The temporary Hastings thread

^^^^ 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.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1541398730
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.

EVIL EVIL KITTY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_45yEH0BrDc

THE FUCK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuSUFzqkVCE

Did I ever tell you guys about how one of the kids I was driving the summer I worked as a van driver for Dakota County's bad bad chilluns summer program was the living embodiment of "The Bad Seed" who was in the program because she tried to burn down the old middle school? She was 13 and her mom dressed her like one of those creepy dolls but she talked and acted like Regan from "The Exorcist". I bet she loves those new condos (they look more flammable, for one thing).

Canadians are about as wispy as Minnesotans, in my experience. They also tend to smell like sasquatch pie.

Dan, seriously. Your autobiography in 2007. I think we'd all enjoy that. (Plus, what summer did you do that?!)

What the hell is sasquatch pie? When did you start sniffing Canadians?

i saw a football match on boxing day. well good.

hi dere, i am in england

gbx are you having fun? I'm jealous!

"Winter break" from school is too long.

Hi Sara!

I'm just sitting here getting ready to see my dad for lunch. I PH3AR he will try to take me to Country Buffet (remember, my dad = Homer Simpson). So not gonna happen...I've already told him I would rather eat a urinal cake.

Giboyeux, how's the LDN?

not in LDN yet -- still oop north

Hi Suzy!

I am sitting here, accomplishing exactly nothing. Um, except downloading cds to my computer and hoping my kids will behave.

Country Buffet? I'm with you. Good luck...

I want to know if gbx is eating curry everyday, as promised.

Yorks or Lancs, G?

Curry is a distinct possibility oop north, like. Also for surprisingly good curry in the TC, Sara, there are these veggie curries in Byerly's Indian section for $3 a sachet or thereabouts which are super-spicy. I had a "cottage cheese and peas" one (mutter paneer) and found it good enough to satisfy my craving. I suspect it will be much better than other TC options which tend to not restrict their curry purveyance to Indian subcontinent.

Mmmmy Byerly's. I had no clue they had those, thanks for the tip Suzy! I looooove super-spicy stuff. Northfield has two Indian restaurants now - Chapati (good, but pricey) and Kurry Kabob - which I can't bring myself to enter because the name is so goofy. I've had good take-out from Sambol in Eagan, but can't speak to authenticity because I'm clueless on that level.

It is depressing me now that I'm probably just going to have a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch.

Lancs. Forgotten how much I like a northern accent. It's well good. Especially from the mouths of babes -- I've got a grip of iddle second cousins now, and they're unstoppably cute.

Had curry for dinner last night! And a samosa for lunch today.

Which Lancs?

SRC, Indian place closest to me has too pan-Asian a menu and has beef dishes, WTF? Real Indians don't kill cows, even for Minnewegians. Kurry Kabob will be Pakistani/Punjabi so I'd say get over there, it's probably going to be better than you'd expect. Clue: if they allude to meat in the restaurant's name you're probably looking at a North Indian. Sambol just guessin' is south Indian.

I want a samosa now.

Hmmmm, maybe I can overlook the Kurry Kabob name. It is the "K"s that have been driving me away! What is it I always get from Sambol... some kind of cheese in a creamy sauce that is spicy and colored orange. Palak Paneer maybe?

Okay the thing with the beef is really weird.

That's palak paneer. Byerly's has that *and* saag paneer and muttar paneer.

The other weird thing is that the Indian place had no lamb dishes.

Why do I live in a godforsaken place, so far from Byerly's?

I'm starving now, btw.

No lamb dishes? :(