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It's fascinating to encounter the vast separation between the intensity and sincerity with which a sentiment is held by someone else, and how far away that sentiment is from anything relatable to me.

I have never for one moment been frightened, or left despairing, at the thought of ceasing to be. I have the instinctual, biological fear of death, as for example when you're standing at a great height and lose your balance slightly, and feel a sharp and sudden fright shoot through your body. I have a certain dread in contemplating my life as lived in relation to its end, in the event that my life would be unlived, wasted. But as a pure fact of not existing? Nothing.

One of the things that annoyed me in the late-00s atheist wave was a common presumptuousness on questions like these. Like it had to be that someone was frightened of death to be drawn to religion.

Life frightens me, death does not.

I played a covers gig with an old guy who showed up with two full stacks. Needless to say, I was buried. He should call his band Geriatric Wizard.

enframed wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:26 pmBetween street cleaning, people moving cars around (see street cleaning, and parking restrictions/permits), fireworks, dogs barking, people speeding by, people running their cars for who the fvck knows what, car alarms (also fireworks related), leaf blowers (mostly electric, but still), corner sales where the ladies gather and chat all day, multiple (at least four) ice cream trucks daily, multiple (at least three) "produce trucks," the dude who drives around on a 4-wheel ATV selling those ring shaped crispy things and honking his clown horn, the guy who walks around selling those ring shaped crispy things and honking his horn, the guy who selling those ring shaped crispy things and ringing a bell, the tractor trailers that cut through, and then multiple garbage days...the noise never. fucking. stops.

Hilarious. I have been in situations in which aural interruptions and nuisances were plentiful to the point of being alternately maddening and comical. At present though, nothing in the neighborhood compares to the occasional insufferableness of my family.

"It's coming from inside the house!"

Yes . . . Indeed!

An article these days that uses the word "bombshell" in the headline is almost guaranteed to be meaningless bullshit.

with all due respect to the fandom of others... "Fender Introduces the Mike McCready Stratocaster"?

No.

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:40 pm with all due respect to the fandom of others... "Fender Introduces the Mike McCready Stratocaster"?

No.

I actually like some PJ, but McCready annoys me and the idea of his custom strat also annoy me.

losthighway wrote:

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:40 pm with all due respect to the fandom of others... "Fender Introduces the Mike McCready Stratocaster"?

No.

I actually like some PJ, but McCready annoys me and the idea of his custom strat also annoy me.

yes, and this didn't help

https://stuff.fendergarage.com/images/I ... NAL@2x.jpg

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:43 pm

losthighway wrote:

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:40 pm with all due respect to the fandom of others... "Fender Introduces the Mike McCready Stratocaster"?

No.

I actually like some PJ, but McCready annoys me and the idea of his custom strat also annoy me.

yes, and this didn't help

https://stuff.fendergarage.com/images/I ... NAL@2x.jpg

Ugh. I can almost hear him tunelessly ripping through a minor pentatonic scale at full speed culminating in a gratuitous bend which leads him to throw his head back and make his O face.... with those glasses on. Hard pass.

losthighway wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:53 pm

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:40 pm with all due respect to the fandom of others... "Fender Introduces the Mike McCready Stratocaster"?

No.

I actually like some PJ, but McCready annoys me and the idea of his custom strat also annoy me.

He's been a big booster of this Thunderpussy band, which is basically a female Velvet Revolver.

losthighway wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:19 pm

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:43 pm

losthighway wrote:

I actually like some PJ, but McCready annoys me and the idea of his custom strat also annoy me.

yes, and this didn't help

https://stuff.fendergarage.com/images/I ... NAL@2x.jpg

Ugh. I can almost hear him tunelessly ripping through a minor pentatonic scale at full speed culminating in a gratuitous bend which leads him to throw his head back and make his O face.... with those glasses on. Hard pass.

Yeah I agree: PJ has its moments but McCready's guitar style reminds me of SRV. Not surprising he has a sig model but yeah.. no thanks.