simpsons evolution intro

first part is your standard simpsons intro but then it gets pretty interesting....

Milk - SS Monkey

Milk covering Rage Against the Machine. That's Pete on drums and vocals. The crowd really got into this one. Great show. Very fun. Fantastic energy. My fav Milk vid.

Milk - SS monkey
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.22 SS Monkey

the Mormon Show, left to right Elder Skelter, El Dorado and Elder Fudd...

.22 SS Monkey
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Miracle Saru Spring Scream Monkey

Miracle Saru Spring Scream Monkey
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Banjovi Spring Scream Monkey

april 2004

Banjovi Spring Scream Monkey
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LTK Spring Scream Monkey

Balls out Taiwanese rock! This was an awesome show!

LTK Spring Scream Monkey
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Mimie Chan Spring Scream Monkey

I've had these guys linked on the sidebar for forever. This was in April 2004 in Kending... A real crowd fav... better vid of them coming soon...

Mimie Chan Spring Scream Monkey
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Spring Scream Run

Spring Scream is coming soon! Double Pig over Tomb Sweeping weekend April 4th-7th...
And it's at a different site this year, up around Jia Le Shui as far as I understand...
I hope little Burl will be strong enough to make the trip... we'll see...

As usual, I haven't published any where near the number of videos I'd planned to publish of past performances... youtube's got me kinda frustrated lately... and
I just haven't put in the time, but I'm gonna try to get as many up as I can this month... I know what your thinking - if I didn't find the time with one kid, there's no way I'm gonna find it with two - and you're probably right... I'm opening a new account with Daily Motion, which seeming a little less busy than the tube...

Introducing Burl

Burl was born last Wednesday, Feb 28th, at 6:14 pm in Da Li City.

Check out Honeybees for more details...

chimps just mushrooms short of civilization

Still no baby yet... the waiting, hopefully, is the hardest part... was due the 22nd... we await his arrival imminently...

I just read on the BBC that chimps have been observed using spears (they sharpen them with their teeth) to hunt other primates. I knew they could use sticks to fish out termites and rocks to bash nuts. They've also been observed standing in apparent awe at the sight of a wonder of nature, say a rainbow over a waterfall, perhaps the makings of a spirituality of sorts... just wait till they find magic mushrooms (see Terrence McKenna), then they'll really be showing us evolution in action... story here.

Here's a link to a new Charlie Taylor video - Too Drunk To Drink

I did a little video for Rock when Charlie was on stage at last year's Spring Scream.

Look for a shot of IVO below the stage that they put in the video...

I don't know why but this last blip tv post has saddled me with a much too large thumbnail of Ivo... trying to work out the kinks in the relationship between blip and beta blogger...for now you can just click the pick to watch the video...

IVO DRUMMING! "NO PICTURE!"

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Ivo loves drumming and drums on all manner of things.

I'm thrilled he's learned to say "No picture!"

Living in Taiwan he tends to attract a lot of unwanted attention, which drives ol' dad nuts...

Norwegians to Build 'Doomsday' Seed Vault

This just caught my eye. The Svalbard International Seed Vault is being planned to house all the known seed variations of world in the deep Arctic...

Sounds like the prologue of a science fiction epic... "In the year 2007, before the great calamity, the Norwegians had the foresight to deposit a vast and complete seed catalogue in the far reaches of the Arctic...with the nuclear winter dissipating and sunshine breaking through for the first time in centuries, a small band of survivors makes their way to the legendary vault, unsure of the validity of the claim, but pressing on, they alone mankind's last hope..."

or something like that...

Death of a Gold -Digger

Last week I was teaching a lesson on people watching and in the dialogue there was an older man walking with a young girl. The friends assumed she was a 'gold-digger'. I told my students the story of Anna Nicole Smith and her marriage to the billionaire oil man in the 90's to better explain the idea of 'gold-digging'.

And now she's dead at 39. Too strange.

update

This is my first day of vacation. Finally. That was a long ol' semester. These last two weeks have been pretty hectic getting ready for the new baby. Sandy is heavily pregnant. We feel that the delivery could come at any time now. My mom flew in from NB last week to help out with everything. She's been a tremendous help already. Ivo's getting to know his Grammie a little more every day and seems to be aware that there's a baby in mama's belly and he's going to come out soon...

ad hoc, chiayi rock

some old changhua friends came into town last night to see chiayi rockers ad hoc at the grooveyard. what a great show! tight solid fun rock n roll. they brought a throng of chiayi fans up on a bus to see the show. go see'em if you get a chance.

here's a link to their site. from there you can navigate to a couple youtube vids or their myspace site...

chickens really do live after their heads are cut off, the 5 second rule is bunk, water drains in the sink according to the size and shape of the basin and a poppy seed bagel may indeed make you test positive for opiates...

live science and the 20 common 'myths' in science...

'Quantum Boggs'

Quantum Boggs: Episode II

The adventure continues as Hall of Famer Wade Boggs goes back in time to help Dan Marino acquire the necessary skills to win Super Bowl 19. POW!

In case you missed the first one, I'm pleased to present Episode I here in its entirety...

edit: I'm linking to the video on youtube... I don't know what's up with youtube lately but i've been waiting ages for some of these videos to load. And often they get cut off in the middle. So here it is, Episode I, all of it, if you can get it.

'Night Owls'

the Vlogpond is happy to present this short film from Albatross Productions, called Night Owls. Sean Scanlan interviews a Taipei noodle lady about the noisy foreigners living upstairs... funny!