2-July-2009: I recently joined a funk band with Lee-Ann called Funk Brokers, Inc. If you're in the CT/MA area, do me a favor and write me in as Best Keyboardist (if you're not local, it's OK, just don't fill in a zip code) in the Hartford Advocate's nomination poll for this year's "Grand Band Slam." It's a local competition for bands & musicians... those who are recognized get a couple of sweet gigs in the Hartford area, and a little more credibility to add to their resumes. Thanks!

19-June-2009: The day has come at last! RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES 21 HAS ARRIVED AT LAST! This one gets pretty rancid every so often, so it's not safe to watch at work, or in public, or even in your closet with all the lights turned off, etc. Also starring a lot of guys from WCCC!

5-June-2009: In an effort to scrape together some much-needed money for Cup O' Noodles, frozen burritos, and bottled water to survive in this jobless wilderness, I've started back up my LEGO parts shop on Bricklink.com: DAVE'S LEGO SPACE! Granted, the odds are slim that random umop.com visitors would be interested in purchasing anything there, but I am also interested in buying your LEGO for parted-out resale, especially if it's very clean, is from the '70s, '80s, and early '90s, and there are instruction manuals or even boxes included. Click the hamster below if you've got the goods I'm looking for!

21-May-2009: Unemployment shenanigans continue with this festering pile of obsequious awesomeness over yonder at YOUTUBE. I'm having a grand old time performing Mr. Roboto by Styx on my recently reclaimed birthright; a Lowrey organ (follow link and scroll all the way down to see info on it), circa 1978.

15-May-2009: Have you ever dreamed of playing a synthesizer using nothing but hexagons? Well that's what I got to do at the ANALOG HEAVEN gathering! Here's a cool YOUTUBE VIDEO of me using the incredibly cool C-Thru-Music Axis 64 MIDI controller. It's just crazy bonkers alien fun.

8-May-2009: Here's another quick demo filmed at last week's ANALOG HEAVEN gathering.... a dandy little 1-minute YOUTUBE VIDEO showing off a vintage ARP 2600 synthesizer. This one was a blast to mess around with.

7-May-2009: Here's a fantastically-produced VIMEO VIDEO from last week's AHNE gathering. It was created by my friend Matt Davidson, who developed Volta for MOTU, a fantastically-engineered bit of interface software for modular synthesizers. He's also a world-class photographer and videographer, as the video will aptly demonstrate.

3-May-2009: My annual visit to AHNE yesterday was another amazing descent into a vast, twinkling pit of expensive synthesizers & other sonic oddities. I posted a 7-minute YOUTUBE VIDEO tour of the event, with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of incredible new & vintage analog gear I'll probably never own. Some of my own stuff was on display too!

More videos to come, over the next few days!

27-Apr-2009: Haven't had any updates on umop.com for awhile... RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES 21, along with another animated feature which you will hopefully see very soon (for a high profile client), have both been keeping me very busy. For more up-to-date, semi-daily (perhaps even hourly) updates on how things are going, be sure to follow my Twitter!

7-Apr-2009: RAB gets a sixth birthday present today with this cool PHOTO of Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) having a recent, 40-minute interview on Digg.com with lots of Metasonix products shown, including the bright yellow G-1000 Fu**ing Fu**er amplifier (resting on top of a massive pile of analog synthesizers!) that I decorated with lots of gratuitous artwork featuring Puppy! You can also see the TM-7 Scrotum Smasher in the bottom-right corner of a rack of Metasonix boxes, right behind the interviewer for pretty much the entire video. It's even switched on, with its little green light shining and waiting to audibly crapulate. Badass.

This really puts things in perspective for me... I mean, I had known all along that Trent & many other amazing musicians used Metasonix gear with my RAB characters plastered all over it. But this just makes the whole thing so goddamned visceral.

2-Apr-2009: If you are on TWITTER, I've decided to Twit my sh*t up for everyone. Follow me & learn about my daily struggle with RAB21 progress (it is progressing, I assure you!), what I ate for lunch, what color my poop is, etc.

27-Mar-2009: Do you dig RPS-101, my 101-gesture variation of Rock-Paper-Scissors? Well I've got something you MUST check out! Entrepreneurial Flash & Silverlight developer Plexipixel, a ragtag bunch of brilliant Seattle-dwelling geniuses, has developed an awesome interactive Facebook app called RoshamBOOM! In it, you can challenge Facebook buddies to a match, select which gesture to throw, and publish the results on your Wall. It's got a match history page & even a leader board roster. You've gotta try it!

26-Mar-2009: I've recently started an affiliation with Poker Junkie, which is a massive resource for any umop.com visitor who's into my games at all. My friend Keith would probably have to quit his job if he went here; he eats & breathes poker. It's got Flash versions playable online, and also downloadable stuff (Mac or PC). I've been there a few times and can't believe how many different kinds of poker games are out there. Dang! I wonder if they have strip poker? If it's out there somewhere, they've got it... tons of other stuff too. Go give it a look-see sometime!

25-Mar-2009: Long, long time coming for this update: CAR #14 was added to the HISTORY OF MY CARS. Don't worry, I didn't sell the Corvette. It's just a winter ride (and still my daily driver, actually) that I picked up back in November, but I have (until today) neglected to add it to my ever-growing roster of crashy-crash.

11-Mar-2009: Here's a spiffy BEACH ANIMATION I did at work yesterday. The waves are a 16-step animation at roughly 15 FPS, so it's just a one-second loop, but I thought it came out pretty nice & figured umop.com visitors might like to see what my day job occasionally entails.

10-Mar-2009: March has been a quiet month so far, but interesting things are brewing. In the meantime, here is an updated picture of the studio... it's rare that all my synths are actually in one place, so I figured I'd snap a picture of it all while I had the chance.

23-Feb-2009: Here's one more YOUTUBE VIDEO, a studio performance of "Hexagon" off my 1998 Parallax album "umop apisdn." I really raided the vintage clown clothes closet for this one...

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