June 11, 2008
Sit on it and pump up the volume
A few years ago on the blog, I said that I wanted this chair:
I still want that chair. It’s $13,000 (or it was then, so it’s probably more now, thanks to the tanking US dollar), though, so that’s probably not going to happen anytime soon.
Yesterday, AEJ and I went furniture browsing in West Hollywood, home to the highest concentration of great furniture stores in America. We’re looking for a new sofa for (what will hopefully soon be) our new house in Austin. The vision: a bachelor pad-style family room, which would hold a huge sofa for movie-time, the crazy big screen, and these speakers:
That’s the Paradigm Signature S8. I’d match it to this subwoofer:
That subwoofer, the Paradigm Signature Servo, weighs 114 pounds, and goes down to a window-shattering 10 Hz. 10 Hz!
I use Paradigm speakers now — the Studio 100 with the Servo 15 subwoofer — and I love them, but they’re “ash black,” and these suckers are available in high-gloss piano black. Sweeeet. The price for those two Signature line front speakers with the subwoofer: right around $10,000. So… please order lots of copies of “Undertow” — like, start with 100 copies.
But what will we sit on while we watch movies and listen to music? Well, how about this:
How awesome is that?! Simply put: mega-awesome. Sadly, also mega-expensive. Try $20,000.
I really can’t encourage you strongly enough: please order some music, and request lots of marching licenses! I need to do some shopping!
June 8, 2008
House Hunters
Sorry for the lack of updates, but things have been a little crazy on the home front. Literally, the home front. AEJ and I are in the process of buying a house, and until the closing is scheduled, things are a little crazy. I’ll post more as I know it…
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I hear houses can be elusive, be sure to wear your camouflage and wear a nice house musk to reel them in... Then shoot them with a sword, because only people who're bad ass can shoot swords.
-Travis-
Good luck with that. I say there's nothing more fun than moving all your shtuff in the heat of an Austin summer.
Marching in it is wonderful....
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May 28, 2008
My Axe
I’ve been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto 4, but during breaks, I turn back to Guitar Hero III. But I wonder… Where is “Back in Black” by AC/DC? Wouldn’t that be an awesome Guitar Hero song? I found a YouTube video of somebody playing it, but it’s some custom file.
Another that I’d love to play, even though (or maybe particularly because) it’s by a second-rate 80’s glam metal band, is “Round and Round” by RATT. Wouldn’t that rule? Sadly, “Round and Round” is only on Guitar Hero II — which you can’t play on the PS3. Booooo.
Maybe I should be writing music.
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What about "Save all your Love" by Great White? "Free" by the Christian metal band Stryper? Dream Warriors by Dokken? "Metal Health" by Quiet Riot?
I tell ya...they'd clean up with old fogey metalheads if they released a game called "Guitar Hero IV: The Metal Years."
I'm glad people don't dress like that anymore D:
I though baggy pants and extraordinarily large shrits were bad D:
I think they need to make the older versions of Guitar Hero available for Wii 'cause I honestly don't like/know most of the songs on the version that is available. Thank goodness for Mario...he's SUPER!
~C
John Mackey, you are amazing. I love your music and I can't believe you are still hip enough to play these games! It gives me hope.
Regarding Guitar Hero...I've always thought, wouldn't it be great for them to develop a program that would let you use your own mp3 files, the system would process the file, and turn it into a playable version on GH?
Warren DeMartini rules!
(that should send a few people googlin'...)
If you really want to wade into the dreck how about "She's only 17" by Winger? Great lyrics (by great I mean hilarious).
Just get a copy of Guitar Hero 2 for the PS2. The PS3 should play it.
I've always wondered how a classical oriented game would work.
Like Violin hero, featuring the music of Shostakovich, Hindemith, Carter, and other greats...
http://ceallaighgirl.smugmug.com/photos/257072964_D2mDQ-O.jpg
'Violin Hero' is a genius idea. Too bad it would not be a big seller, but I would never stop playing.
What button would you push for Pizzicato!?
-Travis-
don't worry about that.
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Mark S. says
sorry....I'm broke.
Maybe when I sell my arrangement of Mahler's 6th symphony, I will buy something...
Will Mego says
Or, learn to MAKE furniture. Believe it or not, it's not all THAT hard, and you could actually make that sofa for probably $500-$600 tops. You could end up a lumberjock (www.lumberjocks.com)
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