[joethelion]

weird... I can't seem to find karl's response...

but about the Van Halen deal - years ago (like - I want to say this was around '99... definitely no later than '01), when yannick ran what, I guess you could call the "UW Fan Page", RTSR (it had a full discography, gigography, etc) - which later basically just melded into what we have now

there was a streaming audio recording of Van Halen Van Halen Rock Guitar Band (it was a realplayer file). It was Karl doing a spoken word performance with some really cool ambient / sound design stuff (from what I remember, it included what was later called "the Girl" off that one dirtyradio show)

a portion of it also had this sort of narrative about Karl bumping into a photographer, who was trying to sell him a picture of a beautiful woman laying across a beautiful car... but with a dead rat (or maybe it was a bird?) rotting on the actual photograph, b/c it was 'too beautiful of an image'

there was also a bit about doing an interview with urb magazine, and something about a madman/criminal/something of the like being on the loose (this portion was also used on the tomato2 cd-rom)

unfortunately, a save-able copy was never given, and I never got around to just recording the streaming file

There - supposedly - is also a video recording of it

and it seems that I wasn't the only one who didn't record the streaming file... as I've never been able to score a copy of it again