It's a perfectly sane food to eat.

I don't eat hot dogs, but maybe I should. They seemed to be making news today. The "twinkie cheese dog" sounds like it could be a true test of my cholesterol medication:

Remember Fifth Third burger? Take our poll on what should be next West Michigan Whitecaps delicacy - MLive.com

Surely hot dogs are a subversive food now that Michelle Obama is combatting childhood obesity. The way I see it, the final solution to this fat kid problem is to kill 'em with hot dogs:

Pediatricians push for hot dogs to get warning label; 'kid-friendly' food poses choking hazard

Seriously, though...I warning label?!? It's my belief that all food should have a warning label regarding the choking hazard.

A Sausage Fest (could be "Gothic Power Violence" v. JZ)

Recording was a hoot, and there was a lot of sausage eaten (seriously, no double entendre here). Dameon, Andrew, Greg and I did parts for two songs: "God Damn Sinner" and "Rebel". Both were a piece of cake. Shortly after we did our parts, some of Uncle Chuck's friends arrived (BLC is too punctual, usually). The female voices really filled the parts out nicely--you get punch from the male voices and clarity from the female voices. It could have been done in a handful of takes, but Chuck wanted some really thick sounds (probably to compete with those bad-ass guitars). This is going to be a great record. Of course, Eve got in on the action, and she doesn't stick out in the unmixed group (totally amazed me; she's a neat kid, even if she's taken to calling me ZEEHEE).

Margret brought more [Polish] sausage and [Polish] cheese and [Polish] beer. After bratwurst, I was waiting for someone to have an infarction. There otta be a law...

Greg introduced me to someone as "our amazing bassist and, now, organist." That was actually pretty cool, because I'm not amazing, but I've learned to take a compliment. Ray Manzarek I'm not, but I guess that once that comp drops (late September is what that email sez), I'll be the bassist/organist. It doesn't count if you don't do it live, though. I won't allow that to happen. I never really dug playing keys live, although it gives you a good place to hide when the sequencer goes berserk (MIDI is evil; don't get me started).

I heard some stuff from the RR show, too. It was Andrew's recorder that was stationed at the FOH desk. The mix was a lot better there than in the monitors, for sure. Besides the lush lush lush natural reverb (too much, really), it sounds pretty good. We're going to see if we can dry it up a bit with the SPL Transient Designer. It seems that there's no limit to signal processing these days. The Norse Audio God was explaining this "magic box" to me, and I'm stunned that one can manipulate transients' attack and decay so easily. I'd have to fiddle a lot with compressors and gating to remove excessive reverb, but this thing apparently makes it easy easy.

Blackjack.

I don't know if it means that the BLC is more "underground" or less "underground" this year than last--it isn't congruous with the name--perhaps a name-change is in order (then it would sound like Chinese restaurant--Good Fortune Town). We're still on a plateau but that's totally cool, since the only really interesting thing that we did in the last year was that live score for the Bruce Bickford animation. Every time I see the results of such a contest, I'm really curious about what goes through a voter's mind. Did they get "instructions for the jury?" The spurious regressor in me really would love to get the data and make some bullshit hypotheses up.

I'm stoked that Ian won, though. His record really doesn't do it for me, but when he opened for us at the Artopia (just before the break dancers), he blew me away solo. I don't understand how some groups didn't garner more (or any) votes--certainly some folks work a lot harder than we do.

Apparently, we're out of cat food. Damn.

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Now playing: Steve Reich - Pulses

The Limp Bizkit Of Hamburgers

It sounds compelling, but the reviews I've read make it sound candy-ass. I might have to go investigate this one myself. This dude got it right--orange drink is the correct beverage to drink with a Whopper:

Not So Good With Metaphors (keyed up tonight)

Seriously, though...people make me crazy with "warm" and "muddy" when describing how something sounds. Occasionally, I catch myself using 'em, though--lately, "fizzy" has occurred a few times.

Apparently, the bass track that I cut tonight sounds "like Salisbury steak gravy." WTF?!? It's probably the most descriptive anyone's ever gotten with my tone. I dig it. Thanks, John.

Dude also said that there was a kind of Geezer Butler vibe to it, which I can totally dig. I was 14 or 15 when I shoplifted a $3 bootleg of "We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'n' Roll" the track order was wrong, and the cover was something weird, but I was hooked. When I saw him last year, I thought that he was playing a bass like my black ho, but it looks to be a fuckin' Lakland.

That stuff changed my life.









I totally need to bring "Denver Concrete Vibrator" out of the online gaming realm, and into reality. Like I have time for four bands, right?

A Little Piece of Heaven

Since the girl is a Hardees® alumna, my ears totally perked up when the radionews story was about some unholy breakfast burrito at Hardees®. I'm sworn to secrecy regarding the secret ingredient, but I can tell you that it is not love.

The press release is awesome, almost like Taco Town tacos:

Hardee's® Gets a Little Bit Country and a Little Bit Espanol at Breakfast

New Country Breakfast Burrito(TM) Fits a Hearty Meal Inside a Warm Tortilla

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Hardee's has always focused on giving its customers the kind of high-quality breakfast items people normally expect to find only at sit-down restaurants. Starting today, anyone who loves a hearty meal in the morning but is pressed for time has a tasty new option: the Country Breakfast Burrito. Offering the down-home flavors of a complete "country breakfast" with a south-of-the-border twist, the Country Breakfast Burrito is now available at all Hardee's locations.

"This is no ordinary breakfast burrito," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of Marketing for Hardee's restaurants. "It's an entire country breakfast in the palm of your hand. It represents the first time that hungry breakfast customers can get eggs, bacon, ham, hash browns and sausage gravy in a portable form that can easily be eaten on the go. True breakfast fans are really going to enjoy the Country Breakfast Burrito once they get their hands on it."

The Country Breakfast Burrito features two egg omelets filled with crumbled bacon and sausage, diced ham and shredded cheddar cheese with hash rounds and a generous ladle of sausage gravy, all wrapped in a warm flour tortilla. It is offered for a limited time only and will be sold for $2.69 by itself or $4.09 for a small combo, which includes hash rounds and coffee. Prices may vary.

Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the first fiscal quarter ended May 21, 2007, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,022 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 43 states and in 13 countries, including 1,101 Carl's Jr.® restaurants, 1,905 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to http://www.ckr.com or http://www.hardees.com.

Does anyone remember the Taco Bell Country Burritos? It was cheese, some potato product, sausage, (fuckin') gravy, and a bit of eggs on a cold flour tortilla. Those were awesome, but this one is a 920 calorie monster. The nearest Hardees® is in Casper. It's time for a road trip, friends.