The Divided States of America

 It's what Trump wanted.

If I could leave the country, I would totally do it.

My best optimism is Trump's removed per the 25th Amendment, at least within the 1st 2 years of his term, if he's not before then. He could quite easily become so far gone and demented, Congress and the Senate will not have a choice.

President Vance until January 2029, doesn't sound much better, but anything would be better than Dumpy.

However, regardless at the point Dumpy is gone, the fact likely will be70+million people reside in the Divided States of America and could easily try and bring on another candidate who will do mostly the same abhorrent approach to the country. 

At least a percentage of the people who 

a) Didn't vote

b) Voted for Trump

c) Voted 3rd  Party

including those who made the Palestinian stance a priority and didn't consider how supporting Russia taking over Ukraine and potentially the rest of the Eastern Block and even more are going to very likely regret and ruin what they did here.

Their staying home, giving a Protest vote, or thinking of purely how the economy and a misguided perception of the border is going be fixed by Dumpy, is in-effect likely the be the opposite. Tariffs? yeah, we very likely will head back into a Recession if not worse. And those pea-brains who blamed the now lowering-inflation numbers on Biden..yeah yal are gonna be eating some mother-fucking-crow.

It wasn't Kamala's Bad Campaign..it was people staying home and not being impressed by her and the Misogynistic, Racist population in the DSoA couldn't vote for a Woman or a Black Woman to be president. Even if they didn't vote for Dumpy, they indirectly did in that the NUMBERS WERE NEEDED TO OUTWEIGH THE CULT.

155 Millions voted in 2020. Biden Won. The Strength in Numbers showed.

As of 8:25AM 11/6/24 139,121,153 reported Votes. With Nevada and Arizona not officially called.

41 Million Gen Z voters alone were newly elgible. 

edit: 8.9 million, so be it tho.

345,426,571 Total Population of the DSoA (Mid Summer 2024)

approximately 78.% lof the Population is 18 years or older = 269,432,725 DSoA 18 or older are conceivably eligible to vote.

269,432,725 - 139,121,153 = 130,311,572 WHO HAVE/DID NOT VOTE. Or at this point around 48.4%.

48%+ Didn't even Vote. Nearly half the eligible population. And while the 155 Million that voted in 2020 was only 60% of the approx eligible who voted, that is approximately 8% less than in 2020.

8%, while hardly a massive % of people. very easily would prove the true Will of the People. But those 130 million people who didn't even vote obviously didn't despise Dumpy enough to care. And are not happy enough with how the DSoA has recovered from COVID and what she said in her campaign.

FUCK EM ALL (this is art!)..and yet both the Divided States of America and also the Globe (Climate Change? yeah, Dumpy and his mindless administration aren't gonna help) are in-turn being Fucked over as well.

And History is going to show that. 

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Concerts Ranked By Artist/Band (Incomplete)

This is basically an (14 years later) Update of This LIST on my rateyourmusic page 

But it is a semi-accurate ranking of all the artists/bands I've seen and how many times. However the Local Names, the number is not really close to accurate (I've see Dean Magraw likely 30 or more times, and Greg Herriges maybe 20 or more alone. The Cloud Cult number is also likely off by a bit).

14 Dream Theater

13 King's X

11 The Dear Hunter

11 Fair to Midland

10 The Monkees/Micky Dolenz Celebrates The Monkees

8 dredg

8 Josh Rouse

8 Ours

8 Rush

8 The Family Crest

7 Between the Buried and Me

7 Local Natives

7 Mutemath

6 Courtney Yasmineh

6 Dean Magraw's Red Planet

6 Kansas

6 Yes

5 California Guitar Trio

5 Exit Stage Right (Rush Tribute)

5 Greg Herriges

5 Jon Anderson

5 Kimbra

5 Marillion

5 Mayer Hawthorne

5 Opeth

5 St.Vincent

5 Steve Hackett

4 Annuals

4 Brice Plays Drums

4 Bubblemath

4 Cloud Cult

4 Far From Falling

4 Lehto and Wright

4 Mew

4 Porcupine Tree

4 Ramona Falls

4 Three

4 Umphrey's McGee

3 As Tall As Lions

3 Bend Sinister

3 Between Two Skies

3 Boiled in Lead

3 Brute Heart

3 Cate Le Bon

3 Collective Unconscious

3 Deng Ol' Tri'ole

3 Fates Warning

3 Foals

3 Galactic Cowboys

3 Iced Ink

3 Jean-Luc Ponty

3 Judgement Day

3 Kaddisfly

3 Karnivool

3 King Crimson

3 Menomena

3 Michael Nesmith

3 Micky Dolenz

3 Minus the Bear

3 Nicole Atkins

3 Pain of Salvation

3 Scale the Summit

3 School of Seven Bells

3 The Mars Volta

3 The Reign of Kindo

3 The Who

3 Timbre

3 Vedera

3 Warpaint

3 XTC An All Star Tribute

3 Zappa Plays Zappa

2 Alex Lilly

2 Amanda Palmer

2 Behemoth

2 Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer

2 Bent Knee

2 Biffy Clyro

2 Big Wreck

2 Billy Cobham

2 Brainstorm

2 Brooke Waggoner

2 Capital Cities

2 Caroline Smith

2 Chromeo

2 Coheed and Cambria

2 Cynic

2 Dakota Dave Hull

2 Debashish Bhattacharya

2 Deep Purple

2 Devin Townsend Band

2 East of the Wall

2 Edguy

2 Elgin Foster

2 Elvis Costello

2 Enslaved

2 Eric Hohn

2 Evergrey

2 Everything Everything

2 Field Report

2 Fitz and the Tantrums

2 Genders

2 Greg Howard

2 Howler

2 Into Eternity

2 Intronaut

2 Iron Thrones

2 Jimmy Gnecco

2 John Wesley

2 Kamelot

2 Katatonia

2 Laura Mackenzie

2 Lost Mind Found

2 Marc Anderson

2 Marcus Wise

2 Margot and the Nuclear So and So's

2 Media Addicts

2 Men Women and Children

2 Miracles of Modern Science

2 Nektar

2 Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

2 Nomia

2 O'Brother

2 Orphaned Land

2 Other Lives

2 Ozric Tentacles

2 Paper Route

2 Pat Metheny Group

2 Periphery

2 Portugal the Man

2 Protest the Hero

2 Prudence Johnson

2 Queensryche

2 Raphael Saadiq

2 Reading Zero

2 Return to Forever

2 Rising Side

2 Robert Randolph and the Family Band

2 Russian Circles

2 RX Bandits

2 Sacred Ground (beef)

2 Savatage

2 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

2 Soap performs Pink Floyd's Animals

2 Steven Wilson

2 Styx

2 Super Pilots

2 Thank You Scientist

2 The Apples in Stereo

2 The Australian Pink Floyd

2 The Bewitched

2 The Bird and the Bee

2 The Book of Right On

2 The Faceless

2 The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra

2 The Helio Sequence

2 The Mercury Tree

2 The Musical Box

2 The New Pornographers

2 The Polyphonic Spree

2 The Red Paintings

2 The Royal Veil

2 The Stepkids

2 The Velvet Teen

2 The Victor Wooten Band

2 Total Babe

2 Tuxedo

2 Typhoon

2 Under the Influence of Giants

2 Vasen

2 We Valedictorians

2 Whose Live Anyway

2 Wishbone Ash

2 Zero Hour

1 10 Years

1 69 Eyes

1 Aaron and the Sea

1 Active Child

1 Adagio

1 Adam Levy

1 Adrian Belew

1 Adrian Bellue

1 Aficionado

1 After Crying

1 Agalloch

1 Airlands

1 Alan Parsons Project

1 Alcest

1 Al Di Meola

1 Ali Shaheed Muhammad

1 Allegaeon

1 America

1 Amy Courts

1 Anathallo

1 Anathema

1 Andy McKee

1 Anekdoten

1 Angra

1 Animals as Leaders

1 Animosity

1 Animus (Dream Theater tribute)

1 Anthony Cox

1 Antoine Dufour

1 Anton

1 Apostle of Hustle

1 April Bauer

1 Arsis

1 Axis Mundi

1 B!

1 Bad Veins

1 Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

1 Baroness

1 Battlefields

1 Battles

1 Beat Club

1 Beledo

1 Ben Butler and Mouse Pad

1 Beneath the Massacre

1 Benjy Ferree

1 Ben Noble

1 Best Friends Forever

1 BigElf

1 Big Fresh

1 Bill Bruford's Earthworks

1 Birds of Avalon

1 Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

1 Bireli Lagrene

1 Black Belt Eagle Scout

1 Black Mountain

1 Blind Guardian

1 Blind Pilot

1 Bloc Party

1 Blondfire

1 Blood and Sun

1 Blues Traveler

1 Boogie Wonderland

1 Boston

1 Brian Just

1 Brian Wilson

1 Brian Wright

1 Bruce Springsteen performs Pete Seeger

1 Buffalo Moon

1 Café Accordion Orchestra

1 Cage

1 Cage the Elephant

1 Canadian Brass - Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN

1 Canon Blue - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN

1 Caravan

1 Casanatra

1 Cataldo

1 Charlie Engen Recital

1 Cherub

1 Chick Corea

1 Chon

1 Chris Isaak

1 Chulita Vinyl Club

1 Circa Survive

1 Circus Maximus

1 Cloak Ox

1 Closure in Moscow

1 Codeseven

1 Cold Colours

1 Cory Wong

1 Cotton Jones

1 Crimson Glory Tribute

1 Cue the Doves

1 Cygnus and the Seamonsters (Rush Tribute)

1 Dalek

1 Dappled Cities

1 David Cassidy

1 David Cross and Lark's Tongue band

1 Davy Jones

1 Dawes

1 Dead Letter Circus

1 Deerhoof

1 Delta Spirit

1 Delta Sleep

1 Dethklok

1 Deus Ex Machina

1 DFA

1 Diablo Swing Orchestra

1 Diane Jarvis

1 Dimmu Borgir

1 Dir En Grey

1 Djam Karet

1 Do Make Say Think

1 Doves

1 Dreamscape

1 Duran Duran

1 Dysrhythmia

1 Earthrise

1 East Meets Jazz

1 Eastside

1 Echoes of Eternity

1 Echolyn

1 Editors

1 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

1 Eight-Head

1 Eight Bells

1 Elected

1 Elvis Perkins

1 Emanuel

1 Emerson Lake and Palmer

1 Emma Pollock

1 Empires (IL)

1 Empires (MN)

1 Empress Of

1 Enchant

1 Envy on the Coast

1 Eric Clapton

1 Etheria

1 Event

1 EXTC: XTC's Terry Chambers

1 Fall From Grace

1 Faun Fables

1 Fiction Plane

1 Field Mouse

1 Figurines

1 Fishbone

1 Fool's Gold

1 Foreign Born

1 Fountains of Wayne

1 Foxy Shazam

1 Frank Boyle and His Eminent Acoustic Entourage

1 From Monuments to Masses

1 Gamma Ray

1 Gary Puckett

1 Gatherers

1 Gay Witch Abortion

1 Generationals

1 Genghis Tron

1 George Brooks Summit

1 George Duke

1 Gerard

1 Giant

1 Goblin

1 God or Julie

1 Godspeed You Black Emperor

1 Gojira

1 Gotye

1 Grand Archives

1 Grant Lee Phillips

1 Greg Laswell

1 Hall and Oates

1 Hammer of the Gods (Led Zeppelin Tribute)

1 Happy the Man

1 Harakiri

1 Hardcore Crayons

1 Hart Lieberman and Smith

1 Head Automatica

1 Heatdeath

1 Herbie Hancock

1 Hiromi's Sonic Bloom

1 Horse the Band

1 House of Fools

1 Hoven Droven

1 Hurdy Gurdy

1 Ian Anderson

1 Il Balletto Di Bronzo

1 Iluvatar

1 In the Presence of Wolves

1 Ion Vein

1 Isildurs Bane

1 Ivy Levan

1 Jag Panzer

1 Janelle Monae

1 Janet Jackson

1 Janus

1 Jason Hart

1 Jason Richardson

1 Jeff Kashiwa

1 Jenny Dalton

1 Jeremy Messersmith

1 Jerusalem and the Starbaskets

1 Jethro Tull

1 Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

1 Job for a Cowboy

1 Joe Satriani

1 Johnna Morrow

1 John Paul Jones

1 J Roddy Watson and the Business

1 JT Bates and Jim Anton

1 Kaki King

1 Kari Tauring with Drew Miller

1 Karmic Sound System

1 Kasabian

1 Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground

1 Keeper of Kalessin

1 Kill the Vultures

1 Kyng

1 Lacuna Coil

1 Lamb Lays with Lion

1 Laminated Cat

1 Larry Coryell

1 La Torre dell'alchimista

1 Laura Stevenson

1 Laura Veirs

1 Led Zeppelin 2 (Led Zeppelin Tribute)

1 Leprous

1 Liquid Tension Experiment

1 Lisa Bouchelle

1 Little Tin Box

1 Live - Myth Maplewood, MN

1 Living Colour

1 Machinery Hill

1 Mae

1 MAKR

1 Malajube

1 Malicious Mischief

1 Manchester Orchestra

1 Marilyn Manson

1 Marketa Irglova

1 MC Divinity

1 McKinley James

1 Meg and Dia

1 Memoryhouse

1 Meridian Incident

1 Metropolis

1 mewithoutYou

1 Michael McDonald

1 Michelle Willis

1 Middle Class Rut

1 Mindflow

1 Mindless Self Indulgence

1 Miriodor

1 Misery Signals

1 Moke

1 Morality Crisis

1 More is More

1 Mother Falcon

1 Motopony

1 Murzik

1 Muse

1 My Gold Mask

1 Mystery Palace

1 Nachito Herrara

1 Naive Thieves

1 name

1 Narrow Vines

1 Natalie Lovejoy

1 Native Construct

1 Neal Morse Band

1 Ne Obliviscaris

1 Nexus

1 Night Terrors of 1927

1 Nile Rodgers

1 Nirmala Rajesakar and Marcus Wise

1 Nonpoint

1 Nordic Nomadic

1 North Star

1 Nurses

1 Obsidian Tongue

1 Oceans

1 Odds Vs.

1 Oklahoma

1 Oliver

1 Omni

1 Onward

1 Opus Dai

1 Oregon

1 Orphan Bloom

1 Our Lady Peace

1 OvrFwrd

1 Pagan's Mind

1 Par Lindh Project

1 Particle

1 Patches

1 Paul Fonfara

1 Peregrine Perspective

1 Person to Person

1 Peter Frampton

1 Peter Gabriel

1 Peter Noone

1 Phil Collins

1 Plain Jane Automobile

1 Podunk

1 Poison Control Center

1 Poncho Sanchez 

1 Pop Evil

1 Power of Omens

1 Preoccupations

1 Primus

1 Prissy Clerks

1 PVT

1 Quadrant 4

1 Rachel Z

1 Radiation City

1 Radical Face

1 Randy Brecker

1 Raul Malo

1 Redemption

1 Red Pens

1 Remember Shakti

1 Renaissance

1 Resident Hero

1 Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists

1 Robyn Hitchcock

1 Rocco of the Snow

1 Rocky Votolato

1 Roger Hodgson

1 Rogue Valley

1 Ronny Chieng

1 Rooney

1 Rosi Golan

1 Royal Hunt

1 Roy Haynes

1 Royston Langdon

1 Rush Heads

1 Ruth and Rosie

1 Sabaton

1 Salubrious Invertebrae

1 Samantha Sidley

1 Samuel Lockridge

1 Saul Williams

1 Saves the Day

1 Say Anything

1 Scott Henderson Trio

1 Scotty Horey

1 Serotone

1 SikTh

1 Silent Force

1 Single Channel Stereo

1 Sirintip

1 Skindred

1 Sloan

1 Snarky Puppy

1 Soft Machine

1 Something to Burn

1 Sons of Valory

1 Spaced Out

1 Spiral Architect

1 Spock's Beard

1 Squid

1 State 4

1 Steel Prophet

1 Steely Dan

1 Stella Roma

1 Steve Miller Band

1 Steve Sklar

1 Stevie Wonder

1 Sting

1 Stolas

1 Strange Names

1 Strange Relations

1 Sunbathe

1 Superhumanoids

1 Superior

1 Surfer Blood

1 Syd Arthur

1 Symphony X

1 System of a Down

1 Tad Morose

1 Tapping the Vein

1 Tears for Fears

1 Tei Shei

1 Tender Meat Lighted

1 Tera Melos

1 The Agonist

1 The Antlers

1 The Appleseed Cast

1 The Besnard Lakes

1 The Birthday Massacre

1 The Bob Pat Band

1 The Champions of Nothing: Kevin Gilbert Tribute

1 The Clientele

1 The Cloud Room

1 The Contortionist

1 The Darcy's

1 The Decemberists

1 The Depreciation Guild

1 The Dixie Dregs

1 The Dodos

1 The Fall of Troy

1 The Felix Culpa

1 The Flower Kings

1 The Funeral and the Twilight

1 The Gatino Quartet

1 The Great Confinement

1 The House Harkonnen

1 The Human Empire

1 The Joy Formidable

1 The Lonely Wild

1 The Loose Cannons

1 The Mavericks

1 The Midnight

1 The Moody Blues

1 The Mools

1 The Most Serene Republic

1 The New Amsterdamns

1 The Number Twelve Looks Like You

1 The Old Believers

1 The Petesons

1 The Pointer Sisters

1 The Police

1 There Are No Words

1 The Receiving End of Sirens

1 The Redwalls

1 The Ronald Reagans

1 The Safety Fire

1 The Star People

1 The Swell Season

1 The Turtles

1 The Underground Railroad 

1 The Warning

1 Thinking Plague

1 Thin Lizzy 

1 This Will Destroy You

1 Threshold

1 Throw the Fight 

1 Tim Reynolds

1 Tim Sparks

1 Torche

1 Toto

1 Transatlantic

1 Trend 86

1 Trent Romens

1 Trevor Sensor

1 Tried for Fine

1 Tub Ring

1 Tu Fawning

1 Umami

1 Umi

1 Under the Sun

1 uneXpect

1 Van Halen

1 Vektor

1 Visideon

1 Voivod

1 Vulnerata

1 Vulvox

1 Walter Martin

1 Watercolors

1 Water From Your Eyes

1 What's That? (Radiohead Tribute)

1 White Denim

1 White Williams

1 White Willow

1 Wilkinson James

1 Witchden

1 Within Reason

1 Wolfhoppers

1 Wolf Parade

1 Wuthering Heights

1 Wynton Marsalis

1 Xylouris White

1 Yo-Yo Ma

1 Young Widow

1 Z-Puppets

1 Zebulon Pike

1 Zombi

1 Zoso: Led Zeppelin Tribute

Music of the Year Radio

 Hypothetical if I could curate my own Radio Station (and I could sort per Spotify Playlists, except there's a lot of music of course not on Spotify, but YouTube might be a better option).

MUSIC OF THE YEAR Radio Schedule

Sunday Morning 6AM-Saturday Night Midnight

142 Hours approx.

Sunday

6-8AM 1965

8-10AM 1966

10-Noon 1967

Noon-2PM 1968

2-4PM 1969

4-6PM 1970

6-8PM 1971

8-10PM 1972

10-Midnight 1973

Monday

6-8AM 1974

8-10AM 1975

10-Noon 1976

Noon-2PM 1977

2-4PM 1978

4-6PM 1979

6-8PM 1980

8-10PM 1981

10-Midnight 1982

Tuesday

6-8AM 1983

8-10AM 1984

10-Noon 1985

Noon-2PM 1986

2-4PM 1987

4-6PM 1988

6-8PM 1989

8-10PM 1990

10-Midnight 1991

Wednesday

6-8AM 1992

8-10AM 1993

10-Noon 1994

Noon-2PM 1995

2-4PM 1996

4-6PM 1997

6-8PM 1998

8-10PM 1999

10-Midnight 2000

Thursday

6-8AM 2001

8-10AM 2002

10-Noon 2003

Noon-2PM 2004

2-4PM 2005

4-6PM 2006

6-8PM 2007

8-10PM 2008

10-Midnight 2009

Friday

6-8AM 2010

8-10AM 2011

10-Noon 2012

Noon-2PM 2013

2-4PM 2014

4-6PM 2015

6-8PM 2016

8-10PM 2017

10-Midnight 2018

Saturday

6-8AM 2019

8-10AM 2020

10-Noon 2021

Noon-2PM 2022

2-4PM 2023

4-6PM 2024

6-8PM 2025

8-10PM 2026

10-Midnight 2027

MPAR Slideshow Chapter 3 2010-2014

 2010

1/9/2010 Lehto & Wright - Children's Songs

2/24/2010       東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen] スポーツ (Sports)

3/2/2010 Dirt Poor Robins - The Last Days of Leviathan

3/8/2010        JazzkamikazeSupersonic Revolutions

3/9/2010        Emanuel and The Fear Listen

4/5/2010 Typhoon - Hunger and Thirst

4/6/2010 The Gloomcatcher - Slow Chorale

4/6/2010 The River Empires The River Empires (Epilogue)

4/13/2010 Judgement Day - Peacocks / Pink Monsters

4/20/2010 The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time

5/1/2010 Timbre - Little Flowers

5/10/2010 Foals Total Life Forever

5/14/2010 Dead Letter Circus - This is the Warning

5/18/2010 Janelle MonáeThe ArchAndroid

5/31/2010 Anathema We're Here Because We're Here

6/2/2010 Bend Sinister - Spring Romance

7/27/2010 Menomena - Mines

7/27/2010       Timmy Sean Songs From & Inspired By Noisewater

8/3/2010        The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens

8/24/2010 Everything Everything - Man Alive

9/6/2010 Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante

9/6/2010 Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up

9/6/2010 Revere - Hey! Selim

9/14/2010 Light Chasers Cloud Cult Light Chasers

9/22/2010       22 Flux 

10/12/2010      Sufjan StevensThe Age of Adz

10/18/2010 Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer and Anvil

10/25/2010      WarpaintThe Fool

2011

2/1/2011 Hotel of the Laughing TreeTerror and Everything After

2/7/2011 Stateless - Matilda

3/8/2011 Typhoon - A New Kind of House

4/25/2011 dredg - Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy

5/29/2011 Brice Plays Drums - I Laugh at Your Greener Pastures

6/14/2011       The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection

6/28/2011 Falling Up - Your Sparkling Death Cometh

6/20/2011 Battle Circus - Battle Circus

6/27/2011 *Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo

7/8/2011 Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Deaden the Fields

7/15/2011 Meniscus - War of Currents

7/25/2011 Mercies - Three Thousand Days

8/19/2011 Gotye - Making Mirrors

8/29/2011 Vows Kimbra Vows

9/26/2011 Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning

10/4/2011 Bruce Peninsula - Open Flames

10/4/2011 Mutemath Odd Soul

10/11/2011 3The Ghost You Gave to Me

10/14/2011      Team MeTo the Treetops

11/7/2011       Jimmy Gnecco The Heart: X Edition

12/6/2011 Miracles of Modern Science - Dog Year

12/30/2011      House of Fools Versus the Beast

2012

1/13/2012       Forest Park - Forest Park

1/13/2012 Northern Abbey - Northern Abbey

1/30/2012 Pepe Deluxé Queen of the Wave

2/25/2012 British Theatre - EP

3/26/2012 Flying Colors - Flying Colors

3/27/2012 The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet

4/16/2012 Anathema Weather Systems

4/24/2012 Bruce Peninsula - Of Songs

4/24/2012       Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Daffy's Elixir

5/1/2012        Ramona Falls    Prophet

6/1/2012        GathererSo Be It

7/10/2012 Bend SinisterSmall Fame

8/16/2012 Brice Plays DrumsMan the Animal Cannon

8/18/2012 Mike Linden - Bubble & Squeak

8/20/2012 British Theatre - Dyed in the Wool Ghost

8/27/2012 Archive - With Us Until You're Dead

9/11/2012       Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft OrchestraTheatre Is Evil

10/15/2012 Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

10/23/2012 VuvuzelaThe Hollow Choir

11/27/2012 Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Mammoth Skin Pt. 1

2013

1/28/2013 Biffy Clyro - Opposites

1/29/2013       Local Natives Hummingbird

2/11/2013 Foals - Holy Fire

2/25/2013 Steven WilsonThe Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)

3/5/2013        Cloud Cult Love

3/5/2013 Brooke Waggoner - Originator

4/2/2013        The Dear Hunter Migrant

4/2/2013 The Dear Hunter - The Migrations Annex

5/4/2013 Ours - Ballet the Boxer 1

5/20/2013 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

6/7/2013 The Red Paintings - The Revolution is Never Coming

7/30/2013 The Reign of KindoPlay With Fire

8/20/2013       Typhoon White Lighter

9/10/2013       Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady

10/7/2013 Revere - My Mirror / Your Target

11/19/2013      Dirt Poor Robins -The Raven Locks Act 1

2014

1/24/2014       Major Parkinson Twilight Cinema

1/31/2014       Dream the Electric Sleep Heretics

2/25/2014 The Family CrestBeneath the Brine

3/11/2014       Bend Sinister Animals

3/13/2014       Grimus Emergence

4/17/2014 Moron Police - Defenders of the Small Yard

4/22/2014 Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Mammoth Skin Pt. 2

5/12/2014 Archive - Axiom

6/4/2014 AnathemaDistant Satellites

6/9/2014        Fjokra - Thoughtsteps

6/10/2014 Umphrey's McGee - Similae Skin

7/15/2014 Nomia - Iron and Rust

7/29/14         sElf - Super.Fake.Nice

8/15/2014 KimbraThe Golden Echo

8/18/2014       Imogen HeapSparks

8/27/2014       Team MeBlind as Night

9/9/2014        The Tea Party The Ocean at the End

9/3/2014        The Mercury Tree Countenance

9/15/2014 iamthemorning - Belighted

9/19/2014       Markéta Irglová Muna

9/30/2014       Dirt Poor Robins - The Raven Locks Act 2

10/28/2014      Clone Clone

11/11/2014      Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies

11/17/2014 Nordic Giants - Build Seas, Dismantle Suns

12/25/2014 Gavin Castleton - Travelight

MPAR Slideshow Details 2005-2009

 2005

2/1/2005 Through the Broken City Bend Sinister Through the Broken City

2/4/2005 God is an Astronaut - All Is Violent All Is Bright

2/7/2005 Karnivool - Themata

2/8/2005 People For Audio - And This Will Be Our Homecoming

2/14/2005 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

3/1/2005 The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

3/8/2005        Kaddisfly Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn

3/22/2005 The Decemberists - Picaresque

3/28/2005 Porcupine Tree Deadwing

4/25/2005 Klimt 1918 Dopoguerra

4/26/2005 The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse

4/26/2005 Time of OrchidsSarcast While

4/2005 Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - The Dust of Retreat

5/24/2005 Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World

6/21/2005 dredg Catch Without Arms

6/27/2005 The Chap - Ham

6/2005 Cloud Cult - Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus

7/5/2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

7/12/2005 The Ebb & Flow - Time to Echolocate

7/18/2005 Imogen Heap Speak for Yourself

8/23/2005 Greg Herriges - It Plays Me

8/23/2005       Neverending White Lights Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies

8/23/2005 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

9/13/2005 Sigur Ros - Takk...

9/19/2005 Oceansize Everyone Into Position

9/19/2005 Mew And the Glass Handed Kites

9/20/2005 Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

10/11/2005 Kiss Kiss - Kiss Kiss

10/10/2005 Pure Reason Revolution - Cautionary Tales for the Brave

12/5/2005 Lehto & Wright - The Thrashing Machine and Other Stories

2006

1/19/2006 MutemathMutemath

1/25/2006       東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen]大人 (Adult)

2/7/2006 Malajube - Optical illusion

2/25/2006 Anathallo - Floating World

3/7/2006 Mason Proper - There is a Moth in Your Chest

3/14/2006 Men Women and Children - Men Women and Children

3/21/2006 The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine

3/21/2006 Opus Dai - Tierra Tragame

3/27/2006 Menomena - Under an Hour: Music for Modern Dance

4/10/2006 Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third

4/17/2006 Scott Mathews - Passing Stranger

4/21/2006 OSI - Free

5/2/2006        Tool - 10,000 Days

5/16/2006       Russian Circles Enter

5/21/2006 Gotye - Like Drawing Blood

5/22/2006 Archive - Lights

6/5/2006 Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther

7/3/2006        MuseBlack Holes and Revelations

8/8/2006 Under the Influence of Giants - Under the Influence of Giants

9/12/2006 Kunek - Flight of the Flynns

9/12/2006 The Mars Volta - Amuptechture

9/26/2006 The Dear HunterAct I: The Lake South, the River North

10/2/2006 The Crane Wife The DecemberistsThe Crane Wife

10/14/2006      Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go

10/18/2006      Kacica - Kacica

10/17/2006      Annuals - Be He Me

10/25/2006 Mutyumu - Mutyumu

11/7/2006 Fair to Midland - The Drawn and Quartered EP

2007

1/2/2007 Cavil at Rest - Orion Way

1/16/2007 The Apex Theory - Lightpost

1/23/2007       Menomena - Friend and Foe

2/6/2007        Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

2/6/2007 Kiss Kiss Reality vs. the Optimist

2/12/2007       Blackfield Blackfield II 

2/21/2007 Sheena Ringo - 平成風俗 (Heisei fūzoku)

3/2/2007 Radical Face - Ghost

3/6/2007 House of FoolsLive and Learn

3/6/2007 Kaddisfly Set Sail the Prairie

3/26/2007 The Antlers - In the Attic of the Universe

3/31/2007 SilverchairYoung Modern

4/2/2007        Fields. Everything Last Winter

4/10/2007       The Meaning of 8 Cloud Cult The Meaning of 8

4/10/2007       The Apples in stereo New Magnetic Wonder

5/14/2007       Battles Mirrored

5/15/2007       People for Audio The New Ancients

5/22/2007 The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

6/1/2007 Janelle Monae - Metropolis: Suite 1 The Chase

6/4/2007        Biffy ClyroPuzzle

6/12/2007 Fair to MidlandFables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True 

6/13/2007 Pepe Deluxe - Spare Time Machine

6/18/2007 *Shels - Sea of a Dying Dhow

6/19/2007 The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army

6/19/2007 Stateless - Stateless

7/10/2007 St. Vincent - Marry Me

7/17/2007 Strata - Strata Presents the End of the World

7/24/2007 ThreeThe End Is Begun

8/7/2007        The Receiving End of SirensThe Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi

8/20/2007       Minus the BearPlanet of Ice

8/20/2007 The Reign of Kindo - The Reign of Kindo

8/21/2007 The New Pornographers - Challengers

9/6/2007 Centaur Rodeo - Tongues of Flame

9/11/2007 Jared Micah and Hats - T.C.H.T.O.B.

9/12/2007 Woven - Aftermath EP

9/18/2007 Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution

9/25/2007 Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring

10/2/2007 The Most Serene Republic - Population

10/23/2007 Far-Less - A Toast to Bad Taste

10/30/2007      Neverending White LightsAct II: The Blood and the Life Eternal

10/2007 The Ebb and Flow - Attack & Decay

10/1/2007 Oceansize Frames

11/1/2007 100Ft Snowman - 100Ft Snowman

11/6/2007 Sigur Ros - Hvarf-Heim

12/31/2007 Distrails - Virginia Creeper

2008

1/22/2008 Black Mountain - In the Future

2/11/2008 Apes and Androids Blood Moon

3/24/2008 FoalsAntidotes

3/30/2008 KacicaMosaic

4/1/2008        Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Flight of the Knife

4/8/2008        Cloud Cult Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)

4/15/2008 Ours Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)

5/13/2008 The Myriad - With Arrows, With Poise

5/19/2008 Demians - Building an Empire

6/13/2008 Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Tiny Fragments

6/17/2008       Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer

5/19/2008       The Chap Mega Breakfast

8/11/2008       Late of the Pier Fantasy Black Channel

8/26/2008 The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody

8/0/2008 Opus Dai - Touch the Sun

8/2008 Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse

9/10/2008 Lehto & Wright - Between the Jigs and the Reels

9/11/2008       Adebisi Shank This Is the Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank

9/13/2008       Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer

9/23/2008 The Age of Rockets - Hannah

9/23/2008 Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free

9/23/2008 Woven - Designer Codes

9/25/2008 夢中夢 [Mutyumu]イリヤ -Il y a-

10/7/2008 Annuals - Such Fun

10/7/2008       Margot and the Nuclear So and So'sAnimal!

10/7/2008       Margot and the Nuclear So and So'sNot Animal

10/21/2008 ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta! The Stiletto Formal ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta!

10/21/2008 Bend Sinister Stories of Brothers, Tales of Lovers

10/31/2008 Nomia - Nomia EP

11/7/2008 God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut

11/18/2008      AnathalloCanopy Glow

11/26/2008 Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

2009

1/18/2009 Sound & Shape - The Love Electric

1/20/2009 Umphrey's McGee - Mantis

2/2/2009        note. - my city of ghosts, stars and hours 

2/3/2009 Shelter Red - Strike a Mortal Terror

2/10/2009 Malajube - Labyrinthes

2/17/2009 Sholi - Sholi

3/3/2009 The Antlers - Hospice

3/3/2009        Bruce Peninsula A Mountain Is a Mouth

3/9/2009        Pure Reason Revolution - Amor vincit omnia

3/10/2009 Greg Herriges - Telluric Currents

3/23/2009 Grammatics - Grammatics

3/24/2009 Falling Up - Fangs!

3/30/2009 Archive- Controlling Crowds 

4/24/2009 Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light

5/14/2009 maudlin of the Well - Part the 2nd

5/18/2009 My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances

6/9/2009 dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion

6/21/2009 Grimus - Panikon

6/23/2009 The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death

7/7/2009 Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left

8/18/2009       As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take It With You

8/4/2009        Cale Parks - To Swift Mars

8/18/2009       Mutemath - Armistice

8/18/2009       Ramona Falls - Intuit

8/19/2009 Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away

10/6/2009       Brooke Waggoner - Go Easy Little Doves

10/7/2009 Murder By Death - Finch

10/26/2009 nosound - A Sense of Loss

10/26/2009 Oceansize - Home & Minor

11/2/2009       Local Natives - Gorilla Manor

11/9/2009 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

12/2009 Distrails - Dry Flies

Kevin Gilbert THUD Tracks Videos

 So I finished this series on my YouTube channel last week. Finished sharing the last video yesterday on Social Media.

And while time can tell how far it reaches, the numbers as of right now tell the story.

I'm pretty proud of this, having analyzed and given somewhat thoroughly every track in depth for Thud, an album I do love. I mean it is from Kevin Gilbert who is a super unknown name, but still people at least seek his music out on YouTube (even though most of it is not there right now).

I just feel like what James Bickers said about things going right under people's noses. Thud is a great record that a lot more people should know it, including so many of these other versions. But as of right now, they would have find a download somewhere or buy them from the Estate..or on ebay or discogs or whatever.

But they should. I dunno, there's not much more I can do. And I will look to do this again I think at the point the Shaming Multi-Disc comes out.

People want to sleep on brilliance and great content..their loss I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh and the View Count numbers are not correct as I have given evidence of how YouTube's new-ish algorithm removes views.

Video 1 - When You Give Your Love to Me 47 Views, 6 Likes

Video 2 - Goodness Gracious 18 Views, 5 Likes

Video 3 - Joytown 39 Views, 6 Likes

Video 4 - Waiting 17 Views 6 Likes

Video 5 Tea for One 34 Views, 4 Likes

Video 6 Shadow Self 22 Views, 5 Likes

Video 7 The Tears of Audrey, 27 Views, 4 Likes

Video 8 Shrug (Becaue of Me and You)/ Because of You, 18 Views, 4 Likes

Video 9 All Fall Down, 16 Views, 3 Likes

Video 10 Song for a Dead Friend 21 Views, 3 Likes

Video 11 Kashmir, 20 Views, 4 Likes

Video 12 Waking the Sun, 27 Views, 3 Likes

Video 13 Until I Get Her Back, 36 Views, 5 Likes

Video 14 Miss Broadway + Big Heart 17 Views, 3 Likes

Modern Progressive Art Rock SLIDE SHOWS update...

Instead of trying to make a super long involved and edited documentary series of videos about the history of 

Modern Progressive Art Rock 

which I intend to try to do

I may be able to sooner, make some slide shows which will hopefully take a fraction of the time.

I love and feel it's worth the time/effort, I could be making the slide shows 1st and then do the longer narrative with more images later.

and here's a bone I suppose

Slide Shows showing Chronologically with Release Dates:

-Chapter 1: Pre-2000 which is ballooning to be dozens of albums somehow, lol. But the amount of work doing slide shows seems to be quite less

-Chapter 2: 2000-2004

-Chapter 3: 2005-2009

-Chapter 4: 2010-2014

-Chapter 5: 2015-2019

-Chapter 6: 2020-2024

The biggest thing right now beyond the labor of creating the slide shows with the images including the dates is trying to include some kind of MUSIC.

I want and intend to do narrating over them, but that more likely will be done for the longer story of these.

These are just like a short form doc, and the biggies will be later.

Unsure, it may be based on how much time I have to put into it and how impatient I get. But testing some of the slide shows last night definitely has boosted my motivation even more for this project.

And who knows, if these go well, I could start making these in more regularity about any number of music or entertainment topics.

Rebranding or New Branding on YouTube?

 This idea has crossed my mind several times recently, and even come to think about it, going back many years.

And it was suggested to me by someone on reddit.

Creating a new channel with a new name, or maybe multiple new channels with new names.

I mean it would mean having to notify all the stuff on Social Media about the changes/new channels, etc, but at this point, what am I really losing? 

I probably would keep all the Social Media accounts, but change the names. 

If I do this, when? I could do it soon, or I could at least wait until a few things happen

a) Finish the THUD tracks videos, which is almost done

b) Finish the AOTY Series of Videos, which unfortunately could be many months. However I suppose I could either 
1) resume those on the new channel

2) kind of skip doing videos for each year, and just publish the lists in here and maybe link or even make 1 video showing the link.

Launch the new channel and my hope would be to put something up about the MPAR slide show thing I've been working on

Launch another channel with the Movies of the Year stuff and my Favorite Movies List

NAMES?..unsure, but I'm brainstorming

more to add later..

Bullshit YouTube View Count

 

1 View? Really????..sorry, but it showed 20 Views when I got up this morning.

Fuck You YouTube.

edit: now it shows 19 Views.

Someone at YouTube screws around with this, or they update the algorithm to subtract/deduct/reduce Views that are done by Bots or something. Lovely.

edit 2:
now it say 3 Views again. Again, WHAT. THE. FUCK. YOUTUBE?

edit 3:

it happened again

3 Thumbs Up, yet only 2 Views? How is that even possible? Fuck YouTube, but its become assumed.

Part of me at this point hopes nobody ever watches these videos per than I would have 0 expectation.

edit 4: it happened again. Just this morning my new 1985 AOTY said 14 Views, now it says 8 Views.
BOT Views?..fuck

1985 AOTY video with now 8 Views 11:21AM CST 3/23/24

edit 5: the same 1985 AOTY Video shows 2 Views Now, almost 3 days later.

2 FUCKING VIEWS!!!! REALLY YOUTUBE??? You and your highly flawed Algorithm that falsely removes View numbers go can go fuck yourself!

or in the YouTube Studio it shows 3 Views..but 4 LIKES..unreal.

edit 6:
"No Views" 20 hours later. Yeah..I myself viewed it 3 times on 3 different browsers and YouTube accounts.

BROKEN RECORD....

How Great was 1985 for Movies?

 

it may not be the greatest year, or even best in the 80's necessarily. But damn, for me, it waa verry TOP HEAVY especially.

YouTube Channel Plans as of 3/20/24

 -Finish Kevin Gilbert THUD Tracks Videos;

-All Fall Down

-Song for a Dead Friend

-Kashmir

-Waking the Sun

-Until I Get Her Back

-Extras; Big Heart + Miss Broadway

-Finish Albums of the Year Series
1985-2022 or 2023?

-Minnesota Prog/Art Rock List Video

-Bands/Artists I don't like video(s)

-Continue doing Album Milestone Anniversary Videos (April-December, 9 videos)

-Continue doing 2024 Album Release Calendar Update videos. How many? 5-30?

-Movie Review Videos

-Top 10-50+ Movies of all Time Video(s)

-Movies of the Year Videos once Albums of the Year videos are done

1970? - through 2023? maybe more, depends.

epic list. Unsure how far I will go back, but I would anticipate it being similar to the AOTY videos.

-Random catalog Release Videos..maybe SHORTS for TIKTOK and/or YouTube?

once AOTY Videos are done...2000+ per unlimited really

-React to Top 10 Spotify videos?

-React to ProgArchives names included or missing videos?

-MPAR Slide Show w Voice documentary

..once the AOTY videos are done, this could be a focus. It also will likely be a long, epic amount of work. However, some testing, early examples may be worth sharing aka A Rough Draft sample, etc. More/new equipment? also just using software more extensively

-Psych movies Podcasts on PsychicCrapfest with John

Videos instead of Audio Podcasts, time permitting of course on the Psych Podcast YouTube Channel

-Concert and Event reviews Videos

-Record Store Day Video

-Vinyl/Music Collection Update Videos

10 Years on YouTube Stream Today NOON (Central)

 

Today is the day. Noon Central (hopefully).

I likely will not go over all of the lists in the Stream per time, which suggests I'll make at least 1 separate video with some of the stuff I don't get to.

Oh, and I lost another Subscriber last night, lol. I tell ya..I wish I could get rid of the Subscriber numbers altogether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8UNrzDUspA

The Monkees ROCK HALL SNUB and REDDIT

Reddit Reddit Reddit....

Biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs

it seemed to be a pretty good twitter alternative the last few months especially, and I joined the Rock Hall subreddit around the time of the nominations were announced.

But, I make 1 comment about how The Monkees are more FAMOUS than every name included there, and 3 or 4 replied to me proved to be a fine waste of time.

The people who replied clearly are not well informed on The Monkees history and importance. I would guess they are younger and less versed in just pop music that is from The Monkees era or even just pre-90's. Or maybe more so, just not well versed how far reaching and KNOWN The Monkees are among musicians and pop-culture.

But we've seen this how many times?.."they were just a TV Show..fake band..they didn't write their own songs or play on their albums" 

ignorantly uninformed bullshit from countless people.

odd how the 1 reply stated The White Stripes and Outkast, the Nomination Committee member Alan Light, who was just on that podcast Who Cares About the Rock Hall? stated those were the 2 names he brings to the committee every year. 

Is the user on Reddit, Alan Light?..doubt it, but that's odd. as a side note, given how long he's been on the NomCom and what I got from listening to about 1/2 of that podcast, he needs to be removed per Term Limits.

but this video on YouTube discusses this very point about The Monkees influence, which objectively cannot be argued. Those people on Reddit are plain and simply ignorant and uninformed. And while I don't know if there's value in trying to argue with them any more at this point, it does reiterate a larger issue, even beyond just their egregious lack of recognition in the Rock Hall. It illustrates a huge problem with the culture and their ignorance of The Monkees in the history of music and pop culture, the fact they are not even known beyond the show and not thought of to be considered for the Rock Hall.

They don't deserve to be Leif Erickson..but the way history has gone, in 10 or 50+ years, they sadly could be undeservedly. The Rock Hall might not fully change that, but it could help to some degree.

And it would be funny, if they were put in even for Musical Excellence..some crow might be consumed by those uninformed redditors.

Rules

3. Please be civil if discussing who ought to be inducted as to who is already.

Coming from a lunatic who says "THE MONKEES ARE MORE FAMOUS THAN THE LISTED ARTISTS". Gosh no wonder why your fandom is so insanely stupid.

the rules seem to be followed well here, lol (regardless of the fact it's coming from the Creator of the topic).

I decided to instead of replying, to report that. I would question whether much happens given 2 of the other replies were from the Moderators. But this person clearly resorted to name calling and personally attacking me.

But if I had to guess, 1 of 3 things will occur.
-it'll get ignored
-1 of the moderators will contact me about it, unsure how supportive they'll be
-they will remove me from the subreddit, which will speak to how poorly run it is, but at the same time, it would probably be best to avoid anyway.

edit: it looks like the comment was removed. Which is nice, however, the damage is kind of done, so I don't fathom chiming in anytime soon beyond someone bringing up Marillion or Dream Theater, lol.

Also, the 3 links I replied with were hardly "old" from 2021, 2020 and 2018, lol. There are newer posts, discussions, and articles than those, I just was providing a few examples.

Here's just a preliminary list of artists that have cited, covered, or had songs very clearly influenced by The Monkees.

U2

REM

Squeeze

XTC

Smash Mouth

Death Cab For Cutie/Ben Gibbard

Fountains of Wayne

The Sex Pistols

Nirvana

Metallica

The Ramones

The Rembrandts

CCR

Elvis Costello

Rush

Toy Matinee

Bruce Springsteen

They Might Be Giants

Rogue Wave

Incubus

Green Day

Twisted Sister

The Bangles

Frank Zappa

Weezer

Run DMC

Linda Rondstadt

Neko Case

Nickel Creek

Lambchop

Shawn Colvin

Oasis

Ann Murray

Kevin Gilbert - Bio

I've shared this before, but I forget when. Regardless, there's some stuff I want to write or even film on YouTube about this soon. I will try to, but for now, here it is again,

 ”My name is Kevin Gilbert. My album is called Thud. I was born with a piece of J.C. Penny stainless steel flatware in my mouth, and I scratched and clawed my way out of the upper middle class ghetto of San Mateo, California to become the feared yet loved pariah that I am today. I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling buildings and crushing ice. I write award-winning operas and translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I can cook two-minute eggs in less than a minute. I have been known to remodel subway stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat dispersion. Occasionally, I trade ribald jests with heads of state.

I have written number-one singles for a friend. I am an expert in glass bricklaying, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Brazil. I breed prize-winning clams. I wrote, produced, and played most of Thud in an overgrown home recording facility which I hand-built with money I earned composing innocuous television scores under an assumed name. I pay my bills on time. I don’t perspire. I think reverb is dishonest but sometimes necessary. I, too, have written and produced material for Madonna, and refused to have sex with her. Using only a hoe and a glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from an attack of ferocious army ants. I read ancient Egyptian manuscripts in the original Sanskrit.

I am an abstract sculptor, a master archer, and a ruthless bookie. I once engineered sessions for Michael Jackson and unknowingly offered him a bite of my hot dog. I own many of Burt Bachrach’s instrumental recordings and periodically annoy the neighbors by playing them at a high volume. I sleep only fifteen minutes a night and do so standing up. It is not true that I performed covert operations for the CIA. I think Peter Gabriel was a brilliant artist until he underwent EST training. I am an unselfish lover, an investor in the Chinese stock market, a rabble-rousing herdboy, and an inspiration for freedom fighters everywhere. My dad was a respected physicist, and I changed my name from Kelvin. Children trust me.

After one listen, I can play any song on several instruments. I do not own a television or a blues record. I was the lead singer and chief songwriter of Toy Matinee. I can make extraordinary four course meals using only a spatula and a toaster oven. I believed in and voted for Clinton. I have performed open heart surgery, and I have spoken to Elvis.

But I have never released a solo record.”
–From a self-composed bio, for a PR packet previous to the release of Thud

1983 AOTY Video

 

gonna share this and as many as I can. These AOTY videos seem to be 1 of the only relatively consistent video series that gets (small numbers) of views. Likely per I add 76 tags each time in all Social Media places I can, lol.

Maybe I just make these and nothing else?..then Songs of the Year? Riffs of the Year? Lyrics of the Year?..lol Foods of the Year? Books of the Year? Pets of the Year? Clothes of the Year?