Friday, March 26, 2010

"Guy with a guitar" needs to get a band!

i am exposing a scam that has gone on far too long. "guy with a guitar" we have all sat through at least 500 of these dudes (writer is not a statistician) the scam of a solitary "artist" writing "heartfelt blahblahblah" whatever and performing those songs on stage by themselves. in the real world those are called demos and those are rough drafts of actual songs, i do not want to stand there and watch you hash out a new tune champ. you are not sitting around a campfire all happy singing "shes so heavy" with your college buddies. if you decide to play a show get a band, and no your girlfriend doing "backing vocals" and your fucking roommate doing fucking auxiliary percussion DOES NOT COUNT AS A BAND. what you dont have two friends that actually play instruments? or are you sooooooo sure your songs dont need a bass guitar, drums, and maybe some more guitar etc.? hey. you're wrong, get some friends. Hey! what do you call a douchebag with a mandolin?

Friday, March 12, 2010

Important opinion from the video game conference!

This one starts out with a question folks! do you LOVE ill fitting suit jackets matched with cargo pants or badly pre-worn jeans? If you answered yes stop reading my blog.
You also might want to think about a rewarding career in video game design! The video game design conference that happens right here in SF is a lovely week of mouth breathers wandering around with their convention badges prominently displayed as if they were the tour laminate of some crappy hardcore band who made their own laminates for a tour no one cares about (a phenomenon that i never understood and may not be something that any of you have ever encountered but believe me it happens all too often.)
OPINION! video game designers do not know how to dress themselves.
they tend towards two categories.
classic computer guy garb. Cargo pants, sweat pants, promo t-shirts from computer companies/video games, shirts with flames on them (for the love of god someone tell me why chubby dudes wear shirts with flames on them) and fedoras.
then we have the new breed of "cool guys" they wear european-ish clothing like square toed boots and shirts with diagonal stripes. they usually have some sort of product in their hair as well. they might have looked at a gq once and then done everything wrong or they might just have terrible taste.