tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53085542009-10-12T23:16:23.226-05:00acffhmorST Cyber-BlogNon-sequitur, conundrum, & anagram.
Also audio and music stuffmorstnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-34151161080727417462009-02-23T12:20:00.004-06:002009-02-23T17:23:40.938-06:00morst's PITOWN 2008 (pt 5)Saturday evening, Sept 13, 2008:Gonna let the music and photos speak for themselves on this one. . . Suffice to say "ya had to be there," but I'll do what I can to convey the event with my little electronical relics. Most of the pictures are clickable links to my Pitown photo album if you want to see more.Outdoor Stage 7:00 - 7:40 Citay 16 bit audio: http://morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-44473333746495971592009-02-21T02:19:00.003-06:002009-02-23T17:14:43.535-06:00morst's PITOWN 2008 (pt 4)Late night Friday, Sept 12, 2008:With Pappy and Harriet's schedule completed for the evening, the nightly diaspora took place, with many interested folks heading for the back of the Pioneertown Motel for what has become a tradition - that of the Porchstock! As promised at Fi-Stock I, Chris LeRoy brought his acoustic guitar, and joined in with Johnny and the crumbs to morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-26434300283601379112009-02-17T02:10:00.007-06:002009-02-21T03:11:46.449-06:00morst's PITOWN 2008 (pt 3)Friday, Sept 12, 2008:Before the music starts in the evening at Pappy & Harriet's, there is plenty of time to relax, hang out with friends, and even go sightseeing. Jason, Diana and I took off to go see the Integratron, near the town of Landers. Built as an alien ship refueling station, it's now a sort of meditation chamber, and you can go there and have a refreshing morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-74298534895387828492009-01-25T13:04:00.006-06:002009-02-18T13:34:27.997-06:00morst's PITOWN 2008 (pt 2)Having arrived safely in Pioneertown, and handing out the photo montages I made, the start of the official festivities rolled around soon enough. (After waiting about a year for the campout, how soon IS soon enough??)9:00 - .. Jonathan Segel, Victor Krummenacher, Greg Lisher http://www.archive.org/details/SKLM2008-09-11.KM140-flac16The set started off with Jon Segel morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-81396216095524252842009-01-08T00:29:00.014-06:002009-01-25T13:04:07.335-06:00morst's PITOWN 2008 (pt 1)Wednesday, Sept 10, 2008: Off to California for what has become my favorite annual ritual - The Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven campout in Pioneertown! Flew from Madison into Anaheim and was picked up at John Wayne field by Bethdalena, who took me over to Newport Beach, to the home of "The Host" - which would be Glenn. His beach house had been a bit of a raging bash as morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-47971880577239882012008-10-27T03:38:00.007-05:002009-02-21T02:11:34.635-06:00morst's PITOWN 2008 (pt 0)I'm preparing for this year's installment of blogs about the 4th Annual Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven Family Reunion Campout, held as always at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown California. I want to have each post stand complete when I put it up, so I need to make sure my photos and audio recordings are in place before I begin. I'm working on all that gradually, and I morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-13177475034996758402008-07-19T22:19:00.018-05:002008-08-02T15:30:55.670-05:00CVB's San Francisco Super Silver!25 years ago, some guys in California started a band. Now they have celebrated 25 years by playing a gig at the world-famous Fillmore in San Francisco. Camper Van Beethoven has long been a favorite of mine, and I don't expect that to change soon. As good as they are, they don't seem to draw gigantic crowds, so they can still play cool venues which are designed formorstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-82303114288331652492008-01-14T00:31:00.009-06:002008-04-09T00:07:18.226-05:00morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 7)Late Night Saturday, Sept 8, 2007Well, it's been 6 months since the campout, so we're closer to the 2008 one than the 2007 one. I guess it's about time to wrap up the 2007 blog. . .By now you all know the scheme for these "Porchstock" deals, late night jams after Pappy and Harriet's closes, lots of audience participation, everyone havin' a ball just hanging out, not morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-322164482382800422008-01-05T00:09:00.002-06:002009-01-26T04:27:35.555-06:00morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 6)Saturday, Sept 8, 2007Once again, Gram Rabbit has its lovers and its detractors- too much, or not enough!?! To be honest, after the enduring strength and beauty of the Victor, Gerg, and Jonathan solo sets, I took the opportunity to cut out back to my room at the PiTown Motel and make a sandwich, and dump my camera's memory chip into my roommate's laptop so I could shoot morstnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-91177235014627857082007-12-13T23:12:00.000-06:002008-01-14T00:16:30.095-06:00morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 5)Saturday, Sept 8, 2007I guess Saturday started sometime around late Friday night, somewhere around dawn, when the last few wakeful stragglers took a walk around Pioneertown, out to the post office, the ORIGINAL OK Corral, and to a peace circle in a resident's yard.Recording Studio/Barn tour: There was talk of a tour of the barn where Kerosene Hat had been recorded. . . morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-86871331607740285142007-11-06T01:02:00.001-06:002007-11-18T23:51:15.150-06:00morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 4)Friday, Sept 7, 2007 (ctd): CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN! I know my photo is lame (I almost always shoot without a flash unless I really need to use it), but my audio recordings are good! The setlist for the Camper set on Friday night was:Interstellar Overdrive, Club Med Sucks, The Day Lassie Went To The Moon, Seven Languages, Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Take The Skinheads morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-86548860389745125492007-10-29T19:39:00.002-05:002009-01-26T04:36:50.955-06:00morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 3)Friday, Sept 7, 2007: After getting things going on Thursday, Friday morning and early afternoon was time to relax. We sat around at the Pitown Motel, perfecting our porch-sitting techniques. We amused ourselves by catching up with friends old and new, enjoying food and drink, and doing a little listening to the recordings from the night before. Friday was the debut of morstnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-36667919513443261442007-10-08T00:39:00.000-05:002007-10-29T19:06:47.634-05:00morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 2)Thursday, Sept 6, 2007: So we got ourselves down the interstate. . . past the giant windmills,and up 29 Palms Highway to Yucca Valley, got some groceries, and headed up Pioneertown road to the historic Pioneertown Motel. The schedule called for Chris LeRoy at 9PM then Railbenders at 10, but nobody seemed sure what time things would actually get going. Beachbum had his morstnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-87870992014484279972007-10-02T01:00:00.000-05:002007-10-09T17:17:21.992-05:00morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 1)Wednesday, Sept 5, 2007: After much anticipation and preparation, I flew from Milwaukee to Minneapolis, then from there to Orange County. Glenn picked me up at the airport and we did a little shopping (a large cooler and some groceries) on the way back to his place on Newport Beach. Literally ON the beach. His back porch looks out over the clean white sand beach to the morstnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-77792770461442652832007-08-16T02:18:00.000-05:002007-08-16T02:19:47.933-05:00BAT BLOG! . . .so I'm mindin' my own bizniss cleaning up my iTunes directory listening to an old LP of Dylan's Planet Waves playing in the living room, and the disc has a scratch on it. . . I get up to fix the record player and there is a BAT FLYING AROUND IN CIRCLES in my living room. Now the weirdest part of this is that on Monday, I was over at my friends' duplex playing D&D (yes, dungeons morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-81030527458149331052007-05-11T23:38:00.000-05:002007-05-11T23:39:13.737-05:00Audacity Instructions for breaking live recordings into tracks for CD's:1- Download and install the Audacity application for your computer fromhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net2- launch Audacity3- Open a new audacity file, maybe call it TODAYSPROJ4- AUDIO > IMPORT to IMPORT the large audio file5- save your new project to disc6- go to VIEW > SET SELECTION FORMAT > "CDDA MIN:SEC:FRAMES (75FPS)"7- morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-31468430712861925582007-02-20T13:51:00.000-06:002007-02-20T13:55:03.541-06:00Recipe: Tom's Famous Tofu Dip1 lb Seasoned firm tofu1/2 tsp black pepper1 Tbsp spicy mustard1 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast1 Tbsp Dulse Flakes (seaweed)2 Tbsp Veganaise (fake mayo)2 Tbsp Bragg's Liquid Aminos (or Tamari Soy sauce)3 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil4 Tbsp Sesame TahiniDrain tofu, crumble into mixing bowl and blend other ingredients in with a fork.Serve with crackers or chips, or toast morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1167894206379313972007-01-04T01:01:00.000-06:002007-02-20T13:50:59.223-06:0010 tacos! Beat that! No- seriously, don't try. It hurt!Um, how can I put this delicately, um, I set a new personal record for taco-eating. 10 Salmon tacos with no cheese or sour cream from Tex Tubb's Taco Palace. It hurt for a while. It was too much. I don't recommend it and I don't think I will ever plan to attempt to break my record. But I did it. Wow.morstnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1167412018994958732006-12-29T10:48:00.000-06:002006-12-29T11:06:59.006-06:00HAPPY NEW YEAR'S PUMPKIN!In honor of the coming of 2007 I present two nice recipes for vegan pumpkin pie!POWER TO THE PUMPKIN! PUMPKIN FOR THE PEOPLE!;-)Vegan Pumpkin Pie=--=-==--==-=--=-=-==-=--==-=-=--=-=-=http://www.boutell.com/vegetarian/pumpkin-pie.htmlIngredients: * 1 350-g box of silken firm tofu, drained * 1 heaping cup of cooked or canned pumpkin * 1 to 1 1/4 cups brown or morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1165159238382579072006-12-03T09:13:00.000-06:002006-12-03T09:20:38.393-06:00GOD FEARS NO PIZZAI will humbly nominate this for All-Time Best Use Of Youtube. The story of two men, one pie, destiny in a large cardboard box. . . Narrated by Mike "Smitty" Smith, drummer for Blue Dixie and Ball-Cock Assembly. What more must I say before you click the link and view the historic spectacle for yourself? That the Pointersaurus measures an amazing 28 inches? That it consists of tenmorstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1163041720567272692006-11-08T21:03:00.000-06:002006-11-08T21:08:40.583-06:00PRANKS Vol 2 - The long-awaited sequel has arrived!Now available at RE/Search's website, the sequel to the legendary Pranks book is for sale at the low low price of $19.99!BoingBoing has an announcement of Pranksfest parties being held next weekend in San Francisco and Los Angleles. CA folks might wanna go check these out! It sure sounds like a good time to me!! :-D"In celebration of the morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1162372851381646782006-11-01T03:16:00.000-06:002006-11-01T03:20:51.396-06:00I mentioned my blog on my Mog, so now I need to mention my Mog on my blog. Check out my MOG page if ya want - mog.com/morst. Mog is a "social networking" site targeted to music lovers. David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven mentioned it on the Soundoff page, and I decided to participate. Thanks and now back to our irregularly unscheduled blogging! ;-)morstnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1160113901431345632006-10-06T00:38:00.001-05:002006-10-06T00:51:41.433-05:00And now for something completely different: CHAD VADER- Day Shift ManagerI'm not the biggest video freak, but I have to admit that YOUTUBE has it goin' on lately.Madison WI residents, Willy Street Coop shoppers, and other folks will probably want to check out these videos:Chad Vader episode I, Chad Vader episode II & Chad Vader episode IIINow that I have you hooked, you'll probably be bummed out morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1159496987495961952006-09-28T21:29:00.000-05:002006-09-28T21:38:45.820-05:00Pitown Blog pt 5 - Saturday MusicSaturday brought us the opportunity to see and hear solo band performances from the Camper Van Beethoven guys. Jon Segel went first, then Greg Lisher, then Victor Krummenacher. They all rocked. All the sets are posted on Archive.org (see below.) Jon and Victor posted their setlists on the CVB Soundoff, and Bob von Elgg pitched in to help me with the one song titlemorstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1159076195687116782006-09-24T00:34:00.000-05:002006-09-24T00:36:35.700-05:00Pitown Crampout pt 4 - Saturday day - Sept 9, 2006Yeah, I was a little tired on Saturday, but it was well-deserved. After the extravaganza of Porchstock IIa aka Bugsstock I, I finally got to sleep a little after 7am. I was not quite the last man standing, I think that dubious honor went to Tom "TH" Harvey. He and I hung out past sunrise sipping PBR on the porch of a fake doctor's office on morstnoreply@blogger.com0