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26-Sept-2007: Disco's trying out his new all-analog keytar in today's new PHOTO. The little squeeze-blister inside makes a better squeaking noise than quite a few of my old synths can, but this thing's not truly a synthesizer (well, duh), since it's not combining more than one sound source or filter to create anything artificial. If you really want to get technical, it's a monophonic (one note at a time), monotambric (same note every time, no matter which of those sewed-on keys you depress) sound module employing not a VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator), but actually an ACV (air-controlled vibration)!
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25-Sept-2007: Here's a new WCCC COMIC featuring all the gang from the Picozzi in the Afternoon show on Hartford's own 106.9 WCCC!
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21-Sept-2007: Today my RPS-25 game has been Digged a few thousand times, and is currently #2 in "Offbeat News."
Just wanted to say hello to any visiting Diggers... pass the word along about umop.com if you like anything here... :o)
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17-Sept-2007: By popular demand, and thanks to my new Firewire audio interface, I've uploaded a high-quality MP3 of my wacky Charlie Daniels tribute, "The Devil Went Down to Jupiter" (YouTube video here).
Check out my other Parallax songs & perhaps even buy a CD if you find yourself enjoying them even in the slightest. Thanks!
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17-Sept-2007: Did some housecleaning on the GEAR page today, moving a few things back and forth between there and the SOLD GEAR. Of particular note is the new page for my Moog Little Phatty Tribute Edition which has been showing up on so many projects lately!
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16-Sept-2007: Here's a quick link-whoring for my brother-and-BFF Steve's new directorial project with one-time Hartford-area DJ legend "the Lich," called "Words and Music". Think of it as a musical version of James Lipton's "Inside the Actor's Studio." I just think it's very, very cool that my brother's been working with so many amazing musical legends! Spread the word about the show if you're into it!
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12-Sept-2007: Shouts out to My Dad on his birthday today!And another one to Mr. Ferris for helping me out with a lot of tricky PHP wizardy as we continue the ongoing pursuit of making umop.com the coolest Daily Comic digest on Earth. Or at least, one of the coolest. Or even just one of the ones that doesn't suck too hard.
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9-Sept-2007: More synthy wank to melt your brain today: original Parallax song IAPETUS on YOUTUBE!
I've also fixed some broken links over on the PACKRAT comics page; a reader was recently kind enough to let me know that Keyboard Magazine is no longer hosting them on their site. Hey, it's been two whole years now, I think I can let it slide. :o)
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 5-Sept-2007: Brand
new today, and hopefully it'll last a while...
DAILY COMICS!. In an effort to
get more folks regularly streaming their asses into umop.com,
I've decided
to give daily comics here a shot. You can even email them to friends
and embed them on your MySpace Pages if you wanna.
These
comics are likely to range wildly, WILDLY, in content, degrees of
lewdness, color or black-and-white, and especially,
in quality. As any artist knows, some days it's just too damned hard
coming up with a funny gag, so I might just decide
to draw a sponge one day, and an epic masterpiece the next. You'll
never know what to expect, so you'd better bookmark
it right here and keep on coming back every day to see!
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| 4-Sept-2007: Follow-up:
Simon Power over at Sonic State
crammed my YouTube video into a nice blurb today... check it out!
He was even nice enough to say that I made Rick Wakeman look "arthritic
in comparison," although Rick can at least
aim better & actually hit the intended keys once and a while.
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1-Sept-2007: Watch
in terror, amazement, hysterics, or just a kind of blithe disapproval
while I rip apart
Charlie Daniels' "Devil Went Down
to
Georgia" with this blithering, synthily idiotic
new YOUTUBE
VIDEO!
One
billion notes... new record.
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