Vita-Mixin' in the Hiz-ouse



As you know, my parents bought us a Vita-Mix for xmas. Here it is in action.
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I had lunch with my family last week.

So we did Friday lunch with the entire family at some shitty mexican restuarant in the mall in OKC. Here's the scoop in photographic form. I apologize to members of the Hibbard clan if they are portrayed in an unflattering way. Deal, kay?










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Thrift Stores in OKC



look at me take video of you in 1977.


videocamera p0rn.


the most racist thing i've ever seen.


this jacket was too small.


seriously, why the fuck was this jacket so tiny?


this is the best tape ever.
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Me and Megan's Dad's Dog


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Me and Megan's Grandma's Dog


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RIKER IS A BAAAABY!!!!!!


this is just for you gail. we are just as obsessed as you and dave are.

Over the summer, I put Riker in a baby sling we found at Meg's grandmother's. I just found the picture on her digital camera. He doesn't look very comfortable, but he stayed in the sling for quite a while. He seemed to like it, but it's not really shaped correctly for a dog.
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I think I need a Nintendo DS now.



We got Meg's dad a NDSLite for xmas and I think I need one now. I guess I just didn't realize that for 50 bucks you can buy an adapter to load every single game they make for it on a flash card. The system is relatively cheap, it's the games that are expensive. Imagine being able to play every game for free. Every NES, SNES, SEGA, GameBoy, Gameboy Advance, and DS game just by downloading them. I totally need this as a part of my life.

I wish we hadn't spent so much for xmas. Maybe as a half birthday present to myself in February.
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I'm sooooo tired, daddy.


i wish i'd gotten this sweatshirt for xmas instead of all my other gifts. *sigh*

It's Midnight. We just got to Meg's grandmother's house. I got up at 5am, worked a full shift, came home, loaded the car, drove to Oklahoma, celebrated xmas eve with my family [and yes, we got a vita-mix. oh so amazing.], then loaded back up and drove out here.

I got:

*A guitar case case. No, I didn't fuck up, it's a soft gig bag for my guitar case.
*A vita mix. [joint gift from my parents and nanny to both me and meg.]
*A bag of high bias tapes from my brother.
*A spirit of 76 belt buckle from sherman.
*A Glenn Campbell Songbook. [Haha. Thanks dad.]

I'm very, very pleased. Daniel says my real present hasn't come yet, but will be here this week. I can't imagine what it is.
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Happy Holidaze



So apparently Secular Gift Giving Day isn't doing as well as it has in the past. We went to the mall today for a laugh, and they're slashing prices like mad. Almost everything was 30% off at Macys (no, we didn't go to Macys on purpose, parking was limited and I was forced to walk through the department store, which you know I hate). The Gap had jeans, coats, sweaters and all manner of winter shit at 40% off.

I can't wait until the internet topples brick and mortar retail chains. They operate on a totally outdated business model. Evidenced by the fact that all Comp-USAs are closing their doors. Haha.
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Some tasty new shit.



Today for lunch I rocked an Amazake Almond Shake. This bad bitch is fermented brown rice. It's naturally sweet, no added sugar! The 16oz has 40% of your daily dietary fiber. I didn't really read the label carefully, so I drank the whole thing in about ten minutes. I felt like someone had poured five pounds of oatmeal into my stomach through an esophageal tube (yeah, we're on season four of ER). Next time I would only drink half of one. Despite over indulging, I loved it and will buy it again and again. This stuff tastes so good, I can't tell you. I desperately want to try all the other flavours, especially the Chocolate Chimp. I'm going to pressure our grocery buyer to get a bunch more flavors.

Get yourself an Amazake, I command you.
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500th Post!

Hey Mother Fuckers! Look at it. Post number 500. That's a lot of bullshit talked by me. That's a lot of bullshit listened to by you. Thanks for kicking it with me, yo.
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A Rice Milk Cappuccino?



Has anyone had any luck making a GOOD rice milk capp? Am I the only one that finds it nearly impossible to get a good head of foam off this watery brew? Let me know if I'm alone here. It's one of two things: rice milk just doesn't foam well, or I'm not nearly as good at this as I think I am. Soy makes a fine capp, and almond milk does OK, but rice is balls, son. Also, I think that rice milk tastes sort of poopy. Chocolate Rice Dream is fine just to drink, but it's so fucking thin. Email me if anyone has any tips.
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35 feet of RCA heaven.



I bought a 35 foot RCA cable off the internet. "Why," you ask, "would a man need a 35 foot RCA cable? It seems so unnecessary." Au contraire, mon frere. When you have a 40 pound tape deck in another room from the computer you use to mix cassette masters down to digital, you simply MUST have a 35 foot RCA cable. It was only seventeen dollars including shipping. I felt pretty damn good about it. I should have bought the fifty foot one and run it up around the door jam so it would be permanently installed, but that seemed a little insane.

Also, we went to half price books with "ya boi" Issac, and guess what? I bought records. Surprise, surprise. I just can't not buy LPs. It's a sickness. I got some pretty sweet stuff. I'll post pictures tomorrow.
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Mary Ex-Mass: The Indie Rock Holiday



Megan is the best. Polyvinyl was having a big sale, so the Megatron hooked me up some most excellent LP record albums for my xmas present.

The List:
Aloha - Some Echoes
Aloha - Here Comes Everyone
Ranier Maria - Long Knives Drawn
Ranier Maria - A Better Version of Me
Ranier Maria - Hell and High Water 7"
AM/FM - Mutilate Us
AM/FM - Getting Into Sinking

Also a totally awesome Aloha 1" pin. We turned out the lights, plugged in the christmas lights, and listened to them. It was awesome.

If you've never heard AM/FM, you should listen. Brian Sokel is the mid-fi/indie rock/paul simon/beach boys and it's great. I love the fucker. Indie rock lives.


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Xmas Shopping is Done, M0thaFukerz!


generic photo of consumerism

We believe in the consumer holiday called xmas. We did about 75% of our shopping online [like good gen-xers], twenty percent at estate sales, and the other five at dreaded retail outlets. There was a bit of a snafu with our friends at UPS, but most of our packages have gotten here safe and sound so far. Fingers and toes, eh? We decorated the apartment, we made sugar cookies and are watching Christmas Vacation. Happy Holidays, you filthy animals.

Also, I know I've getting behind in posts, I'm sorry. I've been busy. I also bought a 35 foot rca cable, if you care.
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Oh dear, I think I must have this.



The Boss DR-55 is a must have drum machine. It's so 1979, I can't fucking believe it. Anyone ever had one of these? Find me one for less than $40, and I'll pay you back. In the mean time, check out this virtual DR-55.

You can never have too many drum machines. Did you know that Roland 808s are three thousand dollars now? Insane. I sort of wish I'd never sold that 707 I had eight years ago, I only got like a hundred dollars out of it. I'm dumb. Oh well. Buy up all the gear you can and never get rid of it. Ever. Someday it will all be worth so much money you'll be able to have your teeth removed and replaced with gold mp3 players.
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I hate christmas music



I despise christmas songs, however... the gang over at Hi-Fi Holiday wants you to listen to shit loads of classic xmas LPs, of which I am very much in favor. This is not an advertisement. I don't know them. They didn't ask me to post this, I just thought I'd mention it since I like free music.

Please also consider James Brown's Funky Christmas and the Beach Boys Christmas Album, as they are two of the only acceptable holiday records ever released.
- posted by Mason @ 9:33 PM (0) comments

Two Views of My Boy!


megan likes to take surreptitious pictures of me while I'm napping with riker.


riker likes to be held like a baby. dogs are so much more awesome than kids.
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Being with you is like being alone...



Megan and I have been together for so long that we're essentially the same person. We went into a Taco Bueno to pee today during thrift store shopping. In the bathroom was the most beautiful hand-dryer I had ever seen. Bright orange. Have you even seen a bright orange hand-dryer? Of course not. I came out of the men's at the same time Meg was comming out of the women's. I said, "Give me you camera, this bathroom has the coolest hand-dryer on earth in it." Meg laughed and said she'd just taken a picture of the matching one in her bathroom. We're the same person.

The picture is obviously the one Megan took, since it wasn't necessary for me to shoot one as well.
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The Rubinoos are fuckin' great!



Holy. Fucking. Shit. The Rubinoos second album, "Back to the Drawing Board" for $2 at the Salvation Army. If you've never listened to them, you should. They're one of the best late 70's California power pop bands ever. Their single, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" is one of my favorite songs ever. I hope they win their lawsuit against Avril Lavigne.
- posted by Mason @ 8:50 PM (0) comments

All we want for xmas.



Dear Mom and Dad:

All Megan and I want for christmas this year is a black Vita-Mix 5000. I figure that if you guys and Nanny split it, it should come out just right. Here's even a code for free shipping. There isn't anything else we want. Nothing. This is it. Your only option. Thank you for your time.

Love,
Mason
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I need this. Buy it for me. Now.



Check this craigslist shit. If it wasn't about to be christmas, and I didn't need money for presents for you ingrates, I would totally buy this for myself. It's the greatest all-in-one cassette recording studio in the history of the world, the Tascam 688.

I took this recorder in trade for $300.00 someone owed me. I just want to get my money back. I don't know much about it other than I recorded and played back on each track to make sure it works. It seems like a real solid unit. I was told that this unit cost $3200.00 new. I also ordered a manual for it off of ebay that goes with it. This unit has 8 Tracks of simultaneous recording on a standard cassette tape and is MIDI capable.

This guy is correct, in the early 90's this little fucker was over three thousand dollars. And the meter bridge? Oh fuck yeah. A downside is that because the controls are digital, some of them have problems with the display, which is pretty balls. I don't have three hundred bucks to spend on it, so I guess it doesn't really matter.
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Lloyd Rodgers: Your Favorite Contemporary Composer



You've never heard of Lloyd Rodgers. He's a composer. A great one. Like me, all of his music is free and open source. I like him as much as I like Phillip Glass. Download all of his music from his website.
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I gots a real long beard, grandma...



So my beard has gotten REALLY long. Almost every day someone at work (usually a customer) says something to the effect of, "I like your beard, dude" or "Man, that's an awesome looking beard!". At the estate sale we went back to today, this old man said, "How'd you get your beard so long?"

My answer was, "Nothing, I just let it grow." What the hell kind of question is that? I don't what sort of response he was expecting. I don't eat a special diet for it. I don't massage special oils into it. I don't anoint it with frankincense. In fact, I do the exact opposite of something in order for it to grow. I guess I could of have said, "What I do is I don't cut it you stupid old bastard." But I'm a sweet boy, so I was nice about it.
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If you find cheap tapes, buy them for me.


estate sale tapes - fifty cents each! what a fucking deal.

I found some awesome high-bias tapes at an estate sales today. Fifty cents a piece! If you find nice cassettes for less than $0.75 each buy them for me and I'll pay you back. Only 90's or newer CrO2 though. Preferably TDK, Sony or Ampex. Maxells are ok too.

Here's what I scored today:

Two TDK SA-X 90
One Maxell XLII 90
Two Sony UX 90
One Sony UX-S 90

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How Stereo Music Works


scanned from "stereodisc catalog and technical data" from audio fidelity
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ER is under-rated.




Meg and I are a on an ER kick. I downloaded the first three seasons. When I was working nights at the call center a few years ago we'd watch two episodes a day, and I got pretty into it. I don't know why people poo-poo it, because it's excellent. I don't know if it's any good now, because no one is on it anymore, but the first season is fucking awesome. It carries my strong recommendation.
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Let me draw you a picture...



scanned from the book "Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying" by Kenneth Davis

Meg found this great book for me at the thrifty about a month ago. It has a TON of great line art drawings that I love. I think I could make a lot of money off of this as a t-shirt. I would wear it. Anyone with any 70's coffee books should mail them to me, because I love.
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Check the Motherfuckin' Bias.


my dad got me this totally amazing hand-wired Road brand bass amp. made in kansas in the 70's, this bad boy will be pumping low-end on everything from now on. solid-state analog is the best. sorry for the terrible pic, the light was bad.

So I thought that the belts might be a little loose in my new Tascam 122, as I was getting a little WoW and flutter. I already ordered new belts, because I'm a dope. However, I spent about an hour today calibrating and biasing it, and it's operating perfectly. I love it SO much. It has Dolby NR+HX (headroom expansion, baby!), and the mixdown playback actually sounds BETTER than the source mix. I'm amazed. I HIGHLY recommend purchasing this deck. Superior recording and playback will ensue.
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Will Everyone Please Leave Tom Cruise Alone?



Look at this fucking list of fantastic movies. Pick a bad one that you've seen. You can't mother-fucker. (The only one of that I didn't like was Eyes Wide Shut, but that had nothing to do with TC.) I haven't seen five of them, so I can't pass judgment on those. He's a great actor and there's nothing you can say to make that not so.

So he's a scientologist, so what? It's no more absurd than believing in jesus, and lots of actors labor under that nonsense. So he stood on a chair and yelled, so what? Fuck Oprah anyway. So he criticized the psychiatric community and Brooke Sheilds, so what? Fuck Brooke Sheilds. Which one of them are you more loyal to? When was the last time that stuck-up, tall-ass, bushy-eyebrowed beeotch was in anything worth watching? That Katy Holmes shit? So what. Bo-ring. I saw Batman Begins. I loved it except that Joey Potter was a newspaper reporter. I'm not saying that I like that worthless slag Maggie Gyllenhall anymore, but they couldn't do any worse. "Boo-hoo, a second rate TV actress married one of the richest, most handsome, most famous men on the planet. She looks unhappy all the time, boo-hoo." Who cares? Nobody. Christians hate him because he presents an ideology that's the happy alternative to their bigoted chicanery. Scientology is the cool kids club that only the richest, most successful people in the world are a part of, so it's obviously inferior to all the other lies that people tell themselves, right?

He's one of the best actors of his generation. He's our Paul Newman and you know it. Tell me his performance in Magnolia didn't change your life. Try to say some shit... you can't. You know why? Because Tom Cruise is great and there's nothing you say to deny it.

The list of his wonderful films:

# Mission: Impossible III (2006) .... Ethan Hunt
# War of the Worlds (2005) .... Ray Ferrier
# Collateral (2004) .... Vincent
# The Last Samurai (2003) .... Nathan Algren
# Minority Report (2002) .... Chief John Anderton
# Vanilla Sky (2001) .... David Aames
# Mission: Impossible II (2000) .... Ethan Hunt
# Magnolia (1999) .... Frank T.J. Mackey
# Eyes Wide Shut (1999) .... Dr. William 'Bill' Harford
# Jerry Maguire (1996) .... Jerry Maguire
# Mission: Impossible (1996) .... Ethan Hunt
# Interview with the Vampire (1994) .... Lestat de Lioncourt
# The Firm (1993) .... Mitch McDeere
# A Few Good Men (1992) .... Lt. Daniel Kaffee
# Far and Away (1992) .... Joseph Donnelly
# Days of Thunder (1990) .... Cole Trickle
# Born on the Fourth of July (1989) .... Ron Kovic
# Rain Man (1988) .... Charlie Babbitt
# Cocktail (1988) .... Brian Flanagan
# The Color of Money (1986) .... Vincent Lauria
# Top Gun (1986) .... Maverick
# Legend (1985) .... Jack
# All the Right Moves (1983) .... Stefen Djordjevic
# Risky Business (1983) .... Joel Goodsen
# Losin' It (1983) .... Woody
# The Outsiders (1983) .... Steve Randle
# Taps (1981) .... Cadet Captain David Shawn
# Endless Love (1981) .... Billy

Feel free to state your case against his performance in any of these movies that you have seen, I will go toe to toe with you, and I assure you I will win. Please lay off of Tom Cruise, you don't know what you're talking about.
- posted by Mason @ 10:26 PM (0) comments

The hippie guy told me, "Hey man, you're a great barista."


megan came by the store and I made her a soy steamer... peppermint, beeotch.

Check my pour, mother fuckers. I normally don't dress like this at work, but we swung by the store after I was already off, and I had to put on the silly red hat. I don't like the ball caps. I wear my driving hat with the silver coffee bean on it along with my brown apron that says "coffee" on it. A hippie guy told me I was a great barista today, and it made me really happy. Also, when europeans tell you that the shots you pull are "perfect", you're doing something right. I love my fucking job.
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