i bought some 1shot clear coat for the hood of my car. it works okay on the black – it does cause it to bleed this interesting brownish red colour, but i can clean that up pretty quickly. on the other hand, when i apply the clear coat to the gold ink, it smears – [...]
Also tagged frustration, ganesha, ganesha the carfinally! i called maaco, and they said that it would cost around $200 to clear-coat the hood, depending on how the preparation goes. i told the guy that i would hesitate to spend that much on the car if there was something wrong with the engine, and my budget was around $100. he said that [...]
Also tagged aparajita, ganesha the car, picturesthe world needs more girl sousaphone players… my performances at Honk! Fest went off without a hitch, more or less. i got up at an ungodly hour (7:30) and made it to the first performance, at Casa Latina, by 9:00, where they didn’t know what was going on, and my ability to understand spanish is [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, honk fest, picturesi subscribe to a modified version of the spoon theory, and the past few weeks have definitely been ones in which i have pushed the limits of my spoons, traded one day’s spoons for another day, and that sort of thing. now that the moisture festival is over for another year, it is important that [...]
Also tagged ganesha the car, hybrid elephant, moisture festival, printing stuff, SACBO, web designconsidering the date today, i can’t tell whether the following products are a joke or not… at the same time, it would explain a lot about “popular” music these days… Turd Polisher Pro – a VST plugin for SFX Machine? MF-401 Auto De-tune – an actual hardware device for your studio, from Moog Music? makes [...]
Also tagged 0401, linksI’m the man in the dark sedan and I have come to take your hand I was sent down here to be sincere, truthful and steadfast I came to say that judgement day of man has come to pass I’m the man in the dark sedan and I have come to take your hand You [...]
Also tagged the residentsso the US copyright lobby is petitioning to put indonesia on the list of potential software pirates, because of the fact that its government supports open source software… if you don’t have your copy of linux and wordpress now, better get it soon, in case the US government decides that open source equals piracy. i [...]
Also tagged articles, corruption, hybrid elephant, i am a terrorist, intellectual property, linksi booted up my computer this morning and firefox told me it had an update for one of the addons, so i let it install, instead of starting firefox, it looks like it’s going to start, flashes a white screen for a moment and then crashes with no explanation. tried it a number of times [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, malfunctioning computersNew York City Musical Saw Festival – someone commented on my saw case picture and mentioned the NYC musical saw festival. i’m on the other end of the country, but if anything ever tempts me to go, this will definitely be something that i will be attending when i get there.
Also tagged bizarre, linksnow that the second weekend of performances are over, i can catch up on my real life… while the servers were down, i got a business card in the mail from Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC… yes, that kevin mitnick. in order to get this business card i had to send him, among other things, my [...]
Also tagged fez stuff, host services, philharmonic, pictures, playersthe first weekend of alad’din performances are behind me, and i now have a few days free until next week’s performances begin, which will most likely be filled with projects like finishing the insulation on the workshop, working on xmas gifts and other artistic projects, picking up my business cards, doing laundry, washing dishes, random [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bssb, philharmonicsnake suspenderz should do this…
Also tagged pictures, snake suspenderzlast night snake suspenderz played for the models at the gage academy of art’s 10th annual drawing jam. this was my second year at the drawing jam, but snake suspenderz has been there for five years, and “sketch” – our drummer – was an artist who wanted to “sit in” with the group at the [...]
Also tagged art, bssb, pictures, snake suspenderzSamuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. my ancestors from that time period were from the area around knob noster, missouri which is about 150 miles southwest of florida. whoopie… in spite of my desire to avoid the news in general, sometimes it slams you in the face [...]
Also tagged forwards into the past, i am a terrorist, links, spoonsafter the combined stresses of having my web server go down and the IPv6 fiasco on my local computer, i was feeling pretty wound up yesterday, but i’ve found that going to a gig with la banda gozona and playing some really difficult but energetic, challenging and fun music on my trombone (i’ve switched to [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, domes, spoonsi don’t understand my snake. he eats three medium adult mice about every six weeks or so, except that recently he’s been acting like he’s hungry (trying to find a way out of his enclosure, “hunting” behaviour, hissing and rattling his tail, that sort of thing), but when i put a mouse in his enclosure, [...]
Also tagged pe(s)ts, spoonsbut of course, it’s by beethoven, it’s for a trombone ensemble, and it’s in the public domain: Drei Equale für vier Posaunen.
Also taggedi got 21 CDs of mozart from somebody on freecycle. i’m in mozart heaven right now, and will be for a few days.
Also taggedi’ve accomplished about as much as is possible for me to do without help… and possibly a ladder. the insulation is left over from an igloo stage-prop that was a part of a movie that jeremy was a part of producing last year, before i went to burning man. he wrote a message to cirquechat [...]
Also tagged links, malfunctioning computers, ocf, philharmonic, pictures, the battle of the computer, workshopa long time ago i heard of this album by lou reed called “Metal Machine Music” which was supposedly so horribly offensive to the ears that the company had to quit making albums because so many people had returned them. of course, being who i am, i was tremendously interested in hearing this gawd-awful piece [...]
Also tagged bizarre, found objects, rantsfrom kiki the hood, human theremin, comes the question “but is it music?” to which i respond with the classic john cage quote “which is more musical: the sound of a truck driving past a gravel quarry or the sound of a truck driving past a music school?” only these guys did it with a [...]
Also tagged videosi met ukulele dick at the moisture festival the other day. his “real name”, acording to his schtick, is Banjo Penis. i traded him a copy of serpentine for a copy of his ukulele dick cd and a copy of his “Dick Dujour” cd, Music to Scare Children by. i’ve been listening to them on [...]
Also tagged as, brain injury, depression, hybrid elephant, malfunctioning computers, moisture festival, philharmonic, snake suspenderz, the battle of the computer, web designi played in the Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra in the benefit show for the New Old-Time Chautaqua this afternoon. it’s a mass conflagration of incestuous artistic talent with which i have been associated on the edges of for the past 30 years or so: i play with eben, bernice, clayton and liz [...]
Also tagged art, hybrid elephant, site design, theatre
