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Ehh, this is self-referential, but the drummer of Pink Reason will wear makeup, gold chains, a grill, a bunch scarves and tons of leopard print. The rest of us didn't/don't. I think it's cool.

He just spraypainted his hair gold for his Eminem impersonator set. He can get away with whatever he want.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: July 08, 2016, 01:34:14 PM »

I'm cooking breakfast tomorrow for a buddy who repairs arcade cabinets for a living who's helping me fix a reel to reel and I feel like that might be the Brunchest thing I'll ever do.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Photos

« on: June 10, 2016, 11:19:25 AM »

I don't know what the hell was going on with my phone, but it looks pretty cool

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: RAW PONY DOES THE EAST COAST

« on: April 14, 2016, 08:31:55 AM »

Holy shit, St. Ripper is the best band name I've heard in a while.

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Demo Tape / Jazz Noise Collaborative Orchestra/JNCO (cbus free jazz ensemble)

« on: March 05, 2016, 12:37:33 AM »

2 hours of up to 20 people of highly disparate skill levels variously fucking around on a whole bunch of instruments at a bar last month. First event of hopefully many.

https://soundcloud.com/totes-money-productions/jazznoise-collaborative-orchestra-jnco-21816

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Getting completely drunk at a workplace that is not a bar

« on: March 01, 2016, 01:03:05 PM »

I guess that involves getting drunk at bars, even though I wasn't working for said bars.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Getting completely drunk at a workplace that is not a bar

« on: March 01, 2016, 12:49:05 PM »

I used to run an office that did signature gathering for ballot initiatives. Our office was responsible for a 5-10 county radius depending on the campaign and a lot of the time was spent travelling to some podunk town or another to meet per-county signature requirements. The turnover rate at the job was ridiculous. Most people didn't last more than a couple weeks before they quit or were let go (usually for poor validation rates). Somehow I survived several campaign seasons and I guess by Highlander rules, I got put in charge. One such campaign was a proposition to allow casino gambling with profits ostensibly earmarked for schools, so we'd pull up a county population map, find the most dense areas, load up a car and blindly head out to bug people. We were trained to avoid mentioning the gambling part of it as much as possible, but I found the most effective method was hitting up the local watering holes, grabbing some drinks and asking the patrons if they wanted to legalize gambling. Most were more than happy to oblige. I'd usually pull ~15-20 signatures an hour just by going to the town bars, pretty much double what the average rate was. Did this every day for the better part of the spring/summer, made a ton of fucking money, spent almost the entire time at work drunk, got enough signatures to get it on the ballot, thankfully got voted down only to return years later in the form of a similar amendment that ended up passing.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Lost packages

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:23:41 AM »

But if paypal/ebay has some kind of protection plan set up, by all means go that route. I just can't imagine they would when most government mail services routinely don't carry any kind of liability coverage for international shipments.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Lost packages

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:20:46 AM »

This is based on my experience woking in shipping for packages originating in the US to other countries. The claims process might vary from country to country depending on where the shipment originated, but if the package was in USPS's hands when it was lost, I'd assume it's them you'd need to file a claim with. Either way, unless the record was worth a ton, it's probably not even worth your time or mental energy in chasing a claim, unless you don't value your time at all.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Lost packages

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:14:14 AM »

Postal service

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Lost packages

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:10:13 AM »

If it wasn't sent priority or express mail with insurance, you are SOL. If it was, you're probably still SOL. Even stuff that is supposedly covered by insurance, you have to go through all sorts of Kafkaesque hoops to get them to even consider paying a claim. I've only attempted claims on stuff sent from the US abroad, but you have to wait 60 days before they'll even open a claim and from there they just bury you with paperwork or give you the runaround until you just give up. It's fucking bullshit.