Edwyn Collins battles back from two strokes to still perform live. When the only other news about music is who Amy Winehouse punched and which jail Weiland's going to be spending tonight in, it's nice to see actual uplifting music stories. Edwyn Collins had to re-learn all of the songs that he wrote after a severe brain hemorrhage in 2005.

It's a moving story about the triumph of a man who teetered on the edge of death and came back. There's no irony to get in the way.

Here's a video from his biggest hit:

In this episode, we do a quick "Hello" to the podience and talk a little about the upcoming show this weekend. The episode ends with a clip of Axiom performing "Neanderthal" at the Polo Room!

Alright, after watching all those awesome Doctor Who fan videos from season one a couple years back, I've wanted to make a fan video using one of our songs, but it was hard to find an appropriate song. We just finished a recording of a brand new song, "Alive Day", and I made a video for it from clips of Torchwood Season One. It's one of my favorite shows currently and I thought the subject matter of the song and the TV show fit perfectly.

Please let us know what you think and if you dig the song, we'll be making a few more tweaks, but we'll have an MP3 of it up soon as well.

If you like it, please feel free to let your friends know about the new tune.

Hat tip to Tim for this article on breeding sheep who have human organs. He accompanied it with a comment on all the new jokes we'll be able to make about sex with sheep (not to mention the actual sex we'll get to have with sheep!) I've heard that idea before (not the sex, but the organs, well, I have heard about the sex, you know what I mean), but I didn't know how far along they were on the research. At this point, the ethics committees are still keeping a close eye on everything but you know once this actually becomes useful for organ transplants, people are gonna go "whole hog" into it. And I won't blame them. When it comes to your own life or someone you care about, what wouldn't you do to keep them alive? If you had to kill an animal to keep your child alive, you'd feel bad for a second, but you'd do it. Of course you would, anyone would. If you had to kill a human to save your child, you'd definitely consider it and I venture most people would do it. If you had to kill something that was only part-human, how easy would that make it? Well, it's only part-human, a non-fully developed human, it's not really a person, it doesn't have a soul, etc...

So how comfortable are we with making those decisions and who are we entrusting to these responsibilities? Eggheads at universities, guys in labs, (shudder) corporations or Congress? I'm at an age right now where in 30 or 40 years, this technology might be needed to save my own life (especially when it comes to my poor beaten down liver), I can't say that I'm completely comfortable with this research (don't most science fiction stories basically boil down to the folly of playing God?) but if it saves my life, I can't say that I'm opposed to it either. Plus, I heard that sheep are baaaaaaaaaaaadass in the sack!

Anyway, speaking of Tim, if you're in Madison this weekend, make sure to check out Government Zero at The Annex on Saturday. They're going to be with Kill Junior (whose guitarist used to play in Grinder with me) and I just listened to their new demo and it's great. If you like punk rock, metal with some smoking guitar work, or just jumping around in general, it's going to be a killer show.

If you're in the Milwaukee area, Uncle Brett wanted me to let everyone know he's having a party Saturday night and to extend an invitation as well!

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It's perfect Packer weather, but it's getting a little cold on the Treo keyboard punching fingers.

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