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Non-Music Shit / Re: Fucking mice!

« on: December 02, 2008, 03:04:13 PM »

We've had tons of 'em this year. Shitty thing is that most traps don't seem to be strong enough to break their spine, so I have to finish them off with a hammer. Sort of sorry for having to kill those fuckers, but I don't want them to shit on our kitchen table.

Ughhh, my cat half kills them and then watches them spin around on whatever legs they have left then I have to go scoop them up and put them outside or in the trash or something.  It sucks.  I'm glad there aren't mice at my new house.

Now we have weird dishwasher bugs which are unidentified and very hidey.  That is, they hide in the fucking dishwasher and then you open it and you're like OMGOMGAJFAJDK because there's like 7 of them all freaking out at once trying to get out of the light.  WHAT ARE THESE BUGS?  They are rendering the dishwasher useless!  What's the point of putting shit in there if some bug is just going to crawl all over (and lay eggs/poop/whatever) it after it's clean anyway?  Damn!

Pictures. Take pictures and I'll tell you what they are.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Elbow Squid

« on: December 02, 2008, 02:59:38 PM »

It's only a matter of time before this thing fucking kills us all.

Thing? You mean Shell? I mean, come on, if they're drilling what little there is left in the G of M, you aren't gonna have to worry about anything coming to get you.

Here is another good one: http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml

The walktopus!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: How back woods is your town?

« on: November 26, 2008, 11:37:42 PM »

as a person from a small town in the south, i can attest that small towns in california are overall the same. sure there are some differences (like more ethnic groups to hate in CA, more organization to form larger freakier Christian-compound type places than just a typical KKK rally at the 31 E intersection) but in general small town=small town. Although, the teeny places in the desert are a bit weird. Places out near Victorville, Palmdale, all the towns around Death Valley...lots of ex-cons and it's all about muu-muu's and shotguns (and methlabs if you venture down the wrong canyon...but usually a dude with an automatic weapon will escort  you out). In some places people get freaked out when they don't see anyone around. When I'm out in the middle of the desert, I get freaked out when I do see anyone around.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: How back woods is your town?

« on: November 26, 2008, 05:47:22 PM »

i grew up in cave city kentucky, located in Barren County: population 2500. Surrounding towns include Knob Lick, Nobob, and the town I was born in - Horse Cave. To see a show or go to an airport we had to drive to Louisville or Nashville-2 hrs away. I did a lot of driving. Sometimes as far as columbus ohio. It was a dry county...that means no booze, except from bootleggers. yes, we actually had those. they always had things like boone's farm and night train. and coors light. lots of awful people live there. one of my friends from high school went back to his hs reunion and died. because he was gay. they say it's because he fell off a wall when he was drunk, but he was really beaten to death by the same jocks who used to give him shit in hs, whose relatives are judges and lawyers. his family is poor. Now the town is 'moist' - that's actually what they call it...you can drink in restaurants, but still can't buy booze ouside of that. I went home last year over xmas (while i had norovirus...perhaps I'll put that in the shitting thread). i drank margaritas at a mexican restaurant with the only person I still keep in touch with there. while I listened to redneck white folk talk about how much they hated the mexicans serving them because the 'couldn't understand them'. I was there about 30 hours and was enraged most of the time....much like I was enraged the first 17 yrs of my life. I moved to colorado then and lived with my sister before living my sheltered life in the big city.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Thanksgiving Day food

« on: November 25, 2008, 01:15:07 AM »

It was a pretty awesome thanksgiving. Too bad the excellent mashed potatoes were in a glass dish that hit the floor and shattered. Had to do it over with potato flakes (booooooooooooo)

glass potatoes was 2 yrs ago. i was there. i wasn't there last year. i won't be there this year either. there is no thanksgiving on this side of the world. if there was it would probably involve vegemite and be grotty.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Drugs and Spiders

« on: November 23, 2008, 01:49:39 AM »

even if 'it' were true? what do you mean by 'it'? that those effects were caused by the drugs? that spiders built the webs? that drugs effect brains? a spider's web needs all the parts built in a precise, particular manner to function properly...even if it is slightly different it won't work as well to ensnare prey. so it has to be EXACTLY the same. None of those webs are the same in those pics...some are more fucked than others but basically if they aren't like that bottom one, they may work, but they won't give a peak performance. Also, they can look very much alike, but with the magic of statistics, we will observe differences. it began in the late 40s when HM Peters asked Witt, a pharmacologist, for methamphetamines to make the spiders he was studying build webs at an earlier hour so he didn't have to stay up all night. they built at the same time but built crazy webs so Witt decided to give the spiders other substances (read Witt 1956,1975 for dosages, hypothesis testing, etc.) So, yes, no one should try to build a house on mescaline, but it's not like Peters and Witt were trying to show the world drugs are 'bad'...they were testing hypotheses (as scientists do) about the effects of substances on web-structure. If you starve web-building spiders a similar situation arises. Orb-weaving spiders are boring anyway.
As for how brains work in animals, there are a lot of differences between inverts and verts, but the basic principles are the same. That's because evolution is neat-o. Read a basic bio text chapter or even wikipedia.
Thanks for visiting the science corner.

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Music Shit / Re: for the fret lyric

« on: November 19, 2008, 02:44:05 PM »

awesome. thanks. now my life is nearly complete. i wish i could see them...i can watch them on youtube.

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Music Shit / Re: Exuma - I Fire (1969)

« on: November 19, 2008, 06:24:20 AM »

(junkanoo...which isn't very good)

I dont agree. There is some really good junkanoo, but you gotta stay away from tourist albums. Cook put out some junkanoo which are more like field recordings. And there are low budget Bahaman pressings that were marketed for the locals. I've found a few in thrift stores, probably brought back by honeymooners.

maybe...the only stuff i have ever heard has been mostly live...just bells and whistles...literally. i'd be interested in something different perhaps, but this is all i know.

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Music Shit / for the fret lyric

« on: November 18, 2008, 09:50:00 PM »

what in the name of all that is holy do they sing after the line 'for the fret'?

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Music Shit / Re: Exuma - I Fire (1969)

« on: November 18, 2008, 09:32:37 PM »

yeah i have exuma I and snake i think. he was really awesome. I've seen his music listed as 'Bahamian' which is funny because it sounds nothing like typicaly bahamian music (junkanoo...which isn't very good). It's more voodoo-ish, african drumming-ish, but no, i've never heard anything else like it. I guess he was from Cat Island in the Bahamas, but called himself exuma (the name of another island there). He moved to NY early on and made a lot of paintings. people in the bahamas haven't ever told me much more than what's on the internet.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Anyone ever had their record collection stolen

« on: November 17, 2008, 06:38:56 PM »

Never the whole thing. Or even one whole album. Just part of one...the important part. Someone took my Dead C record and left the sleeve. How do you do that? I looked through all my other LPs and it's not there. It's just gone. Maybe someone smashed it for Justin?

Some friends of mine once found some really shitty records on the street and exchanged these with about 50 records of another friend while he was gone, and hid the real records somewhere. I guess the first time he went to play something it was kind of funny. But then when he found the same shitty record 50 times and no sign of the actual records, the humor dissipated. I still think it's funny, though.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Hey Andy, what's your take on

« on: November 17, 2008, 06:29:58 PM »

2 great Nuge-related quotes:
1. (From a Nuge video released in the 80s; complete with concert and at-home footage. Nuge is showing off his guitars and his guns.): "You know, a rifle is a lot like a guitar. You've got some wood and a little steel and I can get my dinner with both of them."
2. (Singer of Dead Milkmen when the band was hanging out with us at a Des Moines punk house in 1985) "If you play Nugent's Intensities in 10 Cities LP on 45 rpm, it sounds exactly like Minor Threat."

in the Kerrrang!!! guide to heavy  metal there are a ton of Nuge quotes...my favorite is 'Wang dang sweet poontang is about a 15 year old girl that needs a good plunging!' (at least I think it was 15...it may have been 13. it's certainly underage). Also, when I was collecting lizards in New Mexico I was on the Ted Nugent Adopt-a-Highway. I wanted to take a picture, but the guy driving wouldn't pull over.

The newest and by far the funniest Australian word I've yet learned is Earth Pin. They use it to refer to the (what I've always heard referred to) ground on a 3 prong plug. Earth pin? really?

Um...oh, yeah, guess i should ask a take while i'm here. To stay totally on topic, what's your take on PRONG?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: RYAN WELLS

« on: November 14, 2008, 08:57:59 PM »

happy birthday...your pf chang's gift certificate is in the mail!!!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Hey Andy, what's your take on

« on: November 14, 2008, 04:52:59 AM »

Hi Andy.
The other day you remarked that you were surprised the aust word for submarine is actually submarine. well, this isn't exactly the same, but it still involves aust and names...

1) I just noticed the ravioli i ate last night is called 'Latina Pasta', and it's made in Victoria, on RICKETTS ROAD. So far I still feel okay, the pasta tasted nothing like rickettsia bacteria (i guess, either that or rickettsias are delicious). Any idea why it's 'latina', and in the future, should I eat foods manufactured on roads named after arthropod-borne diseases?

2) On the way to work I saw a big moving truck that said 'omega smeg' on the side. I looked it up and apparently they deal in appliances. What's your take on this name?

Thank you for your time.
S

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Music Shit / Re: Davila 666

« on: November 13, 2008, 01:31:34 AM »

i dunno. i think it's okay. it kinda just sounds like spanish rock music, which is fine, but i feel like people are really excited about it because it's in spanish and if people spoke spanish or listened to lots of spanish language punk/garage they might be less excited about it? i would like to see them live, though.