Monday, December 28, 2009

another craigslist post another spam-wave

I posted in the singles section again and my email filled up with spam. these are some things to look for when sorting craigslist replies:
1.names don't match
2. "I was using someone else's email"
3."seeing if ur fake or not, holler back if you are"
4."i just moved here from..."
5."I don't want to jump into your life with my kid, I'm not looking for any king of LTR"
6.adding links to the post that is being responded to and the craigslist code address
this isn't the fucking bible, people! I don't need to interperet your words to know you're a spam-bot!
if you program spam, please make it look like a real person is emailing me. make the names match and don't contradict yourself in the message. I've seen so many spam replies, I can spot one from a mile away, so please get better at making them so you can try to fool me.
THIS IS A CHALLENGE: if you program spam-bots, fool me with your reply and I will go on youtube and tell everyone that I have been tricked by a stupid spam-bot.

Friday, December 25, 2009

elder of the tribe




on the 24th my family had a gathering with my father's relatives. we ate and talked and listened to our elder's stories. his name is art. he was an orphaned child who led a hard life of work and vagrancy. his stories are all interesting and add lots to our gatherings. some highlights of his tales include trading a toilet for a violin, stealing food for himself and his companions, and an almost incoherent telling of how he met his wife. one picture shows our shaman with one of our best braves. the brave, donbro, spent a lot of time with me when we were young. we had adventures as bicycle experts. I played the part of the mage, and he the warrior. another picture illustrates many of my clan members gathered around art. they are all focused on some extremely non-magical items that were being presented to one another. the other picture shows our wise man relating his wisdom in the form of an amusing anecdote. during the mundane festivities, I played the role of chronicler in order to post this cryptic message.

Friday, December 18, 2009

same old type of blog




the craigslist people seem cool. they are older like greg. we plan to meet this week. I fixed the rats' castle again today and have been working on some miniatures (joke). I have cute poop, sheast, rat, vodka, beer, robitussin, zonie, and zonie box. I plan to make 3 people next. andy at computer, logan on futon, and arkron. otherwise, I've been sleeping so much recently. I sleep all night and then take a nap after lunch. there's just nothing to do. I watched lick library chords and scales 1 and took notes, but didn't come up with any wild new 4track recordings from the theory learned there. I'm thinking about texting charlie tonight to see if he wants to drink some beer because I'm just so BORED!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

band progress

I contacted death metal people on craigslist and they seem cool. they are a drummer and a vocalist. I've got my vocalist and maybe skwisgaar. between all of us, it should be great! just toss in a bass and some keys for real metal overload!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

collapse

my life is falling apart. so what? I'm not the least bit phased by this at all. no job, losing apartment pretty soon here, big deal. I'm older and calmer than when it happened before. I'll move in with my parents, then my dad and myself can both tell my mom to get rid of her hell-hound (in the nicest way possible). apparently, I get the WHOLE upstairs this time! I won't even give them a tough time. I'll look for a job as much as I can, not put any chemicals in my body, and make awesome 4-track recordings in the evening.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

skwisgaar knows i'm crazy


I just got done jamming with dan, shawn's old guitarist from the uruk-hai battle rock band that I tried to play bass for. he's good at leads and knows good theory. he also has lots of awesome high tech equipment. we did a half-ass recording session and talked about music, equipment, bands, and stuff like that. I'm pretty sure I can get him to help us. I showed him some loco tracks from my solo project and told him rat stories. he seemed mildly amused and it seemed like we could work together more seriously and productively in the future. there's definitely no better guitarist to transpose with. he was doing 3rds, 5ths, 7ths of my parts and showing off his mad sweeping skills in between.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

not a bad day


when I got up this morning, I watched lots of dragonball z and texted greg. then I went to work for 4 hours: minimal pain. I got home and did some emailing and music transfer to and from flash drives to optimize the power and the glory. my dad emailed me some links that were interesting and I played some electric guitar. right now the rats are scrambling all over me. overall, not too shabby!

Friday, December 4, 2009

grab that 4-track recorder by the balls!



I've spent lots of time learning how to go from guitar idea to finished mp3. now I'm producing the good stuff! complex chord progressions, floating synth and shredding lead guitar! it's all there and I have about 60 tracks to show for it. on wednesday, I'll go to the stoneyard stone sober and show them what the fuck is up with brockportian music today. there's only 2 words they need to know, Andy Daily. I'll rip cuts from stolen magick and show them my classical skills, leaving no doubt in their minds who is master of the guitar around here.
the basic idea here is I'm actually getting good at music and want everyone to know it's kill or be killed in the music business. take no prisoners, take no shit!