May 2011
42 posts
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recordloungelocal:
Support Elliot Street Lunatic’s sophomore release! The boys are in California recording it right now, and this is your last chance to pre-order a copy, get your name in the liner notes, and possibly get free shows for a year or even a private show at your house! They were really modest when setting the goal for their Kickstarter (believe me, it takes a lot more than that to...
As irritating as I find your run of the mill ignorant Christian fundamentalists, I think my single least favorite conversation to overhear is between former Christians who’ve had their world view “expanded” by the brief, perfunctory google search of other religions/mysticism/occult viewpoints. I know this might seem callous and stupid to feel given the people who are utterly...
HOLY SHIT I'M ON THIS WEEKS EPISODE OF JORDAN...
Holy shit. This is awesome. I called in with crazy (allegedly true) stories about my mom, and they played it.
So good. Go listen to it: www.maximumfun.org
“Does Pitchfork have a music column that discusses sexuality, sexual identity or...”
– (via modernandmaterialthings)
Hah. Love this.
Doctor Who Sick Dreams
Getting sick. Whole body aches and I’m burning up.
Tried to sleep but was difficult. I dreamed I was dispensing (i.e. giving the finished glasses to the customer and closing out the order in the store POS) eyeglasses aboard the TARDIS. All my orders kept getting mixed up because of the difficulty of keeping track of at what point in the timeline people had ordered them. I kept creating...
Literally not ONE person I work with has heard of the Arcade Fire. You know, that group that won ALBUM OF THE YEAR. THIS YEAR. 2011.
I… I guess I’m a hipster. Might as well just accept my fate. Sigh.
coppolacabana asked: You are on a reblogging spree.
Just canceled the Match by Match sonicbids account. In the box that asks, “Anything we can do to keep you?” I listed, “Be relevant.”
I feel so fucking stupid even having signed up in the first place.
“As of November 17, 2008, the official spelling of Ingle’s alias became...”
– whofuckingcares
Super dead at work today. Maybe that rapture thing really did happen?
Goofuses Through the Ages: A History of the Banjo
So, in addition to my new banjo (courtesy of my dad), I got a copy of “Earl Scruggs and the Five-String Banjo.”
In addition to providing playing tips and chords, it also has a short history of the banjo. It’s pretty informative, but I’d like to take this time to highlight a few of the pioneers of this noble, majestic instrument.
Let’s start with Earl Scruggs...
I GOT A BANJO!
See above. It’s neat.
“Syrupy” doesn’t even look like a word. It looks like a race in Star...”
“Someone’s coming to reward us, you wait and see,
Or crush us both like...”
– The Mountain Goats
Got to work early so I’ve been sitting in Starbucks. It’s actually rather nice to be alone, with no particular place to be, in a place that feels unclaimed by you or your anxieties. I cherish these moments of clarity.
Been feeling off-kilter recently. Maybe the birthday hit me harder than I expected it to. Either way, I’ve been feeling down about the relationships in my life...
An open query to music types (help!!) →
So check this out. This is the catalinbread Perseus sub-octave fuzz pedal. I have not played it, but the videos of it I’ve watched make it seem like the most gnarly thing I’ve ever seen.
Now, the truth is, I’ve played entirely acoustic for the last year or so, and I miss rocking out. I’d never say I was a really great guitar player (I stuck mostly to fuzzed out chords)...
matchbymatch:
Here’s a little Mother’s Day treat...
Happy mothers day...
To my mother, who is the light who guides me, even when the shore is so very far away.
All my geekiness pats off in the most satisfying way possible when I hear all the meathead bros utterly befuddled at the post-credits Easter egg of Thor (which was pretty great) and I know, with almost 100% certainty, what it is and why this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL.
Ahhhh, I love being a geek.
“Looking the gift-horse of life straight in the mouth.”
– Gray
Bill Nye Booed In Texas For Saying The Moon... →
agentmlovestacos:
Wait…what? AAARRRRGH.
via @templesmith:
Sigh.
rotegarde:
Bill Nye, the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun. As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the...
“A woman should not use these images [emoticons] when speaking to a man who is...”
– Multaqa Ahl al Hadeeth
Booking is going swimmingly for our tour in August, things are constructing themselves nicely. It’ll be rather exciting to go on a proper tour as a proper band, by then, CDs will be pressed, t-shirts ordered, and we may very well even bring a certain puppy.
We are living in exciting times, people. Tomorrow we go into the studio, continue tracking, maybe even deliver some more samples for...
It occurs to me that a few people started following me in the wake of my response to the WBC being imprisoned (albeit briefly) before the funeral of a soldier us some Missouri town, the name of which I can’t recall at this time.
Its worth making mention of the fact I am rarely that insightful and passionate. More often than not, I dwell on my personal angst, my thoughts about comic books...
Happy birthday to me. 26 years old. This year is going to be the one.
“I see a bumper sticker
it’s a bearded man with a wanted sign
a myth...”
– Kevin Devine, “A Noose Dressed Like a Necklace.” Still preferred take on it.
