{"id":1004,"date":"2010-03-22T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danklass.com\/pill\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2010-03-22T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:15:36","slug":"204-look-dad-no-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2010\/03\/22\/204-look-dad-no-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"#204: Look Dad, No Hands!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay,\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really know what got into me, but suddenly I found myself talking in this strange, stilted way for the first 8 minutes of the show.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m getting more and more frustrated with myself for not writing.\u00a0 So, instead of talking, I&#8217;m going to talk like I&#8217;m reading?\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t make any sense.\u00a0 Yet, what ever does?<\/p>\n<p>I go over my daily routine.\u00a0 &#8220;Routine&#8221; as in, the thing I do ever day, day after day, over and over, again and again&#8230;aaaarrrggg.<\/p>\n<p>And, I talk about some other stuff, mostly my son&#8217;s recent research paper on the theremin.\u00a0 I was disturbed\/amazing\/baffled by the fact that I have at least 5 albums that include songs that feature a theremin on one of the tracks:\u00a0 Jellyfish&#8217;s <em>Bellybutton<\/em> (&#8220;Bedspring Kiss&#8221;), Soul Coughing&#8217;s <span id=\"btAsinTitle\"><em>Irresistible  Bliss<\/em> (&#8220;4 Out of 5&#8221;), Elvis Costello &amp; the Imposters&#8217; <em>The Delivery Man<\/em> (&#8220;Bedlam&#8221;) and The Beach Boys&#8217; <em>Pet Sounds<\/em> (&#8220;I Just Wasn&#8217;t Made for These Times&#8221;) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000002URU\/wwwbitterestp-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000002URU.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Jellyfish\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000002N56\/wwwbitterestp-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000002N56.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Soul Coughing\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0002VEPL2\/wwwbitterestp-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B0002VEPL2.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005ASHM\/wwwbitterestp-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00005ASHM.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to make your own theremin, or just want to geek out on some cool little electro-projects, check out MakerShed.com from Make Magazine.\u00a0 Awesome stuff, including the Japanese mini-theremin.<\/p>\n<p>Premium Version: 40 min or so<br \/>\nFree Version: 20 min<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8626\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1004-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/owrn8m\/BP204_2010_03_22.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/owrn8m\/BP204_2010_03_22.mp3\">http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/owrn8m\/BP204_2010_03_22.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/owrn8m\/BP204_2010_03_22.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/?powerpress_pinw=1004-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/owrn8m\/BP204_2010_03_22.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BP204_2010_03_22.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Arts--Culture-Podcasts\/The-Bitterest-Pill-The-Dan-Klass-Podcast-p1010058\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/subscribe\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay,\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really know what got into me, but suddenly I found myself talking in this strange, stilted way for the first 8 minutes of the show.\u00a0 I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}