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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflower Maximus

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The Challenge goes on! Two new mixes just in from the uber-talented and oft overheated mind of reclusive madman MC DD von H. Both build on the original piano number plus eb’s stellar vocals.
First up is Radio Cauliflower, a radio friendly mix with guitar, beats, bass, beach sounds, and more. Then comes something really extraordinary — a 3 minute feast of a remix called Cauliflower Maximus. And I’ll just say: Holy cow. Well worth your time.
For a quick recap, here’s the whole sequence:

If you’re thinking of joining the mad loop, start with any one of these versions, do whatcha gotta do, then email whatcha got to: vortex@mediajunkie.com. Thanks for listening. And thanks to everyone who’s participated so far. I dig each version, and the sequence from start to finish is quite a neat nod to the personal nature of creativity. -CV
MC DD von H’s Remix – Radio Cauliflower
time: 1:15; specs: 1.1MB
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MC DD von H’s Extended Remix – Cauliflower Maximus
time: 3:13; specs: 2.9MB
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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Straight Up: Cauliflower

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About a week and a half ago I posted a short piano number and asked folks to mess around with it. Here’s a brief recap of the excellent and harmonically vivid versions we’ve gotten back so far:

Today we post our first third-generation remix, in which Panamanian strongman Jake Vortex weighs in with Straight Up: Cauliflower, which starts with eb’s vocal mix and then lays down a smokin’ sax intro and outro. Dig.
If you’re taking the challenge, feel free to start with any of these versions, then email whatcha got to: vortex@mediajunkie.com.
Thanks for listening, a tip of the reed to Jake for this latest rev, and please, watch the skies, -CV
Jake Vortex’s Remix – Straight Up: Cauliflower
time: 1:12; specs: 1.1MB
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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Tower of Cauliflower

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To briefly recap, a week ago I posted a short piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it. Bob and eb tossed down swank slide and vocal interps respectively. Now the Dread Pirate Yaniv Soha joins the fray.
For handy compare and contrast, here’s the original piano piece, Bob’s slide, and eb’s piano/vocal spectacular.
Yaniv’s take gets funky with it, adding beats and bass and slicing things around. The result is a subtle hypnogroove guaranteed to help you stop smoking.
Hope you’re enjoying the sequence. I’m really enjoying how different these three versions have ended up. There’s still time to join the adventure and live the dream. And really, Yaniv’s version is just begging for some latter-day Biz Markie to mix in a little poetry.
On that note…if you’re taking the challenge, feel free to start with any of these versions, then email whatcha got to: vortex@mediajunkie.com.
Thanks. And watch the skies, -CV
Yaniv Soha’s Remix: Tower of Cauliflower
time: 57 seconds; specs: 900K
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(For more Yaniv Soha-infused musical experiences, be sure to drop by Yaniv Soha Central.)

Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Melancholy Flower

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Last week I posted a wee chordy piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it and send me the results. First in was a sweet slice o’ slide from Bob Myren. If yer just joining the fun, here’s the original piano piece — Cauliflower Melon — and here’s Bob’s remix — Cauliflowermelonslide.
Today we’ve got eb’s take, with words, melody, and fairly spectacular vocals. You really have to hear this. She took my lil’ piano piece and made art.
I’m just enjoying the hell out of this whole thing so far. Hope you’re enjoying it too. Speaking of which, if you’re out there and planning on taking the challenge, feel free to funk around with any of these three, then send the results to vortex@mediajunkie.com) and posted shall they be.
Thanks!
eb’s Remix: Melancholy Flower
time: 47 seconds; specs: 700K
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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflowermelonslide

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Yesterday I exhorted folks to take this wee chordy piano piece I’d recorded (aka Cauliflower Melon) and mess around with it — add guitar, verb, drums, guitar, slice it up, and what have you.
Lo and behold, this morning — the very next damn day! — my old and excellent pal Bob Myren came through with the first remix. It’s a slice of slide guitar that, quite frankly, I ultra-dig. It’s amazing to me the difference in mood and atmosphere that slide guitar can make. All I’m saying is, when I die, I hope I come back as a sustained note played on a slide guitar. That’s all I’m saying.
If you’re taking the challenge, please feel free to screw around with this one, with the original, or with both. Then send whatcha got to vortex@mediajunkie.com). I’ll keep posting them as they arrive.
Thanks! And enjoy…
Bob’s Remix: Cauliflowermelonslide
time: 48 seconds; specs: 1.1 MB
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The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 9

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Week 9 and and we’re hard-charging through the Zone… Despite the relative quiet on the blog this last week, I count around 14-15 people out on the trail. Not bad at all….
Speaking of quiet, we’re suddenly down to only around five or six folks qualified for Grand Poobah mug status. And here I am, still flush with the irresistible urge to fling GRDM mugs across the country when this is all over. And so I’ve arbitrarily decided to modify the rules of this experiment thusly: Both Grand Poobahs and Big Poobahs will qualify for mugness. In other words, it’s a a thin slice of general amnesty — them what may have missed commenting a week or two, there’s still a way for us to get you into that mug. (So what’s the difference now, you may ask, between Grand and Big Poobah status? Well, for one, Grand Poobahs will find it surprisingly easy to get restaurant reservations at hot spots all around town.)
I’m trailing our target by around 20 or 30 pages — got to page 404 (v) last night. Still swooning from the opening Rocket Man/Potsdam sequences. And now remaining pages are starting to get thinner than pages read. And I’m starting to think about how I’ll miss you, you old sonuvabitch.
Next week: Meetcha at page 482 (v), you know — over by the “glowing black mudslide of nausea…” -CV

The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 2

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Welcome to the end of week 2! This is the place to comment on (roughly) pp 50-113 (p/v). That said, as last week rolled on, a lot of people dropped comments past the mark, to keep up with what they were reading that day. I thought that went great. So in the course of this week, feel free to comment on page 120, 130… Just use a little restraint on spoilers for later sections.
There was some confusion amongst prize-peoples regarding the first two weeks. In the spirit of loving-kindness that is the GRDM, we’re gonna count both of those two weeks as one, meaning if you commented Week 0, but not Week 1, you’re still a candidate for potential “Grand Poobah” status. Those who haven’t commented yet, don’t give up — highly regarded “Poobah” and “Big Poobah” status are still well within reach!
Hope everyone’s holding up OK. Me, it’s work, and I’m about 12 pages behind. But hell, that’s still about 94 pages farther than I’ve ever gotten before. Mainly I’ve been surprised how much fun there’s been along the way. More like a Hallucinatory Death Dance than a Deathmarch, methinks…
Next Tuesday: Let’s meet back up at page 167 ((195 in the Bantam edition) a week from today — it’s the section that ends: “Is God really Jewish?”
See you there, -CV

Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 1, thread 2

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I’d like to try opening a new thread on Week 1 of GRDM — we have 26 comments on the first thread and it might help us to start fresh every 20 or so comments.
So if you’ve got a comment to add on the first batch (or so) of GR pages, please starting posting those comments on this entry.
And if you want to read what’s already been said in the last three days, you can find the first piece of this thread right here.
Thanks. Rainbow on, -CV

The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 1, thread 1

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Welcome to the end of week 1! Got any insights on the first 50 pages? Advice for the weary? Complaints about bunions? If you’re on the march, this is the spot to share, to care, and to shout out.
(I should also say, for them what’s interested in qualifying toward Poobah status and fabulous GRDM prizes, this also marks the first week that “counts,” stats-wise — the league has ruled last week as sort of a warm up.)
Next Tuesday: Let’s meet back up at page 113 (132 in the Bantam edition) a week from today — it’s the section that ends: “tarnished silver crown….”
If you missed last week’s thread, be sure to check it out — a number of entertaining comments were dropped off just yesterday, including an entirely unexpected bodyslam on Kurt Vonnegut, jr.
Thanks much for joining in and see you at the tarnished crown,
-CV