Fun with Kinko's

Kinko's employees are moronic fuckwits, as we already knew. I was trying to print some big B&W posters on the "plotter" -- it's a printer that prints big B&W prints.

The idjut assisting me tried printing the poster like 5 times (on 36"x50" paper) and every time it printed about 3/4 of the image, then just stopped... He tried everything; printing out smaller copies (worked fine.) So I had to go to another Kinko's to get them done (they should be finished in another hour, so I have to go back).

Here's a small version of the poster



After looking at the poster about a zillion times the fuckwit asked (and I swear to Buddah this is true) "In he a wrestler?" I wanted to say, "He doesn't know how, but he can teach you how to play naked twister... or butt darts!"*

But I didn't have the balls to actually say it.



*based on lyrics from Kendall's song "Hot Drunk Guys".

6 Great songs

Courtesy of burlyinthebay:

Well, not so much great songs as great SINGLES.

6 -- I Can See For Miles by The Who. One of Pete's finest songs, a great performance from Daltrey, and The Ox and Moon. The opening chord thunders over your head like a B-52, then Moon kicks a drum fill... and you feel like you can see, not for miles, but for light years. I'm sorry, but I really believe Pinball Wizard is nothing more than a halfhearted knockoff of the far-superior I Can See For Miles.

5 -- Starry Eyes by The Records. Pure sonic bliss. I use this one to pump myself up on my way into work at least once a week.

4 -- It's All Too Much by The Beatles. Simply the best psychedelic recording by The Fabs. "Show me that I'm everywhere and get me home for tea." Love it!

3 -- A Million Miles Away by Plimsouls. This song takes The Byrds brand of LA Pop/Rock and plants it firmly in the '80's. I bought the 12" single of this recording before they were picked up by Geffen. I wore it out by the time the album finally came out.

2 -- Laughing by David Crosby. Speaking of The Byrds, I was buying their excellent CD reissues as they were released in the late '90's, and noticed a significant decline in the quality after "Notorious Byrd Brothers." It took only seconds to figure out the reason for the decline: David Crosby was fired late in the "Notorious" sessions. McGuinn's playing was about 35% of what made The Byrds work for me; Crosby's vocals (and vocal arrangements) were at least 50% of the rest. (Gene Clark was the other 15%, but he left after the first 2 Byrds albums.) I can remember the first time I listened to Crosby's first solo album, 1971's "If I Could Only Remember My Name." Ron had pulled it out of his CDs and told me "You might like this." No kidding! I played it non-stop for about a month. Laughing is definitely the album's highlight. An amazing song, great "hippie" lyrics, and a guitar sound so vibrant and alive it sounds like David is sitting next to me playing. I've heard people claim that Wally Heider's studio in San Francisco was notorious for a lousy sound. Well, this song was recorded there in 1969, and is possibly the best-sounding guitar recording I've ever heard. Flawless.

1 --  Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys. I don't know how old I was when I first heard this song; I was 6 1/2 when it came out, and I definitely remember hearing it before I was uprooted from Riverside and forced to move to Boise about the time I turned 8. I was a Beach Boys fan from very early on, but at some point I realized that Good Vibrations was much, much better than anything else they ever did. The sound, the lyrics, the music, and the voices!  It is, to my mind, the finest piece of pop/rock studio craft ever produced. It consistently brings tears to my eyes. In Good Vibrations, Brian Wilson bypasses the brain and goes straight to your heart.