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kinda funny...exotic, high end chocolates are sometimes described in a very similar fashion. which reminds me that valentines day is coming up. as a former husband of a floral designer, i would let you guys know that long stemmed roses carry an insane mark up for this holiday. for what you would pay to buy her long stemmed roses, you could get her a massive tropical arrangement that would be so big she probably couldn't pick it up by herself. if your lady likes chocolate, you need to quickly order from here: https://www.somachocolate.com it's very expensive, but you can't buy better chocolate anywhere on this continent. if you decide to get some, try the dark fire for yourself. it will change your opinion of what chocolate should taste like. i'm not even kidding. beware that a bar of chocolate costs between $8-$12 canadian, shipping isn't cheap because it's express shipped, in a box full of cold packs.

i didn't know that. i looked him up briefly after reading that. it seems that when the war ended he would have been about 8 yrs old. i didn't see anything in his bio that indicated he supported nazi principles, other than the claim that he was associated with what wikipedia called a "right wing extremist group" that opposed merkel's immigration policies. i take that label with a grain of salt considering the source, and the fact that anyone who opposes globalism mass immigration, and the e.u. is automatically labeled a racist by the woke media. i didn't look too deeply into them, so it's possible i missed some things. however, his quote that merkel didn't like was "You cannot kill millions of Jews and then take in millions of their worst enemies afterwards, even if there are decades between the events." that doesn't sound pro nazi to me. he may have been a racist, i have no idea. a superficial search of his bio indicates he was not. either way, i didn't buy that cologne, she would put it on me, i let her do it because she was very hot, very talented, and she rewarded me for it. ?

i grew up in a rough place. i fought the same 3-5 guys every single day, from 1st grade to 7th grade. i tried taking a different way home, and about everything i could think of. these guys came looking for me all the time. my parents wouldn't allow me to learn to fight, like boxing or karate. i took judo for a while, that and puberty kinda helped make me more trouble than it was worth. i imagine those guys also moved on as they discovered things more fun than beating on me and a few other kids. after high school i got into a few fights because my first wife liked to start them for me, but otherwise, none since then. i lost most of the time, but even the times when i won, i hated it. i'll fight if i have to, but i avoid it best as i can.

he was a nazi, who used forced labor from concentration camps, and designed the ss uniforms as well as the wehrmact. if i did wear cologne, or designer clothes, it wouldn't be anything by them. all that aside, i don't wear cologne. i can't explain where or when i made this decision, but as long as i can remember, i just think men shouldn't adorn themselves. i don't wear jewelry, or scents, and only wear dress clothes if i have to. i don't have any rational explanation why i think that way, and i don't know where it came from. i guess i'm just weird. i dated a girl who liked scents, many decades ago. when she and i would go out, she'd bring along a bottle of lagerfeld photo, and make me wear it. i hated it, and i would shower it off as soon as we were done...you know.

it's popular to look down on humanity these days, but i disagree with that. mankind has done some pretty cool stuff since we've been on this planet. sure, we've done plenty that's terrible too, but that's why we need Jesus. as for the way people are these days? it sure seems that we have taken a bad turn. however, if you look at the advancements we've made in the last 200 years, it's really not a big surprise to see us struggle with the massive changes we have gone through as a species in such a short amount of time. it's only natural. to get an idea of what i'm talking about, watch this: i always said if i crash my motorcycle and lose my leg, i want to make a ham from it, to see if i'm tasty

sometimes i think my son is the only good thing i gave this world. he's got his flaws for sure, but he's better than me, so i call it an over all success. that said, my biggest regret is not being a better dad than i was. considering what i had to work with, i did better than some might have expected, but i give the credit for that to Jesus, cause anything i did right was by accident. my folks wanted me to go to college and get a "respectable" job. i saw how things turned out for my dad, and there was no way i was going that route. i got into the trades instead. in my 30's i had the opportunity to get out, and work in the drafting dept. i tried it for a year. it drove me up the wall, so i went back to bangin tin. if i stayed with drafting, i'd be better off financially, but i would have been miserable. there are days when i'm on site and it's freezing cold, or some other crappy condition, and i play "what if" for a few minutes, but i know the truth. had i stayed, i would have gone insane from working in a cube farm.

working in construction, i have a zillion hoodies and sweatshirts, the companies i work for give them out all the time. i really should get rid of some. i like zip up ones if i'm working in a heated place because i can leave it inside of my jacket when i take it off. but if i'm on a cold place i like pull overs. i get around that by stuffing the pony tail up into my do-rag. i got into the habit because when i ride, the knots are obnoxious when i don't. the only drawback i ain't figured out yet, is how to avoid that tan line that goes across my forehead. sunscreen doesn't work

i watched top gun the night before christmas. i only watched it because i like planes. i was not disappointed, they had alot of scenes with planes flying around. outside of that, i avoid watching hollywood and lakeshore (canadia) stuff. i don't like the woke stuff getting jammed down my throat. i stopped watching television back in the late 90's because i refuse to pay to watch commercials. most of the movies i watch are asian action stuff, mostly wuxia films. 99% of the people i know hate it. they call it "wire-fu" and say it's not realistic! but they'll watch marvel movies all night long and have no complaints.

i can really snore. fred flintstone ain't got nothin' on me. when i lay down, i'm alseep inside of 5 minutes, most times. i only seem to snore when i'm over-tired, but when i do, it's pretty loud. when i was still married, the wife wasn't a big fan of my snoring, but she REALLY hated how fast i fall asleep. jealousy. hahaha she would wrap herself around me, for about the first year. it would make me sweat, and she'd get annoyed with me for sweating on her. over the years, she learned to just steal the blankets by wrapping herself in them as if she was a hot dog in a crescent roll, making it impossible to get them back. i learned to wear pajamas to keep from getting cold. i have this other thing i do, that every woman i ever had absolutely hated. if i'm stressed out, i'll sit up, with my eyes open. sometimes i say stuff. my only real gripe about her sleeping was her fake snore. sometimes she would make this noise every time she exhaled, "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee(draw a breath) eeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." i woker her up one night and told her "look, if you're gonna start snoring, that's fine, i'm ok with it, but that noise you're making drives me up the wall." hahaha on the other hand, my dogs don't care how loudly i snore, they don't steal the blankets, and they don't care (most of the time) if they get a dutch oven

i don't sniff the fish i catch, but it doesn't matter. i would NEVER sniff a crawdad, so i have no idea what they smell like

or slayer, that works too

so beautiful! who doesn't love miyazaki stuff? do i not have the coolest shower curtain?

i did play castlevania, all the way back in the late 80's/early 90's when things were still kinda pixellated. for the life of me though, i can't remember the music. that was a cool video. the notes sound similar to a piano until he starts to bend them. i would guess (i don't actually know) it's because of scale length, and small body. maybe string tension too, i don't know what the open strings are tuned to. cool stuff! if you like that guy, you might also like the hu, (mongols) maybe also 12 girls band(chinese). you probably already know about luna lee (s. korea) who plays classic rock on a gayageum. there are also lots of bands from japan and china that play rock on traditional instruments, or a mix of old and new stuff. i love to listen to the erhu, it's one of my favorite sounds. my musical taste is all over the place. most of my friends hate riding in my car, and constantly say to me "can't you play something normal?"?

oh, you mean this? i won't be tricked! hahaha that's one of those pedals that i'd play with for hours and hours making sounds but no actual music. i once owned an eventide pitchfactor that tricked me like that. it was alot of fun, but i eventually sold it because all i really did was play with it. i've learned to excersize self control with pedals, if i'm not careful, i'll own a mountain of them the hendrix one was cool! i liked it alot. however, i'll see your japanese uke player, and raise you a tsugaru shamisen duo. in my mind, this is how freebird would sound if it was written by a japanese guy:

must be why i like it so much. i've been called a dope for ages ? i sat down to explore what it can do. i looked up after only playing with the delay stuff, and 3 hours had passed. i haven't used it in stereo mode, haven't set any presets, and haven't used the toneprint stuff yet. i also don't have the expression pedal - yet. i'm really happy with it. of all the delays i ever had, this is the only one so far that doesn't color my tone AT ALL. even though it does so much, the controls are really easy to use, even for a dummy like me. when i run it stereo, it opens up a whole lot more options depending on how i wire switches on my board...that i will have to reconfigure, because now it's way too small to fit what i will be using. so in the future, a new (bigger) board and power supply, and probably a second a/b/a+b switch. funny how just a few months ago, i thought a small board would be just fine. ?

got a new toy for christmas! thanks santa clause! i am, right now, about to test it out. i'll let you all know how it went

there are a few "hidden gems" in the guitar world, i've been lucky enough to own a few of them. here is one below: it's a roxbury legend custom. if you don't look close, you might mistake it for a prs mcarty. it was a $250 guitar that came with stainless frets, rosewood board, maple neck, wilkinson trem, mahogany body with a 3/4" maple cap, recessed speed knobs, grover kidney beans and a bone nut. i don't remember who made the pick ups but i swapped them for a set of burstbuckers i had laying in a drawer. the only thing about the guitar i didn't like was the finish. they used a poly that reminded me of what they put on deck furniture. when it got warm, it was sticky. i used to have to scuff it with a scotch brite pad every couple months. here is another one: this is a canadian dillion 533 another $250 guitar that punched well above it's weight. maple body and neck, mahogany center block, rosewood board, metric bridge and tail piece like you'd find on an epiphone. i put grovers on it, a bone nut, better pots and caps, and a set of 57 classics. i loved this guitar, but destroyed it and the one above in a juvenile fit of rage many years ago. the same day, i also threw one of these from a 4 story window. 18w all tube, point-to-point handwired 1x12 combo with a spring reverb. i deserve worse than the regret i feel for having allowed myself to do that, but i'm glad i'm not "in that place" anymore

lucky for you guys, there ain't no pictures surviving, from when i was a working band. it was the 80's then. that means leather and studs and chains and spandex pants. some things are better left in the past. ? how about another guitar, instead? this is my d'angelico premier mini dc xt. as a sweetwater exclusive, it came with seymour duncans and locking tuners. the bridge pick up is ridiculously hot, i think it tests out around 17 or something. i'll eventually swap it out for something more reasonable, like a jb or something. i'm not in a giant hurry to do it, because i'll probably change the pots too, i'm not fond of audio taper. being a semi hollow, it's going to be a huge p.i.t.a. that's one reason i'm not in a hurry. i may just farm it out to my luthier when the time comes, to save myself the hassle of fishing everything through the F-holes.

keys are very cool! jon lord is 80% of why deep purple is such a cool band. as a guitar player, i loved blackmore, but in my mind, jon lord made deep purple what it was. also, in my mind the coolest song ever written was tocata and fuge. bach wrote it when he was just 17 years old. you tell me what you think. crank your speakers up super loud and play this. if i EVER get the chance to hear this played on a real pipe organ in person, a 20 mule team won't keep me out of that church love the black board, is it ebony? that top is very rich, what a nice guitar!

holy smokes! coolest posts so far! y'all 2 making beautiful guitars certainly beats me playing mid-budget ones poorly. hahahaha

i ABSOLUTELY LOVE that tele with the natural finish. i call it "school desk finish" i had a 335 copy like that. i've had a few strats, i have a love/hate thing with them. i have trouble with the F spacing, and the scale length. but man, when i'm in a mind to fight with one, they sound amazing. here is the last strat i had, i called it the bat strat. if the adam west batman had a strat, it would be this one american standard, i think it's an '06. i rewired it so that it was just 3 position, dropped one vol knob, evh frankenstein in the bridge, custom pickguard from warmoth, lsr roller nut, locking tuners, extra string tree, tremol-no, custom engraved neck plate. this pic was taken before the final mod, a spinal tap volume knob. it went to 11. ? because i'm stupid, i sold it a couple years ago. when covid hit and they said they were gonna do lock downs, i panicked and sold it so i would have an extra mortgage payment. i had no idea that soon i would make more staying home than i did going to work as a union sheet metal worker. i tried buying it back, but the guy refused , because unlike me, he's not stupid. that's life. i like trying new stuff, so other than my lp and the ar, anything else i have usually gets turned into something else eventually. i built a red strat before that one, which was all the same except seymour duncan pick up in the bridge. i traded that for an explorer, which i traded for a vox nite train and a bunch of other stuff...

youtube is slam full of good lessons in every genre. i would recommend you learn to read tab. you don't need to be fast at it. just good enough to understand what you're looking at. tab for a song is almost always wrong. but it's good for getting you close enough to figure out the rest on your own. the best thing you can do for yourself is, to keep it fun. don't make a chore out of it. playing an acoustic is more physically difficult than playing on an electric. if rock is what you want to play, get an electric guitar and a small amp that accepts headphones. learn to play rock and don't bother (in the beginning) trying to learn what you don't like as much. what ever your flavor is, there are easy songs you can learn to get you started. this will help you: https://theacousticguitarist.com/how-to-read-chord-charts/ https://theacousticguitarist.com/what-are-cowboy-chords/ this is where you want to start. oh, and one other thing. get yourself a tuner, and keep your guitar in tune. as you learn, this will also train your ear to know when something isn't right, without actually trying to learn it

it's a 2014 studio pro. like everything else, i can't leave things as they are. i put locking tuners on it, ditched the corian nut for a bone one, and added an evh frankenstein pick up. it used to coil split, but i rewired it when the greenboard crapped out. i didn't bother setting up the coil split on the 57 classic in the neck position, the frankenstein doesn't split anyhow. it's my "hard rock" guitar. my #1, all-arounder is an ibanez AR325. i LOVE the super 58 pickups that it comes with. the micro switches do coil tapping, and phase. the only mods i made to it were a bone nut, and locking tuners. it now takes longer to open a pack of strings than it does to change them, because of the tuners and the slotted tail piece. also, the knobs that came on it are the sweetest i've ever used. a little thing, but i love it

there was a rock/metalhead thread, i wonder if any of you play an instrument? if you do, how about showing us your gear? talk about what kinda stuff you like to play, and if you are in a working band, or if you just headline at madison square living room as i do. i play 60's, 70's, & 80's rock/metal, and some southern rock stuff. judas priest, black sabbath, ted nugent, deep purple, molly hatchet, gov't mule, some allman bros. currently working on learning green grass and high tides. i was in a popular cover band and a tribute band back in the 80's. these days, i just rock out in my house. my gear is nothing special, but functional and affordable. i have other stuff besides what's below, if other people post stuff too, i'll post some of my other guitars and amps later on

they chewed the right boot of a pair of work boots that i had only had 2 days. that's how i learned that you can't buy one boot. i wonder what folks do who are missing a leg? are they forced to buy a shoe they don't need?