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I bought a line-splitter pedal. This is to allow me to run by bass through multiple amps, so I can have one permanently running a clean signal and one permanently running an overdriven/distorted/fuzzy signal. Look at me, I'm Cliff Burton!

Not.

Found this post in a forum, thought it was hilarious:

"Speaking of pretentious twaddle, I worked a Joni Mitchell show when she was going through her deep introspective jazz phase. What a load of crap that stuff was. After the second "spiritually meaningful" jazz song, the audience realized they were in for 2 hours of pure hell and turned on Joni. While Joni was bearing her tortured soul on stage, ten thousand angry people were screaming, "Play 'Taxi,' bitch!" It was an ugly scene."

I'm currently working the graveyard shift and listening to the 'Random Metal Stuff' cd Lucas made for me, comprised of music which was (allegedly) mainly metal-related stuff from another guy's iPod that Lucas borrowed.

I am liking some of the stuff I've heard on it, although most of it's rubbish.

Most notably though, there's some Tom Waits on here, which ain't bad.

However, beyond Antagonist (which are actually more of a hardcore/screamo band if anything), I have yet to find anything that could be considered metal. I guess I could consider these few Marilyn Manson tracks that are on here to be metal-ish. And a glance at the playlist of songs yet to be played (more Waits, the Cramps and some White Stripes) gives me the impression that Lucas is worse at classifying music by genre than I am.

You heard me.

(as I finish writing, 'Fire For A Dry Mouth' by Between The Dead And Me started playing. Now THAT'S metal. Grindcore, in fact. So I'm put back in my place, if only slightly. But my comments about the other songs that have yet to be played are still valid)

Well, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for that. I have been able to confirm that the stupidly expensive condenser mics that I bought haven't died on me. The reason they haven't been working is because the stupidly expensive audio inferface that I bought has died on me instead, rendering said mics useless.

At least, the mic inputs have died. I can still run less-effective dynamic mics through the line-in jacks, which means I'll have to just make do and be creative when I'm recording drum tracks.

I'll end this post with a totally unrelated quote of the day:

"If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is."

Looks I'll have to come up with a different response to the question 'How are you?' when posed by peers at SalesForce upon contacting them via telephone.

My typical response used to be 'On top of the world!' in an overly depressed tone, which promptly changed to 'Belligerent and numerous!'. This is usually met with a laugh, or silence for a few thoughtful seconds while the CSR at the other end of the line wonders if they actually heard me correctly.

One guy copped me a second time with that response and told me so. Found it funny the second time, but told me I was busted.

I informed him that I should think about using a different line from now on.

I reckon I'll go with 'I'm quite itchy, but I don't know you well enough to tell you where'.

So today I was asked by Tony (who sits near Lucas and Craig) if I was the lead guitarist in the band.

Right...I didn't know whether I'd get a 'How can it be a band with no lead guitarist?' sort of response, so I just told him that I am doing guitar and bass tracks for our stuff, although I'd be the bass player should we start playing live.

There was no way in hell I was going to tell him the guitar playing is purely rhythm guitar and I am the lead bassist. That would have probably resulted in a very confused stare from poor Tony.

Now, since I'm talking about music on my blog (believe it or not, it wouldn't be the first time), I'll just keep it up for the remainder of the post.

After my first attempts to get Lucas' drum-beating recorded, I can say that there are things that were impressive and there were things that were disappointing.

Impressive was the fact that in two takes, Lucas had pretty much shown that he could play to a click track pretty damn well. So well that two takes was all I needed for a half-decent track to work with.

The disappointing thing was that the damn machine (the audio interface, not Lucas) wasn't working properly, so I could only record him with a single mic. Dang.

Lucas got a dartboard at work. This is rather interesting, as it's a magnetic dartboard, so one gets to experience the thrill of playing darts without the absolute certainty that when the darts hit the board, they stay where they landed.

They also make a dull *thunk* which resonates nicely throughout the entire room, particularly when there aren't many people occupying it. Bound to drive someone insane eventually.

Lucas may cop the brunt of it, hopefully. 'specially if he brings back that cast-iron griddle he was using to block the darts with.

I haven't blogged recently due to the fact that I've had bugger-all internet access for the past three or so weeks.

Now that I'm working with some sort of regularity at PC Tools again, I do have internet access.

Still got nothing to talk about though.