Cat Food Money Webzine

Dave's Not Here, Man

2010-04-04T23:18:00.002-05:00

I wanna get drunk with these dudes again...

(starring Yamaoka MF, Noriaki, and super Taizo! where's Micchi and Naoki??)

Under the Sea

2010-04-04T19:13:00.002-05:00

It seems like there's lots of news about new, undiscovered sea creatures being brought to the attention of the world lately. It reminds me of tons of things - most namely the Little Mermaid, by Disney - which I created a parody song in reference to in 5th grade called "Under the Seat" (about our school bus ride home) and as expected the bit in the Simpsons episode "Homer Bad Man" (around 12:20 on the DVD)... there's still so much about the world above the surface of the ocean that we don't know about!

Pinhead Gunpowder Live?!?!?!

2010-04-01T01:55:00.003-05:00

FUCK!!!! I can't believe I actually live in close proximity to 924 Gilman now and I missed this show! Green Day has been and will always be my favorite band, but Pinhead Gunpowder has that nostalgic mysticism that I can't escape. And I just NOW find out that they had a show that I would've skipped my own mother's funeral for (my mom's still alive by the way) just to attend! FUCK!!!!!

(edit: The funeral part was an obvious exaggeration, just trying to prove how much I wanted to have gone to this show)

Eastern Europe's Favorite Cat and Mouse team!

2010-03-25T23:00:00.002-05:00

from the Simpsons episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled". Man, I laughed so hard the first time I saw this and was old enough to know what socialism was!

Burka Blue

2010-03-09T19:31:00.001-06:00

Razor sharp

2010-03-06T00:39:00.002-06:00

I've only been listening to Wu-Tang Clan for less than 3 years, but I've always thought RZA was the best member during the early days. When I listened to later stuff, like his appearances on the solo albums, I was disappointed. His voice no longer had that sharp-like-a-blade quality... it sounded very dull and jaded. His rhymes also developed a very political and philosophical nature, but his delivery was pretty boring. I think his verses on 36 chambers and the gravediggaz 1st album were his prime. Even if I don't like the beats on the later Wu-Tang albums (I prefer the low budget sound), the other members seemed to really develop their skills. RZA, what happened?

Like Hi-Standard much?

2010-02-19T20:42:00.003-06:00

So, I'm also selling off my prized collection of Hi-Standard 7 inch records. I have the Snuff tribute compilation and "In the Brightly Moonlight" (both on Snuffy Smile), the Promo only "1995 Special Not For Sale" EP (different recordings EXCLUSIVE to this record), the split with Legitime Defonce from France (on HG Fact), the "I Don't Need Trouble Because of... Money" EP (released on guitarist Ken's label, Pizza of Death [in the early incarnation]), and the split with Wizo from Germany (on white vinyl from Hulk Records). As a bonus, I'll include the band's early demo from their days as a 4-piece on CD-R if some crazy collector wants to buy them all. Email me offers at CHRIS(at)CATFOODMONEY.ORG

A man of the people

2010-02-07T22:24:00.001-06:00

So this blog may cease activity after Blogger disables FTP for posting... lame!

And I still miss this guy:

Where do you keep the pop?

2010-01-28T21:44:00.003-06:00

The illustrious Jon Fu (who is known mostly in his roles as the pizzaman in March of the Penguins, and Shinobu) is now playing drums with The Commitments in Japan!

Don't forget to check out his work in Kitschy Guyz too, jerk!

A new release?

2010-01-06T23:00:00.002-06:00

Yeah, after two and a half years without a release of any kind, it's a little hard to call yourself a record label. Am I right? Yes.

I should have a new digital, free download release coming soon. "You're gonna come in your seat, I swear"... and hopefully not long after, a release that's been planned for well over a year - a cat compilation! Uh, what?

It will be a compilation of bands that I consider friends playing songs that are either about cats, or at least loosely linked to cats somehow. The bands that have currently agreed to put a song on this thing are The Albert Square, Nope Ople (ex members of No People), Shinobu, Four Tomorrow, Seventeen Again, Party Garbage, and if some people aren't too lazy, Sexy Breakfast. There's two or three more bands that may also be on it as well. If all goes well, this will hopefully be a 10" or 12" LP. You wanted sexy, you got sexy!

Records from my collection, for sale! - LPs

2009-12-25T16:53:00.004-06:00

AND, here here are the LPs, up-to-date:

30footfall - ever revolving, never evolving

the beatles - 1967-1970 (2 LPs)
breakfast - vertigo
breakfast - 3rd and army
big boys - industry standard/where's my towel (OFFICIAL german repress!)
blotto - get on bored
bomb the music industry - get warmer (2nd press, non picture disc, has jacket)

the cars - self titled
chinese telephones / potential johns split
creedence clearwater revival - chronicle, the 20 greatest hits (2 LPs)
creedence clearwater revival - cosmo's factory

john denver - 's greatest hits
dictators - blood brothers

the evens - get evens

fatboy slim - gangster trippin 12" ep
fatboy slim - rockafeller skank 12" ep
the futures - electric wave from the underworld

ging nang boyz - kimi to boku no daisanji sekai taisen teki renai kakumei (2 LPs)
ging nang boyz - door (2 LPs)
gravediggaz - double suicide pack (2 12" EPs, 1-800-suicide and mommy what's a gravedigga)
arlo guthrie - alice's restaurant

jimi hendrix - smash hits
the high-lows - do! the mustang! (2 LPs)
the high-lows - go! go! high-lows! (10")
hi-standard - growing up (u.s. version, still sealed)
the horrible odds - underground
husking bee - put on fresh paint (japan version)

ice cube - amerikkka's most wanted 12" ep
iggy pop - new values

jurassic 5 - power in numbers 2x lp
jurassic 5 - quality control
leaders of the new school - a future without a past

monsula - sanitized

naughty by nature - o.p.p. single
nicotine - pleeeeeeez! who are you!? (sealed)

off with their heads - hospitals (sealed)
the offspring - americana
ozma - rock and roll part three (picture disc)

potshot - til i die (2x10")
the presidents of the united states of america - self titled (yellow vinyl, bonus tracks)
the presidents of the united states of america - II

queen - greatest hits

registrators - singles
registrators - terminal boredom

scha dara parr - the poten hits 91-92 (japanese equivalent to the beastie boys!)
shonen knife - pretty little baka guy + live in japan
sly and the family stone - greatest hits (promo copy?)
snotty - short & quick & love (chin of ging nang boyz on guitar)
snuff - reach
snuff - tweet tweet my lovely
supersnazz - diode city
super stupid - don't forget our youth

teengenerate - get action!
teengenerate - smash hits!
toys that kill - control the sun
toys that kill - shanked!

war - why can't we be friends (promo? little clip on edge)
water closet - again and again
water closet - time is cool
(weezer) rivers cuomo - alone: the home recordings
the who - meaty, beaty, big and bouncy

yellow machinegun - spot remover

frank zappa - sheik yerbouti

various artists - 20 of the greatest dance records of all times (AMAZING! tons of soul/motown classics)
various artists - chukyo compilation (cigaretteman, tomorrow, vivisick, etc) (2 LPs)
various - deep in the throat of texas (really red, dot vaeth, ak-47, KBD (killed by death) goldmine of 70's punk)
various artists - mallrats soundtrack (weezer, bush, sublime)
various artists - mosh circle, jerk punks! (razors edge, bbq chickens, tomorrow, idol punch)
various artists - record store day 2008 (lou reed, run dmc, ratm, shit)
various artists - rip off records - second strike (loli & the chones, registrators, etc)
various artists - short music for short people (GREAT! 101 30-second punk rock songs)
various artists - skankin' in the pit (fruity, young punch, etc)

Records from my collection, for sale! - 7" EPs

2009-12-25T16:50:00.006-06:00

So, here is an up-to-date list of all my record collection. Some things I'm not too keen to sell (like the Blotto seven inches) but if someone really wants them, I'll let them go for the right price. So, check it out:

30footfall - cartoons

ahiro - one people, one mind, fight fight fight (chin of ging nang boyz)
anti justice / chinese telephones split
anti justice / the urchin split
at the drive in - one armed scissor
the audacity / pteradacdudes split

the because / one reason split
brain failure / anarchy jerks (two punk bands from china!)
breakfast - eat rice ep
breakfast - second ep

chinese telephones / dan padilla split
chinese telephones / dear landlord split
cigaretteman / discount split (u.s. version)
cigaretteman - girl ep
cigaretteman - hiding ep
cigaretteman / jon cougar concentration camp split
crimpshrine - quit talkin' claude (first press! laytonville address, fold-out poster sleeve)
crimpshrine - sleep, what's that? (with booklet)
cringer - karin (first press, laytonville address... ex-j church)

deeds not words / exit split
dirty is god - another life
dirty is god / dekkers split

fruity - rocky colt and tum tum (u.s. version)
fuck on the beach - fastcore on the beach (white vinyl)
fuck on the beach / flachenbrand split

going steady - you & i
grace - jap ep (kaori of my winter jane, the happening)

hi-standard - wait for the sun

idol punch - culture market
idol punch - hello fuck sorry (includes tour + LP promo poster)
idol punch - hello fuck sorry (no tour promo)

j church - all the wars (limited to 100 copies! on honey bear records)
j church - tide of fate

the mamas and the papas - california dreaming (japanese pressing!)
manifesto jukebox / minority blues band split
monsula - nickel ep (bill from pinhead gunpowder)

off with their heads / dear landlord split

pear of the west - stupid game
pinhead gunpowder - 4 chords, 328 words (landlords, black mt. pt. 3)
pinhead gunpowder / dillinger four split
pinhead gunpowder - fahizah (early press, non-glossy sleeve)
pinhead gunpowder - self titled (aka buffalo 7")
pinhead gunpowder - trundle & spring
pinhead gunpowder - west side highway (first press on blue vinyl)
pinhead gunpowder - westside highway (first press on green vinyl)
po prostu - Żyję z utrzymania kochanek (classic polish punk band)
the presidents of the united states of america aka pusa - mach 5 (picture disc)
pteradon / the new trust split
pterodacdudes / shred savage split

rage against the machine - guerilla radio
redmond shooting stars - self titled (aaron cometbus on drums, pinhead gunpowder cover song)
rai ko ris - himalayan frostbite (punk from NEPAL!)

shotwell coho - self titled (sleeve only! no record!)
shotwell / zero fast split
shonben / my winter jane split
special forces - red white and blue (tim armstrong aka lint from op ivy / rancid on bass)
sprocket wheel - last ep (aka stay free & responsibility)
supersnazz - it's alright (pink vinyl)
sugar hill downtown orchestra - home made song ep

toys that kill - don't take my clone / breakin' out
toys that kill / the fleshies split (picture disc)
toys that kill - razorcake sister series 7"

the urchin / hush puppy split
the urchin / monikers split
the urchin / one leaf split
the urchin / the thumbs split
the urchin / the tone split

water closet - past 1965 / sun and rain

yellow machinegun / stormtroopers of death (scott ian and others from anthrax!)

various - as time goes by (snuffy smiles: blotto, the because, i excuse, driftage)
various - blotto, conniption fits, sass dragons, prohibition 4 way split
various - down in front 4x7" - all cometbus bands! (pinhead gunpowder, cleveland bound death sentence, redmond shooting stars, etc)
various - evil surfin' dread (fruity, jelly belly, more)
various - not superstitious (cigaretteman, husking bee, green giant, nobodys - 1st song on each side has problems playing)
various - rather see you dead: houston punk 1978-1979 (really red, the hates, legionaire's disease)
various - tv freak a go go #1.7 (going steady, potshot, more)
various - who killed weasel (screeching weasel covers by japanese bands - cigaretteman, navel, and more)

Ich bin ein Smithers

2009-12-22T10:23:00.002-06:00

Oh baby!

2009-12-09T02:15:00.003-06:00

One of my closest friends and sometimes bandmate in Sexy Breakfast, Tatsuya, just became a father today at around 6pm! I like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to him, his wife Keni, and their newest addition to the family, Sou! Omedetou gozaimasu!

Here is a nice, old picture of Tatsuya and I. Huzzah!

Nerdy Day

2009-11-29T00:06:00.003-06:00

So, today I spent pretty much the whole day (except for eating, talking to the girlfriend, and some other things) playing my favorite video game in the whole world EVER, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for Super Nintendo!

Sadly, I don't own a real SNES anymore, so I just emulated it on my computer - the big difference though, is that I used a custom controller. I bought a used Super Famicom controller in Japan (the colored buttons and logo look much better than the U.S. controller), and a cheap SNES-shaped USB controller from eBay. It was a lot of hard work, but I got the guts from the USB controller and swapped them with the SFC controller. After lots of failures and aggravations, it's finally working perfectly.

So, I spent a good 8 hours or so (read: wasted 8 hours) playing my all-time favorite game. It's the first time I played it seriously in 5 years - the previous time was around the same time of year, in a respective 8-hour and subsequent 4-hour stretch. It was a team effort by Yuki, an exchange student living in the same college dorm as I was at the time, and yours truly.

This time around, I cleared the game faster than I ever have, AND did it without dying or saving once! I didn't use save states or anything either. No cheating, just hardcore gaming. Man, I am such a nerd!

Old school

2009-10-30T23:43:00.001-05:00

I thought this was really cool:

Eye on Springfield

2009-10-06T01:49:00.003-05:00

I'm totally sober this time!

Since I haven't seen this turn up on one of my favorite websites, Eye on Springfield, and I can't find any way to contact the members or upload stuff on my own, I'm doing this one here. I will likely do this again in the future, as the Simpsons is my favorite thing that was ever on TV.

"I'm with you, Homer! Fight the power!"

Origins

2009-10-05T01:48:00.001-05:00

Hey! I'm drunk!

Although it's unpunk for me to say, I wouldn't have anything to do with MUSIC in general if not for Green Day. Though I'm not into most of the stuff they've done since 2001 (that rhymes if you're paying attention!), I wanna say "thanks for everything"! Huzzah!

Somebody's watchin' you

2009-08-27T22:14:00.002-05:00

So yesterday at work I discovered that we have a camera in the warehouse placed where our packing guy spends most of his time. I got a call from my boss who told me to move a box that was blocking the camera. I was confused, but tried not to make a big deal out of learning this while on the phone with my boss. He also told me to relay a message to our packing guy to tell him to stop talking on his phone all day while he was working. Given the situation the guy is in, I think it's fine if he talks on the phone while doing something easy - in this instance, folding T-shirts. I told him in broken English so that he could understand, and he brushed it off, thinking I was simply making a suggestion. He continued talking on the phone, and apparently I moved the wrong box, so the camera was still blocked. The boss called again on the phone a few minutes later, telling me the same thing again. I told our packing guy with a more serious tone this tone, and told him "The boss is watching you". His eyes got wide and he quickly ended his phone call.

A few minutes later, packing guy came up to me and asked me what was going on. I did my best to explain that the boss has a camera (apparently, a webcam) set up and that's how we could see what was going on. Packing guy made a face, and cautiously went back to work.

This morning, I asked my co-worker if he knew about the camera. Indeed he did, and he pointed out that there was even a camera above my head pointing toward the entrance. At lunch time when most of the workers gather together with the bosses, packing guy and the boss got into an argument about the purpose of the camera. It went something like this, but in broken English since neither can speak it that well:

Boss: You need to keep this area clear so I can see through the camera.
Packing: So what? So you can spy on me? What's the deal?
Boss: It's not to spy on you, it's for security. This is a warehouse and I need to be able to see what's going on in it.
Packing: So you don't trust me is what you're saying?
Boss: That's not it...
Packing: You know, I work so hard here! I do EVERYTHING! You put way too much work on MY shoulders.
Boss: If you don't like it, you can go back home.
Packing: I do EVERYTHING here, man! You give me WAY too much work!
Boss: So you can leave, if that's what you want.

The packing guy took his food into the warehouse next door and ate there alone. We all finished our meal in silence.

I wasn't sure how I felt about this situation. I was a bit frazzled, to say the least. I know the packing guy's situation. I know he's overworked and underpaid. He's still making more money than he would back home, and he sends most of it to his family so they can support themselves. He's also in a situation where it's hard to find himself another job, not only because of his status in this country, but also because of the economy.

The boss is also in a bit of a tight spot because the packing guy has worked for him for somewhere between eight and ten years. He knows where everything in the warehouse is, he knows how to operate the machinery, he basically knows how to do everything that doesn't involve a computer. If something were to happen to packing guy, the business would suffer a heavy blow and the boss would be in a real bind.

Things seemed to return to the status quo, but one of my other co-workers later told me more about the cameras. Even though she comes from a communist country known for its human rights violations, tightly run state-controlled media, and seedy communist government, she said she still felt uncomfortable learning about the cameras. There's one that has sat above her head in her office since before she started working with the company. But, she noted how she noticed the power light was no longer on, and thus the camera probably didn't work anymore. She even confidently waved hello to it and said "See? I'm doing my work." in the middle of our conversation. We also noted the power light on the camera above my desk was not on. It made me think perhaps the packing guy is the only one the boss doesn't trust. But I'll agree with my co-worker that it is pretty creepy to know that our boss can watch us even when he's not in the office.

"Security", my ass!

It Came Out Of The Sky

2009-05-29T02:07:00.002-05:00

Driving on my way home tonight (to my new home actually - it's my first night here) I saw what I think was a meteor! It was crazy, because it looked SO CLOSE, close enough to hit the ground from less than a mile away - and my first thought was probably "a fucking missle! We're doomed!". I freaked out a little, but then it suddenly disappeared! Maybe a UFO?

Speaking of UFOs, I never really think about anything floating out in space. I went to a planetarium earlier this month and it was pretty interesting. One thing I never thought about before was the concept of a light year. I knew what it meant of course, but I never really thought about it like this: Say NASA sends a spacecraft 20 light years away to take some up-close photos of a planet. Assuming the spacecraft CAN travel at the speed of light, it takes 20 years to get there to take its photos, and then 20 years to make it back home. While I'm unsure about how and when it could send those photos back to NASA, let's just say it has to return home to do so. The photos we're presented with are already 20 years old. Think of how much technology advances on our planet in 20 years, and how much Earth's climate deteriorates in that much time. What does that tell us about these other planets?

It was probably the first time I had any interest in space since playing with space Legos as a kid!

eBay again

2009-03-26T01:56:00.002-05:00

You ever realize you have too many records and no money? I realized that. If you're in the opposite situation, ie. no records and too much money, I suggest you click the link below and then buy lots of stuff.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZcatfoodmoneyQQhtZ-1

You'll get the satisfaction of owning a record from a guy that likes cats! Amazing, or what?

Arigato, Japan

2009-03-04T12:55:00.003-06:00

I recently returned from Japan and I have a shit-ton of people to thank. First off, I have to thank the Matsui family (Tatsuya, Keni, Hiroyan, Mama & Papa Matsui, Yukie, Eri, Auntie whose name I forgot), Mitsuki, Four Tomorrow (especially Yamaoka for CoCo Curry and Watami, Noriaki for Driving, Michi and Naoki for being cool), Seventeen Again (especially Yabu and Osawa for hooking me up with Operation Ivy covers and 7 inch records), Blotto (especially Yusuke for awesome half-drunk train rides, fun stories, advice, being a great guy), Anti Justice (especially En for hooking me up in Osaka and all the good times in Ueno), No People (especially Jin for speaking awesome English and being a fun guy, Fumi for random encounter at Akabane station), Yu and Urban Sleep Discs, Megane and Amazing Records, Nogio, Yoichi, Shunsuke, Bob Vielma, Randy, Kitschy Guyz (Jon Fu, Reiko, Atchan), and lots of people whose names I was either too sober or too drunk to remember. Hope to see you all again soon!

Still smells like fish

2008-12-24T03:42:00.002-06:00

Japan gets better but crazier every time I come here. I don't have internet at home, but I have to pay pretty yucky prices to go to a net cafe. At least I'm using my own laptop right now, keyboards here have the symbol keys in weird places with different combinations than North American keyboards. Just in case anyone checks, I'm still alive! I haven't updated the front page in forever, so I think a lot of people are assuming I'm dead, or kidnapped again. No, just lazy, busy, and probably a little crazy!

Best Emails

2008-08-29T19:53:00.003-05:00

As much as I hate spam emails, I kinda like the titles of some of them. My favorite of the most recent ones are the ones that say "We've hijacked your baby". Good, I didn't want that thing anymore anyway.

Rollin' on out

2008-06-30T20:39:00.002-05:00

So, moving out is as annoying as ever! This is by far the worst landlord I've ever dealt with. Lame lame lame. Aside from paying fees that will eventually coming in the mail. But, I will miss all the nice people in Austin that I've met since I got here (and who will never read this anyway, haha!). Thanks Dave Advice and Robin, Jug from Sound on Sound, Lew Houston, Ben Snakepit, and all the people I already knew from the past already - Jem, Reid, Bang, Kim (and Jim, and Jamie) and maybe some other people. No thanks to all the damn people from Craigslist who flaked out on buying my old computer, furniture, and DVDs that said "yeah, I'll buy it!" I hope you all experience a mild inconvenience and think of how you kinda sorta wronged me, wrathful person I am!

I'll probably get a P.O. box in California and update the CFM info page at some point. Might change my email address to combat all the 100+ spam emails a day that get past my spam blocker. Hopefully will release a split of my two favorite Austin bands sometime in the future. Hopefully I'll win the lottery without buying a ticket.

Don't forget to take out the trash. Dinner's at seven.

Love,
Chris Catfood