tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53085542011-07-30T11:14:36.808-05:00acffhmorST Cyber-BlogNon-sequitur, conundrum, & anagram.
Also audio and music stuffmorstnoreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-42773135034794185662010-03-24T19:47:00.002-05:002010-12-15T20:27:08.317-06:00This is a follow-up of sorts to my post about how to track out live concerts for CD burning, using Audacity.This post describes how to mix two sources in Audacity (v1.2.6), such as a soundboard and an audience recording of the same concert. These instructions should work fine on a mac or a PC running Audacity. Probably Linux too, though I have never tried it.1- Run the masters so the levels peak morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-53374001520069930682010-02-22T20:38:00.006-06:002010-03-06T16:12:01.231-06:00I just created these CVB "personas" for firefox v3.6. They're like "themes" but you don't have to re-start firefox to see how they look.Camper Van Beethoven MoonscapeCamper Van Beethoven StarfieldCamper Van Beethoven MoonrocksOne for Cracker just for good measure!CrackersoulAnd a Monks Of Doom persona too!Monks Of Doommorstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-13635498825366292372009-12-31T18:22:00.003-06:002009-12-31T18:37:53.023-06:00I didn't go to the same shows you did this year, so here's my perspective on the ones I liked! Your mileage should vary, especially in California!Top 11 shows of 2009Cracker Feb 6th - Palatine IL - Durty Nellie's - first time played for Time Machinehttp://www.archive.org/details/Cracker2009-02-06.matrixUMRKWU March 9 - Chicago IL - Martyr's Joe's Garage LIVE on stage, featuring Mary AND a Centralmorstnoreply@blogger.com1tag: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.com1tag: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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1158994320103473622006-09-23T01:46:00.000-05:002006-10-13T11:35:45.706-05:00Cramper Crampout blog part 3Pioneertown CA Friday Sept 8, 2006Well, let's get to the big shows before I forget what the heck happened. Day 0 of the Crampout was the Thursday before the actual event. Lots of die-hard fans showed up early to make sure not to miss any of the festivities. My roommate at the Pitown motel was Matt "MTP" Stout, an over-the-road trucker from Southern Virginia. Matt is morstnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1158194946385897302006-09-13T18:46:00.000-05:002006-09-22T20:05:23.696-05:00Bugs Salcido is my friend! What a great guy he is. Johnny Hickman introduced him to the crowd as "My Little Brother" and I am very happy to have gotten to know him. Bugs lives right by the Pioneertown Palace, and played a gig there on Thursday, the night the early arrivals came in for the Crampout. After his 25-minute opening song, he looked down and said something like "oops, I guess I have to morstnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1157983359839185472006-09-11T07:51:00.000-05:002006-09-11T10:33:51.460-05:00I'M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE!I returned last night from the 2nd annual Cracker- Camper Van Beethoven Family Reunion campout in the high desert of southern California and it was an epic-good time.I hardly know where to begin but let me say right off the bat that I am planning to attend the 3rd annual and all subsequent ones too. I made audio recordings of just about all the music on both stages at morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1157394893772517222006-09-04T13:31:00.000-05:002006-09-04T13:34:53.823-05:00Just in time for the end of summer, I present my Margarita recipe for your pleasure!2 oz fresh-squeezed organic lime juice2 oz 100% agave Tequila1 oz quality orange liquor (Cointreau or Patron Citronge- note the price difference!)2 tsp agave syrup (or to taste)shake over ice and serve in a salted glass!Yum! Happy shakin'! Drink safely!!!ps Pocotequila has some good info.morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1156303039011784382006-08-22T22:13:00.000-05:002006-08-22T22:18:01.343-05:00Woohoo!! I got an eagle today! Yep, Hole-In-One on #7 at Token Creek county park in Madison WI! First one I ever SAW let alone scored!! I was shocked!Tad and Pruit beat me in the scoring department, but I got the ace! Forehand shot, right through the trees, caught a little "tree love" (hit a branch) and BAM! Right into the basket, TACO style (the disc wedged in the metal curved like a taco shell!morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1152537710866404132006-07-10T08:18:00.000-05:002006-09-12T14:58:50.456-05:00INTEL MAC IS CRAP.I think I hate this new mac. It's slower than hell, and runs way too hot to get it anywhere near my lap. I called apple for a little help, and the tech had never heard of a finder window taking 30 seconds to open.. . What did he offer? I can return the mac for a 10% restocking fee! At this point I have large doubts that I will be buying another Apple Computer. . . or ever morstnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1151391542301530652006-06-27T01:57:00.000-05:002006-06-27T01:59:02.316-05:00MONKS OF DOOM!!This looks like a winner: go check out The Magmoto site and order yourself one!What's Left For Kicks?2006 Magnetic 1. The 15th (Newman) 2. Light In The Sky (Hillage/Giraudy) 3. Forever (Harper) 4. New Saigon (Pell Mell) 5. No Looking Back (Bramah/Baines) 6. The Calvary Cross (Thompson) 7. Oh Well pt.1 (Green) 8. Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening (Hopper)morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1151195783747596722006-06-24T19:33:00.000-05:002006-06-24T19:36:23.756-05:00FRUSTRATED!I am very frustrated/pissed off at my new digital audio interface. I got a Focusrite Saffire and not only does it not have the features I thought I needed, it does not even work as a digital audio input. Also the software that came with it does not work on my computer.I'm just venting, I doubt anyone cares. It's a big ugly world and this is just small crap, but it still makes me morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1142440272057365102006-03-15T10:27:00.000-06:002006-05-06T16:44:06.530-05:00CENSURE BUSH! THEN IMPEACH CHENEY! THEN IMPEACH BUSH!With the move for censure, Russ Feingold again shows more courage than the rest of the Dems combined.Noted wacko BILL FRIST seems to think that we are at war, even though congress declared no such thing."This is a political stunt," Frist said of the censure proposal, "a political stunt that is addressed at attacking the president of the United morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1141890554350067742006-03-09T01:47:00.000-06:002006-03-09T01:49:14.360-06:00WHY ITUNES IS A PIECE OF CRAP:1- It stalls on playback of videos 100% of the time2- It will NOT play live shows back seamlesslyUntil these things are fixed, iTunes will be just another replaceable piece of CRAPPY CONSUMER SOFTWARE that is not worth a plugged nickel.Grr. >:-(morstnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1138493474609172632006-01-28T17:20:00.000-06:002006-01-28T18:34:44.420-06:00I just found out about the sudden and unexpected passing of Don "Dr. Don The Timemaster" Pearson, co-owner of the Grateful Dead's PA company, Ultra Sound. Don was also an instructor for Meyer Sound. He will be missed, and bay area folks will probably be able to attend some events to celebrate his life.Here is the transcript of a nice interview between David Gans and Dr Don, The Timemaster.Just morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1135655907242720522005-12-26T21:52:00.000-06:002005-12-26T21:59:29.170-06:00Happy Old Year everyone! You can now download the longest Blue Dixie concert ever. Gotta be the MMoQerry NYE 90-91. This behemoth is now available in flac or MP3 (or OGG) from archive.org. Over five and a half hours of music on the tapes, it ended around 5AM. Yikes! If you want to burn it on CD's I suggest a 6-disc set, so you don't have to cut any more segues than necessary. Total running time morstnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1134711977825447332005-12-15T23:00:00.000-06:002005-12-16T00:15:52.126-06:00My One Word Interview with Steve Cerio is up on the Expressobeans WIKI now, as well as on Steve's site. Whew. Now I think I know a LOT more about editing a WIKI!morstnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1134415633122204622005-12-12T13:22:00.000-06:002005-12-12T13:28:04.986-06:00Cracker is coming out with a private-label compilation soon. I bet it will contain the songs Teen Angst, I See The Light, Mr Wrong, Low, Get Off This, Lonesome Johnny Blues, ETG, Sweet Thistle Pie, Big Dipper, The World Is Mine, Duty Free (by Ike Reilly), Suck Itself, and Something You Ain't Got (by American Minor)If there are two compilations released next spring, I would figure that the one onmorstnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1133845873853458582005-12-05T23:08:00.000-06:002005-12-05T23:13:04.086-06:00did you check out yet??and not to harp on it, but check out the shows I have uploaded to the Internet Archive!!!morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1133559271889253362005-12-02T14:57:00.000-06:002005-12-02T15:36:23.750-06:00FRIDAY MULTIBLOG! Archive.org restored the Grateful Dead audience tapes for download and the direct soundboard recordings for streaming. It's been an eventful week, summary is at deadnews.blogspot.comSteve Cerio had just debuted his new website - HappyHomeLand v2.0 with lots of new art, music, a blog, a webstore and much more! Check it out!Expressobeans now has a Wiki so anyone can help fill morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1132606177641365542005-11-21T14:46:00.000-06:002005-11-21T14:58:05.760-06:00UC Santa Cruz *CVB Dorm Fire memories: My sister asked a few pertinent questions, I post the answers here-On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Amy wrote:"Woah. what a flashback. Where were you when the place burned? Where did you keep Chuck after that? What did you see when you returned?"While it burned, we were in the quad, watching, Chuck was on my shoulder. That night, two girls volunteered to keep morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1132270124142053932005-11-17T17:06:00.000-06:002005-11-17T17:28:44.153-06:00WHY I AM NOT A PYRO ANYMORE21 years ago today, Buffalo John (Weiksnar?) and Jason Graziano's room on 4-South in Porter College's B-dorm was destroyed by fire! Weird eh? It was the Saturday afternoon before thanksgiving if I do recall.To preface the story of how it happened, (short story, accidental arson) you need to know that Jason was hanging out with Kim from across the hall. Jason "pennied" morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1132190976262426492005-11-16T16:26:00.000-06:002005-11-16T19:38:36.850-06:00Good news everyone!"On 11/8/05, jonathan segel wrote:i would like to extend the permission that we granted to archive ourshows as Camper Van Beethoven to include shows by the individualmembers:Jonathan SegelVictor KrummenacherGreg LisherDavid Loweryas well this will include any shows by our individual bands:Monks of DoomHieronymus FirebrainJack and JillChaos Butterflythanks.."thank YOU Jon! (and morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1132099771483039682005-11-15T18:07:00.000-06:002005-11-15T18:09:31.686-06:00PUMPKIN POWER POTENTIAL!As we peruse through the pumpkin season, particular note should be perpetuated towards the pre-festivities of the Pumpkins for the People political passage. The movement has been perpetuated predictably through the presence of a certain particular.Every Halloween passive-aggressive anti-pinkos have let thousands of pounds of perfectly palatable pumpkin rot on their porchesmorstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1130961573545920762005-11-02T13:26:00.000-06:002005-11-02T16:43:43.736-06:00Links of the day:The RIAA must be stoppedThey Rule 2004have you seen Frappr? It allows you to create maps using Google's mapping technology, but you can add pins at locations and track groups of people, each person or pin can have a photo and a shoutout. It's a nice nod to Frank Zappa's "Conceptual Continuity" where he envisioned the universe as being made up of sound/objects. These "objects" morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1130751765517801932005-10-31T03:42:00.000-06:002005-11-01T14:40:32.663-06:00Happy Halloween!!POWER TO THE PUMPKINPUMPKIN FOR THE PEOPLE!!ps morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1130475804424996432005-10-28T00:01:00.000-05:002005-10-28T00:04:15.786-05:00hey, there's a photo of me online at Heff's sitesee also heffblogmorstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1127942164880593592005-09-28T16:14:00.000-05:002005-09-28T16:16:04.886-05:00It's been almost a year and I still have not bested my best bowling game that I scored last december. . .I had a 221! Well, now I got my own bowling shoes, so just WATCH OUT! Forearms will be seen in the "X" configuration!!morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1127803425904300762005-09-27T01:41:00.000-05:002005-09-27T11:20:58.496-05:00Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven (my new favorite old bands) had a "1st Annual Family Campout" and of course there is audio to be glommed using the internets.DIME A DOZEN- (members only. . . make an effort- it's fun!) Victor Krummenacher on DimeADozenArchive.org- free for all! Monks Of Doom- PiTown MoD Hollywood CVB - PiTown Cracker -PiTownthanks to our Corsican pal Phillipe for the source morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1123567829254373002005-08-09T01:04:00.000-05:002005-08-10T18:50:36.780-05:00I got the Viola Lee Blues.R.I.P. JG August 1 1941- August 9 1995If you don't know who I am talking about- I suggest you look into the recorded music legacy left by Jerry Garcia.If you know. . . then all I can say is "You may know by now, my brother. . . I got a friend somewhere!"thems what knows- Rolling Stone Mag, Patti Smith and of course Mr. Hunter. . .morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1122739879050431982005-07-30T10:56:00.000-05:002005-07-30T17:25:26.910-05:00Frolf is fun. Last week, on July 20th, I finally broke par and got a -1 at Token Creek. My best had been a +1, which I have done at Elver and at Hiestand but I had not been even or under yet. Yesterday, Tom Walk and I went to Token with my friend Drew and we played a game. Conditions were great, with very little wind, and Tom grabbed a scorecard because it had a course map. I decided to actually morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1120967686571871322005-07-09T22:52:00.000-05:002005-07-09T22:54:46.576-05:00Ten Years AfterJuly 9, 1995 was the end of an era that started in 1965 when The Warlocks changed their name to GRATEFUL DEAD. Pretty good era. Looks real good nowadays.morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1120325944218412192005-07-02T12:37:00.000-05:002005-07-02T12:41:17.826-05:00Blue Dixie is BACK!http://www.bluedixie.net is the new homepage, there are shows scheduled for JULY 15 at Mississippi Nights in St Louis, then JULY 16th at Camp Zoe in southern MO.SEE YA THERE!!see also archive.org for some free downloads!morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1112826032286748222005-04-06T17:19:00.000-05:002005-04-06T17:20:32.286-05:00thought for the day.I just suggested to my friend that he should think about getting an electronic dogfood dispenser with a timer, and battery backup. . . actually he should get two- one for each dog . . .buthe said they need to go outside afterwardsso I said- let's automate the doors, and use electronic locks and we can just bluetooth it all together with webcams and random internet appliances. morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1109395880452819312005-02-25T23:28:00.000-06:002005-02-25T23:31:20.453-06:00GANNON? GUCKERT?LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS? Hah!Salon.com has a little coverage of the lack of coverage of the White-house pressroom scandal that has the major media running scared.and by the way- BUMP for the Cerio opening in NYC tomorrow night.morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-1108539196344227362005-02-16T00:54:00.000-06:002005-02-16T01:33:16.346-06:00STEVE CERIO OPENING in NEW YORK CITY!!! FUSE GALLERY 93 Second Ave. Btw. 5th and 6th St. NY, NY, 10003 212-777-7988 Gallery Hours: Tues., 12-5pm, Wed. -Sat., 12-7pm Fuse Gallery Presents: TYKE-A-DELIC The Art of STEVEN CERIO February 26 - April 2, 2005 Please join us for a Special Opening Reception: Saturday, February 26, 7-10pm!Also, please see this interview with Cerio.morstnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308554.post-930315632003-04-22T01:34:00.000-05:002003-04-22T01:34:21.806-05:00Top O' the Taurus to you. I'm starting a blog here. Too much to say to say it more than once sometimes. . . When that's the case, I'll point you here and you can see what I mean. -tmorstnoreply@blogger.com0