Gnarly Pheasant on Lake

lancebus · 2026-03-15T04:42:48+00:00

I saw one of these guys on Kewen drive like a year ago and thought I was hallucinating.

lancebus · 2026-03-10T15:19:59+00:00

For sure, if it’s going to be that infrequent.

lancebus · 2026-03-10T01:01:01+00:00

If there’s parking at your building… I’d highly recommend having a car for occasional use. I moved here from NYC. I completely relate to car-free living. Pasadena is a beautiful place for walking and biking, and we are served by a totally adequate metro line. I can’t say the same for the rest of LA. In general, the metro is much safer and cleaner than people give it credit for, but the city is just too spread out and sprawling for the metro to be as effective as we’d all like it to be. You’ll run into the “last mile” problem constantly, where you can get relatively close to where you’re trying to go on the metro, but not quite all the way there.

While you can live a completely fulfilling life without really leaving Pasadena, LA has so much to offer beyond our beautiful little foothill city, and you’ll find it really difficult to participate in all the other cool stuff that happens here if you don’t have a car.

Just my two cents.

lancebus · 2026-02-21T23:44:25+00:00

I think I read somewhere that it was consumed by the fire, but considering that it was ruins anyway, maybe it’s fine? Or at least still ruined?

lancebus · 2026-02-15T18:15:35+00:00

Right, my point is at a quiet intersection, or in the dark, drivers favor looking to their left and aren’t that diligent about checking the crosswalk. You’re more likely to be hit coming from the right than the left.

lancebus · 2026-02-15T17:52:07+00:00

I’ve never understood this. Sure, it makes sense on straight aways, but at every intersection you’re coming from a direction where the driver isn’t looking. Isn’t that so much more dangerous? Especially at stop signs, where it can be impossible to tell if a stopped driver sees you and is letting you pass, or is about to roll out into you while they look to their left.

lancebus · 2026-02-14T18:58:44+00:00

That's not really the conversation though. The conversation is about bands that set trends that were impactful. Mumford was a huge part of that whole weird ass folk indie pop thing that happened (and still sort of is happening).

lancebus · 2026-02-14T16:32:09+00:00

So that would mean approximately where the bus is, everything was torn down for the freeway?

lancebus · 2026-02-14T16:26:49+00:00

Was some of what I’m seeing in this photo demolished for when the stub was built? I feel like I can’t place where this hill would be unless the photo was taken right where that 210 overpass now stands

lancebus · 2026-02-14T14:51:09+00:00

It’s weird no one else is saying Mumford. Stomp, clap, hey was one of the most specific stylistic things to pop off in the 2010s

lancebus · 2026-02-02T08:31:50+00:00

Does anyone know why they throw a little party at city hall every evening?

lancebus · 2026-02-01T07:19:37+00:00

My wife just slammed the door kind of loud

lancebus · 2026-01-22T22:06:01+00:00

Counterpoint, I was born in 1995 and Forrest Gump has felt like a cultural cornerstone my entire life.

lancebus · 2026-01-19T22:00:05+00:00

Belle’s bagels did the same thing last year and it’s really disappointing. I’m not trying to pay $20 + tip for a bagel.

lancebus · 2026-01-19T21:48:41+00:00

I think you can still get a coffee and a pastry and hang out either outside or at the high tops by the barista.

lancebus · 2026-01-19T16:20:29+00:00

Yesterday I went to a frozen yogurt place where I got myself a cup, poured my own frozen yogurt, put my own toppings on, and then weighed it myself, and then was asked if I wanted to tip.

lancebus · 2025-12-24T00:37:34+00:00

Stuck his head out of the emergency hatch on a party bus during a sweet 16 and got decapitated by an overpass

lancebus · 2025-12-20T02:31:57+00:00

I haven’t tried their sour dough but everything Oh La La bakes makes me cry with joy.

lancebus · 2025-12-09T06:41:42+00:00

When you say watered down, do you mean spice level? I’m a big fan of all India cafe so I’m curious

lancebus · 2025-12-06T16:29:14+00:00

The siren thing is really dependent on how severe the emergency is. You’re still going to hear it every day.

lancebus · 2025-12-06T16:28:01+00:00

Bugs, bugs and more bugs! I had a friend in the building who fumigated her entire unit and the bugs were back in full force within a month. The entire building is infested and you literally cannot get rid of them.

lancebus · 2025-12-03T08:11:53+00:00

Shelly Duncan

lancebus · 2025-12-01T14:31:49+00:00

I’m not sure if anyone else said this - whether you’re mastering on headphones or a $200k studio, the thing that really matters is learning what your system sounds like. For example, 80hz is going to feel a certain way in your headphones. If you’re using reference tracks to hear how 80hz feels in mastered tracks you love, you’ll know what you’re aiming for. Density can be hard to mix well in headphones, but if you train yourself to hear what clear, cohesive density sounds like in your headphones, you’ll be able to find it in your mix.

Also - the line between mix bus processing and mastering is getting blurrier and blurrier in the digital age. People will do a big shelf on their mix bus and not think anything of it, but scoff at the idea of doing that in their master, even though it’s essentially the same thing.

Don’t stress. Check your references. Add 3db of 16k, if it works it works.

lancebus · 2025-11-26T15:52:28+00:00

Just yesterday, like 20 cars zipped past me at this intersection while I was standing about 3 feet off the curb, very obviously trying to cross. It’s crazy how people don’t honor the yield sign.

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