I feel like Wes Anderson has made a career of riffing on The Hotel New Hampshire.

Also, watch Igby Goes Down. Great little movie by Burr Steers.

Tom Jones’ What’s New Pussycat is like that. No intro, no verse, just wham with the chorus right out of the gate.

Vince Clarke with a nice bolo!

They made SO many of those walnut SGs.

I know a guy who has the original artwork on his wall. He’s a collector. It was pretty wild when I found out it was the original.

I used to know Sid Krofft but I didn’t know it for a while. I used to go to a gym in Hollywood in the 90s and there was this guy who was there a lot. Super nice guy, we always chatted about random stuff but never introduced ourselves. Then one day the front desk announced “Sid Krofft, line one” and I was like “oh wow”.

The architect of my childhood. Seemed like such a happy guy. Complete gentleman.

Black MIDI is interesting.

> Black MIDI is a music genre consisting of compositions that use MIDI files to create a song or a remix containing a large number of notes. People who make black MIDIs are known as blackers. However, there are no specific criteria of what is considered "black"; as a result, pinpointing the exact origin of black MIDI is impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_MIDI

https://youtu.be/Ur_KAi1NNNU

If you drop them in isopropyl, they should be fine.

I buy and sell old guitars, so handedness is definitely something to know about. As far as I can tell, the number of left-handed guitars is a lot less than 10% of all guitars.

Over the years, the best I could come up with is that: (a) lots of lefties just learn right-handed when they’re starting. This would be because it’s sometimes not that easy to find a cheap guitar to buy in the first place, so you borrow or buy used, and right-handed ones are what is available.

And (b) many lefties don’t learn because of (again) the lack of availability of instruments. I mean, there aren’t lefty drums or keyboards.

What I can’t figure out is if some lefties are better able to do certain things right-handed than others. Like: are there degrees of handedness?

Eh, so it’s a sappy pop song. People like it. I find it reasonably effective. Yeah, it ain’t Mahler. But it’s a nice little song.

When I was a kid I just couldn’t figure out about the “icy trees of green”.

I think I saw him there last week.

It was called STEVE.

(Satan’s Teeth Eats Virtually Everything)

My band opened for FNM on The Real Thing tour 1989. Fun show. Mike Bordin, Billy Gould and Roddy are just about the nicest people you could meet. They loved our band, watched our whole set and mentioned us in Kerrang as one of their favorite opening acts. They also told a couple of A&R people about us so we were getting calls from record companies. Just really genuinely good people.

I had a nerve cut in the middle toe, left foot. Can confirm: pad does not shrivel like the other nine toes.

It’s a different thing. That’s how I’d make it now. When I was 9 I wanted that blob to ploop out of a can.

But we use the internet to watch movies, listen to music, do banking, communicate with people, check the weather, read books, map trips, buy stuff, sell stuff, trade stocks, look up information, book travel, track fitness, etc. etc. right?

I got hired by Capitol Records to get photos of Foo Fighters at their first official gig at The Palace in L.A. where they were opening for Mike Watt. I got there and Mike had declared no photo passes. So bummed. I love that album.

I saw fIREHOSE with L7! Legendary stuff.

I thought it was a post about an actual cat when I saw the thumbnail. I think that means you got the essence!

Jim Morrison’s first live music experience was when a friend’s band needed to be a quintet so they gave Jim a guitar and ran a cable behind some gear.

Nikon F2 was $660 w normal lens in 1972. So not really.

There was Polaroid and later Fuji instant film that was studio quality. I used a lot of it.

Ok thanks. I’ll check that out.

So since it’s incandescent, could you just get a UK one and change the plug and get a bulb with the right wattage? I don’t think there’s much to the things other than that.

Lava Lamps are frustrating for me. I like to have them in my recording studio because they’re incandescent so they make nice warm light and the visual is great. But in the US, it seems the best we can get are the Lava Lite brand which are about $30 but I’ve heard that in the UK they sell real nice ones that are pricier. Does anyone know anything about the UK ones? The US ones look okay but they seem pretty flimsy. I’d just like to see how they’d compare to a nicer one.