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Hey Pigs, Well we finally closed the deal & are the proud parents of a 270 year old home. A wonder to behold & a true getaway for those so inclined. House comes complete with its own swim pond, rapids, waterfall, doctor & chef. Plenty of room & just a wee 2 hour jaunt up 87. The Catskills are in bloom & summer is beckoning. Quite busy movin in as one might imagine. Come one Come All!!!! Onions aplenty Photos Trebor

INDEPENDENT LENS / END OF THE CENTURY / THE RAMONES & JOE STRUMMER ROCKS AGAIN! / Tuesday, April 26th at 10 PM The Ramones defined punk rock and inspired generations of musicians. But behind the scenes, the hardest-working punk band was falling apart. The second part of this program, JOE STRUMMER ROCKS AGAIN!, follows the frontman for The Clash on a comeback tour of America and Japan before his untimely death in 2002. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/

Need sound for this. Amusing. http://members.cox.net/ladysarakat/piggy.swf

Bush: 'I Don't Want You Reading My Personal Stuff' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Thursday he does not send e-mail, not even to his twin daughters, because he fears "my personal stuff" would be made public. "There has got to be a certain sense of privacy," he told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. For more.. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050414/wr_nm/bush_email_dc

Get a load of Pig right cheer ya'll: http://www.stormpigs.com/sounds/20050405.mp3 (right-click on the link to save the file) that's 124MB now..

Did you guys catch this Metallica doc? I watched it Saturday night on VH1. It's like a true to life Spinal Tap. Basically, Metallica became a big money machine for the record company. There was a bunch of infighting, so the company hired a psychologist to hang out with them over a period of a couple years. Check it out if you have the time. Note: Lars' dad is one scary Dane.

Thanks for coming out, boyce. Too bad Masters Sweet, Trebor and Cosmic couldn't make it. I should have the tunes for you by the end of the weekend. We should try to do it more often. NickDub has a grad party jam coming up on the May 17th (or was it 18th?), so keep that in mind. And good pool suggestion T-Bonk! I hadn't played since Brooklyn days. It was fun! Finally, the extra $2.50 ya'll paid for the room last night is going to $99 Fatcow hosting fee which just came due. Thank you for your pig patronage.

Photo of a protestor among protesters at Augusta. Sexist, but fuuuunnny. IRON MY SHIRT, B....!

Dunno who this is, but it reminded me of Bonkers. That or a NickDub wanna be:

Damn! Our own NickW is a paradin' communist!

peeps , originally uploaded by nick w. . Happy Easter, y'all. Yeah, we were sitting around the house watching Arizona vs. Illinois, and visualized pigs as peeps. I'm under a lot of strain.....

Unlike Bush, the Germans are actually trying to keep the world green instead of a filthy, oily brown. Check out this interesting video about advancements that BMW has made in hydrogen powered cars: http://g.msn.com/0US!s6.68639_315529/63.c9478/2??cm=VHI

As I was archiving some old material, I found this classic bit from Stevie, October 2000: SRC Snippet

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Last year, four of the famed Pigs ventured off from the drove into a studio to muck about in the sonic filth of guitar hero, instrumental rock and roll. A camera was on hand to document the event which had lilting melodies, hard driving rhythyms and very intense moments. And of course, it wouldn't be the Pigs if it didn't have a bit of long-winded dreck in between those high points. But it is well worth the watch and listen. If you're an occasional or closet listener of Satch or Vai (and have a high-speed connection), check out this vid: http://www.stormpigs.com/video/20041007.wmv large, 245MB Windows Media Video FYI - things start heating up after about 25 minutes, rise and fall and eventually end with a smoking blues climax.

If you've had trouble posting like I have, Blogger support knows about it and is trying to fix it: http://blogger-status.blogspot.com/

Interesting ticle about Eddie Van Halen's sound: http://mr5150.vhvault.com/evh-brown-sound.html

Greetings, o pigs. There's a bunch of these sites around, but this one had some particularly horrifying covers. Check out "Orleans"...ooooooh!