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YT description: 

Alrighty, kiddos, it’s finale time! Strap yourselves in for a wild ride! You might want to bring along extra Flavo-Fibs and Reconst because this one is a doozy! 57 minutes...ARGH! This has some of the shrillest, strangest sounds I ever recorded in it too. So here’s how to watch it in 5 bite-size chunks: 1 space truckin’ to 7:50. Then 2 the Velnias welcome committee to 17:30. 3 the heart of darkness to 31:25. 4 the assault on Velnias to 43:40. Then 5 FINITO!.

First up it’s a recap of the story so far, fast-fast! Then SD gives us the backstory of the trio’s mission. So here’s the deal: Velnias is a planet of EVIL! The super-Nazi-types won the world war on their planet thousands of years ago. Entrenched evil, man! And the only way to smack any sense into those bleepholes is to hold a mirror to their evil actions...instant karma! Velnias has 2 moons. On Luna Arsenalas they stockpile their weapons. Half of Luna Paradiso is a game reserve ( or animal thrill kill park, you know, like the ones here on Earth). On the dark side is prisons and factories for manufacturing death machine weapons that can slaughter thousands, millions of humanoids in a flash (you know, like the ones here on Earth). The objective of Operation Kick Evil’s A**!!! is to first gain control of Luna Paradiso, where the freed prisoners will convert weapons into i.k.g.’s (instant karma guns) using the groovy element of corbomite. Then with weapons ranging from handheld blasters to small spaceships that fire karma beams the “Karma Army” will take on Velnias itself.

Under the guise of Sanchez Torgulstein SD applies for a job to truck weapons parts destined for the factories of Luna Paradiso. From 12 minutes on the gang comes face to face with evil. The words the bleepholes say are some of the grossest things I’ve ever typed out, ick! But that’s how bleepholes talk (you know, like the ones here on Earth). The pinnacle (or deepest trench) of evil is encountered at 25:30. The...the TERROR DOME! I won’t describe what goes on in there now, but I’ll just say this: the tower in the center of the dome? They call that the Fountain Of Blood. ‘Nuff said. The Terror Dome is a cross between Nazi extermination camps and the Colosseum (you know, like the…..) And like the hunted wolf image in part 7, I wanted to use a real image of evil here. The background of the dome is made from an image of an Auschwitz gas chamber. Keep that in mind during the slow pan at 26:10. I blurred the pan. You don’t want to see what SD sees, believe me.

I could have had Space Dude otherthrow one dictator in one corner of the universe but that’s not very satisfying. I wanted my hero to DESTROY ALL EVIL EVERYWHERE AND FOREVERMORE. Hey, this is fiction, I can do what I want! At first the karma field can only be activated in a narrow beam with the i.k.g. But at the end of this vid the k-field of the entire universe is awakened...permanently! Alright! You might wonder why I didn’t just have SD do that 30 years earlier. For purposes of DRAMA, of course!

At 26:10 I finally do the third “tri-circ” theme, representing compassion. Episode 1 has Knowledge, 2 has Wisdom. 3 was supposed to have Compassion, but I got carried away with my story. Obviously the moral of my story is Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done Unto Yourself. My new revised version of the Golden Rule is Do Unto All Sentient Beings As You Would Have Done Unto Yourself. Up to now we’ve all been on the honor system. The Golden Rule is a just a nicey-nice suggestion in reality. In my fictional universe it becomes law!. A physical law you can not violate!

Do I sound “preachy”? All this talk about good and evil. As if I’m Mr. Perfect? Ha, no. This is more about me than you, I suspect. I have memories of times when I, in a bad mental state, could not stop myself from hurting another. If instant karma had been a real force back then I wouldn’t have these memories gnawing away at me right now. That’s just my burden and shame I’ll have to carry to the end. It’s heavy. It hurts. I…

41:45, check it out, I’m a hand actor! That’s me in my snowmobile gloves ripping apart my old amp I played my keyboards through. I’m a star! 48 minutes: HOLY REVEAL! The Dude In The Red Spacesuit is...The Storyteller! Whoa, so that’s who it is! He’s the personification of the universe as a whole. He is the Reaper, and the Sower. He created you. He will destroy you. He simultaneously cares for you and doesn’t give a rat’s a** about you. Sounds familiar, doesn’t He? Dayum, y’all, he is one creepy mamma-jamma! Space Dude finds himself living in His dualistic universe. Heck, if I created a real universe I’d make it perfect from the start, all happiness and pleasure, no pain and sadness. But, that’s just me.

So there you have it, kiddos! I hope you enjoyed my story! And remember as you travel along your journey of life: shine your Light Of Love! And make the universe a better place for all! Live to love! And love to live!

Well, actually I have 8 minutes of some silly stuff that didn't fit in this episode to upload. But I promise I won't turn this into a franchise. These vids were so hard to make you can believe me on that for sure. This last episode is one hour long...😨 OMG! Most of the time you'll be hearing the CT-390. Sometimes it'll be almost unintelligible through the overamplifcation and messiness, but it's in there. Enjoah!

Y.T. description:

This 30 minute episode can be watched in 3 chunks if you’re short on time. 1-The Lecture. 2-The Park at 10:30. 3-The I.K.G. at 19:20. Get yer reading glasses on, there’s a painful amount of yak in this one! The tuneage is about 60% Yamaha PSR-190, 40% Casio CT-390.

First up: some groovatudes being layed down by the Bodhi-bug in a lecture entitled “Is There Anything Of Value In This Universe?” He sifts through the contents of the entire universe and finds there is one thing of value. That one thing? Why, it’s YOU! How about that! Just lil ol’ you! Didn’t see that coming, did ya?! Ha! Ever ask yourself “why am I here?” Check it out, B.B. has the answer for ya at 9:00. Makes sense, eh?

That scene takes place in the lotus dome atop the sky gardens of Marama. The images you see in the meditation pond are B.B.’s thoughts he’s projecting onto the shimmering waves. And while you’re in the dome your emotions are converted into music that only you can hear. So what sounds did you hear? Mine sounded like an all tuba marching band. But that’s just me.

10:30, welcome to Marama City Park. Nice place, eh? But, hey, see those things floating by? Those are called Floaters. Just like Earth’s bees, if you don’t bother them they won’t bother you. But if you DO bother them they will STING you and you will DIE a HORRIBLE PAINFUL DEATH! Just a heads up. The audio is a little crunchy in a couple spots here because my tape deck would chew up the tape sometimes. Just one of the joys of ancient tech I miss so much...NOT! The gang yak it up about Ruby’s desire to return to Velnias to save her humanoid and animal friends on Luna Paradiso. At 16:09 is one of the few times you’ll see me quote a Bible verse. I adhere to no religion, but hey, a good saying is a good saying. At 16:36 B.B. offers some thoughts on the nature of evil. Ruby then gives her opinion of the bleepholes. “Violence is their lust and guns are their fetish”, she says. You know any people like that? I bet you do. I do. Bleepholes are real. They’re all around. Scary, isn’t it?

Space Dude starts to zone out at 18:30. The things that Ruby and B.B. have said trigger a brainstorm in our hero’s noggin. Zaphod whisks his friends off to the research labs of Marama U. to see if his inkling is correct. So here we have my solution to the problem of evil: INSTANT KARMA! That’s right! It’s gonna get you! Gonna knock you off your feet! I’m using that word in the “comeuppance” definition. Some people link karma with reincarnations, but I don’t go for that freaky stuff. If you can’t prove it, then it ain’t real. Just imagine if instant karma were a real force in the universe, though, just like gravity and electromagnetism. COOL! Is that possible? Now, remember, these people are light years ahead of us scientifically. We haven’t even discovered the fifth fundamental force yet! Like cavemen groping around in the dark we are! It’s all very complicated and quantum, of course. Turns out all mass and energy are just vibrations in the omni field, the single field all reality arises from...that’s right, they achieved the grand unified field theory long ago! Now, in the 16 dimensional Planck matrix…...well, I won’t bore you with all the details. Suffice it to say that with a little help from the Frinkatron 12,000 Zaphod proves that instant karma is a real force in the universe! HOYVIN MAYVIN!

It takes a lot of energy and a special substance to raise the karma field above the zero point state into a concentrated beam. At 25:12 you witness the very first time in the universe it happens. Ruby’s instant karma gun reverses SD’s gluon ray. Kablamo!  In his dazed state SD starts moaning some Three Dog Night, Mama Told Me Not To Come. Dude is toasted! It works! The special substance? Corbomite! Trekkies know all about that. So now the gang has a fighting chance! Evil doers will find their death rays reverse on them by the return fire of karma rays! Zap! Instant karma, baby! It works on any evil act too. If somebody tries to punch you in the face for no reason...zap, they punch themselves in the face! Somebody tries to pop a cap in yo’ a**...zap, the bullet boomerangs and it’s return to sender, baby! Of course the force of instant karma doesn’t affect actions of self defense or accidents, only evil. Don’t ask me how it all works. All kinds of quantum jiggery-pokery goin’ on, man! Complicated stuff. Obviously, I’m combining my interests of music, science and philosophy into one big goofy mess here. But hey, who’s to say? The existence of atoms was just an idea once, then proven to be true. Could instant karma be real? Like SD says, if it ain’t we’ll never defeat the bleepholes. I’m tired of waiting, damn, yall! INSTANT KARMA NOW!! 

This episode has the last hidden Red Dude. Yup, he’s still hangin’ around. I get the feeling he’s gonna make an appearance in the conclusion. Oh man, you just know it!  What’s he gonna do?! WHO IS HE??!!!! Stay tuned! All of your questions will be answered in the freak-a** finale!!

As to HOW you got here, well, that's harder to figure out. Apparently it all began with the Big Bang. But how and why that happened might never be known. As long as you're here you might as well check out episode 8 of my Space Dude epic!

8 hours ago, yul said:

Good stuff thanks for making and sharing. It's quite entertaining actually and the sounds are so lovely and vintage. Nice!

Thanks for the nice comment, yul!

Aww, 🤧😂! Hugh the romantic! Beautiful music and video, 👍!

Except for the peeping window cleaner at the honeymoon hotel, ew! You have an odd mind, Hugh! 🙄

Cool, Tsquare, 👍! Almost too dissonant 😬!

1 hour ago, TomTWK7600 said:

Wow, good stuff!  Being an instrumentalist, I mostly focused on the music.  Though I did read through your intro and paid attention to any words that appeared on screen.  Dracomeramedy definitely.  I'm doing this in installments.  Very enjoyable.  Thanks for posting.

Thanks, Tom! Watching in small pieces is a good idea. I haven't yet tried to watch all 9 parts, 4 hours, in a row. Yikes, I can't imagine what that would be like! 😰

Cool, an easy listening Hallelujah, 👍! You just know this is what you hear in the elevators of Heaven. 😁

YT description:

This one is 37 minutes long and has a lot to read in it. If you can’t take it all at once you can watch it in two parts, stopping at 15:40 after the beach scene.

Now, let’s get something straight: the world of fiction operates by different rules than reality. Whatever the storyteller says happens, you just have to believe it. And I’m telling you this: there ARE such things as spacefaring butterflies! There are! And you have to believe me! They migrate over galactic distances through the void of empty space. Sounds fantastic, I know, but it’s true! I want you to keep something else in mind as you watch this: Space Dude (Zaphod Beeblebrox III, a.k.a. “E-Z”) always has a change of clothes in his hover bike storage compartment. One minute he’s in a space suit, the next he’s got normal clothes on. There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for that. He always carries a change of clothes with him! Alright? Got that? Good.

The tunes in this are the Casio CT-390, Yamaha PSR-190 and my no-name-brand guitar from tapes ranging from ‘95 to 2000. At 7:10 SD starts hummin’ some Jeff Lynne Can’t Get It Out Of My Head as he gazes upon a mysterious beautiful woman who appears as if in a dream on the shore of the...well, appropriately enough, the Sea Of Dreams. Who is she? She kinda looks like...nah, it couldn’t be. Could it? SD just about drops a load in his spacesuit when he finds out the answer. It’s a shape shifter! Ho ma gosh, y’all! Run, Space Dude! SD let’s out a classic ZBS Jack Flanders line as he beats cheeks, “feets, do your stuff!” But just when SD thinks he’s done for…..HOLY PLOT TWIST! It is Ruby! Wowsers! She can transform her body into different shapes! Whoa-ho, man, cool! Looks like B.B. taught her how to do that. Yeah, I remember in the last episode she said something about B.B. teaching her how to do something amazing. You remember that? See, you gotta pay attention to this stuff! At 13:50 Ruby returns to her original biped form. Yeay! Zaphod and Ruby are united! I found some perfect emotional footage, I think it’s from Pixabay, of a couple on a beach. And yes, SD had some clothes for Ruby to wear in his hover bike trunk! C’mon, man, don’t harass me about that! So, did you cry during the emotional reunion? It’s alright, you can tell me.

At 17:10 Ruby describes her kidnapping ordeal to her friends. Ted wanted to get back at SD and he wanted Ruby for himself. So he just took her. What can I say, he’s a bleephole. Ted was unsucessful in breaking Ruby’s spirit and making her his “personal slave.” That’s a U2 reference at 19:50, Ted could take her body, but he could not take her Pride! Damn straight! Bleepholes are evil. They r*pe, they pillage, they enslave, conquer and destroy. Their humanoid prisoners of war and those they deem inferior and deviant are sent to the dark side of their moon Luna Paradiso where they are worked to death or simply exterminated. The light side of the moon has been terraformed into a game ranch where exotic animal species from all over the galaxy are brought to be hunted down for sport. Man, I’m glad this is just fiction and that kind of thing doesn’t occur in the real world! I...it...ugh...yeah. It might seem odd to have goofy fun stuff and dark serious stuff together in these vids but I wanted SD to battle evil in this story and I have to describe evil. Consider this a dramedy. Or a comerama.

So, what is “evil”? Well, as Bill Clinton taught us, definitions of words can be a very personal thing. Here’s my definition of evil: to cause pain and suffering or even just sadness to any living being for no other reason than your own sick thrill in doing so. If someone punches you in the face for no good reason, they are evil. If in self defense you punch that person in the face, you are not evil. Lions that kill and eat zebras are not evil. Sport hunters that kill lions just because they find it fun and exiting are ____. You fill in the blank. Fill my comment section with your thoughts on good and evil! This story is fiction. But I want you to know that the evil you see at 29:20 is real. The picture of Ruby’s friend, the wolf shot by hunters, is real. Wanna see the real face of evil? Google “sport hunting wolves and lions”, if you can bear it. Look at the human’s faces as they pose with their bloody trophies. Look at the smiles. They always have those big ol’ smiles on their a**hole faces. It’s funny, they don’t look evil. You just can’t see what lurks within. One day such behavior will be outlawed. Not soon enough for me.

So, SD and Ruby are together again. Everything’s fine. Now they can just relax and enjoy their life together, eh? Well, remember, Ruby’s gone bodhi. She has vowed to return and release her humanoid and animal friends from the grip of evil. Could that even be possible?! Well, I’m the storyteller here so I guess it’s up to me to figure out a way. But how? See what I come up with in part 8 of TAAOSD!

This episode’s Red Dude is the easiest to spot. C’mon, man, he’s right there!!

So did I pull it off? Is this too much one way or another? Does it work for you? Let me know:

Cool bike. I see you've done that the right way, the hub motor. Remember those silly things that rolled against the tire? The last one I had was a 1,000 watt Aotema hub motor and 24 pounds of batteries! MORE POOOWWWEEERRRR!!!

Wow, cool original music, 👍! Now if you could sing and play a mean guitar you'd be just like the Heart babe!

Well, I see your fingers are in good shape, Hugh. Those appendages can move pretty fast, man! Watch out, you might get pulled over one day, "do you know how fast your fingers were going, sir?!" 🚓

There's the Celtic magic, 👍! The instruments sound just right. And I like the reverb, it's like being in a room listening to real strings and harp.

So that song is written by Nancy Wilson of Heart? I've never heard of that one before.

Nice tune, Harpon, 👍! I can't help you with the tech. All I use is Android tabs and I record with a digital recorder with line input I bought for $40. I'm a po' boy, so everything is on the cheap with me.

I'd rather hear the harp, guitar version of this. Orchestral strings and celesta rob it of it's Celtic magic, at least to me.

I'd say it's worth pursuing, Mitch, 👍! It's interesting to hear that tune in a different way. Just one complaint: the audio would be better from the line out than from the speakers. What gives? Got the munchies and started to chew on your output cables? 😀 

Beautiful, 👍! You're really getting the max out of that Casio, Corneliu!

Great playing, Corneliu! The sound of that Casio couldn't be any more heavenly too! 👏👍!

Wow, 👏👏👏👏!!!! That's some beautiful playing, Corneliu! You have amazing talent!

Just Passing Time is some cool old-timey songwriting, Hugh (and Mrs.), 👍! What a scoundrel the dude in the song is! I'm assuming that was written before she met you, eh, Hugh?

And the mango ice cream tasted pretty good too!

YT desc:

Hey, Ruby’s back, kiddos! Yeay! Ain’t that nice?! Her and Zaphod are chillin’ on a Zreoan sunny day, just passing the time with some lazy cloud watchin’. Ruby tells Zaphod of her friend the Bodhi-bug. That’s right, dude is a bug, man! Faaar out! A 4 foot tall species of intelligent insect! Cool! He’s bodhi too. Whaz that you say? You’ve never heard of bodhisattvas? Well, now you’ve. So go ahead and Google it for more info. Every human on Earth now has instant access to the entire recorded knowledge of Man via their phones! Oldies like me had to look stuff up in instantly outdated encyclopedias back in the bad old days. And they didn’t fit in your pocket either. You should be learning at least one new fact every day. Do it! Knowledge is power! At 1:48 too bad the camera pans off Ruby while she’s enumerating the 25 steps to becoming a wholly enlightened being. Sorry about that. I’ll try to fill you in on those later. Heh heh.

Hey! What gives at 3:47?! Aw, man! It was all just a dream?! Oh, crap! I pulled one of those on ya, heh heh! That’s Ted the bleephole in SD’s nightmare. He kidnapped SD’s love, Ruby. Whoa, man, not cool! SD has been following the traces of Ted’s spaceship for months, but the nefarious evildoer is always one step ahead of him. Dang! Space nerts!! SD awakens in a deep dark pit. You ever been at the bottom of one of those? Yeah, we all been there. We all gonna be there again. And again. **sigh** And again, and again, and….. So easy to fall. So hard to climb back up to the top.

SD wonders if maybe this Bodhi-bug guy could help him find Ruby. His ships Frinkatron 9000 plots a course to the Bodhi-bug’s home, the planet Marama. The first 4 minutes is the Casio CT-390 from a ‘95 tape. At 6:08 it’s back to the ‘92 tape this story is based on. I now call that stuff the “Space Dude Theme.” At 7:03 the Yamaha PSR-190 joins the Casio with some stuff recorded in ‘98. At 9:05 I have some Extreme Trivia for you to play. Can you name the five spaceships that are docked at Marama Space Port and the one that floats upward? I doubt it. This trivia test has a hardness rating of 12 on the 15 point Schmallmakker scale of reference obscurity!

At 13 minutes, there he is, the Bodhi-bug! Pretty cute, eh? He’s part damselfly and part grasshopper. And he’s blue! He can fly, he can jump the length of a football field in one leap, he can give ya a pretty nasty bite, he can talk, he freely dispences nuggets o’ wisdom, and he loves Led Zeppelin! Coo-uhl! How do you like my reggae with accordian “B.B.’s Theme”? Man, I sure played some strange stuff over the years. When B.B. talks I want you to hear the voice of George Carlin or B.B. King in your mind. Maybe a combination of the two.

B.B. takes SD into the lotus dome, where your emotions are converted into music only you can hear. So, what do you hear in there? B.B. has learned how to project his thoughts from Mojo of ZBS stories. Look into the meditation pond and he’ll show you visions of the bleepholes. I’m further developing the “bleephole” characters found in the ZBS Ruby series. Bleephole being the polite term for a**holes. Who are the bleepholes? Everything that is wrong. Just start with Nazis and keep going. Racists, sexists, speciesists, every evil you can imagine, that’s them. They assume they’re superior to all other beings. They kill and destroy without batting an eye. They actually enjoy it. They revel in the spilling of blood! Empathy and caring are signs of weakness!! The weak shall be destroyed!!! Only the strong survive!!!! Tell me, you know people like that, don’t you? And it’s been so long too. Geez. But human cultural and mental evolution and improvement continues, right? My positivistic side says that things are pretty good right this minute and always Getting Better (it can’t get no worse). My pessimistic side howls with laughter at my positivistic side, slapping it’s knees in uncontrollable fits of disbelief, emitting hoots and hollers, “Wha ha ha! What a Pollyanna! What a rube!” Then my pessimistic side spits in the face of my positivistic side saying “you’re an idiot!” The battle continues.

They were once bleepholes themselves on the planet Marama. They went through all the same crap that all intelligent beings have to go through on their journey upward. The cave man years. The industrial development. Seeing every new invention as a new way to kill more and more people more and more efficiently. Eventually they outgrew evil. They matured. Some do. Some don’t. Marama and Velnias lie on opposite sides of the same galaxy. B.B. offers to help SD rescue Ruby. But how? Hmm. At 19:40 B.B. sings some Plant / Page Friends from the third Zep album. Zaphod and B.B. instantly bond over their mutual Zep appreciation. Zeppelin rules!!

Can they rescue Ruby? Is she even still...alive? Oh! Man, this is getting scary!

Keep your eyebulbs peeled for the hidden Red Dude in this episode. First spotter gets 1,000 points! (Points are non-transferable. Void where prohibited.)

Space Dude episode 6. Wherein Space Dude continues his search for Ruby. The Yamaha PSR-190 joins the CT-390 in this one for the closest I ever got to ambient style music, I suppose.

Alright, jazzed it up, eh? One of Paul McCartney's most beautiful melodies, not counting Helter Skelter, of course.

You certainly have what I would call magical talent, Hugh. You're playing just about transports me to Heaven! I feel something pulling me the other way, though, so I might not make it all the way. Heh heh.

Tell your wife I said hi, Hugh. C'mon, Hugh, no mushrooms! Make this one work!