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yesterday i woke up without a voice. a few hours later i discovered a brand new podcast called everything is alive. it is “an unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. in each episode a different thing tells us its life story.” i could barely talk while louis, a can of cola was telling listeners not to tap his head when he falls off a shelf. that type of thing only annoys him.

what does it mean when an exterminator promotes just pest control? is he trying to express that he’s an honest guy who plays by the rules when he fights all of the the six legged enemies in my house? is he gonna be an impartial softie that allows some of the rodents to live? is he gonna be fair to the ants, roaches, and crickets that i paid him to exterminate? poor michael erwin… he just wanted to make a few bucks as a just pest controller. i don’t think he has the stomach to terminate with extreme prejudice.

the pics above span the years that jenny & i have known josh fairman. the recording below is the second song from the we drive bentleys recording session. josh & i came up with 3 songs & i always wanted to record him singing, but i had to settle for a spoken track enhanced by the voice transformer. this is a PG-14 fairman/cedillo* original titled, DUI meter. lyrics below:
i got three misdemeanors
i got some warts on my pener
no i cannot drive
i got a DUI meter
mama don’t stop me now
mama i don’t know how how
mama don’t stop me now
mama don’t have a cow
*josh wrote & rapped the first 4 lines, i wrote & falsetto-ed the last 4 lines.

jenny went out for dinner w/a friend last night, so i went driving around olathe & saw that our old duplex on glendale is available to rent! it was the first place we lived in as a married couple 30 years ago. the cost of living has gone up since 1988 & the rent for this place is $700 a month now. i think we paid about $265 a month. jenny wants me to remind the blog readers (all 3 of you) that we only had the left side of this house to ourselves: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 600 square feet. below are some interior pics. all images provided by sederson management co.

molly posted this link on my facebook wall. it’s a list made by one of the writers at mcsweeney’s that says “what your favorite 80′s band says about you.” here’s a little sample:– after reading the list, i shared it with brad williams, one of the hosts of stuck in the 80′s, and he replied:

young francis young was knee high to a toad suck when his family bought a used steam belt thresher. they didn’t really know what it was for or how to operate it. the on/off switch was easy to find, but the thing didn’t come with a manual. the engine died a few times before it actually maintained a decent chugging idle. when the conveyor belt spun wildly on the pulleys, ma young knew someone was gonna lose a finger.

…that’s the name that josh gave our song collection aka our EP album that we recorded last friday. dash and shave is what we called ourselves instead of josh and dave. the first song we recorded that day was shampoo for my teeth. lyrics:
i wanna keep it simple
i wanna keep it neat
i got two potatoes
i got a piece of meat
i don’t complicate it
i go with the flow
just where it’s goin’
i don’t have to know
toothpaste is just shampoo for my teeth
mouthwash is deodorant for my breath
toothpaste is just shampoo for my teeth
mouthwash is deodorant for my breath

rich maxwell loves marbles. i met rich outside of homer’s one day while he was visiting with fred kornis. within a few minutes we were talking about how cool it would be if a marble roller track would cross the corner of 80th and metcalf. if you google “rich maxwell” and “marbles” you will get more results than you can shoot an aggie at (remember aggies?) anyway, rich emailed me a few days ago & asked how he could hook a makey makey circuit board up to a marble track to make sounds and/or music like i do with vegetables. i can’t wait to see what he does next!

josh’s family is moving to las vegas next week so this week he and i have been spending a lot of time together. tuesday we:
-went to the northmoor castle
-explored the caves at park university
-played ping pong in the student center (josh’s first game!)
-spent an hour and a half at tapcade
yesterday we:
-split 8 tacos at jack in the box
-went back in time at the johnson county museum
-practiced church music
-crashed movie previews at the rio (josh had never been inside)
today we’re gonna record some original music for posterity, but if the winds of change blow us in a different direction, we will follow!

our good friend dave lofton was in town yesterday. he crashed at our house last night, and we talked over coffee this morning. it was a pleasant visit, but i don’t always leave myself open to opportunities to hang out with friends. sometimes i have anti-social tendencies, and i start resembling a hermit. i almost resisted the idea of having company over, but then dave walked in the front door and it felt like 1986 all over again.