Adventures with D.B. Cooper: Even more death threats.

Adventures with D.B. Cooper is an on going story about Adam Stump’s experiments with internet vigilantism.

Quick note: Everything italicized is D.B. Cooper and everything normal is an assassin named Dai Teatime… or Nelson Peterson… or Toodle Pip… it’s really hard to tell who it is that actually wants to kill me.

Anything italicized and bold is my commentary.

 

YOUR DEATH HAD BEEN PAID FOR
nelson peterson Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:25 AM
Bcc: danielboonecooper@gmail.com
You have been betrayed!!! It’s a pity that this how your life is going to come to an end as your death had already been paid for and this person is someone who is very close to you from all my investigations.

I have ordered 3 of my men to monitor every move of you and make sure you are not out of reach until the day of your death.

According to the report I gets, you seem to be innocent about what you accuse but I have no business with that, so that’s why am contacting you to know if truly you are innocent and how much you value your life.

Get back to me if you sure want to live on, ignore this mail only if you feel it’s a joke or you been smart.

Don’t forget your days on earth are numbered, so you have the chance to live if only you will comply with me.

WARNING: Tell no one about this mail to you because he or she might just be the person who wants you dead, and if that happens, I will be aware and am going to make sure you DIE instantly.

I will give you every detail of where to be and how to take any actions be it legal or illegal, that’s only when I read from you.

You need to stay calm and act as if you are not aware of what is about to happen to you and also act fast because any move you make that is suspicious, you will DIE as your days are numbered.

Lucky You

Toodle Pip!

Dai Teatime
International Assassin

I see there are 2 attachments included in the email. I see that they’re .jpg files and open them…

 

Hmm, that looks familiar. Let’s see what the other picture attachment could be…

Oh, it’s just a picture of a horse with no eyes. For some reason this picture was photoshopped, notice the bush, fence, and grass on the right. I was truly at a loss of a good response to this threat so I kept it simple…

 
Daniel Cooper Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM
To: nelson peterson
Cool horse!!!

 
nelson peterson Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:56 PM
To: Daniel Cooper
YOU FAILED TO COMPLY, NOW YOU ARE GOING TO DIE

This time he attaches a picture of a sniper rifle on a table next to a RV.

 

 

Daniel Cooper Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM
To: nelson peterson
Nice gun, man.

 

Daniel Cooper Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:13 PM
To: nelson peterson
Here’s a picture of God. Start saying some prayers because you’re going to need them. I heard he doesn’t take too kindly to murderers. 

And that was the last I heard of Nelson Peterson Dai Teatime Toodle Pip.

Erik’s Essentials: 4/20/12

1) Genghis Grill

I love stir fry. Absolutely love it. This place is like the Buffalo Wild Wings equivalent of a stir fry place. Put all kinds of stuff into a bowl and have it cooked up for you. My dish included crab, scallops, chicken, more veggies than I can remember, stir fry sauce, chile garlic sauce, and a slew of spices.

I highly recommend it.

2) Cabin in the Woods

Not a bad movie – Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly) co-wrote it. Anyone who loves the classic 80s chiller/horror movies will appreciate this. The movie really is a puzzle and criticism of the horror genre today.

I walked away from this movie feeling a bit freaked out.

3) “Mother” by New Terrors

I like M83, I like shoegaze, I like Burke Sullivan.

 

 

Ladykiller Recipes: Peppery clam chowder over garlic cheese biscuits + salad

“Ladykiller Recipes” gives you tips for a perfect, cheap meal to impress that special someone.

The words “men” and “cook” don’t often go together, save for the phrases “men should cook more often” or “men don’t how to/can’t cook.” As dudes, we prefer eating the food as opposed to spending all of that time and effort making it. Hence, a steady diet of instant noodles, frozen pizza, beer and turkey sandwiches.

It’s time for that to change.

My time as a house husband of sorts has been beneficial in a few ways, one being that I’ve picked up cooking. So, I (and anyone who wants to join) will be giving you easy and cheap recipes to impress your girl.

This week: Peppery New England clam chowder over garlic cheese biscuits with a side salad.

Check it: Maps & Atlases – Beware & Be Grateful

WARNING: This post contains material some would consider, “awesome summer jams.”

Maps & Atlases is one of my favorite bands. I loved them because the first time I heard Tree, Swallows, Houses it made absolutely no sense to me and I couldn’t stand the lead singers voice. However, from my first couple listens I could gather that this band, no matter how chaotic their music might have sounded, put a lot of work into their music. They crammed more ideas into one song than most bands put into an entire album. I first appreciated their work ethic and finally became familiar with the songs and in turn fell in love with them.

Since then they’ve released an E.P. and a full length and each album has been progressively more poppy and yet at the same time still dense and technical (and I’ve loved them all equally like a mother loves all her children the same… or so she says). So yesterday I was thinking about bands that have been relatively quiet in recent months so I thought I’d see what they were up to and boy was I excited when I found that Maps & Atlases is releasing a new full length on April 17th. Imagine how more excited I got when I could stream it in it’s entirety on Paste Magazine’s website.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/04/album-stream-maps-atlasesbeware-and-be-grateful.html

SHOOT DANG!!! This album is good. I’ve listened to it at least 8 times in the last 24hrs and I’m still picking out layers that I didn’t hear the first time. There’s so many different sounds coming from either keyboards or guitars and there’s layers of percussion (think King of Limbs but not so jarring). I’m listening to it as I write this and I can’t even focus on completing this… I’m smiling too much. I’m not going to waste your time talking about it great detail, just know that I’m super stoked on this. Do yourself a favor and go listen for yourself.

Do it now!!!

Erik’s Essentials: 4/13/12

Happy Friday the 13th! Here’s what got me through the week.

1) Regular Show

I just started watching this a few weeks ago. Oh. My. Heart. There are TV shows that you watch to pass time, and there are shows you simply must see. Regular Show is one of them.

Twentysomethings Mordecai (a blue jay) and Rigby (a raccoon) fight the humdrum of working at a park by not working (duh) and having a good time. Throw in a gumball machine for a boss, a skipping gorilla voiced by Mark Hamill, a huge-headed English gent, some dumpy muscle guy and a hi-five ghost.

This is a project I wish my friends and I made.

2) AMC movies with ‘Story Notes’

As a dude, I enjoy a good movie. And I enjoy trivia. Combine the two, and I am in heaven. Being a Story Notes writer would be so awesome. I recently watched Kindergarten Cop and The Birdcage with notes, and life is so much better.

3) Star Wars

I recently got my N64 up and running, playing Rogue Squadron often. Mmmmm

Check it: Never Better, by P.O.S.

“Check it” is an ongoing series highlighting the good things in life.

I know virtually nothing about rap or hip-hop—I’m white and the extent of my exposure to this type of music included Vanilla Ice’s “Go Ninja”‘ DC Talk’s first album and rap-rock albums like Pillar’s “Above”or P.O.D.’s “Fundamental Elements of Southtown.”

As a drummer, I like hearing drums or, at least, good beats that sound good. Musicians like to hear good music and, for a long time, I’ve had trouble hearing music in it all—just the same three chords over and over and over.

Then I came across Never Better from Minneapolis-based P.O.S. (after Travis from VGR continually pushed it on me for weeks) and started to get a better understanding of it all.

Simply put: Heavy-hitting, smooth-sounding, free-flowing lyrics and music about being poor, giving a damn and making a difference. Also: Big Lebowski and Law & Order references.

It’s “music to skateboard to.”

Bandcamp best of: Milwaukee

“Bandcamp best of:” is an ongoing series to find cool bands on bandcamp.com by way of tags.

The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin needs no introduction: Alice Cooper filled us in on its history in Wayne’s World ( The name “Milwaukee” comes from an Algonquian word, Millioke, meaning “The Good Land”), beer comes from it and Arthur Fonzarelli called it home.

Don’t forget the Brewers, Bucks, Wave or Admirals, which has an awesome logo:

That said, follow the jump for solid tunes!

Erik’s Essentials: 4/06/12

This “Essentials” spans a couple of weeks, just so you know.

 1) Durham, NC

I took a “Spring Break” recently involving North Carolina and Indiana. The first leg involved staying with my buddy Cam, who goes to Duke University. Durham is an interesting place, and the first place we went was to the revitalized former Lucky Strike factory. Totally badass: The water tower and chimney with the Lucky Strike logo remain, though the “factory” is now businesses, shops and restaurants with a cool creek running through it all.

Cam. Photo by his fiancee, Bethany.

Downtown Durham is a good example of restoring “what was,” to some degree. I can’t even imagine what it was like in the hey-day of cigarette production.

Cam also took me to The Q Shack, which is a bbq joint with the most amazing hush puppies. I didn’t even like bbq until I went. Dip the pups in some honey butter, you’ll be a believer.

There was also a beer store down the road called Sam’s Quick Shop, which let you have a nice beer (and keep the glass) for $5 to drink while you decide what to buy.

 2) Country music

Being in the South, this makes sense. The full-blown fan status, however, happened somewhere around the West Virginia/Ohio border. With hits like this, “Fly Over States” (also by Jason Aldean, which mentions Indiana),  “A Woman Like You”  by Lee Brice or “Why Don’t We Just Dance” by Josh Turner not to mention my upbringing with Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Tim McGraw’s “Don’t Take the Girl,” country music strikes a special chord in me. Today’s music ain’t half bad either: I would love to play drums in a band like that.

Country music speaks of women, drinking, working and playing; it says that life is hard and love is work; but most importantly, it says to be true to yourself and things will turn out they way you want them to, eventually.

Oh, and beer. Lots of beer.

 3) Titus Andronicus

My love affair with this band started roughly last fall, and “The Monitor” has been playing in my truck nonstop for awhile. I finally got their first album, “The Airing of Grievances,” on vinyl from VGR recently and love it. They are the band I wanted to form and play drums in. Still are.

Watching that Civil War documentary and picking up on all of the quotes + meanings was cool. I recently attempted to get snag an interview with them, but they’re on tour at the moment.

Check out the Youtube doc on the making of The Monitor here.

They take New Jersey state pride seriously, which I dig. They are my second favorite NJ band—Saves the Day being No. 1, of course.

Who Is: Nate Henricks

“Who Is:” is an ongoing interview series highlighting cool people.

Photo by: Angie Schoenherr

Nate Henricks is a bit of a myth in the Midwest: Many people have heard of him, been fortunate to see him play music or just hang with him at the local Pizza Hut. A Nate Henricks sighting, however, is a rare thing to some and should be taken with gratitude.

Nate is a unique musician, the kind that seems to always be cranking out solid tunes made in his bedroom or parents’ house or whatever shelter he’s inhabiting these days.

His newest album, “NTH MERIDIAN,” came out at the start of this year.

Music Roundup: March 2012

This is a new once-a-month series.  Near the end of each month, I will post 5-10 notable tracks that were released in the past 30 days.  Enjoy! 

Japandroids – “The House That Heaven Built”

Scuzzy pop with plenty of hooks.  Japandroids are proving they don’t need to change, they just refine and perfect the good things they already have going for them.

Moonface – “Headed For The Door”

Spencer Krug goes all M83 on us with this expansively epic cut from the forthcoming album Heartbreaking Bravery.

Celista – “Brooklyn”

My favorite artist of 2011 is back with a new Biggie Smalls-sampling single.

Titus Andronicus – “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus”

These New Jersey patriot-rockers recorded this track for their 7″ release with Diarrhea Planet.  They also released a shit-ton of free demos, b-sides, and outtakes here.

The Shins – “It’s Only Life”

The Shins released Port Of Morrow and it is phenomenal.  My favorite Shins album yet.  Also, check out the music video for the lead single “Simple Song” because it’s really good.

Beach House – “Myth”

Pretty rad chilled-out cut here… and that’s coming from a dude who isn’t a huge Beach House fan.

Little Chords – “Always/Never”

Little Chords is the side project of a dude named Jamison who is better known as Teen Daze.  This track is very Real Estate-esque.  Super chill, but super catchy.

OFWGKTA – “Oldie”

It’s all in the video.

What other awesome tracks came out this month?  Leave a comment and let us know!