The temporary Hastings thread

GBX - they must live awfully near the Edgware Road, which pretty much goes mezze hookah joint deli juice bar hookah hookah hookah mezze juice kebab kebab mezze deli tagine mezze hookah. And just near Edgware Road Bakerloo station, Mandalay, the Burmese restaurant which is cheap and LOVELY.

ooooh, hookah joint!

Sadly no joints, Leb or otherwise, at the hookah places.

Sarah, it's Crossroads Deli at the Minnetonka/Hopkins border. My mother now in Sinutab coma of her own devisement so reprieve for another few hours. Next: wrapping declassé presents for my little cousins like pink or purple clothing and EZ Bake Oven and utter crap I would never give on 'turns you into a total cracker, pregnant at 12' grounds. I love wrapping when it's not all my sister's stuff that she's just dumped and said 'wrap this'.

Thanks suzy! Someday I shall check it out.

Wrapping: only one thing left; the 285 piece Magnetix set I bought for my husband. Contemplating pain of going to store to buy a gift bag and fighting crowds vs. pain of attempting to wrap something really awkward. Hmmmmmm.

If your sister makes you wrap things, you should do it badly so that she doesn't dump things on you anymore...

Oh, I need a photocopy of a 4 year degree to put my name on so I can get a Japanese Visa.
With luck i might be staying there and mailing the souveniers back.

John's is my first choice, because while no employer cares if you have one, the Visa people do, and on the off chance someone asks me what my favorite philosopher is, I can just say Wittgestein and then BS my way though the conversation(No one understands him, and a big part of his thing is philosophy is a big waste of energy, so if I side with that...).
However, I'll take anything.

They don't call the schools or anything, which is hilarious, but convenient. People do it all the time.

I would count that as 5 years worth of awesome xmess presents, which I would return in kind with a portion of the money made employed there.

I will find the irony delicious when my USA 1.24 high school GPA ass is teaching in Japan and doing a good job. Yeah.
Putting spite to good use for the good of mankind...orsomething.

Do 4 year degrees even have your major on them? I don't remember! Hmmmm, I'm not sure I'd even know where to look for mine.

Hmmm. I dunno.
They might just say Bachelors Degree of Arts and Science or something.
Funny note: Guy at Primerica who should be doing about 100k/yr right now saw that and said "What? I was studying for an Advertising Degree!"

He's since thrown it away, because it had nothing to do with any of the money he's made.
If only I'd known I'd have had use for it... but then does a degree from River Falls count anywhere in the world? ;)

River Falls?

Yeah, he went to UW River Falls. Alot of people at that office went there, and there's alot of derogatory humour about it there.
I should stop up there, come to think of it. Say hi.
I'll do it before I go.

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I'd have ordered this by now, but why pay the insane shipping when I can stuff it in my luggage.
I'm probably going to come back with twice as much as I came with.Hell, I might leave some clothes!(if i come back....)

John, or anyone who's ever thought aobut playing a violin:
http://cgi.ebay.com/UNIQUE-7-STRING-ELECTRIC-VIOLIN-GORGEOUS-NEW-7N_W0QQitemZ180065417650QQihZ008QQcategoryZ100234QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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John, your mother's family was just like everyone with their first recording device.
Though listening to a 78 at 45+10% makes a baby crying very frightening.

This is now incredibly cute.
I killed the big pops with a limiter set just above the threshold for the actual max vocal volume.
I will now Megaupload the WAV file to you, and burn two copies just in case.

Maer Xmess.

Thank you so much for that. My mom is also incredibly excited to hear it.

You rock.

Merry Christmas to all of you!

I overate today and also discovered for sure that my husband is an unbelievably brilliant plotter. In a good way. :)

Why aren't bars open for us god-hating heathens?

^^^^ FOR REAL

gettin drunk at home.

I'm not god hating, just not a fan of YHWH or whatever. Well, more the followers of the second-wave.
In any case, who's doing things on New Years Eve. Because I currently lack plans, and want to be drunk that day.

I wish I knew how to get surround-sound ot like...work properly. I have six mono wave files and 9.2 WMA file, which isn't something I know what to do with. i can't even TEST this shit without more speakers.
Anyone have reciever with 5.1 analog inputs/the ability to play surround-sound music files? All I ask is I send you big files and you tell me what happens when you play it.

All I have as yet is an intro file. I have to devote a whole day to creating the rest of the song. mess of wires, hours conscructing a drumbeat from samples created in a purely digital environment...
I'm not looking forward to this, but I have the song stuck in my head and I must spit it out...

Thank you for allowing the preliminary rant that this song shall become the sequel to.

Oh, and in regards to that record:
That was a fucking ORDEAL. not to like, make it seem like I deserve any kind of extra-credit something or anything.
It's just that dealing with damaged vinyl is not something I want to do again too soon.
Step one: clean(FUCKBEANS that thing was dirty!)
Step Two: drench with water, but you need to put some kind of surfractant on the platter or in the water. I used up half a bottle of vinyl cleaner to do that. Also, I'm glad that record players are passive. *KRZZAPP* would have been the bad bad sound.
Step Three: Penny on the head. Double-sided tape is nice.
Step four, CRANK the anti-skate, because I think it might have had an error in the 'pressing' that caused an error right before the all-family chourus of 'jingle bells.'
Step FIVE: watch/listen to the thing constantly because you'll need to MANUALLY CORRECT at times. I had to push the needle through a skip in Jingle Bells.

Before the digital speed-up it sounded like a conglomeration of samples from Severed Heads/Fantomas Sessions.
I had to do it twice because apparantly I had an echo bus set up in Reaper without knowing it so when I hit 'Render' the result was the weirdest thing I've ever heard(not really).

Oh, and a fellow named Davy Graham obviously listened to alot of Kottke.
Did an album with Shirley Collins, which I am now listening to.

After listening to alot of Kottke commentaries during his shows, I think the insane descritpions of his songs are true on some level.
After playing Busted Bicycle: "I saw that bicycle... I was with*insert musician's name* on the roof of his apartment building. He was...rather proud of the new bicycle he'd just bought, and pointed down at it, chained to a lightpost. At that moment, a car came down the street and ran straight into it. Utterly destroying it." Paraphrased, but yeah.
He's awesome.
Write a song about being pissed off at girl scouts who tanted him for being bad at canoeing....ok....

I just realized that I was within miles of gbreduneketc. tonight. MOMENTOUS HSTNGS EVENT!

Does it count as momentous in HSTNGS if everyone involved survived to tell the tale?

wait, you were? where?

On a side-note, the Triple Rock has invited me(and...well, anyone on their myspace contacts...) to come there tonight and...drink.
I'[m inclided to accept.
Anyone else in?

Wish I could; oyster stew awaits me in HSTNGS. It seems clear that you will need to have the drink I would have if I could. (At this moment, I would say a Bloody Mary, but then again it is before noon...)

Have fun!

Unfortunately, I'm not sufficiently jaymc to know for sure, but I thought you lived out by the ancestral Justen family home...I'm of Red Wing blvd extraction, myself. EIther that or as I drove through HSTNGS trying to figure out why there's a Panera bread company there, and what the fuck they did to my old middle school :/

xxpost.

Might be able to make 3 rock, might not...

On a vital note, when DO liquor stores open back up? Someone must want to capitalize on Xmas family woes.

Liquor stores should be open tomorrow; I'm pretty sure House of Wines Hastings will open at 9 am. Not sure about the Red Wing stores. Or anything in the Cities. But yeah, still a huge season for liquor stores until closing time Dec. 31.

Okay, it freaks me out to drive past where the junior high was, too. (I still can't say "middle school" automatically.) Did you find Panera? It's by Target, across 55 from where the new high school is.

Have fun tonight, whatever your plans guys.

Arg I'm out of it. Why is there a Panera in HSTNGS? To provide bagels and soup. It's sort of mediocre, but the people who work there have been good-humored about the Widows' occasionally loud antics.

Every time I read Panera I first see 'Pantera.'
Then Beavis appears in my head and says something like "Pantera's in Hastings? WHOA!eheheheheheh..."

Yeah, if ones of triple rockings are goings call my phones.
I'm sick of this room.

PS, John, want some COIL?
I downloaded a ton of it on a whim.
It's INSANE... but then i'm working from reputation and memory.

OH YEAH! This is ACTUALLY Hastings related! That stoner-run hole of a record/guitar store on main st. or whatever in downtown Hastings has a copy of Horse Rovorvator on vinyl.
That's quite possibly INSANELY undervalued there.
Whoever gets it can have the profits. I'm the plague when it comes to risky investing.

This is why I'm gonna get a copy of a degree, get a stable job in Japan(teachers don't get fired, they quit) and invest in Legg Mason mutual funds.
My kids will live like I did when I was a kid: Poe(phonetically, not metaphorically) Folks.
I wanna be like, RICH by the time I'd 45 but the kids getting all PISSED that they don't have any game systems that aren't ANTIQUES that i'm constnatly fixing. Then when some kid calls them poor in school, I'm gonna GO UP TO THAT KID and show them my statement.
"See that, kid? Ask your dad how much he's got in liquid assets when you get home. His/her high school is already payed for, how are they gonna pay for yours?"
Not literally, because it'll be in Japanese, not only in language, but syntax and ...symbology(...NAMEOLOGY!!).
If I tried to do that in English or a literal translation, I'd end up like my dad with the pink around my eyes turning red, my face quiverring and VEINS popping out...

To be fair, replacing the old junior high/middle school with condos and coffee was probably the best thing they could have done.

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Get My Diseases....

Dan, it's not that I think they should have kept the middle school up; it was not really usable any more. I just feel like I can still see it the way it was (with the library across from it). A lot of the changes in town strike me that way. (Hell, I just spent a day at my parent's new house, which will never feel like a home to me. I miss the house on Louis Lane, dammit. Most of my memories were there.)

Newport+Fancy walkways=BUH?
Come comes down next to some fancy sign and foliage(one block from a garbage plant), the other next to gravel, semi trailers and an ugly square building.

My Japanese mom will laugh at the manga I will buy there, as the ones I've decided "Yeah, i need to buy that" are either pervy, deal with androgeny on various levels, or both... I just noticed that about 2 hours ago.
Her husband will make faces at some of them, but he's kind of a perv to begin with, and he's a big geek. He's a geek in denial.

Happy Boxing Day, HSTNGS Thread dwellers!

Who do I get to hit on boxing day?

Canadians?

I think that's up to you, John. (And I can say that since - although I'm French Canadian on my mother's side, I'm a good, safe distance from St. Paul.)

IF I GET TO HIT CANADIANS, I HAVE A NEW HOLIDAY FAVORITE.

Let the dream be true.

Think it's time to deal with those anger issues, John? Oh, what the hell, it's a holiday. We should just let you enjoy it.

WHY U BRAEK MY CHARMING ATTRIBUTES?

Just trying to protect you from more distortions of your skeletal system. And the attendant medical bills.

Have you ever met a Canadian? They're frail, wispy people...

We need to invent a slur for Canadians. "Nucks" has already been coined by David Foster Wallace, but I think that HSTNGS can do better.

THEY ARE AMASSED ON OUR NORTHERN BORDER, PEOPLE! THE TIME FOR ACTION IS AT HAND!

John, when you're arrested for instigating an "international incident," I'm not bailing you out this time.

Also - I am not frail or wispy, and I never have been. (I will admit to possibility that this is due to Irish/German/Norwegian heritage on other side).

I went to Canada on my honeymoon. I don't remember thinking that the people there were frail or wispy. But I might have been distracted. LOTS of good food in Winnipeg. For one thing.

ALL CANADIANS LOOK LIKE THE KID FROM "RUDOLF THE RED-NOSED REINDEER". THIS IS INCONTREVERTIBLE FACT.

They also hate freedom, which is why we now call it "freedom bacon".

John, it may be time to revisit whether taking those drugs in college was such a good idea. Or possibly it's just time for a visit to the optometrist. You make the call.

I suggest that we call them "Hermeys", courtesy of the aforementioned elf-boy.

No matter what you say or do, I don't think you're going to get to replace John Bolton at the UN, John. Not even if you imitate the ridiculous mustache.

Furthermore, since when are you surrounded by "frail, wispy people?" P3rry alone looks like he could throw regular sized people across a room.

I regularly give the Fench Canadian portion of my heritage a beating.
Thing is, it always just rolls over and takes it, but whines about it later.

I just spent like 20 minutes of 2 tracks of a drumbeat.
I think I may move that into a drum machine program as opposed to torturing myself in constructing it manually. It's in 4/4 and everything.
Problems come in that I want to wang on metal objects for one track and I'm without good overhead mic(s) currently.

That and syncing. I figure if I give myself a decent lead time I can correct, so long as both playback and recording are digital.

I'll get that platter to you tomorrow John, along with 2 CDs with the same WAV file on them.
Note: The cleaning and watering process lostened the label on one side.