The Hogbae Holler 03: Fertile Respite
LEARN ABOUT IT
Ah… yes… Hellooo!
What a big few weeks it’s been! I turned 30 which is fun. It is so wild to think that 30 years before the year I was born, it was 1962… like What???
I think I have explored every corner of my brain in these past few weeks, which is interesting because it is round and smooth inside I think. Anyway… here we go again…🙄
GLAZE - Bottleneck 92
Some close and warm friends and I recorded this EP in 2016, and it is finally on Spotify / all major streaming services! I played bass on it. We played one live show in San Mateo, CA and it was the most fun thing and we even had a fog machine. This is really a fantastic release with amazing people involved all around and I am so proud to have been a part of it. Listen below or look up “Glaze Bottleneck 92” on any major streaming service.
Rumour has it that we are all still active in music and a divine coalescence may be inevitable…….. oohh darling, how simply divine that would be……..
The Wrong Number
I got a call from a guy in Fairfield, CA who had the wrong number. He was looking for “Chad”. Over the phone, “Ted” sounds similar to “Chad” so that was fun. We started talking and he explained that he is an 84-year-old Greek man who is looking for a publisher for “The Four Lost Books”. I asked if he wrote them and he said no, so I was confused but intrigued. It was something like, each book was about an individual folly of man, one of them was about “greed” and the others were similar topics. We talked for like half an hour, he told me about his fascinating life and his invention idea for a special dog toy.
I asked for his email and he said he doesn’t trust computers and that we will all be robots in 30 years. Fair enough! He said he loves me and that we need to all love each other. I told him “I love you too” and he was so happy. He joked that “I think I am falling in love with you and I did not even mean to call you!” I forget his name but I saved his number. Anyway hit me up if you know a publisher! I told him I would ask my friends.
The Beach Boys
The first concert I ever went to was The Beach Boys in the late 90s or early 00s when I was a young lil warthog. All I really remember is that the opening band was like a country rock band and they said swear words a lot and I cried! It was scary because it was really loud swear words.
Also one time I brought a tape of The Beach Boys to show-and-tell at preschool and it went missing from my cubby. I looked all over for it, and eventually found it in the sandbox. Someone had taken it and rubbed it around in the sand. I remember seeing grains of sand scraping up against the magnetic tape inside the clear cassette. “Who would do such a thing,” I remember thinking.
It now comes full circle apparently: I made a playlist of some of their best songs and messed it up with my big weird audio effects setup that I use for my bass guitar to see what it would sound like. Check it out but turn the volume down a bit first:
Burying the Hatchet
When it comes to significant conflicts, do you believe in “burying the hatchet”? Here are some questions on this topic:
Do you bury the hatchet? Or do you keep it within reach in case the haters come back for more?
Can the hatchet be dug up?
How hefty is it?
Sharp or dull?
Where did you get it?
What did it cost?
How many times has it been used?
Is it buried somewhere special?
What would Gary Paulsen do?
Human Hearing and the Things For It
I wrote a whole thing here three times and then decided not to include it because there is a particular part I do not understand. I do not want to mislead you, my supple friend, so I am going to figure that out first before recommending any course of action. Essentially this is about speaker systems and what frequencies they can produce. This is a whole messed up topic.
My main point is that if you are ever in the market for a good-quality speaker system, it would be beneficial to look for the “frequency range” or “frequency response” in the product information before buying so you know what you’re getting. Human hearing is in the range of 20 hz (deep sub-bass, felt more than heard) to 20,000 hz (piercing treble). This can also be noted as 20 hz - 20 khz. This is when you are born, and age will narrow this range to like 30 hz - 16 khz.
Some speaker systems will not produce strong sub-bass/bass (I will refer to this frequency range broadly as “low-end”), and this is something to consider. Some important things that lie in the low-end range:
Kick drums are in the 50-90 hz range
Bass guitar: 40-400 hz
Synthesizers: can be any frequency. If used for low-end, which is common in electronic and hip-hop, assume anywhere down to like 40 hz
But also you do not have to spend a million dollars to get adequate speakers for your needs. Also, if you have speakers that sound good to you, forget I said anything LOL. I will figure out a way to communicate the useful parts of all this for another time. Sorry! Bye!
The Playlist
I have listened to this one a lot of times and I still like it, which is saying something! Also I realized that when other people post playlists, I usually just look at the tracks and go “huh cool” but I don’t often listen to them. I am going to start listening to them because that’s what they’re for. Sorry! Anyway here is this one:
Cleo’s Corner
Mizz Donkey went to the vet this week for her first routine checkup. It turned out she had an ear infection! I had no idea, she wasn’t scratching it more than normal or anything. She told me I could tell you that. She was very good at the vet. She weighed in at 14.4 lbs and so we will be on a diet together (eating different food though. I am vegetarian). Here’s her two moods:
Until next time! I hope it is soon…….😈
powerful!