My child-like cowboy dreams will finally come true on May 18th. YEEHAWW!!

32 years old, and I'm still in the sandbox.

On my daily scouring of local music messageboards, I saw a post on TheShizz.org from rickyrodd, a member of the local indie band, Race You There, where he explains some of the details of their latest video, Starcrossed which was made entirely using Google maps. "It took over 60 hours of work and is made up of over 2500 frames." Very nice work on the video, and not a bad song either.

Technology is out of control. Somehow, youtube was able to discover the jarbled, foggy state my brain is operating in this morning, travel back to Russia (circa 1974), find some random pedofile to orchestrate a musical interpretation of my mental activity (or lack thereof), retrun to the present day, and upload it to their system. Commense video evidence:

Neurosonics Audiomedical blurs the lines between science & music with digital magic. Thanks Frag for the link!

Here is Neurosonics performing live with... holograms? If this isn't the future, I don't know what is.

So, uh, for some reason I've been having a bitch of a time connecting the domain name to this Google Sites blog, so I sort of just gave up on it for a while. 57 days to be exact. I just set up a blogspot profile to see if I could maybe move this blog over there, and low and behold, now the domain that insisted on being broken for over two months magically works.

I could probably blame godaddy for this, but I'll just chock it up to a lesson learned, and start writing my Dear John letter to them right now.

In celebration of the return of my geek blog that I hope to be updating now more than ever, I leave you with a video that parallels my struggle with the 2010 economy thru the eyes of a Web Designer. No respect... I feel ya Spidy.

N'uff said.

Welcome to your installment of educational audible awesomeness for the day.

"The Symphony of Science is a musical project by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. Here you can watch music videos, download songs, read lyrics and find links relating to the messages conveyed by the music."

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration - that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."
- Bill Hicks

These tracks are available for MP3 download at symphonyofscience.com There's also another awesome video I didn't post here.

UPDATE: Speaking of auto tuning, Frag sent me this informative little clip featuring one of my all-time heroes, Weird Al Yankovic explainging the origins of autotuning and how it works.

And it wouldn't be the Trapper Keeper of Doom if I didn't include my favorite auto tune song. Vince from the Slap Chop commercials as remixed by DJ Steve Porter. This is vintage Vince, btw. Not the new-fangled getting the shit beat out of him and tongue bitten off by a hooker Vince of today. What, you haven't had a bad day?

A long time ago, in a city two hours away, there lived a misplaced woodland creature/performer named B.B. Bunny. Together with his trusty amateur animal trainer sidekick, Jenny Getter, B.B. Bunny would pay their service to America by reforming hardcore criminals, while melting their hearts with the soothing sounds of a small frightened animal being forced to play a small piano while desperately trying to escape the clutches of a crazy woman.

PS. From my new favorite website, foundfootagefest.com

Happy 40 years to the show that shaped my childhood. This was one of my favorite clips as a kid. I used to sing "Me and my llama. Me and my llama. Going to the dentist today." in the back seat of the car whenever my mom took me anywhere.