I rely completely on hearsay and automated social networking alerts to tell me when a birthday is and who is celebrating it. There are very few other ways for me to remember. Part of it is that I don't care... but the other part is that I just have some sort of brain condition that forces me to know less than four birthdays total.

Anyhow, Facebook says that today is Peter Weisgerber's birthday, and I'll just have to believe it.

Over the weekend, e and I went on a mini adventure to Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio because they were having a sort of "garage sale" for electronic music types. Leave it to me to purchase the only non-electronic item there.

More improvised music from the home studio!

The drive up to Madison this past weekend was a lot of fun. It was good to get out of Chicago for a day, and also to see some art. Despite the ridiculous crowds, we found some cool stuff.

Admittedly, my main reason for going was to find out how my collab graphic for the art fair's shirts turned out. And I did, in fact, find out.

While in Madison Wisconsin this weekend, e spotted a fun "musical instrument" in a store called Pop Deluxe. Always one to enjoy quirky little instruments, I snatched it up.

Since learning about last.fm's scrobbling feature, I've become obsessed with sharing what I listen to with some faceless database. But the actual last.fm website makes me nauseous. Let me explain.

Is this a cookie or a hipstery new band name? I guess it could go either way!

Right now, 4PM Eastern, Jeremy Simmons is on Media Bridges Internet radio, playing and talking about his new album, Castrovalva... you can tune in to the stream right here!!!

It's on for an hour, so get on there if you can!!!