yeah. i said it. i LOVE kid rock! and other things...

there is this great beatboxer in town named kid beyond. he. is. absolutely. amazing. i've only seen him once and he did a full-on rendition of a portishead song WITH.HIS.MOUTH. hahaha. for those who aren't familiar with beatboxing...he makes all the sounds of the song with his mouth: guitars, vocals, scratching (yes actual dj scratching), drums, piano, strings, saw (just kidding) and he records them into a loop machine. so when he starts the song he'll start out with the beats and record that, then he'll let that "loop" while he adds guitar sounds and he records it, then he plays that while he adds scratching etc and then he does vocals over that. he operates all this by a (fairly standard) looping machine. it has footpeddles so he can add or detract sounds throughout the song. i just sat there with my mouth open. i mean, he did a gospel song, a gay-boy-dance song (otherwise known as "house") and a led zeppelin song. i keep trying to see him again so i am on his yahoo groups list and get mailed about shows etc. this came today...

Greetings from Kid Beyond. You know when Sade sang, "Coast to coast, LA to Chicago"? That's, um, not coast-to-coast, last I checked. Or is there something I'm missing here?

um...hahahaha...LOVE.HIM.

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i'm sure most of you know of mark morford, the most times right-on, somtimes highly irritating SF Chronicle columnist? today his column was about jesus' ipod. it was kinda irritating, but he did have some good moments...like this below:

(in regards to who else would be on jesus' ipod) Who else? Sam Philips. Lhasa. Lamb. That woman from Mazzy Starr. So many more.

i'm showing you this because i loved the "that woman from mazzy star" bit. who does know her name? i know who...boys. and chris porter who used to book for mama kin in boston and was in.love.with.her. now he lives in seattle. he was obssessed with her. is it faith? glitter? flower?fee-blah? i almost have it.

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Here are some neat instructions on how to make a coin ring! my new friend katie asked if i knew what metal quarters were made out of and i thougt the 'structions said silver but that's just silly. everyone walking around with all that silver in their pockets? we'd all be metling change down into block silver. so um..how much do we love the internet!?!?!

from the u.s. mints' website:
Quarters, dimes, and half dollars are cupro-nickel clad. Each coin has a copper core, and an outer layer, the “clad,” made of 75 percent copper and 25 percent cupro-nickel alloy.

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...and pointed out by my best east coast friend, ren, yet another (only/good/not so good?) reason to visit houston. the funeral museum (yeah i don't know why the text is all small) and for those of you who KNOW ME know me, this is right up my friggin' alley. ren sends me lot's of stuff like this. i *heart* her.

huh, them bones, by AIC just came on my interent radio station and I had the volume on low and I thought it was bull god by kid rock. Hahahaha. you know what? some of you are throwing up right now but i'll say it: i LOVE kid rock. you know why? because when "devil without a cause" came out in '99 or '00, whenever it was, he was one of the first to meld rock, southern rock, funk, rap, hair metal, thrash metal, soul and R&B. that's alotta fucking shit people. AND he has an awesome female drummer. AND he dated james king (a total cutey-patootie model, but unfortunately, not so great actress) AND the entire album was PROPEHTIC. in several songs he sings that he's famous, breaking records, eatin' steak when he used to be eatin'..uh...something else and this was all written BEFORE he became super hot. AND he had a midget in his band...

...who incidentally ren and i saw in the detroit airport on our way to vegas once. we were waiting for our plane to board and a midget walks by in front of us and she say,"hey, wasn't that joe c?" (again, i *heart* her). next thing you know, there are about 50 girls around "someone" and we realize its kid rock. so i body surfed over there to get a pick with my new, 800 pound, olympus digital camera (this was 2000, yo!)...

...AND he has the best persona. dude (and yes i used the word dude but only to indicate how what i am about to say is really important) he KNOWS who he is. he once (basically) said, how else can a white-trash, ugly, greasy, dirty, drinking, skinny guy with stringy hair get to date a super-model? ANSWER: be a rock star, that's how!

LOVE.HIM.

uh...how did this turn into a pro-kid rock blog entry?