Comments on: The Crazy World of andernestborgnineasdominic!

The Crazy World of andernestborgnineasdominic!

gcbv — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:25:47 -0800

A strange, cryptic compact disc was found while hiking in Joshua Tree National Park.

Found by Swan Fungus, the music seems to be a interesting hybrid of Negativland, the voice manipulations of Aphex Twin, and drugged out psychedelic guitar jams, akin to Vibracathedral Orchestra.

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:28:08 -0800

DJ finds mixtape, film at 11.

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:31:30 -0800

I am less impressed by the music than by a CD that hikes.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:32:23 -0800

The disc, "chicken scratch message, and treasure map" are most likely a viral ad for a ski resort. In Taos, NM. AMIRITE?

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:32:45 -0800

The insanity of the recording -- with one or two kind of pretty moments -- mirrored the obsessively constructed feel of the package.
I also wouldn't say that it is very good, but it made for an interesting listen. This seems like a worthless thing to care about.

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:33:06 -0800

That map is really convincing, too. Ye Olde Sharpie. Doesn't he know you're supposed to soak it in tea and crumple it a little?

By: ob

ob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:38:58 -0800

Art school called. It wants its project back.

By: mazola

mazola — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:40:51 -0800

The Blair Witch (Studio) Project

By: Balisong

Balisong — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:41:59 -0800

Probably left by a Jokerman.

By: infinitefloatingbrains

infinitefloatingbrains — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:43:34 -0800

This seems like a worthless thing to care about. You don't have to like the music for it to be an interesting experience. Delìrium Còrdia by Fantomas is an album that comes to mind.

By: 23skidoo

23skidoo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:51:46 -0800

All you haters are going to be retracting when someone makes mashups of these and drops them in faux-indie film bike-riding montages.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:56:21 -0800

I found a CD while dumpster diving once. Turns out I really like Johnny Cash and wouldn't have known otherwise.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:59:38 -0800

So I'm the only one who went to "audio-version of Ringu"? Really? Huh.

By: Theta States

Theta States — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:55 -0800

So some kids get high, record wacky music, and then lose some of their stuff in the woods. Nostalgia!

By: sensate

sensate — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:01:19 -0800

FWIW, the gmail address, "andernestborgnineasdominic@gmail.com" apparently refers to Airwolf.

By: Think_Long

Think_Long — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:03:32 -0800

Is this the same guy who "found" that secret beatles album awhile back?

By: naju

naju — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:05:49 -0800

This is in fact the new model for releasing your music. R.I.P Radiohead Model 2007-2009.

By: gcbv

gcbv — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:08:17 -0800

Seemed perfectly interesting to me. A lack of coherence, a random finding, messy and incoherent sounds, a reference to Airwolf out in the middle of the desert...even with your highly evolved cynicism and jadedness, I would still find such an object a curious, original artifact. I am less impressed by the music than by a CD that hikes. Once again, I typed faster than I thought.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:08:20 -0800

My enthusiasm for your forthcoming video game has been intensified by this mysterious find.

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:09:03 -0800

I am not sure I want to dump this into my iTunes library, but the whole package is pretty cool! And yeah, the music isn't what I'd necessarily call good, but it is interesting.

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:16:06 -0800

Actually let me amend that, 'The Seventh (Clubbed) Seal' is really quite pretty and may make me decide to stick this in my collection after all.

By: spacely_sprocket

spacely_sprocket — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:18:44 -0800

Oh, that. It's the master for the Bacon Brothers/Yoko Ono concept album. I guess we didn't bury it deep enough.

By: Nanukthedog

Nanukthedog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:19:42 -0800

For those of you born after 1990, the CD was encased in a 5 1/4" floppy disc shell. Those used to store a maximum of 1.2MB worth of data. Entire programs used to fit on one disc with room to spare - like word processors and spreadsheet software. It would have been better for the sake of nostalgia and my ears if this disc only contained as much of the music as would have fit on the original 5 1/4" disc.

By: General Tonic

General Tonic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:20:18 -0800

I found a CD while dumpster diving once. Turns out I really like Johnny Cash and wouldn't have known otherwise. Now THAT'S an interesting anectote. -

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:21:09 -0800

So I'm the only one who went to "audio-version of Ringu"? When you finish listening to this CD, Milli Vanilli ooze out of your speakers (in stereo of course) and force you to build back their music careers for them, eternally.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:43:44 -0800

Think_Long: "Is this the same guy who "found" that secret beatles album awhile back?" If you're talking about this one, he didn't find it and it wasn't secret. He stole it from an alternate dimension GET IT RIGHT.

By: ouke

ouke — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:44:18 -0800

Well, it doesn have the total awesomeness of question mark and the mysterians, like the blogpost suggested, that's for sure...

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:49:10 -0800

FWIW, the gmail address, "andernestborgnineasdominic@gmail.com" apparently refers to Airwolf.

The flying Airwolf helicopter was actually a Bell 222, sometimes unofficially called a Bell 222A, whose serial number was 47085.[2] During filming of the series, the helicopter was owned by Peter J. McKernan Sr.'s JetCopters Inc. of Van Nuys, CA.[3] The helicopter was eventually sold after the show ended and became an ambulance helicopter in Germany, where it crashed and was destroyed in a thunderstorm on June 6, 1992. All three crew members died.

Surprisingly poignant.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:56:57 -0800

What a weird tribute to Ernest Borgnine. Art school called. It wants its project back. With that map, it's more of a summer school art class project. Who burns their maps any more? When you finish listening to this CD, Milli Vanilli ooze out of your speakers (in stereo of course) and force you to build back their music careers for them, eternally. But which Milli Vanilli? The Voices or The Faces?

By: Atreides

Atreides — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:58:00 -0800

The helicopter was eventually sold after the show ended and became an ambulance helicopter in Germany, where it crashed and was destroyed in a thunderstorm on June 6, 1992. All three crew members died. It must have been that red helicopter. And that map is obviously Oregon's coastline. I believe a Mister Copperpot had a copy of it.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:22:15 -0800

Content aside, I could do without ever reading another blog post in that certain "City-paper extremely-poor-man's-Hunter-S.-Thompson grizzled-old-white-guy-who-was-maybe-in-rehab-once-for-the-credibility-and-has-seen-some-stuff-man the-editors-are-on-my-back-but-I'm-gonna-tell-it-like-it-is" style ever again.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:32:21 -0800

Downloaded a few tracks. Listening to them right now. Good after hours chill-out stuff, I guess. I do like the notion that this is what distributing one's music has come to. Reminds me of local Vancouver band from the early 90s, Wicked Swimming Dog. They had a half-assed label that pressed a thousand or so copies of their CD and then proceeded to do a mostly useless job of distributing it. Then one day, the band's van got busted into and, among items, a box full of 200 CDs was lost. For years afterward, I would see that CD showing up in the most random of places (small town truck stops, pawn shops, flea markets). Now there's a distribution network that really reaches the people.

By: cropshy

cropshy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:34:21 -0800

Two or three years ago I bought a CD done by a guy named Tim Kaiser that was sleeved in a 5 1/4" floppy disc shell. It was mainly random noise stuff though and didn't sound like the material on the "mystery CD".

By: geoff.

geoff. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:44:52 -0800

Airwolf references? Sharpied map? CD inside a floppy disk? My God he's found the shard of the evil hipster god known to the ancient Germans as Víðarr. For 120 days and nights the bands of Williamsburg played benefit concerts non-stop to defeat this evil, but this was an old god and his powers were strong. They say such was Víðarr's irony that his armies rode into battle on bicycles with no gears at all and clad in concert t-shirts of gigs yet played. They were ruthless in their gentrification, intent on turning all of Brooklyn into a "small Ohio suburb." Wave after wave of hipster returned to live with their parents, Víðarr's carnage seemed complete and his twisted victory nearly accomplished when on the 120th day a hero emerged: Sufjan Stevens. He realized that they could never destroy Víðarr, but there was a possibility, a slim one, that they could create an art project so perfect, so ironic, they could trap Víðarr for eternity. No one knows what the final art project looked like as Sufjan perished in his attempt, but the armies retreated and Víðarr's presence was never seen again, gone as quickly as it arrived. The remains, or shards, of the art project are rumored to be spread throughout the world but none up until now have been found. If all parts are found and put together, the power would be enormous ... it would be comparable to getting a 10 on a Pitchfork review, no one wielding such power would be stoppable.

By: bearwife

bearwife — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:48:03 -0800

I must be a tasteless relic, judging from the comments on this thread, but I liked these tracks. Would love to play them on a drive through the desert on a dark (maybe moonlit) night.

By: Spatch

Spatch — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:49:38 -0800

This is totally the musical equivalent of porn in the woods: unexpected, inexplicable and some parts just skeeve you right out, but on the whole it's rather fascinating. Plus you won't get into trouble if you take the CD home with you.

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:04:03 -0800

If you're going to make up a story involving a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk, you've got to at least make the fake email address ____@aol.com, or something similarly dated. That it's a gmail address makes it unbelievable from the get-go.

By: condour75

condour75 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:04:58 -0800

Am I missing something, or would a cd encased in a black plastic disk enclosure and a baggie, in the joshua tree desert at any hikeworthy time of year, be plastic soup?

By: xil

xil — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:23:18 -0800

This looks like a left-behind clue for a Caltech Ditch Day puzzle. The history is a bit much to explain, but suffice it to say that the seniors build these insanely elaborate puzzles for the underclassmen to solve. Making someone drive out to Joshua Tree to collect a cryptic treasure map wouldn't be out of the question. Ditch day is tomorrow, frosh!

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:28:37 -0800

I'm with xil. I don't know about CDD, but it seems like part of a scavenger hunt/riddle game, though damn that seems like a hard clue to find/decipher. The music is OK. The songs are showing up on Last.fm's ??? page. It doesn't sound much like punk/jazz fusion though I could be wrong ...

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:35:43 -0800

"When you have lost yourself in the wasteland of unending nothingness, the Night Things will come."

By: humannaire

humannaire — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:39:57 -0800

If you're going to make up a story involving a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk, you've got to at least make the fake email address ____@aol.com, or something similarly dated. holy sheet Aol. is SO BACK!

By: chocolatetiara

chocolatetiara — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:14 -0800

I was hoping it was The Shaggs.

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:25 -0800

So, if we find the treasure, DARPA sends us a $1 million check?

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:42:24 -0800

It might be Shlohmo. I listened to the Shloh-Fi EP afterward, and it's awfully similar...

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:42:55 -0800

Am I missing something, or would a cd encased in a black plastic disk enclosure and a baggie, in the joshua tree desert at any hikeworthy time of year, be plastic soup? Joshua Tree is only mid-100s with a record of 118F in the summertime: cooler than your average car interior at 80F. Its the desert, man, not the sun.

By: Thoughtcrime

Thoughtcrime — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:58:55 -0800

Am I missing something, or would a cd encased in a black plastic disk enclosure and a baggie, in the joshua tree desert at any hikeworthy time of year, be plastic soup? Well, the rock formations most people visit Joshua Tree for are mostly stacked boulders, with lots of cool, shady nooks and crannies. You can usually find some shade even in the hottest days of the year as long as your near them. I can imagine places where a CD would survive intact. I hope this doesn't lead to other artists littering in our national parks to further their ambitions, though.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:09:28 -0800

The insanity of the recording -- with one or two kind of pretty moments -- mirrored the obsessively constructed feel of the package. I didn't know if I was listening to the work of a mad genius or a deranged psychopath. The sounds are a combination of heavily processed human voices and schizophrenic space music. H.P. Lovecraft called, he wants his prose stylings back.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:13:07 -0800

That last song would fit right in the batch my friend and I recorded on my parent's front porch back in the day. Cool.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:13:40 -0800

By: hippybear

hippybear — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:20:04 -0800

I wanna leave huge slightly unsettling scupltures in obscure places in national parks. Just strange enough to make you pause, with all kinds of obscure references and symbols. I would do this and then tell no one about it. I call it Project Fuck With Future Archeologists. This sounds like the kind of thing that the woo-woo people were doing around Sedona when I lived there in the late 90s. I'd go hiking up someplace, and there would be some odd assemblage of rocks in formation of some mystic sort. For no real reason, just in the middle of nowhere. Seriously people, just because a place is marketing itself as the woo-woo capital of the world, and you can leave your hotel room and hike to someplace before noon, doesn't mean you need to spend the rest of your afternoon rearranging the wilderness! Although I would have loved to see actual sculptures and shit strewn around. You have my permission to proceed with your project.

By: 2N2222

2N2222 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:30:34 -0800

The music is reasonably interesting. I mean, I managed to listen to all the tracks, which is a hell of a lot more than I usually do with free music. Regardless, it seems to be a major coup for the anonymous artist to have been found and posted on Beware Of The Blog. Anonymity is what has propelled the music into international exposure. If the disc had been well annotated with contact info pointing to some guy's bedroom studio in Kearny Mesa, would anybody have even bothered to give it a listen? Well played, mystery musician.

By: jefeweiss

jefeweiss — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:34:27 -0800

Great, now people know about my favorite album that was so obscure that only one copy was ever made and hidden in the desert. There goes my street cred, thanks a lot Metafilter.

By: Danf

Danf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:45:53 -0800

I lost interest when I figured out there is no Gram Parsons tie-in.

By: pla

pla — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:47:51 -0800

Since noone has mentioned this yet, just the most superficial examination reveals the following: 1) The tracks have number and "of" tags, suggesting twelve tracks with #9 missing (the ninth track on the site, "Gloomsday", identifies itself as track #10). 2) The 12th track (11th as listed) identifies the band as "Musky Taint" and the album as "Tres Mellow", from 2006. It also identifies the artists as "Evan: tremelo, Ilya: Delay, Dan: bass, Ken: Drums". A quick Google search for various combinations of those turns up nothing very promising. 3) Several of the tracks have iTunes gain info, and the 11th track (10th as listed) mentions the encoding software as iTunes v7.3.2. TFA doesn't mention whether the original disc contained CD audio or MP3s, so points #2 and #3 could just reflect the ripping software used (he mentions using iTunes to try to id the disc). However, iTunes tends to somewhat aggressively insist that you update it, with v7 dating from 2007, so most likely TFA's author did not recently encode this on his own machine (though certainly not impossible). Overall, for those of you mocking this... Hey, just a good mystery, nothing wrong with that. Don't like it? Don't play along. If nothing else, as egypturnash mentioned, track #8 "The Seventh (Clubbed) Seal" doesn't suck.

By: kid ichorous

kid ichorous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:04:18 -0800

He realized that they could never destroy Víðarr, but there was a possibility, a slim one, that they could create an art project so perfect, so ironic, they could trap Víðarr for eternity. It really is Ghostbusters 2 this time, isn't it.

By: yoyo_nyc

yoyo_nyc — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:06:09 -0800

@pla "Musky Taint" and the album as "Tres Mellow" This came up

By: jefeweiss

jefeweiss — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:11:39 -0800

yoyo_nyc: "@pla "Musky Taint" and the album as "Tres Mellow" This came up" See the name at the top of that page? Swan Fungus. Where have I seen that before, that's an odd name. Oh yeah ... This cd was mysteriously discovered and posted by one swan fungus to WFMU.

By: yoyo_nyc

yoyo_nyc — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18:17 -0800

Well, some viral marketing. The other songs sound the same: http://www.swanfungus.com/2006/06/sniff-this-musky-taint-for-free-mp3s.html Here I can somehow not download the mp3 but it works here: http://www.searchsounds.net/modules/GeneratePlayList?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swanfungus.com%2Fmusky%2Fmp3s%2F5ttsw.mp3

By: pla

pla — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18:30 -0800

yoyo_nyc : This came up Ah, good catch! So, "Swan Fungus" posted that to the FMU blog, and Swan Fungus' personal website has a relevant post from December of 2006 (how auspicious). I think you've solved the mystery here. Unfortunately, the track mentioned on that page, "Qygmalion", has a broken link. Pity, because I expect it would either prove identical to one of the listed ones, or fit in as the missing 9th track.

By: pla

pla — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:12 -0800

yoyo_nyc : Here I can somehow not download the mp3 but it works here Ah, thanks... Tweaking the URL contained therein, I managed to get Qygmalian to download (20MB). And... also known as Matthew 24:14. Dingdingding, we have a winner.

By: Hairy Lobster

Hairy Lobster — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:51:15 -0800

I kinda like the tracks. Interesting...

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:58:14 -0800

Well done, kids. Somehow my 12 track wasn't labeled with "Musky Taint" or "Tres Mellow" but the answer certainly makes sense...

By: philip-random

philip-random — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:49:51 -0800

self-link. Can we have him banned?

By: geoff.

geoff. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:17:02 -0800

Self-link is a serious charge to be leveled at the accused. While the "found" CD is most definitely a creation of Swan Fungus and the entire thing is a hoax, it is not clear that gcbv is Swan Fungus. WMFU is a good station regardless.

By: hippybear

hippybear — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:32:27 -0800

self-link. Can we have him banned? Self-link is a serious charge to be leveled at the accused. While the "found" CD is most definitely a creation of Swan Fungus and the entire thing is a hoax, it is not clear that gcbv is Swan Fungus. WMFU is a good station regardless. I think philip-random's comment was actually a joke about the self-link which happened under the guise of a found CD on the WFMU website, and I doubt he's suggesting that gcbv is guilty of any trespass against the Blue.

By: gcbv

gcbv — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:05:10 -0800

I am not Swan Fungus, at all.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:25:34 -0800

self-link. Can we have him banned? All apologies to gcbv. No Fungus relation intended.

By: Bageena

Bageena — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:30:06 -0800

I wish I had read this whole thread now before posting about this on my blog. @#%@% SELF POSTERS!

By: krinklyfig

krinklyfig — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:57:05 -0800

Great, now people know about my favorite album that was so obscure that only one copy was ever made and hidden in the desert. I have the early demos of it. You're way behind.

By: ~Sushma~

~Sushma~ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:28 -0800

Quote: holy sheet Aol. is SO BACK! That is just wrong, on many levels. It's like bringing back the mullet. .

By: ShooBoo

ShooBoo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:44:33 -0800

Sometime near 1980 when I was around 17, I was scuba diving in a kelp bed off Santa Catalina Island in Southern California and found an unlabeled white cassette tape in about 40 feet of water. The tape had a little marine growth on it. Maybe it had been in the water a few months. I took it home, soaked it in fresh water, took the tape of its housing and placed it in the bottom half of a new cassette housing, let it dry for a few days, then attached the top half of the housing. I wondered what would be on the tape. I hoped it was some nefarious conversation that some boater had tossed overboard to never be found again. I placed it in the cassette player, hoping to be surprised. The sound was murky, but it was clearly barbershop quartet music. I fast-forwarded through it too see if anything else was on the tape. It was all barbershop quartet music. I suppose the person who threw it overboard just didn't like barbershop quartet music.

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:45:04 -0800

Somewhere there's a pissed-off octopus looking for his goddamn barbershop mix.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:38:14 -0800

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: You don't know?!

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:29:58 -0800

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Lightbulbs? We tape fireflies to our PBR hats with duct tape and can see just as well as YOU.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:17:56 -0800

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: All of them. One to screw in the lightbulb, while the rest brag to each other about how they were changing lightbulbs before it was cool.

By: Pogo_Fuzzybutt

Pogo_Fuzzybutt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:44:56 -0800

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? They don't need lights. Macbooks have backlit keyboards.

By: Parasite Unseen

Parasite Unseen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:32:44 -0800

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Oh, are those the new light bulbs? I liked the old ones better.

By: ichthuz

ichthuz — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:54 -0800

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I have the answer on vinyl.

By: meadowlark lime

meadowlark lime — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:22:09 -0800

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: an obscure number you've never heard of.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:18:50 -0800

When I was twelve, I found a CD copy of Bad Brains' first album lying in the gutter down the block from my house one day when I was walking home from school. The case was covered with mud, but the cd inside was still untouched. There are probably about three moments in my childhood that changed my life, moments about which I can honestly say that if you went back in time and removed them, I would be a completely different person today. Of those three moments, finding that Bad Brains CD was probably the only one that was unreservedly positive.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:08 -0800

how many hipsters does it take to tell a light bulb joke? seven so far ... ... or ummm ... eight.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:08:16 -0800

I have an old CD, you see this CD will be in stores. The only way I could get my old CD in stores is if I would take one in there and leave it. They'd say, "Sir, you forgot this." No I did not. That is for sale! Please alphabetize it.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:13:39 -0800

My favorite thing about this is that the guy posted it himself to the WFMU blog. I'd like to imagine (though I should probably trust to the laziness of people that it can't be) that the dude actually went to the trouble of wrapping all the stuff up, putting in the map, sticking the CD in the disc case, and sticking it out at Joshua Tree and then left it there for a year, anxiously waiting and googling "Joshua Tree CD" and "A SILVERY FEMALE VOICE" for the moment when somebody would find it and post it to the internet - only to realize that was never gonna happen, and to have to go back out and "discover" it himself.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:13:17 -0800

It's been almost a week since I posted this CDr to the WFMU blog, and since then I have been ransacked by e-mails and comments crying "hoax" or "bubble boy," from everyone from random passers-by to the higher-ups at WFMU. Rather than address all the theories being espoused by readers from around the globe, I simply want to aver that this is indeed a true story, and is in no way meant to be a self-promotion tactic. Any alterations to the WFMU blog entry post-publication -- or my own personal blog -- were done in an attempt to quell the uprising of cynics. Had I known that my actions would only add fuel to the fire, I would have simply let things stand as they were. Clearly I've learned a valuable lesson in controversy control."

That's the best he could come up with?

By: Theta States

Theta States — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:29:05 -0800

So "aver" means "deny"? Learn some new every day.