Britt and I are replacing the carpeting in the condo (a cream-colored stain magnet which has been abused from years of general wear and cats) with laminate flooring.  Anyone who tells you that putting down laminate flooring is easy is only partially telling the truth.  Putting down laminate flooring is, in fact, remarkably easy.  It's the moving ( Read more... )

Those two boxes of 300+ cassette tapes are SOLD.

After two insultingly low bids for the lot of tapes (one of which I managed to talk up to $75), someone emailed me at the 11th hour offering me $300.  Since a buck a tape is pretty much the going rate for individual cassettes on CL, I happily took him up on it.  The guy was super-appreciative on the ( Read more... )

Britt and I cleaned out the spare room of the condo last week ,with the sole intention of stocking her mother's neighborhood garage sale last weekend.  In removing the detritus I had accumulated for several years, I decided that now is the right time to unload some of the past...and I didn't want to do it at a garage sale.  I know Craigslist is the ( Read more... )

At the last Nophest I ended up becoming pals with Blue Screen Love Scene.  They're a very pop-friendly electro band, and a trio of really nice people to boot.  So what did I do?  I remixed one of their tracks.  Like to hear it?  Here y'are.

Perfumery (Designer Knockoff mix)
320kbps .mp3 file
6min33sec, 122bpm

The original is on their MySpace page.  The ( Read more... )

Another Nophest has come and gone once again, and so did another PBAM show.  Here's what I learned:

• I tend to bring way too much stuff and use it too little.  Case in point: I think I used the Ineko once, on one setting, for 30 seconds.  It's a hot setting, and it sounds awesome, but I need to make more use of at least the best ten of its 48 FX.
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This morning I took a screwdriver to my well-loved DOD delay pedal and performed some "enhancement surgery".


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Several of my friends have already posted about this, and now it's my turn. This weekend (Friday April 18 thru Sunday April 20) is the Spring installment of NOPHEST, a twice-yearly festival of music, art and film put on by the handsome and generous folks of Nophi Recordings. This year the music part is arranged on two stages: one at the dog- ( Read more... )

After three blissful weeks of exploring the Rhine valley of Germany, and then spending almost twenty straight hours on planes, trains and automobiles, the dumbest thing you can do is go right back to werk the next day. I'm sure I didn't really need to tell anyone that, but nonetheless that is exactly where I am, jetlagged as hell and trying not to ( Read more... )

For the two or so of you that might miss me, I'll be spending the rest of March in various small towns across Germany with Britt.  There's evidently some family of hers that I haven't embarrassed met yet.  I'm really excited about this.  It all came together very suddenly at the last minute, and I've never been to any part of Europe.  I'm in the ( Read more... )

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