and the aw twiddle twiddle award goes to: the last person who said i'm sick of taking your shit. too bad, you're taking it. aw, twiddle twiddle.
Posted by: Haz on 07-09-08:
feel sorry for the freak accident at zendik farm that put my name on their little characature of the dead man. relief the bitch got taken down as if our website isn't enough of an eyesore as it is. shitstain.
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June 25, 2008
Let it be known that today is the day the new TASM Lab album AN ADULTY ADIPISCI is released. Read all about it, but be sure to BUY A COPY ASAP, or at least download some soon!
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June 13, 2008
I'm ramping up to release my new album "An Adulty Adipisci". It won't be officially out for a few more weeks, but I'm doing the TASMLab.com updates as I find time. I'll be sure to make a PU about it on Leonstemple.com when it's ready for sale.
Thanks!!!
Dec 1, 2007
Does anything happen in a year?
Over a year has gone by without a real update, but it let it be known that I've dutifully updating LEONSTEMPLE.com, the fun Kzoo rock site. It's almost a year old itself. Yow! Anyways, that's been covering most of the fellow news, I guess.
In November of 2006, I had the second demo of the new tasmlab album complete, and now a year later its still not done. It's been split into two projects. That said, work has been done on both and I move closer yet to a release date. Here's hoping for 2008. I also started a painting in December of last year which remains unfinished a year later.
But boy, Jeff Jr. is going to be born in less than 30 days and my daughter is 2 1/2 this month. My day job is going well.
Not much has seemingly been done by the fellows either, except that fellow BANKS is also close to Jr time, and XAVI is a professor now, and MICHELLE visited once, and BRENT got married, and MIKE's building a house-of-sorts, and BECK has a girlfriend, and CHRIS BRYERS released his new album. But that's it.
Go visit the Temple and leave a message. I'll write again before another year passes.
Thanks!
March 25, 2007
A NEW SITE: LEONSTEMPLE.com
There's a new site that is launching now that is a fan-site/homage/archive of the 1993-ish era of Kalamazoo music and all its relations forward and backward. LeonsTemple.com - check it out . Tasmlab.com, this site, has often had some gravity in this area as TI sites came and went and since this has just been consistently up since the ninties. That said, this new site will hopefully be able to better serve the ole' kzoo community. Also, some natural networking was already happening as the musicians-now-adults all have computers and myspace accounts and such. We're hoping this will focus / direct this phenom. I think it will be neat to preserve the antiquities of the era (all that music that remains out of print) as well as create a platform for us still-active noncarreerist noodlers.
November 18, 2006
ALWAYS SURPRISED BY THE COLD
TASM Fellows XAVIER AND KIM SIEMENS where on campus last weekend, building fires and telling baby jokes. The Siemens live in California, where they moved recently, so Xavi could work at CalTech with famous physisists.
Bizzarelly, my mother bought me a huge physics course by mail. 12 hours of lecture on string theory. Its my 36th birthday coming up soon soon.
I'm not exactly sure what the point of ME having a myspace.com site, since for my 'band' I have this site with over 1,500 files, and a personal site almost as large (happytills.com). But I have TWO now, one I set up as a non-musician's site by mistake www.myspace.com/tasmlab oops, and then I set up the musician's site www.myspace.com/tasmlabmusic. Add me to your 'friends' list I guess.
Perhaps the interesting aspect of filling out a Myspace profile is that it forces a person to define their character, fairly suscintly, by their media consumption. How do you pick out a handful of movies, bands, books and TV shows that show your character? And then, what if you like the same shit that everybody likes? Really, how interesting can it be that a 70's-born boy likes STAR WARS? Yet its has to make the short list of media that defines the fabric of character. So you liked MEMENTO or The GODFATHER? Super. So does everybody on the planet. Maybe that's the point, to show us how ordinary every single soul is, even the ones that want to be wierd.
On a related note, you can see all sorts of folks on there, including an OVERMAN page fellow CRAIG VERITY set up. Also up there are fellows CHRIS BRYERS, MATT SAHLGREN, COLIN BRADFORD, CHARLES BRADFORD and MANDY NEUBACKER. Also are folks like FAQ, THE SINATRAS, KEVIN OBERLIN, MELISSA MIHAIL (congratulations on your recent wedding!), JOBY PURUCKER and STEPHEN LYNCH.
Speaking of MATT, I finally got a copy of his last CD, the RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ACT. Good stuff!
Speaking of LyNCH, his broadway show closes soon and I haven't been down to see it. I feel bad. He was nominated for a Tony awared for chrissakes.
Speaking of christ (difficult segue) By gum, I also saw CHRISTOPHER LEE here in Massachusetts. He's running a guitar store on the wicked North Shore. I guess he was touring with FILTER or FUEL for a while, although I'm not sure in what capacity.
I even heard from Kevin Oberlin, who's FAULTLINE band management agency seems to be doing real well. He's sort of got the nineties club circuit, managing the LEMONHEADS and the BREEDERS and other almost old-timey college bands from that era.
Fellows BRENT OBERLIN and MIKE ROCHE are on my fantasy football league. So are Craig and Dave. I'm DFL.
Fellow D. AUSTIN NASH got a new job, earning large. He's scheduled to record an electric guitar solo on the very momentus and very real TASM LAB # 7 project, tentatively titled "The Attack Dogs of Compassion".
All the stuff that was coming last post has happened. TOOLMASTER (JOEL JOHNSON) and his wife MARIA and daughter MILLER came for an extended visit. I'm sure back in 1991 Joel and I would never guess that we'd hang out and watch our daughters play together. Especially now that he lives in Sweden. Miller and ADELAIDE are only six weeks apart and both cute toeheads. It was a parent trap, the little twins played nice the whole time.
Yup, and WALTER and MARCY got married and so did LIZ and JUSTIN and so did Xavi and Kim. DAN ROE is moving, maybe even moved already. Fellow CHRIS BECK is still awesome.
GEOFF and MOLLY HALSEY had their baby - ARTHUR HALSEY. Congratulations!
I started playing Star Wars Battlefront II, but I'm not sure I like it. It was a Christmas present.
Craig got a new drumset and is reportedly playing with a new band in Portland OR. Can't wait!
Fellow-in-brevity NATALIE BEVERSLUIS wrote. She's still fiddlin' away somewhere.
TASM Lab music is now up on iTunes and many other download sites for sale. Of course, you can buy the whole catalog here for much cheaper, and can download 90% of it for dead fucking free.
Go Pats!, xxoo Jeff
June 1, 2006
SIX MONTHS
Another six months closer to death. I've fixed the board so hopefully no more robots will post here. You have to do one of those 'write in the crooked letters' thingies.
See what TASM friend DAN ROE, formally of DESECRATOR is up to: http://www.danroe.net/music.html. He recorded here at my new studio earlier this Spring, but he chucked those and went wild recording himself. There's a version of TI's "FAMOUS MISTAKE" there. Also all of his kinetic sculpture.
TOOLMASTER is visiting in July.
CRAIG VERITY moved to Portland with his girlfriend (picture in previous post).
TASM Fellows XAVIER SIEMENS and KIM ORIEL are getting married this month. Two weeks!
WALTER is also getting married. I went to his bachelor party in Montreal last weekend.
the HALSEY'S are going to have a baby!
There's lots of stuff for old Kzooans at Leppotone!.
Big wet kiss and a get well card to BRENT OBERLIN.
Someone should buy Sam and Meeta's CONDO. Jen and I did the awesome pictures and website.
Fellow CHRIS BECK is still awesome.
I hope everyone is well. Thanksadoodle! >> Jeff
January 1, 2006
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Happy new years, friends and family! I appreciate all the nice posts people have been leaving on the discussion board. Boy oh boy have I been busy doing not much but wiping baby drool off of my face. I have a cool new artists studio now and have started working on a new song, but by gum am I slow slow slow. And useless too. But I sold my condo.
Every year since 1999 I've been writing a simple year biography which unemotionally lists things that happened over the year. The PERSONAL HISTORY still remains on TASMlab.com, but it may move to Happytills.com in the future, pointing tasmlab.com more towards the art site (museum?????) that it is.
I hope everyone is well. Thanksadoodle! >> Jeff
November 5, 2005
MOVING
I'm moving and will be without Internet for weeks. Can it be done? Please buy my condo.
October 18, 2005
MY FATHER BUSINESS
As people close to me know, and I'm delighted to say, my first daughter ADELAIDE RUDLPH TILL was born on July 23, 2005. She is perfect, beautiful, healthy and all mine. She's my favorite thing in the world. Details at www.happytills.com.
I always think I should turn this little update into more than a list of events. Maybe give some perspective of thought. Not now.
I bought a new house and will be moving soon. In my new giant house I will have tons of space for baby toys and TASM Lab. The space includes 1600 square feet of beautiful studio space (the workspace alone is almost as big as my current condo, plus I have a basement, another basement, an attic, and a 3,400 SF HOUSE). I will also be regrettably further away from the ocean (a whole town) and the Boston (38 miles). Its a great house and now I have to sell my current condo, which isn't going well. Please contact me if you want to buy it (1,800 SF, 3 beds, 2 full baths, ocean views, patio space, cute nursery, $370K or best offer)
I've been working (regular day job suckery) like a mule. Feel sorry for me. I have two mortgages. My health insurance is $1,100 a month (really - I live in MASSACHUSETTS). Don't feel sorry for me. I did manage to launch realtorcontact.com and lendercontact.com, plus some other stuff.
I'm a football maniac. I can't help it. Pats are 3-3. My fantasy football team (unbelievably) is 3-2.
TASM Fellow KEVIN BANKS started school for his Masters. Fellow CHRIS BECK visited. TASM Fellow BRENT OBERLIN wrote to tell me he's the first one to know where the name "Mashpee" came from. Good job Brent! My sister got a dog and named it after herself. MICHELLE GRAF sent a card.
and the aw twiddle twiddle award goes to: the last person who said i'm sick of taking your shit. too bad, you're taking it. aw, twiddle twiddle.
Posted by: Haz on 07-09-08
feel sorry for the freak accident at zendik farm that put my name on their little characature of the dead man. relief the bitch got taken down as if our website isn't enough of an eyesore as it is. shitstain.
sincerely,
frogs live. eat it, destinklee.
Posted by: Michael J on 04-30-08
You're Welcome
Posted by: Frog on 03-30-08
k revel everyone is not arol, only arol is arol, you win. the point is that the truth stands for itself, so i do too, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, which puts your tiny power trip right in its place doesnt it. doesnt matter anyway. cheers.
Posted by: . on 03-28-08
right, well i guess expecting that drastic of a process acceleration isn't rational is it. *shrug* well if it makes any difference,I myself as Steve,am NOT a wound up nature show host or school shooter or some random person who cant manage to get off their ass without external encouragement or anyone else I killed who's name was Steve.THAT Steve is DEAD in the final context of the word and no one in their RIGHT MIND cares, to continue identifying with him as a living being.This is ludicrous.
Posted by: seventh cloners cloners clone's clone of a seventh cloners cloners clone's clone's clone on 03-19-08
everything is enchanted. enchantment is the more melodic synonym of entropic gravity touching closer to its etheric nature as you see it takes the cemetary out of the song in essence linguistically. take, for example, my radio. it's an inexpensive cd player and am/fm model with no tape player and no clock- i had the option to let my mom get me a pricier model because it was a birthday gift but the other model was unaesthetic. the brand name printed on it demanded attention. this little guy doesn't ask me to look at it. after my mom bought it for me i gave it back then bought it off her, which sounds like nonsense maybe but thats what i had to do for it to be mine. now its in my aparment sitting on the microwave, plugged into the wall (the radio is, not the microwave), but i never use it, nor do i intend to. i never turn it on. i don't own any cds and i'm not interested in the radio stations. it's just important, for some reason, that that thing is there. it's existence and presence in my apartment in and of itself is the manifested expression of the radio station i'm listening to, the radio, at least that part of it that is there merely to act as a mental reference point to the radio, to itself, to the essence of the here and now that is the true raw nature of time as it would otherwise be forgotten in the false context of memory. there is no music that is richer than this. there is no signal stronger than silence as all sound is contained within it. everything is enchanted by silence. the strength of an existences enchantment is measured by the strength of its silence. this is true for all of existence including within the context of music as expressed in the wake of silence.
Posted by: i agree on 03-17-08
revel is a coward on an ego trip. no argument there at all. i am you as you are he and you are me and we are all NOT -that- guy revel.
Posted by: . on 03-17-08
there's obviously a direct connection between time travel and the dimensions. when a person time travels the first thing that happens is that they effectively erase their original timeline, so there has to be somewhere for te traveller to be wen their originating timeline is gone, and that is the dimensions/dimensional existance, which is the same as the place refered to as the other side, which is accessable by degree of indisposal to physicality, of course. it i by order of the cessation of interest in the expression of the local timeline that the traveller is imparted visibility within this field, and this process may be expressed in varying degrees of speed. the traveller for example may wish to sift bulk from their observed expression or to purge it, perhaps in haste, which would lengthen the process, as more bulk would then be created while attempting to escape entropic gravity which no one can do on the other side or on this one.
Posted by: Emmanuel Teijeiro. Original creator of homestarrunner.com on 02-11-08
so i was like "i sure am the original creator of homestarrunner.com and i don't give a fuck who your two brothers think they are". and that was that.
Posted by: frog on 02-08-08
in response to "black lentil"'s prattle about sporky:
dude, how are you going to say that it's SAD that a kid named after a plastic fork and spoon combination i ate parfaits from kentucky fried chicken with when i was the same age he was when we were both on the farm does better growing up in the mainstream, using a username that's just a ripoff of kira's, and an incoherent one at that, and expect to be taken seriously? i mean, by anyone intelligent, obviously you succeeded in shutting down the thread and making a spectacle of hipforums moderatorship, but that's beside the point. or is it. heh. nevermind. good job genius.
TASM Lab is proud to sound like, imitate, support, rip-off, or emulate the following: Decendents, Husker Du, Dagnasty, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Victims Family, Godbullies, Thought Industry, Twitch, Selling Heaven, Burning Tent Revival, First to the Fence, Cosmonaut, Brent Oberlin, Chris Bryers, Michelle Graf, Colin Bradford, Jared Bryant, Screwtape, Kalamazoo, Jeff Till, Jeffrey Till, Jeffrey J. Till, Jef Till, Nomeansno, Pegboy, Kevin Farkas, Dustin Donaldson, I am spoonbender, Owsla, Rollinghead, Dead River Drag, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Ralph Spight, Craig Verity, Matt Sahlgren, Dave Nash, D. Austin Nash, Mashpee Mungquack, Blink 182, Green Day, King Crimson, Genesis, Dream Theatre, Hanson Brothers, All, Replacements, Queen, adult paintings, modern art, nudes, office art, watercolors, bizzarre art, voilent paintings, sexy paintings, hudson debacle, thrice,
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