Jeremy Bent

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  • “Diamond Head” Week on FYSR

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    After running into a number of fun covers of the Ventures’ instrumental “Diamond Head,” I decided to do a week dedicated to the song on Fuck Yeah Surf Rock. Each day I’ll be posting a new version of “Diamond Head,” starting with today’s post of the Ventures performing the original track. Diamond Head, in addition…

  • Where you can find me on the Internet, other than here.

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    Hi all. It’s come to my attention that many of you still visit this website, and yet, you may not be aware of my other web projects. These projects are all updated more frequently than this blog, but I’m working on that as well. But why not take a moment for all of you who…

  • Remember this

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    It’s a tense weekend for all us improv folk, but remember… YOU… MUST… CHILL!!

  • Talent Wanted

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    I’ve been itching to start a band for about five years now. This is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the same amount of time I’ve owned my bass guitar. But something now is telling me it’s time. It is time to call my allies to my side and form a truly righteous band. As a bass player, I…

  • Help me, intarwebz

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    So I’ve got a bunch of rewards points stockpiled on my credit card. Here is my dilemma. Should I: (a) be responsible and replace my pillows and duvet, which are old and definitely need replacing, and are possibly full of anti-sex mojo, which would explain a lot? or: (b) be irresponsible and buy a Muppet?…

  • BMI: Addendum

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    Over the Christmas holiday, I was rankled yet again by the inappropriate use of BMI (body mass index). As I mentioned in my previous discourse on the subject, BMI is a guideline for entire populations, not individuals. So imagine my surprise when Wii Fit told me I was significantly overweight due to my high BMI,…

  • Dirty Cheater

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    I’ve got a pretty long-standing love affair with video games. Although I liked playing them as much as most kids of the 80s, I think I can trace the obsession back to the fall of 1993. I was in sixth grade, and my friend Cliff bought Final Fantasy (the orig) for the NES at a…

  • Definitive evidence of needing a haircut

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    Two people who had never seen me before separately came to the conclusion that I looked like David Hasselhoff. “But like a young David Hasselhoff!” they said, trying to soothe my horrified reaction. Damage done, ladies. Time to get this mop chopped.

  • 8 bits are all you need

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    I’ve been teaching myself the ways of the surprisingly robust Little Sound DJ, a composition tool and music tracker for the Nintendo Game Boy. Coming off the musical high of working with the Apple Sisters, I wanted to keep pushing my brain towards musical endeavors. I got seriously inspired watching the chiptune documentary, Reformat the…

  • I can do this.

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    I’ve been thinking “I can do this” more than I ever have previously in my life. I mean it in the sense of, “If I devote enough time and energy to this, I can accomplish this and accomplish it well.” Cases in point: -Roller derby: possibly the jumping off point for all this positivity. I…