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Torture, hate crimes, extortion and fraud. Right around the corner on Robie Street! Who woulda figured.

Got off work last night and bailed out right away in the hopes of catching up with the Hunter Street party. Alas, everyone had already left, so they could all go to the Attic and drink their asses off and end up getting kicked out of the bar for heckling a jam band.

Doing sound upstairs at the Marquee Club every night this week. My job is chewing me up, I’m missing all the fun.

Last night just for something to do I tried mixing a hiphop show using no compression whatsoever. I learned something I already knew: hiphop requires compression. Too much dynamic range.

Mostly because every MC in the world has terrible mic technique, and half the time they’ll be cupping the ball of the microphone and trying to rap through their knuckles so it’s all “mumble mumble check my flow mumble mumble mumble” and the next minute it’s “Everybody say HO-OHHHHHH” and I’m watching with four fingers pulling back the faders as all my meters jump into the red.

When I say BORING
You say CLICHE

BORING
CLICHE

BORING
CLICHE

Everybody say HO-OHHHH
HO-OHHHH

HO-HO
HO-HO

HO-HO-HO
HO-HO-HO

Now SCREEEEAAAM.

4 thoughts on “honda”

  2. I was going to buy a car from Colonial Honda but when I went to pick it up they wanted $500 more than the deal we had agreed on the day before.

    I went across the bridge to Portland Street Honda, told them my story and they honoured the deal that I had originally agreed on with Colonial.

    They informed they had a lot of complaints about them regarding suspect business practices such as the one I just outlined.

    Since then, even though it’s out of my way, Portland St. Honda handles all my Honda needs and I’m very happy with their service.

  3. I bought my Civic from Colonial in 1993 – I too had agreed on a price & then it seemed they wouldn’t let me leave until I’d been scared into purchasing “fabric protection” (whatever the hell that is) under threat of my warranty not being valid (the salesperson kept my dad & I there for 2 extra hours until this was accomplished – good news is, he was fired 2 weeks later for something unrelated & I did get that money back 5 years later). Also, they kept insisting that my dad was the owner of the car, although I was the one who had arranged the loan and it was my name on all of the paperwork (he had loaned me $500 for a downpayment). It’s no surprise to me that they are evil. I switched to Portland St (they would wash & vacuum your car) years ago, I’m not so much a fan as I was (they really don’t go out of their way for the owner of a 12 year old car & their off-site-even-though-they-pretend-it-isn’t body shop leaves much to be desired) but at least I’m not treated quite as horribly …

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