D.A. Sebasstian Journal & Creative News 2005

12/30/05- Finished editing a really cool sequence in Scene 72 of Hot Rod Girls Save The World. It's where the girls are attacked by a deranged landlord. I used a splash of red color on the black and white film for impact. The red splatter was actually Chocolate Syrup shot out of a pressure sprayer onto plexiglass and then colorized red after the clips were super imposed. This sequence is also a mixture of really clean Panasonic DV shot on my AG DVX100 and grainy Digital 8 footage shot on my Sony Digital 8 camera. The Digital 8 footage was slowed down to 23.98 frames per second using Cinema Tools and then run through Quicktime and Black & White film filters. I also wrote drum & synth tracks for Vanessa's Killing Spree Scene (see below).

12/29/05- Well kiss my ass and kick me in the balls! The new Dodge Challenger is in all the new car mags and man... does it look fine! Much nicer than the new Ford Mustang. Lets get a few things straight. The Plymouth Barracuda was the first "pony car." Yea, the Mustang was prettier than the first 'Cuda, but first is first. The idea was to make a n inexpensive "European" sporty car out of your average boring small car of the day. The Barracuda was based on the Plymouth Valiant and the Mustang on the Ford Falcon. Now I see all these neo-Mustang guys on web pages saying how the new Mustang "started the retro craze." What?!? The Dodge Viper started the current automotive "retro-craze" back in 1989. I think some car guys wear blinders when it comes to their brand of choice and reality. Let's not forget the horrible Ford neo T-Bird of a few years back. That thing was butt ugly. Chrysler has been exciting the automotive world for the last two decades with unbelievable concept cars and truly unique and visionary designs. This excitement has spilled over into the other brands. I personally think Ford was really pissed at Dodge, as the Viper brought back Shelby's Cobra concept onto a modern platform. Kinda stole their thunder why they were sittin' around countin' beans. Shelby had jumped Ford's ship and done some really cool things with Chrysler in the '80's, ultimately leading to the Viper. So how "cutting edge" was it for Ford, when the Mustang was scheduled for a restyle, to dip into the "retro design well?" Not very. I'm glad the new Mustang is selling in spades. It's not a bad looking car (except the back end is too rounded) and may help drive a few more designs like the new Challenger. The automotive industry is reactive and Fords reaction to the Viper has come back to Dodge (and hopefuly GM and no I don't count the SSR and HHR). These are exciting times for American car enthusiasts!

12/28/05- Heavy editing sessions for the last few days. Scene by scene I am slowly creeping through the 30+ hours of footage and cutting out all the obviously unusable material, organizing it on the timeline and reviewing the overall flow of the sequences. I hope to have this film completely edited by summer 2006. We shall see.

12/26/05- Still got a bit of a head cold. Man the weather was stormin' the last few days. Sideways rain and all that. Still I've been busy as a beaver in the basement editing Hot Rod Girls. It's gonna be a long, long process. I also worked on a new song that may end up being the opening music for Hot Rod Girls. It's tentatively called "Big Block."

12/25/05- Merry Christmas Peoples!

12/21/05- Happy Winter Solstice. What? Is that a holiday now too? December is booked man...Christmas, Winter Solstice, Kwanza, Hanukkah Boxing Day? What the hell is that. You get to box your crappy neighbors. "Howdy neighbor." BAP SMACK SMACK BAP!!! "Happy Boxing Day." Only in Canada.

12/19/05- Creating movie back story props. Check out this Photoshoped picture of my 1/25th scale model Dodge Charger. I liked the pic so well- I made it into a poster and shirt series that people can get at our Cafe Press website (under the Charger Stuff Section). Man...I love Photoshop. What in the hell you ask does this have to do with the Hot Rod Girls Save The World movie? You'll see.

12/18/05- So the Sick Guy TV Fest Weekend includes DVD rentals of the new Dukes Of Hazzard (not bad), Murder Ball (good), The Island (excellent- Dodge Magnums in pursuit) and Valiant (for the kids). My eyeballs burn.

12/17/05- Man I'm sick. Just in time for the weekend. Watched TV ALL DAY. Haven't done that in a few years.

12/16/05- Gotta head cold comin' on strong. Just in time for the weekend. Still got some more editing done.

12/15/05- More editing on the movie.

12/13/05- Editing scene # 3 for Hot Rod Girls Save The World.

12/12/05- Did some additional shoots with the Space Pod. Close-ups and detail work. Tedious, but worth the effort. Also found out that an article I wrote about The Rooks Seattles Blessing Of The Cars, just came out in Ol' Skool Rodz. Thats two articles I've written in print in national mags this month.

12/11/05- Got up at 7 AM to start work on completing the Space Pod, then filmed with David Nance the rest of the day. Got the Pod all ready right before my wife had finsihed with David's make-up. Now thats cutting it close. We finished multiple scenes and replacement shots with the new alien make-up.

12/10/05- Painting and finishing out the Space Pod. Worked until 1:30 AM but still didn't get it finished. Will get up early in the morning to finish it. Hope it's ready before David Nance (who plays Buhgabaa) comes over for make-up at 11AM tomorrow. I've been working on this bad boy every night for the last week.

11/29/05- More editing. Bought a second TV/Video Monitor to hook into my Final Cut pro editing system. Big ol' 20 inch Magnavox. Zaps your eyeballs at close range. I'm probably gonna get a tumor from sitting so close to it. "Dad, whats that on your forehead?" "It's a Magnavox super tumor son." "Ohh- that looks like it hurts." "Yes son, I did it for my art... I did it for my art."

11/28/05- More editing. Also made some fake articles, website pages and clippings for a newspaper office scene for the beginning of Hot Rod Girls Save The World.

11/27/05- More editing.

11/25/05- Watched War Of The Worlds (new version- Speilberg et al.). Good film. The creepiest parts were the human fertilizer scenes. Like a bunch of big assed walking chipper shredders attack the planet. It'd be funny to find out that all the invading aliens were actually just piss poor alien landscapers. "I only took this job to get my resident alien status ya know." Then turning to the earthlings- "You will al be plant food humans...plant food....ahahaha!!!" And the moral of the story, always wear your figgin' space helmet when you invade other planets!

11/24/05- Editing and scene organizing for the movie. Basic kinda boring stuff. Oh yea- Happy Thanksgiving.

11/23/05- Editing and scene organizing for the movie. Basic kinda boring stuff. Oh yea sold my 1990 Dakota Pick-em-up truck. "Old Blue" you were a good steed...what ever that means.

11/22/05- Editing and scene organizing for the movie. Basic kinda boring stuff.

11/19/05- Did a few new designs for the Cafe Press pages. Buhgabaa is an Earth Rocker!

11/16/05- Working on the Mooshian language for the alien scenes of Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Details like this in no-budget films can make all the difference.

11/13/05- A good day of filming for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. I can't believe it was last year at this time we were filming the party scene for the movie. Over a year and a half of filming. We're getting close to the end though. Not much more to go.

11/09/05- Started editing Hot Rod Girls Save The World! The last few months I've been converting the footage we've already shot into 23.98 fps formats and renumbering and correcting the scene changes that occurred during filming. When making a movie you have to be flexible, and so it was with this indie-flick. We had to changes scene locations, times of day, dialog and add and delete scenes. Now I am laying out the roughs for each scene and may even have a rough cut of the film in a few months. Stay tuned.

11/07/05- Spent the whole weekend doing our 2004 taxes. Me and the wife, calculators and strong coffee in hands, added, subtracted , and wrote-off more than 16 hours on Saturday and Sunday. At least that year is ready for the accountant. The joys of being self-employed.

10/30/05- Shot a few scenes today for Hot Rod Girls Save The World...in the cold and rain. Because we shot under trees you couldn't see the rain at all, but you definitely could feel the damp chill. I don't know how those nature documentary cameramen do it. Sitting in the snow and crap weather all day to get the perfect shot of the warbling finches mating habits. Hardcore. Anyway we had a few problems with the alien make-up at first, but shot the scenes in such a way as to not show it. Its a learning process. Overall an excellent job.

10/28/05- Got a bit of press in Hemming Motor News.

10/23/05- Make-up tests for our new Alien Boy - David Nance. We only were setting the mask and adjusting (not the full gluing and neck make-up), but looked really good. We film these segments for Hot Rod Girls Save The World in a few weeks.

10/22/05- Seattle band Faith & Disease came over to the studio to film an interview segment for an upcoming episode of Go-Kustom TV. I've known Eric and Dara for years and it's about time I got them on the show. A clip of one of their music videos has been part of the opening sequence for Go-Kustom TV since day one.

10/20/05- Added some new Hot Rod Girls Save The World shirts to the Cafe Press Go-Kustom pages. Check out the example above.

10/19/05- Working on a huge mailout for the new Hot Rod Girls Save The World - Music & Mayhem CD. 600 pieces to national press and college radio. Thats alot of envelope stuffing!

10/17/05- Man...we went to Medford, Oregon to finish a Gas Station scenes and do some miscellaneous fight scenes. It was awesome! Special thanks to Ryan, Chris and all their gang in Medford, for putting us up for the night and staging one of the coolest fight scenes ever! We had a blast!

10/10/05- Alien mask and make-up tests. I think we are almost ready.

10/06/05- Hard time sleeping last night. A bit anxious about finishing the movie and life stuff. This is definitely one of the hardest things I've even done in my life (except quitting drinking- that was a 24/7 nightmare that lasted several months).

10/05/05- The new Hot Rod Girls Save The World - Music & Mayhem CD's are finally in. Look good, sound good. You can get one on our catalog pages on sale!!!

10/04/05- Spent the last few days converting files to be edited for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. We are currently at 25 hours of footage, and right now I'm removing the on camera pull down to get the footage compatable with a 23.98 (24fps) timeline in Final Cut Pro. I guess I am now officially in editing with the movie.

09/30/05- Spent the last three days revamping the D.A. Sebasstian and Kill Switch...Klick sections of this here Go-Kustom site. alot of friggin' work.

09/27/05- Painting and fitting the alien masks for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Got some really cool latex mask paints from Monster Makers. Latex is hard to paint as it flexibility makes most paints flake off or crack. The Monster Makers stuff is bullet proof.

09/26/05- Spent all day Sunday and most of Monday revamping my computer. Had a hard disk crash. Only lost some e-mail addresses, but not any serious data. Had to repartition the faltering drive and reinstall all my older apps with the old OS 9.1 system. I run OS X on the newer bigger internal drive, so it was easy to move the files and initialize the old drive. Still I wish hard drives lasted longer than 3-4 years.

09/24/05- Writing all day- working on scene development and revisions for the movie. Also fixed up the gas station pump prop for the upcoming Gas Station scenes. It looks pretty damn real. More disaster in the South by Hurricane Rita. No rest for the weary.

09/23/05- Go-Kustom TV went out to film at the all ages Rockabilly Ball at The Paradox in beautiful Ballard, WA. A great idea- having some of the bands that play The Tractor (a Seattle Alt. Country club) doing short sets for the underage music fans at The Paradox down the street. A decent turnout. I really hope they do the all ages show next year. The Rockabilly Ball is an annual event hosted by KEXP pulling in Rockabilly bands from all across the planet.

09/20/05- Started a big Go-Kustom Rekords $5.00 sale in the online store. All CD's are on sale for $5.00 including shipping. I have a hard time selling CD's for $20 each when they only cost me a few bucks each to have pressed at the pressing plant.

09/19/05- MTV played my bands (Kill Switch...Klick) song "Celebrate The Misery" several times on their show Made. Found out when I got the royalty check in the mail. I had talked to the shows producer months ago about using some Go-Kustom label tracks for her show- but hadn't heard back.

09/17/05- Went location scouting all day. Almost got lost in Tacoma. Also shot some ambient rural footage. Later in the evening did a nice little shoot with Melene Marie Brown and Tony Ririe's Hot Rod for the movie. These were small scenes that were very necessary for the film, a set of close-ups and a party dress-up scene. The details, details, details.

09/15/05- Spent the last two days getting props ready for a Gas Station shoot for Hot Rod Girls Save The World we have planned for the end of the month. Posters, T-Shirts, Hats all had to be made for the scene and actors.

09/11/05- Went location scouting all day with the family. Down through Olympia and up Highway 101. Didn't find what I was looking for, but had fun riding the Bainbridge Island Ferry back across the Puget Sound at night with the kids. Seattle is an awesome city. Sometime I forget, especially when I'm grinding through the gears of the day to day.

09/10/05- Picked up the Hot Rod Girls Save The World - Music & Mayhem CD-R Masters at the ol' P.O. Box. The disc sounds great. Fran Ashcroft did an excellent job and got it mastered and back to me from the U.K. in less than two weeks! Had a reading with a potential Alien Boy character in the afternoon. Worked on movie props and signs the rest of the day. In the evening Lindsay Calkins and Denise (AKA Wendy Treat) came by to tag some episodes of Go-Kustom TV. I think they had too much fun.

09/09/05- Got the new issue of the revived CK Deluxe Magazine. There is an interview I did with the lovely Heidi Van Horne in it. My goal for 2005 (besides finishing the filming of Hot Rod Girls Save The World) was to get more of my writing published. Well its a start.

09/04/05- Lindsay Calkins and Brian Rodger came over to read and work on the Gas Station opening scene for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. We worked out a few bugs in my screenplay. When you write a screenplay, you really have to give serious thought to character actions and the logistics of the scene. For example, in our scene, one of the dilemmas was- which side of the gas pump does the car up to? Because of the way this scene is scripted, the gas station attendant gets confused about which side the cars gas fill hole is on. That wouldn't make much sense if the car was sitting exactly in front of the pump, with the fill hole facing the pump directly. As you read a scene again and again with the actors in place, you sometimes find these little flaws in the way a scene was originally written.

09/03/05- Finished burning all the Yoga DVD's for a client. Fifty burns takes awhile, especially for an hour and forty eight minute program. Also worked on the Space Pod prop for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. It's really starting to take shape.

08/31/05- More bad news out of New Orleans and the South. Flood waters are rising and the whole area is worse off than anyone anticipated. I e-mailed a vendor yesterday afternoon to order parts for a gas station pump prop for our movie. They replied that they evacuated their town because of Katrina. Also heard an interesting bit on Coast To Coast AM from this fringe meteorologist Scott Stevens saying Katrina was a Russian weather attack. Check his site Weather Wars...strange stuff.

08/30/05- New Orleans was spared a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina, but word is starting to come back that the city is still flooded and partially destroyed. It's very strange how long it's taken to get any information out of the areas. Really makes you realize how vulnerable we really are and how fragile even a major cities infrastructure is.

08/29/05- Still trying to get a good DVD burn of the Yoga Video project I've been working off and on for the last nine months. The first test was good, but I noticed I had extra room on the DVD so I'm gonna upgrade some of the files quality settings and reburn. DVD Studio Pro 3 is an awesome program. I'm just scratching the surface with this project.

08/26/05- Working on the alien props for the upcoming shoots. Added pipes and beginning details to the Space Pod.

08/24/05- Uploaded the new Kill Switch...Klick song from the new Hot Rod Girls Save The World - Music & Mayhem CD. It's called Vikki Lee- N.R.FF. (Hacked Mix). Klick Vikki Lee to download it. It's weird sampling your own movie.

08/23/05- Made actor selections for the Gus character as well as the Starring Guy character for Hot Rod Girls SaveThe World. We had several good reads for the part, but had to make a decision. We shoot the Gas Station scene next month. Also got some more time in smoothing the Space Pod skin.

08/22/05- Started skinning the Moosha Maa Space Pod. Got the plywood and plastic mounted. I still have to build the canopy and then detail and paint the whole thing.

08/21/05- Built alien scene props for Hot Rod Girls Save The World, including an Intergalactic Spacegun and Moosha Maa Television.

08/20/05- Pick-up shot filming. Waited 3 hours for two trains to pass by, but got what I needed. Tried to film crows fighting over food scraps. Only got a weak "crow response" to all the crackers and salmon we pitched at them. This was by some picnic tables the crows normally mob.

08/17/05- Finished the artwork for the next Go-Kustom Rekords release. It's called Hot Rod Girls Save The World- Music & Mayhem and is a CD loosley tied into the movie. Some of these songs will be in the film, but more importantly this is music made by many of the stars of the film. Most of the actors in Hot Rod Girls Save The World are Seattle area musicians. I thought is would be cool to do a limited pressing CD featuring some of their work. Another highlight of Music & Mayhem is the first new Kill Switch...Klick song in several years.

08/15/05- More filming. Finished a tow truck driver scene with real life tow truck driver Aram playing...well you guessed it- a tow truck driver! He did a great job and yet another scene is completed in the Hot Rod Girls Save The World saga. Later I went to the beach to shoot the sunset for a time lapse segment for Hot Rod Girls.

08/13/05- Finished all the CDR's to send over to Fran Ashcroft in the U.K. for mastering of the Hot Rod Girls Save The World - Music & Mayhem compilation CD. This ones got 31 tracks including many dialog bits from the film.

08/10/05- Started work on the Alien Household props for Hot Rod Girls Save The World, including a hula hoop TV. Wait 'till you see this one!

08/09/05- Finished the rough arrangement of the new Kill Switch...Klick song Vikki Lee (Nobody Rides For Free). Has to be ready to drop in the mailbox by next Monday.

08/08/05- The mask looks excellent! The latex is a bit thick, but I poured alot in to clean any residual clay from the crevasses of the mold. Also began arranging the new Kill Switch...Klick tune Vikki Lee (Nobody Rides For Free). This one is for the new Hot Rod Girls Save The World compilation CD coming out on Go-Kustom Rekords in October.

08/07/05- Made the mold from the Chicken Lizard Man mock up (see below). I had to chisel out my old facial positive. The clay just held it too tight. Still the mold itself looked fine and is in tact. Poured the first latex for a pull tomorrow.

08/06/05- Added more detail and a lower portion to the Chicken Lizard Man face mask. I thought it might be a little more complete looking to have the chin area covered, and it really doesn't matter about actor dialog since all the alien communication is supposedly telepathic. They do move their mouths a bit during their "talking" but it isn't crucial that their appliances have extreme mouth opening capabilities. I tried to merge the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz with bird and lizard for the aliens facial characteristics. I think I achieved decent results for my first effort at face sculpting.

08/04/05- Edited more audio segments from Hot Rod Girls Save The World movie for the Hot Rod Girls CD that's coming out in October. These are rough audio clips without sweetening and some bloopers to give the unknowing a taste of what the film is about.

08/01/05- First draft of the alien facial appliances in clay are sculpted and ready to detail. I don't know about the angular nose, and I might have to adjust the eye area. I call him Chicken Lizard Man.

07/31/05- Working on the alien face make-up for the movie. Exported all the Yoga Video files, so that project is pretty much ready to burn to a test DVD.

07/30/05- Sent off the article I was writing about The Rooks Blessing Of The Cars event to CK Deluxe Magazine. This is the fifth article I've written for them in the last two months.

07/29/05- Finished a new Black Stockings Pin-Up Poster for Lady Kerrin B. This one will be on the Cafe Press pages shortly. We also shot a Go-Girls Pin-Up Spotlight with Kerrin a few weeks ago that will air on Go-Kustom TV in the near future. As Lindsay would say- "Check It Out!"

07/28/05- Made a promotional sandwich style sign for Tony Ririe's '29 Rat Rod, so he can easily let people know his car is a star in our little movie- Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Also made a life cast positive of my face to build alien facial appliances with. The appliances will be temple and nose latex appliances that can easily be glued onto actors to make them into (almost) instant aliens. I'll post some pics of the finished appliances later.

PHOTO BY DAN BROUILLARD

07/27/05- Hardcore zombie killing spree!!! Filmed late into the evening at our studio, doing both green screen and outdoor shoots. Had an excellent evening. Ol' Skool Rodz photographer Dan Brouillard took a few pics or a feature about Tony Ririe's '29 Ford that is one of the stars of our film. Dan also wanted to get some shots of us in action for the feature as well. I was surprised with all the blank gun fire the cops didn't come.

07/14/05- Eventful day. While taking my son to the dentist a 20 year old guy at a bus stop with Kiss make-up and headphones duct taped to his skull started yelling at me "Pimpin' ride bro...pimpin' ride!" I think he likes the new Dodge Magnum. In the afternoon Direct TV came over to install our satellite TV system. Now I can watch Speed Channel and the Barrett-Jackson auto auctions again (ohh yea). Later Billy Dwayne of Billy Dwayne and the Creepers came over to our Go-Kustom Films green room to film his character Jake's death throe pick-up shots.

07/13/05- Found a few mistakes in the Yoga video. Spent the whole night re-rendering the last few minutes of footage.

07/12/05- Pretty much finished the Yoga video I was working on. This has been a nine month project I was working on for a client. Now I should be able to get caught up on my back log of other projects.

07/10/05- Today we did a little photo shoot for the Black Stocking Pin-Up Poster series with Lady Kerrin at my place. After the shoot Go-Kustom TV hostess Lindsay Calkins did a quick interview with Kerrin and Kel, the photographer. Look for the poster in the Go-Girls section of the site in the next few weeks.

07/07/05- Terrorists suck. Nothing like killing innocent people for no real reason. Jihad...my ass.

07/04/05- Sneezy wheezy Fourth Of July. Got some kinda head cold. Still managed to get most of the Yoga Video finished (see below entries).

07/03/05- Did some pick-up shots with my daughter for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. It's funny taking the family out to "do pick-up shots." Family film making.

07/02/05- Painting the garage to be a "green room" for film work. With a green or blue room, the walls act like "green/blue screen" to be removed later during editing. Thus your actor can be walking in you "green room" and later have the room replaced by a forest or what ever you want. Essentially all the video with the blue or green content in it is removed, thus removing the back ground completely. The hardest part of painting was covering the blood splatters from the previous "Creepy House" set. We splattered fake blood all over the walls and it just soaks right through regular paint. I finally had to use Stains oil based primer to stop the blood from bleeding through. Before the painting began, we had to do some close-up pick-up shots of the saw blade coming down on Vikki Lee's skull. I had to complete the shots before the walls got painted green.

07/01/05- Made the plunge. Leased a 2006 Magnum SXT Wagon. Didn't get the Hemi, as it will be my wifes daily driver. Did get the AWD package. Fuckin' cool. A bit of buyers remorse, but hey we are only leasing the thing. Leasors remorse? Also rented the ultra cool DVD- Life Aquatic. Had no idea this was gonna be a art/ pseudo documentary. Bill Murray just keeps getting better. The style of this film reminds me of a cross between a Maya Derren film and Arrested Development. Just the gun play scene with Iggy Pop's Search and Destroy playing in the background is worth the rental price.

06/30/05- More work on the website and made a cool new Hemi Charger print series for the Cafe Press site. Picked up the mini van. After $700 in repairs the mechanic said, "You have my blessing on trading it in on a newer car."

06/29/05- More reworking of the website. Almost all the front pages are completed. Also finished my fourth interview (as writer) for CK Deluxe Magazine. Our mini van died...again.

06/28/05- We may be loosing one of our lead actresses prematurely. We can probably make up her shots with stand ins. I'm not sure.

06/26/05- Great day of filming yesterday for our first feature film Hot Rod Girls Save The World. The weather held out, and we got 4 scenes completed and some pick-up shots as well. We only have a few scenes left to film, mostly the alien characters, one regular scene and a few close-ups.

06/24/05- More work on the website. I knew I couldn't leave this thing alone. Got most of the basic pages in template form.

06/21/05- Adding more pages to the website. I am slowly getting the hang of GoLive.

06/20/05- Updating the website.

06/16/05- Slowly getting the hang of GoLive, but there is so much I want to do graphically to this site, I think it's gonna hafta wait until the movie is finished. Too many projects. I also began arranging the older Kill Switch...Klick song Curse Of The Planet Xijix. I know I should be working on tunes that are going to be in the movie- but this one is in need of attention. It's one of my best electronic riffs I've written in a long time.

06/15/05- Started messing around with Adobe GoLive 5 for the Go-Kustom websites. I've had the program for years, but didn't force myself to use it as I know PageMill fairly well. These pages are a bit drab though.

06/13/05- Spammers attack my e-mail box every Monday morn. Over 75 already. I can't figure out why this is a viable method of pitching a sale. Who would buy something- especially prescription drugs from a shady spammer? Worst than door to door salesman. Found out about another compilation I am on. ElectroCured: An Electro Tribute To The Cure. I have to occasionally do Google searches on my band name Kill Switch...Klick to find out what's out there. Cleopatra Records looks like they revamped the 100 Tears Cure Tribute that came out in 1997. as a suggestion I had made to Brian Perrera (owner of Cleopatra Records and a cool guy). KsK had just been on a Bauhaus Tribute and I asked Brian why Cleo didn't do a tribute to The Cure. He agreed. The Cure is one of those bands that defies time lines. A band that shaped genres but dances on the edges of several at the same time.

06/12/05- Working on the Yoga Instructional Video all day (see entries below).

06/11/05- Tried installing Adobe Go Live on my main drive and had a system freeze and crash. Took half the day finding the extensions bugs and fixing them. One step forward, two steps back.

06/10/05-Added a new Black Stockings Poster to the Cafe Press pages for Miss. Kel.

06/09/05-While watching the special features of Once Upon A Time In Mexico, I realized I'm gonna hafta upgrade my audio system for this film (Hot Rod Girls Save The World). I'm currently running an older version of Cubase VST and found that I can't export OMF files back and forth between Final Cut HD and Cubase. Yet another investment. I'm looking at a Protools Digi 02 Rack system by Digidesign. Looks like a good system. My current US-428 import device is a USB based system, that clogs and crashes quite a bit. Since I set up a second drive with Mac OS X (more stable than OS 9) I think I'm gonna make the jump. The issue is cost. At $1,500 for the Factory Bundle set-up it may take me some time to save (all my credit cards are maxed). Then I need to get the DV Toolkit to make interaction between Final Cut and Protools seamless. Ahh technology, The more you buy the more you want.

06/07/05-Took delivery on my new bass amp today. It's a Ashdown MAG 300 rack mount. Nice sweet bottom end. These U.K. made amps are top notch. I am working on getting my live rig set. So far I'm running my bass through a Sansamp Bassdriver DI splitting the signal into a Roland SE-50 then direct into the Ashdown MAG 300 (for the bass side). For the high end I'm running the other split signal into a Roland GT-3 and then to a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. The tone is severe, giving me the flexibility to emulate guitar or bass sounds from one rig. Also did a bit of vocal recording with Melene Marie Brown for her songs "White River" and "Roadside Epitaph."

06/05/05- Dumping the movie footage from the last year into my computer for rough editing. Got like 10 hours in already. Also worked on the Heather Hexxx track "Bitch."

06/04/05- Doin' old Federal Taxes. From 2003. Man are we behind.

05/29/05- Took the kids to see Star Wars Episode 3 today at this behemoth theater complex in Alderwood, WA. Man what a temple to the film gods that place it. 16 theaters with Star Wars playing simultaneously in 3 or 4 of them. Waited for an hour in line to get in the theater, but managed to get good seats. It was a good film, well worth the price of admission. So what's next for Lucas? American Graffiti Episode 2- Return Of The Greaser? He said he wants to make simple, artistic films now that Star Wars is complete. That would be a cool reality show. Lucas armed only with a cheap ass DV camera and a tripod making movies. No computer animated effects, no marketing machine driving his artistic decisions. Every week we'd see if the man who changed cinema could actually make a story driven film. Can he do it!

05/28/05- Long day of filming. We got some great shots and we are getting closer to the completion of the filming part of this year long project we call Hot Rod Girls Save The World. I didn't realize making a movie, even a little indie-film, was so much work. We still have a way to go, but can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

05/27/05- Watched the DVD of My Architect. Very inspiring film. Now that I am slowly morphing from a musician into a film maker, I watch films differently than I used to. It's a strange process, especially for someone now in his early 40's. I feel like a student again. I am aware of cuts, camera angles, the tempo of the film. The feeling is similar to when I first started dissecting music as a teenager, to learn how a song was made. Like when I first read the lyrics inside PiL and The Germs album sleeves to learn how to change my poetry into song lyrics. The world is so vast, with so many ways to do the same things. When you teach yourself through observation, the methods may be unconventional, but fresh and sometimes your own. I used to always cringe when I would read reviews of my music saying I "copied" this artist or that artist.. I never intentionally copied anyone. I actually used to not listen to popular music after around 1984- and all these artists I supposedly "copied" came after that time. Mostly I think it was the unschooled reviewers, who having little understanding of music, felt it was fashionable (and safe) to bash upcoming artists and brush them off by comparing them to one of the few pop stars they were aware of. So many of the reviews I have seen of my music are so far off base, it's unbelievable. Music reviewers by nature are parasites, and good or bad reviews irrelevant other than being that journalists opinion. I have witnessed first hand, music journalists using their writing to try and hurt mine and other bands careers, all because they were jealous or out for some kind of personal vengeance. It seems like it is all politics and lawyers in the music world nowadays. I'm sure there are the same types of forces in the film world. But really none of that matters. If you follow you creative vision, good or bad, at least you did what you wanted. And if only one person likes it (probably your Mom) then it wasn't in vane.

05/26/05- Added bass and effects to the Heather Hexxx & The Hellions track Bitch

05/25/05- "America- Fuck Yea..." Rented Team America World Police. A funny fuckin' film. Also worked on the Heather Hexxx track a little bit.

05/24/05- Wrote the drum loops for Heather Hexxx & The Hellions track Bitch. Also did a bit of editing on the Yoga Video.

05/23/05- Did some pick up shots for Hot Rod Girls... mostly of my wife walking around our darkened basement with a lighter in her hand.

05/22/05- More work on the Yoga Video (see entries about it below) also uploaded anoth Black Stockings Poster to our Cafe Press pages. This one features Ms. Dillon.

05/21/05- Heather Hexxx came over to the studio with Knuck from DragStrip Riot to record her song Bitch. We got the basic tracks down. I'm going to add a bass line and drum loop in the next week.

05/16/05- More work on the Yoga Video (see entries about it below). I hope I can finish it in the next few weeks. It has been very slow going and been an ongoing project since last October.

05/15/05- The shoot today for Hot Rod Girls... got rained out. Ended up working on the Yoga Video all day (see below entries).

05/14/05- Went out location scouting with Tony Ririe. We were looking for shop locations for the Hot Rod Girls... movie. We're set to shoot tomorrow.

05/07/05- Kim Layfield came over to do a few pick up shots for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Quick and easy filming.

05/06/05- Forgot to mention that the Ol' Skool Rodz Magazine blip of Hot Rod Girls Save The World came out last week. Klick the link to read it.

05/05/05- Today is brought to you by the number "Five." Worked on some more Black Stockings poster prints for the Cafe Press Go-Kustom site.

05/04/05- We did pick up shots with Shawn Shelton for the Hot Rod Girls Save The World movie. Shawns character gets his head blown off by a detective in the scene. When we initially shot the scene last weekend, the effect didn't look too convincing. But the reshoot changed all that.

05/03/05- Worked on some new Black Stockings poster prints for the Cafe Press Go-Kustom site. Also planned the reshoot schedule for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. We are getting down to the wire.

Kreativ Labour

05/01/05- May Day. Eight hour work days.It was a start. Now how about a 4 day work week..same pay? Anyway, worked on the Yoga Video (see below entries) for about 6 hours. A bit slow from the 3 AM bedtime after last nights Cafe Shoot.

04/30/05- Location shoot at a cafe in North Seattle for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Everybody did a great job! Didn't get done until 2AM, but we still got three full scenes completed. Special thanks to Wendy Treat for stepping in at the last minute and The Bad Things for making a last minute cameo appearance.

04/29/05- Got the new Counts Kustoms promo DVD today from the production company in Spain. They used my song Monster Monster for the bike preview section and also have the full Hot Rod Girls Save The World Trailer and Monster Monster videos in the special features Music Video Section of the DVD. Very cool. Counts Kustoms are the same shop that did the Ozzy Osborne chopper for The Osborne's MTV Show a few years back. Thousands of these DVDs will be given away at Bike Shows and through mail order. It's funny how Monster Monster just keeps growing as a song. I wrote it in 1999, but it is more popular now than when it first came out. It's been on two DVD collections so far. I think it was a bit ahead of the times- style wise and it makes more sense when you see it as a music video. You know what else is strange...I just spell checked this entry and the suggested spelling correction for "Ozzy" is "USA"...HA!

04/28/05- Most all Kill Switch...Klick and Go-Kustom Rekords music is available now as pay downloads from KarmaDownload.com. Sweet!

04/27/05- Did a pick-up shot of Jesse James Stewart (from The Wages Of Sin) as the character "Johnny" for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. The shot will be used in a montage showing all the crazy kids getting ready for a big crazy house party in town. Crazy I tell ya!

04/24/05- Editing the Yoga Video for 11 hours straight! See below entries for details. During the render times I worked on the new KsK song "Vikki Lee (Nobody Rides For Free)." The thing about video editing is that after you make changes in the video you have to render the section. This is where the computer writes the new video part and can take 1 minute to an hour, depending on how drastic the changes.

04/19/05- I have come to the conclusion that music magazines are worthless. However- car magazines you can learn something valuable from...

04/18/05- Wrote a little tune using samples from the filming we did on the 16th called "Vikki Lee (Nobody Rides For Free)." With my band Kill Switch...Klick, I used to sample the hell outta my favorite movies. Bladerunner, THX-1138, Romper Stomper, Schindlers List and Full Metal Jacket, to name a few. For you that don't know what I'm talking about, you hook a Sampler up to your VCR or DVD Player and take audio bits from the movie, and then use them in a song. Many Industrial and Electronic bands use samples to add to the "media found sound" ethic of their work. It's strange and cool sampling your own movie.

04/17/05- Did a few pick up shots this afternoon. Mostly close-ups of the set. Still a bit burnt out- but feeling happy.

04/16/05- Back with a vengeance! After several months off- we had one of the most intense shoots of the Hot Rod Girls Save The World schedule. Didn't get to bed until 5AM.

04/15/05- Late night prepping the garage for the "Creepy House" shoot. Spent the whole day looking for carpet remnants and doing last minute touch-ups to the "Creepy House" set.

04/14/05- Special Effect guru Shawn Shelton came over to cast a mold of my wife's arm for a dismemberment scene we are shooting next Saturday. Late night, but looks like we'll have great results.

04/10/05- Melene Marie, Austin & Mike (AKA The Blacktop Angels) came over to the studio to lay down a few tracks for the Hot Rod Girls Save The World CD. The new studio space is working out excellent.

04/09/05- Cleaning the studio, and working on the "Creepy House" garage set. Have to have it looking like a destroyed living room by next Saturday.

04/07/05- Loading uo the Korg ESX sampler with all new sounds. Now any of you studio hip musicians who think I'm a retard for writing my next three albums on a $600 box, need to muncha mi huevos, because this little box is a killer. It's like a stripped down Akai MPC, and we all know how many hit records were written on those $1,200 boxes.

04/06/05- So I'm in the grocery store today, and I see all the new Star Wars books in young adult versions on a huge free standing rack. All the episodes. Pretty cool. I start thinking about where George Lucas went wrong with Episode One, Two and probably Three. Don't get me wrong, I think Lucas is a genius, even without Star Wars. THX-1138 and American Graffiti are two of my favorite films and lets not forget about THX sound and all the other innovations he's pioneered. So anyways- I'm thinking about how Mr. Lucas fucked up the Star Wars franchise, with Jar Jar and honestly, the worse move, putting R2D2 and C3PO in the first three prequels. It makes no sense. Those characters were thrown into the action of New Hope as observers, in an obvious homage to Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress peasant characters. One tall and skinny, one short and dumpy. That's why New Hope works, we can identify with their plight of being Average Joe service robots, pulled into a civil war. It makes the plot that much more believable. They should have been left out of the first three, the same as Luke or Han Solo. Why would pre-Darth Vader get close to R2D2 or build C3PO? Tacked on crap. And why keep going back to Tatooine? Shouldn't that be the last place to hide Anakin's kid, since he grew up there? I guess, in a way only New Hope could be the perfect Star Wars. Nothing had really been fully explained or resolved. It was still very open to interpretation. I was pissed when Darth became Luke's "Father." Then Leah became his sister...nonsense. In New Hope Luke was jealous of Han. He wanted Leah. Most of us 12-16 year old boys did back then too. We could relate to Luke being smitten by a pretty, wealthy, self sufficient Princess. She was the unobtainable girl, made obtainable through circumstance. It would have been so cool, if Darth had never been Anakin and Leah was just a buxom Princess. There could have been a much better story of betrayal between Anakin and Darth and Obi Wan and maybe a bit more tension between Han and Luke. Han should have been killed by reverting to his greedy nature, leaving Luke and Leah to make babies. But ya know it is George Lucas' creation, so he can do with it what he wants. Know what I think- Jabba should have really been Leah's father, then as she strangled him with her chains, he could have gasped, "Leah...I'm your Father!" Of course it would have been subtitled and she wouldn't understand a damn thing he was saying, so she'd kill him anyway. Har har.

04/04/05- Worked on the Yoga Video (see below entries- dejavu) and organized and dumped some new Kill Switch...Klick rhythm tracks from the Korg ESX into Cubase VST. I'm thinking about getting the newest version of Cubase, but VST has been working fine for now. I also began moving furniture around in my garage for the "Creepy House" scene we are shooting on April 16th. This a is a very intense scene where my garage has to look like a living room destroyed by a psychotic killer.

Had a strange Armageddonish dream last night. I was living in an apartment with my mother and family. Kinda looked like New York, but not really anywhere I've every seen before. I was looking out the window. My Mom's dogs were barking somewhere behind me in another room. The people on the street looked sad. Not depressed or "going to work" sad, but supremely sad. The infrastructure of the U.S. economy had somehow collapsed. I don't know how (hell it was a dream), but I knew we were running out of food and all the stores had been looted clean. The streets had people, but most had left the city. Bands of young thugs had been roaming the streets before this point in the dream, but had been killed off by armed vigilante groups, comprised mostly of middle aged family guys, protecting their families. They had hunted all the gangs to extinction. Now people were just waiting. Their life cycles, dreams and expectations had been completely interrupted. They were in uncharted and desolate waters...everyone was so lost and so sad.

04/03/05- Worked on the Yoga Video (see below entries) and a new episode of Go-Kustom TV. This episode has sections from D.I.Y. Or Die a very cool documentary about artists doing things themselves by filmmaker Michael W. Dean. I was fortunate enough to have one of my songs in the special features sections of the DVD and that's how I heard about the D.I.Y. film. Listening to Steve Albini talk about money versus art is very enlightening. In fact every interview is intense. I highly recommend D.I.Y to any aspiring musician or artist. It is an extremely inspirational film.

04/02/05- The passing of Pope John Paul II today. Hopefully it was peaceful- I know he struggled with his heath the last few years, but he had a good run.

04/01/05- April Fools.Somebody told me they have a similar type day in South American on December 28th.

1976 Dodge Charger
2006 Dodge Charger

03/31/05- So the debate rages on. Is the NEW Dodge Charger a REAL Dodge Charger because it has 4 doors and the back end of an Intrepid? According to the new issue of Mopar Muscle- the NEW Charger is an impostor. Personally looking at the two above adds- one for a 1976 Dodge Charger Daytona and the one below it for a 2006 Dodge Charger SRT-8, I think the SRT-8 deserves to be called a "Charger" much more so than the Cordoba clone of 1976. My first entry about the new Charger wasn't that favorable- given the lame press shots that were available on the internet. Looking at the 2006 SRT and 2006 Daytona versions, I'm thinking about buying one. Realistically- I'll probably end up with a new Magnum wagon. Gotta get the groceries. I talked the wife into going for a test drive at the Dodge dealer down the street this Sunday.

I'm re-reading this entry and thinking- 'How relevent is any of this Charger Controversey when thousands of people just died in yet another earthquake in Indonesia.' We buy new cars while the third world eats its own garbage. Pretty funny- huh? I guess I became a Capitalist Pig despite my own best efforts. Self loathing it's the American way.

03/30/05- Sampling some of my favorite records into the 'ol 'puter. Sometimes a not so useful process for writing new songs, but worth a try for some inspirational bits and tones. Polyrock, Bill Nelson, Blancmange, Gang Of Four and Lene Lovich. Earlier today some idjit cut me off today in this huge Ford Expedition, while he was yakking on his cell phone. I beeped and so he slowed down to piss me off even more. That makes him a "Fucking Idjit." The kids are in the car, as I'm taking them to school, so I keep it cool. I'm sitting behind this behemoth 2 mile a gallon shiny black turd wagon, with a shiny white yakkety yak turd man driving it thinking- "If only I had something bigger than his Turd Wagon! I would ram him- right up his fucking turd infested ass- Smash! Smash! Smashitty Smash!" But then the natural order of it all struck me. If I had been driving something bigger than his Turd Wagon, HE WOULDN'T HAVE PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF ME!

03/27/05- Happy Easter...future civilizations will marvel at the strangeness of our holiday celebrations.

03/26/05- Began working on a new electrobilly track tentatively called "Maximize." Petter Gunn style twang guitars meat surfiish hip-hop beats. Strange but cool. It's for the Hot Rod Girls Save The World soundtrack. We also took the kids to see Robots today in lieu of an Easter Egg Hunt that got rained out. Pretty good movie. Worth seeing in the theater.

03/25/05- Working on another Go-Girls Pin-Up Spotlight featuring Sabina Kelley. These featurettes are pretty popular on our weekly TV Show. It's a good way for girls to get some extra exposure. With 10 to 20 thousand viewers a week- it all adds up.

03/24/05- Sometimes I think the ONLY reason God doesn't wipe us off the face of this earth, given all our self destructive behavior, is our creativity. It's one of the few things we do to redeem our self involved species.

Dodge Charger Daytonas

03/22/05- The new 2006 Dodge Charger Daytona- it looks more like what the Plymouth 'Cuda would look like (especially that rear quarter panel kick-up) in 2006. Hmmm.- not too bad looking with the new paint schemes, but a four door Charger? I guess Daisy Dukes gets her own door now.

03/19/05- Penned a new online deal with Karma Download. They are going to carry all our back catalog (Go-Kustom and Kill Switch...Klick) on their pay for download MP3 website. I'll post the pages when the albums are online.

03/16/05- Well it's final...our old house is sold. The closing was today. Kinda sad, but moving on. Ya know life is like that.

03/13/05- Just got this pic from Rokker at Maximum Ink Magazine. The band is Scarlet Escape. That is funny seeeing your own mug in the hands of others. I feel like Madonna or something...har.

03/11/05- Started contacting bands for the new Hot Rod Girls Save The World soundtrack CD. A few of the bands were slated to be on the Girlfiends & She-Devils disc that we haven't put out yet. I still will get Girlfiends out, but it has been superseded by the Hot Rod Girls film project.

03/09/05- Sent off The Flathand 5 CD to get a bit o' mastering by Fran Ashcroft in the UK. Also sent off a few D.A. Sebasstian & The Inner Demons tracks to Mel Dettmer here in Seattle for mastering. Mastering is where a mastering engineer takes recorded tracks and sweetens the sound, adding compression, e.q.,enhancement- basically whatever is required to make a song sound finished. Different mastering engineers have different tools and techniques that they bring to the song- which can really make or break a track.

03/07/05- Finished the new set of adds for Hot Rod Girls Save The World destined various magazines, including the full page add in the upcoming Rockabilly Monthly.

03/06/05- Finally got around to re-typing and uploading the interview I did with Eric Cooley for MusicWerks mid-2004. I hope Michael Wimmer can keep MusicWerks Magazine growing. It's something Seattle and the underground music community really needs right now. You can get a subscription to MusicWerks at http://adsrmusicwerks.brinkster.net/db/shop/magazine/

03/05/05- The Seattle Magazine piece on local Kustom Kulture came out this week. They had interviewed me, because of our weekly TV Show that focuses on such happenings. Other than calling my band Kill Switch...Klick a "rockabilly band," it was a fairly accurate bit o' writing. Also looks like our house sold. The counter offer didn't come back last Friday, so we close on the 16th. It was a cool little house. I hope the new owners take good care of it. We put alot of time and money into that place and it'd suck to see it go to hell. The strangest part of relocating my wife's Arts School and moving into a leased house, is not being a "home owner" anymore. There's a certain sense of security (and headache) that come with owning your own place. It'll be nice though- not paying a home lease and a home mortgage every month. We've been doing that since last July, and even though we bring in a decent amount of dinero from my wife's business, we still end the month tight on funds. Maybe now I can get that 1967 Charger I've always wanted...

03/03/05- Man...my seasonal allergies are really kickin' in. It's because of the early Seattle Spring brought on by the solid month and a half of sunshine we've had. That rarely happens in February. This over the counter Clariten doesn't do much good. Sneeze sneeze cough cough. I love Spring.

03/02/05- Added a new poster to the Black Stocking Pin-Up Series we have up on the Cafe Press website. It's Barracuda Covergirl Miss Heidi Van Horne. Check out her website at HeidiVanhorne.com.

03/01/05- They fixed my last name on the Maximum Ink website cover pic. The printed version was typo'ed, but like I said before...aint no big thang. Also looks like the blurb about Hot Rod Girls Save the World in Ol' Skool Rodz will be issue #10, which goes on sale April 19th. They also asked me to write a feature article about the making of a Hot Rod movie. How cool is that ?!?

Bronco Bass

02/28/05- Got a new bass from my wife and kids for my Birthday last week. It's a short scale Squire Bronco. Man can you play fast on that little bass. It's like a mini-me bass. And what's been up with the California rain the last few weeks. It's like everything is reversed. We are getting solid sunshine and Disneyland is flooding out.

02/23/05- Been working on the Yoga Video (on going project for the last four months, for a prominent Yoga Instructor). Almost finished the second to the last chapter. I might this one done by first week in March.

Lindsay In The Studio Lindsay and Toy Cars

Lindsay In The Bathroom

02/20/05- The one and only Lindsay Calkins came into the studio to tag some upcoming episodes of Go-Kustom TV. We finished five of 'em.

02/19/05-Got the new printed version of my screenplay for Hot Rod Girls Save The World published and online at Cafe Press. The book features 162 stills from the movie as well as a few from behind the scenes. We have a wrap date of June for the shooting of this project.

02/13/05-Mike Ditmore came over to the studio and he laid down some drum and percussion tracks for the Hot Rod Girls Save The World soundtrack.

02/08/05-The interview that David Kulczyk did with me a few months back - made the cover of Maximum Ink (cool monthly indie print mag, straight outta Wisconsin). It's been awhile since I was mentioned on the cover of any magazine. They typo'ed my last name, but what the hey...I ain't complainin'.

02/06/05- Did a little touch-up painting on the old house and worked on the Yoga Video. Two more sections to go and it will be done.

02/04/05- Bought a new bass. It's a medium scale Ibanez GAXB150. I want a faster bass to give that twangy kinda sound I get on my Baritone guitar. I ordered it from Musicians Friend (love those guys) and should have it in a few days. I still want to buy a Fender Bronco Bass- maybe next month.

Kounts Kustoms

02/03/05- David Kulczyk just told me the interview I did for Maximum Ink a few months ago will be in the next issue. Also the interview I did with Seattle Magazine will be out in March not February. I also heard back from Kounts Kustoms. They asked to use my tune "Monster Monster" for their chopper promo video. The test footage looks rad!

02/02/05- Happy Groundhogs Day! I love Bill Murray in that movie...

Space Pod Stage I Space Pod Front

Space Pod Detail

01/25/05- Building a Space Pod. For the movie.

01/24/05- Going to send out the Flathand 5 CDR for mastering. The mastering process really brings songs to life (potentially that is). I also have a few D.A. Sebasstian and the Inner Demons tracks to get mastered. It's getting time to get serious again.

01/19/05- Writing more songs on the Korg ESX. I really love the sound this sampling drum machine is getting. I think I've finally found my allusive sound. It may redefine my entire future catalog of music. La dee daa.

01/15/05- Man...checked our website stats on Urchin Reports this morning and we've got nearly 2,000 visitors a day! That's up 40% from last year. I know these pages could look better, I even went out and bought Adobe's Go Live to spruce up this site, but with all the video editing and music production I've been into, I haven't had the time to learn the friggin' program. So I keep chugging away at it with a 1998 version of Page Mill. It's what I know. I guess it doesn't matter that much, as people are browsing the Go-Kustom site. We had close to 500 downlaods last week of the Kill Switch...Klick song "Kontorted." That's the cool thing about MP3's...there is no such a thing as "in print" or "out of print" anymore. As long as you have a website with the MP3's available, it's always "in print."

Lindsay - Check It Out!

01/12/05- Uploaded all kinds of new shirts and merch onto our Cafe Press pages at http://www.cafepress.com/gokustom . I especially like the new designs for the Go-Kustom TV merch.

01/09/05- First day of snow in our part of Seattle. Some of the hills got some yesterday that stuck around for part of the day. Always feels cozy when it snows around here. I went through all my older music files and cleaned up the computer a bit. I forget how many half baked songs I have lying around. I probably have enough source material for 20 albums. Creativity is crazy that way (at least mine is). It just comes in spurts, especially the basic ideas. Its turning a drum beat and melody line into a finished song, that is the real work. Two new KsK songs stand out from my last few days of bedtime beat writing. "4321" and "Ebb" are both high potential tunes.

01/07/05- Trying to get new episodes of Go-Kustom TV ready for the new season, which starts next week. I ran too many reruns last season, the problem is finding time to edit video projects, make music and still say "Hi" to my kids once in awhile.

BEFORE- "The Fugly Charger..."

AFTER- "D.A. Nose & Tail Job."

01/05/05- Well I finally saw a photo of the new Dodge Charger. Man is it fugly! I want to see one in person to make a final decision- as when I initially saw the new Chrysler 300C, I wasn't too impressed. But it grew on me. The 300 looks like a true gangster ride, and I don't mean gangsta rap, I mean full on NYC, in your face Italian bred gangster. Give me the keys Vinnie! If Al Capone was alive today- he'd have at least one 300C in his garage..but the new Charger has a face only a mother could love. P.S. the Charger source picture came from a great website call allpar.com. All Mopar freaks should visit it once in awhile.

01/03/05- Did some work on the website. Mostly the Kill Switch...Klick pages, since we are working on the new album.

01/01/05- Day One 2005 and I got the Pink Eye..

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