The dB’s – Moving In Your Sleep: In other news, the dB’s have a new album soon to be released!

The Crystal Method – Wild, Sweet and Cool: Bouncing up the morning.

Merzbow – [...]]]> Tool – Intension: Low, plodding, and slow, not quite building up to the level of mania one might expect from Tool.

The dB’s – Moving In Your Sleep: In other news, the dB’s have a new album soon to be released!

The Crystal Method – Wild, Sweet and Cool: Bouncing up the morning.

Merzbow – Paradoxa Paradoxa Pt. 2 : 25 minutes of random noise from an early live recording.

Kinks – Superman: I fear if it weren’t for the Random Eight, I’d never hear the host of Kinks songs I have on the iPod.

Smart Went Crazy – Love Goes Blank: A bit manic, and a bit quiet.

Sonic Youth – NYC Ghosts & Flowers: A Ranaldo poem-to-music-to-crazed-feedbacky-guitar-stuff tune.

Talking Heads – What A Day That Was: Probably the most normal tune of the morning.

The Replacements – Darlin’ One: Fading days from the best band ever, but I still dig every song.

Beequeen – On The Road to Everywhere: Fun five minutes of strange.

Venetian Snares – Aaperture: Slightly more mellow than [...]]]> Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet – Tense: Short tune from the great Requiem For A Dream soundtrack.

The Replacements – Darlin’ One: Fading days from the best band ever, but I still dig every song.

Beequeen – On The Road to Everywhere: Fun five minutes of strange.

Venetian Snares – Aaperture: Slightly more mellow than the typical heavy drum beats this fellow produces.

Cursive – I Couldn’t Love You: But I’m not asking him too.

Bob Geldof – Silly Pretty Thing: Still doing silly pop after all these years.

DJ Shadow – Walkie Talkie: Fun tune, very fast beats.

Ministry – Psalm 69: Ending the Random Eight loud and angry.

And [...]]]> On a trip to the Zoo this morning, a very kind caretaker informed me that the newly acquired Otters were going to be on display for about one hour to begin their acclimation to their new habitat. A small handful of those in the know, including me, waited patiently for the critters to arrive.

And arrive they did.

When asked if the otters ever slow down, the caretaker said they have two speeds: stop and fast. And fast they were. It didn’t take long to realize I needed to have a very fast shutter speed if I wanted something more than a furry blur for each shot.

When young, the otters travel in packs almost exclusively, even to the point of walking over each other. It was beyond comical watching the parade of even otters race all over the habitat.

For as goofy as the otters look in the shots, the pictures really don’t capture how crazy they were. Everything broke loose when they hit the water.

Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Bethe Bethe Kese Kese: Very dub with Nusrat’s vocals meshing in well.

David Holmes – No Man’s Land: From the Pi soundtrack, a moody track from one of my favorite movies.

Archers of Loaf – Backwash: Yeah [...]]]> The Soft Boys – I Wanna Destroy You: Classic Hitchcock tune.

Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Bethe Bethe Kese Kese: Very dub with Nusrat’s vocals meshing in well.

David Holmes – No Man’s Land: From the Pi soundtrack, a moody track from one of my favorite movies.

Archers of Loaf – Backwash: Yeah Archers!

Robert Jan De Neeve – A.F.: Short collection of beeps and boops from the anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music.

Talking Heads – Found A Job: Good for him.

The Fiery Furnaces – 1917: Back to the weird.

The Beta Band – The House Song: Bouncy house.

A bit of thanks tho those who have made a point of reviewing, playing, or acknowledging Zero Zero Three since its release:

Chain D.L.K. posted a remarkably thorough review, presenting insights I truly thought nobody would ever find.

SCV’s 2011 Megamix: Sound Colour Vibration was the first group to not [...]]]>

A bit of thanks tho those who have made a point of reviewing, playing, or acknowledging Zero Zero Three since its release:

Chain D.L.K. posted a remarkably thorough review, presenting insights I truly thought nobody would ever find.

SCV’s 2011 Megamix: Sound Colour Vibration was the first group to not only respond with dozens of kind words regarding my CD, but also put “Airspace” on their Christmas Day compilation…quite a nice present.

JP’s Music Blog authored a nice review in the early weeks of the release.

Exclaim’s review only days after the CD release almost slipped by my attention, but I was happy to eventually find it. I also learned that I should always include a picture with all submissions…not that this fellow isn’t me.

Deaf Sparrow posted a less flattering review, but definitely gave it a serious listen.

KCRW DJ Chuck P blogged about receiving the Zero Zero Three digipak in the mail, giving me a wonderful chuckle.

KVRX was the first radio station (I’m aware of) to play tracks from the release.

Minor Threat – Minor Threat: Punk day rising.

Leather Hyman – Deaf in One Eye: A song title that probably seemed real clever when they thought of it (but, actually, a really good song).

Blind Willie McTell – [...]]]> The Honeymoon Killers – Laugh at Me: Huh, a Sonny Bono cover. Learn something everyday, I do.

Minor Threat – Minor Threat: Punk day rising.

Leather Hyman – Deaf in One Eye: A song title that probably seemed real clever when they thought of it (but, actually, a really good song).

Blind Willie McTell – Broke Down Engine: From a fun collection of his tunes.

Catherinr Ribeiro – Une Infinie Tendresse: This song always makes me think I’m watching a Dario Argento film.

Husker Du – What Do I Want: Quite possibly a throat lozenge.

Hans Zimmer – One Simple Idea: Watching Inception enough on cable makes that BOOM BOOM BOOM music get lodged on one’s head, leading to a soundtrack purchase. Conspiracy, I tell you…

Boredoms – Synthesizer Guide Book On Fire: Which I guess means all the chocolate is melted.

And one Milhouse: