the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[psychedelicrelic]

I do like the melx2 I got, always wanted to try the rest.

Had a nice night chilling with some friends and doing the pub quiz. Our team came third but it was a good time.

Does your melx get brighter with the guitar tone knob at 0? It does on mine. So weird.

[goosekevin]

BOOKED FLIGHTS FOR EUROPE

[dubkitty]

where you going?

[goosekevin]

I have a tonne of family in England so I'll be seeing them
Not everything is organised yet, but the plan is
So I'm flying into London with my mum sister and girlfriend
There for a few days, then flying to Italy with my girlfriend for a bit over a week, Switzerland, back to England for Christmas, Paris for New Years, going around France for a week and coming home

[sonidero]

I just sold a guitar on CL to a guy that makes Cigar Box/Whatever Box guitars... He has 250 boxes and will make whatever you can come up with including putting old radios and such inside...

3 String Doom Box here I come...

[D.o.S.]

Grilled some coffee-rubbed steak, drank pbr, and Fu Manchu'd for the Fourth.

And got paid.

Yus.

[Achtane]

I was praying for Fu Manchu today while my uncle was playing Jimmy Buffett...

[goosekevin]

La dispute and pianos become the teeth tonight!

[kbit]

La dispute and pianos become the teeth tonight!

Awesome, have a blast, dude.

[Andrew]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG8aNxSaUrk[/youtube]

I've seen this like a kazillion times and I haven't gotten bored of it.

[psychedelicrelic]

La dispute and pianos become the teeth tonight!

Fuck. I would LOVE to see both of them...TOGETHER. I woulda sent you money for a shirt for me AND you had I know you were going. I hate living in hawaii. Fuck this tropical paradise. Only thing I have to look forward to is earth wind and fire and jake shimabukuro and neither of them get me excited.

[kbit]

Improvd on a little riff I had, turned into this giant mass of sound that faded off into slight feedback, then started looping stuff and processing the loop with a delay. So much fun. Someone needs to be my Pete Swanson, I'll be your Gabriel.

[RR Bigman]

I got an old Webcor Phonograph for free at a yard sale. It's gonna need new caps right off the bat, and a 3 prong retrofit. I'm not even going to plug it in until at least that's been done. but still, holy shit son, free antiques.

[jrmy]

My bandmate and I are playing with putting a multi-head delay emulator VST on the vocals for a new song, and it sounds way better than we had expected. I love when that happens.

[kbit]

^ Awesome.


I was just out hiking trails with some friends. There was a fallen tree that spanned a little ravine, about 30 or 40 feet across and 12-15 high, so I decided to walk across it. Half way across it started to sway a lot and I stopped because there were some overhead branches ahead of me that I worried would throw off my balance. I started shaking a lot, tried to calm myself with self talk but I couldn't stop. I sat there for a minute kind of stuck, but something in me was just like "fuck it, you got here, you can get out". I hopped down and straddled the tree and inched under the branches, then stood back up and walked it out.

It feels good to know I can take charge fairly quickly even when I'm nervous and psyching myself out.
I've had a lot of confidence issues in my life but this was a step in the right direction.