There was a time when all I was useful for was watching E.T.. I played my video until the tape got all tangled, and then I bought a new one (or my mom bought a new one…I was 4, WTF!).  How does he get his finger to glow like that???? I asked myself, trying to allocate all my might towards creating a glowing healing thingie on my index.  After about 15 minutes, I’d resort to just picking my eye crud (it’s eczema, and once again I was 4!)

Anyway, I’ve continued to be impressed well into my adult years…until NOW.  The Misa Digital Guitar is something I want for our show SOOOOO BAD!!!  I don’t even know if I’d know how to play it, but who cares!  Just call it avant garde and everyone will go gaga over it (no shots).  MIDI controlled and based on Linux (meaning that it’s Open Source!).  You can program your own noises and get all your digits to glow when you play, digit?  Hella tight.  Fuck you, Elliott (he didn’t take very good care of E.T. anyway).

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Okay, so whenever I try to describe our upcoming record and the feel we’re going for, the best analogy I can come up with is “an amusement park ride.” Not like a rollercoaster though…more like E.T.’s Adventure!!!  So in light of Mandatory Mondays becoming the weekly segment where we post up things for you to consume in preparation for the new record, voila.  The Universal Studios ride that blew my 9-year-old mind like few other experiences have.  I think a part of me stayed in E.T.’s home planet (even though he called me “Richard” during the thank you’s because he couldn’t pronounce “Adriel”), and as a loyal citizen, I have devoted myself to creating the national interplanetary anthem.  The name? iB4the1.

And just in case a visit to E.T.’s planet isn’t bizarre enough, the video’s from the Universal Studios in Japan.  Raw like sushi!

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