Transmissions from Möbius Street

05:08 pm - Maya Surgery

I'm sitting in the waiting room at Good Samaritan hospital. Maya had her left hip replaced today. The surgeon told me it went as well as possible, and she is sure Maya will have an excellent recovery. We have a long period of convalescence in front of us, but she should be better than new in a few months.

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01:01 pm - LepreCon 38

Maya and I have been invited to be music guests of honor for LepreCon 38, April 6-8 2012 in Tempe AZ. LepreCon is a very filk-friendly general convention. We have a special fondness for it - in 1998 it was the first convention to invite us to be guests of honor. More details are at http://leprecon.org/lep38/

Current Mood: mellow

09:06 pm - Renovation schedule

Here' my schedule for WorldCon:

Wed 15:00 - 16:00, Planning a Set (Workshop), A09 (RSCC)
Kathy Mar (M), Jeff Bohnhoff, Heather Dale

Wed 20:00 - 21:00, Writing Parodies (Workshop), A09 (RSCC)
Bob Kanefsky (M), Roberta Rogow, Blind Lemming Chiffon, Jeff Bohnhoff

Fri 15:00 - 16:00, Concert: Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff (Concert), D01
(RSCC)
Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Fri 17:00 - 18:00, Home Recording I (Workshop), A17 (RSCC)
Everybody wants to make a demo. What can you do with what
you've got? If that won't do - and it probably won't - what
do you really need to create a good demo? How little can
you get away with; or, if you have even a small budget,
what can you do to turn a spare bedroom into decent
recording space? Hardware and software solutions are
discussed.
Jeff Bohnhoff (M), Betsy Tinney, Tony Fabris, Alexander James Adams, SJTucker

Sat 16:00 - 17:00, Home Recording II (Workshop), A16 (RSCC)
Everybody wants to make a demo. Okay, you have some
equipment. Now what do you do with it? How do you set it
up; how do you use it to capture or create the best sounds
you can? If you didn't make the first hour; that's okay,
come anyway. Take your show on the road -- What's it take
to put together a good starter sound system for performing,
as they say, "out," in front of the public? What's it take
to run such a system, and how can you record your live
performances cheaply yet well enough to share? Come listen
to our panel of sound techs and performers talk about their
setups.
Jeff Bohnhoff (M), Betsy Tinney, Tony Fabris, Alexander James Adams, SJ Tucker

Hope to see many of you at the con!

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10:08 pm - Because there just isn't enough Star Trek in the world.

I just posted a new video for Lust on the Bridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTamaxBjgvU

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07:30 pm - I have committed video yet again

This one is my Reelin' In the Years parody:
Hangin' Out at Cheers.

Current Mood: artistic

01:13 pm - Happy birthday Brooke

Happy birthday hsifyppah. May your day be full of squid cakes and smiles!

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10:11 am - Parody video for We Are the Cubs Fans

I posted a video for We Are the Cubs Fans to Youtube yesterday. Normally I can only do videos where I have video clips to match the song, which restricts me to media related material. It occurred to me last weekend I could do a Ken Burns Baseball style photo slideshow for this one.

Current Mood: accomplished

10:14 pm - New video

I finally finished the video for Every Mouse Just Wants to Rule the World:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me71dAw5bQk

I'll add captions tomorrow.

Current Mood: cheerful

10:49 am - Consonance mini report

Maya and I had a fantastic time at Consonance this past weekend. ( click here for my ramblings. )

Current Mood: cheerful

01:34 pm - Meet the new DOS

I've been working on a little side project for the past few weeks. When Maya and I recorded Retro Rocket Science, I did a simple acoustic version of Won't Get Fooled. There were a couple of reasons. At the time, I didn't feel I could properly recreate the swirling organ part that the original song is built around, and I was also very daunted by the idea of programming a Keith Moon drum part. Not to put too fine a point on it, I chickened out :-). I've always been vaguely bothered by that. A few months ago, I downloaded a demo version of a plug-in that had a setting that sort of sounded like the organ from the song (the preset was named surprisingly enough "Won't Get Fooled Again"). I played with it for a bit, and came to the conclusion that it wasn't really all that close, but it got me thinking about how I could get the sound myself. I'll spare you all the gory details of how I ultimately got there, but I did eventually get pretty close to replicating the sound, and I figured out the chord voicings. Another thing that's been on my to-do list for a while is to write an updated version of the lyric. Maya and I wrote Won't Get Fooled in 1995, and although I still think it's one of our better songs, a lot of the specific references are out of date, even if the basic gist of the song still rings true. I wrote a new lyric that is less focused on the M$ corporation, and more on general and recent annoyances that have cropped up since then. We recorded both lyrics, and I've posted them to stream from our web site:
Won't Get Fooled (1995 Edition)
Won't Get Fooled (Vista Ultimate Edition)

Current Mood: busy