PP& Kahka found!

Rare PP & Kahka track rediscovered.

After several years collecting dust in a Booker's whiskey box, an MD containing the rare instrumental single "Yellow & Brown" by PP & Kahka featuring Rick Barrs was rediscoverd and would be available for your listening pleasure if I had enough space to host an MP3.

Enjoy and spread the love that PP & Kahka know you like spreadin

Much Luv

My GarageBand page

http://www.garageband.com/artist/lwrong

This is my garageband page. takes 30 reviews to be able to put up one song tho. I might not stick with it.

What is the word at 5:30 PM?

Oh lord, how many times can one man check 4 email accounts with no email in them? I am brimming with energy, stuck in a job with nothing to do. If I were a little more motivated I would already have my own translation business started by now. Focus! I lack focus. I think a lot of us in the video game generation do.
If I could make money on the “poop innuendo fake business” model, life would be grand.

PROFILE: Nightsoil

Formed in 2004, Nightsoil is a throwback to 80s hair-metal. Its main influences are Night Ranger, Ratt, Poison, Motley Crue and Scorpions. Its themes are definitely dark in nature, but sometimes light and airy, too. The enigmatic front-man Captain Browneye has refused to release a track until his vocal training allows him to reach ranges that only dogs and other small pets can hear.

Liner Notes To Follow

L. Wrong Hubbard sent me 4 tracks to listen to. I will be writing the liner notes for this album. I'm looking forward to the challenge. I hope the pen is kind to me and I manage to say all that is important about the music. That's it. Drinking a 6 pack of cider at the moment, trying to create material for a sort of unrelated project.

Cassette from Rich

Rich sent me this cassette sometime in mid-2002 when I was in Japan along with some other crazy stuff like videos and Starbucks coffee. It was a bad ass care package. Here is a track listing for the cassette:

Side A:
1. The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Flake
2. Lovage - Pit Stop (Take Me Home)
3. South - Allin For Nothing (Reprise)
4. Clinic - The Equaliser
5. Hope Sandoval & Warm Inventers - Suzanne
6. Moistboyz - I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass
7. New York Dolls - Don't Start Me Talkin'
8. The Strokes - Take It Or Leave It
9. The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
10. Built To Spill - Strange
11. Stone Roses - Driving South
12. Lovage - Herbs, Good Hygiene & Socks

Side B:
1. Ian Brown - Shades Of A Saint
2-13 Har Mar Superstar - You Can Feel Me
2. Intro
3. Powerlunch
4. Elephant Walk
5. We Coule Be Happy
6. You Can Feel Me
7. H.A.R.M.A.R.
8. One Dirty Minute
9. No Chorus
10. Let's Get This Party Kickin'
11. Freedom Summer
12. Love Jam #1
13. EZ Pass
14. The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
15. South - Paint The Silence

New Unit of Measure

I have developed a new unit of measure as I drove to work today.
It is called the UCTT and it is equivalent to 4 minutes and 11 seconds, i.e. the actual running time of MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This"
I got stuck behind some construction vehicles today and it nearly took 4 UCTTs to get to work today. On a good day I can do it in 3.

Rotten Idea File #1

I was at work the other day thinking about wireless networks and how anybody can get on an unsecured one. I thought it would be funny to set up an unsecured wireless network with a whole lot of crap on it just to mess with people. Years ago I used to love Attrition's defacement mirror. They used to show copies of defaced web sites that cracker kiddies got into, but I guess it became too much of a hassle so they stopped. But I was thinking of creating a server that was not really connected to anything but served up the fake web with jacked up sites.
It really is a dirty trick and of course it's another of my ideas that exceeds logistical constraints. I just think it would be funny as hell to jack with people who think they're getting free internet access, but it's better in theory than practice. It would take infinite man hours and the only way it could be done is if it were somehow profitable, which it isn't. So ashes to ashes, here's another idea for the Fluxus graveyard.

The Quiz

Linked to this from Liam's blog. I could tell which ones would have got me G I Joe, but answered as honestly as possible. I can live with this.


You're a Garbage Pail Kid!! You're dirty, foul,
disgusting, and wrong. But you're still funny
as hell.


What childhood toy from the 80s are you?
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Audacity

Audacity, let me count thy ways. I can't say how much I enjoy this FREE software. I can now put my MDs and tapes directly into my PC as MP3 files. Sure, it takes a while, but there is a lot of stuff I only have on MD or tape.
I used it to let my son Jude sing overtop of Hey Jude. Corny yes, but it will be cool to give it to him when he is 18. And it will make great gifts for Grandmas.
Possibilities are endless. Now to find a way to live w/o sleeping.

Idea #4

The Busywork Office
As you can probably tell, there is a big lull at work these days. That is why I have been monopolozing the blogs of late.
Every company everywhere has lots of busywork. The real necessary busywork, like printing out paystubs etc, ususally gets its own office: General Affairs, or Admin or whatever. But I know there must be tons of other silly stuff, like labeling cabinets and lockers, that is just piling up unnoticed. This should be centralized into the busywork office, so that when you have some extra time on your hands, you can walk to the bustwork office and get something to do. You would at least be doing something constructive rather than blogging (ok, it can be constructive) or surfing Amazon etc. Then your boss says "Gee these cabniets sure are nicely reorganized" Or everyone has their own notepad made from scraps( ooh, environmental). And wehn you get busy again, you just do your work and someone else can take care of the busywork.
Need to work out the details to make sure people arent in the busywork office all the time.

Idea #3

Society for the Creation of More Z Words

As I commented willy nilly in response to your comment, I thought Z is a good letter that gets the shaft. We could create a forum for other friends of the letter Z to think of some good Z words, or find unknown Z words and revitalize them for the modern world.
In fact, I am going to call it the Zociety.
Then end

Idea #2

Down-home Japanese Cookin'
Americans think Japanese food is all sushi. It ain't. I want to take the downhome country styled dishes from the wilds of Kyushu to the US. You get a good deal of fried foods and steamed vegetables, throw in some of those baby octopus for the shock effect. Get some good shochu. Build your restaurant in the wooddy, earthy themes of a typical Japanese izakaya. Which there are izakaya in New York City, but my catch is this, do it in the country! Not too far from a major urban area, then play on the stereotypes and make silly flyers with ninja or sometthing and watch the people flock. Something "new" to eat. People will drive to eat good food. U will also want the whole rack of Japanese knives, there are so many and they are all cool. And Tatami mats for sure.
It ain't just sushi folks!
It is posssible

Idea #1

The Museum of Everyday Art

This came to me one day when I was watching my 2 year old son draw. Why is that some artists are deemed good enough to get put in museums? and other art is not even considered as such? I am clueless to the inner workings of the art scene, but I still remember in 6th grade seeing a painting called "Homage to a Square" that was a painting of a green square. That is very lame.
I want to start an art museum in a very ordinary town. I have never been to Iowa or Kansas, but I have a feeling that it is very boring and ordinary there so I want to build the museum there. It would house all the art that ordinarily gets pitched: kids drawings, notebook doodles, accidental creations (be them paper, food, broken toys, or any other medium). The artists would all be normal everyday types like you and me. No fruitcakes like Warhol. He already has his own museum. This would be the vox populi for the average American. Although, themes need not be strictly American. I thought of sending you a collage made from Japaense newspaper ads, something so mundane here, but that would be semi-exotic there. I even thought of just sending you the entire ad: for a grocery store or a shoe store. I am not too familiar with fluxus, but to me, that sounds like fluxus. You could frame the pachinko parlor ad and hang it on a wall. That would be everyday art. You could have a room with white walls and several boxes of Crayola 64. These would be works in progress. Only kids 5 and under could go in. Every week you remove the white boards, and put in new ones. These could go on the road as travelling bits.
It is possible.

If you don't mind....

Dear Captain Obvious:

I have realized that my brain is full of ideas, some good, most not, and I had been thinking for a while that I should start a blog just to let it flow out. I actually had another idea of having a blog for staff to all put their ideas on it and then we could collaborate and improve and blah-di-blah, but discussion with my Western friends made me realize it would never work in the arcane feudal structure in place here, so as I reflected on my crappy salary, I decided not to go the extra mile for my employer.
Instead, I will dump my zany ideas one by one onto this blog. You are welcome to comment: cool, yeah right, pretty lame etc. or ignore. This is your blog so if that strays too far from what you want to do with it, let me know and I'll start another sounding board for my clogged brain.
The only rule: number your ideas consecutively.
Whadda ya say?

PROFILE: Soul Vacuum

Another experimental duo formed in the Yodogawa Ward in Osaka. Their music was created ad hoc under the influence of (then legal) halluciogenic mushrooms. No recordings of their work exist, but if you travel far enough into space you may be able to catch the last strains of their overly distorted guitar and giggling.

P-pi and Kahka Retrospective

From the desk of P-pi and Kahka:

Geography is all that separates the ancient masters at the moment and they would like to reiterate to the fans of their work that they haven't broken up. Just like you can smell me from another room, you can feel them from another continent and you will know when they have returned.