Shopping for a 6' one of these:

What music sounds...:

like.

New books ordered:

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Hardcover by Oliver Sacks
&
This Is Your Brain on Music Paperback by Daniel J. Levitin

Swedish Metal + Swedish Female Curling = awesome:

Learned an intriguing new word:

'Succubus' was written in a few-month-old Spin article about Maynard Keenan.

Re-amps; now I know:

I asked:
The sites talk about running from recording device (our macs) to the reamp, to gtr amps. Can I use one reamp to between mac and separate bass & gtr amps? It doesn’t seem so.

Additionally, these all advertise for optimal use w/ gtrs. Basses would be cool to use these reamps w/ as well?


I got answered:
You need one re-amp per device.

Their effect is most pronounced on basses, but when recording most people record they simply DI the bass and leave it as is. So sending the bass out to an amp is not high on the priority of most engineers. A guitar DI'd and not amped or re-amped sounds absolutely horrible.

Re-amping without the correct impedance matching (straight line) will make the bass low a lot of low end, and the high end will become anemic. It depends highly on the amp how bad it becomes, if it becomes bad at all.

Most awesome and appropriate video:

So much of this video is bodaciously awesome so here's the hilarious 'background' behind them:


According to the television show, Dethklok is a popular band and considered "The world's greatest cultural force." The band's actual rise to fame has yet to be explained. The show has provided little back-story about how they met or when the band formed. It is known the band had at least one album out since before the first episode, entitled simply, Dethklok. Another pre-Curse of Dethklok album featured the visage of one of Dethklok's ill-fated chefs shortly after he was dismembered in a freak pyrotechnics accident. In the series, the numeric value of the band's wealth is never actually stated, but the fact that they are referred to as the twelfth largest economy in the world, just above Belgium (which is indeed thirteenth in terms of GDP per capita), indicates that they must make somewhere on the order of several hundred billion dollars a year.
Dethklok's influence is so great in the show that the United Nations even allows them to act as their own police force, used to sadistically punish those foolish enough to pirate their songs. All the band members reside in a gigantic and lavish mansion called Mordhaus, in a fictional, unspecified region known as Mordland (although Dethklok's official Myspace page lists their residence as "Mordhaus, United States"). Their traveling arrangements are equally lavish; usually making use of their immense tour bus (complete with a jacuzzi and upstairs fireplace), "Murdercycle" (a motorcycle with four sidecars), but most predominantly the hatredcopter (a gargantuan, multi-leveled helicopter that is well over 130ft tall and 350ft long).[citation needed] The Hatredcopter is so large, in fact, that it is capable of transporting Dethklok's entire stage rig, including their roadies, the band, and even the entire fully assembled stage itself to even the most remote locations on the planet.
All the members of Dethklok act somewhat sociopathic; if they are not directly responsible for the violence and mayhem that surrounds them, they are at least indifferent to it (with rare exceptions, such as their horrified reaction to seeing skin ripped off of living humans to make clothing in "Dethfashion," or Toki's reaction to Juliette Sarmansadandle's death in "Dethkids"). The band mates do appear to care about one another in the show, but have difficulty expressing their feelings, even when intoxicated. Although they vary in their levels of drug and alcohol consumption, they are all fond of drinking to excess. Dethklok readily admits that they despise their fans, whom Nathan refers to as "regular jack-offs."[4]
Another ongoing feature of the series is that the band members are incompetent at everything not related to sex, drugs, heavy metal, and negotiating their contracts, and at various points, they are ignorant of obvious things, like shopping for groceries and cooking, in episode one, "Curse of Dethklok" the chef is cut to pieces by helicopter blades; or the most basic aspects of feeding children, as in episode ten, "Fatklok". Often, one member of the band will be unaware of a bit of common knowledge while another is not, prompting arguments or explanations. As a group, they also come up with ideas that are clearly quite asinine, harmful or even fatal, yet do not recognize this fact. One example is in their "time travel face bag" which is simply a plastic bag worn over the head that allows a person to travel through time at the speed of regular time: in essence, just a plastic bag.[5] Musically, all of the members of Dethklok are extremely competent, with Skwisgaar labeled as "the fastest guitarist in the world" and Toki as the second fastest, and, although the bass line is mixed out of almost every metal song that Dethklok plays, Murderface is shown to be adept at playing bass guitar, even with his penis. Both Nathan and Pickles seem to have very specific knowledge about other bands, as displayed in episode 13,"Go Forth and Die".[6]
Together, the show portrays that the band seems to have control of otherworldly or supernatural powers through their music. The Tribunal has loosely predicted that they were an unstoppable prophecy that would cause doom. When anyone wants to help them, those who annoy Dethklok are almost always killed or mutilated. When playing music, they have displayed the ability to summon everything from sea creatures (with the help of a leaking nuclear reactor on their sub), to tornadoes, to the giant Finnish lake troll Mustakrakish.[7][8][5]

Consumer Vigilantes:

This article tells you how to DAMN THE MAN!

I have a great story about recently ridding myself of Bally Total F@#%ing Fitness. I'm proud of this story. I need to wait some units of time before I make 'er public though.

I also got out of Sprint a few years ago...another horrible company.

In this day in age - with technology where it's at, customer service is the key to customer loyalty. I, BTW, got a birthday card from SWA, no joke.

Enjoy the read, I sure did. (Thanks to Corey for this article).

New car

Screw that purple people eater below. I gots a real deal Geo Metro.



There is nitrous oxide in it! The interior is completely torn out. A roll cage is welded in. No back seats. No radio. No air conditioning. I love this car.