I want to thank all my buds who came to see Fruckus last night; and also, all the buds that tried to go but couldn't make it.

For Stew:

3 lamprey cleaned, peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
2 carrots, peeled and diced into medium size chunks
1 yellow onion, diced into medium chunks
2 stalks celery, diced into medium chunks
2 cups hearty red wine
2 cups fortified veal stock
1 bay leaf
2 tbsp. olive oil
salt and pepper to taste


Heat oil in a medium-size, heavy-gauge stock pot. Add lamprey and vegetables, then sear until vegetables are tender. Add the wine and reduce liquid by two-thirds. Add veal stock and bay leaf, reduce heat and simmer for 2 to 3 hours. Season with salt and pepper and serve on a bed of mashed potatoes as prepared below.

-Science News Online, "Food for Thought," August 10, 1996.

Ben and I just noticed that Little Pete's band The BlowHoles has a sitar-guitar player. I wonder if they borrowed it from Polaris.

It makes me want to put a buzzing bridge on my old Fender Squire.

I saw some folks from breathe owl breathe tonight and it was pretty. Aside from going there I learned how to One Man Jam which is not masturbating, it's more like playing paino and guitar and drums and rapping at the same time. Also, I saw other people and they were good. "It's later than you think."

My classes are all great so far, but aiming to be challenging. Poetry with Wakoski--Art History of China with Jing--Contemporary American-Indian Culture--and the Literature of the 18th Century with Arch. I think the two English classes will be the most time consuming, but the other two classes require almost as many readings. There are nine people in my Anthro class, the American-Indian class, so there's a lot of participation required: presentations, reaserch papers, and event reports (I plan on attending the East Lansing Pow-Wow of Love). I learned in my Lit class already that thomas jefferson never wrote his name with capitol T's or J's. It's undemocratic! That T and that J looming over the rest of the letters in his name so much like monarchs. in fact he wasn't for capitolizing the initial letters of sentences--same reason. also, I'm learning a lot about Neolithic Chinese culture from their pottery. the folks from the ancient city of Bopan made cool fish designs on their bowls, which may have doubled as urn caps. yep. in poetry, we're going to find our muses. and read our best poems tomorrow, which is scary. I know folks with five and a half classes, but I think all these intense classes are going to cut into my rowk time.

My theremin is alive and working and I can play all sorts of things on it, but it still needs some work. I'll get a picture up eventually and maybe a recording.

Over break I bought the new zelda game and I beat it today and was happy.

I found a tape recorder that had been lost for 6 months when I was home. Look forward to sound tapes friends...with theremin on them.

I read a really great short story over break, amongst other things. It's called 'after I was thrown in the river and before I drowned,' or similar, by Dave Eggers.

I had some F.ruckus things, which were great and La Remodea played with a drummer, Sandi's little bro, Ryan who could fit in nicely with us.

My mom got an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner for Christmas and it vibrates in such a way that, through the air, it cleans my brain too. Yay (ouch)!

Last night, I visited my Dad and got some gifts and gave some gifts and then I worked on my theremin deep into the night. The front panel is complete! And it looks really cool! And all I need to do now is connect it to the main circuit board and then buy/attach the antennae to the box! Yay!

I forgot to post something about the most recent detroit night: The Train Station. It's insane. And by insane I mean haunted, yet seductive. Like a ghost candybar.

That's not him! Nor is that the guy! <---worst obscure reference ever.

Ben and I went to zeitgeist last night to see (L)oretta and the Larkspurs. It ended up not being the Larkspurs, but instead, a combination the Larkspurs and some solo performers--a really hip group on a really cool looking stage complete with dolls and a scarvèd, moving bass drum. They played “Hello, my baby!” amongst other covers and originals, all sort of creepy and old timey which worked with the atmosphere. 'The Winged Lady' was the closer…I probably won’t forget the song or the lady.

Later, we ate the local Château de Blanc and then took a tour of Milford. As part of it, we stopped at the new hookah bar where we ran into Skody and couldn’t figure out the house flavor-mix. I think there's strawberry in it. And watermelon?

The theremin is going to be harder to make than I thought—I found a good casing for it, but I just found out that the instructions assume that you've ordered the optional (and lame) casing, so there’s nothing about what size to cut holes etc. But, I’ll figure it out and I’ll finish before break’s over.

More than 1/2 done with theremin--I need to work out a casing for all the circuits. Also, I'm still alive with minimal brain damage.

Theremin making is...tedious. Here's a record of my thoughts while trying to find a resistor:

"Brown black red, where's that brown black red...no, that's red brown black, that's brown black orange, there's another brown black orange. I should put all the resistors together, diodes look too similar. Nope. Ah, there it is! brown black red. Is that too much solder? Naw. I feel dizzy. Is it the fumes? I should use a fan. But how bad could lead be really, the Greeks used it for plumbing, the Romans for plates--never mind. I should use a fan…the next resistor is purple red orange. I just saw that one...!"

Yeah, how 'bout that. Anyway, I'm in Milford and it is great. I watched Tuj- play some FF12, which is not better than 7 (yet) and I played some banj- (thanks Heid-'s).

I picked up my Wakoski-poetry final paper today--it had the long division done right on the first page. And, the grade was a relief because I'm never sure how my revisions are going to be taken in that class. My other classes, IAH 208 in particular, are more precarious. But, I'm looking forward to the Detroit concert Saturday.

Is it the chrismas glow swarming or the christmas glow's warming?

Is everyone looking forward to christmas? Do we all still get good presents? Mary M., Matt's Mom, has doozie of a present planned for him, she told me. Ben P's present from his roommate is something grand too, (in an inside joke sort of way), a Kenny Loggins concert.

uhhhhh, Serge Gainsbourg?:

The show at (scene) metrospace was pretty good I think. Everyone played awful well and many a zach-friend came.

This morning, at 6:45, I was up to see the ROTC running around campus and screaming there little heads off. Ugh, a rush of poems and papers for class has me in a funk--Everything social and academic gets concentrated in these last few days.

Just got out of a good poetry class--our second to last session this semester. Randall felt spewy and had to leave. Tune in tomorrow for the Ann Arbor Radio thing (see previous post) and come to the show Saturday if you can. It's right on abbott street at the place with the TV's in the windows: (Scene) Metrospace. Also, April 13th is a Friday--already looking forward to it.

Friends, if you live in Ann Arbor you should, on wednesday, 9ish, tune in to WBCN, 88.3, to listen to FFFFFFrontier Ruckusususus play a little from radioland. Better yet, come to the studio and give me a hug and wish me luck and listen with your portoradio in the cold outside the studio.

If you don't live in ann arbor or have a radio you should tune in from www.WCBN.org

Did anyone else read about Tom Tancredo's visit to MSU? He's great...I happened to read the best blog ever about him today. And because of its compelling arguments on the subject of immigration reform, I just can't not support Tom Tancredo for president, 2008! *shudder*


Tancredo on Miami: "It has become a Third World country....You would never know you're in America."

Interestingly, the blog cites MSU as being "one of the most conservative strong holds [sic] in the Midwest." Disgusting—I was hoping that however loud the College Republicans, Kyle "freedom fighter" Bristol, and his followers (YAF) were getting, they wouldn’t be confused with the rest of the populous at MSU, which is either apathetic or diametrically opposed to conservative causes. In spite of a minority of scary people, East Lansing is a college town, and certainly not a conservative stronghold.

La Remodea did a near impromtu concert at some co-op tonight--and it rocked! Natey Bliton took the drums for a song called J.S.M. and it was beautiful; t'was La Remodea's first time they played that song live too.

Anyway, afterwords we went to Ben's and it was pretty fun--beers and buds, but I headed home due to tiredness, spaciness, happiness and homework.

The concert went well--I really liked segernomics (magnus organ) and camerata (xylo and 2 glocks).

Also, the word wasn't popular until Edison recommended it for telephone usage. Good-bye.