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 31-May-2007:
My brother Steve turns 40 YEARS OLD
today! He's a father of two, very talented drummer (used to play in Plastica with me),
owner/president of Moving Pictures
(primarily producing TV commercials), and
all-around very YOUNG 40-year-old.
This
weekend I'm looking forward to hacky-sacking with him in CT while
swilling cheap beer
and reminiscing about our mulleted
days cruising on BMX bikes and going to Metal Church concerts.
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 31-May-2007:
Check out today's new PHOTO!
Laurie and I met "Weird Al" Yankovic after his Waterbury, CT concert
last night. Laurie technically got to meet him first,
crotch-first (!!), as he got up on the chair in front of us and gyrated
for
her during a particularly unruly performance of
"Wanna B UR Lover." Backstage he gave me a hug & thanked me for
the Virus Alert video and for working
on the game
with him. A lot of my work buddies at Left
Brain Games (the game developers) were there, too. It was a
great time! |
 30-May-2007: Gotta send you
over to TheFameGame.com today;
my video "1980s Keyboard Solo Medley" was a Silver Prize winner for
April! The video
is linked right on the homepage today. Great new site with really
generous cash prizes; if you're
an attention whore with a talent or gift to show off, be sure to upload
your videos there and get
all your friends to vote for them. This is an unsponsored link; I'm
just a grateful prizewinner! |
| 30-May-2007:Watch glimpses of
me playing Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley" and Yngwie Malmsteen's
"Trilogy" on a couple synths towards the beginning of Top 20 Synths, Episode 8
on SonicState.com!
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 28-May-2007: Sci-Fi Guys 1 is up on Newgrounds
today, warts and all. It's my very first Flash movie, and it definitely
shows. I spent all morning
wrestling with this 7-year-old file trying to get it to sound better,
but just tracking down the old
fonts was challenge enough (embed? whatsat mean?), without even getting
into all the sound issues.
Well,
anyway, I could fill this whole page with the technical problems going
on inside these old SFG ep's,
but you'll see what I mean after watching them, as I upload them one by
one in the coming weeks.
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 27-May-2007:
Head on over and bid on this
auction for my Alphabots
26-painting series. The opening bid set them
at only ten bucks each. What a country! Where else can you buy 26
original paintings (made by a quasi-famous animator, no less!)
for only ten bucks each? |
 24-May-2007:
Tonight marks my final appearance in what will probably end up being my
last band, PONG.
We're appearing at Rookies in Cromwell, CT,
so if you're a local, come on out and say hello! That is, if you're not
already planning on
seeing "Pirates" or watching the "American Idol" finale (ergh) tonight.
These two
mainstream juggernauts alone will probably wipe out our potential crowd!
Speaking
of Pong,
please head over to the Hartford Advocate's Grand Band Slam voting
thingy
and vote for Pong as "Best New Band," and Jenna for "Best Female
Vocalist." And if you really feel like it,
you could even vote for me as Best Keyboardist but I'd be a write-in.
:-|
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 18-May-2007: Brand
new look for umop.com today!
For the homepage anyway. Fancy Flash interface to show off my Flash
skills, and also (believe it or not) use about about a fifth the
bandwidth. All those old PNG file cartoons really chewed in size.
Also
added links off to the right for some of my favorite places to fart
around all day. The umop.com sub-pages are all the same (for now), and
yes, I shall be adding Google ads (and Search) off to the right to
generate a minor trickling of beer money. Every time you click you're
supporting my luscious pile of art wank, so please do! Now, the
affiliate site links don't net me anything, so check them out instead
if you're adamant about my not earning shiny pennies from your clicks.
:o)
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 18-May-2007: Fans of my Packrat toons now have one more
reason to appreciate CustomSynth.co.uk; in incredible
place to go for any color or configuration of synth you could ever want
made. Chief synth-morpher Jeff T. got the rat on his front page banner
(and will also be mentioned in an upcoming 4-panel toon!) in exchange
for a decent deal for his awesome-looking custom white Roland JX-3PG! This
unit differs not only in color from a regular JX-3P,
but it also has a PG-200 controller built right into the modded case!
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry, I'll explain
everything in my gear page
once this baby gets shipped to me! |
 15-May-2007:
I've decided there just aren't enough green synths
in the world, so I created one especially for the FUNHOUSE. It's
called the "Zymurgy," inspired by one of my Parallax
songs. |
 14-May-2007: Today
I was completely floored & flattered when Mark
Ridlen, a fan of my Rock-Paper-Scissors
game variants, sent me a link to his new RAP SONG mentioning my stuff!
Thanks Mark! Good luck on the new album. :o) |
 12-May-2007:
New WCCC COMIC
talks about how far $200 in gasoline can take you in 1957, 2007, and
2057... |
| 10-May-2007:
Sonic
State, makers of the incredibly fun & cool "Top
20 Synths" vids, recently edited together footage I shot for AHNE
2007 over the weekend. Here's the VIDEO... check it out! |
 8-May-2007: Uploaded my "Virus
Alert" video to NEWGROUNDS
today, in an effort to further promote the new game, VIRUS
ALERT 3D! Besides being able to view it in pure,
uncompressed Flash format, there are also scenes from the game you can
preview, new pause/play functionality, and even an Easter egg (shh)... |
| 6-May-2007: Today I'd like to
announce the public availability of VIRUS
ALERT 3D, a new Video Game starring
"Weird Al" Yankovic, based on the song of the same name on
his "Straight Outta Lynwood" album, and produced by and programmed at Left
Brain Games. Several months in the making, the game features
scads of animations by yours truly. Free demos for both PC and Mac
available to lure you into ponying up $16.95 for the full version. It's
awesome fun; kind of a cross between Robotron and Tron Laser Discs.
Check it out and let me know what you think! |
| 6-May-2007:
Don't miss this YOUTUBE VIDEO I
made featuring a classic Minimoog side-by-side with
a Minimoog Voyager! |
 5-May-2007: Happy Syntho
de Mayo! Today I'm heading over to Analog Heaven Northeast
2007 in Bolton, MA, otherwise known as AHNE 2007 (link),
with a boatload of precious gear
to show off. To celebrate, for the first time in well over a year, I've
made a very special, very MOOGY new PACKRAT
COMIC! |
| 2-May-2007:
Today I have a new YOUTUBE
VIDEO featuring a demo of the ARP Solina
String Ensemble IV. It's a very '70s wood-paneled synth owned
by Mike at the
Coffeehouse in Middletown, CT. I made it a week or two ago
before the move but hadn't had the time to upload it yet. There's one
more Coffeehouse vintage synth demo vid coming; I'll post it in a
couple of days. |
 1-May-2007:
Hello from Warwick (or more accurately, Pawtuxet - It's a borough of
Warwick), RI, the new location of my proverbial stinking grounds. I've
been here for about three and a half days now, and have already
cluttered up my fiancee's basement, as seen in the new PHOTO! I
guess I got tired of the crackfights in Middletown, CT keeping me up
all night, and you can't beat shared rent, utilities, and SINS OF THE
FLESH. |
