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."

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(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.

Alternative Radio In Tulsa Oklahoma Circa 1990 - 1995

I found this video online and just had to post it to our blog. If you were into the alternative music scene in the early 90's and you lived in Tulsa and you listened to the radio you probably heard this.



That was alternative radio in the early 90's before alternative became mainstream. God, I miss that radio station. That's Mother Theresa bringing you the newest in progressive and alternative music from the radio station KCMA The Edge Of Insanity EOI.

If you're wondering what Theresa is doing now....well.....she seems to run this website

VLOGGING THE APOCALYPSE

I'm Such a Filthy Little Whore

I feel so dirty. As a musician in this new age of the internets I'm constantly having to market my music. It very difficult to know where to draw the line sometimes. The artist in me wishes he didn't have to do all this tedious work. I would much rather be working on music than typing this blog but this blog might be the one thing that causes you to buy our album. It's all about exposure. If you don't expose yourself to people they won't buy your product. Would you like for me to expose myself? I bet you would.

I'm a very private person. You probably would have never guessed that from reading my blogs. I like my privacy and doing this kind of work doesn't allow you to have a private life. It's disrupting. It's disturbing. I don't like it.

And at the same time I love it. I love the music. I love the thrill of playing before a crowd. I enjoy mingling with the fans after a good show. (mingling after a bad show is just kind of depressing....rather go home and cry in a beer) But it's really the making and performing of music that thrills the artist - it's not marketing. However, we are forced in this new economic climate to market ourselves.

Please forgive me. I beg you to forgive me. I'm a recording artist and I really don't know the first friggin' thing about marketing and advertising. I'm guessing as to what will work and won't work. I'm experimenting. And I have absolutely no concept of what's too little or what's too much. I'm not a graphic designer, I'm not a website designer, I'm not a professional advertising agency, I'm not a booking agent, I'm not a major record label - I'm a musician. But if I ever want a lot of people to hear my music I have to learn to be all of the things I previously listed. I have to adapt and learn. It's the only way to make it in this business.

If you are a fellow musician and you're trying to learn more about how to whore yourself out to the masses I would recomend you read a book by Martin Atkins titled Tour Smart: And Break The Band. I think I'm in the third of 4th chapter but it's been a great read so far. This guy really has some insight on what you will face on the road while touring. It's mostly about touring but there are some good things in there about whoring yourself out for the almighty dollar. Martin seems to understand that a band won't make it in the business if they aren't willing to adapt and become a filthy little whore willing to do any job that has to be done. You have to be willing to work in order to make something of yourself and most musicians don't seem to grasp that concept.

MMMMM ..... rim job.

I felt that after a rant like that it's only appropriate to include the following clip of The Who performing My Generation on the  Smothers Brothers show. Good god I want to blow up some friggin' drums. But it's more my style to just set them on fire.

CSI - What Horatio Caine and Brian Have In Common

I know....I know.....in the past I've been known to say that there hasn't been anything good on television since MacGyver went off the air. I might have been exaggerating just a bit. I tend to do that.

I loves me some CSI. Specifically I loves me some CSI Miami - but I'll watch any of the shows. They are all quite good. I love CSI Miami because I enjoy David Caruso as Horatio Caine.

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What a badass!!!! What a badass with red hair!!!! I love the way he never looks the bad guys in the eye when he talks to them. He's always looking off into the distance - looking at something else when he talks to them. It seems to say "you're not important enough for me to even look at" or maybe "you're such scum I can't bear to look at you" or maybe still "I'm just doing this to make you paranioid - is it working?". Whatever it is I friggin' love it. I haven't been this excited about a tough guy character since Clint Eastwood did Dirty Harry.

The other thing I love about CSI - it's really quite gross. I love eating while I'm watching. Having dinner during CSI is a blast. Nothing like eating and watching some person having their chest split open. "Oh....what's that? Oh, is that puss coming out of that wound? Oh good lord - it squirted into that guys eye. Can you hand me the chips and dip?"

I hated to see William Peterson (Gil Grissom) leave the main show. He was kind of my favorite on that program. However, I'm extremely physced to see Laurence Fishburn (Ray Langston) fill his shoes. Wow, what a fenomanal actor. It will be interesting to watch his character develop.

Well, I'm going to go practice my Horatio Caine tough guy bit in front of the mirror now. Have to work on some of those tacky cop show sayings - the ones they always say after they bust the badguy. What was the one they used on the show last night? Oh yeah....now I remember.....

Badguy: I'll get away because my family will get me the best defense money can buy.

Horatio: The best defense is an honest life.

Oh Horatio - you're so zany.