"ELECTRIFYING. INFINITE TIME-TIME-TIME-TIME." -Ross Gellar Also, I break the [ ] barrier.

[stoney321]

That episode of Friends where Ross makes everyone listen to his crappy synthesizer music makes me LOL every time. That was my junior high, yo, everyone had Casios and tried to recreate the sounds of Depeche Mode and Siouxie & the Banshees. And honestly, most of the dubstep/80s inspired music that's out right now sounds so terrible to me. It's

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[tabaqui]

BWA!
I adore the 'skree' noise. I luffed it in 'Blackbird' and in any song, really. I dunno why, i just *like it*. I mean, yes, shouldn't be present in classical musical performances and whatnot but to me it just sounds kinda homey and 'sitting around with my buds, playing a little tune' kind of sound.

Now, doing it intentionally on *every single chord change* is annoying and stupid, but when it just happens? I like it.
:)

Bert and Earnie sweaters. HA. They are. But i'm with misletoe54 - the hair is fuxored. W. TFingF.

I wish i had a good sewing machine. I've got my mom's old Singer, but she replaced it for a reason and i can't ever thread the bobbin right and omfg, annoying. One of these days.....

[stoney321]

I just can't get past the sweaters. I want to mock them to their faces. BUT I LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT REMIX. I'd do better losing my eyesight than my hearing, is what I'm saying. :D

OH MY GOD. you know what I realized I'd been doing wrong with my bobbin this whole time? (Because the thread snaps off on a Pfaff if you do this) Putting the bobbin in the holder BACKWARDS. Ex.: when you put it in and run the thread through the groove, and you hold the lever that keeps it from falling out, look at the bobbin. When you pull the thread, it should pull clockwise.

On my Brother it didn't matter every time. On the Pfaff? No go.

[tabaqui]

Heeeeeee. Yeah, eyesight over hearing, but then i'd have to listen to the robo-voice read porn aloud. Not sure i could handle that.

My bobbin issue is i somehow do it wrong *every frickin' time* and it just won't catch on the needle and come up. So very *annoying*. Even doing it with my mom over my shoulder it takes a couple tries.

Probably another reason she wanted to replace that thing, heh.

[ryokomusouka]

The trick I learned with my new Singer is to plunk that bobbin into the bobbin case the same way it comes off the winder (it's on top).

My mom and daughters can't figure out how to THREAD my new machine - bobbin's the easy part. :

[stoney321]

I want to do the "oh, oh, oh oh! What a feeling!" Toyota leap! <-- just dated myself, wow.

I am happy about it, too! LOVE YOU, ANNE-GIRL!

[dovil]

I'm going to come over to your house and get drunk and wrap myself in your long luxiourous curtains and then I'm going to fall over and rip them off the railing and then flail my legs out and smash it through the window and cut a leg artery, but hey, it's cool, because I have your curtains to stem the bleeding.

Mormon missionaries have fantastic leg muscles from all the bike riding. <- my nice thing, so where's my small appliance as a reward?

[stoney321]

You touch my curtains with your lanolin-soaked fingers and I'll cut you. See? You'll bleed either way. WIN/WIN.

Your small appliance is in your bedside table, don't be coy.

[dovil]

Small appliance? I have a light ute parked up in the corner of my room so I can charge it off the battery since going off the mains caused lights to dim three suburbs over.

I'll breathe on your curtains thereby making them an instant fire hazard and then fart while rubbing my sock covered feet on your carpet and burn down the entire house. Mwahahahaha!

[stoney321]

SO I AM IN THE MARKET FOR A FLOATING BED/ENCLOSURE. GUESS WHERE YOU'RE STAYING.

[dancetomato]

Unagi.

Salmon skin roll.

[stoney321]

I have to do the finger twist thing when I hear/say "Unagi."

(And honestly, I looooooove the salmon skin roll.)

[dancetomato]

I always to the finger twist thing on unagi. It's kind of embarrassing when I order it.

[dampersnspoons]

I don't understand your guitar string-slide hate. I've never heard that was a bad thing, but I guess it's like nails on a chalkboard to you! I like it in an acoustic setting if it's a lazy sort of melody, and I think it adds a sort of organic sound if it happened unintentionally. I know dad is all about things being produced to a tee, but I think that's boring, and I think "too perfect" is "too sterile". A little soul and edge never hurt anybody, and a finger sliding up a string isn't a travesty to the guitarists of the world, just to people who are bothered by high pitched screechy noises, hahaha! And for them? I say, "I get ya!" But as a guitarist, I can say it's all a matter of personal preference, and not a mark of skill or lack thereof.

(And I'm totally bummed that I missed out on that sewing machine. I was so busy I couldn't listen to your message until you'd already given it away. LAME!!! :D But glad you're getting a new badass one!)

[stoney321]

OMG, Dad would go off if we were ever listening to music together. I have a lot of that in me, too. Like, I can't do Tom Waits. I KNOW, HERESY. The only voices I like that aren't perfect are Thom Yorke and Neil Young, but that's because I'm a dirty hippie.

And you know how it is with Dad, if he says it, it's gospel. SO HERE YOU ARE SCHOOLING ME WITH YOUR WORDS. I STAND (I'm sitting, actually) SCHOOLED. (I think Tiff gets her back up at that noise, too. All of your guitaring was done when I was in Utah, so I don't know your style! You should bring your git-fiddle to the house sometime and just play to an enraptured audience of me.)

Waaaah, I'm sorry! I tried to call, etc., and to take it back from Angie would be douchey. But you can come over and sew to your heart's content! Or borrow? *sad face emoticon*

[dampersnspoons]

Dad also goes off if people go outside of his mode of classical training. He's a purist, and for that reason, I respect his opinions highly. For a guy playing a classical guitar recital in front of people ready to judge his technique, yes, it would be a travesty to lazily slide one's fingers without precision unless the music called for it. But for rock 'n roll (makes fingers) you can't bog musicians down with technique. That's what classical music is for. Rock 'n roll is all about feeling and if someone's gotta slide their fingers to get to that rockin' note, then they're gonna slide those fangers all the live long day. Not to mention the usage of strings to make noises other than plucking or strumming, all sorts of noises are used in music, from tapping the string to scratching it on purpose, to strumming the tight, short bits where you wind a string into the pegs