the Dropkick Murphys show was a blast. i went with my son. he likes to get right in the middle of those nasty punk rock pits and i just can't get with that kids stuff anymore. i like to hang around the soundboard nowadays, ( and it sounds better there) so we hook up between bands to give our critiques to each other. by the end of the night he was soaked with sweat. totally made me smile...i used to do the same thing.
Maximum the Hormone
these guys were first on the bill, they are from Japan and as we went into the show, they were waiting to bring their gear in the front door. it reminded me of the time a band i was in toured Europe. always first on the bill, 6 people or more in a crappy van, no money, hungry, don't speak the language, no space at the merch booth, and so on. so i bought a cd off the drummer. they were selling copies they burned themselves. true punk rock style. turns out their record is #4 on the charts in Japan and they've open for bands like Metallica. we both agreed they kicked ass.
the two bands after kinda sucked.
Dropkick Murphys were just what i expected. a great party band and they did all my fav songs. next month we are going to see Ministry.
and now a monkey
Maximum the Hormone
these guys were first on the bill, they are from Japan and as we went into the show, they were waiting to bring their gear in the front door. it reminded me of the time a band i was in toured Europe. always first on the bill, 6 people or more in a crappy van, no money, hungry, don't speak the language, no space at the merch booth, and so on. so i bought a cd off the drummer. they were selling copies they burned themselves. true punk rock style. turns out their record is #4 on the charts in Japan and they've open for bands like Metallica. we both agreed they kicked ass.
the two bands after kinda sucked.
Dropkick Murphys were just what i expected. a great party band and they did all my fav songs. next month we are going to see Ministry.
and now a monkey
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I donated some spiders to a fund raiser / art show recently. Took first prize. As a result, I will have a show probably in June. When I get all the details and a postcard, I send you one.
I still want some punkbots.
As far as a mosaic, I use photoshop. It's a pretty simple operation really. Just figure out how many squares, legos, or tiles, or credit cards you want. It works better if you have square credit cards, and not rectangular ones, but I bet you could stretch the image by the same aspect ratio as the credit cards, and work it out that way. Anyway, you reduce the image to the number of pixels as you want tiles in the final work. Then Image-mode-indexed color. You can basically tell the computer to change the image so that the ONLY colors in it are the ones you specify. It takes a little tweaking and playing around, but that's pretty much it. You give it the custom pallet, with just the colors of the credit cards, and it'll spit out the image for you.
I love bleach on steel. Sometimes, though, the bleach is too stinky, or there's a danger of damaging something nearby. That's when I use vinegar and a little more patience.
I got to get back to my garage. I'm turning an old spare tire and wheel into a base for a bench grinder.