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Mimie Chan, live at Spring Scream 2007

PEAS IN THE MOUTH

IVO watching himself in the camera display and answering some of Papa's silly questions... taken in March when Grammie was visiting from NB...

check out John Kuhel playing baseball for the Tainan Factory Cats in a new video by Les Arthur...

Spring Scream starts today down south and for the first time we're not going to be there. We thought about going but in the end it just made more sense to stay home and be with the kids here than carting them all over the concert grounds. I'm good with it. I've got a fantasy baseball team to look after I need to catch up on my sleep anyway. I'll miss some great acts, I know, like the new version of Rocketgirl, Miracle Saru, Mimie Chan, .22 and Charlie Taylor and who knows who else, but hey, such is life. If anyone gets some good video this year, I'd love to see it on down the road. Cheers and have a great time everybody!

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.