The emptiness of the holiday season

Many people find themselves feeling extremely empty this time of year. The days are increasingly getting shorter. The thermometer is doing the limbo and seed catalogs are just not able to thaw the coldness that surrounds your heart because you haven't an outlet to express your generosity and devotion.

Introducing my patent pending credit card blessing machine. Yes that's right. swipe your major credit cards through my machine and become blessed.

Don't find yourself stranded at St. Peter's gate or even the gates of hell with an expired triple A membership but worse having a wallet full of credit cards that have not been blessed. Oh the horrors that await thee!

All I want for Christmas is world peace

Okay so it's in my world I was referring to. Then again one might of suspected as much. Unlike other narcissists I simply refuse to consume pizza with a fork.

Imagine that you've been handed a bundle of wealth through government assistance and shady happenings and all you've got to show for it is a bad comb over.

Where is the exploration into the senses and into other psychological episodes that dare seek the answers to the questions everyone is afraid to ask....WHY THE HELL DO STUCK UP SNOBS EAT PIZZA WITH A PLASTIC FORK AND THEN HEAD TO THE DRUG STORE TO PURCHASE A SOLUTION TO EXPEL THE FOREIGN MATTER FROM THEIR STOMACH< A QUIVERING ONE AT THAT.....

Such people attend congressional hearings on the day Steven Corbet enunciate and pretend they are corpses. Such people say oh that was funny but never seem to laugh or release emotion.

If one is not by emotion then one is in denial of one's own existance. It's a form of psychological abortion.

So tune in turn on and opt out.

Ron Paul 2012!!! Black This Out!

I should try one of these Kickcrotcher I mean Kickstarter things again...

I'm still formulating my ideas and wondering if it couldn't be political?  Sorta like a PAC but not really....basically I just need better tools to see the thing through. My current compuker can't handle video. Too slow. I have a good camera/video capturing device but need some atmosphere, computer and software to make the complete presentation possible. 


Trouble is a lot of people are not going to like my idea even before I suggest it. It's a melting pot of ideas and extremely blended into one...sorta like the wax catching fire in the House of Wax revealing the skeletons under the wax. 


When you've absorbed all the things I absorb it's bound to all come together in a round about sorta way. It's so frigging bazaar it would be very successful if allowed to be financed. 


Not sure what a video editing computer costs and software to make the videos look awesome. However I got many of the key ingredients such as nice microphone, cool vintage amp, awesome Telecaster, me, my weird sense of humor through verbal sadism and of course the intuitiveness to put it all together and make people cringe and fall into a trance....and join my cult...and....oops i should mention right now Romney isn't my candidate. 


In many ways my project still combines horror, bleeding flowers just like my last proposed one but this one adds a new character not found in the original idea. Actually he replaces a 60's figure. His campaign would probably hate my idea and try to have me snuffed out but I am wiser and I caught a really interesting interview with Pat Buchanan today that made me think. 


The republican(the rubes)are severely divided as Pat suggests and wont get behind Romney. They could get behind Christie but there's liability to consider and the fact they may never see the light of day again left to stare at the most growing on his backside where the sun never reaches. 


Having said that a 3rd party will be encouraged by the dems(demlins from the kremlin)to make re-election easier. However my idea is to divide the otherside by creating my own fictitious counter culture movement. The hippie is going to be transformed into a libertarian. Ron Paul will be a Timothy Leary like figure but unlike Leary Ron Paul will not be a cia asset nor will he tell people to Tune In Turn On and Drop Out...he will encourage idealistic youth to Tune In, Turn on and opt out of SS, the Fed, 999, 666, and anything else to do with big gov. 


Problem I would need to create characters. I could do make up and play everything myself but...even that costs $$$. Besides my nose is way bigger than Ron Paul's. How do you reduce the appearance?  Make your head look bigger?  Why not...Ron Paul will have a 6th Finger. Can't you just picture the white linen suit, indian style, addressing supporters and having the extra digit?


Maybe that's the ticket?  Special effects?  Could be a $1000 project....

I should have a Halloween horror prop contest!

Attractive females will submit videos to me(after signing a release form)in their spookiest sexiest costume and I'll place on my Halloween Youtube channel and who ever gets the most likes after the weekend gets a corpsehead prize!  

Halloween is almost here!!!

Quick go order something at http://www.halloween-skeletons.com!!!


So far I got 5 Bucky torsos hung out front, 9 tombstones, cemetery fence, lights, led light(181 10mm led's), fogger and all the props I haven't sold!  A witch, poltergeist girl, animated hex, 2 eye poppers, regan masks, regan costume, exorcist lenticular, oh and a bunch or corpseheads and skulls i'm going to use to make a path way to hell!!!!  


I got to figure out how I will play the music this year. I have all the songs on my computer. Lot of Bach, Horror movie themes like Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc. 

Can't understand lack of sales on my website

I have an ebay owned prostores site that does not generate sales. I think plenty of traffic but few sales. No where near what it should generate. Is there something wrong with the site?

My ebay store generates a lot of traffic and a bunch of sales. It's the same stuff. I'm offering lower prices in general on my prostores site.

It makes no sense. My site is plain looking but come on there should be sales!

Dream Pedal Board

I don't totally crave effect pedals but there are times when I want to use more than tube distortion. I used to have lots of pedals but sold them over the years. Currently I only have a London Fuzz Pedal. It's a nice 60's style fuzz pedal. Here's what i need to add to get some more cool sounds.

1. Fulltone Tube Tape echo. What more is there to say?   From 50's slap back to spaciness. I like that atmosphere. I want it now!!!!
2. Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe for the times I want that saturated modulation effect. 
3. Fulltone Clyde Wah for  that muted trumpet sound....actually I'd be willing to bet 99% of people don't even realize what it was originally intended for. Then again I'm not looking to imitate horn plungers. I want the wak a wak a sound. i want that Houses of the Holy wholesome nastiness. 
4. Treble booster. Essential tool for cutting through the mix. Analogman makes one.

Think that's about it for now but I wouldn't be afraid to add more fuzz pedals. One has to drink from many chalices until he finds the holy grail.  

Dr. Z Route '66 or Dr. Remedy?

 Perhaps 2 heads are better than one?   I like a guitar tone with an edge that can really get late 60's-ish in a hurry. I think both would accomplish this but in different ways or subtle ones.

On Guitar Rig I tend to favor the Hot Plexi head but like to experiment with cabinets. This is assuming Guitar Rig is relatively accurate. However I'm sure it's  ball park.

One thing is for sure I like the Celestion Blue models if they're accurate. One way to find out if I atleast like them is to replace the current Celestion speaker in my Vox Pathfinder with one. Now the front end is much different being EL-84's but I think the output can be appreciated or not and distinguished from the tube tone. That is to say it doesn't really matter what power tube a 12 inch speaker for example is going to sound or react differently than a 10 inch.

Through the use of attenuators I think a custom cab could be employed that featured low watt speakers such as the 15 watt Blue Celestions. One would have to be careful though. Those speakers are fiendishly expensive to be driving too much with 40 watts.

Who knows though maybe I could get used to the stock cabinet celestions?   Whichever the case I like presence and I think that only comes through 12 inch speakers. but I'm willing to be wrong. Someone just send me a big box of Dr. Z speaker cabs!

I'm not totally interested in bleeding ear drums and windows rattling as much as i'm interested in great tone. I like some volume but not so much as to be obnoxious. I have absolutely no trouble being obnoxious in the quietest of settings.

I basically like 2 types of tones, no 3 , 3 shall be the number!  

1. The 1st is bridge pick up on my Tele playing rhythm. I like this sound to be a little gritty. It should be clean enough 1st position chords ring out but not like a Jazz Chorus clean. I want character. . 
2. Sustain for days, atmospheric. Neck pick up on the Tele, Fuzz pedal, let those lead licks ring out like  milkshake smooth.
3. I sometimes like that middle out of phase position on the Tele. I mostly use it for rhythm but it can be a little jazzy too and it should be similar to my 1st sound. 

So there you have it....sales sales sales so I can get this great American made amplifier or 2 to go along with my Wildwood Fender '52 thin skin(for my pleasure) Telecaster!!!

feel free though to send cash. then we can start talking about my dream pedalboard.

Garden of Coral Castle

A study in human entertainment. Not the usual type of ball juggling or itching but rather more along the lines of Coral Castle. You start with a piece of worthless land and turn it into a dream world. Okay my idea is far more practical but it's the same idea. We all need a home a place to call our own even if that is an illusion.

In my case I guess the land is going to be a little mucky. I think the politically correct term is wetland. Pond land or oh what I'd call it swamp land. That's how Walt Disney started out his home. No one wants it because it's too much work. Everyone wants it easy. Easy and dry as cash. Some people will live in a swamp 18 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and still have the nerve to hand out their hand when something goes wrong.

For me I am certainly holding out my hand hook or crook, beg or borrow. Movies don't get made unless some finances them. Very few people finance their own projects. Project is the word I'd use.

It starts with the crack in the door and them nothing can stop you...save for a zoning board violation from uptight fart freezers who save it for the elevator after they had bacon, eggs and sausage for breakfast. So let's crack open 'dem beans I mean the door.

1/2 acre of land, wet, not cleared. Traditional area of uptight prickdom clinging to their run down ways. It's summer absolutely no one is going to want to hear heavy machinery. They better stick cotton in their ears. The area is cleared, tree trunks shredded. Clean slate.

1st complaint you cut all the trees down!  Well that's because I prefer to grow things I can eat. My project is about that....independence. We rely so much upon the assistance of others we are no longer capable of surviving a major catastrophe. It could be natural, manmade, monetary, etc...doesn't matter when the supermarket shelves are bare you'll know what's going on.

This message isn't just for the welfare types. Worse then them are the people who order a lawn service and consider roundup to be the best thing since penicillin are the ones who will really suffer. The welfare reject will riot, loot, steal etc. The guy in the $2 million house is going to starve. His money wont mean anything when no supplies are coming in. He is not used to walking and he's in his mid 50's and his wife turns to him with the what are we going to do. Sorry viagra temporarily fixed the other problem but is not going to fix the next one. You see gangs of rioters from the bad towns are on the march. Suddenly you feel threatened....insecure....so you retreat to your womb....your car. You actually feel naked without it. You are embarrassed to walk to the mail box even. You back the car down to the end of the driveway.

It's like a twilight zone episode. My idea is to turn conventionality on it's head.  1st thing throw away the notion the house meaning the physical structure is the most important thing. The land and the sun are....oh and the water.

So back to the slate. Got to do something about that water. Sand, top soil...dump dump dump....until you can look down your neighbor's blouse. You might have to get a shovel in there and dig you a footing/foundation for a retaining wall. Otherwise I have to imagine a mudslide would be a lot of fun. You got to get that soil up out of the muck where the sun can get at it.

Now you'll need shelter gonna rain. You don't really want to focus so much time on a house and starve because you didn't plant your garden, do you?   Exactly. On the North side of the property install a geodesic dome. Quick, easy, affordable groovy structure. You can decorate in November, it's for crashing.

Now you're going to get some manure deliveries to buildup areas to install high tunnels. Yes you will be gardening under the protection of plastic. you'll add  months to the growing season and have healthier organic plants and not use any poison. Land gets hot so you'll need water. You did get a well install?   no?   Oh neighbors wont mind that sound too much.

While the well is being drilled you can be planting seeds, starting seedling in the greenhouse I forgot to mention you installed next to your geo-dome. It's there because you're going to spend a lot of time there.

Since your soil is not developed yet you're going to have to add things to the plants as things grow. I recommend Foxfarm products and Lobster compost from Oceans of Maine. they have other stuff too....think that's their name.

You'll have to work on adjusting the ph too. When it starts to get too cold you'll want to be planting covercrops. before you do that more organic matter like the stuff i mentioned and the compost piles you've been keeping.

Pretty soon the tourists have gone and you're there to strum your guitar and since in your geodesic dome planning for the spring. You did get some wood?  coal?   oops.....