PROZAC RAT

We regret to inform you...

2006-07-22T21:43:00.000-07:00

Prozac Rat has recently experienced a minor setback in their career. They died. But t is our duty (as the still-growing hair on the lifeless heads of Noah Daniel Smith:The Greatest Man On Earth and Mr. Dietr) to continue to spread the music of Prozac Rat to all the good people of the world. And, as soon as we are ready, we will also be issuing "incantations" to all of Prozac Rat's fans, in the hopes that through these, and other acts of "black magic," "black art," "voodoo," and whatever the hell else the kids are doing these days, we can successfully, over time, bring Prozac Rat back from the land of the dead. We also vow to track down the bastards that did this to Prozac Rat and make them pay for their crimes. Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

The Hair On Prozac Rat's Lifeless Heads

5 1/2 Hours: Something Is Happening

2006-07-19T22:24:00.000-07:00

Something is happening to Prozac Rat. Something strange. Something uncertain. Prozac Rat feels weaker, uneasy, and yet completely relieved. Prozac Rat hopes this will all turn out okay, though they believe darker days are before them. What is happening? There is thunder and lighting. There is a message. Someone is looking for Prozac Rat. What's the proper procedure?

26: I am radioactive.

2006-06-24T19:27:00.000-07:00

My blood is clean. I am radioactive. It's a nuclear injection. But I am clean. My blood is clean.

If I were a Spice Girl, I would probably be Retrospective Spice. How about you?

35: It should have been obvious...

2006-06-15T00:58:00.000-07:00

We set up to start doing some recording in our studio this evening. We didn't have a single pair of headphones in the whole Colony. You'd think we'd own one functioning pair of headphones. We'll have to straighten things out in the morning.

45: We have the Internet.

2006-06-05T17:08:00.000-07:00

We the Prozac Rat have the internet in Su Su Studio now. Now it's on.

49: The Phil Colony/Colliny Drama!

2006-06-01T00:28:00.000-07:00

I'm waiting for a video to upload. It's Terry. He sings pretty. I'd love to share him with you. Prozac Rat has a house. Today we bought a weedwacker, and Prozac Rat groomed its lawn. Our home has a name, but we can't settle on whether it should be called "The Phil Colony" or "The Phil Colliny." Votes? We hate having mail come to the house without it addressed to the proper name. Speaking of which, we have a studio there as well which we are working on. It has a name, which, like the house's name, is difficult to decide. Should it be "Su Su Studio" or Stu Stu Studio?" We cannot decide. Saw The DaVinci Code last week. It was an all right flick. "Audrey" rhymes with "hottie."

"Apple + S" = Not Losing Valuable Material

2006-05-27T01:01:00.000-07:00

NDSTGMOE and I are working on our new studio. I'll post more on that later. We got into an improvized jam earlier this evening, consisting of NDSTGMOE raping our new X-Station synthesizer, while I "sang" and played the zither, trumpet, and er hu (with a little help from my cell phone and a can of Mt. Dew). I managed to record most of it, and it was the first recording done in our new studio. We listened back over it and were very pleased, and ready to post it on MySpace right away. But we didn't save it. I powered off the X-Station and for some reason my Powerbook didn't like that at all, and decided to tell me that it was frozen, and I had to restart it. Now it is lost forever. We'll make up for it later, I hope.

Greatest Hits Candidates

2006-04-10T02:17:00.000-07:00

Per Chad's insistence, we'll be doing a greatest hits album. It might not be our first, but we'll see if it can be the first one on the iTunes Music Store, eh?

Here's a list of some of the candidates. Feel free to comment on any of the songs and suggest which ones we should put on the greatest hits, and even advice on how we should play/perform/record them. We'd like it to be a collaborative effort. I don't have all of our songs handy now, so I'll just write down what I can find on my computer. I'll add the others as I find them.

34 Hot!
A Burning Labrador Breeding With An Anthill In Southern Spain
Again
Astronaut
Back When Rap Pt. 1
Back When Rap Pt. 2
Indigo
Big Palsey
Bald Spot
Bad Girl
Burning Man
Business As Usual
By Far (Natalie Portman)
Cassie
How Cool Is Charlemagne?
CIA's Secret Children
Come To My Circus
Coaster 1 - Coaster 4
March Of The Creepy Faceless
Currently Dirtbound
Cute's Not Everything
Cutting Up People
Cyborg Stutter
Deadbeat
Dearly Beloved
Do You Know Anything?
Down The Aisle
Eating
Erin & Josh
Everything + Everything = Everything x 2
Farmer Hawk
For You
Front Row Tickets To The Monster Truck Rally
G Funk Dietr Watches The Storm
Grab Your Shit (& Get Da Fuck Outta My House)
Grafidius De Sasiola
Gray
H.G.T. Theory
Hi Farmer
Horns 'N' Jazz
Horse, Horses
How Do You Do?
Hurt By Love
I Apologize
I Don't Know What's Real Anymore
I Should Be Golfing
I'm A Doctor
I'm Getting To Know You Better
I'm Thinking Of You
Ice Mother
Incidental Spheres
It Came From The West
It's A Cocky World
It's A Sin To Stab St. Madcat
Juniper's Disease
Last Night
Lately
Left Hand Of Justice
Little Old Woman
Maddie
Magic Pony
Martin Was A Drifter
Mike
Minnesota
Morbid Curiosity
Mr. Lullaby Is Here (To Kill You)
Mr. Pufkin Says
My Black Eye
Neighbors
Noah Daniel Smith: The Greatest Man On Earth's Dream
Stench Of Death At The Super 8
One Time
Orders
Piece Of Cake
Pigeon Inside
Planet Ween
Privacy In The Middle East
Seaside Sweethearts
Sensitivity
Shake
Shake My Day
Shana's Evil Fear
Short People
Silver Tongue
Skate It Out To The Mount
Smack
Sour WormsSpiders For X-Mas
Summer Nights Are Bold
Sway
Taikuku
Taj
Tani
That's Mexico, Dude
The Bakersfield Project
The Banana Song
Gyarr
The Day I Burned My House Down
The Hinny
The Look In Your Eyes
The Moon Rolled Over
The Secret Song
Therapy
Tiajuana Teddy
Too Late Now
Tuesday, 7:46am
Walk It Off
We Are Wolves
What U Do 4 Me, Baby
When Is Noah Coming Home?
Window Shopping
Tickling
Car Crash
Doughnuts In The Wild West
Mail Order Bride
Dr. Clockstopper (Don't Do That)
La Llorona
The Ballad Of Ting Ting
Sha-La-La-La-La-La Do-Be-Do-Wop-Bop-Ba
Star Fighters Theme
Lazy Eyelids
Stress
A Fine, Fine Day

That's a few to start off with. I'll add the rest in a bit.

Peace out,

Mr. Dietr

Tis a thirst we cannot quench, bitch.

2006-04-10T02:04:00.000-07:00

We're recording more. We've been a little overwhelmed by other duties over the last year, couple of years, and Big Palsey has been the Alpha and the Omega of our output during that time. It should be done soon. Just a vocal track and a couple more additions to Bigger Palsey, and it'll be completely in Jon's capable hands (or hand if he wants to hold a glass of liquid in the other whilst mixing). So we'll be experimenting a bit while that's being finished off. Hopefully something useable will come out of that.

In other news, I'm trying to aquire a few organs. Black market stuff. Wish me luck.

Boo! Yaaaa!

2006-02-22T19:33:00.000-08:00

Our St. Valentine's show sucked ass. Wumpus rocked, but you couldn't hear us. All you could hear was a bwwwaaaaawaaawwaaawaaaa cause the venue's sound system got tweaked and it was all bass. It sucked. But the next show was significantly better. It was for a battle of the bands. There were 13 or 14 bands, and we wound up getting 4th place. I'm surprised we did that well, but who am I to judge? Well, I was asked to be a judge for it, but I felt it'd be a little unfair since I wanted Prozac Rat to be in the competition.

I'm speechless.

2006-02-03T09:49:00.000-08:00

Let's all play a game. What's wrong with Mr. Dietr's throat. I can barely make a noise right now. It sucks. It sucks because I'm supposed to be announcing big announcer things for a production tonight. But it also sucks because Prozac Rat will be doing work this coming week, with a show a week from tomorrow. Will I be healed by then? And just what is wrong with me? Do I have Strep? Laryngitis? Gypsy Curse? Only time will tell, but that won't keep us from placing bets.

All you need is love (for Prozac Rat)

2006-01-17T16:09:00.000-08:00

We're playing Feb. 11 and Feb. 16 at Main Street Pub in Brookings, SD. 11th with WUMPUS and 16th with BAND FROM EARTH. It will be rockin'. Come and enjoy. Expect love songs from Prozac Rat on the 11th.

Peace out.

Listen. Tweak. Listen. Tweak. Where's my Ann Maurice?

2006-01-14T02:45:00.000-08:00

We're getting closer boys and girls. Discuss!

Four Meats and Bermuda Shorts for Sarah.

2006-01-12T17:32:00.000-08:00

About to consume a four-meat pizza. We're mixing "Bermuda Shorts." Last I heard, that was Sarah's favorite song off of Chronicles Of The Living Skeleton, so this one goes out to her. She doesn't read these things, though. So it's a shout in the dark if anything. But if, by some slight chance you are reading this, Sarah, I will find Mr. Bendy Bones. I will. Ah well. Mint rocks. Pizza, ho!

The Chronicles Continue...

2006-01-10T17:22:00.000-08:00

I'm working with Xopher Smith as we speak, mixing Chronicles Of The Living Skeleton. I think that album will be four years old this May. We're bouncing a mix of "Skeleton In The Closet" as I type. Okay. It's done now. We're going to finish this album, damn it. I'm contemplating redoing all the artwork for the album from scratch. Gotta run it by Noah, though. Anywho, onwards to "Ann Maurice!"

One Big Palsey

2006-01-08T18:51:00.000-08:00

We just finished another session for our latest album "Big Palsey." It went well. Noah Daniel Smith: The Greatest Man On Earth and I regained a love for many of the songs on the album. I'd grown rather disillusioned with many of the tunes, but only because, I believe, It's taken so long to get these songs whipped into shape. We finally finished the arrangement for the tune "The Incidental Spheres," and had Ms. Brinker add some vocals to the tune, via cell phone. Thanks, Carrie. We also banged out some late night tracks for the album's closer, "Bigger Palsey," with which we're rather pleased. We're thinking we'll only need one more long night and we'll have everything recorded. Then we'll pass it off to Mr. Jon Hegg and he'll work his mixing magic. He's good. He'll salvage the whole album. Thanks in advance.

Following is a list of things we've never recorded until the last session:

1. Bacon frying.
2. Ikea tea kettle whistle.
3. Ukelele (New for P.R., though not me.)
4. Me screeching in polyphony.
5. Water gushing from a faucet.
6. A radio evangalist.
7. Water being poured from one glass to another.
8. Major Melody.
9. Mexican radio.
10. Noah urinating.
11. The angklung (Am I spelling that right, Noah?)
12. Me urinating.

Look forward to all these delightful sounds, among many others, on Prozac Rat's forthcoming album, "Big Palsey!"

Peace out.

Prozac Rat CD Release Shows

2005-09-17T11:07:00.000-07:00

So should Prozac Rat release a few albums this fall/winter? When should we do it? How should we do it. Why should we do it? How many albums should we release all at once? Discuss.

Recent Events

2005-05-11T17:47:00.000-07:00

So what's been going on in the world of Prozac Rat? Not too terribly much. Well, Noah Daniel Smith: The Greatest Man On Earth has been playing Stab Stab Cut Kill shows. I think they're playing tonight. They're sounding good and tight. I'm working on mixing their album now. That sounds good, too. I've engineered some Spooncat! within the last couple months, intending to do some more before too long. And I engineered Wumpus last night. They wrote the soundtrack for a short film that Mr. Dada put together. We recorded it all in an hour and twenty minutes. There'll be some overdubs later on. But all in all it was very enjoyable. Prozac Rat has been working on an album, Big Palsey, for a little while now, though not for nearly as long as our numerous other albums, which we're trying to get to the bottom of now. For now you can go to www.prozacrat.com and you'll find some mp3s. Some new stuff. Some old stuff. It's fun. I'll try to post a little more frequently now. Not that anybody knows this blog is even here.

New Music? New Shows?

2004-09-12T15:44:00.000-07:00

We have an mp3 page. The lovely folks at dmusic.com gave it to us.
It's . I'm thinking of putting some new tunes on there today. Feel free to email me with requests. We're also planning on doing a show or two in the near future. We'll keep you all updated. And if you have an event you'd like to see Prozac Rat at, let us know.
Peace out.

And So It Begins...

2004-09-12T15:28:00.000-07:00

Here we will all warm ourselves in the embrace of Prozac Rat. I'll be here frequently. Noah Daniel Smith: The Greatest Man On Earth doesn't hit the internet often (and when he does, it's literally), but hopefully I can get him to post now and again. Enjoy. And visit the Spooncat! blog site and Wumpus' as well.

Good day.

P.S. Here's a big picture of Prozac Rat, if you don't know who we are.