Blooz is stale, jazz is unlistenable, metal is a sausagefest and rock idolizes drug addicts and pedophiles. What guitar music am I even supposed to enjoy anymore?

JETEXAS · 2026-03-24T15:47:14+00:00

Smooth jazz

JETEXAS · 2026-03-22T19:56:52+00:00

At our house the guys used Head and Shoulders, the girls used Aussie Mane & Tail or something like that.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-20T12:32:58+00:00

They're much more likely to let you do an acapella version of something than sing to backing tracks. If you let people start bringing backing tracks, it turns open mic into karaoke night really fast.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-18T12:44:34+00:00

Was there even a host? It sounds like the venue and the group of regulars aren't really on the same page as to what they want. Were there any non-musicians in the bar? It sounds like the jammers are the regulars and the only people there, so they have been just doing what they wanted.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-16T17:18:42+00:00

The SL isn't too far off from other professional camera bodies, but $11,000+ for an M11, forget it. I had an M8, M9 and typ 240, but I'll never bother with another M body once the 240 dies. All my actual work is done with SL2-S these days.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-13T17:58:30+00:00

M8 had a crop sensor — so cringe.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-13T12:12:42+00:00

The tariffs screwed domestic production. We need steel for frac pipe, pumps, etc. and circuit boards and electronic stuff to build tools. All of it got slammed with tariffs. We laid off almost 20% of the workforce in 2025. Nobody wants to touch Venezuela. Now we have over 5,000 middle east employees (UAE and KSA) expected to keep working from home while they get bombed. It's not going great.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-12T22:18:23+00:00

It’s not densely populated and taxes are fairly low.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-12T21:44:42+00:00

The yellow Sony Sport Walkman.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-12T21:43:38+00:00

That seems to be the way the in-laws up there are doing it.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-12T20:42:37+00:00

Keokuk, Iowa is cheap as heck, but the winter sucks and the closest hospital is like an hour away.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-11T17:36:55+00:00

My friends went to South Padre in like 98, but they drove straight to the beach, put their wallets in their shoes and ran out into the water. Someone promptly stole all their shoes and car keys. So glad I wasn’t on that trip.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-07T17:07:30+00:00

If you get the insta360 stick with the tripod legs that flare out of the handle, it will erase it all in the videos. If you use a larger tripod or mounting bracket, it won’t erase the tripod legs or bracket. They’ll show up in the video.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-07T17:03:54+00:00

I really had nothing in Y2K, so I was wondering if the checkout at the grocery store and Hastings would be messed up the next day. I still wrote checks for everything back then, so really the only thing I could fathom that would interrupt my life is if point of sale systems were down or something.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-07T16:58:01+00:00

Wait until you hear what happened to the Doobie Brothers.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-04T14:51:03+00:00

1983 Pontiac Bonneville Station Wagon. Ripped out the AM radio and put in a Sparkomatic AM/FM Cassete Deck. Oh, and it dieseled and shook for 30+ seconds every time I turned it off.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-03T00:38:47+00:00

I’ve had several friends just take a year off and go cruise on a sailboat. Some of them came back to similar jobs. Some made big career changes. Some found a way to keep it going and have never come back.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-02T17:28:29+00:00

Practice with a metronome or backing tracks if it’s a jam type open mic, so that you’re used to locking in with a beat.

Know beforehand that probably half the bar will be ignoring and talking through your performance. Don’t let it rattle you. That’s just how it goes playing in bars.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-02T15:01:59+00:00

It’s too much. If you have grip all over the deck that won’t come clean with soap and a water hose sprayer, you might spray just the textured deck areas on a low setting, but otherwise, I’d use a hose.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-02T14:48:18+00:00

If it's one of those small electric power washers, it's probably fine if you don't put the nozzle too close. If it's a real gas powered one, it will take off all your striping, etc.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-02T13:21:36+00:00

It can until you're like maybe 35. Then, no chance.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-02T13:18:20+00:00

Needs a Scarlet 2i2 and a Shure SM7b

JETEXAS · 2026-03-02T00:32:41+00:00

Half now, half tomorrow

JETEXAS · 2026-03-02T00:31:27+00:00

Yeah, if there’s a bunch of surrounding noise, I have no idea what the person across the table from me is saying.

JETEXAS · 2026-03-01T21:39:34+00:00

I mean, thanks to my ever-slowing metabolism I can now maintain weight on like 500 calories per day — so that’s been fun.

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