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Friday, February 27, 2009
Flight of the Conchords "2 Many Dicks on the Dance Floor (Schwarz remix)"
11:01 AM
well, you can add DJ Empirical and The Librarian to the dicks out there in bootleg remix land. i'm a big flight of the conchords fan, and TL quickly appreciated the quality of their tune, so we chopped up and battered "Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor" under our new Schwarz moniker. take a listen:




download: Flight of the Conchords, "Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor (Schwarz remix)"


rumor has it there's a video in the works -- stay tuned!

(oh, and big ups to Forever Awesome who are also sharing this track. good on you, broseph.)

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
my realization about a.e. paterra & zombi
10:30 PM

The Last Samurai.jpg, originally uploaded by AE Paterra.

so i met A.E. Paterra over a year ago, when i opened for Gil Mantera's Party Dream and he was introduced to me as their new drummer. "we stole him from a band called Zombi," Ultimate Donny told the crowd.

my dumb ass assumed Zombi was probably some shitty pittsburgh (or even youngstown)* band, friends with GMPD and Paterra was pitching in on drums live. wrong.

fast forward to a couple-few days ago, my associate The Librarian asked via instant message whether i'd heard "Sapphire" by Zombi, which he'd bought to play that night in his set at Pris. i hadn't, and in fact did not at first even remember Paterra's Zombi, though that changed by the end of the track, which was excellent synthy rock (imagine Kavinsky or Moroder, but prog). something about the feel of it grabbed me like GMPD did, and i started putting 2 and 2 together.

so sorry Tony, if you read this. everyone else, go check them shits out. don't be like me.

[*] nothing against those towns. i think the same thing about this town too.

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Friday, February 13, 2009
DJE's V-Day Comp: Songs About Love, and Stuff
2:36 PM
So, I was thinking I'd repeat my Christmas effort and make a little Valentine's Day comp. This one's easier, since every asshole has some song about love, whether it's a happy one, or a sad one, or whatever. I tried to avoid a lot of the absurdly overplayed obvious things ("I
Feel Love", "Love Bites") in favor of more interesting stuff. And don't worry -- there's a good mix of rock in with the "dje"-type stuff.

There's also a track in there from my old band, The Haywards, from the EP that represents my only recorded output with them. The song is "Valentine's", and David wrote it specifically for a VD show we did.

[ part 1 ] [ part 2 ]

Here's the tracklist. Hopefully it won't discourage you from downloading. :D

01 James Kochalka Superstar - Soundcheck of Love
02 Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Origin of Love (off-Broadway version)
03 Neil Young - Little Thing Called Love
04 The Haywards - Valentine's
05 Pete Shelley - In Love With Somebody Else
06 The White Stripes - Ashtray Heart
07 Elysian Fields - Les Amours perdues (Gainbourg cover)
08 Project / Object - Bamboozled by Love (live) (Zappa cover)
09 The Knife - Pass This On (live)
10 Sparks - Eaten by the Monster of Love
11 Pet Shop Boys - Heart
12 Ministry - Work for Love
13 Annie - Heartbeat
14 Emiliana Torrini - Hold Heart
15 Meg - Laptop Love
16 R.D. Burman - I Love You
17 The Mighty Boosh - Love Games
18 Paul Bowles - Love Song
19 Fudgie & Fufu - I'm Sincere
20 Electric Six - Be My Dark Angel
21 Datarock - Computer Camp Love
22 Gil Mantera's Party Dream - Dreamscape
23 Cex - Earth-Shaking Event
24 Kalyanji Anandji - Love Me
25 Momus - Multiplying Love
26 T2 - Heartbroken
27 Cardia - Our Love Is Real
28 Jobriath - Take Me I'm Yours
29 Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - The Beat That My Heart Skipped
30 Klaus Nomi - Valentine's Day
31 Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
32 Olive - Love Affair
33 Coil - Love's Secret Domain
34 Wild Man Fischer - I Swear to God My Love Was True


Comments welcome! Oh, and sorry, there are a couple 128 mp3s in there. Appy-polly-logies.

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Sunday, February 08, 2009
Black Signal recording session
11:21 PM
Black Signal, my band with Sean and Matt, had a recording session today with Andy Perkins, at his Litterbox Studios. I snapped a couple pics, mostly during soundcheck.

andy tracking "motorcycleheadfeetfallsoff"

Catch the rest on my photo blog.

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Thursday, February 05, 2009
Bale Freakout Dub
6:30 AM
So in case you haven't heard it yet, Christian Bale went on a little rampage on the set of... Terminator 4 or something.

Nowadays it's cool to remix the hell out of any old audio clip that hits the web, but all the remixes I've heard have been wack as hell, so when stAllio! suggested that *someone* remix it well, i figured I'd give it a whirl.



download: DJ Empirical, "Bale Freakout Dub"


This isn't quite done yet, but it's sharable. If you want to download/forward/embed/whatever, feel free.

And make one yourself, too, if you don't like it. ;)

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Sunday, February 01, 2009
Goodbye, Grandma Moore
6:16 PM
Goodbye, Grandma Moore

Dolores Moore

Dolores M. Moore 77, Dixon died Saturday January 24, 2009 in the Dixon Health Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was born in Clinton, Iowa on March 2, 1931 the daughter of Fred and Cecelia (Young) Seible. She had been employed as a cook at the Dixon VFW and the Kreider Center.

She was a member of St. Patrick Church Dixon and The Dixon VFW Post 540 Auxiliary.

She was married to Harold Asa Moore on June 25, 1949 in Dixon,IL He preceded her in death on December 23, l972. She was also preceded in death by her parents and one brother Ralph Seible.

She is survived by 2 daughters Janet (Steve) Boyd, Chrisney, IN and Monica (Jim) Barkowski, Dixon; 3 sons Paul (Patricia) Moore, Brian Moore both Dixon and Ralph Moore Evansville, IN Also several grand children and great-grandchildren survive.

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