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Cantankerous 09.08.2007 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by gmku
e|x
B|3
G|3
D|3
A|0
E|x


Actually, I think that's a typo--you're one fret too high for an A on those numbered ones. Should be more like 2 2 2, and 1 2 2. ??? For an A chord anyway.


I think. I'm confused. I'm tired. Going to bed.

yeah it is a typo
222, 122
i always think three because maybe i think of an open string as one?

no i havent heard the cowboy junkies version but ill be sure to download it

gmku 09.08.2007 12:40 AM

My copy's on the UNCUT magazine's Stones tribute disc, but I'm not sure where they originally released it. Anyway, I'd be curious to know what you think of it.

Well, nite John Boy, nite Mary Ellen. Sweet dreams.

Norma J 09.08.2007 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous


That's ace!

You have a sexy voice.

Dead-Air 09.08.2007 02:16 AM

Hmm.

I cook really well without recipes. I constantly have people asking for the recipe to something I've made, and all I can say is, "Well, you just make it!"

I arrange, produce, splice, dub, collage, mix, and generally fuck around with sound. In doing that I've gotten to be a moog player and occasionally mistaken for a guitarist.

I sing Carpenters songs at Karaoke. Also "Mandy" by Manilow and "Here You Come Again" by Dolly.

I mediate and supervise mediation for a living.

I take photographs, primarily analog film these days, often double exposures, and play with them in photoshop. In the old days I played around for hours on copiers high on LSD at Kinkos with some similar results.

I Admin a Science Fiction Message Board, Moderate two Music forums on other boards (including the music section on the Michael Moorcock board), Admin in a total of 7 Flickr groups (though only one particularly actively), and was GMing a play by e-mail science fiction RPG until I realized that something had to go...

I have been doing college/community radio since 1985. I've also been known to get paid hundreds of dollars to play attrocious dance pop music from the other extreme.

I book shows and the odd festival (founded the Olympia Experimental Music Festival) though I absolutely hate doing it and view it as a sort of late stage addiction where you no longer get high, but feel like you have no choice but to keep doing it anyway.

I have very good genes that make people think I'm decades younger than I really am. I'm also good at cunnilingous.

Norma J 09.08.2007 03:04 AM

I'm a fair decent guitarist - better than most I come about.

I'm a decent cook, short-hand cook I'm told as I can throw things together well and make it taste just as nice as say a fancy meal.

I'm good at looking after myself.

I have good disposition.

That'll do.

king_buzzo 09.08.2007 03:38 AM

1. fixing guitars in the strangest ways.

i'll think of the rest later.

Torn Curtain 09.08.2007 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous


Your voice sounds reminds me a lot of Jennifer Charles ;)

ALIEN ANAL 09.08.2007 09:47 AM

*being abandoned by friends and family every weekend
*having a drink thinking im going out soon then being in a shitty mood as i get sober an hour later

sellouteater 09.08.2007 09:49 AM

I'm amazing at hula hooping i can do it longer than anyone
I'm preety good at guitar
I use to be really good at wrestling now i'm just good
I'm good with office work considering my age

Crumb's Crunchy Delights 09.08.2007 10:59 AM

I can suck my own winkle dinkle.

PAULYBEE2656 09.08.2007 11:15 AM

i am amazing in bed due to the size of my appendage!


ha! seriously, im good at talking shite!

Cantankerous 09.08.2007 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norma J
That's ace!

You have a sexy voice.

oh thank you so much. i do well singing on very slow, narcotic, ambient, or fuzzy music. like shoegazey or psychedelic.
Quote:

Originally Posted by Diesel
you're a good singer cantan. what kind of mic are you using because i get those 'fuzz' parts too using a pc mic hence the need for me to get a proper mic.


just some lame PC microphone

Savage Clone 09.08.2007 02:05 PM

Don't take this the wrong way, but I wasn't expecting this to be this good.
Nice job, seriously.
You kinda sound like Hope Sandoval a bit.

Cantankerous 09.08.2007 02:07 PM

i wouldn't take that the wrong way. i usually don't get this much credit even. and thanks to all of you. i've never been told i sound like hope sandoval but i can see it. hear it i mean.

floatingslowly 09.08.2007 02:48 PM

it's really good. I plan to slap it on the ipod. :D


my talents:

apparently, I can fix mechanical things. although, mostly, I have no idea what I'm doing. I just fixed the washing machine. this made the wife say "yay" and clap her hands.

I'm also good at pushing buttons that make children cry. it's one of the few reasons that I still play world of frenchcraft.

I'm also good at improvising drug delivery devices, but I haven't practiced this skill in a very long time.

Cantankerous 09.08.2007 02:49 PM

holy shit. i'm gonna be on an ipod?

floatingslowly 09.08.2007 02:49 PM

yeah, for serious.

that's totally my kind of music.

dig it.

Cantankerous 09.08.2007 02:51 PM

that is so cool. i never expected it to go over this well.
jesus, look at me and imagine how hard it would be for me to deal with any mainstream success. i would be dumbstruck.

drrrtyboots 09.08.2007 03:22 PM

Just don't pull a courtney on us!

Cantankerous 09.08.2007 04:34 PM

pull a courtney? what would that entail?

Sheriff Rhys Chatham 09.08.2007 04:42 PM

I recently proved my theory that if you're a decent guitar player then you can play the bass. I never play bass, maybe five times in my life and I am still better than my friend who's been playing for a year and 1/2.

floatingslowly 09.08.2007 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
that is so cool. i never expected it to go over this well.
jesus, look at me and imagine how hard it would be for me to deal with any mainstream success. i would be dumbstruck.


what I like about it is the "under" produced sound (I also like slow-druggy music with female singers, so that doesn't hurt you any either).

REAL music that's more about the act of playing, than it is about trying to impress anybody is more interesting to me than the terabytes worth of records, tapes and vinyl that I have. rawkin' the PC mic is hardcore.

I promise that I'm not saying these things to flatter you.

stay hungry and record more space rock.

drrrtyboots 09.08.2007 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
pull a courtney? what would that entail?

KILLING KURT.

Actually, becoming a fat slobbering alcoholic/druggy and then losing a lot of weight so your skin hangs down off of your bones. Sexy.

Oh yeah, and getting involved with that Owen Wilson situation. But I don't think you'll have a problem with any of those.

Cantankerous 09.08.2007 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by drrrtyboots
KILLING KURT.

Actually, becoming a fat slobbering alcoholic/druggy and then losing a lot of weight so your skin hangs down off of your bones. Sexy.

Oh yeah, and getting involved with that Owen Wilson situation. But I don't think you'll have a problem with any of those.

i should have known
i have lost a lot of weight but not intentionally.
i'm never going to become fat and slobbery so don't worry.

gmku 09.08.2007 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
that is so cool. i never expected it to go over this well.
jesus, look at me and imagine how hard it would be for me to deal with any mainstream success. i would be dumbstruck.


iPod, schmiPod... I'm releasing it as a limited edition 45rpm on clear red vinyl.

Tanky, have your people call my people.

davenotdead 09.10.2007 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
holy shit. i'm gonna be on an ipod?


that's nothing...im gonna buy a new ipod, load your song onto it 1000 times, and chain it to a heavily trafficked park bench....youre going to be a stah.

also, i really need to know your artist name, because when i listened to your track, and it got scrobbled, this is what i found on my last.fm...and i dont think you wanna battle these guys over a name
 



...or maybe you do...i dont know...this is a direct quote from their bio on last.fm..."They kill it in the disco"

http://www.last.fm/music/Cantankerous/+wiki

floatingslowly 09.10.2007 11:42 AM

the repair man is on his way to fix my washer (that I didn't fix after all).

so......scratch that off my list of talents please.

sarramkrop 09.10.2007 11:43 AM

Bullying
Being a cunt
Biting for pleasure
Other

jon boy 09.10.2007 11:51 AM

being invisible.

Cantankerous 09.10.2007 09:32 PM

oh you've all made me feel special
i assure you i'm not.

gmku 09.10.2007 09:37 PM

wait a minute. Some audiophile crap I read today says red vinyl sounds like shit compared to black. Is that true? I have a lot of great sounding red vinyl.

Anyway, looks like we're back to black, Cantankerous.

Cantankerous 09.10.2007 09:40 PM

fuck that shit. i've seen gold or silver sparkly records (basically like clear vinyl with glitter in the middle.)
gotta keep up appearances now.

Dead-Air 09.10.2007 09:56 PM

Sounds pretty awesome Cantankerous. I'd like to hear you sing in front of some noisy echoey guitar. Sounds way more like morphine than the original!

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 09.10.2007 10:02 PM

I'm decent at cooking.

decent at playing guitar and singing

decent at masturbating.

I don't really think I'm really GOOD at anything, but I'd like to think I'm above average.

SynthethicalY 09.10.2007 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous


If you ever release a record I will be on my computer downloading it illegally. Edit you have a beautiful voice, my type of songs.

SynthethicalY 09.10.2007 10:09 PM

My talents lie with photography.

Cantankerous 09.10.2007 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SynthethicalY
If you ever release a record I will be on my computer downloading it illegally. Edit you have a beautiful voice, my type of songs.

um well out of boredom right now i was just playing 'heroin', should i record it or not?

gmku 09.10.2007 10:23 PM

Our flip side! Yes.

Cantankerous 09.10.2007 10:28 PM

sister morphine is not even about drugs, it's about an accident victim
ok i just recorded it and it's just nearly 8 minutes long. god damn.

SynthethicalY 09.10.2007 10:32 PM

Cantanky you need your own thread.


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