I have a grown up job now. Let us all morn the passing of my childhood innocence.

But seriously, I got the job and I couldn’t be more pumped up. I almost did a backflip, but I didn’t receive the proper FAA clearance. As usual I don’t want to talk about my job too much online because I’d very much like to keep it, but I’m pretty sure I can say I work at Amazon.com and I’ll basically be helping people use mp3s they can get from the site. You know that Super Bowl commercial with Justin Timberlake getting tossed around and destroyed by supernatural Pepsi powers? Amazon teamed up with Pepsi for that. So clearly I’m extremely excited to use as much nerd power as I can so people may one day download my own album without incident. I was just thinking how bizarre it would be if one day a customer called having problems downloading one of my songs. Then again I guess that’d be just like now. This the first job I’ve had that doesn’t involve me having to wear gloves or do something like vacuum. Hell, even the concept of being able to go to the bathroom anytime I want has me excited. Sure I get a 401K and health/dental/vision insurance and a job that pays me a ridiculous amount of money, but what really motivates me is the power to pee at will. Sweet.

I’d like to announce that by the end of the month, I’d like to have a new podcast started up. I don’t know if you remember Just Another Lazy Podcast, but I loved doing that every week and I want to do something like that again. I miss the Faithful Seven aka =/F7\=. The plan is to do a weekly podcast with a monthly or bi-monthly vidcast because how sexy would that be? The answer: Very. So look forward to that if I can focus long enough to get that off the ground.

No updates on Rolling Doubles. Very sorry, but Tanner has been sick.

I’m smitten with Wordburglar. Not necessarily in a gay way, but his songs have been in my head for like the last few days. He just put out a video for his song Cream of Wheat which is slow, simple, and amazing. He’s a Canadian machine designed to do nothing but produce awesome raps with 80 tons of word play. My dream is to one day write as good as that man. Do yourself a favor and check out his myspace and try to convince to post on TheSixtyOne.com.

Speaking of TheSixtyOne, I’ve had my first song on the front page. Granted, it’s not on the first page anymore, but as I type this the new version of “I Don’t Wanna Be Right” is the #1 song in hip-hop. I now join Glenn and Shael as Grammar Club members who have had a song on the front. I believe in you Snyder! If you haven’t signed up yet, what’s wrong with you? They turned listing to music into a game. A fun game! Go sign up and get to bumping you favorite songs!

I’ve written my first post-Rolling Doubles song and it’s gotten me pumped up for more work. The Grammar Club is working on the follow up to Bremmy which I believe will be a full length, I’m going to see if I can con From The Dust into doing a mashup EP with me, and I’ve started beginning works on my new solo EP which will be called The Adventures of Beef Thompson: IN SPACE! I don’t know which of these will be done first and in which order and which will be free, but I guess I should focus more on releasing Rolling Doubles first. You’re probably right. I’m out this piece. Got to go to work, which excites me. Have A Nice Day.

-Beef

I know it seems like all I do anymore is post new YouTube vids, but that’s not true! With that said, check out my new YouTube Videos.

First is a little music video I made using a ton of random clips I had on my PC set to Glenn Case’s fantastic “Pencil Me In.” It was basically a little test I wanted to do to see how hard it was to edit a video to sound. I also wanted to see how many videos I could fit into my new software without making it crash. I think it turned out pretty good, and it’s the perfect sentimental video if your name happens to be Beef Thompson.

Next is a video taken all the way back in March that I was only able to edit recently. There was a lot of stuff on the vid I didn’t necessarily want on the ol’ YouTubes, but I was finally able to put out the first part of it. Enjoy my former drunkness.

Good times no? Now onto some updates.

Rolling Doubles is more or less out of my hands at this point, and now awaits the sweet and loving finishing touches of tanner4105 aka T-Byte. Everyone who has heard the unfinished version really seem to dig it, so I’m very hopeful that the world at large will take a liking to it and to me.

I think the Grammar Club just straight up ownz TheSixtyOne.com. We are currently #2 in the hip-hop leader board with all of our songs at some point ending up on the front page of the website. Ok, so maybe we don’t own it the same way Jonathan Coulton does, but Jonathan Coulton is a shiny golden god who descends from the heavens to provides with amazing and angelic music. If you haven’t signed up for thesixtyone.com yet please do so now. It’s a great site that combines my love of music and my love of leveling up. You can also check out new versions of I Don’t Wanna Be Right and Internet Celebrity at my page by clicking right here.

I had an ultrasound today. The guy assured me there was no baby inside me.

Yesterday I had an interview for what I like to call a “grown-up job” and with what it pays I really hope I get it. So if you believe in such things, wish me good luck and karma and other stuff like that. If I do end up getting the gig, best believe I’m going to add to my <3 tattoo with a whole sleeve of IM shorthand. In the words of my good friend Ryan St. Cameraman, it will be epic!

That is all for now. Love you to death.

-Beef

I don’t know why I do these things. I blame the drugs and that darned MTV.

So if you’ve been away from the internet for a while, then you probably haven’t seen ytcracker’s hilariously amazing LOLMONEY freestyle. Please, do witness.

So a lot of people were making their own versions of the vid since none of us have the kind of cash yt throws down with. Here’s mine. Enjoy.

Hey guys, wanna help out Beefy and/or The Grammar Club become filthy internet celebrities? Or just wanna check out some songs you love and drop some comments about em? New music social site thesixtyone.com has a cool system and it’s really worth checking out. You can check out my page and The Grammar Club page and have a great amount of fun, then check out other cool new groups you might have otherwise never heard.

Beefy on thesixtyone.com

The Grammar Club on thesixtyone.com

It’s out. Decided to do the free album before Rolling Doubles since RD still has to be printed and all that shit. So give it a listen and keep in mind that it’s more of a mixtape than an album, but I’m sure you’ll dig a song or two.

The Adventures of Beef Thompson: Private Dick

So it turns out that my server people changed all the database and control panel stuff without sending me any notice. How very nice of them…jerks. So that is why all the old posts are gone. Again. Thank god I never wrote anything good enough that I could put it all in a book.

So while I didn’t release any solo albums this year, I was on a lot of them. The Grammar Club EP no one can pronounce,  The Captain S Season One Soundtrack, Dual Core’s Super Powers, and I can’t remember if Zealous 1’s Collabocide came out this year, but I was on that one too. And now that we have album art and more finalized vocals, Rolling Doubles will be ready to hit you in the mouth first thing in 08. Whammy!

If you hip-hop your way over to AtomicTown.com you will be able to ready a lovely article written by Bethany Lee about, you guessed it, Dr. Beef E. Thompson Esq., Renegade Cowboy Poet. She also takes her time to review some of the tracks on The Grammar Club’s new EP, thus the cross posting. So give it a read if you are in love with me and all things me. I might be the only person who reads this come to think of it.

Today is the day of my birth, and as I plan to spend the entire day being drunk and silly, I figured I’d get some writing done before my eventual drunken phone calls to wonderfulamazing and of course my emergency liver transplant.

Now it may seem contradictory for the creator of “Creative Process” to say this, but I genuinely enjoy reading or watching commentaries and interviews from artists that talk about how their songs came to be. The Jay-Z film Fade to Black that followed Jigga as he created The Black Album was really interesting to me. I don’t dig hearing about the creative process of kids in a creative writing class when all they do is regurgitate shit they’ve read in far more cleaver books, but I do dig it when an artist talks about creating something I enjoy.

Ok, I think I’ve properly justified this post.

As most of you might remember, Shael Riley and I started collabing a year and a half ago when we made Miss Information. I really dug working with Shael and I was talking a lot to MC Router at the time, and the three of us kind of really dug what the other was doing. We decided it would be cool to work together on a project called Tri-Forc3 and Shael called his buddy Trenthian to do production for us and we were all pretty excited. We made Mint Potion and were working on two other songs. One was about D&D called The Session, and the other one was a song called Balloon Flight. When I asked Shael what the track was about he told me, “Think early 90’s Marky Mark. Like a song that’s catchy and fun and doesn’t mean a thing.” After completely missing the message, I ended up recording a demo that he dug much more.

The chorus for the original BF actually went “Running through the deep snow/and you’ve gotta keep going/uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh/get that balloon growing/no one does it louder/courage, wisdom, power/Beefy, Shael Riley, and MC Router”

Clearly it’s obvious why we had to lose the last bit when we recreated the song as Grammar Club, which really sucks because Shael had made it one of the catchiest bits of the whole song in my opinion. When Tri-Forc3 eventually collapsed under the sheer size of our brilliance, I think Balloon Flight is something Shael and I were really sad to see go away. So when we decided to do a project together, completing BF was one of our first priorities. Originally Shael and I were going to work with Baddd Spellah, but that dude is super busy and admitted to us that there was no way he’d find the time to run this project. Then we moved on trying to hunt down another producer. We conned DJ Snyder to join us and he actually produced the first really good version of Heart Tits, but his main role in the group became that of DJ.

I actually remember driving home from Portland and stopping in The Dallas for some Taco Time when I got a call from Shael telling me that Glenn Case was down for the then nameless project and that he was going to conference a call between the three of us. We got cracking and Shael and I recorded more and more demos using Shael’s original synth beats while Glenn was recreating those synth sounds with real instruments. Seriously, when I say I do the least amount of work in the group, that’s not a lie. So Balloon Flight became one of the first songs we started on.

Shael sent me a new beat (we couldn’t use the old one because Trenthian was no longer in the picture) and when I heard those familiar lyrics in the chorus I knew two things. 1) The song was going to be crazy fun and 2) Router was going to be pissed. Router really dug the demo she had recorded for the original BF and I knew when she heard this new version she was going to lose her shit. I related this to Shael and he had been thinking the same thing, so we decided pretty early on that we would feature Router on the track. So we send her the new beat and she tells us that it’s too fast and she can’t record her vocals and she can’t find time to get to Tanner’s in order to record it. Feeling good that we tried, we moved on with the song. I would have loved for Router to be on the track, but now that the EP is out, I’m glad we don’t have any special featured artists. I mean The Grammar Club is already so swollen with talented musicians and artists that we really don’t need features, that was the whole point of working on this project together in the first place.

I rewrote what became my second verse first because I really wanted to re-work that whole hadooken line back into this mix. I then wrote another verse and Shael didn’t really dig it. I did, but looking back I don’t think it was very fitting. It was kind of angry. I was a little angry when I wrote it. So I flipped the whole thing and wrote what is now the first verse of Balloon Flight. I also wanna say that the part where I start out with “And I drive real slow…” is a total rip off of Kanye West’s “Drive Slow.” However, Shael adding vocals on top of mine covers it up a little and really makes that part stand out I think. I also threw in that last line about the strip club in honor of a friend of mine who worked as a stripper like twice, but when she told me about it we talked about how awesome it would be if she stripped to one of my songs. It was also the first time that I decided that I wasn’t going to be Beefy on this project and that I would just be the character in whatever story I wanted to tell. So while I’ve never been one to get with the ladies, I still wanted to talk about loving 3 chicks in a minivan.

That’s probably enough. I honestly can’t speak to the music making aspect of this or any of the other tracks on the EP. If you guys dig shit like this you should really demand that Shael, Glenn, Adam, and Snyder do the same thing. I plan on doing this for every track on the album, so if you’re not a fan…tune in much later. I also plan on adding more about our group’s little history and how Shael and Glenn were able to rope Adam into this beautiful train wreck. Anywho, it’s 4am, I have a sample article to finish, and I have to prepare for a drunken tomorrow. You stay classy…Planet Earth!

I’ve talked about this a lot elsewhere, but I realized that there is a handful of peeps who get all their Beefy news here and here alone, so I thought that with the return of Beefyness.com I should also give you guys an update of what I’m working on.

Rolling Doubles is my second full length album that will be released under Nerdy South Records. I had planned on having it done by June, but I started other projects and also took time off so I could go on trips and do shows, so the release date kept being pushed back. As it stands, 11 of the 13 songs are written, a good chunk of them are recorded, and it will feature the likes of MC Router, Shael Riley, ytcracker, and the lovely BethZilla of AtomicTown.com. The production is all being taken care of by T-Byte and Doc Pop with T-Byte mixing and mastering for me. The kid is crazy talented and he’s been able to produce beats for me that will give this album a uniformed sound while still being entertaining and varied. I’m excited about it. I still have two songs to write and a collab to work on, but I’m confident it’ll be done and ready soon.

The Adventures of Beef Thompson: Private Dick will be my third album, released for free days after Rolling Doubles comes out. It’ll feature songs I’ve released online without a proper album banner. Songfight songs, heavily sampled songs, and songs I felt didn’t fit in well with Rolling Doubles will be on this bad boy. However, don’t be surprised if I change the title of this project. At first I named it so to make Z of Hipster, Please laugh and because I thought it would be funny if I had some private eye skits in the mix, but I don’t know if I’m feeling it. But we shall see.

The Grammar Club is a side project I’m very much involved in, but I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to talk about it. What I can tell you is that it teams me up with the amazingly talented Shael Riley, Glenn Case, and DJ Snyder. Like every group project it has it’s ups and downs, but the end result has blown my mind with each new mastered song I’ve heard from uber-producer Puce. Even the version of Bank Holiday that some heard in the video has been punched up and sounds so much sexier I can’t even begin. It should be done by the end of the month and god only knows where it might go.

As for me, I’m alright. I’m inactively looking for a second job or a full time job. I’ve been working more at P. Murphy’s but nothing to write home about. For the first time I will be playing in an actual arena this Saturday for the third incarnation of the biggest battle of the bands the TC can provide. As you can read in this article I’m not taking part in the actual battle as it wouldn’t be fair to the other bands. I mean if I was in the actual battle the actual bands wouldn’t even bother playing. I’d show up, Hot Shotz Lazer Tag and Toyota would write me a check, and I’d be on my way. But as it stands I will be opening up the festivities with a short set, then give way to the great bands who will take part in a musical steel cage match. Two bands who I’m good friends with are in the battle, From The Dust and CAB, and I love em both, but I demand that the crowd back From The Dust. Them’s my bro-hams. Plus I’ll be doing Table Top Roxxorz with them that night and if they win…SUPER PARTY!

Last night I wrote a second verse for a Grammar Club song and rewrote the second verse for a song that will be on Rolling Doubles. This morning I recorded the Grammar Club song and re-recorded the first verse for the same song. I also finally recorded a verse for a collab track being put together by a guy named nygel called “Last Call.” After being a productive young artists I realized I had to be at work a half hour earlier so I booked it to the P. Murph’s. At work I learn we’re not allowed to smoke outside the back door, which I assume is an “only when the owner is around” rule. During my half I came home because I forgot my wallet and I wanted to see if Shael had commented on my verses but it turns out he had been working at like 15 parks today or something just as silly. I got back to work and pray we don’t get busy at 5, as I can go home early if it’s slow. The day before we all got fucked when everyone in the TC decided they wanted take-n-bake pizza and we only had 3 people working in the store. Today we made up for such things since we had like 7 people at the store, and of course no one wanted pizza today, so I go to come home. I just pimped around on the net and decided it would be nice to blog about my day-to-day. Bethany gets to do it on atomictown, and Kevin Smith does it all the time, so I have decided I’m gonna do it too. But not anymore. This is a lot of words.