Dusty Chalk

Hey, I was just trying to remember that URL -- do you know how to use archive.org? I was trying to find my post about starting the "Sorry about your wallet" expression...I think the subject was something like "new greeting".

Don't think of it as being a "lightweight", think of it as being an "efficient drinker" -- you can accomplish more with less. At least, that's what I keep telling myself. (I can't drink like I used to anymore, neither.)

They should tour together and call it the goatsex tour.

Begs the question, what do you get when you cross and

You lost to a girl (laughs and points)

The word 'inundated' comes to mind. As does the word, 'inanity'. Actually, so does 'defenestration'. And so does 'tadpole', but I have no idea where that last one came from.

We are all individuals.

And what about poor little ol' schwa?

He should diversify his pretzel consumption.

The Q and 'pretzel' are redundant options. They should be merged. In my stomache.

Okay, we're talking about different limits. I'll have to go back and check, but I think there's also a limit on the amount of money you can accept...as in, without getting your account frozen, or automatically turned into a commercial account.

? - the letter with the identity crisis.

Howdy Doody Time?

Coulda been worse -- coulda had your shirt stolen off your back. Sorry, someone had to make the obvious joke about gambling and stealing.

This thread > that other thread. LMIEMO

They're ridiculously good. But they're also unlike anything else around. I mean, what the L is the target market for that thing? You can't exercise with them -- sweat and electrostatics(!). I guess entry level electrostatics is the target market for them. Portable hi-fi sound, too. Yet not closed.

Vai definitely has a wonderful stage presence -- I've seen him live several times.

But that's different -- those are businesses. They want your business, and in order to get your business, they're offering you the convenience of paying by credit card. For that convenience, they have to work that in to their overhead. (Notice I do not say that they eat the cost -- businesses never eat the cost, otherwise they wouldn't be a business -- businesses pass costs to the customer.) As the occasional seller of goods, I don't care how I get the money, so I'll stick with money orders, myself. It's up to PayPal to raise those limits, though, not you. So though it may not be an issue with you, it is an issue with the infrequent user who occasionally goes over his limit. Have they ever raised your limit? I didn't think so. I've never heard of them raising their limit for anyone. (And if they did raise your limit, I'm curious how you went about doing that, because that would be the exception, not the rule, from everyone I've heard.)

I think PayPal should change their ToS so that it's okay to pass along the cost of using PayPal to the customer. The whole point is to bring the ability to use credit cards to the masses, but if you're crossing that line from "masses" to "business" -- just obtain the ability to charge credit cards yourself! I won't use PayPal to receive money.

I was recently reminded of the Xiang Sheng, which has a nicely smallish footprint, and definitely a lush, warm tubey sound. Don't know how good a match it would be with the RS-1, though. But yeah, kind of hard to beat the EMP.

That's what I have. I wasn't going to recommend them, because they seemed out of his pricerange. But yeah, easily the best "bookshelf" sized speakers, ever, anywhere.

Have you heard "Requiem" by King Crimson? I doubt that anyone has ever played faster than that. And yet, so emotive. I have felt like that -- so frustrated, so angry and sad, with life -- and yet with the best of discipline, I doubt I could convey that feeling the way he did. I suspect Buckethead and Satch can both play faster than they play most of the time, but don't, because it's not musically important to do so. I stand by my statement -- the ability to play faster can be good, and make one a better player. I have heard crap played at all speeds. I completely disagree that there is a generalization that can be drawn as to speed and crapness. Think about it -- that means the reverse is true, too -- that the slower one plays, the better it is. I admit, there are guitarists could justify this statement (some of Gilmour's best single notes in a solo are the slowest ones), but for every one of those, I can throw 10 at you that suck.

You broke your thingy?!?!?

Kidneythieves and Collide are two of my favourites.

I disagree with this sentiment entirely. There is fast, and there is slow. On a completely different scale, there is good and there is crap. Sometimes they're both good and fast (Steve Howe comes to mind; Jimi); sometimes they're fast and crap (Malmsteen comes to mind -- he's good, but I would want to write out his solos for him). Satch is a whole nuther level -- he is far and away the most lyrical of the current crop of shredders. Listen to Surfing with the Alien -- simply sublime. Al Di Meola -- he started out as jazz/fusion, but then started getting faster for faster's sake (even he admits this, though I never minded it coming from him), then went through a period of deliberately avoiding speed and pursuing beauty (mid 80's), and lately has been melding the best of both worlds (World Sinfonia to the present). I think he's another one who has successfully maxed himself out on both scales (pardon the pun). One of my personal favourite guitarists -- Buckethead -- isn't exactly famous for being emotive, but if you listen to Population Override, you know he can be. What I like about him is that he's versatile -- he can do anything from dark ambiences (the Death Cube K albums), to total shred (Bucketheadland 2) to just plain jam band goodness (Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains). And sometimes they can be slow and good -- I don't like him, but I know a lot of people like The Edge from U2. And people can be slow and crap -- listen to most every garage band ever. So, to reiterate: five of my favourites are: Fripp (I know, I haven't mentioned him yet, but he is one of my favourites), Howe, Buckethead, Al Di, and Satch. Vai is good, too, but I don't rank him up there with Satch.