Happy New Year, 2021!

Please, Lord, let this one be better.

- Storm Doooooooor!

- Nature's Piddle

- Friday comedy from Doug's company newsletter is always a favorite.

- Almost pulled off the evasive tongue roll inspired by that scene in "Christmas Vacation"

- Trilety visits Santa

- Cinder gets a new Cat's Meow toy for Christmas

- Passing the puck on lake Manawa

- NYE  

- More sounds of Doug's "office"

- Frederick Julius in the car wash

- Fighting the Cinder Beast

- Tirlety, Dogs & Leaves

- Doug's birthday music box "You Are My Sunshine"

- Two tiny blowy guys blowing with each other

- Megan sawing the end off the Christmas Tree and getting big ideas!

- A hobo music lesson overheard while walking in Southroads

- The new garbage & recycling trucks have arrived!  

Lots of good stuff this month - including a shitty car recording of my new song!

- Hydraulic mining "hose" in CO

- THE OLIVER BEAST

- Frisco's Babbling Brook

- "Rocking the Camry with "Black Walls"

- Megan and the hungry birds at MoonRise Gallery

- Jackhammer make Doug want to cutabitch 

- Can you identify this sound??

- Elisabeth shares a spooky story on Halloween

- Elva wishes us a happy Halloween!

- Fire crackling at Hitchcock nature place

- Another Genius George Gem

I apologize for the hot mess that some of this audio is. The chains recording came out like something that could compete with that video on YouTube of the lady "grapefruiting your man" ha. And the final bit is long and probably boring, but years down the road me and the other Randies will remember how that song and video took up so much time and so many versions!

- The quality sound in Randy's "Captain's Chair"

- A great variety of sounds from the porch on a random weekday

- The sounds of our first outing for live music since the pandemic hit!

- Trilety and Doug share some school trauma stories

- A new instrument - The Chains!

- For posterity: The Randies having (hopefully) one last viewing of THE VIDEO. 

Recently, we lost our dear Suzie cat. I made this special for her. We miss her every day and every night. Even Cinder! (Probably especially Cinder) <3     

a whispering sound : MURMUR

More stuff happened this month than I remember happening! 

- Bottle rockets & fireworks on Capitol Ave.

- Megan playing corn hole in the Kabolympics (name invented by Trilety, I think)

- George Gem! What year did "A Space Odyssey" come out, again?

- Mastering the "Starry Shoots" EP with Other Doug at Focus! (https://dougkabourek.bandcamp.com/)

- Super Peter Gabriel "Up" listening session while at Focus

- New kitchen faucet sounds ("Wet Sounds")

- Socially distant park sounds from July

- Randy's hearing dogs!

- Thunder

All Doug alone this month! 

- My "Pet Sounds" simulation at a Council Bluffs RR crossing

- The sounds of the Wabash

- Bleacher laser beams in La Vista!

- The first summer cicadas from the Belafonte

- Another George Gem with him tripping over Dick Van Dyke like he was an ottoman  

Are we done with this year yet?? 

- Bill treats Doug to a pre-storm "Hawaiian Baby" by the Spinanes

- Hiking in Blair and finding a patriotic bell

- Mystery plane circles midtown

- Doug's songwriting fail from a bike ride - "It's Just Gonna Rain On Me" (which it actually didn't!)

- The sound of sirens out on the street and then again on TV. ("The Goonies" Mouth's opening scene in reverse)

- Buffalo Tom's "Anything That Way" by Bill for happy hour

Here are the sounds from deep in quarantine! (People squeezing all the marrow out of life with a train whistle, etc.)

- A socially distant happy hour over at the Campbells' 

- Listening on the Belafonte for Laura to blow here train whistle (featuring Tom Becka!)

- Trilety listening for the whistle

- Laura's Facebook Live of the big blow!

- Shut-in fun with Megan playing Doug's keyboard

- Some lovely accordion in the heart of Dundee

- Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom covering The Replacements on his happy hour live stream a couple weeks ago

- The start of haunt work has begun!

- Megan burned some old journals during the quarantine. Doug made her read a bit before they went up in flames.

- Enjoying a squeaky swing in Elkhorn, NE