southernjim

QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Mar 5 2010, 02:28 PM)

That book looks awesome Blaze!!  I am on it. Looks like a book out of the EVIL DEAD movies!! That sword should be a chainsaw!!  Love, Bruce Campbell

I bought my crowbar just for that. thank you Big Lots http://www.toolstation.com/images/library/stock/webbig/49625.jpg

I am such a weirdo

Why? Both Big Lots and crowbars rock!

Yes they do, crowbars are helpful for a lot of things. I bought mine to keep the tradition of always buying a random object (usually something that can be used as a weapon) when priest_of_syrinx and I go on an adventure around town

Are you asking if I have a violence fetish?

Nope, that didn't cross my mind. I guess I'm asking this: How many times have you been beaten down to get you to that level OR what have you seen/experienced to get you to that level? If it isn't clear, "that level" is 'never leaving the house without a knife (one minimum) and most often a short tactical baton'.

Always liked that line in Tarantino's Death Proof..."You know what happens to muthafuckas that carry knives?...They get shot!" Not trying to rip you. Just saying you should be careful and I'm not sure carrying a knife (or knives) is being careful. [Probably wind up in jail for carrying, if anything.] Besides, if you're going to carry a blade, might as well go full-on, not half-ass it, and go with a katana.

http://www.dfoggknives.com/copy_of_index/katana.gif

Well, I've been in my share of fights, but never been "beaten down." I carry my knife (and often a baton) because A- a knife is the handiest thing you can have, for stopping an attacker or knitting, whatever you're into. and B- they're both legal for open carry up here and in my area nobody is stupid enough to pull a gun*

but basically, I've always had the sentiment of "it's me or them" in the back of my mind, and in a situation where my family, friend(s), or I was in danger, it's an easy decision.

*three blocks from the police station

I thought someone might get a kick out of that one

I would so completely love it if my husband made me a bunch of duct tape roses! Even better if he delivered them to me at work.

For some reason this part of the instructions made me laugh: Now you have a pretty good rose that you can use, but the wire stem is pokey and hurts when you get stabbed with it...

Yeah, not the most amazing guide, but i got it after a couple tries.

wait, doesn't it get hurt being stabbed with pretty much anything?

I like everything from AC/DC to Frank Zappa. This band is uninspiring, boring, cliche radio rock. Basically the same shit thats been spewing from the airwaves for the last decade. You posted a link to a band and i gave my opinion. No snobbery here.

Show me something that's original these days. Not only original, but GOOD. I doubt that there's anything new that isn't heavily influenced by something that came before it.

Am I arguing your point... not really, cuz you're mostly right. But find me something NEW that's not rehashed and still GOOD and I'll buy it. For now, I have to find the re-hashed generic shit that's good. I just can't listen to any more ACDC or Zappa or even Just because something was good twenty, thirty years ago, doesn't mean I need to still listen to it. I get bored easily and it's rare that I even listen to anything "classic". Can't stand it.

So i'm left with finding gems in a mine of shit. Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, and now HaleStorm are just three that I can think of that I like right now. I guess I don't take music as serious as you. Or I just realize that it's all been done and there's just not much more that can knock me over and still be original.

If you can find something more original than inventing your own instrument, let me know

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/1001001/homer_drool_baconboobs.gif

Thank God for the internet. Just imagine a time when one could only try to conjure up the image of hot chicks in bacon underwear.

http://ingamenow.com/bacon-bikini-pictures/

Did Dean ever claim originality for the designs?

Any variation of a V or Explorer (or Les Paul and SG) comes from a Gibson design. Dean combined Explorers with V's and Les Paul shapes as early as the 70's, just after Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley used V's and Explorers on 1976 tours.

Paul Reed Smiths are based on Gibson and Fender designs. Ibanez was sued by Gibson in the late 70's for blatantly issuing Les Pauls, SGs, Explorers and V's (headstocks and all, only the company logos were different) and their models were modified slightly so they did not match exactly the guitars they were based upon. This is nothing new. Most electric guitar designs these days are based off of Gibson or Fender designs. Gibson and Fender were the first companies to mass produce solid body electrics and their designs have stood the test of time. The telecaster shape was first used in 1947 under the name of Broadcaster and has been used and copied ever since. There are only a handful of guitar manufacturers who have created truly original designs (in terms of body shape), but Dean isn't one of them. They were inventive and the first to combine shapes from 2 other guitars, but that is hardly original.

technically speaking, the telecaster shape was first sold as the esquire. as to the Danelectro question, Yes, Silvertones were made of bakelite, but I said Danelectro. Many similiarities, but not quite the same.