the coca leaf and the inflatable globe

a Bolivia-based journalism group sent this video question to the Republicans, who evidently are having a debate with YouTube questions. my study abroad teacher sent this to our class. i like how they frame the shot.

brainy fun

think you know geography? check out geosense.net. it's better with a friend.

mptc

mptc
Originally uploaded by Monster Pete

happier times.

loss and renewal

i left my violin in front of an ATM the other night, and walked away without it. i returned a little more than five minutes later and it was gone. let's hope this turns out as well as the lost computer incident, though without the danger and knife and pissed off motel owner. i am despairing. my violin teacher gave me a semi-playful punch on the arm.

to find it, i put an ad on the lost and found on Craigslist, filed a police report and called the cops' "property office" or something where all the lost property goes. also called the B of A. i'm considering asking to access their ATM security video records to find the perp. i gave my biz card to the building i left it outside of.

sorry to mope. in better news, i heart owen is reviving itself, this time as we heart owen. be warned.

mptc at twister's gym

hey we played last night. we rocked the crowd. it was a great show. wesley willis would have been proud and written a song like this:

monster pete and the chiefs
monster pete and the chiefs
they are a great rock band
monster pete and the chiefs

i saw them at Twister's gym. it was a gymnastics room full of foam blocks and trampolines. NVS and the Muckruckers played too. the crowd got sweaty in a mosh pit.

monster pete and the chiefs
monster pete and the chiefs
they are a great rock band
monster pete and the chiefs



our set includes mostly MPTC songs, two of them "new", and some covers: "Hocus Pocus" by Focus, done Gary Hoey style; Phantom of the Opera theme by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Hawaii Five-O; Misirlou done Dick Dale style; "No Sleep 'til Brooklyn", Beastie Boys; and we're working on Pipeline.