Monthly Archives: September 2007

Misery Loves Company

I think more peo­ple should know about this. Please dis­trib­ute. In 1997, under intense lob­by­ing from stu­dent loan com­pa­nies, The Higher Edu­ca­tion Act (HEA) was amended, and defaulted stu­dent loans became among the most lucra­tive, and eas­i­est to col­lect type of debt. These amend­ments allow for huge penal­ties and fees to be attached to defaulted

Cut Me Some Slack / Hot Hot Hot

I got a call yes­ter­day from Roger Sad­owsky, con­cern­ing my bass. “Why do you think this bass needs a refret?” he asks. I explained that I had some spots where I was get­ting an annoy­ing buzz but they weren’t in any con­sis­tent man­ner. He said he’d look again with that in mind but that he didn’t think

Treading Water

This after­noon my mom and I did a lit­tle math. My stu­dent loans from Berklee (and my car loan) total about $1930.00 every month. I drive a Toy­ota Matrix so don’t go think­ing that total is based on a financed BMW 7 Series or any­thing like that. I make about $33k a year which, after taxes,

Refret, Pt. 2

I men­tioned a few posts ago back that my bass was in need of a refret. Well I just boxed up my beloved Sad­owsky 5-String today and I am ship­ping it off to Brook­lyn from work. The UPS Store charged me 31 dol­lars for a “gui­tar box” to ship it in. I feel so raped