Archives: 2007 October

Archives: 2007 October

a noncomprehensive list of stores on my street* whose names end in ‘plus’

October 30th, 2007

Dollar Value Plus

Arizona Dollar Plus

92 Cents Plus

Corky’s Discount Item +

Insurance Plus

Mega Dollar Day Plus

Mo Rugs Plus (closed???)

Express Dollar Plus

yeah my neighborhood rules

*N Clark St between 7200N and 6400N (here)

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dude look at this mp3 bro

October 28th, 2007

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/100907-good_evening.mp3

It sounds pretty good, I think, and it goes through a bunch of different things.

The noise at the beginning is a mic running into the rng from the previous post, actually it’s the way it sounded before I soldered it, because while I haven’t really tested it a whole lot since I put it together for real, it definitely doesn’t work right. I really need to figure out what I messed up, because it sounded amazing in the breadboard. [Ed: ok maybe that first sound is something else / in addition to the rng, I forget... it's definitely in there somewhere, though]

If you look at the date you’ll notice it’s a few weeks old, but I just cut it out and encoded it and put it online, so it’s new to you. We’ve got a bunch of meandering recordings, sometimes it’s hard to pick out a discrete section, but this one is cool, give it a whirl.

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electronic surgical words

October 23rd, 2007

Much like cutting your hair, soldering is best done impulsively and late at night. About two months ago I breadboarded a ‘random number generator’ and meant to solder it but instead just kept using it in its BBed state, with no volume knob or bypass, and having to run upstairs to check the schematic every time I knocked something out. Kind of inconvenient, and definitely not portable. Part of the reason I was so reluctant to move it over is that it sounded so good the way it was, I was afraid I’d mess something up and lose that sound. Switching a circuit from a breadboard to prototype board is a lot like transporting an intricate and delicate sculpture between museum wings, and also you’re worried about your soldering iron frying the more sensitive sculpture pieces.

I did it, though:

Lots of stuff on there, eh? Due to a lack of foresight, I kind of crammed it on one side of the board, but it all fit so whatever. Four transistors, cascading into one another, shooting out bursts of lightning or whatever it is transistors do.

Here it is in the gutted corpse of one of my old pedals that I didn’t like; having a prebuilt shell with hardware installed sure made it easy.

The rng is kind of like that wasp that lays its eggs in a still living cockroach and take control of its nervous system so it just sits in its burrow while the wasp’s larvae devour its internal organs. Basically like that.

Here’s the outside:

Damn, that lil nigga looks so slick. It works, too! There’s a starve pot and a feedback switch that took me a nervewracking minute to disable before I determined that it functions the same as before, thank heavens. I love this thing.

Successfully finishing a pedal is like giving birth to an angry retarded baby that can only spit out harsh fuzz monosyllables and will never lead a normal life because you purposely raised him to be crazy and disfunctional. Wait make that last similie a metaphor - it is that.

PEACE OUT~~

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hmm

October 21st, 2007

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u_u

October 20th, 2007

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I drank a phial of concentrated irony

October 16th, 2007

It tasted like strawberries but it didn’t really do anything. I guess I didn’t really expect it to, to do anything I mean, the strawberry taste I would not have predicted, I guess maybe that’s the ironic part.

Later I obtained a Tome of Sarcasm, but it turns out sarcasm doesn’t translate well into printed text, and also it was written in Elven or High Atlantean or some bullshit, and also it was kind of really thick so I just flipped through looking for pictures then carried it around for a while trying to impress any girls with glasses that I saw, but I didn’t see any.

I bought some enchanted Aviators of Ironic Detatchment, but the first time I put them on, my nose fell off, so now I can’t wear them. Man, I really didn’t see that coming.

After that I sold my hair in order to pay an archmage to cast Blaag’s Black Tongue of Acidic Satire on me, but it turns out no one wanted to buy my hair.

By the way, if you know anyone that wants to buy a bag of hair, let me know, because I have this bag of hair and I need some money.

Anyway, I was kind of desperate by that point, so I snuck into the lair of a troll king and swiped his Cloak of Irony but I suppose I should have read the tag more closely because it turned out it was really a Cloak of Dramatic Irony, so I ended up only being able to speak in asides, I was just walking around mumbling to myself and no one else knew what was going on.

Finally my evil necromancer rival who destroyed my village and killed my parents and whatever was going to summon the mighty Tarrasque for some reason and I was about to confront him at the top of the tallest spire of the Temple of the Seven Winds and my grandfather appeared to me in a spirit vision and told me true irony comes from within, and I exclaimed, “but my shirt is still wrinkled!” and everyone groaned and Prof. Oak slapped me with a dictionary and suddenly I realized my rival and I were actually the same person the whole time, and also it was all a dream.

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comics and a song

October 10th, 2007

http://brokenpants.com/comics/

I scanned some new comics…

Also, I just remembered that at one point I said I was going to start posting mp3s, so here’s a twee pop 7″ from 1993. There’s a lot of vinyl noise I guess, but whatever, it’s twee pop, and for the record that spinning up sound at the beginning is like that on the record. The song rules, incidentally, and I don’t know anything about it or Desk other than that.

Desk - “Astronauts” - Astronauts 7″ - Slow River Records, 1993

download it

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so wassapp man coolin man chillin chillin yo you know why I had to call you know why right why because yo I never ever call and ask you to play somethin right yeah you know what I wanna hear right whatchu wanna hear I wanna hear that Blood Waterfall joint Blood Waterfall again ah yeah again and again

October 9th, 2007

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/100407-ray.mp3

it’s all good but if you’re in a hurry there’re REAL good parts at like 3:05 and 11:18 or maybe those are just codes to BW operatives living in sleeper cells in other countries and by even reading this post you’re in way over your head… listen to Ray and think about whether you want to take that chance

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whatever I do it’s right

October 4th, 2007

ok so I’m starting this post with the intention of it being a long post, so bear with me it might be a long post, but to keep things clear the thesis of the first part of the post is that HEALTH FUCKING ROCKS

Yesterday, I was recording Yea Big and Kid Static for Airplay - they are also amazing, incidentally - and when they were hyping their upcoming show, they mentioned a band called Health, which triggered something in my memory because I guess I downloaded their album a while ago, and anyway this whole chain of events led me to Reggie’s Live tonight.

The website said the show started at 8, so I got there at 8:45… and was the first person there! and the only person there until 9! and the first band didn’t go on until 9:45! But anyway I am kind of used to being early/alone (to shows I mean in life I am generally late/alone) and the story is not about me, nor is it about the first band who did boring dance-punk/synth-pop and fucking sucked and if that wasn’t their first show ever then I hope it’s their last ahahaha BOOYA. Ok, they weren’t that bad but they were fricking bush league and I thought up that line and didn’t want to waste it.

Yea Big and Kid Static were up next and totally slew, it was much better to see them when I am not the sole audience member, the amount of enthusiasm I can show is woefully inadequate. The penultimate act was Crime Novels, a fun burst of noisy-hardcorey-shouting into a telephone and running into the crowd. I approve.

The three tiny LA-hip dudes who I assumed were HEALTH were, plus some long-haired, bearded metal dude on drums who started things off by beating the crap out of the drums for a warm-up vocal chant. Each non-drummer had a guitar (two guitars and one bass guitar) and a little briefcase of pedals, and it was cool when they started off playing some jagged guitar stuff, but the best moment of the whole night was when they all simultaneously threw off the guitars, dropped to their pedal cases, and turned their effected mics on, pointing them at amps and screaming and everything exploded in ring modulated feedback. The whole set ruled, the drummer kept hittin those drums real hard, in complex rhythms that are hard to headbang to (those are the best kind), while the rest of the guys made all sorts of noise. Overall it was amazing, they totally blew me away.

On an unrelated note, on the way home I stopped to buy some pop, and this is the receipt that came with my 24 pack of Diet Coke:

According to my fly new stapler, which is the closest thing I have to a ruler in my room, the receipt is about 10.5″ x 3″, like a third of a sheet of letter paper. It just seems like kind of a ridiculous amount of paperwork for a single item, that’s all.

who wants to go to this:
http://www.chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8590
I just saw the lineup and am seriously considering a trip to the great city of Detroit…

I left out some stuff I was going to write, so this post’s not that long, and to tell the truth I didn’t even finish last night, it’s actually tonight now, and I wrote everything that happened last night as if it had happened tonight, but it didn’t, tonight did.

ta ta for now

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