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Celery Man

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  1. I bought this 10 years ago and have barely worn it. Put it on a week ago and have been wearing it since - it’s a solid watch. Too big and fat for the dress watch that it almost feels like it should be, but it’s nice for what it is.
  2. Yeah I think you can mitigate a lot of the risk by gate checking. It’s a PITA in security and probably worth trying to just carry on even if they’re difficult about it, but that takes a lot of the opportunities for it to get banged up out of the mix. Worked well for me
  3. Beautiful, and I love making fun of euphoniums. This guy is like the a capella version of a euphonium chamber band this thread made me want to go pull out my flugalhorn, and then made me want to track down this song that I’m excited still exists on the internet. I swear this band was a big or at least medium deal in central Texas indie rock in the early 2000s, but pre-Internet 2.0 stuff just disappeared. Their first album was a big deal to me in high school and one Friday night in 05 or 06 my trumpet player and trombone player asked me if I wanted to grab my flugal and drive down to Waco and record on their second album. It’s nice to have a recording from before I completely lost my high school band chops
  4. https://www.facebook.com/share/1Aqecmh6oC/?mibextid=wwXIfr (not fair to Charley, he’s not the worst. He is right on the money here though)
  5. Also in case anyone missed the reference-
  6. I 80% like SWJ and I think I hate him with the other 20%. Video here is perfect - his voice and vibe sonically is cool and definitely interesting. But why did they start with a whiskey advertisement and why is it shot like a snuff film, why do they have the wardrobe of the Vermont Ponderosa’s? I believe his guitar could look like that based on his style and playing and I’m sure he’s put a lot hours on that instrument but I’m also certain he’s used steel fingerpicks to get there. i dunno. He’s in the mix, I like several of his songs.
  7. Recommended by a friend. Good if you’re doing the middle aged get your shit right for a run into old age thing, although I feel like you could find a podcast Ted talk or something and get a cliffs notes of his argument and be fine enjoyed muchly. Serves as an intro to stoicism as well as some personal history on Marcus Aurelius. I’ve realized how much of what I’ve connected with in recovery is simply stoicism, and am highly interested in any other recommended books on the subject. Or commentary on if the source material will be too dense to get use out of as an audiobook as I hike around.
  8. Wait wait wait wait wait Sweetwater
  9. Basically the thesis of that Peter Attia book is that, past the basic "stop smoking don't be fat get some sleep" stuff you should be doing for your health, the thing that takes a lot of people down (or severely degrades their quality of life in their final years rendering them useuless and contributing to other factors leading up to their death) is an injury that they never bounce back from. It's hard to build muscle and recover as we age, most of us are fat and weak, you toddle along for a long time and then have a bad fall and get laid up for a few months (losing hard to regain muscle) and never regain your quality of life or your physical health. Anyways, that piqued my interest because while I don't care that much about having a body builders body or being able to do feats of strength, I want to be able to get through the airport and roll out of bed and walk at a brisk pace and etc etc etc deep into old age. Interesting to see the observations here of that thing he talks about - having to fight to regain strength after injury.
  10. for real though, I remember going into the GC on south Mopac at one point to get some strings and grabbing some random guitars off the wall as one does. I picked up a very inexpensive tv yellow Epiphone Les Paul Junior off the wall and thought "man this thing is great". I've probably relayed this story before because that is the thing that put the "I sould have one of these" in my head and, in retrospect, it was very stupid that I didn't just buy the thing right there.
  11. The junior was what I really wanted when I ended up getting the gold top. I could still see getting a junior at some point. I don't know how much I buy that the single pickup makes a tonal difference, but from a vibes perspective one pickup guitars are great.
  12. well you boys drank $300 worth of beer
  13. Not quite the right thread, but about the right audience and I'm not starting a new thread for this - I have no idea who Thor Harris even is but the original post popped up on my instagram the other night and I was bemused by some of the comments. Trying to decide if I'm taking too much of a "we've all had nights where we get paid zilch you should suffer too" approach or if it is in fact the children who are wrong. Original post. anyways, I was thinking about that while I was walking around last night and eventually landed on I can't believe this guy posted this shit online, of course you didn't get paid, and yes it's fine that lights and sound and everyone else got paid but you didn't because you are not an employee as a band who is putting on a concert at a music venue. You are a business in partnership with the venue to produce a concert. The guy who shows up to do lights is working as an employee, you are working as a business owner. Unless of course you are hired to perform live music, which is different than booking a concert as a band. Also it made me think about the various corporate gigs I've played and why those were always so great. Playing a gig at the Dirty Dog during SXSW with a half pipe in front of the stage with an Adobe logo on it and then some lady is giving us a check for $1000 dollars and asking if everything is all good while we try to pretend like we wouldn't have done this gig for $50 and plates of food.
  14. 😔 i just pulled my smallest can barely button this motherfucker sport coat off the hanger and put it on. it is very large. also the barbour. and my little patagonia jacket. fuck.
  15. Yeah I think that one scene is like being able to see through a briefly open door. It tells you a bit about that character, you can try and understand how that part of his life works with the rest of his life and drives his fears and motivations and actions and etc, but it also gives you a sense of scale. Like Twice said, there’s no main character. Everyone in this show has their own shit going on. Everyone you meet out in the world is the tip of an iceberg.
  16. I miss Mister Tramps Do we have a pedophile thread?
  17. I googled draoi to see if it was some kind of tobacco
  18. She’s now experimenting. Bao pepperoni rolls are 👌 pb+j is great too
  19. Ask your pastor
  20. I stopped counting calories and haven't been tracking my protein, but my normal breakfast alone is 42g it looks like - about a cup of cottage cheese, 2 eggs, a couple of those walla crispbreads. hot sauce. But I'm fairly weird in that I really like cottage cheese.
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