Woke up. Slowly, it was a crazy night last night that for whatever reason leaves my keys and wallet in a pair of dress pants with a tennis ball on my bed. What happened? And why is there lotion everywhere? Pfffft.

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Bed, pipe, shower, no time for food. Gotta get outside, too many days have gone by with nothing but chills and cold keeping me down and out. Avoiding this effect of cold as much as possible from here on out, even if it means fucking going to sleep with a hat on. Nothing says “SAD” like no sun, most bullshit name for a disorder ever by the way.

Diane said she almost died from her allergies, hope that doesn’t happen she is pretty awesome and I’d like her to stick around. Got on the train, lots of happy people wearing comfy-oh-my-god-soft/less-than-usual-amounts-of clothing; and I can’t help but feel delighted with all the smiles around me. Train packed with silly white-blondes from out of state. Got guilty and decided to buy an m&m from the guy selling them in the train.

Apparently, she wound up on the same train as me… go figure. Went to the park, found a good spot, attempted and failed to try and get Diane to play magic, and wound up just drinking wine, smoking it up with some fellow new yorkers, and legitimately feeling heavenly laying in her lap look at the sky through the trees.

Somehow made it to borders, although I have no idea why, somehow made it to starbucks, again no idea exactly why, and yet again made it to the train, except that one was for goodbyes. Got home, and I’ve been watching catch me if you can ever since.

You may or may not be familiar with the 1pixel out mp3 player for wordpress. If you aren’t and are into publishing songs in an easy to hear format.

After all who doesn’t actually have flash installed on their computer? I mean, jeez there is even an official gnu/linux version out there for all those geeks who have one less trip to the command line. Good news for everyone I guess, now that they no longer have to install some crappy plugin (read: RealMedia) or use quicktime or some other whatever to play an mp3 file on a website.

These players are simple, they open an mp3 file, read its contents, and use the magic of code and flashvars to create the sound. In fact some sites like http://www.youlicense.com rely on such flash code to help their business model.

Some places like http://myflashfetish.com use flash mp3 players for the myspace crew and I’m sure like the ad revenue they create through that pipe.

What I find odd is how even though many sites and many people use these players no longer will see these wonderfu

Firstly, rockband is shit easy as a guitarist and secondly, if you ever want to use one of the guitar controllers on a pc for frets on fire and what not the easier one is the rockband controller, you just plug it in and it becomes recognizeds as a pc controller, then you simply enter the keys in the options menu. Works seamlessly on windows xp.

Sometimes, I should remember what my grandfather said to me when I was a little kid.

“Andrew, you have two ears and one mouth, because you have to listen twice as much as you talk.”

Over this January I’ve so far been slacking abit with doing what I gotta do. But once I get over this stupid cold I think I’ll be back to getting some cool songs down. Gotta go to the gym, get a new job, get ready for school, and find a girlfriend (lol).
Anywho, if anyone is interested in making a tool cover band located in the 5 boroughs of NY please leave a comment or aim me sesstreets@aol.com, I’d be interested in doing most of the lateralus songs in addition to some of the older ones… maybe.

Also, if you haven’t please visit my youtube channel and watch, leave comments, make fun of my covers. I’ll soon be adding more.

:Amplifier basics with overdrive and distortion explanation:

The first thing in understanding the difference is understanding exactly how an amplifier works. For the most part, I will assume that you are not a complete turd head and can understand basic concepts like “electricity” and “vibration” or even “current flow”. And if you don’t a quick Google search will net you a pretty good answer.

Back in the days when guitars were first introduced as a major instrumental piece of a band, they were considered almost antiquity. In the case of a band, the guitar would have often been drowned out unless it was mic’d. We are talking here of acoustic guitars (since there were no other kinds back then) that use a sound box to resonate and amplify the strength of the sound coming from the strings.

You can demonstrate the act of amplification by going into a very large auditorium or a large empty room that is more or less sealed. You’ll notice that every sound you make (if the room is big enough) will echo. The same will occur it big canyons or large open valleys and fields. Sounds waves naturally dissipate, but as they dissipate they spread out and become larger. Now the trick in amplification of sound is that in ideal conditions you want the larger sound waves to come back 100%. While this simply cannot happen due to many environmental conditions such as wood not bouncing 100% of all sound waves; this can, however, be used beneficially in the case of an acoustic guitar.

The process of implication in an acoustic guitar is as follows, for simplicity and continuity we are talking about your standard 14th fret body attached dove tail, default sound hole, six-string guitar; and we will be talking about the A string in particular.

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You may or may not be familiar with the 1pixel out mp3 player for wordpress. If you aren’t and are into publishing songs in an easy to hear format.

After all who doesn’t actually have flash installed on their computer? I mean, jeez there is even an official gnu/linux version out there for all those geeks who have one less trip to the command line. Good news for everyone I guess, now that they no longer have to install some crappy plugin (read: RealMedia) or use quicktime or some other whatever to play an mp3 file on a website.

These players are simple, they open an mp3 file, read its contents, and use the magic of code and flashvars to create the sound. In fact some sites like http://www.youlicense.com rely on such flash code to help their business model.

Some places like http://myflashfetish.com use flash mp3 players for the myspace crew and I’m sure like the ad revenue they create through that pipe.

What I find odd is how even though many sites and many people use these players, will no longer see these wonderful devices. I pulled my own hair out for an hour or two trying to find out why my own mp3 players no longer showed up on websites.

My myspace page no longer had my favorite song playing. As the mp3 player no longer shows up. Go ahead, go to my myspace page (see right hand of this page). If you are using firefox v3 you won’t hear anything.

Go to youlicense and click anywhere on any link to any song. Click view source and search for .mp3 and see if you can find the flash player. Its in the code, but then why isn’t it being displayed?

Through my crazy intense research of using different browsers, I can see that as of now it seems to only be affecting ff3 as IE 6/7, opera 9/10, and earlier versions of Firefox all display the flash mp3 player.

Am I the only one? or is this a case where many users are going to have to yell BUGZILLA at the top of our lungs?

EDIT: Looking throught he 1pixelout website others are having a similar problem with firefox 3.

The EMFF player on sourceforge also seems to be affected by this.

Got the hellraiser, and man is it a great guitar. The only thing I wish is that it was a brand new model and not the floor model that people have had their grubby little hands on. But it doesn’t bother me, I’m still going to take it in for a full tune up once I get my new set of strings.

Other than that I’ve been enjoying paying my own rent, gives me some weird type of satisfaction I guess.

Whatev…

Except its not a red ring of death, technically, a 4th quadrant flashing light is because of a specific hardware failure. In my case e74 is due to the scaler chip.

This is bullshit, I had an xbox for 8 fucking years and it was usually located underneath blankets, nothing ever fucking happened to it.

How is it that the 360 is in every way an improvement to the xbox v1.0 except for the fact that its made out of pure shit?

Disgusting, I’m going to play my 7 year old gamecube that I dropped down the stairs that still works.

Thanks nintendo.

Its funny, less than a year ago I was struggling to play smoke on the water and not knowing what the hell a scale was. My playing sucked and I preferred my acoustic guitar because it didn’t suck.

While I still love all of my instruments my electric guitar has been getting my ire recently. Sheerly for the fact that its just not good enough. Its weird, I used to think it was this ultimate godly guitar that could take on anything.

That was until I realized the strings aren’t supposed to be 1 inch of the neck, go figure.

Now that I have a job, I now have the money, and now that I have the money the schecter hellraiser is in my sights. Its all mine, and nobody can stop me.

The second I stopped by guitar center and plugged it in to a line6 I knew it was perfect for me, the pickups, the finish, the tuning, the action, the everything. It was perfect. Even the guy who was trying to get me to buy it at the time said to me “I can’t help but be biased towards them”.

Even if he did slightly push me towards the hellraiser instead of a silverburst epiphone les paul re-issue (which is what I originally wanted :/) I saw why he wanted to.
But ironically what made me want the schecter so much is that I wouldn’t have to buy a new case, since its a strat design it would fit in my nice road runner case and I wouldn’t have to spend the money.

Stupid? Not really, the cost of a new case in addition to the silver burst would make the price almost even. at 690 (case and silverburst) vs the schecter (700 flat). So I thought it would be wise to go with the schecter.

Soon it will be mine, no question about it.