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danny williams and i recorded our first podcast today. since february we’ve been recording every sound we could make from guitars, keyboards, floorboards, and shoe horns and uploading mp3′s on the day of mars page… now we’re adding a podcast series. it will follow a simple theme: talk about our blog posts. that’s it. i have to confess that this idea is borrowed from an ’80s podcast based in florida. but those guys don’t have a patent on it, so we’ll take our chances. our podcast doesn’t have a name yet, but a team of scientists is working around the clock and will have results soon. the “yet to be named” podcast will be available for download in a few days, if not sooner. stay tuned.

more details from last night’s electronic monopoly game: josh frierdich was the banker (ironically he’s a bank teller by day), christy bought the most expensive piece of real estate on the board (the new york skyline) but wasn’t able to buy anything else, rayna kept asking me for financial advice, jenny was upset about the free parking situation (no cash in the game, no cash on the board to collect!), and i was in jail with josh haub (rayna’s fiancé). here are some sounds from the game.

tonight jenny & i went to christy & josh’s apartment to play electronic monopoly. it was a game that rayna and her fiancé, josh, brought over to play. the game is just like the old version except you use debit cards, and the properties and utilities are up to date: you can purchase the new york skyline, or a cell phone service provider, or an airline. i’ll post more details from our particular game later… right now i’m gonna eat a snack and watch some old 80s music videos.

my wife and i have lived at our current address for over 13 years now, and i have become very familiar with the sights, the smells, and particularly the SOUNDS of my house. this morning there was a strange rattle i had never heard before coming from the water heater. i immediately thought “something is gonna have to get fixed,” so i recorded the sound with my mp3 player. i figured this would be better than trying to describe the sound to a repair man. a minute later, the same sound came from the furnace. that’s when i remembered a story that a friend told me years ago, about a woodpecker on his house. when i went outside, there WAS a woodpecker, but he flew away before i could throw something at him.

i love the fact that i can change the “header” on this blog. it took me awhile to figure out how to do it. the image above is one of many that i’ll mess around with by sticking a cartoon somewhere in it (or a floating head) and use the resulting image as a header at the top of the page. this picture is from a collection of retro future works done by Klaus Bürgle.

jenny & i went to a birthday party for twin boys i used to babysit. they are 8 years old, and we weren’t sure what presents to bring, so i downloaded some paper toys from a friend’s website. it took me most of the afternoon to cut, fold, and glue them together… but i felt a REAL sense of accomplishment when they were done. thanks matt for letting me benefit from your creative genius.

as promised, here’s the mp3 that danny & i worked on yesterday. he laid down a few tracks before he had to go & run some errands. i added some stuff to it this morning, then i mixed some audio from a homemade calliope with crowd noise at a real carnival… that part sounds kinda normal, then it sounds like danny & i took the whole thing down a dark alley and beat the snot out of it. this one will also be added to the list of mp3′s on the day of mars page. see you on the ferris wheel.

jenny & i caught a glimpse of life on the farm at my sister’s house

when i finished a morning shift at homer’s yesterday, danny williams was sleeping in his car in front of my house. i woke him up and within a few minutes he threw caution (and his ill health) to the wind, and then proceeded to record some cool riffs. we had some problems getting it on the hard drive (the recording software kept crashing), but we managed to piece together some stuff that sounds like a nightmarish carnival. i’ll post an mp3 soon.