Some stuff happened.

we are trying to get home

My friend Mike Mackey, who sometimes plays for Kahoots, The Road Apples, and other bands, created this texture heavy album in february for the RPM Challenge. The purpose was to create an album in 28 days, from start to finish. I think he did a pretty sweet job – especially given only a month. The results are downloadable here.

And the tracklist:

1. neighbors
2. wait
3. molasses
4. victory!
5. bait/switch
6. marinus
7. hey cmmndr
8. ok so now what
9. eyeballs
10. librans

Download the album for free here.

Sample molasses by clicking the link above.

I am not a smoker, but in Boston I was amazed by this – the video isn’t as impressive as the real thing – The “Electronic Cigarette” (link provided by the woman who was “smoking” it)- No tar, no smoke, just water vapor for appearances and system for distribution of nicotine inside it to give you your “fix.” The girl said “It’s like an inhaler.” She even got away with smoking it on the plane ride to Boston.

It’s not smelly. It even lights up at the end, looking like a surreal version of an actual cigarette. It’s actually pretty neat. I have no intention of taking up smoking because of it, but it seems like a good alternative for those who are looking to quit but still have the look and feel of smoking. We are living in the future and the future is electronic cigarettes. And turning your pockets inside out. Speaking of which, it’s probably less expensive than buying cartons of the real thing.

Playlist from tonight’s show, listen here.

1. Junior Boys – Parallel Lines
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
3. Danger – 00:01
4. Cupp Cave – Blast Offf
5. HEALTH – Die Slow
6. Pick A Piper – Yellowknife
7. Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber
8. Tiga – Shoes
9. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
10. MeWithoutYou – Bullet to Binary (pt. two)
11. Paper Route – Tiger Teeth
12. Junior Boys – Dull To Pause

Enjoy. Oh I took a bunch of “artsy” pictures in the studio that I’ll put up some time.

Wolfie’s latest show. Recorded and available here.

Better luck next time, Internet Libertarians. Found on the Harvard Bridge in Boston.

At the Burlesque Expo in Boston Wolfie and I witnessed an oddities fair. I snapped some photos. The oddities troupe is called “Eight Corner Globe.” It’s some freaky stuff, be warned. Here are the photos. Professor Badger was a funny guy and he had a wealth of knowledge, some real, some fake, about the materials in his collection. See below, and visit their website to book them for your town. Oh yeah, they vacation on the Vineyard and would love to do a setup near the flying horses.

[Show slideshow]

(Feel free to click the comment button and ask any questions you may have about the above images, he gave a pretty decent description of what they all were. Human scrimshaw, live black widows, Vampire slaying kits, etc.)

I informed the Professor about the woman with the invisible arm I’d read about on Boing Boing a few days prior.

I bought an iPhone in Boston yesterday and I am exploring the lovely world within it. One app I discovered was the free wordpress blogging app, from which I’m typing this very post. This phone is pretty slick, I must confess. For kicks, here’s a photo I took from the roof of the hotel. (if I think of it I’ll try to post photos from the floor of the burlesque expo today. There have been some neat sights but the trip has been overwhelming and I’ve had less time to appreciate the show than I planned for.)

This is certainly classy. Saw this in Oak Bluffs a couple hours ago.