Sad and Angry Synth Music for the Perplexed

Hey, you look like a fellow HUMAN who is both disengaged from the unattainable final chess move of Capitalism and surly in a way that transcends glottal language utterances. Go you! Well, we have cooked up an alchemical auditory conflagration for you that strongly parallels those angry and uncertain vibes.

New Stuff!

Hey fellow programs, it has been a long time. Well, despair not! We have a treasure trove of goodies for you. TSEP has just released two, count ’em, TWO, albums worth of steaganographic instruction sets for the secret illuminated corps of Earth 101 to ingest and decode! Yass! You’ll want to head over to https://technosquideatsparliament.bandcamp.com/…

Harry Blotter and the Chamber of COVID-19

Greetings, programs! It has been NaN years since I last wrote anything on this website, which is probably a good thing for all concerned. Yet, here I am again, and you might be wondering why the long interlude. Was it the soul-crushing ennui and loss of sense of self and direction that accompanies a global…

Peenwolf

This is the house at 2322 W. 3rd St, on the corner of 3rd and Dennison, in Little Rock. Techno Squid Eats Parliament lived here during our tenure on Ardent Records. Many a party was had here. We practiced here. It was fun. Clay Bell owned our touring van, an old Chevy. To say he…

Biscuit Quarterly #1 (Collector’s Item)

Before there was a Biscuit Quarterly, TSEP used to have little one-off TYPEWRITTEN newsletters that we would send out, not on any particular schedule. Over time, that evolved into the four or eight page wonders of the Modern World that we included in press kits, and that we would trade for timber, pelts, LSD, and…

A Little Hard on the Beaver

Passing time while on tour is a challenge. There are only so many cassette tapes you can go through before your Walkman’s motor burns out and renders all your music with a surreal Gates-of-Hell-Creaking-Open effect; and inevitably, all that time cooped up in a van leads to the telling of stories. Since time immemorial humans…

Aaron Sarlo’s Movie Reviews: Ford v Ferrari

They car better than we do. I want us to car better than them. Let’s spend a whole lot of time carring, and see if, in the end, we don’t car better than them. Here we go carring! Look how good we car. But, watch out, because they car real good, too. Oh, no! Something…

A Passing.

Today, we are mourning the departure from this world of one of the earliest fans of Techno Squid Eats Parliament : Stephanie Price. She passed away on February 8th, and her memorial service was held earlier today in Little Rock. Stephanie was an integral part of the lives of TSEP and the individual members. A…

Backstreet Bronco-Que

There are some events that happen in a lifetime that are so awful, bizarre, or meaningful that they are seared permanently into the old noodle. Remember where you were when you heard about Skylab falling? Or Gary Gygax getting ousted from TSR? Or when Quizu Yupanqui crushed the advancing forces of Pizarro’s men under rockslides?…