7/21/04
Finally! For those who want to see Copper Man playing live but are unable due to:
a) geographic circumstance
b) crippling agoraphobia, or
c) previously scheduled dental surgery
We are proud to announce the posting of the first two clips in our MPEG library. So simple to find. Just click on the "images" icon, and then the "videos" link. Obviously, a high-speed internet connection is recommended, but so is checking your coolant level every time you refill the gas tank, and I don't see you doing that either. Oh, I know, you like to live dangerously. I'm just saying.
These clips are noteworthy as the first real document of this new line-up. They're suitably ragged, but I wouldn't want them any other way. They can't claim to be a real substitute for seeing us live, unless you see every live show with shredded coconut stuffed into your ears, and you have a peculiar medical condition that causes your vision to flicker in and out with a frequency that makes everything look like it's been poorly rotoscoped, in which case these will look and sound just fine to you.
(Plus, it helps to get drunk first. Again, I'm just saying.)
Yes, modern technology is grand. Today's information superhighway is just good enough to have it's audiovisual content be "barely tolerable".
Oh, how I yearn for the days of the local BBS, when people could trade bootlegged copies of Infocom games and rumors about the magnificent power of the forthcoming Apple Macintosh. A giant of a computer, with a whopping 512k of memory.
(My G5 has been behaving in a menacing manner, and I'm just putting it in it's place.)
You'll note that I've also taken select advice to finally improve the readability of the site. (Meaning: no more frames!) Those who don't like the grey background or the choice of the "Times" font are welcome to go design their own sites, and take a nice long walk with them down a short, digitized pier.
For those who still find that the new, frames-free site involves too much scrolling, I'd suggest you'd probably be more comfortable if you just switched your computer off and curled up with a good book, instead.
Sorry. I've been feeling cranky the last few days. I'd like to chalk it up to something as basic as a lack of summer vacation, but it's probably what Matt Groening once perfectly summed up as the "nameless, floating dread". I can't imagine what there is I'd be dreading... we live in such a safe, unpolarized and downright lovely world right now.
Maybe I'd feel better if I could look at some nice, soothing landscapes right now, courtesy of Karl Tsakos, the nice man who also shot the Copper Man video.
- Dave
P.S.: Hmm. The spellcheck on my web-design app (Adobe Go Live CS) doesn't recognize the word "internet".