February 2012
12 posts
Adulting: Step 156: Don't be a re-runner →
adulting:
The other day, my dude and I had an extensive brainstorm to come up with a verb that describes the (super annoying) act of telling an looong anecdote about a TV show or movie that the other person has not seen. Eventually, we settled on “rerunning,” as in, “Ugh, her. She reruns all the goddamn…
The only time this isn’t annoying is when you’ve both seen it. Then...
jephjacques: How I Get Guitar Tones I Like →
jephjacques:
“How do you get that guitar tone?” is a question I get asked pretty often. So I thought it would be fun to do a quick walkthrough of my recording setup and the way I build guitar parts. We’ll be dealing entirely with high-gain metal-guitar distortion here, but a lot of the principles I use work…
Reblogging as a reminder to myself, so my future releases sound better
This can be the new tween TV sensation: That’s Bangin’
That’s Bangin’ follows the middle and high-school travails of a group of kids who just happen to be the children of porn stars. Plot points include:
“It’s my birthday, but Mom got the wrong kind of party favors! Now no one’s parents will let them hang out with me anymore.”
“I think Sarah...
“You know I was married for 23 years to the love of my life, and he died six...”
– Washington State Representative MAUREEN WALSH, Republican, on why she voted to legalize marriage equality in her state.
Dear New Jersey governor Chris Christie and others in the Republican Party who continue to demonize those who want marriage equality: this is what courage, and not cowardice,...
cjfuckingsewers:
meowremix:
thefrogman:
I did not see that coming.
wut
the fack
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Rejected lyrics
Songwriting is hard. The process is considerably different from writing poetry, because with song lyrics you have to take into consideration the melody and the rhythm of the words. Even if you’re writing lyrics before any of the music is composed, you want them to be loose enough to work around whatever the song becomes.
In any case, sometimes lyrics just don’t work out and end up on...
archieoutofcontext:
let it settle for a second … there you go
courtesy of bettyandveronicafashions.tumblr.com
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Hope Floated, then They Burned Her: The True Story...
Kindle Edition.