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The drums in the
Mad Men theme drive me, um, mad! Where can I get more?
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at 7:58 AM on September 12, 2008
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Help me lock down a Mac!
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at 8:37 AM on August 21, 2008
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Sigh. This surfaced last night when we found a cache of very old CDs in our practice space. This is a relic from when my band was much younger, with a different name (Grumpy Alice... you can see why we changed it), different sound, different attitude, etc. This song... well, I like the dialog section in the middle...
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at 8:52 AM on August 6, 2008
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Physical CDs- things of the past?
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at 11:22 AM on July 21, 2008
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Derailleur- Bond EP
My band,
Derailleur, just finished an EP of songs that should have been themes for Bond movies, but somehow weren't (weirdly, this happened independently of the spy-related MeFi Music Challenge). They range from the sort of song you'd expect to hear as Bond axe-fights 100 henchmen to the sort of thing you'd hear as Bond sits on a fishing launch and contemplates his mortality.
MP3s and cover art available for download.
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at 2:01 PM on July 18, 2008
Rough mix of a Derailleur song about Stan Lee. How many guitars are in this song? Lots. Lots of guitars.
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at 1:18 PM on July 15, 2008
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We were young. We had a 4-track, a room full of instruments, and several pots of coffee. We'd just learned how to mess with vocals by speeding them up or slowing them down. Things got weird.
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at 7:39 AM on July 11, 2008
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Aaaaand it's another nugget from Derailleur's alternate-Bond-theme project. We found that flipping from "and" to "or" gives you a completely different take on life.
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at 7:04 AM on May 19, 2008
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How can I use Automator to make a PowerPoint presentation run?
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at 9:00 AM on March 25, 2008
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Another very rough mix from Derailleur's Bond Theme Songs project. I can't remember what the official theme song to
Octopussy even was, but I'm sure it didn't rock as hard as ours.
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at 7:39 AM on March 24, 2008
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Will my art pens survive a plane flight?
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at 12:28 PM on March 3, 2008
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I’m having a hell of a time getting a bunch of mail merge documents to play nice with a Citrix Presentation Server setup, and I’d appreciate any thoughts anybody might have.
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at 12:48 PM on January 31, 2008
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There are 22 James Bond movies (counting the one in production), but there should be more. And these additional nonexistent ones need theme songs. We in Derailleur have taken it upon ourselves to provide the theme songs, hoping the movies will catch up with us.
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at 3:19 PM on January 26, 2008
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Wherein I decide to do weird things to my favorite Bowie song as I learn how to use Garage Band.
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at 7:25 AM on January 17, 2008
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How can I beat Desktop Tower Defense on hard mode?
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at 8:20 AM on January 14, 2008
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Will any/many of MeFi's museum and library people be at the IMLS WebWise conference in Miami Beach in March?
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at 1:35 PM on December 20, 2007
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Nowhere Band
is an ongoing comic about The Awesome Boys, a St. Paul band you've never heard of and probably never will. Five installments are up now, with further ones coming more or less weekly. The website itself is in a skeletal state right now, with future refinements to include character bios and a blog about the happenings in my real-life nowhere band. Although I'm hoping you'll mostly focus on the comics themselves when you're over there, I'd also love feedback about ways to improve the comics-reading experience of the site.
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at 1:32 PM on October 21, 2007
Help me become a Mac Boffin.
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at 7:55 AM on October 16, 2007
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A Derailleur song with driving guitars, keyboard goofery, and lyrics from the point of view of a peripheral character in
Infinite Jest.
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at 10:50 AM on September 27, 2007
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A really poppy Derailleur song, written and sung by our bass player.
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at 5:27 AM on September 21, 2007
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I have a lengthy question about comic-making, PhotoShop, and aging computers.
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at 7:48 AM on September 19, 2007
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A Red Hay cover of the Neil Young song...
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at 10:24 AM on September 18, 2007
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An acoustic demo I did a while ago for a Derailleur song called Superhero.
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at 8:14 AM on September 15, 2007
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A mess-around-at-practice riff that grew into a song. This one knocks down some walls live.
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at 5:06 AM on September 13, 2007
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Help me with a Latin phrase for a reading at a wedding ceremony.
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at 9:00 AM on September 5, 2007
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The very last Red Hay song recorded. This was actually one of our first songs, a very Neil Young-ish guitar thing with a weird time signature. After we'd broken up as a band, we all got together one weekend and started messing with the old country-rock stuff, redoing a lot of it with our new keyboard-torturing habit. This was the most radical rethink, and the best outcome.
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at 10:49 AM on September 4, 2007
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My current band,
Derailleur, covering the Smiths. This was recorded live at a show a couple of years ago, right after we discovered the joys of doing weird things to keyboards. I'd like to point out that I'm the one torturing the keyboard this time.
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at 11:36 AM on September 2, 2007
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I used to play bass for a band called Red Hay; we had a serious case of Uncle Tupelo Envy, and our catalog showed it. Get Drunk was one of our better songs... we tried really hard to make the rhythm section sound like a semi-truck motor. Recorded in 1998 in a high school band room in Verndale, MN.
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at 10:25 AM on August 31, 2007
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Originally just a melody that I'd use when singing nonsense songs to my cats, TiT turned into one of the mellower, more atmospheric Derailleur songs. It's very loosely about the Tom Robbins book
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, but really the overall tone is more important than any words.
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at 8:53 AM on August 30, 2007
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America's Next Top Novelist!
So, I make comics. The newest one is called America's Next Top Novelist; it's a comic about a reality TV show about literary fiction. It's 9 pages of awesome. Will you be the same person after reading it? Highly unlikely. And if, after finishing, you feel like glutting yourself on my other comic work, it's aggregated
here.
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at 9:57 AM on July 23, 2007
Rumours
is a comic I made. Adapted from a story by Jim Walsh (which originally appeared in
this book of revisionist rock crit ), it's a time-honored tale of a man who decides to improve the state of music by shooting the member of Fleetwood Mac in the head.
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at 1:17 PM on April 3, 2007
My wife and I have the dumbest homeowning question ever: we can't figure out how to change a light bulb.
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at 7:03 AM on February 16, 2007
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At The Museum
is a work of serial fiction about, well, the trials of working at a museum. Updated a couple of times a week, the site follows a
new admin assistant, a
drunken curator, and several other staffers as they deal with such weighty issues as whether to host an exhibit about the
largest phallus in the ancient world. My wife is the creative force behind At The Museum; I built the site and drew the pretty, pretty pictures.
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at 8:29 AM on January 30, 2007
Sam and Liberty
is a comic that I've been slaving on for several months. Originally a short screenplay by my wife, it captures a day in the life of those poor schmucks who wear costumes and stand on streetcorners waving for attention.
Next up: a comic about assasinating Fleetwood Mac.
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at 8:48 AM on December 29, 2006
This doggy-dog needs a jobby-job!
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at 7:25 AM on December 12, 2006
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I've got a mortgage and withholding question.
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at 2:35 PM on November 8, 2006
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Is this house worth pursuing?
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at 7:13 AM on September 20, 2006
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Help! The dog's decided cats are fun to chase.
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at 1:22 PM on September 11, 2006
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Stinky dog!
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at 9:38 AM on August 14, 2006
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Help me plan a Viking funeral for a hated book.
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at 12:12 PM on July 31, 2006
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Are there any tricks that'll keep my self-winding watch from running down?
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at 8:01 AM on July 21, 2006
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Yeah, it's pretty much about what you think it is.
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at 11:35 AM on June 30, 2006
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Any tips for doing white-on-black comic inking?
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at 11:39 AM on June 16, 2006
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Do you have any experience in Economics?
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at 9:01 AM on April 28, 2006
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Yet another request for car recommendations.
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at 8:51 AM on April 21, 2006
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At what point is a car not worth repairing?
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at 8:59 AM on April 11, 2006
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How stupid would I be to try to DIY a nut-replacement on a Telecaster?
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at 8:15 AM on March 21, 2006
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Comic artist Seth Fisher died unexpectedly; this rotten news led to a session wallowing in his
online gallery to see one side of what the world lost. But, with so many comic artists putting galleries online, why wait until someone's gone to appreciate their work? You could admire the energy in
Mike Wieringo's figures, or the stylized coolness of
Cameron Stewart. You could bask in the freaky genius of
Mike Allred, or scratch your head and wonder how
Phil Bond's characters feel so real with such weird proportions. You could look to the future with
Ryan Sook, or, if you're more into the retro thing, there's always the old standby
John Byrne.
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at 9:50 AM on February 2, 2006
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I need to know about test pilot preflight procedures.
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at 8:48 AM on January 24, 2006
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