I love this thread an how about whoever has the most awesome desire that’s within reach we gofundme to make it happen? I’m good for 20 bucks. 50 if it’s really dumb-awesome

Rototoms, I have some.
I picked them up from a dude in a supermarket parking lot sometime during the pandemic.
I had bought a tiny Whisper Room booth used in 2020 for my studio/office at home and have slowly put together an improv kit in there, rototoms (up to four), cymbals, percussion, objects, 10-inch hihat on kid's hihat stand, a 20-inch Traps bassdrum. It sounds good! I record onto multi-track cassette tape and use it for a project I'm working on, a new alias, about a harmolodic space cult. On tape, sometimes varispeeded, through effects, they sound awesome.
So, treat yourself to some used rototoms.

Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.

My dumb desire goes something like this:

Investigators believe Wisconsin kayaker faked his own death before fleeing to eastern Europe

penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:54 am Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.

could also go for a big empty white box van and double as a stalker

A house with a bedroom big enough to fit a king size bed. And a detached building so I can have a practice space at home.

penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:54 am Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.

One of my neighbors has an old '88 SR5 pickup that's really nice. I wish he'd sell it to me.

penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:54 am Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.

MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN.

For real, having a minivan is great not just for band gear transportation, but also going out and getting a couch or dresser at a moments notice.

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:25 am

penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:54 am Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.

MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN.

For real, having a minivan is great not just for band gear transportation, but also going out and getting a couch or dresser at a moments notice.

Minivans lack power and aren't great in snow. I need to be able to go pick up a player piano from some backwoods weirdo or shit like that.

jimmy spako wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:55 am My dumb desire goes something like this:

Investigators believe Wisconsin kayaker faked his own death before fleeing to eastern Europe

Love how they keep showing that photo--elsewhere--of dude sporting a shit-eating grin. He totally looks like a guy who would do something like that and have no ethical misgivings about it.

It's one thing to fake your own death to collect a bogus insurance claim, or evade the law if it's closing in on you. It's another if you're just like "Fuck all y'all, I'm outta here!"

Frankenheimer's Seconds is of course a damn good movie, excellent Rock Hudson performance, good James Wong Howe cinematography, though it's way more sinister in scope and has darker implications than Wisconsin kayak bro "dying" under suspect circumstances so he can eff off to Europe.