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Band/Excuse to Travel

So Rush isn’t going to tour anymore. We pretty much know that for sure at this point. That means Jen and I need a replacement. We need a new band to use as an excuse to travel to far off destination like Milwaukee, Manhattan, Hershey, and Atlantic City.

Which band should fill the void?

Pearl Jam announced a 2016 25th anniversary tour today. I’ve never seen them, but they are on my must-see-before-one-of-us-dies list. Might they be a good choice?

Me Time

The tree is up, the boy and I went to his band practice while Jen and the girl went Christmas shopping, then the girl and I went food shopping while Jen and the boy went Christmas shopping.

Now all three of them are playing Warcraft together.  Know what that means?  That means I get to watch me some Boston Bruins hockey!

Christmas Prep

Tree: Purchased and put up in the living room.
Decorations and wrapping paper and stuff: Some purchased, some purchasing in progress.

Christmas season: In full swing.

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Note: The idea of Lord Darth Vader giving you a gift is completely absurd. He would force choke you to death and then steal all of your presents. Everyone knows that.

Idiot

The post I just wrote about fleeing the US if a certain fascist is elected president was copied with full text to what appears to be an aggregate site made up of anything it’s crawlers find that mentions said fascist by name.  It even says in the banner that the site is paid for by the man himself.

First off, thanks for asking permission, assholes.  Second, you folks should probably read the shit you steal before posting it.  

  

Where Do We Go?

Every four years we like to tell the same joke.  If candidate X becomes president we are moving out of the country.  We have never said it seriously before, but if Trump should magically find himself on top next November…

Toronto is both beautiful and close, but it will most likely be over run by US refugees trying to flee the fascist regime of the Donald.  London is my top choice in Europe, but there are other attractive English speaking destinations too.  What about a quiet rural country village in Ireland or Wales.  Think about it, if we don’t have a lot of neighbors then we won’t have to be ripped on as often for being from a country that was idiotic enough to elect Trump to an office.  That’s a pretty big plus for me.

You Had a Music Recording Project?

I pretty much forgot about this, but I had actually started a recording project back in March. Whoops. The idea was to take a bunch of songs from old projects and redo them with real bass guitar and real amplified electric guitar. Yeah.

So here are the first 8 songs I worked on. Now I just have to re-record every single sound you hear except for the drums… and even then I’m not so sure.

3:30 and Already Slow

The view out my desk’s window.  It’s only 3:30pm and already route 128 is slow in both directions.  Crud.

 

Forgive me, but I just love that Spark Camera lets you take short videos and then add music to them.  That pleases me on a goofy level.