So many of you dickheads are talented.
In April, a lot of you may be around for CHSH so Thursday, April 12, I was thinking of trying to get a space at a bar to host an open mic (music, comedy, storytelling, mouth breathing, etc…) to showcase your…
I would do a thing for this.
Truthful Tuesday: easily the best benefit of my job is the in-house education department. I get to take real classes on things like options pricing that exercise parts of my brain that have gone largely dormant. Good lectures + actual homework and tests = the best part of my days here.
Note: nothing proprietary in this pic, this is just a review, showing that the formulas for the option greeks satisfy the basic Black-Scholes equation.
NOT YOUR KIND OF PEOPLE TO BE RELEASED ON BAND’S OWN LABEL ON MAY 15, 2012
GARBAGE ANNOUNCE FIRST ROUND OF TOUR DATES
Los Angeles, CA - January 30, 2012 - Garbage has announced that their fifth studio album, Not Your Kind Of People, will be released in the United States on May 15, 2012, on the band’s label STUNVOLUME. As V Magazine recently put it: “The poster girl for ’90s alternative rock is ready to reclaim her reign - and the radio - with a new record from her iconic band, Garbage.”
“Working with Garbage again was very instinctual,” said Duke Erikson. “Like getting on a bicycle…with three other people.” He adds “We haven’t felt this good about a Garbage record since the last one!”
Garbage - Shirley Manson (vocals), Steve Marker (guitars, keyboards), Duke Erikson (guitars, keyboards) and Butch Vig (drums, loops) - will hit the road this spring in support of the album by performing several headlining shows as well as various festivals throughout Europe and the U.S. with more dates to be confirmed.
“Thinking about going back on the road is both thrilling and terrifying in equal measure,” said Shirley Manson. “………but we’ve always enjoyed a little pain mixed in with our pleasure.”
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Planning on a whole week in my bunk in May.
Also interesting: Garbage is hosting their official website (garbage.com) at tumblr now.
Ben Folds Five - Missing The War (Live - Sessions at West 54th) (by looper12xx)
I really need to get a piano back into my life.
My favorite Ben Folds song by a wide margin.
Wheeeeee!
| Me, to no one in particular: | We need to update some of these pictures in the hallway--there's no Leah in them because we put them together before she was here. |
| Me, to Leah: | But she's here now! And we'll love each other forever! (goes in for a hug) |
| Leah: | We're not gonna love each other forever, Daddy. Someday we're all gonna be dead. |
| Me: | ... |
I spent the evening ten feet from Robbie Fulks who was playing in a Frank Lloyd Wright church, thereby winning Saturday night forever.
Think. Write. Explore. Sketch. Play. Ask. Talk.
Possibly prototype, though that’ll be later.
To those of you who have sent me your thoughts: WOW. And thank you. I may (will) come back to you for more.
And if you have further thoughts on what I put a total of 30 seconds into this morning before ranting, you can email john at scholvin dot com with your ideas, especially the critical ones. I’m very interested in hearing how it can’t work.
That’s how I get things done.
Would you pay for a social network that had the following:
Yes, I recognize that the big problem is getting your people to move with you. We’d have to incentivize that somehow. And the fee we’re talking about is not much, maybe a dollar a month?
I know this is a bad place to conduct market research. But seriously, I’ve had just about enough of the bullshit that’s out there and I’m wondering what I should do with my life anyway.
And I have trouble keeping track of four.
Am I the only one who sees this and says “Oh, man, imagine all the HF rolloff through all those FET bypasses! That guitar’s gonna sound like it’s under six feet of sand LOL!”?
Yes! Yes I am.
My name is John Scholvin and I have an anger problem.
Along with rugged good looks and luxurious, silvery hair, I inherited a vicious temper from my dad. I wish it could have been his jump shot or golf swing, but instead, it’s the ability to go from idle to redline in a couple of milliseconds.
I’ve been working on managing it for twenty years. My anger has damaged me personally and professionally. It’s something I have to be continually aware of to subdue. I’ve become pretty good at keeping it under control over the years. Part of it is probably just age and a natural change in my endocrine chemistry. Beyond that, I have techniques for quelling the rage when it rises, techniques which work well if I apply them early enough. That’s tricky: when it happens, it happens fast, and when it gets to a certain point, there’s no dialing back.
I am finding most corners of the Internets to be very unpleasant lately. Gonna spend some time away.
It’s not you, it’s me. (Except for when it is you.)
Love you more.
Oh man: 4 notes but only 3 whodunit bars. Someone’s in hidden tumblr purgatory.
Stop berating plugin developers and fix your shit, tumblr.
Ghost On The Beach // The Insiders
The Insiders were (are?) a Chicago power-pop institution, a major influence on me when I was figuring out the difference between “playing guitar” and “being in a band.”
Listen to this turned up loud if you can. This sounds really good to me, maybe especially so lately. With all due respect to those who love it, and that appears to be everyone but me, much of what I hear that’s current just doesn’t rock. I need distorted guitars and cracking snare drums. I know it’s out there, but it does not appear to be very much in demand at the moment based on what I see people listening to on my internets and what I hear on the radio.
BTW, awesome 80’s video for this one.
