I was looking over several different posts for this week’s Deja Vuesday, and I came across two of them that I want to go over. Since I couldn’t choose one over the other, I decided to do both!
Post #1: I Can Finally Facebook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first post I’m gonna go over is a quickie from 2006 when I Could Finally Facebook:
This is an important day in the life of Andy-San’s Xanga. 147 days ago, I arrived at Xanga and was addicted to it. My reason to come to Xanga? Because I couldn’t Facebook! It’s been my subtitle for 147 days straight, but no longer. For you see, I CAN NOW FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m not gonna leave Xanga because of it, no, far from it! I can simply stream my Xanga blogs to my Facebook and kill two birds with one stone. And on that note…uhh, I dunno.
Besides the grate news of my debut into Facebook, today was alright. I fixed the image timing of my two new YTMNDs so be sure to check them out. Work was hellish today. The tables were a disaster and we had tons of people even after we closed the grill. I’m beginning to get the hang of it so things are looking up.
Well that’s all I got for now so see y’all later!
Andy-San
For those of you who are either new to Facebook or simply forgot, in the beginning, you could only sign up to Facebook after they verified that you are a college student, usually through sending an account activation email to your school email address.
I can’t believe that it’s been over three years since I signed up to Facebook!!! I remember first hearing about it from Eriopolis when he went to UU in 2005 and because ITT Tech wasn’t listed as a verified institute of higher learning, I couldn’t Facebook until I came to UU in the fall of 2006.
Post #2: Guitar Has Leveled Up! You Get: Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-7
The second post I wanna go over is from 2007 when my Guitar Leveled Up & I Got An Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-7:
Sup it be the Andy-San here kickin’ it on my only day off this week.
I got up around 11 this morning, which felt great to sleep in finally after a grueling straight week of work. I really hope that I get more than 1 day a week off, although I don’t want to lose too many hours. I’d also like to work nights again because I’m not much of a morning person, but they’re shorthanded as it is and there’s not many workers there that are out of school so I’ll stick the course for now (but I really miss sleeping in
).
Yeah, that’s one thing I don’t miss about being employed. Since moving back to Celina, I’ve been sending in my applications and resumes so I can get a job and move out on my own again. I appreciate that my parents took me in when I got kicked out of my apartment in Bowling Green, but I don’t want to stick around for too much longer.
In other news, I bought a new pedal for my guitar. It’s an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-7 and it’s killer! I was looking for an overdrive pedal that wasn’t METAL ALL THE TIME!!!1 like my DigiTech Metal Master pedal. I took a bike ride up to Wal-Mart, piddled around, and went to the music store. Originally, I wasn’t gonna buy anything; I was gonna do the usual “look around for an interesting guitar, amp, or pedal and then leave.” I saw the overdrive pedal out of the corner of my eye and couldn’t believe it was an actual Ibanez Tube Screamer. Granted, it’s not the original green pedal, but for only $25, it’s the best damn pedal I’ve bought yet!
Now if only Boss and especially Digitech could learn a lesson from Ibanez and not sell their pedals at prices well beyond the $50 mark, which I think is the median for effect pedals; you should sell the single effect pedals for under $50 (unless it’s a signature pedal, but keep it under $70) and the higher-end multi-effect pedals for over $50 but no more than $300 (unless it has an ungodly amount of effects and/or is a signature pedal). Please guys, lower the prices. When we have to save up to buy a pedal, you know you’re overpricing them. We should always have enough money to buy at least a single effect pedal.
Anyway, back to the Tube Screamer. This thing is awesome! It has the sweet rock tone I’ve been looking for, and I can play any style of music short of metal (I can coax some happening classic metal tones out of it ala Scorpions and some nice Jimmy Page and Angus Young-esque tones). It has 2 modes: TS9 and Hot. TS9, I’m assuming, is more of the original Tube Screamer sound. The Hot mode is like the TS9 mode but with MoAr GaIn!! I use the Hot mode mostly because it’s louder and with my chorus pedal, I can get a pretty happening sound. I took a page out of Alex Lifeson’s (Rush) and Zakk Wylde’s book and I have the chorus on all the time. It makes my cleans sound terrific and adds character to my distortions.
After the honeymoon period had passed, I find that I don’t use the Tube Screamer that much because it doesn’t interact with my amp that well because my amp sounds like a piece of doggy doo. I’m sure that it would sound better with a higher quality amp, as made evident by the veritable cavalcade of records using the legendary pedal.
Since writing that post in 2007, the prices of pedals have since gone up, but so has the quality so it’s not all bad. Also, modeling technology has improved, as made evident by the Peavey Vypyr series.
Yeah, I’ve been biking a lot lately. On the way to Wal-Mart today, I got caught in the rain which sucked but at least I didn’t have to deal with it on the way back. Another thing that’s been bothering me is that I don’t have a place to put stuff if I buy something. I just hold onto it and it’s killing my wrist to do that and steer the bike at the same time. I guess I need a small backpack or something for when I go out on bike rides and buy st00f.
I wish I would bike more often, but the allergy count has been crazy-high! Fortunately, it’s gonna rain all this week so the allergy count should drop by week’s end.
And in this completely random paragraph, I think Ben’s here this weekend, but he’s working so there goes another opportune jam time. I watched Wild Hogs and it’s damn funny, although the beginning was a bit confusing at first. I just got Zombie Loan as well as the Alien Nine DVD. I haven’t seen Zombie Loan yet and Alien Nine looks okay. Did I mention that I want a Dean From Hell really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad? Ok, that’s enough of that.
Keeping with the random paragraph format, I recently got caught up with Season 2 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I hear they finally broke free of the Endless Eight arc! I also downloaded GA – Geijutsuka Art Design Class, which is about a kooky art class that I’m assuming is more of a club than a class, and Taishou Yakyuu Musume, which is about a group of girls from the 1920′s playing baseball. I watched a bit of Meet The Spartans yesterday and a little bit of Dude, Where’s My Car in Spanish. If you thought the movie was messed up before, watch it in Spanish and open yourself up to a whole new realm of weird! I’m listening to Kid ‘N Play right now and am lovin’ it! There’s just no substitute for good old-school rap and hip-hop! O-la-O-la-Aaay!
Well I’m gonna get off, but before I go, be sure to vote for George Lynch for the Chop Shop Hall of Fame so he can be immortalized in a kickin’ wallpaper (this month Dimebag Darrell was inducted finally). You can vote at http://www.chopshopradio.net/hall-of-fame/index2.php . See-Ya!
Andy-San
Apparantly, George Lynch is also in the running this month for the Chop Shop Hall of Fame. Click here to vote!
Well, it’s been fun looking back at not one, but two of my older posts! I’m going to watch a vlog of Charles Trippy’s that I missed, so I’ll be seeing you guys on the flip-side. Laterz!
TheAndySan
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