So… another acquaintance of mine has gone and declared themselves a DJ, apparently thinking that standing around twiddling knobs will make their non-DJing music career succeed where sitting on their ass twiddling their thumbs didn’t. Just one problem with that: wouldn’t getting off your ass and playing gigs and touring […]
Bitching and complaining
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Was chatting with a friend today about stocks and related the story of why I didn’t buy any Ruger stock in early 2012. Basically, because it had historically been a $15 stock and was then up to $30-ish after shooting up over maybe the previous six months in conjunction with […]
Names withheld to protect the clueless. From an email I sent to a friend of mine who I often cackle about this sort of industry bullshit with: Oh, how I hate this band based on the press release before I even hear them… let me count the ways…. Unpronounceable series […]
Dear fearmongering asshats at whatever hack local news program my father is currently watching: thank you for making a global internet security fuck-up [SSL heartbleed] seem like a deliberate something out to screw with my father’s tax return. [Nihilism, meet narcissism…] I think he expects me to deal with it […]
Requesting your own music on a radio show is the musical equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation: You’re the only one who gets off, and you’re gambling with your future prospects. Especially when the DJ knows it’s your band and you’re acting like it’s a regular request. “Well, I was thinking of […]
Let me show you a picture of a very magical item that I just picked up at Long & McQuade: OK, so that’s just a simple AC adapter and daisy chain for guitar effects pedals, so what? Well, less than an hour before an idiot at a music store in […]
World Goth Day is what happens when goth “culture” [such as it is] meets up with participation trophy culture. In other words, it’s a fucking abomination. Gawd. Are people that hard up for vindication and validation that they really need a pseudo-Hallmark day of recognition? [Mark my words, if there […]
So after sitting out a month due to a strained calf, today was the day to get out on my bike and go for a 20-30 minute ride around the park. Beautiful weather for it too. So I get up, haul my trunk-mounted bike rack out to my car and […]
Got a Facebook friend request from the creep I unfriended after he got me in a headlock and tried to make me kiss him. Which happened when discussing a potential video project I was going to do sound engineering for him on, ie: a fucking business discussion, not anything even […]
Alright, well, I did give the new MySpace a bit of a chance. Signed up, loaded up a bunch of songs [a major pain in the ass as most of it had to be uploaded 3 or 4 times as the tracks just didn’t show up, so right off the […]
Happy Bitch At Your Male Co-Workers Who Like Tosh.0 While Turning A Blind Eye To Real Women’s Issues Like Girls Getting Shot For Wanting To Go To School, Female Genital Mutilation, And Women Getting Acid Thrown In Their Faces If They Reject A Suitor Day! Barf. Equal means quit patting […]
So a week or so ago I had a cold, and as I was getting over it I saw a note from Rob @ Hipposonic about the last possible days to track at the old Mushroom being the end of March. I figured I’d be in good shape to do […]
So, my cousin from out of town and I headed to Sanctuary tonight, it’s their first night on Sundays instead of Saturdays since they’d changed over about 3 years ago, and their first night back at the Red Room where they’d been for ages as well. For the most part […]
Sitting at the door with a friend for someone else’s show tonight. Cover is $10, which is more than this venue usually charges but obviously it’s what the headliners felt was fair to demand. Bimbo and her friend walk up and ask me what the cover is. “Ten dollars.” “What?! […]