I’ve just got something in the mail that brightened my day: my first album in physical form! It’s now available from Kunaki for the reasonable price of $6.00, so you too can have the joy of finding one of these in your mailbox. The album is still available for free download from Jamendo and last.fm, so feel free to give it a test-drive before clicking the tantalizingly sexy BUY NOW button.

Pardon the amateur photography.

I’m looking into having it carried by CDBaby and possibly Amazon.

1/25/2008 found through WWFTD

cacozelia:  studied affectation in diction or style.

After learning that some of his former classmates had gone on to become doctors and lawyers, Nelson sought to impress everybody at his high school reunion with a speech that was an exercise in cacozelia and featured no less than ten obtuse allusions to pre-classical literature, a dozen phrases in Latin and Greek, and a peppering of incomprehensible acronyms and technobabble.

I’ve gotten the XLR-1/4″ adapter and have recorded a few minutes of myself messing around. There are a couple of song riffs that I’ve been learning here and there but mostly me just trying out some chords and things. 01-22-09-megatarjam

Wolverine – “A House of Plague”
The Nice – “Azreal Revisited”
Amorphis – “Shaman”
Frantic Bleep – “Sins of Omission”
Kurgan’s Bane – “Frankie Four Angels”
Genesis – “The Return of the Giant Hogweed”
Dark Empire – “The Forgotten Sin”
Marillion – “Goodbye To All That/Wave”
Kaipa – “Folke’s Final Decision”
Pink Floyd – “Any Colour You Like”
Dream Theater – “One Last Time”

1/18/2008 found through Dictionary.com

heterodox:  Contrary to or differing from some acknowledged standard. Holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines.

James found himself ostracized from the rest of the Gilligan’s Island fan club because of his heterodox theories about the crew of the S.S. Minnow being abducted by aliens to be studied in an intergalactic space-zoo; also, he thought Mary Ann was hotter than Ginger.

1. Fissure (64:22)

I’ve finally gotten my secret weapon in the mail: a custom Megatar Dragon.

They don’t call it a Megatar for nothing! Just for comparison’s sake, here’s it next to my old bass axe.

This thing is bigger than my torso.

I’ve messed around with it a little bit last night and I think I’ve figured out how to play most of Elephant Talk. I was going from a tab arranged for 4-string bass and had to try and reverse engineer how it would work on a 12-string tapper.

My masterplan for getting the X3 pod met a snag when I noticed that input 2 was an XLR jack instead of the 1/4″ that I was expecting. I’ve ordered an adapter and when it gets here, I’ll record some things to show it off.

Head Control System – “Skin Flick”
Genesis – “Los Endos”
Sieges Even – “Tidal”
Parallel or 90 Degrees – “Embalmed in Acid”
Agalloch – “Fire Above, Ice Below”
Peter Hammill – “She Wraps It Up”
Steven Wilson – “No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun”
Fish – “The Company”
Port Mahadia – “Requiem Of The Mind”
Neuraxis – “Memento”
Dream Theater – “Solitary Shell”
Kansas – “The Wall (live with London Symphony Orchestra)”

1/11/2008 found through Curious Words and Phrases

alexipharmacon: an antidote for poison

Mario rifled through his refrigerator, searching for an

alexipharmacon

to the blistering heat from the Guatemalan insanity pepper that was currently threatening to peel off his taste buds.

1. Bower (56:37)