My friend Spooky came home very sick this week and passed away yesterday (May 4, 2012). We took her in as a rescue cat from the shelter, when we think she was maybe 5 years old. That made her about 12 when she died.

She was always a bit of a scaredy-cat, which made her aloof at times, but would come sit on my chest at night when I was lying in bed, and liked to come visit you in the yard outside if you were working in the garden. She was also a skilled gopher hunter.

I've been struggling for years to get audio production working in Linux. There's a ton of great, free software out there for all sorts of stuff: midi, mixing, effects, etc.

For a long time, it was so confusing that I just gave up. I gave it another go after New Year's and made a lot of progress.

This is something I sort of wrote a while ago on the piano, and we (Deadend Boyfriend) played it at practice a couple times and had enough fun with it that I sketched it out using Ardour and Qsynth. That's Greg on drums, just 2 bars worth, over and over, clipped from an iPhone recording we did the other day.

It could use a lot more work, and some lyrics, and a name. ...but I thought it was cool enough to share.

3:51 minutes (3.53 MB)

Got another gig... Dec. 2 at the always accommodating Ace Cider Pub.

(click to enlarge - if you dare!)

We're so punk!!

Nice work, Officer Pike:

Don't ever let anybody tell you that Occupy doesn't have a list of proposals.

It's as long as my fucking arm, and keeps on going.

Deadend Boyfriend has a gig!

Friday, October 14th at the Ace Cider Pub/Speakeasy in Sebastopol. We go on at 8pm. Another band is opening at 6pm: Days Like Nights.

Here's the flier I made for it:

Don't miss it! (As if you really exist...)

Silly YouTube... This is for kids!
Originally posted: 2010-06-16

For some reason, my embed code from YouTube is now broken. So screw them. This should always be available on my site.

FOREVER.

Rabbit by Miike Snow from ChAoSKiD on Vimeo.

went & saw Free Peoples at a smallish show at Cahill winery in Forestville the other night...

This is Mark & James getting their freep on:

gonna go see them again tonight at Russian River Brewing Co. on 4th St. in SR.

I'm like some sort of groupie.

Please enjoy this. It is so Charles Addams, no?

Click on the image to enlarge. It's from the Perry Bible Fellowship, and you should waste many hours reading the other comix. Capital Punishment is another awesome example.

The folks responsible for the Perry Bible Fellowship (Nicholas Gurewitch mostly, with friends...) also make little movies apparantly:

The Donster from New Picture Agencies on Vimeo.

Rico took me along with him on a 20 mile bike ride. The ride was a loop and included some parts of Santa Rosa I'd never been to, mainly the Santa Rosa Creek trail. A lot of work has been put into restoring the creek and it's really green and natural (for an urban creek). Here's a map:

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...and boy are my legs tired.

I was kind of bored with the website, and had a little time so I've whipped up a little Drupal Theming magic for those few lost souls who might stop by.

You can switch back to the other theme or see even older ones by using the little drop-down menu under 'Theme' in the left-hand column. The last one was descriptively named 'Two'. The current default is 'Rusty'.

If I can find the time, I'm hoping to tweak the site a bit more - maybe some other themes (I like CSS and graphic design. I'm a nerd). Who knows?

And to beef up my nerd credentials, here's a picture:
This is a shot of the classic skit where Ernie has a banana in his ear, and Bert has to know why. He just can't let something like this go, even though he's known Ernie for years, and really - Ernie's a nut. He should know that. But Ernie plays like he can't hear Bert, and Bert is compelled by his inner demons to ask repeatedly why Ernie has the banana in his ear. Ernie continues to say "Huh? What Bert?" until Bert loses his shit and screams one last time, "Why is that banana in your ear??!!". Ernie simply says "Sorry, Bert - I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear."

Gold. Pure gold.