Crunkin Messiah - Special Thanks To Regina Spektor and Michael Jackson

Thanks for making me cry!!! Thanks a hell of a lot Michael Jackson. How you could watch the memorial service and not shed a tear. It was so moving. So friggin' tasteful. Damn you Jackson family for making me cry ..... I'm going to go lock myself in my room and get out my Thriller album on vinyl.

"It's been a long time Michael.....It's been a long time"

Oh....and there's the Bee Gees.

I want to thank Regina for inspiring me to work on the following track. It's a long way from finished but it has come so far since its last incarnation in New Tech Messiah Song That's Totally Unfinished. Now we give you the The New Crunkin Messiah That's Slightly Finished

Busy busy busy working on new music for the ED fans. Busy busy busy need more coffee. Need to do guitar things. Need to quit listening to the Thriller album. Cause this is Crunkin ... Crunkin Messiah. No...that would never work.

Regina Spektor's New Album FAR - Brian falls in love with MACHINE song

This album is an absolute MUST HAVE  item. I official give it the Euphonic Dissonance 5 star award. This is the first time anyone will have received this illustrious award. The five star award goes to Regina Spektor for her newest album FAR. Congratulations Regina .... you deserve it.





No seriously people !!!! This album is friggin' cool.

Ah, thank you Regina. You've given me more fodder for my Tech Messiah craze. Your new song MACHINE speaks to me in angry - sultry ways.

Here I am listening to Regina's new album and I'm suddenly washed over by a tide of anger. I think it's anger (I never like to assume what the author intends. I wasn't there. I don't know what was in their head.) or at least it seems like anger. The song is so aggressive. It's damn sexy. I seriously want to cover this song but I never follow through on doing cover songs. I'm fickle like that.

There Be Pirates On The Internet - Bittorrent Insanity

I've been doing a lot of reading about internet piracy and copyright infringement. As a musical artist these kind of things interest me. There are really good arguments for and against policing the net for said pirates.

I was reading about the legal battle that The Pirate Bay is currently involved in. They're a Swedish group of individuals that have a bittorrent website where you can find all kinds of copyrighted material that is free to download. Well .... it was there that I found an article about author Paulo Coelho aka Pirate Coelho.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho

He claims that posting his works on the internet for everyone to download actual increased his book sales from 3000 to one million in three years. Can this really be true? Well, if you read the wiki article he's no small fry. This guy knows his stuff and it's given me a lot of food for thought.

I believe that copyright is important in order to protect an artists property but at the same time the enforcement methods that are being used aren't working. YOU CAN'T STOP THE PIRACY!!! I strongly believe that to be true - that's why I typed it in all caps. Just as soon as they stop one website another one pops up. Suing an individual for millions of dollars doesn't impress anyone and the new method of trying to get the isp to do something isn't effective either.

What is the solution? Here's an idea for you - stop spending all your money on thwarting piracy and divert that money towards creating a great product that people will actually want to buy. Seems that these pirate sites are free publicity for these businesses and they are trying to shut them down. I believe that the majority of people on the internet aren't pirates. You have to have a lot of computer know-how to be a good internet pirate and most people don't have that knowledge. The small group of pirates downloads a ripped-off version and then tells all their non-pirate friends how great the book/movie/album is. WORD OF MOUTH. The pirate might try to explain to the non-pirate how to get it for free but the non-pirate is confused by all this tech talk and just downloads the book/movie/album from a legitimate site like iTunes. Looky there - they just made a sale. Funny how that works. Free friggin' advertising!!!!

This has led me to wonder if we should just post Euphonic Dissonance's music on a bittorrent site for free download. It worked well for Paulo - why can't it work for ED. If Euphonic Dissonance was more popular someone would rip our cd and put it out there anyway so why not beat them to the punch.

I really want to hear more opinions on this matter. Do you think that posting our songs for free would boost our sales? Has anyone heard of other success stories similar to Mr. Paulo Coelho?

New Tech Messiah Song That's Totally Unfinished

Just want to give the fans a little taste of the upcoming Tech Messiah album. Here's a little ditty (just a single verse and chorus) of something I started working on a couple days ago. We have a new laptop and it gives me the ability to write songs on the go. Gotta love that. Let me know what you think of this track thus far.

NEW CRUNKIN' SONG THAT'S NOT FINISHED AND MAY NEVER BE USED

I'll probably be throwing bones like these to our more rabid fans out there and I'll probably only do this in the blogs - SO PAY ATTENTION!!!! All eyes on me.

Oh... here's a little graphic I've been working on for the album. Do you likey?

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Well.....that's all for now little ones. Come back soon to see more.

Welcome My Son - Welcome To The Machine (Tech Messiah Update)

Been working on the Tech Messiah concept. Came up with this.



Pretty little Tech Messiah cross. Needs work but you get the basic idea.

The Tech Messiah is coming. There will be a time soon when the old will be taken over by all new brushed aluminum life. Welcome to the new shiny age. Change is here. Your minds are open and so susceptible to suggestion.

No more use for humanity..............

So Proud To Live in Oklahoma - Now That FLAMING LIPS "Do You Realize" is state song

I couldn't possibly be more proud to live in Oklahoma than I am right now. For once this ass backwards state has shown an amazing amount of class. Governor Brad Henry - I would like to buy you a beer.

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Thank you for not making those of us that live in this great state of Oklahoma look like the bunch of redneck dumb asses .... even though we really are. Way to step up and show some balls Mister Henry.

So here's the deal.....I'm a little late getting to this story but I feel it needs to be told. Straight up......I love the Flaming Lips. I must admit I am only recently a fan. It took ten albums before I really enjoyed a Lips album all the way through but their album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a work of indie rock genius.

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Wayne Coyne and band mates have created a masterpiece in this lp and if you haven't heard it you need to go out and get it immediately. Oh...and if you live in Oklahoma and you don't own this album then you are nothing more than a commie bastard!!! That's right....you're a communist.

You see.....some of us round these parts are still a bit concerned about them there communists.

The following article from the Reuters UK website should explain what the hell I'm babbling on about.

Flaming Lips prepare for Oklahoma honor

By John Benson

CLEVELAND (Billboard) - After weeks of controversy and uncertainty, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry is scheduled to sign an executive order Tuesday (April 28) that names the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" as the official rock song of Oklahoma.

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne told Billboard.com that the experience has been alternately exciting and disappointing, and, in quintessential Lips fashion, always surreal.

"It just seemed to me the whole thing was absurd to begin with, and now it even becomes more absurd," Coyne said. "Now I really feel like it's something worth fighting for because I don't want people to just think, 'Oh, Oklahoma is this backward state as we suspected.'"

The Oklahoma City band has watched as its popular song (from 2002's "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots") won an Internet contest for best Sooner State rock song -- over tracks by The All-American Rejects, Leon Russell and The Call. Over the course of a month, the Oklahoma state senate passed a measure to officially name the song the state's rock anthem, and then the state House of Representatives rejected it because band member Michael Ivins wore a T-shirt adorned with the image of a hammer and sickle, a Communist symbol.

"You know, when it happened a couple of months back, that seemed surreal ... and then when all of this (controversy) started, I think everybody's knee-jerk reaction in the beginning was, 'Ah, we knew it was too good to be true. That's more of the Oklahoma we thought we were dealing with,'" Coyne said. "But it's not true, and I think that's the main reason I wanted to make sure I got to say something about it.

"I don't think we're battling against what we feel is like a backwards mentality here. It's really just a few religious wackos that think they can tell everybody what to do. It's not even, to me, (a matter of) Democrats versus Republicans. It's really just a couple of these small-minded guys who are the most popular guys in their church and their little small towns. In some ways it's so absurd, it can only make us look good and them look stupid."

For Coyne, the best part of the ordeal is Gov. Henry's veto of the House's rejection of the contest results.

"There are a lot of other great things that are happening in Oklahoma," Coyne said. "And you know for the governor to stand up and veto it and be on our side, it's such a great story in the end."

Coyne hinted that the band has one more wrinkle planned for Tuesday's ceremony, when Henry will sign the executive order at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.

"I think we'll print up a couple of thousand of these (hammer-and-sickle) T-shirts, and everybody who comes to this thing will be wearing one," Coyne said. "We'll see if we can get the governor to wear one too."

[caption id="attachment_113" align="alignnone" width="280" caption="The controversial Flaming Lips communist support shirt"][/caption]

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)

© Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved.

I'm just a bit upset that Hanson's "MMM Bop" wasn't considered. What's up with that?

X-men Origins Wolverine - Stupid Frikkin' Silly Bone Claws

I have a confession to make. I'm a huge fan of the X-Men character Wolverine. I have been collecting comics about him since childhood and that is primarily the only comic book I will read. I'm kinda a Wolverine snob in comic book reading circles. I'm the guy who pisses off all the other comic reading dorks because I think that Wolverine can kill all their favorite sissy ass characters in a fight to the death.

Ah, nerds rule the world!!!

It's true. Nerds now rule the world. Look at all the comic book based movies that are out. All the video game based movies. Are there any movies that aren't nerd based? Frikkin' Michael Bay is doing Transformer movies for god's sake. What kind of topsy turvy world is this that I'm living in?

I digress.

Bone claws!!!! They went and gave Wolverine bone-frikkin'-claws in the movie!!!

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I hate BONE CLAWS!!! What kind of smeckpepper sauce were the producers of this movie on when they decided to give my favorite frikkin' character in the world of comics bone claws????!!!!! I've been reading Wolverine comics since the 1970's and this bone claw thing is a recent invention of the early 90's. It was jammed into the story to fill a hole. Before that readers were led to believe that Wolverine didn't have the claws until the Weapon X project (the part in the movie where they put all that cool metal onto his skeleton). We were led to believe that tube like structures were surgically installed into his forearm to house the blades. Here's some graphical representations to help you understand what the hell I'm babbling on about.

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I rest my case. The bone claw thing is silly and pisses me off. When Marvel ran that story in the comic I wanted to go burn their building to the ground (it's okay Marvel...I've gotten better since then....I would never hurt Stan Lee....and you probably have more than one building).

Beyond that I've got other gripes but I'll leave them dormant for now.

The fight scenes were phenomenal. I could watch those over and over and over. The interaction between Victor Creed (Sabertooth) and Wolvy was off the charts. Hell, I even liked Gambit in this movie and I've never liked Gambit in the comics or animated cartoons. I'm glad the included the scene with Wolvy as a child. Kids around the world are pretending they are Wolverine right now.....Going through the silverware and making mommies good knives into Wolverine claws. Snikt!

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Sarah is not a reader of the comic and she said the movie seemed to leave parts of the story out. I tend to agree with her. So many mixed emotions about this movie. It's so confusing. I need a drink.

I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to see a Wolverine movie made in my lifetime - but if I made it - well.....it would be better. NO - it would be perfect.