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after hearing the news that my old Marshall amp is pretty much unfixable, i started looking around at other amp options online...i had my eye on a few on ebay but i decided i'd go see what Consignment had if anything...so i went and looked around and they didn't have shit downstairs...then i suddenly remembered the vintage room upstairs so i checked and out and lo and behold, what's this? a Sunn Sceptre...so i played it then i bought it...so now i have a new amp...the speaker cabinet's huge...almost towering...so that's awesome...i took it home and played with it and i am quite happy with it...my big muff sounds even awesomer through it! how could that have been possible? i don't know...but it happened...it has tremelo which is nice, and reverb, but the reverb doesn't work and just makes this screeching feedback, which is perhaps even cooler than having the choice of reverb...and then nothing else happened yesterday...today i just got back from running errands with Mary Beth...on the way back we stopped by the Book Bank, i'd never been there before and was kinda disappointed at their pricing scheme, but i picked up a few books anyhow: American Pastoral by Philip Roth, To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, Burning Chrome by William Gibson, and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi...then we made a stop at the library bookstore and i picked up: Standard Specification for Highway Bridges, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway, Airframe & Powerplant Mechanics Airframe Handbook, Toward a Planned Society: from Roosevelt to Nixon by Otis L. Graham, Jr., The Third World War: August 1985 by General Sir John Hackett, The Pearl Harbor Papers: inside the Japanese Plans, and Vineland by Thomas Pynchon...the last one i almost didn't see and probably wouldn't have had i not run into Larry of Lastchance fame just before leaving and talked to him for a little while...he was pointing at something else and it just jumped out at me...so that was swell...as i was checking out Larry mentioned starting and stopping Gravity's Rainbow when i said i'd read the whole thing the guy checking me out asked if i got a medal for it...(which is funny, but i don't think the book's nearly as "unreadable" as its reputation would let on...but it worked for the pulitzer committee so maybe i'm in the wrong...) also, i got a cd in the mail: Bark Psychosis: Hex...it's been like a month since i ordered it so it's nice that it FINALLY arrived...