Dusty Chalk

You make that sound like a bad thing. Also: fuck off. Cheers!

As they did last year, they're allowing you to download the whole "album" -- if I read it correctly, until January 6th. Noice!

Matt Stevens -- unholy carp -- proggers, descend on this! Instrumental, well produced, and...lossless until the 31st. Due to VAT restrictions, he's dropping bandcamp before the 1st. I'm probably getting everything. It's just superb production, fantastic music-writing, and virtuoistic musicianship.

I'm glad your sense of humour is intact.

Lollers. I wrap like a bachelor -- don't ask anything fancy of me, but if you need something square or rectangular wrapped, I'm your man.

Either that or they have him on just the right amount of pain medication. (Sorry, Larry, not making fun, you do sound like you're holding up well, and whether that's from better living through chemistry, or because you are just plain holding up well, who cares? I'm glad you're glad to be alive.)

CSC is giving me a vote on where they contribute their money this year, and all the others are children based, which doesn't interest me, so it's down to these two. Does anyone know anything about either of them? No need to "lmgtfy", iwgtfm, tyvm. Sometimes someone has information or strong feelings one way or the other.

Because we always get an influx of newbs, trolls, and thread necromancers...and it is rarely during these influxes (infli?) that we get the good ones... (Apologies if you're the exception.)

That's easily solved -- never buy anything. No, seriously, there's something called "buyer's remorse", and there are a couple things that exacerbate it -- the biggest one is continuing to shop for the product after you've already purchased it. I mean, we even have terms for this -- audiophile nervosa, upgradeitis, etc. The more you spend on something -- the more you push yourself to reach above what is financially reasonable for you -- the more likely you are to feel this way afterwards. It's just like computers or anything else -- get the best that you can afford (that matches your requirements) that is available on the market. It also sounds to me you bought them based on the opinions of others, or was it based entirely on brand reputation? That's always a mistake. I realize there is no other way to audition customs but that's one reason I don't own any customs -- there's no way around it. I think this -- combined with the above -- is the problem in the nutshell. Kudos for recognizing it.

Is head-fi down again?

Uh...no, you were cranky from the get-go. If you honestly believe that didn't color your interactions with everyone in this thread, then...well, good luck with that.

Tidal == good customer service. I complained on Facebook about them posting country music after the album i was listening to finished, and they helped me figure out that apparently I had accidentally hit their country playlist on the way out the previous time, and how to clean it up. This, despite how rude I had become.

Irony is gold in this thread.

What the dickens?

Yes, I mean Arise -- I actually think it makes more sense that she's petite, I always thought her large breasts conflicted with her badass ninja fighting skills, especially if it's a body type that she chose, rather than grew into.

Why would you think that? Most engineers that I know are proud of their latest accomplishment, and they're not afraid to tell people that. "Hey, this is the best I've come up with yet." And then add to that the inability to sit still. "Now how can I improve upon it yet still some more?" And you get exactly what you got. Also, where was the comment made? There's a difference between "this is the best I've come up with" and "this is the best I will ever come up with".

Wait, the Roxannes are better than the 13s and the 16s? Just convince yourself that the new ones aren't better, and you're done. That's what I'm doing with the Roxannes.

Steins;gate And if you're an anime fan, you should also check out the Ghost in the Shell reboot -- two episodes already up on Netflix streaming.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise in the key of D minor)

Thanks for keeping us filled in, Blutarsky. Continued hopes and well wishes for the best possible outcome. Maybe he can do a Subaru commercial after all of this.

Okay, so it had nothing to do with the wood being inappropriate for a guitar build.

Jeff -- I missed something -- I thought you said in this thread that the Paulownia did not work out. You're saying it didn't work out for you? So what happened to it, did it go back to the shop? Did they sell it to someone else?

No, we just need more of a "work smarter, not harder" mentality.

The progressively less often Linn 24 Bits of Xmas bump. Also, Kscope is offering a free sampler of this year's releases: kscopemusic.bandcamp.com (For some reason, I can neither copy-and-paste URLs into head-case within IE, nor can I click on the stupid link button.)