Guess who's 29 today? That's right, it's me. Seems like just yesterday I was calling BBS's, playing Space Quest and goofing around in Scream Tracker.

Click your mouse, say yeah! - interesting/funny investigative article on the online indie music scene. Goblin Cock gets a mention.

Here's a cover for I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed that Sam Stroube did:

Also he's got a short film/video called Oatmeal set to a Brother Machine song that you can check out here.

I Don't Know What I'm Doing is now available on Amazon.com. Better late than never.

Are You Infected by Sony-BMG's Rootkit? - If you haven't heard, the DRM on a lot of new Sony releases is nasty and dangerous. California is suing.

CD Baby teams with Best Buy - CD Baby albums can now be purchased via Best Buy's website. Sweet!

Guest post: Scott Andrew on Productivity for the Practicing Musician - great article by Scott full of productivity tips for musicians. Personally I like to have todo lists going on several hip services and then ignore them all.

The folks at Losing Ticket Productions have put together a film called "1 Spy, 2 Spy" for the 2005 National Film Challenge. I haven't seen it, but it has a bunch of my songs in it apparently. And if you're in St. Louis you can go see it. Here are the details:

What: The National Film Challenge St. Louis Showcase When: 8:00 p.m., November 9, 2005 Where: Galleria 6 Cinemas (http://galleria6.stlouiscinemas.com/) Admission: $6.00

MC Jack in the Box has remixed my entire I Don't Know What I'm Doing album. It's called I Don't Know What I'm Doing Either.

Tycho says nice things about Guitar Hero - so apparently this Guitar Hero game with the guitar controller for the PS2 actually is great. Now I need to try it.

Well, back from the live thing. Survived! It was actually a battle of the bands deal for tech industry people, because I guess I needed my first live experience to be competitive and in front of an awful lot of people to make it more relaxing somehow.

Six bands played, two were chosen to advance to the semi-finals finals and Brad Sucks was one of those bands. So we are victorious for now! Hooray for now!

So I'll be doing my first ever live thing later on this evening. It's only a three song set but I'm pretty nervous as I don't like change, trying new things or danger. Wish me luck!

So you want to contact Brian Eno? - a funny write-up on contacting Brian Eno. The first quoted message from Eno is a really insightful comment on maintaining distance between fans and artists and how attention can be paralyzing.

American Idol Underground Legal Stuff - there's some outrage over this American Idol Underground service. CD Baby suggested it, I can't remember if I signed up.

Remixes:

• Bad Attraction (Mind Gears mix)
• Look and Feel Years Younger (narf mix)
• Making Me Nervous (electro glorious mix)
• Making Me Nervous (gov crunchy apple mix)
• Overreacting (5 Easy Steps To Building A Better Birdhouse mix)
• Overreacting (justdave mix)
• Sick as a Dog (Pizt 2 Fast mix)

A bunch more have been added over on my ccMixter page.

• John Bintz has done a short film called Reginald Smith: The Cookie Meltdown. I'm told there's a remix of my song Dropping Out of School in there about a third of the way through.
• Simon David put Making Me Nervous in a video diary for the feature film he's producing.

As far as podcast play, I've kinda lost track because I'm disorganized. My Podsafe page tells me I've been played on Unsigned podcast, Tower of Song, RSM Robert Smoove Music, Radio Free Cruze and IT Conversations lately. Thanks!

The Google Base rumors are interesting but it seems to fall short of what I was hoping they'd do: let blogs and forum software (and other web apps) drop their data straight into Google and then offer webmasters a free Google search in exchange. This'd get Google a ton of data that's difficult to index and organize (particularly forums) and provide a much needed service to the web community. Looks like they're looking for specific sorts of data though. We'll see once it launches.

I'm being forced to start playing World of Warcraft. If you never hear from me again, that is why. Please pass the word along to my family.

I was on the show CTRL-ALT-ROCK on GameSHOUT radio yesterday. There's supposed to be a Podcast of it around but I can't find it in the podcast listing. They played a lot my songs and were quite nice and I managed to keep the lid on my nearly decade and a half obsession with Ultima 7.

<futureboy> wow, pirate rap on SF<futureboy> i smell a new genre <brad> planksta rap <futureboy> LOL <bjam> heh <mkilly> don't encourage him <futureboy> oh man, blog that shit

Rob took this pretty awesome panorama photo of the Brad Sucks rehearsal last night. Table saws, empties, recycling bins. I don't know how much more legit a band could possibly be.