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2011
- David Ypres, 1980-2011
- Contact Compilation project finished
- Thunder Bunny: “…there is a gate”
- Peopling: s/t EP
- Freaks Filth Variance
- Omaha, NE – 11/12/11 – The Sandbox – Fetal Pig w/Class M Planets
- Cop Bar: “No Justice Just Law”
- Contact Compilation vol. 4 & Hal McGee/Kris Gruda “Wallay”
- Neon Lushell: “Modern Purveyors of Filth and Degradation (In a Time Of Peace and Understanding)”
- Victory & Associates: “These Things Are Facts”
- Marax/Distant Trains “Napalm Zombie” split EP
- Des Moines, IA – 10/29/11 – Des Moines Social Club – The Best Halloween Ever: A Social Inferno
- Des Moines, IA – 10/22/11 – The Gas Lamp – Brian\\\’s Birthday — Love Songs For Lonely Monsters, New Member Charles, Fetal Pig
- Hal McGee’s “Contact Compilation 1” is out
- Satanized, Statocyst, Skin Of Earth, Rhonda Is A Dead Bitch @ Vaudeville Mews last night
- Moscatello / Tropixxx ft. Julia LaDense / Boyle / Distant Trains / Igloo Martian 5-way 10-minute split tape is here!
- Des Moines, IA – 10/14/11 – Vaudeville Mews – Fetal Pig Record Release Party
- Des Moines, IA – 10/11/11 – Vaudeville Mews – Mark Mandeville & Old Constitution w/Ember Schrag + Pennyhawk
- New not-so-old stuff
- New old stuff on the bandcamp
- Help Craig Schumacher
- North To The Future: “As Good As It Gets” (with some mention of The War I Survived as well)
- You Are Home: “…”
- Bring Your Own Tape
- Bloodiest: “Descent”
- Richard Buckner: “Our Blood”
- Hal McGee: “My New Tape”
- The Seed Of Something: s/t
- The Mighty Acceleratör: “Soccer Mom”
- The Poison Control Center: “Stranger Ballet”
- If you don’t like rock and roll, well it’s too late now
- Distant Trains – “Underwater Ghost Choir”
- Ed Gray – “The Old Bending River”
- Dislocated Tones “Compound Fractures” compilation
- Here’s the problem, venues
- Joe Jack Talcum & The Powders / Samuel Locke Ward & The Boo Hoos : “Just Add Tears” split LP
- The Bassturd: “The Dark Side Of The Turd”
- Yet again: “Coolzey and the Search For Hip Hop Hearts vol. 1: He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper”
- “319 Dude”
- Des Moines, IA – 05/27/11 – Vaudeville Mews – Why Make Clocks, Noah\\\’s Ark Was A Spaceship, The Answer Team
- More bandcamps to check out
- Des Moines, IA – 05/14/11 – House Of Bricks – Fetal Pig, Hillside Charge
- Des Moines, IA – 05/13/11 – Vaudeville Mews – Woods of Ypres, Fetal Pig, The Mighty Accelerator, Hillside Charge
- Slughive
- anything passes for a band
- Lid 11 “Black Industrial Diamonds”
- Quotes from Dylan Carlson
- the seconds drip from the clock like a broken tap
- Des Moines, IA – 04/02/11 – Vaudeville Mews
- Des Moines, IA – 03/25/11 – Vaudeville Mews
- Mortville auctioning off test pressings for benefit
- The cassette comeback and the Decorah show
- Decorah, IA – 03/14/11 – Decorah Elks Lodge
- Sludgeplow: “Coleslaw”
- Des Moines, IA – 03/12/11 – Ritual Cafe – Art Opening for Molly Free with music by Why Make Clocks and Pink Villa
- Various Artists – “Small Doses”
- Show calendar
- The Slats on bandcamp
- Bruce Lamont: “Feral Songs For The Epic Decline” / Yakuza: “Of Seismic Consequence”
- Captain 3 Leg new digital-only EP “Monkey and the Blue Jay”
- Had fun at the D.R.I. show
- More stuff about The Black Keys’ “Brothers”
- Harvey Milk: “A Small Turn Of Human Kindness”
- The Howling Wind – “Into The Cryosphere”
- Poison Control Center on Bandcamp!
- Coolzey “Search For Hip Hop Hearts” Kickstarter project
- Pocket Aristotle on Bandcamp; nifty rock show tonight
- Iowa
- Captain 3 Leg on Bandcamp
- Microwaved on Bandcamp
- Asklandaganza might have been fun
- Fortnight: “Botany Camp”
- “Dry Lungs” vol. 1
- Temporal Pain: “How Absurd”
- Bassturd on Bandcamp
- Distant Trains reviewed in Little Village
- IBTC/Joke Crackers split now available online
- Lipstick Homicide on bandcamp
- Pointless lists
2010
- Meditations on a gig I went to and had fun at
- Ten Arms Of The Squid video: “Flight”
- Fetal Pig at Vaudeville Mews on New Year’s Day Night
- “Small Doses” out on Mortville
- R.I.P. Don “Captain Beefheart” Van Vliet, 1941 – 2010
- Miracles Of God announce new shows
- Hawkwind – “Blood Of The Earth”
- Das Racist – “Shut Up, Dude”
- Fetal Pig preview
- Howl – “Full Of Hell”
- Tribella – “Thirteen”
- Some guys got killed a while ago
- US Christmas – “Run Thick In The Night”
- Fetal Pig update
- Sam’s on the Bandcamp train
- Mumford’s have a website
- Other stuff that came out in 2010 that I already wrote some stuff about, pt. 1
- We Are Country Mice: “Transmissions”
- Samuel Locke-Ward: “Barely Regal Beagles”
- New(?) Pythias Braswell: “Black Flame”
- A space… rock… band… from… the land… of plen-teeeeeee…
- Download or stream Samuel Locke Ward official bootleg/live album
- Pharmacy Spirits now doing the Bandcamp thing
- Why Make Clocks 11/10; Fetal Pig Recording; Distant Trains 11/20 opening Rhonda Is A Dead Bitch EP release party; SLW & Boo-Hoos and Mumford’s also to release a record
- Orthodox “Matse Avatar”
- Canyons debut; Sam’s crew gets robbed; Seed Of Something gets new drummer; Roareth no moreth
- That Mumford’s song from the Boo-Hoos split 7″ gets stuck in my head
- The Wheelers “Milwaukee Black & Tan” EP download
- Samuel Locke Ward & the Boo-Hoos / Mumfords upcoming split 7″ EP posted to bandcamp
- Olde Growth signs with MeteorCity
- Pony Time video: “Time For A Change”
- Rhonda Is A Dead Bitch: “Surveillance Video”
- video by Rhonda Is A Dead Bitch: “Laos”
- Samuel Locke-Ward’s new web thing
- I ask you in a quiet tone of voice: Is the Gila Copter a machine of pleasure?
- Kowloon Walled City / Fight Amp / Ladder Devils: “Lose / Lose / Lose”
- Obligatory “sorry for lack of posts” post
- Ember Schrag + Bryan Day = Office Park
- These Immortal Souls: “Get Lost (Don’t Lie)”
- Pharmacy Spirits: “Teen Challenge”
- This week did indeed rock
- Distant Trains to actually play live; Fetal Pig/Going To Grandma’s reunion will rock. Both this week!
- Poison Control Center: “Sad Sour Future”
- A stream of Zoroaster’s “Matador” is up
- Some amount of 80/35 fun may have been had
- Distant Trains “Congratulations On Your Suicide”
- Pharmacy Spirits made a video
- garageband.com closing up; The Nuevos upload like crazy
- The Trouble With Larry
- Olde Growth
- Coolzey’s newest video is the best one yet
- Sludgeplow: “Turned Earth”
- Chuck Hoffman Or Distant Trains: “Oddities Pre-35”
- Gettin’ Real Gonn
- Telepathic Liberation Army “Phase One”
- Lou Barlow doing new stuff
- Fetal Pig is fun
- Everything Passage Of Deformed Man Supermarket ever recorded now available for download
- Yo La Tengo to be on 80/35
- Fetal Pig lives
- Exit Drills best-of released as a download
- She Swings She Sways is now a power trio
- New Murder By Death video: “White Noise”
- More news from the Ambient Funk Playwright Society
- It’s True!: “It’s True!”
- Coolzey still doing that thing
- Isis announces imminent breakup
- Zoroaster’s midwest dates coincide with 80/35
- Ronnie James Dio 1942-2010
- Fortnight’s demo
- New Look What I Did video: “Serf Song”
- The Centipede Tapes: Fetal Pig 1996 cassette EP/demo
- New USSpaceForce: “Dr.Dr.”
- Samuel Locke Ward on Little Village Live
- New A Is Jump song: “Strand By Strand”
- Video: William Elliott Whitmore “Hell Or Highwater” live at KEXP
- New Murder By Death video: “As Long As There Is Whiskey In The World”
- New Coolzey song/video “Enjoy Your Holiday”
- Poison Control Center’s CD Release at Vaudeville Mews was awesome
- Holy crap, Modest Mouse on 80/35
- Map Of The Woods webcast May 5
- That noise Robert Plant made in “Rock and Roll”
- It’s True’s album is out
- John Pemble: 80/35 Fest Lineup Announcement #2
- Crank Sturgeon at Clawfoot House this Sunday
- Ambient Funk Playwright Society accepting submissions for Shan’t Bee 2010, July 16-18
- Beach House: Teen Dream
- It’s True’s debut full-length out pretty soon
- The Black Keys: “Brothers”
- New video: Zoroaster “White Dwarf”
- Chris Weingarten: “Don’t Believe the Hype Machine”
- Fuck you, Iowa City
- Cathedral: The Guessing Game
- Poison Control Center “Being Gone” video
- Behringer seeks “synthesizer nerd chicks”
- I’m still kinda bummed out that Ely Falls broke up
- Supergrass is breaking up
- I still haven’t heard the new Murder By Death album
- I Love You, Internet
- Distant Trains: “Assault & Battery/The Golden Void” (Hawkwind cover)
- Hello world!
- The Spectacle of Klumpffnhauser & Louison's Amusements & Oddities: "The Birth Of The Spectacle"
- The Showgirls
- The Olive Street Incident: "Stinks Like Heaven"
- Reversible Hyena: "Louder, Sloppier, Stupider, More!!"
- Gok: "Gee... Okay" and "Luther Drive Blues a.k.a. Luther Driver Overcliffe"
2009
- The Spectacle Of Klumpffnhauser & Louison's Amusements & Oddities - "The Death Of Louison"
- Sindu
- Radio Dramamine - "The Mind Is A Terrible Waste" & live stuff
- Gok - "Explosion", "Stop That!", "Fish On Fire"
- E.D.I.T.H.'s first show
- Vaudeville Mews, Nov. 5
- Songwriter Power Ranger at Bourbon Theatre in Lincoln, NE, 7pm Oct. 6
- Maybe that was why i quit reading Joel On Software. Actually I should probably quit reading software development blogs altogether.
- argh.
- album title change
- sept 15, vaudeville mews
- sept. 13, vaudeville mews
- dream 3
- The Halfway Situation "The Story"
- another dream
- thought
- next chuck hoffman gig: vaudeville mews, sunday sep. 13
- dream
- it was right after my accident, when i lost my hand
- Suave Frog
- Sinister Plot
- No Consensus - live at The Reverb
- Heroic Nonsense - demo and live recording
- A Conversation On the Music Industry
- tripmaster monkey: "practice changes"
- blutiger fluss, chuck hoffman, +TBA @ des moines social club 7/25/09
- flyer: why make clocks @ barley street tavern, july 17
- amazing human beatbox
- song considered underrated
- paul graham shtick
- july 6 at vaudeville mews
- contest
- when magic gets in the way
- CMS == MOAR FEECHARS
- didn't expect that
- new why make clocks site
- protip: email recipients
- Page 5 Girl - "The Night of Psycho E" and "House of Fat Ladies"
- Page 5 Girl - "Shot" and "Vacations In Space!"
- Page 5 Girl - "I Try Hard"
- No Consensus "What Stupid Does"
- E.D.I.T.H./Exit Drills: live recordings
- why no shell access?
- just don't know what to do with myself. or rather, my blog.
- install flex builder on linux
- news accounts
- scary ordeal with the little one
- debut and other musical things
- The Sno-Mans: "This Is So Cool!"
- Passage of Deformed Man Supermarket: "you are never full yet you look for fillers and values according to the envelope of your own harvest"
- Passage of Deformed Man Supermarket: "Passage of Deformed Man Supermarket"
- June 22, 2002
- Fornicide: "Shitstupidnoisecoredethpunx"
- Flight Attendants: "Yeah!"
- Flight Attendants: "Nightmares"
- Flight Attendants: "Fallen Man"
- Bwang!: "One Track Punkfier EP"
- The Cactus Rats: "The Band Isn't Helping" (expanded)
- Passage Of Deformed Man Supermarket: "No. 2"
- Passage Of Deformed Man Supermarket: "No. 1"
- The Tormenting Pit: "Music from the Tormenting Pit"
- The Sno-Mans (original album)
- Panasonic Youth: "&"
- Online Inventory: "Lion EP"
- Jump Up And Jam Featuiring Bert Casey
- Chitipakatoopet: "She's There When He's in Trouble" / Virus: "So It Goes"
- blueblood, the reddmen, betty buzzkill, the firing line, and myself, vaudeville mews 09-mar-15
- even programming isn't "just programming"
- Villianova: "Goodnight Little Wrangler"
- The Wagner Quartet: "Lonely"
- The Wagner Quartet: "It's A Family Thing"
- Stucco Induced Hallucinations: "Master Copier"
- Stephen Oulman's Tot Lot Band: "Stephen Oulman, Man-Child"
- Stephen Oulman's Tot Lot Band: "I Love Everything Else"
- Stephen Oulman's Tot Lot Band: "Ghosty Is Alive"
- Pythias Braswell
- Panasonic Youth: "?"
- Panasonic Youth: "!1" and "!2"
- cool music thing alert
- Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash [CORE\cake\libs\model\model.php, line 2282]
- re-moved
- i'm the daddy of rock 'n' roll
- Symphon-E: "My Cousin E"
- Minus 123: "The Ordeal"
- Jump Up and Jam!: "The Mortal I" / "It's All About You!"
- Hard Boiled Hell: "The Pain and the Great One"
- Hard Boiled Hell: "Are You There, God? It's Me, Michael"
- unofficial last albums
- Switchstance
- Master Cylinder: "The Good, the Bad, and the Worse"
- cover art help wanted
- ron asheton 1948-2009
- ruby procs and "diminutive returns"
2008
- government web fail
- Pardon the lull
- if it's broke, fix it yo' damn self
- test-driven development? i'll settle for testable development
- getting rid of that annoying thing emacs does when you end a line with a paren open in a cc-mode based mode
- php: the cobol of the web
- another occasion
- occasion
- orm still sucks
- bad agile again
- simon joyner, ed gray, twelve canons, coyote blood at the mill, iowa city, november 22 2008
- blogs are trouble
- people fucking suck
- question
- seeking list
- bling ballz (nsfw)
- ken hoy, 1948-2007
- the problem with the free market is that you're being misled to think we have one now
- Thanks But No Thanks: "I Stole a Beer"
- T-Bag: "Wow Babies!"
- T-Bag: "The Blues Album"
- Page 5 Girl: unreleased live stuff
- Page 5 Girl: "Pitch Control"
- Page 5 Girl: "Evil"
- Page 5 Girl: "Chick Capsule"
- My Mentor Al: "Carpet, and Other Ways to Die"
- found: epic set list
- nothing happens 3.0 RC1
- cedar valley tech news, and personal news besides
- seeking
- Exit Drills: "Exit Drills In The Home"
- C.F. Sound Station: "The Unity Crew Discovers the C.F. Sound Station"
- Bwang!: "The Church of Holy Crap of Latter-Day Bwang!"
- Bwang!: "Lost in Pez-Land"
- What If The Man?: "Avocado"
- Football Without Love/Love Without Cheer
- Bwang!: "What If The Bwang!?"
- The Fruits: "The Fruits Are Slutgrabbin' Womanizers"
- The Fillies of the Week Featuring Wussy-Pants Williams: "Fatal Exception: Hungry"
- Jonathon Grim: "What's Inside the Horse's Brain"
- Cars of the Country Music Stars: "First Aid for Choking"
- Booker & Slappy's Skateboard Band: "I'm a Huge Help Here!"
- Bwang!: "...And I Saved the World"
- Bludy Noz: "The Bible Tapes"
- Bludy Noz: "Epilepathy"
- Bludy Noz: "Chronic Moronic"
- Bloody Nose: "Yo Mama Wants to Kill My Harmonica"
- No Consensus
- No Consensus: "The Moving Version 1.0b"
- No Consensus: "Telepathic Ettiquette"
- No Consensus: oddities
- No Consensus: "Going to My Cousins"
- No Consensus: early live stuff
- Bwang! - The Sixogy
- Ben Is A Monkey
- "where do you (see yourself|want to be) in five years?"
- YAPM: Yet Another Programmers' Manifesto
- played in ottumwa
- five
- About Damn Time
- shit. they got me.
- it's work 2.0!
- bands banding together as brands. band-brands.
- on "the futility of flogging music"
- reverb, aug. 21
- on the programmer-brain phenomenon
- echo chamber, aug. 30, 2008
- if (TDD == PITA) {
- another namesake appears
- scene change
- dream interpretation
- long-ass post about the tour
- super-safe me
- roll-testing
- lo-fi schmo-fi
- Street Horrrsing">meditation on "experimental" rock music, inspired by Fuck Buttons' Street Horrrsing
- image macros for hipsters
- lucky bastard part 2
- halp rails: initialize the development database with some test data/models?
- by the way, heh.
- lucky bastard
- holy crap
- oh, and the electricity
- activerecord sucks, but it doesn't matter
- how i got started
- oh gawd i'm a dork
- just because you give away music online doesn't mean you can't sell it too
- o noes carbon! halp!
- conventional OO access modifiers considered inadequate or more trouble than they're worth
- who will rid me of this meddlesome spammer?
- on the uselessness of support forums
- twelve o'clock flashers
- let's hope that fixes it
- echo chamber may 28, 2008
- update of whinings both personal and electrical
- business drama
- news
- i am the passenger, and i ride and i ride
- second opinion
- the lolz just a'keep on a'coming
- shell history meme, v2
- echo chamber 14 may 2008
- download: radio dramamine live may 10, 2008
- download: chuck hoffman live, may 8, 2008
- dual boot on an onboard sata drive in the presence of another drive on a pci ide controller
- radio dramamine show report 10-may-08
- still pissed
- show report
- more about work
- i'm on the renegade run
- slogan
- echo chamber 25-apr-08
- the cube
- more fun stuff in the zend framework docs
- sam vs. the blues
- the black keys "attack & release"
- cut out the middle abstraction
- just seemed cool for some reason
- in which i suck at not being a musician
- workstation ergonomics: one size definitely does not fit all
- echo chamber, 04-apr-08
- and in the metablogging department
- "newb-fallback"? i don't think so
- more new things that kick ass
- software is rock and roll!
- zend framework 1.5 looks kinda cool...
- my zed shaw moment, or not
- well, never mind (the job hunt chronicles) part 2: halp raet
- off-roadin', on roads
- i've moved!
- beefed up the blogroll
- the gigscraper, or, why you should take that compilers course
- meh, meme game, what the hell.
- just so we know it's not me
- how not to interview programmers
- what i like about ruby so far
- conservatives lost the game
- wasn't expecting to hear that
- version that database
- super tuesday thoughts
- scrapheap programming
- scheming in emacs
- my evil plan, it is working
- well, never mind
- tagging is back, i guess
- the band mailing list, remixed
- ...and we're baaaaaaack
- job hunting is lulz, sometimes
- job hunting sucks
- more on CS education
- brief gig report
- blessing in disguise?
- available
- ghettos are underrated
- programming languages in CS education
- and to think i'd have probably missed this if i didn't get reddited today
- conventional OO syntax considered
harmful needlessly misleading
- reverb 04-jan-08
- radio dramamine mp3s available
- i think i'm kinda starting to get this TDD thing
- amfphp 1.9 gotcha: strings that start with digits
2007
- how to fix "no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)" in ruby on cygwin
- echo chamber, 30-dec-07
- considering another look at scheme
- explanation of typing
- apache friends still haven't come down off the ecstasy long enough to check their configs carefully
- way to rock at operator precendence, php
- geez leave php alone already
- clicks are a stupid metric
- monads, yet again
- things i wish a presidential candidate would say in a debate, part 1
- gao: "usa is living beyond its means"
- if (false == '') echo "PHP is stupid";
- it's not necessarily about dynamic languages
- "when i say a word, it is supposed to mean exactly what i want it to mean, nothing more, nothing less."
- calling postgresql stored procedures with PDO in PHP, including fetching non-recordset return data
- plan for improving/subverting the aforementioned lisp community
- echo chamber, nov. 10 2007
- lisp: love the language, hate the people
- how many JavaSchool coders does it take to
screw in a light bulb round a number?
- yeah, i know, it's an old joke
- east high alumni swing show much fun
- libyan hit squad @ reverb
- enon gets the cool points today
- the live debut
- the spinning woman thing
- echo chamber 10-13-07
- nerd test 2.0
- image fun plus fun link
- on "echo chambers"
- geeks are the new hipsters
- any sufficiently powerful framework resembles a new programming language
- just in case anyone wonders...
- the plot to kill programmers' day
- one week of sicp and three of compilers down
- AMFPHP class mapping explained!
- a lion? *rofl*
- i'm a walking invitation, but no one will invite me
- in which i'm all sorts of wanting to learn stuff
- ace article on gender, society, and culture
- so you think you can be president?
- geeky in-joke about Sinister Plot
- small updates
- how do i order?
- funcode: the revival
- telling our story, enthusiastic futurism, and a dream
- hooking up phpeclipse and xampp
- more ragman archives stuff up
- fricken botblogs
- image fun
- and yet again, xampp is teh suck
- omg prolog ftw
- steve rocks
- image fun
- abstractions, chatty objects:
the lonesome era? a what-if
- for loops suck, addendum
- trip to minneapolis: dinosaur jr. at the triple rock may 29, and hanging out with judah in dinkytown
- an old friend re-emerges
- shellac "excellent italian greyhound"
- gotta love PHP's consistency
- trip to iowa city: tornavalanche, haymarket riot, the horde, and hanging with samuel locke-ward
- some more ragman stuff up
- suddenly it all makes sense
- semantic quibble with lisp evangelists
- PHP tip: dirname(__FILE__)
- the ragman records archives are finally making their way online
- arghhh, i hate xampp
- employment opening advertisement
- a great idea, i hope it goes somewhere
- for loops suck
- dick dale knows what's up, and sharing a quick little indie idea
- "unofficial" tyros records showcase
- whoa wtf, did php5 just let me call an instance method from a static method?
- just venting
- sebadoh at the 400 bar in minneapolis, march 19 2007
- wtf php error message
- ternary operator abuse made more bearable through lispy indentation
- asianesque convenience food reviews, vol. 3: a taste of thai red curry noodles
- what do you mean, "framework"?
- "secret history of the cedar valley" opening
- asianesque convenience food reviews, vol. 2: simply asia szechwan garlic chow mein
- "secret history" opens tomorrow night!
- really bad image fun
- advertising ideas
- asianesque convenience food reviews, vol. 1: thai kitchen noodle cart, thai peanut variety
- more image fun
- in response to "why i don't get adobe flex", or at least to its dzone submission.
- ms paint fun again
- messages from god
- new band concept and rationale
- cats + lasers = fun
- submitted for comment, using PHP 5.2.0
- yet another ramble on ria architecture
- holy crap, i'm such a nerd
- does the domain logic layer belong on the server or client?
- amfphp wtf
- the book fairy
- i'm taking java off my resume
- closure mania!
- which science fiction writer are you?
- vo != dto != model, or why i think there is some impression that OO is in decline
- who says snl isn't funny anymore?
- loss of a friend
2006
