New Ways to Exploit You!
The new and most awesome way to exploit actors? Make them write! Yes! The best dialog changes come from actors. Better than me having to do it, that's for sure. But we can go even further. We can make them fight directors, second unit directors, and even do fight casting ...
Roofs in Brooklyn
Factory Brooklyn.Bond Street Studio.The issue is that of course most of them want about a thousand dollars a day. Sometimes more. That's fine if you're shooting a commercial, but for us that's about 1/8th of the entire budget of the picture. That's OK, by - and - large they can ...
Dear Lord, he’s still talking about amplifiers
CeriaTone makes an interesting TrainWreck Expression kit. It seems pretty cool. Indeed, he'll build the whole thing for you for $670. The problem is that at 13 kilograms, it will cost between $112 and $163 to ship it from Malaysia. Sure, 15 years ago I could have picked a real ...
Yes!
We made the (comments section of the) Nudity Required, No Pay blog. Fame is we.Maybe I need a CeriaTone Trainwreck Expression Clone kit. With suchly we're staring down the throat of a 50watt, with two EL34's and three 2AX7's. So even if you went crazytown with NOS tubes, you'd save ...
Somebody needs a JTM45
And that would be me. I've never actually owned a "head". I've only had combo amps. But when I've used a head I've had the best sound. So, uh, well maybe I'm just a slow learner here. I wonder if I want a closed-back cabinet with 10" Celestions... or Webers...OK, ...
Friday Guitarre
OK, so I've decided I want the GPM45 amplifier from Metropoulos. And you can't stop me! Unless the "you" in this sentence is my bank account. Then, yeah, you can stop me.Today is "moving Ethan's guitars" day. To his new house. Yes, an entire day and special crew was put ...
Cat Thyroid
This post started as one of those list-posts of random information. But now there's a big news flash. Pushkin the cat will be OK!Pushkin apparently has a thyroid issue which can be dealt with by pills. Whew. He's such a good little cat. I just don't want him to hurt.So ...
Amusing Coincidence of the Day
And it just so happens to be guitar Friday too.So I'm at 30th Street Guitars to pick up my rare and unusual "oxblood" Les Paul and I'm standing there with another fellow and we can see Matt and one of the sales guys looking at us, pointing, and then looking ...
Guitar Friday II
Marlon Brando with a kitty.Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers. Look, I don't make this stuff up. It's on the Internet. Really.Letterheady has amazing letterhead designs. We should totally cop some of those Art Deco designs when it comes time to do a letterhead. Via.Hey. Are you over 40? Have you wanted ...
Kenyan Speakers and Straps
Maduka Steady as the Kenyan in Race in Sports.I've been looking at application schematics from Jensen Transformers. Because, apparently I like it. OK, no, not because of that at all. I just don't understand how the impedance of something on the isolated output of a transformer in a splitter box ...