I'm a featured artist over there on Mperia today. Did a short interview for them, which I assume you can read there.

I'm liking this here Japanese Death Poetry.

Esperanto Music on the Internet (via Bifurcated Rivets) (What the hell is Esperanto?)

Look And Feel Years Younger (2004 Mix) is a remix I did of Look And Feel Years Younger. All my attempts at making a super crazy remix failed so I was left with just making little changes. Like I hyped up the drums, mixed up the verses a bit, dropped the solo and changed the ending. Then a few other things here and there that I can't remember.

One of my favorite albums as a teenager was In God We Trust Inc. by the Dead Kennedys so I was pretty jazzed when I heard about the The Lost Tapes DVD. I had a chance to watch it last week and it was pretty fascinating. The story goes that the original recording session for In God We Trust Inc. on June 19th, 1981 was lost due to defective tape. They re-recorded the album some time later and that's what actually made it onto the In God We Trust Inc I know and love. They have since rescued a lot of the recordings from the defective tape and from other sources and were video taping the recording session at the time. So this is a pretty good look at what it was like to be in the studio with the Dead Kennedys.

The songs sound more or less identical to the album versions and it's pretty strange to watch the process of recording one of my favorite albums.

Some more sweet remixes and also a video:

• Dirtbag (anesthetic mix)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (Bill Berry mix)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (bandypop mix)

Also Prashant Mullick wrote in about a video he made with my song Making Me Nervous. He wrote in:

I thought I'd let you know of a short video I made with the sound track of your song. Its a first attempt at stitching up photos to make a video. You can find it here.

I've gotta work on it a little to fine tune the beats with the photo transitions. This was just a first attempt at throwing the photos in with the mix of the song.

The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics Of All Time.

Here's the source for my song Dirtbag (50 MB). Send me what you make with it, post it in the forums, etc. Remixes were kinda sparse for the last source I posted, so hopefully this one will go better.

I've been trying to get away from using the preamps on my Behringer mixer as I've decided they're way weaker and lamer sounding than what I was used to with my old Mackie mixing board. I bought a Presonus Blue Tube on the weekend. It looks like this:

Haven't given it a shot yet, but I sure hope it's good.

Here's a retro industrial fantasy of mine. Ministry and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult are on tour together. Tour details are here. They're coming to Montreal in October but I think I might be too old and fragile to go.

Catching up on remixes here:

• Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix 2)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix 3)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (SexyMix)

Also the extras section should be all caught up now.

Here's a review of my album I Don't Know What I'm Doing over on Horrorwood BabbleOn. It got 4 and a half jack-o-lanterns out of a possible five jack-o-lanterns, which is my highest number of jack-o-lanterns I've ever been awarded for anything.

It's taken forever and a half, but this weblog seems to be switched to Wordpress now. Huge thanks to Denise for CSS help. There are probably broken things all over the site. If you spot any please let me know. Right now I'm just thankful it's gotten this far.

Also: might be worth updating your RSS URLs. I have forwards in right now but one of the two RSS readers I tried choked on it.

The MP3Blogs Aggregator is an easy way to keep track of a ton of MP3 blogs all in one place. MP3 blogs are pretty cool and are a bit easier to tune into than a radio show for people who are lazy and impatient, like me. They're also how I found out that Steve Burns (formerly the host of Blues Clues) has teamed up with some of the the guys behind the Flaming Lips. (The song Mighty Little Man kicks ass.)

How to be Creative is a pretty good list of observations on the creative process. Most are pretty insightful. The explanation behind "Ignore everybody" is worth reading alone.

Pictures of an awesome Lego Guitar

(via J-Walk blog)

For the home recorders out there, here's a pretty good article on compression/limiting. The main thing that sets this article apart: it has audio examples. As a ranty aside: why is this article one of the very few with audio examples? There's no shortage of tutorials on the net for recording, but almost none of them have any audio with them and are basically worthless without that.

A while back I had an idea about starting a recording website where any tips you gave had to be backed up by audio examples, money where your mouth is style. But then I had other things to do I guess.

Due to peer pressure, I signed up for the Songfight Coverfight where you get assigned another songfighter's song to cover. The assignments are in and I have until August 30th to finish mine. Awesomely, I have no voice right now, but I'm sure it'll come crawling back eventually.

Certain DeathGenre: Rock? Time: 3:48 Date: 07/19/04

Acoustic guitar, drums and synths. This one took forever to write.

This time around we've got a pretty neat children of the fifth people Borderline remix and two Look And Feel Years Younger mixes by the unstoppable c.layne. Borderline (co5p remix) Look And Feel Years Younger (anasthetic mix) Look And Feel Years Younger (violence of surprise mix)

Thanks!