TASM Lab - Noble exits - Dead River Drag, Thought Industry, Sleet, Kalamazoo, and others
Posted by: Michael J on 04-30-08:
You're Welcome
Posted by: Frog on 03-30-08:
k revel everyone is not arol, only arol is arol, you win. the point is that the truth stands for itself, so i do too, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, which puts your tiny power trip right in its place doesnt it. doesnt matter anyway. cheers.
Posted by: . on 03-28-08:
right, well i guess expecting that drastic of a process acceleration isn't rational is it. *shrug* well if it makes any difference,I myself as Steve,am NOT a wound up nature show host or school shooter or some random person who cant manage to get off their ass without external encouragement or anyone else I killed who's name was Steve.THAT Steve is DEAD in the final context of the word and no one in their RIGHT MIND cares, to continue identifying with him as a living being.This is ludicrous.
Here are links to TASM-related sites. I've decided to leave the old dead ones as a museum exhibit. The following sites will provide more information about TASM contributors.
I encourage you to check them out. I apologize if they are not quite up date.
BROADSIDE PRODUCTIONS - Mike!
TASM Fellow Mike Roche's own Broadside Productions. A full service recording studio in
Texas Corners, MI., soon moving to Portage.
Kevin Banks is a good friend who draws wonderful pictures. Much of his work is published in the Boston Phoenix and the Weekly dig,
a weekly newspaper. He's got two sites now. Check them out, both of them, dummy.
Post every stupid, drunken e-mail you've ever recieved! Or at least read some dumb ones.
Visit Hudson Debacler Xavier Siemens' personal website where you can download papers about gravity. There's also pictures of his pretty girlfriend and pretty sisters.
LEPPOTONE ELECTRICAL RECORDINGS
Back in the day (and even now?) Leppotone was the collective label and association for many fun Kalamazoo acts such as The Sleestacks, Sinatras, Twister, Tom Collins and King Tammy. They formed all sorts of other bands after I left town (in 93) such as Maltese Falcon, Goldenboy and The Underwear Hobos (OK, my memory is getting bad). ANYWAYS they have a busy, bloggy interactive site now where they still collect and talk about the bands. They should, IMO, post some content about the bands and maybe some MP3's. They must have a thousand recorded songs and I'd be delighted to hear them. Even back in the nineties these guys expected you to have a turntable.
UNDERCAST
TASM fellow COLIN BRADFORD's hip new Chicago alt/mod rock band.
KNIVES ARE QUIET
TASM Fellow/Twitchie/Sleet genius Chris Bryer's fronts OCEANS OF REGRET in a spin-off playing previously unheard Bryer's songs. I'm dying to hear it. Hopefully they will record.
COSMONAUT
TASM Fellow and Thought Industry head-and-backbone Brent Oberlin fronts this new GR/AA based pop rock band.
PROJECT ALAN
Al was my best buddy during high school. Here is his personal site devoted to movies, Onion-like mock news and his personal life. Al lives in Virginia Beach now. Al's cool.
OCEANS OF REGRET
This is Joby's band site. I don't remember hanging out (or even meeting) Joby in person, but he's been a A-1 in our internet scene.
STEPHEN LYNCH
Back when I lived with Toolmaster, I also lived with LYNCH. Steve is now successful comedian in NYC and well on his way to becoming a JV celebrity. He had special on Comedy Central, his own game show on VH1, and constantly tours the country. His act is mostly him playing guitar and singing dirty songs that he writes. Funny funny funny. Steve used to do this back when we were college together (in fact, we, with Toolmaster and TASM Fellow Pat were in a short-lived rock band called the 4 horsemen), and I don't think anyone would have guessed that he would make a career out of it. In fact, besides perhaps Heather Marsden, may be the only person out of our 200 person theatre school to be doing beans. This link is for his professional website.
DEAD RIVER DRAG - Dave!
This link leads to a new unpopulated Dead River Drag site, current band of TASM Lab fellow Dave Grant.
DEAD RIVER DRAG - Dave!
This link leads to an old, crappy, out-of-date Dead River Drag site, old band of TASM Lab fellow Dave Grant.
JOE LAWLESS
I went to high school with Mr. Lawless, where he could juggle, act, and sing (including his talent show hit "katydid") and work cable TV equipment. Later he would reach new levels of fame by being the "mouth pop out of joint" guy on Thought Industry's first record "Songs for Insects". Joe is now in "the Shorewoods" out in Seattle. Check out his burgeoning web site.
Dead links - They don't work!
Even though these don't go anywhere, you may be able to appreciate that fact that they USED to exist. There is actually an internet archive (um, check alexa.com) that you can see old, off-line sites.
THOUGHT INDUSTRY - web4insects.NET
A brand new bud of TI site has just popped up, using the same name as Dewey's old site. TI includes TASM fellows BRENT OBERLIN, MIKE ROCHE, and JARED BRYANT.
FIRST TO THE FENCE
First to the Fence features TI cool-kid Jeff Borkowski. Probably the coolest of the bunch, in that too-cool-for-school type of way. They are a heavy metal band. Thier discussion board is the new webforinsects board.
BLUE DAHLIA - Michelle Graf!
This link leads to the Blue Dahlia site, which is for TASM Fellow Michelle Graf's band (now former band).
BURNING TENT REVIVAL
Burning Tent Revival is a cool band from Kalamazoo featuring Bill and Jeff Clements. Check out thier new website (as of April of 2002, put up by Mr. Askew). They used to be called Killswitch, and Selling Heaven before that when Yount and Bryers were in the band.
This link goes to Dewey Guida's award winning Thought Industry site, off which this
site is modeled. Thought Industry includes TASM Fellows Brent Oberlin (Mashpee Mungquack among others),
Jared Bryant, and Mike Roche.
FAQ - INTERSTATE BRICKFACE
FAQ was a splendid, splendid punk rock band that played in Kalamazoo back in the day. They released great music, Geoff's pants used to fall down, bad Ronald played drums, Chonk chunked, and Bob was inspirational. They took Overman to MN one time to play a party and a bar and we once drove miles and miles into farmland to play for no one. Overman used to cover FAQ's "Stuff", and one time they let me and TASM Fellow Brent Oberlin sing it on stage with them at the State Theatre. This link is to a very well done memorial site, with MP3's, videos, etc.,
Dewey J. Guida III is a talented fantasy and multimedia artist. Much of his web work had inspired
me to create this site. Check out his new personal monument, CloudyNight.com
My good good old old buddy Joel Johnson plays in this NYC-based groovy rock band, Phil A. Sheo with the Goods. Apparently, he is one of the "goods". Phil A. Sheo is an alternate spelling of the sex act, just like FA-Q was an alternate spelling of the curse, which are both pretty clever if you're second grader (I really shouldn't editorialize, especially negatively, especially here). TASM fellows/Overmen Craig and Matt at one point gave Joel the name "Toolmaster of Brainerd", which has stuck now for a DECADE, as evidenced by his moniker at this site. I haven't seen them play yet, but I here that they are fabulous. Check it out.
"Straight from the great town of F.U.L.T.O.N.
The Fucked Up Little Town Outside of Nowhere
Tha Centre's View is another content-rich michigan band page, among other things. Now available is fee-free listening of TASM works (such as Thing and Nothing) in thier entirety.
THOUGHT INDUSTRY - Brent, Mike, and Jared!
This link goes to the new The Thought Industry official website administered by Mike. Thought Industry includes TASM Fellows Brent Oberlin (Mashpee Mungquack among others),
Jared Bryant, and Mike Roche.
SLEET
This goes to Sleet, a great band from Kalamazoo with TASM Fellow Chris Bryers in it.
HALL OF RECORDS
Kevin Oberlin's record label and booking agency (home of Sleet). Kevin got the Debacle our first show.
Hall of Records features TASM Fellow
Chris Bryers' band, Sleet. Chris played Simon Still in Thing and Nothing. The new band
is really cool. It also features Kevin Oberlin (former Twitch) and Willy Axe (of Dave Grant's Rollinghead)
TASM Fellow Colin Bradford does some fine noodling here in Astrid Flood.
Angelrat's well done site on Michigan bands, including TASM contemporaries/fellows such as Thought Industry,
Genius Hired Guns, Sleet, Twitch, Dead River Drag and Table.
k revel everyone is not arol, only arol is arol, you win. the point is that the truth stands for itself, so i do too, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, which puts your tiny power trip right in its place doesnt it. doesnt matter anyway. cheers.
Posted by: . on 03-28-08
right, well i guess expecting that drastic of a process acceleration isn't rational is it. *shrug* well if it makes any difference,I myself as Steve,am NOT a wound up nature show host or school shooter or some random person who cant manage to get off their ass without external encouragement or anyone else I killed who's name was Steve.THAT Steve is DEAD in the final context of the word and no one in their RIGHT MIND cares, to continue identifying with him as a living being.This is ludicrous.
Posted by: seventh cloners cloners clone's clone of a seventh cloners cloners clone's clone's clone on 03-19-08
everything is enchanted. enchantment is the more melodic synonym of entropic gravity touching closer to its etheric nature as you see it takes the cemetary out of the song in essence linguistically. take, for example, my radio. it's an inexpensive cd player and am/fm model with no tape player and no clock- i had the option to let my mom get me a pricier model because it was a birthday gift but the other model was unaesthetic. the brand name printed on it demanded attention. this little guy doesn't ask me to look at it. after my mom bought it for me i gave it back then bought it off her, which sounds like nonsense maybe but thats what i had to do for it to be mine. now its in my aparment sitting on the microwave, plugged into the wall (the radio is, not the microwave), but i never use it, nor do i intend to. i never turn it on. i don't own any cds and i'm not interested in the radio stations. it's just important, for some reason, that that thing is there. it's existence and presence in my apartment in and of itself is the manifested expression of the radio station i'm listening to, the radio, at least that part of it that is there merely to act as a mental reference point to the radio, to itself, to the essence of the here and now that is the true raw nature of time as it would otherwise be forgotten in the false context of memory. there is no music that is richer than this. there is no signal stronger than silence as all sound is contained within it. everything is enchanted by silence. the strength of an existences enchantment is measured by the strength of its silence. this is true for all of existence including within the context of music as expressed in the wake of silence.
Posted by: i agree on 03-17-08
revel is a coward on an ego trip. no argument there at all. i am you as you are he and you are me and we are all NOT -that- guy revel.
Posted by: . on 03-17-08
there's obviously a direct connection between time travel and the dimensions. when a person time travels the first thing that happens is that they effectively erase their original timeline, so there has to be somewhere for te traveller to be wen their originating timeline is gone, and that is the dimensions/dimensional existance, which is the same as the place refered to as the other side, which is accessable by degree of indisposal to physicality, of course. it i by order of the cessation of interest in the expression of the local timeline that the traveller is imparted visibility within this field, and this process may be expressed in varying degrees of speed. the traveller for example may wish to sift bulk from their observed expression or to purge it, perhaps in haste, which would lengthen the process, as more bulk would then be created while attempting to escape entropic gravity which no one can do on the other side or on this one.
Posted by: Emmanuel Teijeiro. Original creator of homestarrunner.com on 02-11-08
so i was like "i sure am the original creator of homestarrunner.com and i don't give a fuck who your two brothers think they are". and that was that.
Posted by: frog on 02-08-08
in response to "black lentil"'s prattle about sporky:
dude, how are you going to say that it's SAD that a kid named after a plastic fork and spoon combination i ate parfaits from kentucky fried chicken with when i was the same age he was when we were both on the farm does better growing up in the mainstream, using a username that's just a ripoff of kira's, and an incoherent one at that, and expect to be taken seriously? i mean, by anyone intelligent, obviously you succeeded in shutting down the thread and making a spectacle of hipforums moderatorship, but that's beside the point. or is it. heh. nevermind. good job genius.
Posted by: post regarding revel's ego trip in zendik forums on 01-28-08
Revel: (clears throat) Everyone (in the context of this dicussion) IS Arol, and everyone else here for that matter. You ARE a weak masochistic conceited bitch, and a failure at life. I AM intelligent and confident enough not to bother wasting my time either advising or commanding you to "get some class" as I DO recognize the boundary between my responsibility and yours, and that IS the reality you have to face every day of your life, waking or sleeping. I AM the winner of that and any other existing argument for that matter, and I AM at this moment as these words are spoken, a better zendik than you, a better man than you, and a better person than you, BECAUSE my response to life is YES, to knowing that the one bearing the devils advocate excuse is the fool, the martyr, the retard, and the loser, being yourself, in that matter, of course. Cheers (to me). Blan.
Frog
Posted by: whats wrong with my name on 01-25-08
god IS us, and wether or not i care about you doesn't need to be ADVERTISED. this dilema is the foundation of the zendik cult, which is founded and led psychically by me simply because i bear that name, and am conscious of it's fallacy, and THAT's what's behind zendik. That's the whole thing.
TASM Lab is proud to sound like, imitate, support, rip-off, or emulate the following: Decendents, Husker Du, Dagnasty, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Victims Family, Godbullies, Thought Industry, Twitch, Selling Heaven, Burning Tent Revival, First to the Fence, Cosmonaut, Brent Oberlin, Chris Bryers, Michelle Graf, Colin Bradford, Jared Bryant, Screwtape, Kalamazoo, Jeff Till, Jeffrey Till, Jeffrey J. Till, Jef Till, Nomeansno, Pegboy, Kevin Farkas, Dustin Donaldson, I am spoonbender, Owsla, Rollinghead, Dead River Drag, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Ralph Spight, Craig Verity, Matt Sahlgren, Dave Nash, D. Austin Nash, Mashpee Mungquack, Blink 182, Green Day, King Crimson, Genesis, Dream Theatre, Hanson Brothers, All, Replacements, Queen, adult paintings, modern art, nudes, office art, watercolors, bizzarre art, voilent paintings, sexy paintings, hudson debacle, thrice,