New names for bands that I don't like ... lol

Nickleback - Pickle Sack
Theory of a Dead Man - Slurry From My Bedpan
U2 - Yoohoo!
John Cougar Melloncamp - John Who Can't Poo His Hants
Tragically Hip - Tragically Shit




Tom Petty - Tom Pity
Tom Cochrane - Tom Cockring






More coming in due time, whenst I rem'ber them. ;)

Outside of that ...

(Local radio station I downright hate) Cool FM "Today's hits, yesterday's classics" - Cruel FM "Today's shit, yesterday's crap"

Bryan Adams - changed his last name spelling after he was kicked out of The Addams Family

Whilst I think of it - on the opposite side of the scale - those who are in my own personal 'Music Hall of Fame' include:

Killing Joke (one of the best / most innovative and influential bands that I have experienced, in my life.)

Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor's lyrical, compositional and sound construction brilliance are beyond many other's imaginations.)

Parliament Funkadelic (they INVENTED Funk, in the 1960s. Still together, touring.)

UK (late 70's supergroup with former Frank Zappa, Roxy Music and future Asia and Missing Persons members - Eddie Jobson (now heading UKZ) on keyboards/violin; Terry Bozzio (one of the best acknowledged drummers in the world) and John Wetton on bass guitar and lead vocals.)

An invention modification idea today at work ...

Very few of you reading this will know what my invention so far entitled 'The Judge' is, but earlier today at work, after having had the idea yesterday of moving it from analog circuitry to a programmable computer chip, I came up with the idea today of doing a version of it in Visual Basic.Net and then comverting THAT code to the PIC (programmable chip).

Have started and see where it goes. :)

I'm leaving this vague intentionally in this public blog as I don't wish anyone else who may join someday, running off with the invention idea and making bazillions of $! ;) Lol

My new studio / workshop tables building spree this weekend ...

This was a quick build of the two tables.  Through it all I found that my Canadian Tire cheap brand of tools, chop saw 'Job Mate' isn't very well lined up on the Z axis.  When you cut angles, they're off by a degree or 2. :(  This helped to make fitting things together which I'd hoped to do as precisely as possible, impossible.  Ah well.

In this pic is table #1's top, with a couple of it's underneath supports cut, laid out on it to test their sizings.

 Here's another viewing of it from top down.

 I believe this pic is after I had screwed all 4 of the support bars to the bottom of the table top.  (They're 2" x 3" wood that I recovered from my 2nd 5 foot tall 2"x3" 19" rack that my modular used to reside in.  The 1st 5 foot tall, was used to give me 2"x3" 's for my 2 cabinets that the modular has been moved into.

 Here, I've added the 2 front 3' legs with 1 of the 2 supports for each of them.

 Setting table #1 up to have a look at it, 1 of the almost 6' legs has been installed through a hole that I made in the table top.  It's leaning on the plastic table that I was using to build things on.

 And here, is table #1 with both of it's almost 6' tall legs installed.  I still had to add the remaineder of the leg supports.

 Here, with table #1 being almost completed - I've FINALLY remembered to grab my camera (today), to shoot pics of how far I'd gotten with table #2.  All of it's legs are on and I'm adding the final supports to it, here.

 Another pic of the 2 tables.

 Yet another pic of the 2 tables, with more leg supports added.

 And here is the first of the 2 pics of both tables completed (except for their almost 6' tall leg's top supports.  I ran out of wood that I'd rescued from the trashed 5' tall 2"x3" rack.  Except for the cutoff bits, ALL of the wood was used. :)  Happy about that.

And the final pic of the 2 tables standing well in front of my 1994 Ford Thunderbird.  (8 cylinder!  Woohoo! :D )

Now - has anyone noticed all of the measurement errors especially in the supports for the legs, all through the pics?  Lol.

The tables don't wobble.  I was extremely careful in my measurements for everything there.  Sturdy as heck with their supports.  When they were both out on the grass, I sat myself down on one of them (I'm 230+ pounds at 6'4" in height.) and I didn't even hear a creak.  Very happy with that. :)

During the last few minutes of adding the final supports - I realized that the table that I'll use for the modular cabinets does not NEED the almost 6' tall legs in the back as it'll be seated in FRONT of them.  Umm - duh.  Lol.

Anyhoo ... as I said on the forum, I need at least 5 tables.  3+ more to build. :)  Shall see about either next weekend or the weekend after. 

Yesterday's not nice saying coinage ...

Another way to call someone 'stupid' could be:

"Their wit is so low!"

"How low is it?"  (Had to. ;) Lol.)

"They would have trouble thinking their way,
out of a box that's made of butter!"

:P Lol

A new label for myself ...

9:18am this morning, I combined two individual words and came up with the lable/label of:

Innoventionator for myself. ;) :P Lol.  See if you can figure out what the 2 words originally were. ;)

(My previous self-coined label/lable is Progressive Industrial Philosophical Analyst ... but, it's a little too long.  Lol.)

A long brewing contemplation's current realization ...

Now - I've been realizing for quite a few months now, that for the past few years mainly, I've not been composing music from any emotion at all.  Only, from that which to me 'sounds cool' to my own ears. :O  Ummm - ooops?  Is an understatement. :(

I've been pondering music composed emotionally for at least a couple of years now, from what I've been hearing on the popular radio stations that I haven't any choice to ignore at places of work.  I've been noticing what appears to be the amount of tunes on them, without emotion in their creation, becoming more and more popular.  ???  Media pushing to make artists popular is a guess of mine.  But anyhoo ...

At a rough guesstimate, in all of my compositions that I've kept a recording of in some way since 1982, when I first started recording them, I may very well be able to count on my fingers and toes together, the TOTAL # of those tunes that I DID compose from emotions.  Out of a rough estimate of 150 tunes, that's not one heck of a lot. :o

This is definitatively something I'll be keeping in mind when I set myself down to begin any new compositions.  A key for me here will be: to ensure that I'm composing the music for lyrics, if it's not an 'ambient' / etc. type of genre.  If it is the latter, then I should make sure that I have a mood that I'm looking to appeal to emotionally (or logically (or a combo. there of)) and follow that, rather than going only with sounds and / or rhythms that appeal to my mind.

:)

One of my comic strip's comics, for a chuckle ...

This is 1 of my 500+ comics from my Look On The Bright Side comic strip.  Inspired heavily by Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' back in 1982, I've had it published for a 1 year period only in a bi-monthy poetry magazine, back in the early 2000's.

More coming.  I hope you like. :)