davidcedillo.com

this little doo hickey i bought from thinkgeek can make anyone sound like a robot, godzilla, bruce lee, or super mario. you can also click here if the video above won’t play.

yesterday i found another series to obsess on. blank on blank is a collection of lost interviews with celebrities, most of whom are deceased. the audio is combined with cool animation that breathes life into the voices of johnny cash, gene wilder, bette davis, and maurice sendak. thanks to this series we get to find out why jim morrison thought fat is beautiful, what grace kelly said about JFK, and why jimi hendrix wanted to be compared to helium.

nick carswell is the assistant director at interurban art house (IUAH). nick and his gang inspired the ideas that helped me get the rocket grants award for beep goes the weasel. so when he asked me to blog about that experience and share how i did it, i said “ok.” he emailed me around midnight this morning and told me that my first entry should go up next week, or the week after that.

wailin’ wall was in the overland park fall festival parade this morning! we were placed between santa claus and the boy scouts. santa blew smoke out the back of his sleigh, wailin’ wall sang and played, and the boy scouts marched and carried flags. i waved at alot of friends (bob, kathy, josh, christy, ben, mike, melanie, thomas). thanks to ben hodge for capturing this moment!

NPR’s tiny desk concerts have been around for awhile, but i just started watching them a couple of weeks ago. thanks to this series i’ve discovered some artists like father figures, saintseneca, and moon hooch. later i went back to the early episodes and found a tribute to charles nelson reilly by weird al. it makes me want to write a song about sandy duncan or bert convy.

jenny & i camped out on top of mt. nebo (central arkansas) last week. it rained most of the time, but we were still able to hike around the rim of the mountain, and get these pics from sunrise point. on a more urban note, beep goes the weasel will not be at grunauer this month. the september 28 date was double booked with another event.

i started watching a netflix documentary on voice actors yesterday. i had no idea one of my closest friends has a twin. john dimaggio, the guy who does the voice of bender on futurama, could almost pass for my friend hoovie.

beep goes the weasel is getting ready for a gig @ grunauer sept. 28 one song at a time. this morning angie and i recorded a cover version of satellite of love. other songs on our setlist include the man who sold the world and tainted love. eventually we’ll record something with our third member, matt hawkins, for the full effect!

beep goes the weasel is happening @ grunauer september 28 at 8:45pm. one of the new songs we have lined up is an original called the future. this recording features angie wolford on keyboard. the music for the evening will be performance and interaction based (in other words, we will still invite audience members to play vegetables with us!). big thanks to reginald herman for the illustration featured above.

two nights ago a handful of us went back in time @ homer’s, back to a time when names like nintendo, sega, and atari didn’t sound retro. we made a 90′s and 80′s playlist on spotify and played golden eye, mario kart, defender, pong, asteroids, missile command, and other games i can’t remember. there were prizes for the high scores, and consolations for low ones.