http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

i'm sure people are going to come out of the woodwork and say "i declare today as the birth of anti-hipster self-aware counterculture" but the truth is, it is it's own anti-self counterculture. and poop.

I passed a man on a path. I was in a hurry, and in communication with those i was to meet with (at the very least) a microphone held in my left hand and sometimes tucked away. The man who walked along the path seemed magnanimous but oblivious; eyes forced squinty from age ( Read more... )

Here's a link to a cool graph of my music listening habits of the past, I dunno, whatever - according to last.fm. I made the graph by going to this site.

SO I HAVEN'T POSTED IN A BIT! Here's where I list the reasons:

• my mac died, and i don't really like to 'chill' on a non-mac
  
• one of my studio monitors (speakers) died...another nail in the ( Read more... )

I'm totally giving up on this goddamned pedal. I'm going to go on to the next one and never using this (cramped, tightly-packed, not meant to be troubleshooted) style of building pedals again.

I'll look at the pedal once again in 7 days, and if I can't get it to work then, it gets thrown away. There goes a good $100 in parts. Arrr.

Ok, so...here's what I've been working on. I've been working on my second pedal ever - a huge departure from my first one. This is a hybrid digital/analog delay commissioned by my friend Big John. It took me so long to get organized enough to make it, I made numerous hypothetical upgrades to the schematic, so now it's a pingpong delay ( Read more... )

sometimes i'd like to listen to some of my favorite music when i read a good book. i'm sure people do this all the time. but the problem is, if i really like the book, it's in the forefront of my mind, of course. i'm trying to absorb the words and think abstractly about their meaning. however, that part of my brain is also devouring the music ( Read more... )

There is a tin here; eat it? [ynq] (n)
It is not so easy to open this tin.
You succeed in opening the tin.
It contains spinach.
Eat it? [yn] y
This makes you feel like Popeye!
You choke over your food.
You die...


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new car


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usually when i get up early in the morning, good stuff happens. let's hope tomorrow is the very same way!