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My Mormon name is Calbert Tabernacle!

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more pointless quiz torture...

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guitar->Moogerfooger ring modulator->Frequency Analyzer->Big Muff->Vox wah->amplifier => ROCK

haven't been getting a ton of sleep lately...but ummm...yesterday, after taking a nap between shifts at work i went out to the practice space to do a little auto-rock...i played on the drums a bit then decided i'd play guitar...i think it just might be the first time i'd ever played w/ all my pedals at once...it fucking ruled...and, even though it was thought that my Big Muff wasn't working, i found that it's working just perfectly...i think it was just that the screw on the distortion knob had gotten loose and it was stuck turned down and wouldn't turn...i was making a ton of noise...it ruled...and to think, he thought it odd that i got two ring modulators! well i'll just let my boner be proof of the fact that i was right in doing so...and in a few days my new micro-synth pedal should be here so i'll be able to make all sorts of ruling noise...WOOHOO! i never got called back in to work so i just rocked for two hours...it was good...it's surprising how much cool stuff wah pedals can make happen when there's a bunch (or few) other effects going through them...especially the Moogerfooger's LFO...but i digress...hrm...i guess i don't really have anything else to talk about now...oh, i'll just also say i have to be on my parents' computer now 'cuz our phone line's fucked and i can't dial up on my computer...(they have dsl on this'n...)

oh yea, requisite SY-nerd bitchfest...

so the vague tour dates/tentative release date for the new Sonic Youth record (Murray Street) have been posted to www.sonicyouth.com...and i must say i'm a bit perturbed...first we'll start w/ the tour (however vague it is): mid-june - mid-july: Europe...august: north america...maybe a date or two in japan...why are they coming here AFTER europe? it's not a big issue, but still...and only one month here? bollocks! hopefully i'll still be able to do my planned hippie-stalker deal of following 'em around for a week...i guess i'd better get crackin' on makin' those hackie sacks and crack pipes to sell in the venue parking lots...but my main "beef" is in the tentative release schedule:
june 5: japan
june 11: europe
july 2: usa
!?!?!?
first of all, they were originally just giving june 4 as a release date, and i was thinking that was too far in the future...but now this!? almost a month after that...and month after japan and close to that for europe!?!?!? why the fuck do they have to wait that long!? it's obviously ready if it'll already be out in japan and europe...can i wait that long!? do i fucking import it from japan!? gah! this is purely evil...i heard all the songs at ATP and it's fucking great stuff...even though there's only 7 songs on the album...though all but like "Plastic Sun" are pretty damned long...(there might be one that's only 4-something min...i'm not sure...) and i saw what i believe is the cover art on their website and it's pretty rad...and really, if it's all ready anyway, why the fuck do they even have to wait 'til june (much less JULY) to release it? couldn't those bastards put it out in a week or two or whatever...(i believe it's been all ready for a few weeks...) stupid record label crap...oh well, i guess i'll just sit and wait like the dork i am...hopefully they won't take too long to release the reissues (and SYR 6) too...

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best day ever...

important news!!!: so that ever-elusive Deep Space Homer episode of The Simpsons...it came on today!!! it had been escaping me and my efforts to see it all these past years...but now, finally, i have seen it!!! my life is that much more complete...it just might be the best Simpsons episode...i mean, it has like two hundred 2001 references, can anything get any better?
other crap: our phone line's functioning now so i'm on my own computer...golly...once again i fucking overslept and missed my "first" class (i'm not really counting linear algebra, which i've given up on and stopped going to all together anyway...) that is all...