please, someone must be able to spare $4000 for me to take my dream apprenticeship in lutherie with Sergei de Jonge. this is classic oldskool apprenticeship stuff - he even offers room and board at his 15 acre wakefield workshop - while you are doing the five-week intensive course.

my old high school buddy chris apprenticed under de Jonge, and he ( Read more... )

the day finally came. my sony mdr-v100 headphones finally died. well, officially only the left headphone died, but stereo headphones are functionally useless when you only hear one channel! so i have been trying to listen to music on the worst shitty earbuds ever; the sound is so tinny; the buds are so cheap that they don't even have an "R" and ( Read more... )