Emma Watson showing off her guns and hot belly.
I watched Clash of the Titans (2010) last night and thought it was ok.. The best thing in the movie was that hot tomato Gemma Arterton. The guy playing the lead looked like some college frat guy. He's the only one in the movie with a shaved head. Everyone else has long hair and beards. They should have gotten someone else to play the part. Special effects were too over the top and detracted from the story. Instead of watching this turn, watch the 1981 classic Clash of the Titans with Harry Hamlin. Such a great flick.
Star Wars Lego diorama.
I'm Just a Cat and I'm Doing Cat Stuff...Whut!!! (Music Video)
I thought of something I need for dog: a ramp for the outside deck stairs and one for the car too? I'm thinking something like this for the deck. I'm not sure about the car. He gets up and down stairs ok but I think it would be so much easier on his body if he had a comfortable ramp to walk up and down. He has really short legs and if he's tired you can tell he really hates mustering up the concentration needed to jump down three consecutive stairs that also happen to be pretty steep.
Personal FYI: David Gilmour's delay settings.
PARALLEL MIXED DELAYS IN THE MK II BOARD - The delay system inside and outside the Mk II board is very interesting. People always wonder how David gets his smooth delay sounds. David often uses two delays. Stacking one delay after another in your signal chain can degrade your tone because your original signal travels through, and is altered by, two delay circuits before coming out the other end. Also, two delays in line, while useful for some double tap delay effects, means that one delay creates repeats that are then repeated again by a second delay, which can create a messy delay sound. David's setup in the Mk II board is very different.
Inside the board is a two mode delay. The first mode is a Boss DD-2 digital delay, with controls located in the Delay 1 section. Controls are identical to the old Boss DD-2/DD-3 delay. L/M/S (shown in the board diagram above) represent long, medium, and short delay time modes. David has tick marks for only long and short positions. DTM is delay time. F/BK is feedback, or the number of echo repeats. Knob settings shown above correspond to a Boss DD-2 set at approximately 440ms delay with feedback/echo repeats set at 80%. The red knob marked DLY in the Delay Masters section is a mix knob for the DD-2.
The second mode of the delay circuit is the T.E.S. This is meant to simulate the warm, limited bandwidth sound of an old analog tape echo delay by rolling off the high frequencies gradually wth each echo repeat. The on/off switch for the TES circuit switch is labeled B/W on the board, for bandwidth, and the B/W knob in the Delay Master section is to control the amount of roll off the TES applies to the DD-2 echo repeats. The blue MXR knob is a mix knob for the external MXR digital delay.
There are foot switches to turn the delay on (Delay 1), switch to the T.E.S. circuit (B/W), and switch on the external MXR digital delay (MXR). To maintain the best possible signal quality, these delays are mixed parallel with the original signal. This keeps the original dry signal from being altered when running through the delay circuits by splitting off a separate signal to the delays, while the original signal is allowed to run though the other effects on the board, then mixing the delayed signals back with the original dry signal at the end of the signal chain before it hits the amplifier. The signal splits three ways - a dry signal, a DD-2/TES signal set for 100% echo repeats only (meaning no dry signal, only the repeats), and an MXR signal set to 100% echo repeats only. These are then mixed together inside the board with the red and blue mix control knobs you see in the Delay Masters section. By having the two delays in separate signal chains, one delay does not repeat the other. This allows David to get the benefits of two delays, each with different delay times, creating a huge delay sound without very noticeable echo repeats. At times it has the feel of reverb, but without the negative tone altering affect reverb causes. The unique characteristics of each delay remain intact, and are nicely blended together with the pristine dry signal before they hit the amplifier.
So after driving myself crazy over the past few years trying to learn about guitar modeling and recording through my computer I finally decided to buy myself a Line 6 UX1. This units main purpose is to act as a link between the guitar and the PC. Once the guitar is connected to the computer it is pretty easy to access software packages that emulate a ton of different guitar sounds. This is where the fun begins. Right now I'm testing out three different guitar software programs: Pod Farm (included with the UX1), Amplitube 3 and Guitar Rig 4. I think I'm gravitating more towards Amplitube 3 mostly because of the way it's laid out and the huge amount of custom presets included in the software. I've never been more excited about playing guitar. Sidenote: the thing that makes me mad is that people have been using this stuff for years and I'm just now getting into it.
Mississippi River flooding leads to some very clever dam building.
Air Jordan's for sale. Funny I've kept the receipts for some of these. I'm not sure it's a selling point but it never hurts to prove authenticity.
A fat black woman talking loud and being belligerent? Uggh! They should've thrown her off the train while it was still moving. Why do some people have to be so fucking annoying in public? There's this little thing called common courtesy and I've talked about it until I'm blue in the face but what it comes down to is you not being an asshole, controlling your speaking volume and occasionally just shutting the fuck up. Going to a movie? How about sitting there quietly and watching the movie? You're not at home. There are other people there too. Just sit quietly and stuff your fat faces with popcorn.
When it rains it pours. I just finished getting a new heat pump for the house and now the refrigerator has died. Sheesh, what's next? The frickin' roof collapses? *Roof please don't collapse. Step one, I suppose, is to get a repairman over to fix it. He'll probably tell me the compressor is bad or it's on its last leg. The following choice will be presented: pay for costly repairs or get a new fridge altogether. Note to self, take milk to work in the morning.
A guy on Ebay is asking $1,900 for his Korina Santana. I'm going to sell mine too but my price will be significantly lower. I'm thinking around $1,500. Hell, that's all I have in it so why get greedy. No one is going to buy that guy's guitar (I'm keeping my eye on it just in case).
I'm not sure why I keep dumping all this money into analog guitar stuff when I should be going digital. I think it's an age thing.
I told myself I'm not going to buy any more Air Jordans, even though this new release is frickin' sweeeet. I could have gotten a pair early Sat. morning in my size but when I checked again that afternoon they had already sold out. I'm actually going to spend this afternoon getting my old AJ's together and preparing them to sell on Ebay. This weekend has been all about cleaning out the closets. I've thrown a ton of old shit away (clothes, outdated tech, toys) and anything I'm not using that has some value will go on Ebay. Pictured above are my Air Jordans for sale. 23 pair. Go figure. I feel like I should be on Hoarders.
*Pink Floyd's major re-release campaign. Sounds a lot like what the Beatles did a few years ago. I'm sure a Zeppelin announcement can't be too far behind. Fuck it, I'll buy 'em.
I feel like I need this: R2-D2 trashcan. $99? That's an expensive trashcan.
I'm in a J. Geils Band kind of mood today.
Kelly Brook is on this month's cover of Esquire Magazine....workin' it. These photos were taken before she got knocked up by some soccer fag. She's currently in hiding being all fat until the baby comes.
Guitar --> TU-2 Tuner --> Keeley Compressor --> Screw Driver --> OD9 Pro+ Overdrive Pro --> Fire Red Fuzz --> Pig Mine --> Orbit --> Clone Chorus --> EVH Phase90 --> El Capistan --> Deep Blue Delay --> Amp ....*Fairly accurate representation of my current pedalboard thanks to pedalboardplanner.com.
Here are some pedals I've acquired over the past few weeks through trading over at TGP. Some good deals and some not so good. I guess it all evens out. The third pedal from the left (lunar module) I had to order direct from the manufacturer with a build time of two to three months. When I put down my deposit I jokingly asked about a custom graphic thinking I wouldn't get a response. When they emailed me a deposit received it included a note that said, "what did you have in mind?". Kewl.
EVH Custom Guitar. That guitar is sick. Unfortunately, I'm priced out of the market at four grand.
New amp day!!! Woohoo!!! Lil' Elvis head on top of a Port City 1x12 cabinet. Pretty cool. I bet that sucker is going to be loud.
Great start to this week after hearing the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan by US special forces. I like to think it went down a lot like the end of Scarface. I love that they used the Navy Seals instead of just dropping a bomb (the easy way out). Bombs are messy, in-discriminant and often leaves you in more political trouble than it's worth. Great job team USA. Bonus: The cost of Bin Laden. Well, he always said that one of his goals was to bleed the US of its treasure...+1 Bin Laden. <--that article was written in 2004. I would guesstimate that seven years later and given the current state of the US economy, he has accomplished his goal.
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