Archive for May 2008

Antiquated Institution Plans to Install 1950’s Technology

I understand that Virginia Beach Central Library intends to install televisions in the main front area (not the atrium, mind you, but in the actual library) so that people can watch the news and eat and drink whatever they want (food will be allowed into the library when this change takes place).
The reason is apparently [...]

Dare To Be Drum Free

Wednesday night I played a show at Scotty Quixx with my new friends Geoff and Rianna. We had a pretty awesome time and I ran into a few familiar faces. We didn’t have a drummer, we rehearsed for only a couple of nights before the show and we still sounded pretty solid in my opinion [...]

“You Know What? I’m Feeling Better By The pound”

Awhile back I had made yet another destined-for-failure attempt at working with some people to form a cover band and make a little extra money this summer. At the time I didn’t think it would totally derail, but it seems like my experiences with cover bands have never been very fruitful. It’s not the end [...]

I Need An Adult

Honestly, how can making a creepy PSA video where an elderly man caresses an effete child actor– in such a manner as to convincingly portray a child molester, no less– be any less immoral and perverse than filming actual child pornography? Isn’t this video really just a rare case of consensual kiddie porn where the [...]

An Evening at Cogan’s Pizza in Ghent

Two meathead jocks with backwards baseball caps and identical Abercrombie & Fitch regalia sit down at the bar in front of Kim and Justin’s table and order two Coronas.

Justin: I bet that guy’s dick smells like that guy’s ass.
Kim: Gross! That means that that guy’s mouth smells like his own ass!
Justin: [laughs]

Take a Hike, Hyphen

I just registered lowquality.net and have finally started the migration from the hyphenated low-quality.net
When I originally registered the domain I didn’t know anything about e-commerce and I didn’t know that hyphenated domain names is more or less a nono if you want people to visit your site (of course if I posted something interesting [...]

New Digs

I’ve been bad at the internet lately.
I haven’t been blogging, I haven’t been taking any pictures and I haven’t done much of anything else on the ol’ tubes either. This not to say that nothing is going on. Kim and I just moved into a mostly empty apartment and have been busy moving in and [...]

First Fuzz Bass

I was trying to think of who recorded the earliest example of distorted bass. My first impulse was to go with King Crimson or Black Sabbath back in 1969 on their respective first albums but then I thought of Larry Graham on “Dance to The Music” in 1968, which is not only earlier but just [...]