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the snow day
About an inch and a half of snow falls on the ground, the roads freeze over, and the City of Austin takes a day off. I had the day off. The plan was to go into the office later this morning, but that was dismissed. Who has two thumbs and a three-day weekend? This guy!
I’ve [...]
Posted by Sig on February 4th, 2011 at 5:09pm under life, music.
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the fried eyes from glowing boxes
My brain hurts. After my lunch break today, I started having a headache. It hasn’t gone away yet. The weather makes all the difference in my world. January was when the allergies got me. The low temperatures seem to be getting me this month.
I saw a Bluff Rat on KXAN News that I graduated with [...]
Posted by Sig on February 3rd, 2011 at 6:05pm under life, music.
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the thrill of procrastination
The weekend has flown by once again. Updating these records can be mind-numbing, but it needs to be done. We’re getting close to 4 years of keeping this ship afloat.
I enjoyed Matt’s El Rancho for the first time. I had the Old-Fashioned Tacos: two brisket, one chicken. They were deliciously deep-fried corn tacos with the [...]
Posted by Sig on July 18th, 2010 at 9:50pm under food and recipes, life, music, television.
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the txdot click it or ticket radio jingle (2010)
Everyone driving on Texas roads must obey a new law went into effect requiring all passengers in a vehicle to buckle up.
This jingle surfaced in April and currently plays across Texan radio airwaves:
<[ Push the French onion green play button! ]>
Texas Department of Transportation
Violation Citation
_____________~* SONG LYRICS *~_____________
Violation Citation
Put your seatbelt on. Strap yourself in.
Buckle [...]
Posted by Sig on June 1st, 2010 at 8:48pm under life, music, writing.
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the 1978 bullet strat used on gish
Billy talks about one of the first S.P. guitars.
Posted by Sig on May 23rd, 2010 at 7:20pm under music.
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the filet-o-fish jingle + lyrics
In 2009, McDonald’s aired a television commercial featuring a Big Mouth Billy Bass-type character named Frankie the Fish. This “copyfish” sang an annoying jingle to a Casio keyboard-quality tune and made its way into our heads like a parasite.
With Lent going on right now, many restaurants have brought back their fish, shrimp, and seafood menu [...]
Posted by Sig on March 18th, 2010 at 9:47pm under food and recipes, music, writing.
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the lords of sound | guitar center interview with the lord-alge brothers
Producers and recording engineers get much praise for how a record sounds, but much of that credit should really go to mixing engineers, who transform raw performances into the polished final product.
Two mixing engineers in particular – the brothers Chris and Tom Lord-Alge — deserve much praise for crafting the sound of hundreds of influential [...]
Posted by Sig on February 6th, 2010 at 11:03pm under music.
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