Pablo:
“I want to be a ninja when I grow up.
HI YA! … Cha cha cha.”
It’s good to have goals.
The boys saw all of about 5 minutes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and are totally hooked. Pablo want black ninjas for Christmas and Doodles likes all the turtles. I’ve already reserved a list of books, comics and DVDs from the library to feed this latest fetish.
Meet the most forward squirrel I’ve encountered. It was eating out of a friend’s bag on a table at the park. It didn’t shoo away like a normal squirrel either. It’s evil albino eyes scared me and I used to be mocked as a pseudo-albino.
Even on a 60 degree, sunny, spring-like day in autumn, at a park, I’m forced to entertain with my scratchy doodles. PlayMobil knights came to the playdate, but not enough of them. I placated the other children by drawing paper knights to play along with their friends. It worked, nay, it was requested more than the real toys. Funny what you can get away. The pen is mightier than the sword.
Boo. Happy Halloween.
Here it is: Mustache Robots October Mystery Mixtape. The top tunes representing what filled my ears, head and dare I say, heart, this autumnal month. I’ve included 4 spooky songs which creep me out as per my previous post. Thanks to all who submitted their scary songs on my Facebook status. Download and enjoy, but please give me feedback otherwise it’s a futile echo not bounced back from the cave wall. And if you’re prone to mix making, do share yours with me.
Doodles
re: Transformer sticker
“This one is my favorite. I’m going to rip it in half so it’s more awesomer.”
Ah, the wisdom of King Solomon.
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Off the top of my head, I can think of three songs I love which scare me and one which I don’t like because it scared me as a kid. I’m wondering what music chills you to the bone in a creepy way not because you hate it or it’s bad, but it really frightens you. Tell me. I hope to get at least a haunting hour together for a mixtape to share with you all before Halloween.
Sunset Drive by Husky Rescue
Stars by Warpaint
Firesuite by Doves
Carol of the Bells by Kenny Rogers, yes, the Christmas tune, scared me as a kid because it reminded me of the theme from Phantasm, a cult classic horror film well worth your time. Come to think of it, Lady by Kenny Rogers scared me too. It sounded like it had a giant moaning deep sea turtle at the depths of the ocean waiting to bite you. I can’t place it but sometimes my parents’ vinyl was quite misunderstood by me. Little did they know I felt like piddling my pants sometimes when they played Kenny Rogers.
I wish I had one of those “here’s a pretty picture that inspires me” type of blogs then I wouldn’t feel guilty for not writing lately. I could just upload pics like this and let them speak thousands of words. But I don’t, really, but could I? I’ve been slacking here, sorry. Probably my worst run since I started it. Must admit, been busier with the Books & Bars blog and newly designed site. Also, I’ve felt kinda detached lately, just oddly disconnected from even my close friends. Been staying in more, less social, too.
As Poi Dog Pondering once sang:
But everybody’s trying to figure it out
I feel so detached today, I don’t konw
It’s not that simple, It’s not that simple
It’s all that we can do to try and work it on out.
But before the fall we had an early Winter. Oct 12th looked like this:
“Life is what’s happening when you’re too busy to notice.”
-Wayne Muller
Homework is done. Whew. Kindergartens have a lot of homework these days which means Mama and I have a lot of homework, too. So, now we can play Wii.
Within a day or two of having The Beatles Rock Band for XBox 360, the machine crashes with the dreaded RROD issue. At least it hooked Pablo y Doodles on The Beatles music already in a short time. (We seriously only got to play for two hours total.) The summer of crashes continued. This was more costly than the temporary computer crash in which I lost over 10,000 tunes. In this case, I decided to not give Microsoft any more money. Running my Craigslist operations from a chess table near the lot at a local park, I sold off all the games and parts. The games and downloads on the Xbox were just collecting dust all summer anyway. We mainly used it for Netflix streaming of our Watch Instantly queue.
We’re sticking with just the Wii for a while. So we picked up Wii Sports Resort with the new Motion Controllers. Tons of fun. Think Sports (the great game which comes with the Wii) version 2.0. The kids are loving it, especially the Swordplay and the Skydiving, so far, but we have just scratched the surface. Even if I do upgrade again to an “adult” videogame system (PS3 has Blu-Ray, but not Netflix), I see nothing beats the Wii for kid/whole family fun.
It’s here: September’s musical offering, the 9/9 Mystery Mixtape. Download and enjoy (22 songs, 85 minute running time). Mix it up. It’s actually a song or two longer than 80 minute CD-R this round to further signify the death of the physical CD. I burned what may be my last CD-R for a friend’s birthday. I don’t plan on buying those again. I’ll probably still exchange the occasional mixed DVD-R since I’d buy those to burn home movies and short films. But really, we all listen on our phone, iPod and computers now anyway. So, I won’t even suggest an order for these tunes. Enjoy the ones you want, the way you want. But please do give me feedback either way. These represent what I listened to and liked in September, a busy month which saw less time for musical pursuits (and writing).
Thanks for listening, reading and commenting.
