For this project, I was originally going to circuit bend another pedal, and make something fantastic with that, but I ended up making this pedal, which I had constructed, not only cease working normally, but also not circuit bend. So, rather than start at square one and rebuild the whole pedal and have another go at it, I decided I would instead construct usable microphones from telephones. I warmed up by creating another 1/4" connecting, completely passive telephone. No big deal, something I had done before that had a little use but not as much as I'd wanted. Then I made another, the XLR telephone. When this one is phantom powered, it gets hot and dirty quite quickly. It was mostly a matter of taking apart the telephone and rewiring the insides to a new sort of connector.

But I realized that I needed to do more for my project than to just bring in the phones and say, "If you hook them up, they work, I swear."

So I spent the evening sitting on the idea, and seeing what would come up. I had an entire night full of awful ideas, boring, terrible. Then I started to piece together Shark Fight 2009 from an idea I had recently had, and it just sort of took off. I wrote the script in all caps and recorded the entirety of it with the XLR telephone several times over. After I cut together the appropriate voiceover, I dropped in a song I had recently recorded, and we had ourselves a monster truck rally style commerical for a fictional new sport I had dreamt up.