My New Guitar

In my search for a Peavey T-60, my dad ran across this beauty at Norman Music. It's a 1982 Peavey Mystic and I love it. I has the same neck and pickups as the T-60, but no crazy coil tapping system, and it has a tremelo whereas the T-60 is hardtail.

To recap:
It's American Made.
It's 25 years old.
It's Bright Red/Orange.
It's got the original hard shell case.
It only cost $100 dollars.

That's right, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. Thank you Hartely Peavey, for being a great American.
- posted by Mason @ 5:18 PM (0) comments

Firefly: I like it as much as Farscape

Megan's other cousin Cody loaned me the complete Firefly. I've been watching it, and I like it. It's about as good as Farscape. I've also been digging around on the fansite. People are creepy. Once again, it's just TV. It didn't really happen.

Sign the petition for SCIFI to pick up a second season.
- posted by Mason @ 12:18 PM (0) comments

Basil Wolverton's "THE APOCALYPSE"

In 1956, my favorite wacky comic artist (and that's saying a lot because I don't really like comics very much), Basil Wolverton, illustrated a biblical pamphlet called "1975 in Prophecy". It's pretty grotesque, but very indicative of Woverton's "spaghetti and meatball style" of comic art. I really prefer his earlier, zanier work in the Powerhouse Pepper series, but that's just me. Somebody should buy the Fantagraphics collection, because I'm cheap and don't want to do it myself.

Hollywood Jesus has more images from the booklet.
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I am SO addicted to Roger Zelazny

I'm an addict. Having just finshed all 9 books in the Ender's Game series, I have relaunched myself in to the Amber Mulitverse, with the first novel in the second Amber series, Trumps of Doom. I'm such a fucking geek now. I sicken myself.
- posted by Mason @ 11:12 AM (0) comments

My PARENTS have gone HD before me...

I went to BestBuy tonight with the whole fam to check out their open box HDtv stock. We found an 32" Insignia (the BB house brand, which I've heard are rebadged Sansuis) open boxed at $849 (retail $999). Combined it with BB's 20% off open box tvs AND a free open box DVD player on everything over $699 AND my dad cashed in his credit card reward points for $220 worth of BB gift cards. All total, after tax, it was under $475 and we got a $119 Samsung upconverting HDMI DVD player. All told, it's pretty fucking boss. I'm very, very upset that my mom and dad now have an HD-DVR and an LCD tv and I don't. Oh well.
- posted by Mason @ 10:05 PM (0) comments

I smashed my goddamn finger all to hell

Sweet fucking christ that hurt! The last rap show I worked, I dropped the clutch on a mic stand and it landed on my finger and it really, really, really hurt and I yelled a lot. The swelling's gone down, but it still looks pretty gnarly.
- posted by Mason @ 7:56 PM (0) comments

Tamales

Last week I ate these fucking amazing chicken tamales that I bought from an elderly hispanic woman at the flea market. This whole plate was only five bucks. It was a truely amazing bounty of tamaleness.
- posted by Mason @ 7:50 PM (0) comments

A Band That Sounds Like Genesis?

So, Aloha played last night and I thought they were fucking terrific. They sound like a much less theatrical and stagey Peter Gabriel era Genesis. Also, they have a marimba, and it's not campy or hokey, which is pretty hard to pull off. I suggest buying their record from Polyvinyl.
- posted by Mason @ 5:14 PM (0) comments

Mary's Swap Meet Again
Meg and I went to Mary's today to sell some guitars (total fucking bust, you have to have money to spend it on guitars I guess, and Mary's is pretty much scum-fuck-USA). I had a conversation with a five year old as follows:

(keep in mind that we weren't selling any banjos)
KID: I used to not like banjos, but then I played one and I liked it.
ME: Oh yeah? Are you good at it?
KID: Yeah, I'm real good, but I don't play it now.
ME: Why not?
KID: I used to like banjos, now I like Batmans.
ME: What it Batman played a banjo, would you like that?
KID: (pauses to think a moment) Do you have any batman banjos?

I don't recount this story because I think it's cute or sweet or funny in a KIDS-SAY-THE-DARNDEST-THINGS sort of way, it just made me really happy. I suppose it also made me a little sad, since it made me wish I had a batman banjo. Oh well.
- posted by Mason @ 5:27 PM (0) comments

The Austrailians Certainly are a Coarse People, Aren't They?

Megan and I just finished Season One of AuNTM, and are starting on Season Two. FOX 8 (Rupert Murdoch's digisat arm in his home country) is apparently completely uncensored, even though it's only basic cable. They're quite fond of words like "Fuck" and "Shit", and showing nipples and the occasional glance of bush (the pubic hair, not the outback). It's very entertaining, and I suggest downloading it.

Incidently, Muriel's Wedding is on right now. I used to be in love with Toni Collette before she got her teeth fixed.
- posted by Mason @ 2:39 PM (0) comments

Mexi-Gore

Oh, shit! It's like Dr. Giggles and Que Paso USA all rolled together.
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Oh, it's Spock! (I know, I have a problem)

I'm a sick person, diseased by fandom. Not my own, but my obsession with others'. I'm thinking about emailing this dude from TN to see if I can buy this shit. Here's his profile from FanArtCentral.
- posted by Mason @ 11:40 PM (0) comments

BatFanArt

You know that I die for fan art, right? Well you can nail my coffin shut because I'm fucking dead now. This image brings me to my knees, literally. I physically fell out of my chair when I saw it. It has an arresting, haunting quality that I can't shake. It's like Micheal is looking right at me! When I move my head, it's as if his eyes follow me. Further proof that Keaton is the Christ.

It's from a German Batman fan site, and it's by an artist named Chris Deal. I couldn't find anything else out about him, save for a three year old post to some lame comics archive. It's lists his email address as nudeal@aol.com.
- posted by Mason @ 11:03 PM (0) comments

Why I love the TCT network

The TCT Network is my favorite religious broadcaster by far. "Why", you ask? The program Christian Films absolutely floors me on a nightly basis. The above film (a twenty six minute gem entitled "The Daylight Zone") is exactly the kind of horse for which I jones. It features the classic lines, "Gimme a fish sandwich and a Mountain Dew, Ray, and make it quick." & "The only thing Jesus every saved me from was a buck 79!"

So this "non-believer" is on his way home to Johnson City, TX when road construction forces him to take a detour into "The Daylight Zone". Suddenly he's not on the road to Johnson City anymore, now he's on the road to Jerusalem. Long story short, he gets accosted by roman soldiers and thrown in prison to be crucifed along with "Jesus of Nazareth" because he doesn't have the right money to "render unto Caeser what is Caeser's". Just as he's about to die, he wakes up and it was all a dream... or was it?

Somehow, this makes him a believer in Jesus. It doesn't make any fucking sense to me, but whatever. I think I'd wake up and think, "wow, what a fucked up dream."

Did I mention that he gives his Mountain Dew to a shepard?
- posted by Mason @ 8:38 PM (0) comments

Leif Garrett Just Can't Put Down the Cocaine

What a spec·tac·u·lar·ly bad movie. Leif Garrett is the worst actor of his generation. (Even worse than Willie Ames, and he's Bibleman.) Garrett is so stoned in this movie he can barely keep his eyes open, and most of his lines are incomprehensibly slurred. He's not the only gem though, in reference to a particularly busty cheerleader, the grizzled old handy man says, "Look at that one with the big juggs and tight skirt, don't she make your peepee harder than a ten pound sack of nickel jawbreakers?"

Mind-boggling, simply astounding. I was blown away by this little slice of trash. I highly suggest your rental of it.
- posted by Mason @ 12:27 PM (0) comments

Thanks For Not Showing Up.

Here is a blurry picture from that show that you didn't come to. Too bad you missed out; I fucking destroyed. It would have been a lot better if the PA hadn't been a Kustom Feedbacker 200, but oh well. It was the first show in a long time where I really felt like people were paying attention and listening to me. Weird.
- posted by Mason @ 8:43 PM (0) comments