Electronic Fog

Pants, Thrash Bandicoot, and MC Bunghole perform "Pumpkin Juice - A Tribute to Dio" Recorded (on a crappy, old, hand-held tape recorder) on 22 May 2010. Lyrics by Pants and Thrash Bandicoot. "Produced" and mixed by Supreme Bunny Warlord "Pumpkin Juice - A Tribute to Dio" Pumpkins are orange and blood is red I stabbed you in the eye and now you're dead Coffee is black and coal is too and now we're coming to get you Quit talkin' to me! (x8) I'll have a b.l.t. hold the tomato light mayo white bread lightly toasted cut diagonally. We are the holy divers. Quit talkin' to me! (x8)

This is a poem I wrote, also in 2009, using a chance method. As quickly as I could, I scribbled words and phrases that came to mind onto note-cards and tossed them into a pile on the floor. When I'd gone through a sufficiently sizable number of cards, I picked up the pile, shuffled them, and flopped them face down onto a table. Then I grabbed an four sided die from a Dungeons & Dragons game, rolled it for every card in the pile, and wrote the number that came up onto the back of the card. Then I flipped the stack over and copied the words or phrases on each card the number of times indicted on the back of the card onto a piece of paper. The "cheating" happened when I decided to manipulate a few of the random outcomes, just a teeny, tiny bit. (It's my game, and I can break the rules if I want to!!!) And, for the recording of this piece, because of the disjointed nature of the word flow, I thought the perfect vehicle would, again, be the synthetic voice. Oh, what fun! "Blindfold, Shuffle, Roll the Die (and C

This is a poem I wrote in 2009 which I decided might be fun if read by a robot. I love the cadence of electronic voice synthesis programs, and I love the pronunciations of "questionable" words. I use a lot of those in my work. "Smudge. Rough. Random. Crunch." ... Rumble. Jump. Excrement. Filling Station. Adultery. Lamentation. Crumpled. Fission. Deplorable. Atom Bomb. Lynching. Ugly. Tile. Symetry. Sin. Election. Crime. Consolation. Undulation. Uncommon. Lost.

Here's where it all starts. The picture for this episode is one of my watercolor's. It's called "The Man in Black" (12 in. x 9 in. watercolor on paper.)