Scatterbrain Sunday Vol 1
Published by Mertz on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 8:58 AM.
I gave this blog the name I did out of a hope for discipline. In my younger days, when I was a more passionate, and I think more accomplished writer, whenever I hit roadblocks or creative dry spells, I would put limits on my writing. I wouldn't allow myself to use adjectives, or limit the number of words I had, etc. etc. There is nothing revolutionary about that. Writers find freedom in limitations all the time. But until you sit down and try it, you never realize how effective that process is.
A Thought and A Song was supposed to mirror that discipline. After trying several blogs that died out like western ghost towns, I thought writing about only one idea and one song in each post would encouage me to post more frequently. It hasn't. Or at least not with the results I wanted.
So today I'm throwing out the general rule of one thought and one song for Sunday posts. Or maybe in a way, I'm creating a new rule. Sunday posts will be a time where I will empty my brain. Any topics I didn't get to earlier in the week I will cover and anything crawling around my skull will also find a home here. I'm not sure about the number of songs I'll post. Anyway, enough buildup. I've got a fresh cup of coffee and an hour before brunch, so here's the first Scatterbrain Sunday:
So long, farewell, you won't be missed
I never thought I would still be in Champaign when the University of Illinois finally retired the chief. I figured it would be another three or four years. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then I will not ruin your blissful ignorance. Seriously, I cannot think of a more idiotic thing to fight about that has actually been fought over with the intensity that it has. In fact, I wish I never had to experience five years of hands-on experience with the stupidity that is the Chief, pro-Chief students, anti-Chief activists, shirts, bumperstickers, billboards, protests, sit-ins, on and on and on.
All I know is that after a year of protests and legal challenges, the national media will hopefully stop writing about our racist mascot, and instead focus on all the innovation that goes on here (you know, things like inventing the web browser, creating faster transistors, finding cancer cures, YouTube, etc etc).
And before any rabid Chief lovers find this blog and start posting up negative comments or expousing their devotition to tradition, let me make something perfectly clear. Yes, I view the Chief as a racist mascot, but that's not why I thought it needed to be retired. The debate over the Chief resonated so loudly that our campus became defined by that debate. Without a doubt, that debate needed to take place, but when the noise from that debate drowns out all other discussions on campus and off campus about the University, the value of a mascot has wasted away, tradition or no tradition. The only thing the Chief stands for is loyalty to him or opposition to him. He doesn't represent the University, just the image the University has become stuck with. The only way the noise from this debate will go away is if the Chief goes away too. I'm sure that four years from now, when a new crop of white, suburbanite males come to campus as freshman, they won't feel compelled by "tradition" to keep the pro-chief groups on campus alive anymore.
Ugh, I can't believe I just wasted that many words on the Chief... moving on...
Snow Days... two of them!
When I was a kid, we never got snow days. And to hear the reports, UIUC hasn't shut it's doors because of snow in 30 years. That was shocking to me because the Champaign snow plows are terrible, even if there is an inch of snow on the ground. You think chaos would have errupted sooner. This week we got not one, but two snow days.
To show just how unprepared Champaign as a whole was, this past Tuesday they announced they were no longer going to plow for the day because it was futile. Here are a few pics my roommate snapped:
The front of our building.
A view of Neil St and University Ave, one of the busiest intersections in Champaign. Yes, there are streets there, and no I wasn't kidding about bad snow plowing.
Walnut Street. Another busy street in the heart of downtown. Way to go Champaign plows!
With snowfall and wind drifts, it really did get up to bench level, which was all the more fun to walk thru since the sidewalks were shoveled after the streets were "plowed."
A Thought and A Song was supposed to mirror that discipline. After trying several blogs that died out like western ghost towns, I thought writing about only one idea and one song in each post would encouage me to post more frequently. It hasn't. Or at least not with the results I wanted.
So today I'm throwing out the general rule of one thought and one song for Sunday posts. Or maybe in a way, I'm creating a new rule. Sunday posts will be a time where I will empty my brain. Any topics I didn't get to earlier in the week I will cover and anything crawling around my skull will also find a home here. I'm not sure about the number of songs I'll post. Anyway, enough buildup. I've got a fresh cup of coffee and an hour before brunch, so here's the first Scatterbrain Sunday:
So long, farewell, you won't be missedI never thought I would still be in Champaign when the University of Illinois finally retired the chief. I figured it would be another three or four years. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then I will not ruin your blissful ignorance. Seriously, I cannot think of a more idiotic thing to fight about that has actually been fought over with the intensity that it has. In fact, I wish I never had to experience five years of hands-on experience with the stupidity that is the Chief, pro-Chief students, anti-Chief activists, shirts, bumperstickers, billboards, protests, sit-ins, on and on and on.
All I know is that after a year of protests and legal challenges, the national media will hopefully stop writing about our racist mascot, and instead focus on all the innovation that goes on here (you know, things like inventing the web browser, creating faster transistors, finding cancer cures, YouTube, etc etc).
And before any rabid Chief lovers find this blog and start posting up negative comments or expousing their devotition to tradition, let me make something perfectly clear. Yes, I view the Chief as a racist mascot, but that's not why I thought it needed to be retired. The debate over the Chief resonated so loudly that our campus became defined by that debate. Without a doubt, that debate needed to take place, but when the noise from that debate drowns out all other discussions on campus and off campus about the University, the value of a mascot has wasted away, tradition or no tradition. The only thing the Chief stands for is loyalty to him or opposition to him. He doesn't represent the University, just the image the University has become stuck with. The only way the noise from this debate will go away is if the Chief goes away too. I'm sure that four years from now, when a new crop of white, suburbanite males come to campus as freshman, they won't feel compelled by "tradition" to keep the pro-chief groups on campus alive anymore.
Ugh, I can't believe I just wasted that many words on the Chief... moving on...
Snow Days... two of them!
When I was a kid, we never got snow days. And to hear the reports, UIUC hasn't shut it's doors because of snow in 30 years. That was shocking to me because the Champaign snow plows are terrible, even if there is an inch of snow on the ground. You think chaos would have errupted sooner. This week we got not one, but two snow days.
To show just how unprepared Champaign as a whole was, this past Tuesday they announced they were no longer going to plow for the day because it was futile. Here are a few pics my roommate snapped:
The front of our building.
A view of Neil St and University Ave, one of the busiest intersections in Champaign. Yes, there are streets there, and no I wasn't kidding about bad snow plowing.
Walnut Street. Another busy street in the heart of downtown. Way to go Champaign plows!
With snowfall and wind drifts, it really did get up to bench level, which was all the more fun to walk thru since the sidewalks were shoveled after the streets were "plowed."Like Tony Soprano
I think I want a robe. Just feels like the thing to have for stomping around the apartment on Sundays.
DRM pre-insanity
There has been much talk about getting rid of DRM for online music from Steve Jobs and EMI in the past few weeks. Sometime this week I hope to join the cacophony of online voices weighing in on the issue (with links to some of the better and more relevant pieces). Obviously I'm for stripping away DRM, if for no other reason, it makes my DJing job so much eaiser using Serato.
In the short term though, if iTunes were DRM free I would have posted about the snow on the snow day because I wanted to post a song off of The Smashing Pumpkins Piceses Iscariot to go along with the wintery post. Instead I spent a few hours looking for my CD with no luck. Somewhere, there is a box of CDs hiding from me in my apartment. Too many have gone missing lately.
Daniel Larusso Is Going To Fight?!?!
I just came across a treatise on Pretentious Soup, another of the many blogs out there. Anyway, this piece is called Daniel LaRusso is a No Good, Lying, Worthless Piece of Shit and Other Things. It is so worth a read, it's not even funny (okay, the piece is funny). Make time to read it all and bookmark that blog for part two.
Radio radio
A group of my friends and I go to Radio Maria nearly ever Sunday for their amazing brunch. If you're in Champaign on a Sunday, you definitely need to go there. I'm about to get ready for it, but before I do, it is time for some more coherent thoughts about music and my personal creative output. Happily, I can report I have found some much needed focus. At least I think I have.
Ben Watt Strikes Again
I woke up early this morning for no apparent reason. Last night's gig was a good one. I had two women, one from NYC and one from California react in shock to me saying that I'm a Champaign DJ. They swore I had to be from a big city. That made me feel good. But the night was not anything bonkers, so maybe that's why I didn't feel tired this morning. In fact, it chilled out enough by the end that I was playing Charles Webster style smoothed out, adult deep house. I so desparately wanted to drop in Ben Watt's new remix of The Figurines' "Silver Ponds," but that record is en route from the UK as we speak and I won't get to play it out until this Friday.
That's probably the main reason that when I woke up this morning I headed over to Ben Watt's myspace page. I needed to hear that remix and that's the only place I can find it right now. But in addition to the Silver Ponds fix, I ended up reading some of Ben's blog postings. And if his musical genius didn't cause me enough envy, the man also happens to be an incredibly gifted writer. And once again, Mr. Watt hit something inside me that gave me creative focus.
He's been doing that for years. In the old days when I worked at a radio station in Bloomington, IL. I can vividly remember carting at least four cuts off of Everything But The Girl's Tempremental album. And I must have rewound "Tracey In My Room" about 10 times when the Lazy Dog compilation came in. In fact, that song is the reason why I started paying more attention to deep house over the progressive house I was enamored with at the time. You could chart every musical twist and turn I take, and most likely it was because I heard Ben Watt make that shift first.
It seems every time I hit a creative slump, every time I run out of gas and motivation to keep doing this DJing thing, Ben Watt does something that picks me up. Whether it is seeing him live, him putting out a new remix, or even reading his blog today, Ben just has a way of being the spark I need to keep going and push myself.
This couldn't have come at a better time. I've got one gig coming up in Milwaukee on Friday and past that, the future is a wide open hole for DJing. I've got no noteworthy gigs on the horizon. I feel lost on what my sound should be, and playing four hours a week at a lounge with a very particular audience isn't helping that. Furthermore, despite pushes from friends and very clearly understanding that I need to do it to move this DJing thing forward, I cannot find the energy/motivation to produce.
Well, today what Ben Watt did was two things. The first is that for some unknown reason (his blogs have nothing to do with this)... I am going to focus more on the musical side, and less on promotion side of DJing. I'm going to make myself work four hours every day on something directly related to music, either DJing or production. Promotion work will have to come elsewhere, particularly promotion in Champaign.
The second thing is that I am going to demand much higher quality output out of myself. No more half assing it, no more just putting something out to have it out. That goes for gigs, for mixes, for radio appearances, etc etc. And so, on that note, I am posting up a new mix which very well may be my last mix for several months. Anything that I share with the public from the point forward I am going to be 100% proud of.
This mix, while not bad, isn't the best that I could do. I'm actually admitting that in a post (in a very non-DJ egotistical way) as a reminder to myself to only put out what I'm absolutely happy with. So this will be the last mix I post that was "done just to get something done." Let's call it flushing out of my system the old way of doing things. Expect nothing but the best I can do from here on in:
Mertz - Future Purest
Tracklisting:
1. Recloose - Cardiology (Isolee Remix) (Playhouse)
2. Yapacc - Boutique Minimal (Neuton)
3. The Rapture - WAYUH (People Don't Dance No More) (Claude VonStroke Pantydropper Vocal Mix) (Mercury)
4. Chris Harris & Dominic Martin - Dig It (Dom's Mix) (Nordic Trax)
5. Mike Monday - What Day Is It? (Brique Rogue)
6. Claude VonStroke - Who's Afraid of Detroit? (3 Channels Remix) (Dirtybird)
7. Claude VonStroke - Who's Afraid of Detroit? (Tanner Ross Remix) (Dirtybird)
8. Herve - I Am Alright (Dubsided)
9. Dubble D ft. Flora Purim - Switch (Switch Remix) (2020 Vision)
10. Troydon - Drop It (Chuck Daniels Egg Drop Remix) (Spatula City)
11. The Martin Brothers - Stoopit (Christian Martin Remix) (Dirtybird)
12. Solid Groove & Sinden - Din Da Da (Counterfeet)
13. Justin Martin - The Water Song (Buzzin Fly)
14. Dublex Inc - Sound of the Ebu (Swag's Deep & Dark Dub) (Sugarcane)
15. Stereotyp ft. Joyce Muniz - Uepa (Man Recordings)
16. Bonde De Role - Melo Do Tabaco (Radioclit Remix) (Counterfeet)
17. The Grump - Tribal Communication (Stove Top Recordings)
18. J Phlip - Dunno (CDR)
19. Tracey Thorn - It's All True (Martin Buttrich Remix) (Virgin)
What a Sunday... and it's not even three o'clock yet.
I think I want a robe. Just feels like the thing to have for stomping around the apartment on Sundays.
DRM pre-insanity
There has been much talk about getting rid of DRM for online music from Steve Jobs and EMI in the past few weeks. Sometime this week I hope to join the cacophony of online voices weighing in on the issue (with links to some of the better and more relevant pieces). Obviously I'm for stripping away DRM, if for no other reason, it makes my DJing job so much eaiser using Serato.
In the short term though, if iTunes were DRM free I would have posted about the snow on the snow day because I wanted to post a song off of The Smashing Pumpkins Piceses Iscariot to go along with the wintery post. Instead I spent a few hours looking for my CD with no luck. Somewhere, there is a box of CDs hiding from me in my apartment. Too many have gone missing lately.
Daniel Larusso Is Going To Fight?!?!
I just came across a treatise on Pretentious Soup, another of the many blogs out there. Anyway, this piece is called Daniel LaRusso is a No Good, Lying, Worthless Piece of Shit and Other Things. It is so worth a read, it's not even funny (okay, the piece is funny). Make time to read it all and bookmark that blog for part two.
Radio radio
A group of my friends and I go to Radio Maria nearly ever Sunday for their amazing brunch. If you're in Champaign on a Sunday, you definitely need to go there. I'm about to get ready for it, but before I do, it is time for some more coherent thoughts about music and my personal creative output. Happily, I can report I have found some much needed focus. At least I think I have.
Ben Watt Strikes Again
I woke up early this morning for no apparent reason. Last night's gig was a good one. I had two women, one from NYC and one from California react in shock to me saying that I'm a Champaign DJ. They swore I had to be from a big city. That made me feel good. But the night was not anything bonkers, so maybe that's why I didn't feel tired this morning. In fact, it chilled out enough by the end that I was playing Charles Webster style smoothed out, adult deep house. I so desparately wanted to drop in Ben Watt's new remix of The Figurines' "Silver Ponds," but that record is en route from the UK as we speak and I won't get to play it out until this Friday.
That's probably the main reason that when I woke up this morning I headed over to Ben Watt's myspace page. I needed to hear that remix and that's the only place I can find it right now. But in addition to the Silver Ponds fix, I ended up reading some of Ben's blog postings. And if his musical genius didn't cause me enough envy, the man also happens to be an incredibly gifted writer. And once again, Mr. Watt hit something inside me that gave me creative focus.
He's been doing that for years. In the old days when I worked at a radio station in Bloomington, IL. I can vividly remember carting at least four cuts off of Everything But The Girl's Tempremental album. And I must have rewound "Tracey In My Room" about 10 times when the Lazy Dog compilation came in. In fact, that song is the reason why I started paying more attention to deep house over the progressive house I was enamored with at the time. You could chart every musical twist and turn I take, and most likely it was because I heard Ben Watt make that shift first.
It seems every time I hit a creative slump, every time I run out of gas and motivation to keep doing this DJing thing, Ben Watt does something that picks me up. Whether it is seeing him live, him putting out a new remix, or even reading his blog today, Ben just has a way of being the spark I need to keep going and push myself.
This couldn't have come at a better time. I've got one gig coming up in Milwaukee on Friday and past that, the future is a wide open hole for DJing. I've got no noteworthy gigs on the horizon. I feel lost on what my sound should be, and playing four hours a week at a lounge with a very particular audience isn't helping that. Furthermore, despite pushes from friends and very clearly understanding that I need to do it to move this DJing thing forward, I cannot find the energy/motivation to produce.
Well, today what Ben Watt did was two things. The first is that for some unknown reason (his blogs have nothing to do with this)... I am going to focus more on the musical side, and less on promotion side of DJing. I'm going to make myself work four hours every day on something directly related to music, either DJing or production. Promotion work will have to come elsewhere, particularly promotion in Champaign.
The second thing is that I am going to demand much higher quality output out of myself. No more half assing it, no more just putting something out to have it out. That goes for gigs, for mixes, for radio appearances, etc etc. And so, on that note, I am posting up a new mix which very well may be my last mix for several months. Anything that I share with the public from the point forward I am going to be 100% proud of.
This mix, while not bad, isn't the best that I could do. I'm actually admitting that in a post (in a very non-DJ egotistical way) as a reminder to myself to only put out what I'm absolutely happy with. So this will be the last mix I post that was "done just to get something done." Let's call it flushing out of my system the old way of doing things. Expect nothing but the best I can do from here on in:
Mertz - Future Purest
Tracklisting:
1. Recloose - Cardiology (Isolee Remix) (Playhouse)
2. Yapacc - Boutique Minimal (Neuton)
3. The Rapture - WAYUH (People Don't Dance No More) (Claude VonStroke Pantydropper Vocal Mix) (Mercury)
4. Chris Harris & Dominic Martin - Dig It (Dom's Mix) (Nordic Trax)
5. Mike Monday - What Day Is It? (Brique Rogue)
6. Claude VonStroke - Who's Afraid of Detroit? (3 Channels Remix) (Dirtybird)
7. Claude VonStroke - Who's Afraid of Detroit? (Tanner Ross Remix) (Dirtybird)
8. Herve - I Am Alright (Dubsided)
9. Dubble D ft. Flora Purim - Switch (Switch Remix) (2020 Vision)
10. Troydon - Drop It (Chuck Daniels Egg Drop Remix) (Spatula City)
11. The Martin Brothers - Stoopit (Christian Martin Remix) (Dirtybird)
12. Solid Groove & Sinden - Din Da Da (Counterfeet)
13. Justin Martin - The Water Song (Buzzin Fly)
14. Dublex Inc - Sound of the Ebu (Swag's Deep & Dark Dub) (Sugarcane)
15. Stereotyp ft. Joyce Muniz - Uepa (Man Recordings)
16. Bonde De Role - Melo Do Tabaco (Radioclit Remix) (Counterfeet)
17. The Grump - Tribal Communication (Stove Top Recordings)
18. J Phlip - Dunno (CDR)
19. Tracey Thorn - It's All True (Martin Buttrich Remix) (Virgin)
What a Sunday... and it's not even three o'clock yet.
Perfectly Imperfect
Published by Mertz on Monday, February 12, 2007 at 10:42 PM.
While chugging along quite well, February isn't the absolute perfect month that I imagined. Which is fine by me. I think when everything is going perfectly, you don't take the time to savor how good things are. Slight disappointments (the Bears losing the Superbowl, Duke losing to UNC, the freakin snow, etc) make things that go really well seem even better. It's like having the bad point the way to the good, without the bad being truly awful and overshadowing everything. This past weekend was my birthday and that phenomenon sums up the whole experience.I spent Friday and Saturday (and a little bit of Sunday) with two dirtybirds, Tanner and Jess (that's us in the pic above, a tech house trio in Chicago). Finally getting to meet Tanner in person was great. It's weird how in the information age you can become good friends with someone without meeting them face to face. Anyway, Friday night we had some freakin great sushi and then headed over to Smartbar to see Switch!
Mr. Dave Taylor (aka Switch, aka Solid Groove, aka Induceve, aka dubsided frontman, aka that's him in the picture working his Abelton controller) was just about everything I hoped he'd be. The slight imperfection at Smartbar came from the opener, Lee Foss. He opened with an uninspiring and truly unfocused set (where the hell did that Littlemen track come from and why did he play it on a night that should have been all tech house?), but as soon as Dave Taylor took the decks, everyone in a PACKED Smartbar was ready to go. The sound, of course, was breathtaking and the tunes (especially the new ones he unveiled, including Switch remixes of The Whistler, Golden Skans and something with a Decepticon noise) were obviously mindblowing.But two other things got me about his set. The first was how much fun he was having playing his music. You'd think if you're recording tunes with the Neptunes and M.I.A., if you've remixed P Diddy, Faithless, Robbie Williams and Fatboy Slim, if you make basically the hottest fucking house music on the planet right now, you could be complacent, stand behind the decks, smoke a cig, and look bored. But not Dave Taylor. He got up there and was pumping his fists, singing along on breakdowns, jumping up and down (and almost falling over from being so un-sober). It was fantastic.
The other part that wowed me was the crowd reaction. I have never seen a crowd anticipate every new song that was about to come in. Hell, sometimes it felt like they were waiting for every weird noise or breakdown (especially with his Futureheads remix where I could hear people singing along to every chopped up word). I don't know if it is the Switch sound, or his songwriting, or his performance ability, but never ever have I seen someone hold a crowd like he did (except for maybe Fatboy Slim back in 2000... yes, Fatboy Slim). Truly awesome and one of the best sets I have ever seen in my seven years of clubbing at Smarbar.
Saturday I went with Matt, Jess and Tanner to go get some deep dish pizza. Tanner was doing a sort of culinary tour of Chicago. In a bizarre way I'm proud that the two foods he wanted were deep dish pizza and hotdogs. Ha! Jess was playing Smartbar that night and after hearing her set (which was exactly the kind of set that should have been played before Switch), I left with Mike and Meske and other Jess (Mike's girlfriend) to do some drinking... that ended with me passing out way before everyone else (as pictured above... awesome). Passing out early sucked, but what can you do?
Sunday, I went to go see Barack Obama speak at the UIC pavillion. That's what it looked like up from our balcony seats. The slight imperfection here was a group of hecklers that were chanting for an immediate end of funding for the war in Iraq. It threw Obama off his game just enough that there were no goosebump moments after that (he was making an amazing speech about health care at the time, and usually health care stump speeches bore the hell out of me). It was frustrating because of all the people to heckle over the war, Obama seemed like the worst target. Yes, I understand that these hecklers were specifically protesting for an immediate ending of funding, something Obama is opposed to. But what other candidate has been so anti-war from the beginning, has proposed a definite time to withdraw the troops, AND has an actual chance to win? Sorry Kucinich fans, Obama is the only one that fits that bill.
Anyhow, Obama still was quite moving to see (despite the heckles, and despite the awful music choices before and after speeches). I filled out a card to volunteer for his campaign, so we'll see where that leads. He's also got a pretty cool online community called My.BarackObama.com. I'm going to create an account and see what exactly is going on there, but it seems like the natural way to organize young people (who I would say made up about a third to a half of his audience in Chicago on Sunday).
All in all, this was a fantastic birthday weekend and if anyone involved with it is reading it (including Barack Obama), thanks for the memories.
I'll Play it Damn It
Neither Switch nor J Phlip played this tune this weekend, although they both had ample opportunity (shame on you both!). The original Black Joy track isn't too different than this Solid Groove remix, but Dave Taylor seems to give it a little bit of a helpful push to make it more of a early night thumper, as opposed to the slow, Moodymann-ish burner that the original was. You can find the Solid Groove remix, along with a Stefan Goldmann remix, at the world's best record store, Juno or on Freerange's site. I'm sure this will get plenty of plays from me in the next few weeks and maybe even into the summer... feels like a late night summer tune.
Black Joy - Untitled (Solid Groove Remix)
"I Feel Like My Hair is Pretty Perfect"
Published by Mertz on Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 11:27 AM.
It's not every day that you find new heroes. But today is one of those days (see, told you February would be awesome). In case you've been living under a rock, two guys (pictured left) were arrested for putting up what amounted to self-powered Lite Brites of Err from Aqua Teen Hungerforce all over Boston. Heaven help us all when batteries and lights are strung together in a way that could only be called... harmless.The initial reporting is the most insightful to understand how out of proportion this has been blown. The subways were shut down and so was a bridge because there were wires and a circuit board. Amazingly ridiculous. But here's the interesting part, "devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities: Boston; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Atlanta; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco; and Philadelphia." These devices had been up for at least two weeks in Boston with no problems. They had been up all over the country with no problems. And suddenly, we're in such a state of fear that a whole city practically shuts down?
It is overreaction to the misunderstood that makes America so boring to live in sometimes. I'm not calling for performance art to be placed at every single step in a busy city, but the fact that two guys advertising a show (and a movie to be released March 23) were hauled off to prison because people didn't fully understand what was going on, is quite pathetic. It makes life duller to have only pre-approved forms of art and individual growth is stifled by only experiencing what you expect.
Anyway, the whole thing is too comical to get too hung up on. Clearly, as this fantastic video demonstrates, Peter and Sean aren't getting hung up.
Here are some great pics that exemplify how out of control this all got in a very short time:
So that's what a WMD looks like.
"Yeah, I mean we were going to go get some donuts and write traffic tickets, but we could go look at that."
Careful... those Duracell batteries might asplode!
"These mics have wires and lights. They also might be bombs."
Nothing says overblown like props. Where's the little vial of anthrax?
"Yeahhh...we might have fucked up on this one."Feel free to add your own captions in the comments. I'm pretty tired today. The ol' wit isn't firing like it used to.
Danger! Doom! Aqua Teen Hunger Force!
I still haven't sorted out what I'm going to do with Mediafire. So I'm going to piggyback off of this music posting by Los Amigos De Durutti. From the album that used to be on nonstop play at work about a year ago, we have a perfect fit for the Beantown insanity:
Dangerdoom - Aqua Teen Hungerforce
