Archives: 2006 December

  • so every year just about this time I celebrate with a rhyme

    December 27th, 2006

    last year: Crunksmas
    this year: Thizzmas
    next year: ???

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  • the best part of the holidays is trying to explain to your relatives what noise music is

    December 27th, 2006

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    Season’s Greetings from the Schabergs

    This year I was so nice that Father Christmas brought me a cute lil mixer. So far I’ve figured out how to make a put a sound in and make it come out, and how to put a sound in then come out then go back in then come out again. The cool thing about noise and experimental music is that figuring out how to make it is half the process, it’s not like rock music where you know basically what to do and how to do it, you actually have to experiment and put together your own set-up. I also got a microphone and a flanger pedal, so hopefully by this time next month I’ll be the world’s preeminent noise musician.

    cute little holiday / slice of life annecdote: At Christmas Eve dinner I said I wanted a mixer for Christmas and one relative thought I meant a cooking mixer and another thought I meant like something you mix with liquor, and I was like no, an audio mixer. I hope you had a chuckle at this annecdote.

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  • kkkomics for xxxmas

    December 23rd, 2006

    hhhhey

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    ps check out PictureBox Inc if you like big psychedelic pictures that make you wish you were extroverted enough to make friends so maybe some of those friends would know where to get some cool drugs, then you could take the drugs and look at the pictures. One of the Black Dice dudes has an art book called Gore and one of the Lightning Bolt Brians has a book called Ninja, I’ve got some and they’re all very pretty and top quality. Amazon stocks them, too.

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  • “herbal jazz cigarette”

    December 22nd, 2006

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    I bought and assembled a kit for a guitar pedal a few weeks ago. A site called General Guitar Gadgets offers a complete kit for a Shin Ei Companion replica, which I think the guy in the Jesus and Mary Chain used. Since I’m the world’s best electrician, I figured I’d buy the kit and toss it together and be making tons of sweet fuzz in no time. It comes with a little circuit board that you sprinkle with resistors and capacitors, which I sort of taught myself to solder by the time I was half way through. I probably should have picked an easier project to start out with - I mean, look at this thing:

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    As it neared completion, I decided that it wasn’t going to work anyway, and when it didn’t work I wouldn’t be able to troubleshoot it or fix it, so I just shoved everything inside and made no attempt to keep it neat. As it turns out, it does work! It’s not quite what I expected, and it’s kind of soft, but it does miraculous convert smooth to prickly. I didn’t really know how to secure the knobs, but I can’t imagine a scenario where you would want some fuzz but not as much as is possible fuzz so I leave it cranked up. The LED doesn’t work, either, but I’m pretty impressed with myself that I actually managed to construct the thing.

    A while ago I posted pictures of my cats, and if you’ve been wondering if I’ve since been consumed by a gnawing guilt for leaving out my poor dog, Sherman, the answer is yes, I have. Today, this injustice will be corrected.

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    Speaking of dogs, I found these great dogg comix online somewhere but have no idea who or where they’re from. If anyone knows anything about them or has more, let me know. (1) (2.1) (2.2)

    Speaking of comics, I stubled upon From Here to Insanity tonight, check it out if you like comics.

    Finally, is there a better album that This Heat’s self-titled? No.

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    Thanks for visiting my blog.

    love, Steve

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  • blog idea #114

    December 19th, 2006

    I was in line at the grocery store today and the guy in front of me’s phone went off and his ringtone was the beginning of “Crazy Train,” you know, “All aboard, ha ha ha…” He answered it before the guitar started, so I don’t know if the ringtone had the music part or if it was just Ozzy yelling. When I whipped out my Blogging Idea Notebook to jot down the details, it occurred to me that this was the most exciting thing to happen to me in quite some time.

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  • another good idea

    December 7th, 2006

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  • so I got this parasite

    December 6th, 2006

    This morning, as I was waking up from pleasantly escapist dreams, I discovered that my tongue had been changed into a cute little bug. Reading up a little, I figured out that something like the Cymothoa exigua had latched onto an artery in my tongue then slowly nibbled away at it as I slept until it had completely taken the place of my precious tongue. My mouth looks kind of like this now:

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    At first it seemed like a major hassle - I mean, a parasite had eaten my tongue, attatched itself to one of my major arteries, and was now living in my mouth. I think I was just stressed out, though. After all, I could still speak perfectly well (I seem to be fluent in Spanish and a couple fish-type languages now), and you kinda get used to how horribly disgusting looking the thing is. Besides, he looks like he’s pretty laid back, he wanted Corn Pops for breakfast but I was like no dude we’re having Smacks and he totally backed off like it wasn’t a thing at all even thought I could tell it sort of was. Then tonight we were on a double date, and we both thought we were on a date with the same girl, and while we ended up embarassing ourselves trying to win the girl over, I think my tongue parasite and I really bonded. After that we played with this webpage for like an hour then went to bed. Life with a parasite is going to take some getting used to, but at least I don’t have to go through it alone.

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  • a good idea

    December 4th, 2006

    I had a good idea yesterday: a waffle iron with letters in the squares, and you can switch the letters around like movable type in a printing press, so you can write things on your waffles.

    After seeing that Emeril has a waffle iron that engraves BAM! into your batter, I started thinking that other, possibly clever or funny things could be written on a waffle - note that I wasn’t able to actually come up with any - but surely there are tons. Any single such word or phrase would lose its novelty pretty quickly, though, and it’s likely that for each particular situation there would be a unique funniest waffle best suited for it, so you’d need a way to change templates. Obviously the answer was a waffle iron with interchangeable letter squares so you can write whatever you want, make some waffles, then switch it up.

    I think this is a pretty good idea, so if you steal it and get rich, let me know.

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