Right, I am now in control of the new Jolt Country.com. My first action will be to ban Russia. Not because they'rea bunch of worthless commie spammers, no, just because i don't happen to like any Russians.

Jones, you are THE MAN!

The only thing I am mildly dissapointed about is that I can no longer think up funny ways to nudge your conscience.


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When you ban yourself from the internet, do I get your website?

I got Vark his solo. 1/2.

I will get Vark his solo and post Lysander's reviews on Monday, February 20th or else I will ban myself from the Internet for a week.

I get irritated at the poker table when the dealer keeps having to remind people to post their blinds.

See, and that was all set for someone to make a "what is this, your livejournal?" crack. I'm just slightly disappointed.

good questions, 'vark.

I have to go to Bed, Bath and Beyond and buy some blinds.

Why does everything Lysander do or say have to have some connotation to his official sightlessness?

Live in Alaska? Because he's Blind!

Goes to college? because he's Blind!

Plays very good drums? because he'sBLIND!

Maybe he's good at the drums because of a good sense of rythym!

Ask him if he sleeps with is eyes open or closed, whydontcha


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someone should help you buy some drums, you're probably a better drummer because you're blind.

I also play the drums, better than you. I just need 3000 dollars give or take a couple hundred so that I can move a set of electric drums in here, and then I can be a studio drummer without leaving my fuckign bedroom. How cool is that. THe punch line being, I already have 3000 dollars, my dad just wont' let me buy it because he doens't expect my music to get anywhere because "hwo do you konw that oyu sound good, who professionally has given you any validation?" Well I don't fuckign know, dadd, maybe I can't find out becasue you'll never let me spend my own fucking money on a drum set so that I can practice and get better and actually show my work to professional-type people so that htey can satisfy your stupid fucking concerns that I don't suck. Never mind that I have a drum class, never mind that practicing involves getting on a bus in literally 5-dgree fahrenheit weather and going over to a building and playing on their (crap) set for maybe an hour or two a day, never mind that $3200 can buy me the very best sounding drum kit that money can buy that most people pay upwards of ten grand for, this is just a complete waste of money that I will never make money on so if you want to spend money on this hobby you'll have to earn it and get a job! My dad, incidentally, listens to do-wap and basically thinks that music died in the 70s and never came back. My mom, meanwhile, is fully supportive of this revolutionary new concept of, gasp, me buying somethign with my own money, but supportive in the same way that my university supports Bit Torrent; "I agree with everything you're saying, but I'm still not giong ot lift a finger to help you." Kill. Fuckers. DEAD.

I can sing.

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Right, Pinner? I can sing right?

Anyway, souree forge does, indeed imply that i tis free. However i'd suggest actually, you know, trying the program(s) out so you can decide which one has the most workable interface and features and all that. Personally, I use GOld Wave, which a lot of people compare to Sound Forge in terms of editing capabilities. (compared, usually, unfavorably, but compared nonetheless, and it's a fraction of the price.) I haven't paid a dime on Gold Wave, either, as it's one of those fully-functional trial versions I just eep uninstalling and reinstalling. It's been such a good program for me, thoguh, that I would pay for it if I needed to. That said, Gold Wave, Sound Forge and (I think) Audacity (and maybe Audition?) are single-track recorders, so if you're going to do a multitrack recorder Sonar would be the way to go. Of course, if you want to go multitrack, I say buy a fucking mixing board with a hard drive and be done with it; you can do all the recording on a box that won't crash if you plug six things into it, put hte wave files on your computer, and then you can do all the editing of each track individually in a single-track thing like Audacity or Gold Wave or (wareZed) Sound Forge or what have you and then mix them all together when you're done.

I haven't clicked it yet, but does SourceForge imply that it is FREE? FREE???

I want to form a band. I now have the funds to rent instruments. I just need to find someone who can sing and someone who can play guitar.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Are there programs that now let you record to your hard drive and do all the tracking there as well? I could
never get a direct connection to my Tascam for all instruments -- the sax, for instance, would always have that "noise" in the background because it wasn't
a direct feed in. Multiply that by four and you have an enormous loss of quality.

Yeah, there's one or two.

To be fair, it wasn't posted because I was going to change the look and feel of the website and I didn't want to format it and then have to instantly format it again.

That being said, I haven't found a "look" I really like and am somewhat loathe to pay for it, though I guess that could be an option. I owe the government a couple grand in back taxes because I was listed as "married" on my W4 rather than "single" and therefore am sort of looking to trim expenses between now and April, if you're digging my ditch here.

At any rate, let me commit to Vark tonight because I've been a huge disappointment there and his involves hardware. This is a "for real" tonight -- Vitriola is at college, there are no movies like "Emily Rose" to waste my time with and my microswitch, sorry, Cherry microswitch buttons haven't shown up. Baby WHAT'S YER CLAIM TO FAME!

Which reminds me. I wish I was still in a band. Are there programs that now let you record to your hard drive and do all the tracking there as well? I could never get a direct connection to my Tascam for all instruments -- the sax, for instance, would always have that "noise" in the background because it wasn't a direct feed in. Multiply that by four and you have an enormous loss of quality. (And some would say the actual songs detracted further HONK HONK.)

Yes, it is, and you never did anythign with it, that's my point. I eve re-drafted it to you and you said you'd have it done "tonight". Unless this is like the night of one thousand shitty threads and is supposed to extend into infinity via clever wording, you've fucked it up again. Color me shocked.

I was only kidding. Isn't that on the catchup content weekend original post? It should be! I bet I can post those this weekend.

The Wing Commander review... do you not even read the shit I send you? Are you Yahoo news now?

What secret ops thing?