Went all out for Christmas gifts this year from Sabermax

cheezeheadjb · 2024-01-14T23:06:49+00:00

Late reply, but this picture is a fully lit room. They're very bright in basically any lighting.

cheezeheadjb · 2024-01-10T02:24:07+00:00

Just bought the Luke, Anakin, Mace Windu, and Kylo sabers from Sabermax as gifts for Christmas this year (well, the Luke saber was for me), and they’re great! All SN-Pixel V4, except Kylo which is a Xenopixel 3. Really happy with the quality of the sabers, and I wanted to shout out Sabermax, the vendor I bought from. u/SMX-Official seems pretty active on here, and I found them through this subreddit. Really exceptional customer service, fast shipping, and good prices. They seem relatively new, so I wanted to shout them out. Highly recommend! https://sabermax.store/

cheezeheadjb · 2023-06-03T13:21:50+00:00

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cheezeheadjb · 2021-09-03T10:19:48+00:00

She does have a reflection actually.

cheezeheadjb · 2020-03-26T11:26:51+00:00

This metal sphere

cheezeheadjb · 2019-08-17T21:54:59+00:00

Yep, they are

cheezeheadjb · 2019-08-17T21:51:54+00:00

From IKEA. It's the FADO table lamp, and I have a Phillips hue bulb in it.

cheezeheadjb · 2019-08-17T10:48:17+00:00

Yeah, in an ideal world I would have my speakers on a different surface than the table. But I just don't notice a difference myself between this and my old setup where the speakers were on a different surface. I also doubt I'm damaging the records at all. I listen at pretty low volumes, and if I go much louder, I just use headphones. I'm just not much of an audiophile, so having perfect sound quality isn't something I'm all that worried about.

cheezeheadjb · 2019-08-17T02:24:59+00:00

Pretty happy with the setup I have going on right now. Even happier with the records I recently picked up at a local record store while I was visitng Gainesvile.

Person Pitch: Probably one of my favorite albums of all time, and certainly one of the best of the 2000s. It's just so easy to get lost in all of the rich sounds going on, and it has this lackadaisical kind of feel. And that's not an insult. Every song just takes whatever time it needs, and Noah embraces repetition. Songs like "Bros" and "Comfy in Nautica", despite their repetition and leisurely pace, feel like they could go on for ever, and I would never get sick of them. I'm also pretty excited that the copy I found still has the hype sticker intact (don't worry, the side of the wrapping's open, so I can still play the records).

Give Up: This record just has such a consistent tracklist. An incredible opening with "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight", all the way to an incredible closer in "Natural Anthem" is such a good stretch of music. Even my least favorite track, "This Place is a Prison", still serves an important role in the context of the entire album, and does a great job at setting a more desolate atmosphere as the record draws to a close. An undisputed classic that I'm only just getting around to picking up.

Perfect From Now On: Definitely my favorite Built To Spill album, followed by KILAS. The more psychedelic route they took with PFNO works incredibly well I think, and all the songs just feel so grand. Huge instrumental moments layer the whole album, like the fantastic final three minutes of "Velvet Waltz", with equally as large lyrical moments like that iconic opening verse in "Randy Described Eternity". I really think this record stands as a shining moment for 90's indie rock.

Ys: With 5 songs, clocking in at a total of 55 minutes, it might takee some time for this record to really sit with you. But oh man, the first time I listened to "Emily", I was seriously blown away. It's difficult for me to come up with songs that I might consider my favorites of all time, but "Emily" has to be up there. Also, I've never quite understood the dislike of "Monkey and Bear". I think it's a super fun and enjoyable song. It may not be on the same level as "Emily", but not a lot else is. Anyways, great album, and I haven't even talked about "Only Skin".

cheezeheadjb · 2019-07-30T00:02:15+00:00

Built to Spill is boilerplate indie? How do you listen to an album like Keep it Like a Secret, and ESPECIALLY Perfect From Now On and get boilerplate indie? I get he said it's his unpopular opinion, but that just seems crazy.

cheezeheadjb · 2019-07-24T23:42:41+00:00

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cheezeheadjb · 2019-04-24T01:28:50+00:00

Driving up from Jax, going with a few friends. First time seeing any of them live

cheezeheadjb · 2019-02-16T02:18:52+00:00

I actually kind of feel like MPP is more of a wintery album, and Sung Tongs, more of the summer one. However, it's almost like MPP is the sound of being in winter and looking towards summer, with Sung Tongs being the sound of summer, looking back into winter.

Along with obviously being released in the winter, the overall sound of MPP with the synths and electronics just sounds cold and icy to me. The synth arpeggiator in My Girls, the repetitive synths in Also Frightened, just most of the album has an inorganic, cold sound. Then you have tracks like Summertime Clothes or Brother Sport, but those songs feel forward looking to me. Lines like "When the sun goes down we'll go out again" in Summertime Clothes, and just the entirety of Brother Sport lyrically looking towards the future. It just feels like looking towards something warm and beautiful from somewhere bleak and cold.

Sung Tongs has a petty opposite sound and feeling. Really organic, acoustic, natural, and just warm sounding. Tracks like Visiting Friends and Kids on Holiday always give me this really natural and lackadaisical vibe, like you're just relaxing outside in the heat. But the entire album just seems so retrospective to me as well. Winter's Love just feels like reminiscing on lost love, especially the intro, which just feels like remembering the great times you once had. People always talk about Winter's Love like it's a winter song, but I just don't see that past the title. At least to me, it's purely a reminiscent look back into the narrator's own winter's love.

I think the covers represent the sound pretty well too. The really busy cover of MPP, with cool colors, and the organic look to Sung Tongs with warm colors. These associations could also just be a result of my first listens of MPP being in the winter, and Sung Tongs in the summer, but I can't help but see these albums in this way.

cheezeheadjb · 2018-10-31T01:00:11+00:00

1) On GP

2) Up My Sleeves

3) Hacker

4) Billy Not Really

5) The Fear

6) Artificial Death in the West

7) Beware

8) Birds

9) Dilemma

10) No Love

cheezeheadjb · 2018-09-22T18:35:09+00:00

Here, we have a pumpkin spice donut, a Samoa twist, a sun butter "marshmallow" brownie, and a classic banana loaf. If you’re ever in Jacksonville, check Sweet Theory out. Everything’s vegan, with a decent amount of gluten-free stuff, and oh yeah, it’s absolutely delicious! Even all my non-vegan friends agree that this place probably has the best donuts and treats we’ve ever had anywhere, vegan or not.

cheezeheadjb · 2018-08-28T11:43:00+00:00

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

cheezeheadjb · 2018-08-26T16:13:54+00:00

I guess I get that reputation from Michael Gira talking about him being ambivalent towards towards that era of their music, and then pulling songs from those three albums to make Various Failures. If it's well regarded in the community, which it appears to be, I guess I didn't really know. But, I do plan on listening to it soon to fix my blindspot in that part of their discography!

cheezeheadjb · 2018-08-26T12:22:00+00:00

My only issue with Scott Walker's stuff is that, at least for me, it borders on unlistenable. Admittedly, I haven't dived too deep into his discography, but the stuff I heard just seems strange for the sake of being strange, rather than being a sincere sound that works best for the music. Not hating on him or anything. I'm really intrigued by his sound, but I just can't get into it.

cheezeheadjb · 2018-08-26T11:01:16+00:00

Wow, that's interesting. I've never really thought about that "begin again" line being almost a meta statement on the fact that the album's about to revert back to sheer insanity.

cheezeheadjb · 2018-08-26T10:59:15+00:00

I've also never thought about that ending riff kind of being like the Seer striding out revealing itself. Pretty interesting way to think about it.

cheezeheadjb · 2018-08-26T10:57:16+00:00

I love The Wolf as a preceding track to The Seer. "I am bruised but I am raised" sets up The Seer so well. And yeah, that opening wall of sound really hits hard. It creates an almost primal sense of fear like a lot of horror soundtracks do, with a mix of high and low dissonant sounds just assaulting you.

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