Love it!

here's great photo that shows that even when they aren't in combat Marines are working hard, but keep their sense of humor.


Marines use shovels to attempt to dig out a Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected vehicle in the rain Dec. 19 after it sunk into the soft mud flats near Observation Post "ManBearPig." (Photo by Sgt. Brian Tuthill)
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WoW

So I was looking around the Forums and I find "your favorite guild names"sooooooo....
I present

My Little Pwny
The UnforgivOHGODBEES
My Little Pwny
Your Moms a Horde
Lincoln Wiped on Opera
Grand Theft Kod
Thunderbluff cattle co.
No but My Sister Will
International House of Pwnage
Don't hit me, I'm on Dialup
LOL WHAT DO I TYPE HERE
And His Amazing Friends
I Crit My Pants
I Beta Tested Your GF
Big Girls Max Out Cookin
Vampire Penguin Society
It burns when I PvP

And that's just a few of the better ones up to page 5 out of 15 or so,
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BJ

I'm movin' out, great song, Pandora rocks again!

OH G-D!

I just listened to Todd Rundgren doing his only famous song,Hello it's me
The lyrics are narcissistic, juvenile and the act of a stalker.The music exists to support his vain talent,IMO.Right now I got Billy Joel Live, KILLER! great comparison,
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Escaping from the Lost Isles was No Picnic, Son!

See the paratrooper going in the drink? It's my job to neutralize them. Later I'll be A to A on those AC.

I was just listening to Judge Andrew Napolitano on FNC, and his Jefferson quote, one of many I adhere to, that "the Tree of Liberty must be watered with blood from time to time" he really said that,Jefferson I mean and I agree.The difference is we have evolved as a society to such a degree that we remove our government and don't lynch them(see Europe, circa dawn of time thru 1989),so far.
All that said, why do the Right Wingers get so upset with the Hippy-Dippies trying to
upset the applecart,as it were? After all they are just following the Jeffersonian ideal of Government as Limited and Restrained.
I know that their Ideology is False and Juvenile, but I like their Spirit, and I hope When,not If,the time comes, we shall show the same Spirit of Freedom and Independence That the Crazed American Youths do, except we have Brains......And
GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!
and guitars,
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This is what happens whe you have too many email accounts

I wish I could get a better shot, but it's a great read, couldn't have done better if I were Nigerian. I get a lot of scam spam and usually skim thru them all just for fun,
and oh yea, it's fun.This guy here has probably seen Three Kings, the one with the Iraqi Ass Map,and spells names of Iraqi towns worse than your average American, and that's Really...Sad.
Command of English,none for me thanks I'll just use an(insert country here)/English translation book and I'll be fine, yes sirree Bob!
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Lol

http://weedporn.com/

Good old Medicine

See, they used it back then, why not now?(Indica,mmmmmm)
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Hello

Cat is Awesome! found out I'm doing re-inspections for guys whom hired on at the same time as me, heh.
It appears that they didn't perform due diligence in their duties, or were confused,either way, Bad!This job is Easy! if you take your time,
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Winging

Stopping down to get that lowlie troll hunter to mail me my Ruby Shades cuz I'm going cruisin'..Flying in Azeroth!...oh yea!

Oh Yea!

Same dude(s) as in my previous post.
Ahhhhhh, soooooo, realivemovement, yoo hah wooly hahponent! Ash fu har!
Really impressed!

Gave me the chills!

Sweet!

Winston's Cat: Iranian National Air Line Has Star of David on Roo...

This is fucking Awesome,I love the Jews!
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Winston's Cat: Iranian National Air Line Has Star of David on Roo...: "Google Earth. Al- Arabiya reported this week that Iranian officials were outraged to discover a Star of David on the roof of the headquart..."

Grooveshark update

After updating Flash, and waiting about five minutes to load, ( I didn't wait, I use firefox and did something else)I was able to pull up a song, waited about 2 minutes for it to come up, wrote some comments and emails, went back and noticed even though the song was playing, the page was still loading after 10 minutes!That points me to the ad servers,which is the first and last things that load on a commercial page.
That said,it's probably an adserver issue, but as Stu and I say, COMPARED TO WHAT?
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Quote of the day

Do you see the cartels trying to push Beer?
Joe Rogan
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Grooveshark is DOWN!

First time ever for me....damn!

Oh yea!!

Sound GREAT!

LITERAL World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Cinematic Trailer

Pretty funny, reminds me of Jack Black,
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Update time

Been very busy, my new job at Southern California Edison is keeping me quite busy so My posting has been light, so how about an update?
Jeff Green from the KGB is coming by Saturday to do some overdubs on their live tracks, should be interesting, 4 days off you would hope I had a plan of attack but,.....No
Anyway here's some Eye candy

Funny ass shit!

Travel comments for Area 51
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Sometimes I look and notice...

A Bunch Of Stoners!

Chillin' the most!

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Cowboy/mPsPO

On a sad note....

P.D. won't be making it out here for Thanksgiving due to money issues, and that sucks!
We know shit happens though so We'll just stay in touch and will be ready when he is.
Add to that Stu and I are working on remote recording possibilities for P.D. so we may yet get some good stuff out there sooner,I guess it depends on timing as usual,
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KGB Decends into the BRG studios

Saturday night was a blast, We had Jeff,Joe, J.J. and Art over for a listening party.
We spend 5 hours going over the recording we did on Halloween, picking out the best we could get to mix down. This can be quite tedious, however these guys are very Pro so they knew what they were hearing and made some good choices for Stu and I to work with.
Pics anyone?
Jeff

J.J.

Art and Joe

Chuck on the boards

Good Times!,
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I was at the Bobarian's house last night....

Get this.....

I walk up the sidewalk and there's Q.....playing his DRUMS!

His new kit, all set up, looking and sounding great!

p.s. I took the 12 string out of it's case and it was very sweetly still in tune! Good find, Q!

More pics in the slideshow?

Chluthu,and PD

Deep in the darks of time there was Chluthu,and PD, Pd ran for the exits and Chluthu stayed in the Dark Underworld, and still hopes for his fifteen minutes of fame. On the other hand, PD was discovered in Southern California as a wild, homeless kid,(reminds me of the the kid in Road Warrior) and was picked up by the olde band Bobzilla.After many years he established himself in the Arizona Desert, where he thrives to this day.
A fresh/old member of BRG, his contributions are awesome and long distance, which is what the BRG is looking to do, Thanks PD!
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WOW

Please feel free to destroy my erudition and contextual spelling,Stu dumps on my punctuation all the time,(and I like it)Bottom line,Thanks to all of the BRG!
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About P.D

In my last post, I may have given short shrift to the PD,In response I say the following, We play for Blister Records GROUP, Not Company, PD goes back to our first live band events,and is a great find(thank you Social networking)I thought I had lost touch with him forever, but no, He still has the Talent and willingness to come in and lay down the coolest of jams and understood early our process, and freedom of schedule,cause that's what we do,hehe.
We work hard to get our associates involved and for typical(to me)A lot of reasons of our musical friends flake on us,Daniel for example, is a great musician/writer ,but has some issues he needs to deal with, and that's cool,but he started and didn't finish what we started, so he get's put on hold.
PD and the KGB as well, take their music seriously, and do what they can when they can,and that's enough for Rock and Roll, See you soon PD!
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What's up!?

P.D. coming out for some lead sessions on Thanksgiving weekend, Bonus!
The KGB is coming over on Saturday to go over the tracks we did at the Boomer Tribute last Halloween (last week),this is good,we did a remote recording session and need the guys who played the music to give us an idea of what they like.
So far we have Art(Bass),Joe(guitar and vocals)and of course Jeff(Lead vocals and guitar)showing up and we will go over all the things we recorded to settle upon a list of tunes to mix. Sounds like Bla Bla Bla but we need them to decide what they want to hear, and mix from there,better for you, better for me(Priest song?).Remind me to take some pics,
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Why I'm against gay marriage

Marriage isn't just between a Man and a Women, it is a commitment to bond for life,as one, as it were, and also a means of reproduction.
Not just Little "me's" running about but for the entire species, humans instinctually seek out mates,to make Babies! After all, we are still just stupid mammals eh?

Meanwhile in Europe, half of the countries there are below replacement rates for their people, the Italians, at 1.4 kids per marriage, cannot replace themselves, at all, They Are Done.Japan too, 1.3?
In the U.S. we are at about 2.4, that's good enough(1.9 being minimum)For the Anglo people to survive.
The saddest and to me the most frightening part is that Europe won't be Depopulated, so much as infiltrated by hordes of Swarthymen bent on destruction,rapine and mayhem,all in the name of their god.
gay=death, Women=chattel slaves, sad, sad, religion, btw average kid rate, 6.2 in Gaza which is supposed to be a refugee camp, hmmm...

so don't despair, FUCK!!!!

So that's why I'm against gay marriage, sorry boys(and gals)but you'll just have too find another word, as we Heteros kinda own this one M'kay?

Welcome P.D.!

Straight outta Tuscon!He's been a comrade and bandmate of the BLT squad for nearly 20 years, so again,WELCOME!

Pondering

I'm sitting here and reasoning how
It all began, the here and now
Faces of friends come and go
have they too pondered, yearned to know

In years gone by it mattered not
The journey forged, led to this spot
I've seen the turns, for I walked each step
I laughed the laughs, shed tears and wept

So the trek was tough seems there's no doubt
Fulfilling, frustrating making me shout
Suddenly its there,what a fool for not knowing
Its not how I got here, its where i'm going

P.D. Stickland

How smart were the Romans?

This Smart,
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Pullin' Up Weeds

Check out John Fedak's debut release Pullin' Up Weeds

Waaaaa!

Ya hear people whine about the disappearance of vinyl. Ya hear people whine about the disappearance of CDs.....Me?...I LOVE IT!!!
Just had a stack of CDs and cassette tapes fall behind the 800lb antique PA speaker...such fun getting them outta there!....screw those stacks of physical media!!!....I LOVE MP3s and GrooveShark!!

Logorama!

This is Awesome, Logos were used purposely throughout and there is a great story as well. At 16 minutes it's a bit long but it is worth the time,
UPDATE: Remember the pause button,
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Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

I love this lyric

Check out the whole thing, but the relevant part is #1, Yarg!

He's shaving his beard, he's buying a flight, he's getting laid in Hawaii tonight ...
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Santa Claus is coming to Town

This is really funny

Text shamelessly stolen from NRO



Follow these simple steps for a cheap laugh:

Step 1. Go to http://maps.google.com

Step 2. Click get directions

Step 3. Type origin (A) as Japan

Step 4. Type Destination (B) as China

Step 5. Go to line 43

Step 6. Laugh!

H/T My son in law,
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I like this website

ListUniverse

an extended view of some of the newest theory's in Quantum Mechanics, Simplified,
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Wow! Comments are broke

I'll have to send in a ticket or something, if you can comment, please lemme know,
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GREAT session with John Fedak, the guy just oozes talent!

Yellow pages as a database

Nice short article from Reason.com, an excerpt,

By 1954, the American phone system was producing and distributing about 60 million phone books a year. For all their impressive physical heft, they still signaled the coming shift from an industrial economy to an information-based one. While they cataloged a vast material world of carpet cleaners, typewriter repair shops, and smokestack painters, they also suggested that their world--the world of manufacturing and distributing data--was the rising paradigm.

Like the Man says, Read the whole Thing,
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Tomorrow - Recording Dr. Slam and the KGB at their benefit Halloween Party

Dr Slam and the KGB Halloween Party Benefit Show

Polishing up "Pulling Up Weeds"

Hopefully finishing up "Pulling Up Weeds" with Ukeist John Fedak, this afternoon.
Stay tuned for sounds!

Restarting an airplane engine

The hard way!,
is it real? I think so, the engine isn't being started as much as engine shut down, jumper climbs on the wing and drops down to hold the prop, pictures are taken, goes viral?
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Wanna get lost?

Try reading this thread for an hour or so, it gets into some theory I can't grasp, and some I can,
Belmont Club

Helpdesk

O.k. now this is funny, cause it's true, I got this from a website comment section that was talking about Tech, then and now,
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Ukeage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wFBAsaouQ&feature=player_embedded#!

Tool is a joke

Maynard is a Fucking whiner,I have listened enough and I'm sick of it. I write and I don't whine, I tell stories, maybe it's cool to whine but I don't dig it.

Outa love again by VH is on right now David Lee ain't whining
had some Steely Dan on, they weren't whining,
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Chopin Etude op.25 no.11 "Winter wind"

Just incredible, with finger cam!
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The Genius that is The Oatmeal

It's funny cause it's true,
If you do this in an email, I hate you

This is what a scam looks like

Dear beneficiary, I am bringing to your notice that, I am in the position to release a part-payment of your total funds, which amounts to sum of $7.Million United States Dollars, and this Money will be coming through 2 security proof boxes. The boxes are sealed with synthetic nylon seal and padded with machine.

Padded with machine? what the hell does that mean?(ooh a rhyme!)this is just a part of the Email,I won't post the rest, good fun though,
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Rain

It's raining again, YAY! funny how city people like me love the smell of wet Asphault, but we do,
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Rain+

A triple Rainbow!, really pretty, pics to follow,UPDATE: now with pics! very hard to see the third one but my camera is sucky, still cool,
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we aren't doomed

chelene Nightingale is running for Gov in Cali, I like her platform, probably gonna vote for her on principle, I can't stand Megnut,
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WE ARE DOOMED!

I can't stand it! I won't vote for Gov in Cali,
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WE ARE DOOMED!

Jerry is losing it!expecting breakdown in 5..4..3..2..1
Done!
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WE ARE DOOMED!

Brown(who was Gov when I was growing up)wants to invest in Windmills, ever been on I-10 on the way to palm Springs? Dead windmills! no efficient maintainence no power,
no offline power, what a fucking joke,
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WE ARE DOOMED!

I'm watching the Whitman/Brown debate and it's RINO against Old man, no good choices,
We are Fucked in Cali,
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Exactly

Via the Chicagoboyz.net



I have seen a lot of people writing about Lisa Murkowski’s decision to wage a spoiler write-in campaign, to try to prevent a Tea Party-backed GOP candidate from winning the general election.

Most of the writers look at it, incorrectly, in terms of Sen. Murkowski’s personal psychology. For example, they say she feels miffed about losing a seat that is supposed to be hers by right of inheritance. This motive may exist, but it is trivial.

In Illinois, there has long been an expression which describes the relationship between the two political parties: The Combine. Chicago Tribune writer John Kass seems to have originated this expression. See, for example, this article: In Combine, cash is king, corruption is bipartisan. Kass quoted former Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald: “In the final analysis, The Combine’s allegiance is not to a party, but to their pocketbooks. They’re about making money off the taxpayers,” Fitzgerald said. Kass went on: “He should know. He fought The Combine and lost, and the empty suits running the Republican Party encourage their friendly scribes to blame the social conservatives for the disaster of the state GOP.”

Sound familiar?

America, welcome to Illinois.

The way it works is this. The Democrat party is the senior member of the Combine. The GOP is the junior member of the Combine. The game is exactly the same, and whoever is up, or whoever is down, based on the random behavior of those rubes, the voters, does not matter. The game is always exactly the same, and the people who are in on the game, from either party, have a shared stake in defending the game.

The Combine is a term that should be more widely used in Illinois. It is also a word that should be more widely used in the USA in general.

Lisa Murkowski’s family, and her career, exist because of the Combine. Her interest is in preserving the existing game. She is preserving her stake and her family’s stake in a game they have benefitted from. There is no mystery about this at all. There is no need for psychiatry to understand why she is trying to stop Joe Miller. He threatens the game. It has nothing to do with the label “Republican.”

This is why Rome fell,
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Star Wars

Saw the season premier of season 3 of the "Star Wars - The Clone Wars" series. Easily the most dramatically well crafted of all the Star Wars offerings.

I know claiming dramatic superiority to anything in the Star Wars franchise is not saying much, but, as I am a fan of Star Wars in general and have seen all the movies and both previous seasons of The Clone Wars, I must give kudos to Cartoon Network and the creators of the Clone Wars series for a job very well done!

On Icons and Liberace

Vs. lady Gaga. I used to trip on Liberace when I was a kid, and you could tell he was tgey, but even then I could tell he was a fantastic Pianist, OTOH I have seen very little of the gaga person, don't even want to ( nice ass though). In fact the only thing I have seen/heard is a performance from her Juillard days, And it was quite good, she can play, she can sing. But the Wall Street Journal has a nice short piece on Icons then and now, insightful and entertaining, read it here
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We Love Bon Scott!

"Stick this in your Fusebox!"

Hyna!

Ready for some good old fashion Rock? I got some nasty lyrics and a cool groove, Buster Apocalypse has laid down some basic drum tracks, I think this is gonna take off!
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Marijuana advocacy

Stu and I are advocates of Marijuana and we live in Cali (WHOO HOO!)so in that spirit I give you a nice video from Reason.com ">3 perspectives on Medical Marijuana
Enjoy!
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Johnny!

I had know idea that there were even lyrics to the Bonanza! theme let alone johnny Cash did a version, but he did! Johnny

Hyna!

Stu and I had a great day, we came up with Hyna! amongst other things,YEA!!!!!!

What if they had a Hurricane and no one came?

All the cable channels are trying to scare people about a hurricane that, if you look at the weather maps show it will not affect the Eastern seaboard. winds are predicted at about 70 MPH or so, what is sad is that us in Socal deal with 70-100 MPH winds every year, they call em Santa Anas. I have dealt withe these winds for 47 years, sometimes 40-50 mph but I've been thru 100 mph winds that took my fences away,WAY AWAY.
But we don't live on the East coast,so we don't count, WTF ever!
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Peter knows how to work the net....

http://frampton.com/home/

Finally made Instapundit!

Glenn posted an email I sent last night, I almost never email the big boys but thought it might get a response, in regards my post last night about disaster prep, Screen shot anyone?
This is big, Because the big boys don't reply to just any old question,
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My Katrina thoughts

Summarized here! READ THIS! hindsight IS 20/20
get ready
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READ IT ALL! It covers civil rights in an emergency as well

SNIP, "I had several chats with my friends about not bringing others along. One was OK with this, and apologized. The other thinks I'm a bit anal-retentive and unsympathetic. I've assured him that that's true! (Think about it)
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Ukulele!

Heard several new tunes from John F today.
Awe-haw-SOME! What a genius.
Can't wait 'till we get some of this stuff published!

I Hate Spiders!

So I'm going over to fix my daughters Fridge (of course)and when I get home I go to put on my shirt and BAM! I get bit by a big ole spider, Fucker!
I did good things, on my birthday, and still get bit by Bullshit (spiders), Whoopee!
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Weed facts

One of the most comprehensive and well documented sources I've seen
http://www.jackherer.com/index.html

SAILING!!

BEEER!

OY!

Johnny is a good man

Johnny Rotten, who is widely considered to embody the zenith of punk music and a former singer of the British band the Sex Pistols, issued the following statement to the Independent newspaper about his planned concert in Tel Aviv:

I really resent the presumption that I'm going there to play to right-wing Nazi jews [sic]. If Elvis-f-ing-Costello wants to pull out of a gig in Israel because he's suddenly got this compassion for Palestinians, then good on him. But I have absolutely one rule, right? Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.
Go Johnny Go!
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We Like Ray Bradbury

and so does this chick, NSFW
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Right to Bear Arms

Just checking out what I'm allowed to own in California. Looks to me like we can own guns as long they are not, at all, competitive with what the government has...

Here's the generic characteristics list for the weapons prohibition in CA

http://www.ag.ca.gov/firearms/regs/genchar2.php

Notice we can not have a weapons that can carry more than 10 rounds or accept any type of removable cartridge. So in a fire fight, we must stop down to reload after 10 shots but the gov and/or criminals can wail away at us with 30 round clip after clip.
Sorta like a pocket knife vs a claymore. What's the point?

I'll bet any money the "justification" for this is something along the lines of "citizens don't need assault weapons for self defence"...the missing factor is that we won't be defending ourselves from other law abiding citizens, we will be defending ourselves against criminals or the government. In fact, the reason the constitution guaranties us the right to bear arms is so that we may defend ourselves from our GOVERNMENT. So they are making sure that the best weapon we can have is a 7 shot, chambered, hunting rifle. Great against deer....not so good against AK47-style assault rifles and teargas.

So really, there is no "real" way to defend ourselves against the government in the state of CA.

Our constitutional rights are being trampled. You mean to tell me I must accept that some "well trained" 19 year old soldier or police officer has better judgement in the use of an assault weapon than me? No way! It's simply that the government doesn't want us to be able to exercise our right to replace them, entirely, if we choose. They work for us, not the other way around!

That's Right is DONE!
Hear it here.

It's over

Post removed by Me,
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King of Snark

post removed by Me,
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Drum Bundle

Going into the drum bundle for the last time. WooHoo!

The song is ready. After I increased the overall volume to make sure the MP3s have some juice, there was one solitary Snare beat that red-lined the meter (last snare before "broke now"). Nothing else touches the red.

So I'm going back to the drum bundle for the last tiny adjustment.

Then it's mix-down!

It's possible Yrgal may make some small adjustments to some BG vocal levels after the release...but's it's the INFORMATION AGE, we can do that!

Hell Yes!

watch this!

Help!

The Russians need it bad, maybe us Cali people could help. I don't know, you tell me,
Look

sorry if this is "racist"

D\So I'm skateboarding to the store cause I'm too buzzed to drive, I'm leaving and this old Mexican dude is staring me down, I mean Hard Core, so I say what the Fuck? he says Why you here? realize I'm already mad and tired from riding, so I say what the Fuck do you care? he says come on back, and I do, What's you4r problem old man? fuck you and your sick Country, he says come on, I say, O,.K. me my deck, my beer, my knife, let's go, he left,Quick. I don't go for confrontation, not my style, but I'm sick of these fuckers acting like it's the wild West, and if it is I'm Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday all Wrapped into one, FUCK THESE People,
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See?

This is funny cause it's true

Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor.
Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government then gives you some milk.
Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the government; then the government sells you some milk.
New Dealism: if you have two cows, you shoot one and milk the other; then you pour the milk down the drain.
Nazism: If you have two cows, the government shoots you and keeps the cows.
Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.

In recent years and days, the joke has taken a literal and unfunny turn here in the U.S. The latest addition to the joke is something like this:

Nanny Stateism: If you have two cows, we’re going to show up at your house at dawn with a cease-and-desist letter and forbid you to do anything useful with their milk until you comply with General Laws Chapter 94, Sections 13 and 16 through 16K, Chapter 94A, and the regulations found in 330 CMR 27.00 et seq.

See? Not funny.

this is cool, maybe

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: My brother sent me an MP3 file of a cut from his next album and wrote: “Here’s the first recording in the new studio space. The ‘phone mic’ is the handset from an old Bell dial-phone that has been modified to take an XLR plug. Totally nails the “telephone tone” — if you can imagine such a thing. The guy who makes them even offers some where you plug into the base, so you can keep the whole phone as a mic.” I love that.

from Instapundit
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Tom Tom Flams Gooooood....

I like it, it's what Q described, I think he and Yrgal will like it....

more fun with spam

wow, the background of the text I tried to paste was full of tags and spam, I didn't see it until I tried to post it, Google Good, (never thought I would say that),
Never mind,
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WTF?

O.K. here at Blister we don't do Apple, we are PC guys, that aside, I read that the FTC has filed a lawsuit against Apple saying that they must use Flash in their OSs. Right now they use open source
HTML5 and CSS3, which is truly the next wave of web development, and being open source, is Free, that's why I can blog as easy as I or anyone else can do.Flash is proprietary and web devs must purchase a license to use Flash in their SDKs. I love Flash, so does Youtube for example, but if Mr. Jobs company wants to use another platform, why The Hell does the GOV have any business deciding What tools a company uses in their product? what harm is there in Steve using something else that people want? Hell they own about 10
% of market share, so it's not like a monopoly or something, FUCK the GOV!
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P.S. no government agents were harmed in the writing of this post,
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Fear of heights?

How about a glass- bottomed Hot air balloon gondola?

Triggers!

One more

by way of addition, we drink Beer and partake of the Herb, but we raise or have raised our children to be good people, can't do that if your Not there!,
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Bill Weldon Loses!

We found Ty Easton Today, and that's a good thing, We talked for a bit and he is doing well, kids are fine etc. The biggest bummer is Billy, he fell off the wagon, left his kids and is now shacking up with some "person" in N.M. USA.A prolific and gifted Writer, Bill was an integral part of all of our works in the past and could have been now if he wasn't such a piece of.... work. Sadly, he chose Drugs over his responsibilities and while not being dead to us,he has so much to make up for and so little time (his boys are growing up!)We have given up on any rehab for him, SAD,sad.....
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Reggae is amazing

Bob Marley was Rastafari, an offshoot of Christianity,I'm a Nazerene Protestant,Christafari is a Christian group. Matisyahu is a Hasidic Jew, and Stu is Agnostic/Daoist, Go figure, We All play the Rasta, IRIE ITES,
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No Politics Today!

Which is a good thing for certain people in my circle, Just Root Reggae on Pandora, some Beer and PGA Golfing on Stonervision, not to mention finding old musician friends on Myspace (Hello Ty!).I'm about ready to work on my new old school country thing I am calling "One Bullet" which may take some time to work out the kinks(great band BTW), YRGGGG!
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That's Right Release

We're shootin' for the 14th (official release the 15th)

FacebUk

Someone remind me...

What, exactly, is so bad about marijuana that mothers, or anyone, should be imprissoned over it? Really, what's the problem again?....

I forgot, how many people does pot kill each year?

What exactly are the statistics on traffic accidents involving only pot as the intoxicant?

What, exactly, are the health problems it creates?.

Explain, again, how pot smokers are bad for society?

Answers:
There isn't one.
Zero.
There is no measurable impact.
Zero.
They're not.

Meaty Democrat

...band/song/album name...

Greg Gutfeld speaks

Investment Opportunity: My Ground Zero Islamic Gay Bar


Investment Opportunity: My Ground Zero Islamic Gay Bar

He is serious,
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Yrgal is right.

We need a Les Paul.

...the guitar, not the guy. He's kinda old (is he alive still?), don't think he'd wanna come down and hang at Blister...

We got some cool equipment but, yea, we need a Les Paul....and a Marshall 1/2 Stack!!

Download Free Music

As always, download free music MP3s from Blister Records Recording Group.

BooYaa!

Finally got the "AHHs" in the background vocals RIGHT!

The orignal mix had a certain magic to it. But it also had some messy spots. I couldn't clean up the messy spots so we re-recorded....Well, they were clean but the magic was gone!

I have been messing with them for weeks trying to re-capture the right sound....

Well due to my particular brand of coolness and the fact that I archived EVERYTHING, I was finally able to achieve clean AND magic!

YARG!

Discuss...

stuff

Fun with spam

I have seen people do this, now it's my turn, check out this bit of spam, note the amounts, spelling and mostly, the actual address, hk= Hong Kong,

Wow never mind, the fucking paste had bad shit in it that blogger spotted as spam,
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It is my pleasure to write and inform you of a transaction involving the transfer of Eighteen Million Six Hundred United State dollars ($18,600,000.00) only into a foreign account for safe-keeping pending my arrival with my colleagues for the sharing with you as the account owner into which the money is remitted.

that's a good bit that should be safe, and funny,
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Fun with electricians

I'm an HVAC mechanic, and because of that I typically have a great deal of respect for their trade, however, today I met a good electrician who was clueless. I moved many things in my garage to help him out and make his job easier, as well as keep my toys safe. What did I get in return? He smacked his conduit into my favorite plane, and if I wasn't quick it would have been destroyed, thankfully it was saved. he finished but of course didn't check his work, but I did. The new circuit worked 2 times then failed, so I ride my skateboard down the street where he was on his next job. He was very nice and said he would be over within the hour. THREE hours later he shows up and can't figure out what went wrong, I (remember I'm an A/C guy) told him that he didn't need to run a garage door opener on a ground fault circuit, he bypassed it and now all is well. He then told me that he has calls from ALL his work today and needs to return to fix it and thanks for helping him solve the problem.
He is an Electrician, I am an A/C guy and I fixed his problem, Fucking hilarious,
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Middle Earth

Another young man has begun the exploration....

Started reading The Hobbit to Hayden. He's a bit too young to read it himself but he follows the story well....good times!

Sad people

They don't have clue as to how to swing a hammer, change their oil, use a tape measure, I'm not sure if the commercials I see are real(they aren't) but the way people are presented it's like they don't have a clue, and in my experience, they don't, Sad Americans, not that the rest of the world is any better,
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Cakewalk Rules!

Yrgal paid me a great compliment...

He said "I dare anyone to create electronic drums as well as you can, they can’t for sure"

Thx buddy!

Anyway..It made me think. They're good because there is almost no limit to what I can create using Blister's 10 year old software, Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. I only use 5% of what this software can do and I am able to do everything a "real-world" mixer can do and lots of stuff that is completely impossible to do using hardware. You can work on sound on any level. From an entire song, with it's multitude of parts and nuances, right down to a single sample, 1/44100 of a second, with full digital capability (and ALL that that implies). Add another great program, Soundforge, as a plug-in, and it's almost like we have no excuse for not winning a Grammy.

Besides Bob and I, Cakewalk is the biggest part of our operation. It's amazing! Someday we will buy a current copy just so we can toss them some $ like they deserve.

New E- cig!

My new E-cig kit came today, Yippee! It's the Joye 510 model, Black cylinder with Blue led tip. What I like about it is it Doesn't look like a cigarette, and I have 4 atomizers, which is the part that burns out most frequently. My last kits were 4081 style and they looked just like a cigarette, at first I thought that was cool but now...... not so much. The 4 atomizers I had lasted me about a year which is also very cool.

Total cost for a year, including my newest buy=300$
Cost of cigarettes if I didn't vape= 3500$, You do the math,
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Christopher Hitchens is an Aetheist,

And I'm a Christian, still, he is a fantastic writer,lecturer and such, I read everything he writes and you should too. That being said, here's an article he wrote on his Cancer and what it is doing to him, Read it all,
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Celtic Bastards

Ooda Yaw finally made it over to lay down his little piece. The fur-clad woodsman he calls his band were with him, as I had hoped... But, phew...I forgot, they can party! They're still here....

Good day

Hooked up with my ENTIRE highschool rockband on FB today. Was a cool day!

This is Real!

meet Basil Marceux, Running for Tennessee Governor, Yes he is real!,
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Haven't gone through them all yet,...

35-pictures-that-demand-explanation

Parking Failures

Examples can be found here

Ooda never made it

We'll try again tomorrow.

Buster Apocalypse stopped by, however, and we recorded some cymbals.....and he polished off my buds....

Recording Tip # 1443

Always make sure your mics are far enough from the cymbals to be clear of impact in any eventuality.

The release of That's Right

...has been moved up to August 14th.

Howling Woodsmen

Ooda is stopping by tonight to lay down a little missing piece in the end of That's Right....

I hope the Celtic Bastards are with him. Those guys are a blast!

Bye Bye Boomhauer Betas

We're on to That's Right Beta 8.

Cleaning up the junk and the extraneous funnies.

Tieing up loose ends and experimenting with some final rooms.

I don't expect a Beta 10....

YARG!

Big Love Tomato Kicks Ass!

All bias aside, we do.

F1

Maybe I should clarify, Formula 1 is the most exacting form of motorsport in the world, NASCAR is the most popular, don't believe me? look at the stats,no links get your own,
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Good days

We had a good run today,stupid fly.... anyway we got a lot done and are almost done with the newest tune

F1 ,and NASCAR next, YAY!
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Ramblin' Stan Baker

Got Stan on the way back to the studio, tonight, to lay down a punch in.

Our Lineup on the tune so far is thus

Producers: Stu Vinyl, Yrgal Tidge
Engineers: Diggy Tall
Front Man: Yrgal Tidge
Vocals: Yrgal Tidge, Stu Vinyl, Quiglar the Bobarian
Percussion: Quiglar the Bobarian, Buster Apocalypse
Guitars: Stu Vinyl, Ooda Yaw, Ramblin’ Stan Baker, Ferris Oxhide
Bass: Yrgal Tidge
Keys: Glu

So, to take this on the road, we need Yrgal, Stu, Quiglar, Ooda, Buster, Glu, and Stan. It's not likely that Ferris would be seen live so we'd have to do without him.

Amazing, and Scary

I got my unemployment check from the government today, which came from the Taxpayers, although I "contributed" for 20 years, then I took it to the Bank, deposited the bulk of the check and got some cash. I then transferred most of it to a different account to hide it from bill collectors,the IRS etc. The same people I "supposedly" owe ,still pay me what they "owe" me, I guess I should be happy the gov isn't a Fascist state (yet).
Bottom line, except for the small amount of cash I received, all I did was transfer a bunch of numbers, that should scare anyone, after all they could restrict/deny you access to your "money" at any time and there ain't shit you can do about it,
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Virtual Navigation (barely worth the read)

Most decent sites of any size offer a way to move forward, backward, "downward" and "upward" through their sites. It is seldom presented as downward and upward tho. Downward is simply clicking on a link that brings you deeper into the site. Our own site has a "Home" buttom that offers an upward movement. Our site is only 2 levels deep, aside from pop out detail windows, so the Home button is sufficient.

If you understand Window's directories and the different Explorer views work you know how Windows is inherently about this Forward, Backward, Downward, and Upward motion.

The Google Toolbar will give you an "Up" button if you want.

I guess this whole rant is because I thought the "pureness" of the navigation at this site was cool. I've linked to a point in the site where you can go Back, Forward, or Up.

http://www.elrelojdesol.com/leonardo-da-vinci/gallery-english/pages/08_The_Last_Supper.htm

It's really just the nav for the picture viewer built into the site, and nothing new, but it was refreshing to have so clear a way to get "up"

So that is way enough about this...

We like Chuck

this is a bit of fun for your Thursday afternoon, 

Chuck Norris Facts,

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Final Guitar for That's Right

Recorded what should be the final guitar tracks for That's Right, last night.

Haven't listened yet, but I think I got some good stuff.

Maybe a little more background vocals, a recorded cymbal roll and a couple crashes, a little mixing, and it should be "DONE"

PREVIEW

We like our Nazis in uniform....

quote from what movie?

Firefox

I'm about to install Firefox 4.0 beta 2. I'm a huge Firefox guy, it just runs smoother for me, so I'm going to try the Beta this time, I'll let you know how it runs, Download here,
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We like AC/DC

great short interview about the lasting awesomeness that is AC/DC,
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How to solve racism

By Morgan Freeman, he really is as smart as his performances make him out to be,
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Morgan Freeman

Dethklok RULES!

Remember when you thought The Simpsons was just bratty kid's stuff?

Remember when you thought South Park was just foul kid's stuff?

Remember when you realized there are genius comedic minds behind these shows?

Take it a step farther...What if the imaginary world of core metal-heads was real?

The BLT boys have discovered, thanks to Q, that, not only are there genius comedic minds behind the, 4 season old, Cartoon Network Adult Swim Flash-animation comedy Metalocalypse, but, if you're in the mood for death-metal, you can't beat Dethklok!

BRUTAL!

lol- Google "deth" see what's suggested by your search bar :o)

Maintenance sucks!

So do certain social websites rules for linking,
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Meg Whitman Una Nueva California

From what I've heard, the "old" California was real nice. We'd like that back, thank you very much, Meg. You can keep your Nueva crap.

Making money and gaining power come easy to those who have zero honor.

Maybe her and Jerry will both contract a severe case of facial herpes and be forced to withdraw and we can try our luck with another two.....NEXT!!

Are grandpas metal?

YES!

Even though I'm gonna be a grandpa soon, I still am just astonished when I'm reminded, by a pic like this, that my daughter's a grownup. She'll be older than me soon.....

Hey, Yrgal, let's go play with our toy airplanes!

Grand(kids)

My Grandson was over today, F%%^&king hilarious, Colors! Cars! Planes Colors! cars Planes! you get the idea, good fun,so.......
(sung as a punk tune)
Kids are something,you really should have,
they love their mom and they love their dad,
They make messes and they're happy all day,
they shit in a diaper and you throw it away, Yea!

Site optimization

Tweaked site code for better searchability. Nothing earth-shattering, just some basics I should have put in place from the beginning.

One more peace of info to read before you die

If you were to read the Declaration of Independence, You would notice that a lot of what is going on in the U.S. today is EXACTLY why the Founding Fathers wrote what they did, and it was very dangerous for them to do. Remember they were British Subjects and Dissent was punishable by Death, for Treason against the King, today we don't have that problem ,YET but if we don't start complaining we may yet end up where they were, so many years ago,
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books that changed my life

I agree with Stu, and yes The Constitution of The United States of America is a great one,
I also would add Titan by John Varley,
Hayeks The Road to Serfdom

John Stuart Mill On Liberty
The Lord of the Rings
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (MUST READ!)
Milton Friedman Free to choose
The New Testament
any thing by Jerry Pournelle
or Ben Bova
Heinline Starship troopers, (the book not the movie, although I like shlock SciFi movies)

I'm sure there are more
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Eric is on spot again

Over at Classical Values, Eric is off on another rant about freedom, gotta love him,

Books that changed how I think

The Art of War

Tao te Ching

Frankenstein

Candide

1984

Defence of Duffer's Drift

Horton Hears a Who

Un-weaving the Rainbow

A Canticle for Lebowitz

Helliconia

Be Dangerous on Rock Guitar

City

The Long Walk

The First Men in the Moon

Climbing Olympus

Lord of the Flies

A Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The Hobbit

Integral Trees

The Mote in God's Eye

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Light of Other Days

Titan (by Steven Baxter -- Ben Bova's Titan was as good a read but Baxter changed how I think...)

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (by the great Dale Carnegie - also by Dale is a book I haven't read yet, but intend to - Lincoln the Unknown -- I have heard life changing reviews about this book as well...)

I believe Yrgal would add the Constitution of the United States (I haven't read it but I've heard it kicks ass!)



...more coming.... :o)

Tweaking

NO!...NOT Meth!....ewwwww yech!

Tweaking website colors and the ending to "That's Right" tonight.

Stick to the basics....brews and buds!

My Space is down

LMAO

Well, Blister hosts with GoDaddy...reliable webhosting and HOT chicks! (hot, race-car driving, chicks...)

YARG!

Bruce Dickenson

Father and Uncle flew in The Battle of Britain, He sings For Iron maiden, And is checked out for Boeing 767 Multi engine planes, also a swordsman, how cool is that, here he is,Check it out
Fuck yeah!
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GUNS RULE! (for a lot or reasons)

We own guns,get used to it, Stu and I both own guns, we live in the U.S. where our rights are upheld, maybe your country doesn't , bummer for you.Understand, guns aren't the answer, but they provide a solution when Bad Men decide to violate your right to live.
I Love living in a society that loves a no gun culture yet allows us to own guns. Only criminals brandish guns and they don't even know what to do when they whip em out, not really, and carefull what you wish for, example Stu's Wife is well trained with weapons and she's a Petite gal, Go Ahead, try her sometime.....
We are proud Gun Owners, and We defend your rights,All Of them,
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I like Space!

This is a must view, IMHO Bill Whittle one of the finest Writer/Presenters around right now, has a new video up, showing us the that the way forward in space is Private, I grew up loving NASA but there time is passed. Many SciFi books that Stu and I have read follow the Privateer path and that is what is really happening in Spaceflight now. At 13 minutes, it's a bit long but worth it,
AfterBurner with Bill Whittle, Enjoy,
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The new website is live!

http://blisterrecords.com

On The Other Hand......

I got a call From Stu, saying come over, so I did, after some jovial drinking and smoking, I laid down about 11 new ending tracks. Yay Electricity! YAY! Oil!,
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Saturday Recording a Wash

Yrgal and I were going to lay down a couple final tracks for That's Right on Saturday. But, somehow, the city/region/state/whatever, (someone somewhere is at fault) was unable to handle the power demands levied by a ordinary "seanonably" hot Saturday. Apparently, somehow, several pieces of hardware around the city were overloaded. I guess they had gotten accustomed to the "unseasonbly" cool weather we've been having. Does hardware get "accustomed"? I don't understand. Really, one of the only benefits I can imagine to living in an industrial hellhole pit like Ontario, CA is that, I thought, things like 16 hour black-outs don't happen.

Soooo, no recording got done.

We're trying again today.

Anyone selling land in the badlands of Montana?....really.

Stupid Criminals

If someone were to ask you who the last person anyone should ever dare to mug is, what name would be your answer? This lister is betting on 80% or better of respondents answering, “Chuck Norris.”

Amazingly, astoundingly, two idiots managed to try just that. It happened in 1994. Norris mentions this whole thing in his autobiography, “Against All Odds.” And, by his testimony, this is what happened. Honest to God, it really happened.

In 1994, right at the beginning of his run as Walker, Texas Ranger, Norris was, and still is, living in Dallas, Texas, where the show was filmed. One day he was walking down the street by himself, no entourage, no fans following him, no bodyguards, not even his wife. He turned a commercial block in the downtown skyscraper area and saw two men a little bigger than he coming straight for him from the other end of the block.

They were staring right at him, and he figured they wanted autographs, which he enjoys signing. So he walked up to them and stopped with a smile, whereupon they stood in front of him, whipped out a couple of large pocketknives, and one of them demanded, “Give me your wallet, Chuck! Give it here!”

Norris actually opened his mouth wide and then asked, “Are you insane!?”

“No! We know who you are! And we know you got a lot of money! Now give it up, or you’re dead!”

Now before we go further, let us just go over a few of the particulars. All jokes aside, Chuck Norris truly does have the following black belts: 1st degree in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 8th Degree Grandmaster in Tae Kwon Do, 9th degree in Jeet Kune Do under Bruce Lee and Lee’s best student, Dan Inosanto, 10th degree in Shito Ryu Karate, 10th degree in Tang Soo Do, 11th degree in Chun Kuk Do.

Granted, the last art is his own concoction, a hybrid of all the best moves he has learned over the years, all blended for both self-defense and competition, and you are only allowed a 10th degree or better in anything when you found your own dojo. But suffice to say, the muggers didn’t even use guns. From a hundred feet away. They used knives within arm’s reach. What happened next was rather anti-climactic.

The police arrived about 4 minutes later, 3 officers in two cars, and were greeted by the scene of two men with SEVERELY broken arms (the bones had gone through the skin) sitting on the curb, two bloody knives in the gutter, and Chuck Norris, the Almighty Himself, leaning against the wall, wearing his beard, jeans, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat….he shrugged at them. The police started laughing so hard that they bent over, holding their sides, unable to put the handcuffs on the muggers. One of them managed to ask, “Did you not know who he was?!”

One of them said, “Yeah, we knew who he was! We figured all that crap on TV was fake!”

This comes from listverse.com always with the lists I tells ya!

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What the Hell is Wrong with the Upland PD?

Many of us here at Blister know 12 year old Adam W. He is one of the nicest kids you'll ever meet. Definitely handed a hard lot in life, he deals with it with quiet grace and always tries to do good.

So....he broke his wrist recently (btw took 5 days to get the specialist necessary to set it properly...wonder if rich kids wait that long?) anyway, his wrist is recovering fine. His arm in a cast.

Next....he likes to skateboard...but he can't with his broken wrist...so he's sitting, watching the kids at the Upland skate park (near the hospital), when 3 (count 'em 3) cops come upon the scene. They decide it's best to give Adam a ticket. Not even sure for what, as far as Adam and his mother can tell, there are no posted rules against watching the skaters. Obviously there was nothing more important for these pricks to do. Our tax dollars at work. Adam was in tears when he got home.

What the hell is wrong with you, Upland PD? Three officers and not one of them is clear on "Right from Wrong". These people carry guns?

There will be angry emails sent, you revenue grabbing jerks!!

Serve and Protect!

A good laugh

James Lileks, one of the funniest writers of my lifetime,


I got to touch the grass, though. And I was able to explore the Bowels of the new stadium. Backstage is always exciting the first time, no matter where it is. You feel the thrill of seeing something most won’t, even if it’s just endless concrete corridors with huge pipes overhead – a few of which surely carry the ceaseless torrent of urine from the bathrooms. Think of it: a giant loading dock is built to bring in the beer; dozens of beer-dispensing points are built throughout the complex; wide long troughs are stationed at convenient intervals to receive the end product of the beer, and complex systems of pipes are installed to carry away the end product of the beer. It all depends on a crowd of thousands who will consume and strain the beer. The entire stadium is a machine built around the human kidney.

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Flying She Wolf

Yrgal and I fly "parkflyers". Here's some vids we made put to the music of Megadeth.

Flying She Wolf

We have videos put to our own music in the works!

So...if I edit this does it float to the top?

What's Up!!!

just got out of a flame war over at Hotair, We won, YAY! Race is a dead issue, I care about your music, and that's it! got some good music going here via Grooveshark , If you don't have it, get it!
Once you get it, you can friend me and see what I'm listening to right now. It's finally getting warm here and I love the whine, it's so fine. Thanks to our friends who have congregated here and listen to our stuff,
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Groovy Sunday

Listening to the tracks we recorded this afternoon. Sounds great! Q came down and did some backing vocals and bongos....real nice!

Behold the Power!

Of the World of Warcraft community, (yes I'm a part of it, shut up!) Real ID was a bad idea and Blizzard listened to their customers, yay for us!
PC Mag.com has the details,
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New Site

Stu is working on a brand new fresh website design, which is gonna Rock! cos that's what he does,
THAT'S ALL HE DOES,AND HE WON'T STOP UNTIL YOU VISIT!! and Download some tracks,We're givin em away!
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Greg Gutfeld speaks

Greg is the host of a show called Redeye on FNC and he's pretty funny, today he celebrates a birthday by proving once again "SHUT UP AND SING!"

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So Ringo Starr turned 170 yesterday, and marked it by babbling.

He said we should all initiate our afternoons with a global “peace and love” moment. He says it would be fab for folks from all over the world (which I presume includes gentle souls hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan), to say such things at noon everyday – by any form of communication you have at hand.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s a nice sentiment from a semi-attractive grandmother.

Oh, I kid. Of course there’s something wrong with this. There’s everything wrong with this.

For that proclamation represents the reason why people die in this world.

They die because people listen to aging hippes like Ringo Starr. The idea that all the evil in the world will dissolve if we all chant peace and love is what enables evil in the world to flourish.

Threat of war, however, makes peace possible – not silly proclamations of hugs and kisses.

Of course, I’m probably picking on Ringo a bit too much here. But really, jackasses who spout peace, can only spout peace, if the more sensible folks around him are willing to wage war.

And the fact is, if these massive celebrities actually applied the notion of “peace and love” to their own personal lives, they’d be about as successful as Pete Best.

So my suggestion is to replace Ringo’s “peace and love” mantra with something like “God bless our troops,” or “The Beatles were a poor man’s Badfinger.” (true, that!)

Now some people might accuse me of harping on Ringo, because he didn’t return our calls when asked to do Red Eye. Of course, I’m not that sort of fellow. In fact, I wish Starr all the peace and love in the world – which will get him next to nothing in midtown at three a.m when I’m chasing him home with a broken champagne bottle and a copy of Caveman.

And if you disagree with me, you’re a racist homophobe who ripped off the Knack.

Penn Jillette: Mistrust of Government Is a Beautiful Thing

Penn Jillette: Mistrust of Government Is a Beautiful Thing

I don't agree with everything the man says, but he's sharp and honest, Go Penn,
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Holy Crap! part III

As you know, we here at Blister are big fans of the aeroplane in all it's glory, so check out this great save at the Red Bull air races, Stu did something like this once, just not with a full sized plane,
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Quiglar Cometh!

Word has come down from Hintnerdlands that Quiglar the Bobarian may travel from the distant tundras of his homelands to the studios of Blister, in the Eastern Realm, to record great and many sounds of glory and bluster. This is great news for the Kingdom of Big Love. That's Right.
Await ye here for future tales of tomatos and tunes.....

From Eric at Classical Values, a really bizarre form of singing a la "tenores di Bitti", done in an ancient Dialect of Latin, check out Eric's site for all the details,
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Respect My Authoritahh

Like Eric Cartman, I have taken a stick and beaten the mix of our latest tune, "That's Right", into submission. It now sounds GREAT!

A Poem for the dying and the heroes

the night was dark,the men were somber,
have wakened from a dreamy slumber,
On a muggy night, with skeeters flying,
they knew in morn, that some were dying,

Loading guns with cap and ball,
they trod into the British wall,

They new there lives were much at risk,
and gladly gave their lives for this,
as soon as dawn begun to broke,
they blasted Hell at the British folk,

Professionals these, and amatuers those,
Back and forth and toe to toe,
the will for freedom, against the king,
no one knew what the day would bring,

Many fell our side and theirs,
Many lost and many heirs,
to what so many did not know,
and yet they stood there toe to toe,

Eight long years of battle still,
yet nothing broke those brothers will,
King George he quit,we Battle on,
America,so proud and strong,



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What am I doing?

I should be with my family, cooking weinies and drinking beer, enjoying my Grandson and swimming. I am actually sitting here, blogging,drinking beer (as if I wasn't) and most important, taking care of my Dogs,they don't like fireworks very much.Even tho I live in Ontario California, which doesn't allow Fireworks, people blow em off anyway, so I shall celebrate with me Doggies, they are soooo cool, Cheers!
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A note on sound

Like your I-pod? I'm sure you do, lot's music, small size, tons of storage, what's not to like?
Earbuds! It seems to me in the last twenty years or so, the once ubiquitous stereo system has fallen by the wayside, to be replaced with PC speakers and earbuds. Now, I use headphones a lot, great for old Pink Floyd, Rush and bands that actually used panning in their music, etc. but while using these one must remember that sound, especially music needs Room. By that I mean whenever possible use your speakers to hear your music, and no Louder isn't always better, rather as Stu said previously, adjust volume based on the Type of music your listening to, and don't sit so darned close to your sound source.
Tone Controls
Tone controls are nothing more than volume knobs that adjust certain Frequencies, Highs, Lows, Mids and such, Too much of any volume will introduce Distortions which will make your tunes SUCK! so go easy on them there knobs and don't turn them to 11. Often you will get a weird sound you can't quite get rid of, try this, cut your midrange (or 1.6k for you multiband EQ users) back to about 4, which is actually a CUT in volume and a lot of the sound you hear will appear to smooth out, making your experience more enjoyable.
If you have the cash, invest in a decent set of headphones for your I-pod you won't be disappointed,
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America, the Pitbull

Tenacious, Vicious, Loyal and great with families!,
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Bitchin' session today

Yrgal laid down some very cool bass and I filled in a little more background vocals.
Great sounds today.
Gonna do a little mixing tonight then tomorrow I should have time for some "loud" guitar!
That's Right is coming along great.

Sound

A couple things about listening to music:

As our site grows you will see that Yrgal and I play and listen to many different styles. Ya know, I like Johnny Cash, Marylin Manson, Snoop Dogg, Beastie Boys, SRV...ect...ect....


The thing I'm hoping to remind you about enjoying music is that you're mood makes a huge difference. If you hear a song and don't like it, give it another chance. When I first heard Crafty, by the Beasties, I literally HATED it. I heard it another time and thought, "this is kinda fun"...now I love it!...when I'm in the mood. On the other hand, when I first heard Johnny Cash's rendition of Trent Resnor's Hurt I thought it was the most incredible piece of art I had ever hear. I listened to it a few times that week and haven't been "in the mood" for months since. Still LOVE the song though. I disliked Zep and ZZ for many of my younger years. Now I consider them nothing short of geniuses. Don't box your tastes in.

I hope I'm not coming off as preachy here (it IS a blog though, I guess...), but this is stuff I used to ignore and I'm glad I'm more aware now.

Another thing to remember is that music (sound in general) has an actual physiological effect on humans. It really affects your body and therefore your chemicals and therefore your emotions. An important aspect of how a composer intends his/her music to impact the listener is volume. There are "official" terms used in music to dictate the volume(s) at which a piece of music is performed. Typically these instructions from the composer are not conveyed to the listener of a recording. It is, however, pretty easy to assume that much of the music of the past 50 years is meant to played "Forte" or "FORTISSIMO" (LOUD!) most of the time. Doesn't mean you need to injure your ears, but remember if you're listening to rock and roll, metal, punk, even country or reggae (like I said "much music") at a low volume, you may not be getting the intended effect. Try it, put on some AC/DC at a volume you could talk over. ehhh it's AC/DC...yea yea legendary band...yea. Now put on AC/DC CRANKED! If you're physical wreck like myself, you'll give yourself whiplash with the headbanging and you'll wonder why it's been so long since you cranked some AC/DC!

PEACE!

One of my favorite bands....

I had a copy if the album Demon Boy Takes A Bride from the amazing band Muscle Bitches. I lost that tape years ago and the ONLY thing I can find of these guys is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmY1sZMzyG8 ... ENJOY!

BTW If anyone can find me that album I'll....well, never mind what I'll do, but I'll be thankfull!

Preview Big Love Tomato's latest

http://blisterrecords.com/sounds/SneakPreview.mp3

Have a Great Independence Day

Sunday is the 4th of july,don't forget why we are the Greatest country ever, X was a band I dug back in me old punk days,glad I grew up in SOCAL so's I heard em,PUNK ALWAYS!
gotta sleep now long flight home,nice to sleep in theUSA,
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Just got home

I'll tell my tale tomorrow, bit for now , Wow I need better contacts,great music on the flight back.

Grooveshark is a great repository of music, and if you have an account you can link to us Yippee!
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Holy Crap!

I found this thru Instapundit, Rock Stars then and now, Pretty fun and funny, some people just don't age well, some.... Wow, check it out.
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Term of the day

HOLY CRAP!
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Go Jake!

Jake does Bohemian Rhapsody

One more

Jake rules, by the time you read this I'll be in the air but before I go check out Orange World
PC! seee you next week,
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I'm off!

I'm getting on board a plane right now headed to to Uzbekistan to check out some indigenous drummers that we may sign to the label, I don't know what I'll find but hey I love a new adventure.
BTW anyone know if Uzbek chicks are hot? A picture is worth a thousand words, post some hotties so I know what to look for, I got a Sat phone so blogging won't change much(especially if I find Uzbek girls!),
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Cali

I forgot to post Cali Roses Page, It's ,here
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Circles of friends

Our friend Frank M. has a product called the RythymRing He won best new product at the 2010 Namm show,pretty cool, anyweird I was introduced at the show to a great lady by the name of Cali Rose, a great singer,entertainer and Ukelele player. Stu and I jammed with her and had a great time. Next I heard about Jake Shimabukuro, another Ukelele player doing While my guitar gently weeps on the Uke and if you know Yrgal I got a Uke and started playing, not too hard but actually a whole lot deeper than you could imagine, I'm getting good too, currently I'm working up a stanards EP which should be out soon, click the link Jake ROCKS!,
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Warning Seriousness ahead!

I won't often link to un Musical things but this is Fucking Hilarious, PopSci has an article on the worst climate "deniers" out there, including Steve Carrell (comedian) and Cows! I won't opine at this time but here is a great example of the flamewars created by this STUPID! article,

Man, what a load! Sometimes this magazine is very difficult to take seriously.

Suppose that AGW is real. That doesn't tell us enough to do anything useful about it. We must have a reliable and non-controversial metric to evaluate it quantitatively. This would allow us to determine (1) if our "solutions" (whatever they might be) are doing the job, and (2) when we can stop crippling ourselves and our industrial economy in our efforts to stop whatever it is that's causing the change in the metric. Unfortunately the items so often quoted by Warmists are not reliable metrics. (Think tree-ring data - that obviously is no good.) In theory there is a good one but it's not terribly sensitive and there's probably a serious phase delay, but it's a good worldwide integrator and so much better than spot measurements at weather stations. I refer to sea level. Now like pretty much all other old MIT men world-wide, I take a lot of data just for the hell of it. One such data set I have been accumulating since the 1960s is sea level. My measurements show no noteworthy change. NONE. My tentative scientific conclusion is that there is no net warming, caused by human activity or any other factor. None. Reports to the contrary I must tentatively classify as hysteria or propaganda.

I might conjecture that the Warmists are not really interested in a reproducible metric. Lacking a metric, they can always claim that whatever we're doing to solve the problem isn't enough - we need to do more of it. How convenient - they can push us to destroy the modern economy and industrial civilization, with no good place to stop along the way. This should eventually satisfy the Greens and other Luddities. But it won't do the Earth much good, since we'll all be huddled around campfires by then. Campfires fueled by wood. Talk about a carbon footprint!

As scientific types know, you don't have to take anyone's word for this stuff. Get your own data. All sorts of important measurements can be done with simple equipment. Read Millikan's "The Electron" for some inspiration about measuring fundamental constants with simple stuff you probably have lying around your kitchen. Or, if that's too high-tech, look up early measurements of the gravitational constant. Shoot, this stuff is easy! (Some of it is, anyway.) If you are just picking between "authorities," though, you aren't doing science. That's fandom, or religion, but not science. This pitiful article is a case in point.

I guess that's why they call it "popular" science, hey if it's popular it must be science Right?

Science Damn You!,
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Chitlins Con Carne

Been watchin vids of it and reading tabs ect...I'll have it ready to bust out soon.

Might actually "listen" to it next (thinkin outta box I am)

Can't find vid of Kenny Burrel or SRV playing it, but plenty of other dudes.

Not planning on covering it, just want to know it. Cool stuff.

Yrgal, Ooda, and Ferris, check it out

Some dude playin Chitlins Con Carne

Pandora

it's all public

Jim caroll

ces, Jim Carroll's crowning achievement was the near-hit "People Who Died," a brutally emotional punk record saluting the victims of the New York drug culture. In truth, however, Carroll's artistic legacy was considerably more complex and far-ranging -- an acclaimed diarist, poet, actor, and spoken word performer, his formative years even served as the subject of the film The Basketball Diaries.

The product of a working-class background, Carroll was born and raised in New York City. He was a highly touted basketball prospect, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road inspired him to begin keeping a journal at the age of 12; later published in 1978 as The Basketball Diaries, his early writings vividly chronicled his teenage addiction to heroin, which led him into a life of crime and hustling. By the time he was 16, Carroll was a published poet; 1973's Living at the Movies further established his reputation as a prodigy and funded a move to Northern California, where he was finally able to shed his drug habit.

Inspired by the success of his friend Patti Smith, who also married a background in poetry with a career in rock music, Carroll began writing songs; in 1978, backed by the San Francisco band Amsterdam (comprised of guitarists Terrell Winn and Brian Linsley, bassist Steve Linsley, and drummer Wayne Woods), he cut a handful of demos, and was signed to Rolling Stones Records. Produced by label head Earl McGrath, the Jim Carroll Band's debut album, Catholic Boy, appeared in 1980; the subject of significant critical acclaim, it featured "People Who Died," the group's definitive moment.

After a move back to New York and the replacement of Terrell Winn and Brian Linsley by Paul Sanchez and Jon Tiven, the Carroll Band returned in 1982 with Dry Dreams, followed by 1984's I Write Your Name, which received lackluster reviews. With his three-record contract fulfilled, Carroll dismissed the group members and resumed his prose and poetry work. After an appearance in the 1985 film Tuff Turf, he published The Book of Nods in 1986 and Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973 a year later. During the remainder of the '80s, Carroll balanced his poetry and prose material while writing tracks for other artists such as Blue Öyster Cult (Club Ninja) and Boz Scaggs (Other Roads). He also appeared on spoken word albums by John Giorno's Dial-a-Poem Poets.

As the 1990s dawned, Carroll was frequently approached to return to music, but he remained firmly dedicated to his spoken word work; his first solo album was Praying Mantis (1991), a collection of spoken word performances, not new songs. While he occasionally performed as a musician, his primary focus remained his literary pursuits. Notably, Carroll was one of the first poet/rockers to break down the barriers between poetry/spoken word and mainstream rock music. He participated in various readings beginning in the mid-'80s, but his 1994 performance on MTV'sUnplugged was most moving, with a soon to be legendary poem, "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain," a mesmerizing tribute.

In 1993 he published Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll. In 1995, both The Basketball Diaries and the short story Curtis' Charm were adapted into films; he also contributed lyrics and vocals to Rancid's multi-platinum release ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995). A year later Carroll also contributed to the benefit release Home Alive: The Art of Self-Defense, and in 1997 Carroll was one of a number of high-profile writers, musicians, and actors who contributed to the Kerouac tribute album Kicks Joy Darkness, where, backed by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, and Anton Sanko, he read "Woman." The year 1998 was monumental for Carroll. He released a brand-new collection of poetry in his new book, Void of Course, as well as returning to rock in his own cathartic way with the release of his first album in nearly 15 years, Pools of Mercury. This combined his classic wounded poetry with song, noting his collaborations with Sanko and Kaye.

In 1999, a comprehensive tribute release entitled Put Your Tongue to the Rail: The Philly Compilation for Catholic Children showcased 25 local artists from Philadelphia empowered by the work of Carroll. Two years later, Carroll issued the Runaway EP, which featured live cuts of material from Pools of Mercury and an eclectic cover of Del Shannon's pop hit as the EP's namesake. It turned out to be his last major release, however. He died in September 2009 of a heart attack. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Selected Discography

Catholic Boy
1980

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Friendy McFrienderso n says: 05-09-2010 Put people who died on repeat, and let the circle of life rotate.
floydzoot says: 02-24-2010 GREAT SONG
Heather Cann says: 11-04-2009 An amazing man~ with an untouched gift for stringing words together. Wish Pandora had some of his spoken word.
jpollack06 says: 09-25-2009 This album is still one of my all time favorites. People who died and It's too Late are on my ipod. I still have my 20 year old copy of Baketball Dairies.
audeg6 says: 09-19-2009 It is all so good
flowrchic says: 08-20-2009 Jim Carroll is my hero...Love his poetry and diaries. Void of Course is one of my favorites, and "A Little Ode on St. Anne's Day" my fave poem ever. ever, ever, ever...
Eric the rockstar says: 03-12-2009 yeah
Courtney Michaela Cregan says: 02-20-2009 This isn't correct: Jim Carroll had not read Jack Kerouac's On the Road when he began to keep a journal. He began keeping the journal because he wanted to continue to write and his journal was his outlet.
Corey Yates says: edited on 12-27-2008 I love the cool things I learn here. Wow I am going to buy one of his books of poetry
shore62 says: 08-03-2008 Jim Carroll is an excellent poet/writer that decide to put a few stories to music, and did it well. Watch The Basketball Diaries on DVD if you are interested in his story.

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