This video I found on youtube is stellar. What I find most amazing about it is A.) It’s Woody Guthrie, B.) it’s video of Woody and C.) they are cutting a record outdoors!!! If you watch there is a vintage dub plate machine being operated by some guy in the left corner and going into it is a microphone sitting on a mic stand in front of the van that Woody is playing out of. The fact is they were doing this in 1945, where as now I could never figure out a way to record a song in the wilderness. Surely they were in some country bumpkins front yard or back yard and the power came from the home. Either way it helps me understand that gritty sound that is Woody Guthrie, everything sounds like it’s covered in a lil’ bit of dirt (in a really good way) and this is prolly why.
Ghetto Living
I arrived from Orlando with about $480.00 or so in my cheching account. My half of the rent is $525.00. So I borrowed $50.00 from my old lady to be sure I had a little extra once the rent hit. I also had $13.00 in my wallet, of which $10.00 I put into my checking account (KAH-CHING!) Leaving me with $3.00 in cash to my name as well as $3.18 in my checking account. Continue reading “Ghetto Living”
2.7 in the Heezy
Since my nerves are getting the best of me before my long flight east I decided to upgrade to WP2.7 aka Coltrane (in this muhfugga) I also upgraded the flickr plugin and everything is working fine! Not that I expected anything less but last time I updated the flickr plugin I hated the plugin for a few hours before it began doing what it is supposed to. So yeah… YAY! 2.7 is pretty bad ass.
Edit: I’ve officially give IE6 the finger forever (F-You IE6!). I am the poor bastard in charge of fixing everything for IE6 at my place of work so I sort of refuse to acknowledge it’s existence in my personal/freelance work. I will charge extra for it in a attempt to deter clients living in the stone ages. I recently worked with a client who still had dial up and IE6! It was mind boggling once I realized I could not talk to him while he was online (no mobile phone either) It was also fun to see wordpress do it’s thing in an lowest denominator scenario, not fun really though.
New Head Pieces
Brixton makes some pretty rugged hats. I picked up a few at Emerald City in Coronado. I got two of the same hat but they are made of different fabrics. The first I swooped is the Stroll in grey wool with a Lady Guadalupe lining (Awesome… even more awesome if you like to mainline.)
The second hat I got is also a Stroll but it has a nice grey herringbone pattern twill (silly flyness!) The hats are very solid, even their straw fedoras are pretty hefty. I am impressed and look forward to owning many a hat by these guys.
Oh man… SNL goodness
This had me dying earlier tonight. Sometimes Andy Sandberg is just too funny. A while ago I remember seeing some death metal song about giraffes that my friend and I swore was all his doing. Today was one of those days that I woke up late and had a cup of tea with whiskey in it and ended up staying in my pajamas the entire day alternating between naps, food and drinks on the couch.
Recent Decent Sips
So before turkey day I went and picked up two bottles. I wanted a nice bottle but there weren’t many options so I opted for two decent bottles.
One was a Weller 7 year old. It’s good and much different than the stellar 12 year old. Somewhat floral on the nose and packs a nice balance of sweetness and light oak on the palate. It’s a great anytime bourbon because it’s just so damn good and the price of $16.99 it’s damn near impossible to find a better bottle.
The second bottle was an Old Grand Dad 114 proof. Upon first sip (after having a few wellers) it tasted pretty gross. It had a sweet Italian sausage thing going on. I really thought it was pretty foul. I put it all the way in the back of the milk barn.
I gave it a few days and hit it after a hard day of work and it was much better. It still had a little of that sweetness and was a bit musty. I also picked up some fruityness. It really tastes like basement to me but in a good way.
I found it goes great with lemonade. The two just mix into each other and you end up with a sweet treat.
With or without lemonade it is a good sipping bourbon (just not as cheap or as good as the Weller).
