5-Oct-2008: OK, so I am guilty of not spreading much art love around umop.com lately, but I think I've more than made up for it by blowing my whole Sunday night putting together TONS of cool stuff!

I have been putting off including this whole new METASONIX PAGE on the site, for a long, long time. It just needed to be done right, and that meant a lot of work. Trust me, if you're a RAB fan, you're really going to want to see all the stuff I made for the ugliest, craziest, loudest, most distorted & disturbing musical products on Earth! I've made pages showing off custom art, photos, and manual text for the TX-2 Butt Probe, TM-7 Scrotum Smasher, and G-1000 Fu**ing Fu**er! Yes, these are REAL products, featured & reviewed by God knows how many legitimate magazines and blogs (this one's pretty cool, by the way).

30-Sept-2008: Great news! PLASTICA officially welcomes Lee-Ann Zarella as its new lead singer. Lee-Ann brings a lot of heart, a lot of experience, and a LOT of MySpace friends (Jesus, girl... over 4,000?!) to the "Best-Ever Band In the Universe." Her other projects include local jam band favorite the Funk Brothers, or "FBI" as they're more commonly known 'round these here parts.

7-Sept-2008: So guess what? I'm in two bands now! I've joined a local jam band called MID LIFE CRISIS! Joining me is Lee Steel, the bass player for Plastica, along with Gary Zemanek on drums and Paul Kramarz on guitar. It's primarily classic rock right now, with some newer stuff that'll be added in eventually. It's gum-chewing, beer-swilling, bucktoothed shenanigans. Come on out to the Downtown Cafe in Bristol, CT this Friday night (9/12) if you happen to be local; you can catch my debut performance on keys (what else?).

31-Aug-2008: Steve Lovelace, my brother & mad scientist drummer of Plastica, has completed a project months in the making: a massive red custom Simmons drumset made from a hexagonal cage of PVC piping. The pipes are painted to look like Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein" guitar, and the effect is pants-crappingly stupefying. Check out its PHOTO in my album! The local CT band scene can't possibly imagine what's coming when we start gigging.

And as a matter of fact, we actually already have, sort of. We played last week at a private party called, oddly enough, "Pigstock." It was just this big ol' down-home pig roast in some guy's back yard, with big tents everywhere, and about 100 people marinating in Budweiser and porkmeats. Plastica played 16 songs, put on a big laser-light show, and I even whipped out the keytar for a tune. You can sift through over 50 PICTURES of the event over at the PLASTICA MYSPACE PAGE.

19-Aug-2008: Fans of progger Gods Dream Theater will be horrified by the latest YOUTUBE VIDEO by your favorite toy-rock jerks in the whole world, Plastica. It's a little ditty from 1994 called "Erotomania." A disturbingly large percentage of RAB fans were born right around the time it came out. This fills me with a sort of numb rage.

13-Aug-2008: Get a load of this obtuse little cacophony: a new YOUTUBE VIDEO featuring three out of five Plastica honkweasels "performing" YYZ (the infamous Rush instrumental prog-rock epic from 1980), on nothing but cheap, crap-ass, out-of-tune, primarily pink plastic Barbie toys (and beer bottles).

By the way, today marks the fourth anniversary of my super-duper car accident where I turned my leg into a delicious ham salad. Hooray!

30-July-2008: As you may or may not know, I'm also in a kickass '80s band called "Plastica." Today I updated the PLASTICA WEBSITE to include a fairly shiny new cartoon of all the bandmates. Other than that, the page is primarily there to boot you over to the burgeoning Plastica MySpace Page which you are more than welcome to check out as well. You'll find individual bandmate cartoons in one of the photo albums there. Yay!

And yeah... I also have a MS page, but it's only for personal use, so don't bother even checking it out. I've only got something like 8 friends there. Someday I might possibly (albeit improbably) get another RAB MS page up for fans (after having deleted it last year because it turned into a black hole full of SPAM), but until then, sit tight & keep coming back here to umop.com for updates!

25-July-2008: Perhaps you might enjoy this new YOUTUBE VIDEO I just created, which is a tutorial for all aspiring wankmaster keyboardists wishing to learn how to play "Hot For Teacher" on a keyboard (in response to my other video doing exactly this). Perhaps also you might like to eat a peanut butter and bacon sandwich (more delicious than you might think). I give even odds on these two activities, as far as something a random person might choose to enjoy. Figure 1 in about 5,300. Not too bad.

11-July-2008: What's up, nosedoodles! I've been working like a dog all month over at Left Brain Games, working on tons of new artwork for a client's "virtual world" project which will teach kids about undersea life. It will utilize the edgy magic of "two dimensional artwork" provided by your best buddy in the whole world, me! I'll link you up to the place when it's ready to go. Until then, I've put some sample background art over at the FUNHOUSE for you today!

17-June-2008: Hey there, reader. What's goin' on? Feeling bored? Have an IMDb account? Would you like to do me a huge favor? I've tried a couple times now, in failure, to update the Retarded Animal Babies page over there. It's chock full of somewhat accurate info, supplied by (I assume) fans with accounts. If you're reading this, are a fan, and know how to do this shizz, head on over there and update the official site from "idiotmagnet" (a failing failboat of an effort from 2 years ago) to umop.com. Also, there's a MySpace link that's out of date ("rababies")... since there is no official RAB page on MySpace any more (too much spam, sorry), I'd like that link deleted also.

UPDATE 4-July-2008: A very cool reader successfully fixed the whole shebang, handily earning a couple free DVDs! Thanks!!

7-June-2008: Nothing much going on in Camp Lovelace, so here's another dandy YOUTUBE VIDEO. This one just might be full of entirely too much win, thanks to an appearance by the new Customsynth Roland JX-3PG, with a bit of help from my trusty ol' Juno-106.

I filmed all the necessary takes (there are usually a good handful!) while experiencing incredible, torturous tooth pain. Before you say to yourself, "I wish I could have Dave's life... nice car, tons of synths..." consider this very carefully: I've had TWO ROOT CANALS since March! :o(

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