Duckfeed Presents

A handy distraction to stop you from constantly beating off!

Good god! The mouth noises!

A lot of these observations about college hold up in light of my recent experiences with that institution. Hell is other people and a lot of the time, I'm in a constant state of barely supressed rage!

The middle song is one of the best from my Master Wrench album, something I remain pretty proud of, despite some low points.

And I conclude this part of 88 Lines with Zak. It comes back later in the show and there's some talk of doing it for Duckfeed, so we'll see if that works out.

Dig in!

This is a defeated man right here. At this time, my mother had suffered a series of heart attacks. I didn't have enough energy to do a whole big thing, thus the lazy first part of this. Not lazy, I suppose, but this might be one of the signs of the show disolving. I'm desparately casting about for ways to promote the show, I'm name checking cross promotional stuff, etc. My plugs song never was chosen, sadly, nor my Jukebox Jury entry. Oh well!

The song in the middle is something I'm relatively happy with it. Short little EP you can find on my site.

Then I continue my lo fi talk with Zak about girls.

What a disappointment! 

I'm a pretty big fan of this episode! Some ear wormy nonsense about "houses" in the beginning, a little bit called You Know What I Fuckin' Hate? that was going to be a recurring segment but never got repeated.

Then we have the first hot hot hit from The Metroids, a song called Make Way For The Nextmen.

Then, finally, a 3 part segment I did with my buddy Zak about love, romance and relationships! I sort of want to turn this into an actual show but who knows if that will happen. In retrospect, given that this predates my divorce, it's a little uneasy. Also, Zak's audio quality isn't exactly top of the pops. Oh well!

Oh! The place of many indignities! Jupiter's Thunder!

I'm balancing some serious and some silly here.

The first part is me recounting my experience with the NIU School Shooting a few years back, both in story form and in a song I wrote about it. I expand a bit about evil in the world, etc. High minded stuff for a podcast that later features a song called Pussystorm USA. That song is my favorite that a band I played with called The Midnite Snax. It's all about tension and release.

In the second half, I call in some guest stars to continue the saga of The Dungeon Mister. This will later get wrapped up and forms a pretty fun 3 part sketch thing. Thanks to Ryan Green and Mike Kitchell for their help!

Frightful biology.

Probably a below average episode. The first half has a little pop screen nonsense and then something that can't really be construed as anything other than agism. But you know, ehhhhhh.

The song is probably the oldest thing I have recorded from one of my earliest bands, HiLo. There is a LOT of HiLo that went unrecorded, which breaks my heart.

And then the disgusting finale of Taint Misbehavin' which ends in exactly the way it has to, really.

Careful! She's right there!

This is one of my favorite things I've ever done. My favorite things I ever did with the show were to fuck with the show. This, the Slenderman arc in the beginning of season 2, the finale, all stuff I'm really proud of.

So, the first part I consider to be pretty impeccable.

The song in the middle is the first track on the last Metroids album, which again, I'm really into.

Then we have the 2nd part of Taint Misbehaving, which I do like, but it's sort of lazy. I did these extended 2nd bits, that didn't require writing, when I wanted to do more ambitious first bits, I think. In either case, I really like this episode.

If you meet someone wearing this shirt, unmeet them. 

Fun episode!

As a porn enthusiast, I notice a lot of things about it. Like how it's god damned ridiculous. The first part is about that.

I threw in a song from my song-a-day project from February 2008 that eventually made it to my short lived but well loved band Joystick Joy.

Finally, we have the first of a three part bit wherein I interview my friend Steve about a ghastly experience he had. Trivia! This wasn't meant to have a sequel where he interviewed me as I have had a similarly terrible incident.

This is what pornography looks like to me.

Not much to say about good ol' episode 11. It's a breather and it sounds like one. Still, I liked this idea enough to do a few other shows in this style, but under a different moniker.

Next week, I'll be back with more classic style Dead Idea Valhalla and the week after I should have something brand new to put up. I was originally going to record some more original fiction to throw up here but the story I had in mind had a lot of internal monologue, which is demarcated from narration by italics. It's hard to vocalize italics!

Greasy and tasty!

There are only a couple episodes I think are relatively uninspired and this is one of them. Why didn't I title this episode starchy wad? Anyway, I'm not crazy about the first half of this episode. I have some barely informed opinions about food science, some of which I stand by, some of which I don't, especially in relation to my current dietary restrictions. Time makes fools of us all!

The song is from a little EP that I did, one of the first things I recorded while living in Portland and I'm a big fan.

The second bit is probably going age really poorly and might be a little hard to follow. My wife at the time was watching a whole lot of Miami Ink and L.A. Ink, which I think is more or less bunko, even by the standards of reality TV. And I'll watch some reality TV, as long as it contains treasure hunting of some kind. But these shows bugged me with it's thuggish attitude and obnoxious characters. Further, the rotating cast of people looking to get tattoos were selected based on how sentimental and tear jerky their ideas were. So, I threw together a bunch of characters into a sort of beerslam: Behehehndrehndehendehenen Ink.

Most of the shop characters don't appear again, probably because I felt uncomfortable about doing foreign accents. I did, however, draw a picture of Mutaro that is terrifying.

Look how happy they are.

This is largely considered to be a good starting episode for the show! Listening back, I wish I had better mic technique and didn't say "you know" as much. I think one reason I'm constantly stumbling in my words is because the subject matter is so personal. I'm comfortable sharing but it's still hard to talk about sometimes.

The first half is maybe the first time I've gotten really personal but it was important for me to not be cagey. I think at a certain point, you realize that hey, this is your life, there's no use pretending anything didn't happen. However, I might just be saying that because it hasn't fucked me just yet. Will this episode stop me from getting a job at some point? Probably!

The song is from a brief solo project and is short and poppy.

The end bit is probably why this episode is so well thought of. It's one of the first really produced things I've done, it introduces a character I'd go on to use, and it's batshit insanity was at least somewhat natural. The Brain Camp sketch was inspired by a note I wrote to myself that said, I shit you not, "paint turtles on breasts to keep kid away." It's also inspired by the absolute terror of live action ninja turtles as featured in the We Wish You A Turtle Christmas video. I had a serious laughing fit with my friends Brayton (of The Pitch) and Jeremy after watching this nonsense. Check it out!

Oh, and this is the premeire of the ending theme song that I was always pretty proud of.