us. |
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| 4/10/2004 |
| The Liar Chronicles End |
Thus endeth the Liar Chronicles, in one final, painful episode. I got a letter today from State Farm that said this:
"We have been unable to collect from the other party for either your expenses or the amount State Farm paid on your behalf for this loss.
The Arbitration panel did not decide in our favor. This decision is legally binding on State Farm. However, it is not legally binding on you, and you may proceed against the other party for your expenses. At this time, we are closing our file.
PS: Liability could not be proved because of conflicting versions of the accident and no independent witnesses.
So, there it is. I lose. The Liar changed his story, accused me of rear-ending him, and there's no real way to prove otherwise, because I screwed up and didn't call the cops when it happened, I didn't try to talk to the lady who saw the whole thing while she was waiting for the "walk" signal, etc. So. The Liar got away with his Big Lie! What's the lesson we learned today, kids? Yep, there are indeed Assholes Among Us, and they can Get Away With Being Assholes, and there's nothing You Can Do About It, If You Don't Cover Your Ass. Oh well. I'm done talking about this.
It's a beautiful day out today. |
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| 4/9/2004 |
| Busy, Busier, Busiest |
Uh. Feels like things have been completely pedal-to-the-floor over the last couple of weeks. Feeling good about it, actually, but there's been precious little time for .Blogging. We had a big milestone to make here at work (tee-hee! SHHHH), which required some late nights to get all my work finished. One of those was last night, as I stayed in the office until after midnight. I have to say, I really start to pick up steam where work is concerned around 4 PM, which is sort of unfortunate given the typical workday schedule. The work I was doing required a little creativity (horrors!), and I had been stuck and stuck and stuck on it - but, true to form, around 4 o'clock, the dam burst and... the next thing I knew, I was all alone on my floor and it was dark outside and many hours had passed. Still, all things are looking well, people who need to be happy BE happy, and feelings of accomplishment abound.
Let's see, what else... oh, I've been sneaking down at irregular intervals to the studio of Darin DiPietro to continue work on the newest recordings. I haven't played one note myself yet - no that's not true, there's one song which we did live in the studio, so OK, I've played a few notes. But I've been concentrating on being Producer Boy and goading performances out of my bandmates, trying to see what they respond to, and what they don't respond to (being flayed, The Passion Of The Christ-style, seems to be an unpopular tactic). This is the first time I've recorded something with the new band, and it's always a real interesting process. The nice thing is that I've been able to easily scuttle my misgivings about recording old songs AGAIN (some of them for the 10-to-the-upteenth-power time) by the fact that the new kids are bringing all sorts of things to the old material that it didn't have in prior incarnations. And we need a demo, so we gotta record what we know.
We've also been videotaping the sessions extensively, and the other thing that I feel I've been doing every waking hour lately is capturing all that video footage into very giant digital files that suck hard drive space like... like... uh, something that sucks. A lot, you know. Man, the metaphors are failing to arrive today, sorry. Think I'm getting enough vitamins?
Anyway, the intent of videotaping as much as we are is to allow me to share with you, our indulgent public, some of the "behind-the-scenes" aspects of what makes recording such a crushing bore - I mean, such a, a, yes, an EXCITING PROCESS! YES! That's what I mean! The first little gift to you, the Curious Few, can be found over at the band web site. Yes, it's the same one I linked to the other day, but it's funny and you know you want to watch again... for the very first time. There will be another new one soon. Bassist Brian Timpe just bought a 12-string bass guitar and we recorded it the other day, and you need to see this thing. So that'll be the next little movie, I'll try and get it up this weekend.
Oh, and rehearsals, and transcribing music for rehearsals, and listening to my iPod as if all life on the planet will end if I don't. Man, I can't tell you how addicted I am to this tiny device. It's sort of embarassing, actually. I forgot to bring it to work yesterday and I thought I might go out of my mind.
I've been feeling really good lately. Maybe it's the beautiful weather. Maybe it's the full days. I like it. |
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| 4/6/2004 |
| Poultry Of The Damned |
| Wanna know what a Satanic Turkey sounds like? Watch and learn, if you dare. |
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