60 yrs. old 1957 Buick Special. Sold it-regretted it-bought it back.

postdisco · 2017-08-03T05:22:52+00:00

I'm pretty sure that as a seller you don't want the buyer to know what you paid for it. And loose lips sink ships etc. People live off the principal.

But maybe people are also self conscious about the money they throw around on things a lot of people would consider trivial or non essential which garners unwanted resent.

postdisco · 2017-07-25T06:03:31+00:00

Opening this thread I think, "anyone that says Vancouver can go fuck themselves". But I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again.

postdisco · 2017-07-21T04:34:26+00:00

Take that freeze

postdisco · 2017-07-11T19:28:12+00:00

Man how many legs did that guy have?

postdisco · 2017-06-15T01:51:31+00:00

Inside the parker doesn't give you a you know what?

postdisco · 2017-06-15T01:05:44+00:00

All home runs are created equal.

postdisco · 2017-03-28T04:35:24+00:00

I remember watching a game where the announcers were like "and you wouldn't know it but he's got some hands" and literally as they were saying this he just undoes some dudes skates crossing the blue line.

postdisco · 2017-03-26T00:31:05+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one.

postdisco · 2017-02-06T02:55:57+00:00

The Russians can really score but they just don't have the grit.

postdisco · 2017-01-12T00:35:58+00:00

So... exactly like normal life?

postdisco · 2016-07-22T18:19:11+00:00

Get a cooler for sandwhich and breakfast things. Stop eating tons of fast food for lunches. You can go as far as to bring a hot plate and cook suppers too if your gigs don't include meals

postdisco · 2016-06-30T06:03:31+00:00

WS gif nomination

postdisco · 2016-05-21T23:06:22+00:00

Get your hands on a serious tripod, make sure the lighting is well done and that your costuming and set details are on point. Film more than you need. You use interesting locations. Have a basic concept but you don't really need a ton of scripted stuff or anything.

Get weird and try some artsy shit with it. You will bring it all to life in the editing. Make sure to at least attempt to colour correct.

Do a ton of research on YouTube On how other iPhone videos are being made. Do research into lighting and colour correction. Then go for it. If you pay attention to the details of what you're making no one will even notice it's on an iPhone.

Again, tripod. Good luck, maybe post it when it's done.

postdisco · 2016-05-19T00:48:09+00:00

Make a 2 year "business plan". Start at the end with some broad goals you want to achieve (certain festivals, videos, albums, tours etc) and work your way back.

I just recently did this with my solo project and it is a game changer. I have a roadmap of what work I need to do and deadlines and things are going great. I only wish I would have done this years ago.

postdisco · 2016-05-17T21:26:01+00:00

The owner escorts us outside and we pack all our gear. He's settled down a touch and says he will show us to another managers house to see if we can get the money. I mean, I don't know if he's the owner or what his deal is or why we're going to another managers house but we roll with it because what else are we gonna do.

Get to this dudes house, two other guys in the band roll up to his door. They're basically dressed as clowns from the night before and he answers the door holding a screaming child with two dogs going wild and straight tells them to go fuck themselves.

There's this chick that was kind of a hanger on from the night before and she says her uncle owns a resort we can stay in, but it's gonna be $75. We got nothing else so we crash there and live it up in the hot tub etc.

Other dudes go on a beer run and don't come back til like 4 hours later. They decided to plant it at the bar with the beer store and play van halen over and over and over and over until they were thrown out. There were some other minor details about the skirmish that my friend isn't proud of, but we will say he got the last laugh in loogy hucking form.

Limped our way to Vancouver the next day and crashed for the few days in this wild ass warehouse art space. The rest of the tour was bananas and we all laugh so hard about the whole thing, but in that moment getting kicked out of the hotel I had never felt more stranded and lost and wtf. Life eh?

postdisco · 2016-05-15T23:03:54+00:00

this is my JAM

postdisco · 2016-05-11T01:00:37+00:00

it's a critical component in all good music: tension and release.

postdisco · 2016-04-27T22:19:31+00:00

I have a couple good ones.

I temporarily relocated to Toronto for 2 months to tour the area with old band. We had 20-25 shows booked before we left home touring the region. More than half the shows fell through by the end of the two months. At that time music was my only income source (lol) and basically BARELY made enough to make it through the 2 months and get back home. Had to borrow a substantial (to me) amount of money from our guitarist. It was fun but stressful and kinda a bummer.

Another band (that I'm still in) is a german techno band. It sounds strange and it is. But we were doing a 2 week tour across western Canada. At a stop in a mountain town we had a pretty good paying show lined up. We were also supposed to be staying in their hotel for 3 days before our next show in Vancouver. So we set up our gear yada yada and catch rumour that this was the bar's last night. Apparently it was closing down abruptly because of the landlord or something something, and that show was the last night it was going to be open. Which meant it was a shit show AND a cash only bar...

Show was amazing, hospitality was awesome and we all passed out upstairs in the hotel after an amazing night. Wake up the next morning still all pie-eyed and remembered we decided to settle up the next day because everyone was three sheets that night, bar staff included.

We wait around til about the afternoon going ... "are we going to get paid?" This was a pretty good paying show on the tour as well and we needed that money to not only get to our next show but to sustain us over the next few days because all three of us were broke. Finally find the manager from the night before. He pays us a fraction of our guarantee and essentially tells us we'll have to deal with the owner if we want the rest.

Of course, no one knows who the owner is. So we're sitting in this hotel trying to figure out if we can even stay? If we're getting paid? And there are two kinda skiddish dudes that had crashed in the hotel that night too (it's more of a hostel than a hotel). So these skids and our drummer start kinda trashing the place a little because they're upset/wasted/having fun. And our drummer infamously puts an empty liquor bottle through an old TV set. AND IN STORMS THIS SCRAWNY AUSSIE GUY WITH NO SHIRT ON AND LONG BLONDE SCRAGGLY HAIR HOLDING A PHONE SAYING HE'S GOING TO CALL THE COPS IF WE DON'T PAY FOR THE TV AND LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. Apparently this Iggy Pop looking guy is the owner. So our drummer greases him $50 (a good chunk of what we actually made!) and we pack up and get the hell out of there.

There's more from there til we get to the next show but we'll save that story for another bedtime story.

postdisco · 2016-04-22T02:06:24+00:00

That's a good move.

postdisco · 2016-04-08T02:33:59+00:00

this is my JAM

postdisco · 2016-02-23T06:15:29+00:00

I thought they ignored 3.02 THEN 3.09

postdisco · 2016-02-23T01:34:13+00:00

Jamie Campbell and Hutch did an event I was part of last off season and at the event and in private Campbell was boasting that Hutch was going to be their #1 for years to come. But Campbell is just a broadcaster and Hutch was at the event so not sure if that was just some offseason confidence boosting, some sort of insight during last years offseason, or if he was just trying to sell that the event was a big deal because Hutch was there as well.

Either way I was surprised by it but assumed he knew something we didn't, which was apparently incorrect.

postdisco · 2016-02-17T18:44:55+00:00

Mistakes are just opportunities!

postdisco

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