Loverboy sings "Turn Me Loose"

This rules!

I want a robot butler... Enter Joey Chaos and Jules - two robots with real AI

Found these videos on gizmodo today. Looks like androids are getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. Joey Chaos seems like he'd get irritating really fast. Dude, fix your glasses! Well, what can you expect if he doesn't have any arms...



Here's his older brother Jules. This robot/android seems much more appealing to me. He's got heart. When he says good bye before they turn him off it reminds me of the movie A.I. So sad.

Interesting Article... If you're not working during the day, what are you doing?

An interesting article by Chris Colin starts like this,

"Two mysteries have followed me well into adulthood: Does soaping yourself work underwater, and how come there are so many people out on the street all day, seemingly not working? Having pitched a work, and not a soap, column, I recently attempted to answer the latter.

Because look out your window. Who are these people? At any given hour on any given workday, well, it turns out it's not a workday at all. Not for these hordes roaming free, anyway. By rights our parks and movie theaters and stores should be minor ghost towns between 9 and 5 -- chanced upon by the occasional tourist or late-night bartender but otherwise peaceful. Instead, they're inexplicably packed. I didn't doubt that the packers had sound explanations. I just wanted to hear them.

It occurred to me last night that you can learn as much about a city from what its people don't do as you can from what they do do. So I drove to as many parts of San Francisco as I could and interrupted as much leisure as possible to find out. "

Read the rest of the article here

Papercraft: Cool analog instruments...

Found this cool flickr photoset of analog instrument models made from paper. I thought it was cool so I thought I'd share.
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Show Tonight with the Crud at Ana Bananas

I think we'll probably play at 10 or 11pm. We may or may not have a surprise guest player tonight. See you there. Oh, and it's free.

Ana Bananas
2440 S Beretania St, Honolulu, HI
(808) 946-5190

Show at Next Door Tonight....

We're playing a show tonight at Next Door. That's downtown on Hotel Street. There's street parking all over the place. There are two other bands playing tonight but they're both playing acoustic sets. We'll be experimenting with some new show tools. That's all. Hope to see you there.

Very interesting article on the changing role of the artist in the 21st Century... Just read it...

Just read this very interesting article on the New York Times online. It talks about how the role of the artist is changing due to changes in distribution and marketing over the Internet. There are a bunch of references to bands that I don't care to look-up. The point's been made. Things are very different these days and I'm not sure I want to participate the same way.

Read the Article Here

"Roller" by French Kicks

Just when I thought I had gotten over the French Kicks they go and record a song like "Roller" to get me all excited about their music again. It must be a sign. When I was walking to work yesterday in the light rain I slipped on the earphones and randomly chose "Following Waves" and only stopped after "You could not Decide" because I had reached my door.

So today I went on myspace and found them to add as a friend. As the page loaded "Roller" started streaming. The first few seconds sound like the start of one of my favorite Strokes songs (with a little too much bass in the bass drum), only to drop into a euro-pop euphoria. I don't agree with some of his vocal decisions but the song is so good from beginning to end, I can't help but loop it.

Listen to "Roller" by going to their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/frenchkicks

BAND UPDATES: I'm getting back into Flash programming. I'm working on something like James Patterson's Presstube drawings for some of our shows. I got the Wiimote bluetooth hack to work! Now I'm just deciding how to use it...

Crunch on this... Money saving tips...

"Easy come easy go."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

Pithy remarks abound regarding money. As I grow older each remark seems to ring truer with each passing day. Yesterday my car overheated and I had to take it to the auto shop again (it hasn't even been a month). I'll refrain from revealing the auto shop's name until I get my car back for fear of online discovery and retribution. Today I thought I'd post a few links about the money trap that is my car:

Four Gas-saving Myths - Courtesy of CNN Money

Gasbuddy.com - Enter your zip code to find the cheapest gas prices.

Hello Friends...

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been sick with a cold for the past week and I just didn't even feel like looking at a computer last week. We auditioned a friend as the fourth guitar member at a practice two weeks ago. We finished up a 3 night run of appearances at Soundhouse. It was fun but once it was over, I didn't pick up the guitar for at least 3 days. Maybe there's a clean ratio there.

Anyway, hope everyone is doing well. I will resume the regular posting schedule once I have returned to 100% health.