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  1. Just an update to this thread..

    Le Duex is the shit on Monday nights if you're into any kind of rock music.

    The Short Stop in Echo Park is somewhere I have never ever had a bad time at.

    The Standard can be lame but is free on Thursday and is cool to go to just to see the view.

    Lacita usually sucks.. but almost every bar in Downtown is hit or miss on any given night, so check it out if you have a night to kill but not if you are aiming to have fun on that night as you may be disappointed.

    Tender Greens in Culver City is an awesome restaurant for very little money. You will be surprised.

    Mao's Kitchen in Venice will give you a similar effect.

    AOC and Lucques are great restaurants if you are willing to shell out the cash.

    Urth Cafe is cool if you want to be seen I guess.

    The Arclight is a fun place to go catch a movie, as is the Landmark Theater on Pico and Overland.

    Bodega Wine Bar in Pasadena is awesome on a Wednesday night.

  2. buying something without considering resale value is just plain dumb. you have to at least have it be 1% of the determining factor when buying a guitar. your musical tastes will change and with that you will want to buy other guitars and will be trading off. even if you plan to keep every instrument, you can't say that under an extreme emergency situation where you need money quick, the resale value of a guitar doesn't come in handy..

    on the AVERAGE, vintage gives you a better bang for the buck. all i was saying is that there are definitely some vintage duds out there and you cant blindly go vintage and ignore new. there are some new guitars out there of great quality and at a great price.

    the real determining factors are where it was made, the quality of the parts used and the quality of craftsmanship. to say that an older guitar will be better because its older and a newer guitar will be worse because its newer is just plain retarded.

    although there is a loose relationship between great tone and vintage guitars, it is not necessarily a cause and effect relationship.

    i have a 1997 fender strat made in mexico and i love the way it sounds. it can definitely be improved but it sounds better than a lot of newer american strats, 80s american strats, even a 67 strat that i played. i've also played 2008 american and jap strats that blow mine out of the water, as well as 80s and 70s strats that kill mine too. the age has nothing to do with it

    i definitely agree with the guy that said the largest factor to good tone is in the player's fingers. i suck (in my opinion) but i have some friends that bring sounds out of my guitar i never thought it was capable of.

    i'd say the tone breakdown is

    50% the player

    25% the amp

    15% the guitar

    7% the effects

    3% the pick

    thats my personal opinion anyway.

  3. i agree with the above statements. fender, for example, have been putting out great strats as of late.

    i think the statement may apply more towards acoustic guitars and less towards electrics. while newer electrics (from certain brands) sound better than older ones, acoustics almost always sound better when they've aged a few years. they have a dryer woodier tone and often sound louder.

    i've played some 60s and 70s gibson acoustics that sound a lot better than newer ones of the same models, but there are always always going to be some duds out there.

    my eyes lit up the other day when i saw a 1964 gibson j160 in a store, i picked it up and it sounded dead.

    you can't say "you gotta buy vintage" or "you gotta buy new" or "you gotta buy (insert brand)" or any of that. try every guitar and just buy the one that feels comfortable, sounds nice, and is just fun to play. if there was a certain type of guitar that was undeniably better than all others, thats what everyone would play.

  4. So i'm pretty much not going to post here anymore. Shit is dead. I'll use this forum for its marketplace, though. I will make occasional posts on here but you'll all be happy to see me not be very active on here anymore. I'm starting to post on SZ instead. Peace superfuture.

  5. i'm also looking to get a credit card.. something practical with good benefits. I don't care about interest rates as I plan to pay it off immediately. I'm only in this shit for the rewards and to build credit.

    Any ideas?

    ps. hopefully this post actually POSTS

  6. this place is wack. i only post here because i don't have shit to do anymore because sufu has turned so wack it has depressed me into not wanting to do anything else anymore. so i use all this time to post on sufu now. :(

  7. okay, so i was thinking of adding windows BACK onto my mac... and i was talking to an unnamed undefined person about parallels and he showed me a lot better program called vmware fusion.

    its fast, lean and lets you use vista or xp on a mac inside of a window, within os x. he demoed all the stuff you can do on it extensively.. and he GAVE me a copy of it...

    PM me. thats all i can really say.

  8. saying black thought needs to chill makes my dick hurt. balck thought needs to not breathe and rap until his face explodes, preferably ending every bar with '...nigga'.

    quoted for truth.

  9. haha it seriously does... but i think its still cool if we all know we're not trying to come off this way. I have the Derrida book, too. Mine says Differánce. Weird.

    I really liked reading Nietzsche because it made me realize that philosophy is utterly useless in the real world. It does, however, culture my 'mental world' (allows me to see the world in different ways) and is just interesting overall.

    I guess you could say its like music. I know how to play guitar, but that doesn't make me a better person or anything, just makes me someone who can play guitar. Wow, big deal. Reading philosophy, I feel, doesn't make me a smarter person or more sophisticated, 'better' person, just makes me some other loser who likes to think about weird shit.

    I don't really see any douchebaggery or snobbiness in discussing it. Its only abnoxious when you talk like you KNOW THE ANSWER.

    Anyway, I got a question for you guys that I have been thinking about recently... obviously, I'm not looking for any right answer, just hearing yalls opinions will be nice enough. Here goes:

    We as human beings always ask ourselves "What is my purpose in life?" and "Why am i here?" But when I stopped to think about it, I thought,

    'Hm, what a universal thought. Everyone thinks about that shit. I wonder if there has ever been anyone who never thought about it. Well, sure there has.. There has to have been? Maybe egyptian slaves who never knew how to read, write, or even think for themselves, just slaved all day. Their only concern was if they'd get food to eat that night. Surely there must have been some of them to whom the question "Why was I put on earth?" never crossed their minds. If you don't think so, well, obviously, babies, infants, etc. who died before they could reach the mental coherence to ask themselves such a 'profound' question.'

    Sooooo.... if there have been lives which have been lived without that purpose in mind, then its obviously not one of the reasons we do exist. We are not here to find our purpose, and thus are not put here FOR a purpose. If so, then WHY THE FUCK ARE WE HERE?

    Hmm.. feel free to make fun of my thought all you want, too. I don't really care.. I'm just bored as fuck in class and thought about this...

  10. Did everybody in this whole thread just discover cocaine? Besides, best feeling ever: heroin-induced hypnogogia.

    Haha dude we're not all 40.. some of us here are in our late teens and early 20s. When exactly did you want us to discover cocaine?

  11. Also, I'm aware of how pompous most of that post was, so apologies in advance.

    you don't come off as pompous, you come off as a new jack for thinking Nietzsche is modern and not post modern and for titling Derrida's book "Writing and Difference" instead of Writing and Differånce"

    haha.

    I'm just joking of course, I honestly wouldn't categorize Nietzsche as any category.. He was just way too out there to be pinned down to something.

  12. Personal favourites;

    Jean Paul Satre - Existentialism and Humanism

    Peter Singer - Animal Liberation

    Where to start with Nietzche?

    I'd start with the Gay Science, or more specifically, the Death of God essay. I'd start here because this is Nietzsche's whole premise:

    You realize God doesn't exist, all of your religions, customs, belief system etc. fall apart and you have nothing left. nihilism. Nietzsche's whole game is, where do you go from nihilism? This nihilism is your potentiality to live. Now without all of these religions, customs, belief system etc. to hold you back, you can live life for what it is. You can "say yes to life."

    Nietzsche is a beautiful writer to read, one that brings great joy, seriously.

    As far as Levinas and why I tie him into Nietzsche is because he is also an existentialist! He is also speaking of this huge interruption in your life where the Other comes to you. Its the same type of shock and the same "where do i go from here?" kind of mindset. Of course, Levinas takes a completely different path, but so does Heidegger and Derrida.

  13. so i upgraded my software on the storm and its working a hell of a lot better. i like it a lot now. app store for bold/storm launching in march... should be dope!

    it'll be a lot less apps than there are for the iphone, but then again, they will be much much more practical.. i don't really need a color changing screen app, or a beer or light saber app..

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