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El Grinder

10-17-2002, 04:05 PM

an all naked chick...

sitting on top of really expensive rack gear...

I once saw an episode of that show Silk Stockings where a guy and a girl got funky in a studio right above a rack with an Eventide H3000 in it. It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen on TV.

tuvokzeta9

10-17-2002, 05:18 PM

...almost as cool as Jody Foster walking up to a DSP 4000 and spinning the knob, revealing the alien message in the movie Contact! Too cool.

El Grinder

10-17-2002, 11:44 PM

I fell asleep during Contact. My freshman year of college I did a lot of drinking, staying up late, then doing the involuntary crash out thing. I remember that I was in my neighbor's dorm room, waiting for a group of frends to go out to go eat. I was watching Contact and just zonked the hell out.

If I knew there was an Eventide in it, it might've held my interest. Did I mention that the ending is SO much cooler when you're zoning in and out of sleep? Then you can dream that the ending is actually good!

tuvokzeta9

10-18-2002, 12:55 AM

Contact is a Java or a Double Espresso movie. It was a definite departure from the Hollywood formula, thats fur shur!

tuvokzeta9

10-23-2002, 07:11 PM

Bumpin fo da cause! This thread must live.

El Grinder

10-23-2002, 09:45 PM

http://pub26.ezboard.com/favalancheincboardfrm3.showMessage?topicID=281.top ic

there's a thread on some movies (just happened to still be on the clipboard)...

screw regular java, gimme a mocha coconut frappacinno. Only place I've had that wonderful drink of the gods was at a Starbucks on Maui...

tuvokzeta9

10-24-2002, 07:38 PM

This is what I do if I were in Maui. I'd get a triple mocha frappicahino after I smoked a tiny hit or two of kind bud with some local Hawaiian Tropics Babes. Then I'd break out the telescope and check out some astronomicals. Maybe try to dial in Saturn or Jupiter. Thats pretty easy. Maybe graduate to some of the Messier objects like local clusters M80 or M81. If I wasn't too stoned or jittery from the Starbucks I'd up the ante and try to dial in a galaxy or a nebula. I'd try for M33 Andromeda or the Orion Nebula. I've seen both and they are spectacular! :D

El Grinder

10-24-2002, 08:12 PM

Just make sure you get to Haleakala by sunrise to adore the most beautiful sunrise in the world. Besides, maybe the NASA observatory up there would let ya take a peak through their big telescopes :P

My current girlfriend was born on Oahu, although she's not native Hawaiian. We've mentioned the idea to eachother of going back there sometime. I know I'd definitely enjoy that.

GecKo

10-25-2002, 10:54 AM

i agree... Hawaii is definately a sttop that needs to be made. Unfortunately i haven't been there yet :(

My fiance has been there twice and is soooo nice to keep reminding me of how much she loved it and how gorgeous it is.

grrr :mad:

tuvokzeta9

10-26-2002, 09:24 PM

I just had some chicken soup! Dee-Liccious!:D

tuvokzeta9

10-26-2002, 09:24 PM

I just had some chicken soup! Dee-Liccious!:D

El Grinder

10-26-2002, 09:54 PM

I just finished some x-tra cheddar goldfish while drinking a delicious mike's hard lemonade. I'm giving my fingers a break from playing. I found an interesting 'tide patch in the Curiousities bank called "smooth crystals". It sounds very much to me like the "resonator" type effects from some Lexicon units, I think. I still gotta figure out how to put a ducker in it so it won't be adding noise under my dirty Mark III guitar tone, but it'll shine through when I stop playing.

Oh yeah, ever try to figure out how to patch Stereo Tremolo to accept just a mono input to drive both stereo sides? *shakes head* isn't as simple as it sounds either.

El Grinder

10-26-2002, 10:03 PM

I've been to Maui three times with a short stopover on Oahu once. *grin*

It's definitely a beautiful place.

touchstone001

10-27-2002, 05:08 AM

Wow guys, it's amazing how you've evolved this thread from my original post. I generally don't come here so i'm quite surprised and impressed.

tuvokzeta9

10-27-2002, 10:28 AM

We aim to please dude. This is now the internet's version of Johnny Depp's notorious night club, "The Viper Room". Its like a 247 internet rave...byoh.

Bring Your Own Hallucinogens...:rolleyes:

Grinder did you grow a second head on your shoulder like inthe Mike's Hard Lemonade commercial? My friend Greg has met Mike. He tells me he is a twisted and funny as hell SOB. I kinda guessed from the kind of ADs he runs.:D

El Grinder

10-27-2002, 12:23 PM

Touchstone, yup, we do that, totally mutating original threads to our sick designs.

No, tuv, I didn't grow a second head like the guy in that commercial. I do have a parasitic alien eating my organs like the guy in the next commercial for Mike's hard cranberry lemonade though.

I really enjoy that commercial. And I watched Alien 3 last night too.

Quite honestly, the only alcoholic beverages I seem to drink anymore are red wines (mainly cabs), Mike's hard lemonade and hard cranberry lemonade, smirnoff ice and very rarely a pina colada if I'm out to dinner. (I got a taste for coconut stuff while out on Maui. See how this all interblends?)

tuvokzeta9

10-27-2002, 07:28 PM

I have a 1989 Blue Chevy Caprice and everybody is staring at me like I'm a circus freak when I'm out driving. I am considering the "trunk mod" for aestetics.;) :eek: :D

tuvokzeta9

10-27-2002, 09:34 PM

Well maybe I won't get the "Trunk Mod". It will attract the wrong element. I got a good public image, and I want to maintain it.:rolleyes:

tuvokzeta9

10-28-2002, 07:08 PM

I had tofu chili for dinner tonight. Its cold outside, like 40 degress so it was a great dinner item. People are still staring at me when I drive the Sniper-mobile around. Its pretty weird but hopefully some other type of pop-culture vehicular phenomenom will takes its place. Maybe some dude in a Camaro will do something more over the top and the vehicle spotlight will shift. Humans, so easily amused. I'm suprised an alien race hasn't conqured us yet. :rolleyes:

El Grinder

10-29-2002, 11:34 AM

cold there?..
I got home from a rainy wait at the bus stop home from campus (don't ya hate classes on rainy days?)..
anyway, ended up turning the heat on, lighting 3 candles and stewing up some hot cocoa.. unfortunately, I'm missing my secret ingredients (got to have honey for good hot cocoa.. and some type of extract; vanilla, almond or coconut for that extra kick)..

It's cold enough that I should fire up my amp and let those glorious tubes warm the room...

tuvokzeta9

10-29-2002, 12:06 PM

I actually like the cold weather. It keeps all the geezers and weaklings inside..out of my way. Plus the winter sky is crystal clear and Orion is out.

El Grinder

10-29-2002, 06:52 PM

Crisp nights, the stars between Orian and the Little Dipper look awesome. Since my girlfriend lives out in a rural area, there aren't many city lights to pollute the night sky.

tuvokzeta9

10-29-2002, 10:55 PM

Grinder if you have a telescope it is the season for viewing. Even if you have binoculars and a steady hand you can see some cool stuff. The Leonids are peaking this year. The word is the 18th of November is the day...so to speak. So that means its the night of the 17th into the wee hours of the morn on the 18th.

El Grinder

10-29-2002, 11:46 PM

isn't that a mondo meteor shower?..

I remember that very well from last year.. I was driving on the interstate back to school from my girlfriend's (since she goes to a different college).. it was a clear, crisp night and I saw at least 20 some odd shooting stars that night..

morris

10-30-2002, 01:22 AM

Did you guys know that I am just 6 posts away from becoming a member?

morris

10-30-2002, 01:23 AM

Bump..

morris

10-30-2002, 01:24 AM

This is a bit cheap isn't it?

morris

10-30-2002, 01:24 AM

only 4 to go...

morris

10-30-2002, 01:25 AM

shame on you Morris :mad: :mad:

morris

10-30-2002, 01:25 AM

249 .......

morris

10-30-2002, 01:27 AM

YESSSSSSSS

You may congratulate me......
I think I'll have a party tonight!!!:D :D

tuvokzeta9

10-30-2002, 01:47 AM

This thread does have its threaputic aspects. I can come in here and have a conversation with myself any no one will think I'm insane. Thats so groovey! Somebody please pass the ketchup...

GecKo

10-30-2002, 05:07 PM

but which is truly better??? ketchup or catsup. there has to be a reason to have two. is there anything better than heinz? hunts is ok, but a little too tomatoe-y...

hmmmmm

ketchup catsup ketchup catsup ketchup catsup......

morris

10-30-2002, 05:09 PM

I just LOVE the A-1 steak sauce.....
too bad I can't get it anywhere in Europe....

tuvokzeta9

10-30-2002, 05:33 PM

Dude I love A-1 too! I'll mail some to you. What is your address? You can get A-1 everywhere in the USA! Oh yeah!:D

GecKo

10-30-2002, 08:03 PM

A-1 is pretty decent..... but don't forget the godfather of all sauces..... RANCH. The stuff goes on everything.

Oh and honey mustard is pretty good sometimes.

damn... now i'm getting hungry and all i have is ramen

tuvokzeta9

10-30-2002, 09:06 PM

GecKo, I read your post real quick and I thought for a split second you wrote Raunch not Ranch! I was like "Raunch"?...WTF kind of sause is that?!! Would it be made out of all the goop in the bottom of a smelly dumpster and the bottle's label would have a picture of a horrible belching monster on it? Raunch...pretty funny stuff.:p

morris

10-31-2002, 03:12 AM

Originally posted by tuvokzeta9
Dude I love A-1 too! I'll mail some to you. What is your address? You can get A-1 everywhere in the USA! Oh yeah!:D

Thanx for the offer Tuv, but I'll be in Nashville TN for christmas this year, so I'll be able to pick up a whole box, which should last me a couple of months.

I also can't wait to do the old fastfood-tour again (Wendys, Jack in the Box, Olga's etc..) We only have MacDonalds ;-(

I love the States! You think this post would get me a green card?

El Grinder

10-31-2002, 08:42 AM

Originally posted by GecKo
A-1 is pretty decent..... but don't forget the godfather of all sauces..... RANCH. The stuff goes on everything.

Oh and honey mustard is pretty good sometimes.

damn... now i'm getting hungry and all i have is ramen

ramen and ranch does not work.. yich!

GecKo

10-31-2002, 03:45 PM

it never fails... make a rough generalization and somebody HAS to take the over literal route and call me on it ;)

Fine ranch doesn't go on everything.... and raunch goes on nothing... and then there's pepper (fresh ground of course).

then there's that whole "never say never" thing. hmmmmm

tuvokzeta9

10-31-2002, 03:57 PM

So, GecKo you are not a user of Raunch Dressing? Thats a good thing. I personally like Pepper Corn Ranch dressing. Its da Bomb!

El Grinder

10-31-2002, 06:37 PM

pepper can go fine on ramen..

sorry, i'm really burnt out on ramen right now.. i finally got close to finishing off that 48 pack bulk box I got last year.

You can put ranch on COLD ramen noodles and try to make some type of pasta salad out of it (although egg noodles and italian dressing work better)...

You can put ketchup on ramen to make "ghetto spaghetti". You can cook ramen with pork, make ramen and chicken stir fry...

never, though.. never try to mix ramen with tuna... it is simply disgusting and reminds me of the scene in The Empire Strikes Back where han solo slices open the snow beast and the fat and meat chunks pour out of it's midriff.... bleh...

tuvokzeta9

10-31-2002, 07:43 PM

Han Solo's finest moment! "...and I thought they smelled bad on the outside!"

GecKo

11-01-2002, 07:10 AM

if you can get past how it looks, plain ramen noodles with chicken and cream of mushroom tastes pretty good.

back to college... back to ramen.... my girl found a deal at work that was 12 pizzas for $15 through some charity. woohoo i have variety!! :D

now, if only i could afford a WHOLE bulk box of ramen.

El Grinder

11-01-2002, 07:24 AM

Got $5? If ya go to the right place (a wholesale cub, a sam's club etc) ya might be able to score a 48 pack.

Even Meijer has some crazy sales sometimes. Did I tell everyone about my parents buying me 48 cans of Starkist tuna for my birthday for less than $8?

tuvokzeta9

11-01-2002, 10:11 AM

College life, now that is something I do not miss! No privacy and you're constantly surrounded by noisey idiots! An they say its main purpose is education....:confused: ...whatever.

GecKo

11-01-2002, 05:09 PM

well... i'm still living in my apartment with my fiance. and i'm actually studying something i enjoy.

I get to spend all week in recording studios and master mix rooms... surrounded by racks and racks of blinking lights:D :D

oh yeah, lots of eventides and tc's and lexicons... just think mercenary audio :p :p

so i think i'll be able to handle this school

tuvokzeta9

11-01-2002, 06:24 PM

Blinking lights put me in a gear trance and I go crazy...

morris

11-01-2002, 06:39 PM

I think LED's are the greatest invention since the wheel!!
They should give the guy who invented them a medal! Or at least the Nobel prize....

As long as we're talking B.S. in this thread, I just wanted to share that I just came back from a fantastic gig. So now I'm relaxing and sucking some serious piss in the middle of the night. This board is kinda therapy for me...

Group hug......

tuvokzeta9

11-01-2002, 10:26 PM

You had a great gig eh? Thats cool man. Do you have a raodie for your 12 space fury? Did you guys play covers, originals or speed metal opera? You said you are "sucking some serious piss" is that Morris talk for kickin' back a few cold ones? I practiced some guitar stuff tonight for like 3.5 hours. I did a lot of cool exersizes and arpeggoios to loosen up my hands a bit. After about 45 minutes I can start to whip up some cool phrases and longer legato style jazz lines. My new guitar is great. I totally dig it. I was jamming to a few CDs. Chad Wackerman, Tribal Tech, and there is a cool tune to jam to on the G-Force Demo CD...its Frank Gamble...the shred master. :cool:

morris

11-02-2002, 09:33 AM

No roadies, sorry to say. Just a driver and three guys for the PA and lights.
We do originals and covers. The covers are barely recognizable though
:D :D :D

Sucking piss is indeed kicking back a couple of cold ones, it's slang from down under. ;)

Yeah, I love that Gforce cd. Tribal tech is with Steve Smith right?
I bought the new Metheney live DVD yesterday (although it was recorded in 2000 or so. Did you happen to see that?
MEGA RIGS!

tuvokzeta9

11-02-2002, 11:21 AM

I may have seen that Metheney Video. My friend in Harford has a bunch of Metheney DVDs and Videos. We watched one that was recorded in Korea in like 98-99? It was pretty amazing. That guy is music! "Vital Tech Tones" is the band with Steve Smith and Victor Wooten. I like regular Tribal Tech best. Theat has Kirk Covington on drums. The earlier records have studio guys. I just picked up a mint used G-Force for 400$. It has the manual and the unit has no scratches on it! I had it layed away at Guitar Center for like a month. I saw it in the rack and was like who...400 bucks! I'll take that!:D Any Coronas tonight? I may get back on the Beer/Ale train and get some Boddingtons and put a good buzz on and put on some Miles Davis or Coltrane...:D

El Grinder

11-02-2002, 02:27 PM

Originally posted by GecKo
well... i'm still living in my apartment with my fiance. and i'm actually studying something i enjoy.

I get to spend all week in recording studios and master mix rooms... surrounded by racks and racks of blinking lights:D :D

oh yeah, lots of eventides and tc's and lexicons... just think mercenary audio :p :p

so i think i'll be able to handle this school
Gecko, what school're ya talking about? Some friends of mine moved to a recording arts school called Fullsail in Florida that sounds very similar to what you're describing. You wouldn't be going to the same, would you?

tuvokzeta9

11-02-2002, 05:24 PM

Yo mAn! I wint to kollege to learn how to Rap! I rOcK dat Mik-ro-foNe! Yo! Wibidee wip wip! Dis beat is fresh!

GecKo

11-03-2002, 12:01 PM

no, i'm not going to full sail. its a new school that just opened last year in minnesota (where i live). its called Institute of Production and Recording. all brand new gear :D

tuvokzeta9

11-03-2002, 12:13 PM

Dudes we're on page 5! We will need a page 5 girl like in all those Brit tabloids! Anyone got a snapshot? Just keep it PG-13...this is a family show!

GecKo you should try to get in with the faculty and land a job at the school. That would really cool. I wish I had gone to a recording skool instead of drifting from one Kollege to another...:confused:

GecKo

11-03-2002, 12:35 PM

i've already had the admissions guy i was working with want me to work with him when he produces his next two records, and the head of admissions (and one of the 3 founders) is giving me a grant for half the price of tuition... and is thinking of having me shadow him when he gets around to producing another project.

:D :D

El Grinder

11-03-2002, 02:28 PM

Sounds like a sweet deal and a lot more fun than what I'm doing, trying to get an undergrad degree in biology and/or psychology...

Page 5 snapshot chicks?.. what're you talkin' about tuv?

tuvokzeta9

11-03-2002, 06:16 PM

Grinder, British tabloids and the famous Weekly World News publication has a "page 5" chick in every issue. So here is a chicky for page 5 of this thread...enjoy.

El Grinder

11-03-2002, 10:24 PM

*nods* okay, NOW I understand.

tuvokzeta9

11-03-2002, 10:41 PM

Gotta love the WWN and the page 5 girl!;)
I wonder if they found Bat-Boy yet? Last reported by the WWN, he was missing. Presumedly he is hunting down Bin-Ladden.

GecKo

11-04-2002, 07:57 AM

now if only she was sitting on a monster rig... or at least holding a guitar or something. heh

morris

11-04-2002, 08:50 AM

Originally posted by GecKo
now if only she was sitting on a monster rig... or at least holding a guitar or something. heh

she definitely has a big rack though....

tuvokzeta9

11-08-2002, 11:27 PM

Reverbs and preamps are cool thats a given. But I'll tell ya...ya gotta love the pharmacutical companies in the USA. I was just at the WebMD website to take a few tests to see if I am an insane, bipolar, depressed, diabetic, anemic alien, and all I can say is that its total Bull-Ass! Its like every thing at WebMD is geared towards getting you, the curious self-diagnosing web-surfer, hooked on Zocroft, Syloban, Trioxyn or some other shit those pharamcy fuckers cooked up in a lab. Its so bogus its laughable. I think people are better off getting hooked on Rave/Club drugs than the crap Galaxo-Wellcome, Merck and friends are cookin' up and tryin' to get you hooked on. Gotta love a Civiliztion built on Big Bad Bidness yo! :eek:

This rant is sponsored in part by Haldol, "the new anti-psychotic":D

El Grinder

11-09-2002, 08:37 AM

Chances are, being a psychology major/biology minor with a lil sales experience and survey research in pharmaceuticals, I'm gonna either make a living after college cookin' that stuff up or selling it.

Of course I'd rather say "screw my degree!" and make a living off of booking bands and wiring racks... Ya gotta have dreams, ya know?

tuvokzeta9

11-09-2002, 09:09 AM

Cookin' the rock is one thing, pimpin' it is another. Its the marketing departments that really need to be rounded up and put on a train and sent away...he he he. I like being able to get some meds when I'm sick but this entire self-diagnosis WebMD thing is totally bogus from the freakin' word "go". Its so weird man. Its like the village medicine-man is supposed to help you when you are in need, not manufacture the need to need. I guess if I were the president of GallaxoSmithKline I'd be tring to invent the disease and the cure simultaneously. Now thats good business sense. I wonder if they teach that kind of thinking at our nations finer business schools? :rolleyes:

El Grinder

11-09-2002, 02:40 PM

welllll Indiana University's Kelly School of Business is right next to the Psychology building...

Self diagnosing pages are, however, bunk. Today it's almost "in fashion" to have a minor psychological disorder. We did a lot of open discussion about that in my abnormal psychology class, actually.

tuvokzeta9

11-09-2002, 11:31 PM

Grinder dude, I want, rather I need to be in fashion! Will you help me select a minor psychological disorder? Nothing too over the top...just a little something I can chat about at Starbucks or at the afternoon tea parties. I'd hate to be out of step with the in-crowd you know!:rolleyes:

I was thinking maybe a stylish addiction like "Reality Shows" or maybe something a little daring for fall, like Teret's Syndrome or perhaps we could invent something new just for me?... ...ummm... Maybe it could involve lots of talking and shopping???

jimfowler

11-10-2002, 02:18 AM

speaking of mild psychological disorders, i've been told (be everybody i know save for myself) that i'm moderately OCD.

college: pbltttttt! i have my degree in english and what the fuck am i going to do with it? go to grad school? no thanks. you can keep your pretension. in my 8th semester, i realized i should've majored in composition/jazz studies. then i'd actually want to go the grad school...maybe even try one of the "music" schools. but then again, i don't really even want a real job. fuck a real job. i have this big long theory about how the blue collar working class are the back backbone of america and i think i'll use that as an excuse to get a blue collar working class job. that's a hard day's work and something i respect...not like being a cpa or some soul-less shit like that. i mean, these folks are building the places in which we live and work. they're fixing the streets that our cars fuck up. the build the cars that fuck them up. they fix your plumbing because we're too goddamn lazy to fix it ourselves. just call me carpenter jim.

oh, boy, have i been drinking....

goodnight folks.

-jim