Geoff at work found this awesome allergy warning on the wrapper of one of the candies my company gave out in our Halloween goodie bags:
“This product contains Tartrazina Colouring (E-102) that can cause alergical reactions in sensible people”
I was also fond of “On Rare Occasions This Product May Contain Gluten”. If you’re allergic to Gluten, are you going to play Russian Roulette?
Last night I got home from work after stopping by CVS to get some candy for the trick or treaters. I put out the pumpkin I carved the night before and also dug some Halloween decorations out from the basement. Quickly, the kid Frankie came from across the street dressed as a young Padawan.
He was our only trick or treater.
:(
This weekend was totally out of control…
and I left for the annual Halloween Party in Dryden, NY after work on Thursday… We made pretty good time, and listened to Game 2 of the World Series on the radio during the trip.. It was the first time I had listened to baseball on the radio, and I was surprised as to how easy it was to follow the game. I look forward to being able to listen to games on Sirius after the merger during future trips. We went straight to the Bed and Breakfast across the street from the Hammond/Gunther (or, as I have dubbed them, The Hamsters) household. We saw the last inning of the game, and Corinna went to bed. I joined the party across the street and stayed up far too late. The weekend is a blur… I actually even had a costume this year, it only took me 5 years to actually dress up for the big Halloween party. There was a pig roast. There were abandoned buildings. There was
who is beginning his slow reign of the human race.
Sunday, after the long drive back to Boston, we settled in to watch what became the final game of the 2007 World Series. I don’t know if it was because of my lack of sleep, but it was a real nail biter for me… I was so completely shredded after the game that I nearly passed out.
I finally have a Mac at work. This is a wonderful thing, but it will be awhile before I can really adopt it as my new machine as I am really busy on some contract work (i.e. the kind with really firm deadlines we have to deliver on) for the next few weeks.
This year’s Halloween Party at Sean & Kelly’s was as awesome as ever. It’s always great to be able to able to see so many of my friends since we’ve all scattered away from Rochester. This year’s party was a bit different than years past, with Master
now present and accounted for. Other friends of Sean and Kelly’s brought a young child as well, so a “Swear Jar” was instituted (the proceeds of which go to christmas presents for the children who we damaged). At the end of the party, I believe there was nearly $90 in the jar (with the typical “fine” being $1). Not too bad for a bunch of foul-mouthed drunks…
created the above time-lapse video of the party, starting Thursday night (before
and I arrived) and continuing until Sunday morning when people began to depart. I believe he said that he kept 1 out of every 400 frames, which (if my math is correct, is one frame every 13.3 seconds or so). You’ll see the perspective change as we moved the camera on Friday morning to a corner-mount on the wall. I don’t know how much work he put in to preparing for this, but it went off without a hitch. Yesterday he put up all the raw DV files up on a server, as well as a ~100MB WMV “rough-cut” just so people didn’t have to download a few gigs of DV. Anyway, I downloaded it all yesterday and cut together a version to stick up on YouTube as well as burn to a DVD. Other than the “title cards”, everything else you see is Adam’s (all the “real” work).
I had forgotten how completely awesome this video was….
This weekend in Dryden at Sean & Kelly’s Halloween Bash was awesome… It was great to see everyone again and actually be able to spend some time with them… We (Me,
Last night I caught The Dresden Dolls at Avalon.. I have been trying to see this band for years now, and every time I have had the opportunity it has been screwed up (one time I forgot about the show, a few times I’ve been travelling, etc). They did open for Nine Inch Nails earlier this year, but the sound was off and the crowd wasn’t that into them.. Plus it was a sit-down show, which was convienient at the time because I was on crutches, but a rock show shouldn’t have chairs.
Anyway, last night’s show was a blast, although I could have done without some of the opening acts…. The Dolls rocked the house, playing old and new material and a bunch of covers. Amanda even played drums while Brian played guitar for a cover of “I Love Rock & Roll” by Joan Jett. The new songs were great, and I’m looking forward to their new album, whenever that comes out. The highlight of the night, however, was their encore, when they came out dressed as The White Stripes.. Amanda was dressed as Jack White and Brian as Meg White and they played “My Doorbell”… It was hysterical… I left before the encores were done as it was getting close to last call on the subway, but it was a great night out..
Here’s what we listened to on the trip to and from Dryden, NY this weekend. We assembled this on the iPod in the car.. I selected most of the songs, and when I was driving on the last leg of the return trip
| Track Name | Artist | Album | Length |
| Vanilla Ice Cream | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 3:10 |
| Baby | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 3:30 |
| Halloween | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 2:46 |
| Love Song | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 1:23 |
| Craig | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 3:33 |
| Beelz | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 2:54 |
| Albino | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 1:52 |
| Mixer At Delta Chi | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 2:06 |
| Little Tiny Moustache | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 3:40 |
| Pierre | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 2:01 |
| Whittlin’ Man | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 2:51 |
| Classic Rock Tune | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 2:12 |
| Not Home | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 1:15 |
| Voice In My Head | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 4:09 |
| D&D | Stephen Lynch | The Craig Machine | 4:26 |
| Dr. Stephen | Stephen Lynch | Superhero | 2:11 |
| Talk To Me | Stephen Lynch | Live at the El Ray | 3:44 |
| Grandfather | Stephen Lynch | Live at the El Ray | 2:50 |
| She Gotta Smile | Stephen Lynch | Live at the El Ray | 4:15 |
| Best Friends Song | Stephen Lynch | Live at the El Ray | 2:26 |
| Lullaby (Live) | Stephen Lynch | Superhero | 8:21 |
| Walken III | Stephen Lynch | A Little Bit Special | 0:45 |
| Breakfast Club (Feat. Murs & Supernatural) | DJ Z-Trip | Shifting Gears (Advance) | 4:53 |
| The Humpty Dance | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | 6:30 |
| Oh Word? | The Beastie Boys | To The 5 Boroughs | 2:59 |
| Latch Key Kids | Bad Religion | 80-85 | 1:43 |
| 54 Cymru Beats | Aphex Twin | drukqs (Disc 2) | 6:06 |
| Casting Out the Nines | Dub Trio | Exploring the Dangers Of | 5:44 |
| Acid Again | Meat Beat Manifesto | Actual Sounds + Voices | 5:47 |
| Closer (Precursor) | Nine Inch Nails | Closer – Further Away | 7:15 |
| GhettoMusick | Outkast | Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3:56 |
| Mr. Grieves | Pixies, The | Doolittle | 2:05 |
| Rebel Without a Pause | Public Enemy | Power to the People and the Beats – Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits | 4:18 |
| The Power of Equality | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4:02 |
| Beers, Steers + Queers | Revolting Cocks | Beers Steers + Queers | 6:03 |
| My Adidas | Run D.M.C. | Raising Hell | 2:47 |
| Rockaway Beach | The Ramones | Anthology (Disc 1) | 2:08 |
| There is a Light That Never Goes Out | The Smiths | Amy’s Mix | 4:03 |
| Come On My Selector | Squarepusher | Big Loada | 3:27 |
| Rock and Roll Creation | Spinal Tap | This Is Spinal Tap | 4:08 |
| Tribute | Tenacious D | Tenacious D | 4:08 |
| American Girl | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Greatest Hits | 3:32 |
| Pork Roll Egg and Cheese | Ween | Live in Chicago | 2:30 |
| Vertigo | U2 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3:16 |
| Christiansands | Tricky | Pre-Millennium Tension | 3:51 |
| Laredo | Tomahawk | Tomahawk | 4:16 |
| Jerk-Off | Tool | Opiate | 4:24 |
| The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) | Tom Waits | Small Change | 3:40 |
| Rocky Raccoon | The Beatles | The White Album (Disc 1) | 3:32 |
| GHETTOCHIP MALFUNCTION (Hell Yes) | Beck | Hell Yes – EP | 2:42 |
| Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo | Bloodhound Gang | Foxtrot – Single | 2:52 |
| Unemployed Black Astronaut | Busdriver | Fear of a Black Tangent | 4:00 |
| Take The Skinheads Bowling | Camper Van Beethoven | Telephone Free Landslide Victory | 2:32 |
| Let’s Push Things Forward | The Streets | Original Pirate Material | 3:49 |
| Squeeze Me Macaroni | Mr. Bungle | Mr. Bungle | 5:38 |
| Stagger Lee | Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds | Murder Ballads | 5:15 |
| Ramble On | Led Zeppelin | Box Set Disc I | 4:23 |
| Peggy Sue | Buddy Holly | Buddy Holly | 2:32 |
| This Is Radio Clash | The Clash | The Story Of The Clash, Volume 1, Disc 1 | 4:10 |
| Life On Mars? | David Bowie | Hunky Dory | 3:54 |
| Me Myself And I | De La Soul | 3 Feet High And Rising | 3:50 |
| It’s Oh So Quiet | Björk | Post | 3:38 |
| Stuart | Dead Milkmen | Beelzebubba | 2:20 |
| Good Beat | Deee-Lite | WORLD CLIQUE | 4:39 |
| Armageddon It | Def Leppard | Hysteria | 5:24 |
| Radio Radio | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | The Very Best of… | 3:08 |
| My Red Hot Car | Squarepusher | Go Plastic | 4:42 |
| 808 State – Flow Coma (120 bpm) | AFX | 2 Remixes by AFX | 4:59 |
| Debra | Beck | Midnite Vultures | 13:46 |
| You’re On Fire | Grand Buffet | Sparkle Classic | 3:25 |
| This Fire | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | 4:14 |
| Everything’s Ruined | Faith No More | Angel Dust | 4:33 |
| Unsung | Helmet | Meantime | 3:57 |
| Mr. Brownstone | Guns N’ Roses | Appetite for Destruction | 3:48 |
| Wish You Were Here | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | 5:40 |
| Highway ’61 Revisited | PJ Harvey | Rid of Me | 2:57 |
| (New Wave) Polly | Nirvana | Incesticide | 1:48 |
| You Are My Sunshine | Mose Allison | The Mose Chronicles – Live in London, Vol. 1 | 3:17 |
| Strange Powers | The Magnetic Fields | Holiday | 2:41 |
| Citysong | Luscious Jackson | Natural Ingredients | 4:21 |
| Sound of Da Police | KRS-One | A Restrospective | 4:18 |
| catstep/my kitten/catnip vatstep dsp remix by hrvatski | kid606 | down with the scene | 6:00 |
| What a Wonderful World | Joey Ramone | Don’t Worry About Me | 2:23 |
| Mountain Song | Jane’s Addiction | Nothing’s Shocking | 4:03 |
| Things Can Only Get Better | Howard Jones | Howard Jones: Best Of | 3:57 |
| High Fidelity | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | The Very Best of… | 2:29 |
| Bitchin’ Camaro | Dead Milkmen | Big Lizard In My Backyard | 3:01 |
| Ashes To Ashes | David Bowie | Changesbowie | 4:25 |
| Nazi Punks Fuck Off | Dead Kennedys | Plastic Surgery Disasters · In God We Trust Inc. | 1:03 |
| Policy of Truth | Depeche Mode | Violator | 4:55 |
| Boyz in the Hood | Dynamite Hack | 3:02 | |
| Coin- Operated Boy | The Dresden Dolls | The Dresden Dolls | 4:46 |
| Car Song | Elastica | Elastica | 2:24 |
| No Secrets No Surprises | Jack Dangers | Variaciones Espectrales | 4:58 |
| A Drug Against War | KMFDM | Angst | 3:43 |
| Book of the Month | Lovage | Music To Make Love To You Old Lady By | 4:28 |
| Rock with You | Michael Jackson | Number Ones | 3:40 |
| Everyone I Have Ever Slept With | Momus | The Little Red Songbook | 2:42 |
| Shoplifters of the World Unite | The Smiths | Amy’s Mix | 2:58 |
| For the Ladies | Stephen Lynch | Superhero | 1:24 |
| The House Is Rockin’ | Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | Greatest Hits | 2:24 |
| Love -> Building On Fire | Talking Heads | The Name of This Band is Talking Heads (Disc 1) | 3:47 |
| America, Fuck Yeah | Team America | Team America – World Police | 2:07 |
| I Play It Off Legit | Ween | Pure Guava | 3:20 |
| Blue Orchid | White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan | 2:37 |
| De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da | The Police | Every Breath You Take – The Classics | 4:07 |
| No Business | Negativland | No Business | 4:13 |
| Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond | Brother Love’s Traveling Salva | 3:19 |
| Pleasant Valley Sunday (single version) | Monkees, The | Greatest Hits | 3:11 |
| Ich Bin Ein Auslander | Pop Will Eat Itself | Dos Dedos Mis Amigos | 3:59 |
| Debaser | Pixies, The | Doolittle | 2:53 |
| Supernaut (Trent Reznor Vocal Version) | 1000 Homo DJs | WaxTrax! Black Box: The First 13 Years (Disc 1) | 6:39 |
| Them Bones | Alice in Chains | Music Bank | 2:29 |
| The Ballad of Chasey Lain | Bloodhound Gang | Hooray for Boobies | 2:21 |
| Time After Time | Cyndi Lauper | Twelve Deadly Cyns …And Then Some | 4:01 |
| Moosebumps | Dr. Octagon | Instrumentalyst | 1:47 |
| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Elton John | Elton John: Greatest Hits | 3:14 |
| Pocket Calculator | Kraftwerk | Computer World | 4:58 |
| Paul Revere | Beastie Boys | Licensed To Ill | 3:41 |
| Naked Eye | Luscious Jackson | Fever In Fever Out | 4:40 |
| Another One Bites The Dust | Queen | Greatest Hits | 3:37 |
| Santeria | Sublime | My Best of Sublime | 3:03 |
| No One Else | Weezer | Weezer | 3:04 |
| Breaking the Girl | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4:55 |
| About A Girl | Nirvana | Unplugged in New York | 3:37 |
| If You Live | Mose Allison | Greatest Hits | 2:34 |
| Been Caught Stealing | Jane’s Addiction | Ritual De Lo Habitual | 3:34 |
| Sweet Child o’ Mine | Guns N’ Roses | Appetite for Destruction | 5:56 |
| Possibly Maybe | Björk | Post | 5:06 |
| La La Love You | Pixies, The | Doolittle | 2:43 |
| Toll Booth Willie | Adam Sandler | They’re All Gonna Laugh At You | 3:48 |
| At The Heart Of It All (Aphex Twin remix) | Nine Inch Nails | Further Down The Spiral | 7:14 |
| Enjoy the Silence | Depeche Mode | Violator | 6:12 |
| Human Behavior | Björk | Debut | 4:12 |
| Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Changesbowie | 4:10 |
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