I could do bass lessons if I knew a bit more about theory. Technique I could smash on the head.

[QUOTE=madthumbs;17448240]i teach through a company named mr music, basically they contract people to teach and they find all the students so i have about 24 students over 3 nights a week, and its just like office space with serperate rooms i was hired for bass but for every bass student they get there is like 10 guitarists, so its handy to do both.[/QUOTE]

I can't play guitar haha, not very well anyway.

How much you make per student?

Nice man, does that company operate up here?

yeah when i was hired thats all i taught just techniques and songs, then i just started learning heaps about theory but to be honest most students dont give a **** about theory, they just wana play. just learn the basics incase the questions come up.

at the moment its only in eastern suburbs of melbourne and there is two branches so who knows it might grow a bit bigger.

i get 24 an hour, but the student pays a lot more, the company takes percentage for providing the student and the space - thats the downside, though still gives me a decent wage plus im studying at uni so its really good like that.

Yeah it's true about theory. Most people who aren't involved in tertiary music education aren't going to be interested in it.

[QUOTE=madthumbs;17448246]yeah when i was hired thats all i taught just techniques and songs, then i just started learning heaps about theory but to be honest most students dont give a **** about theory, they just wana play. just learn the basics incase the questions come up.[/QUOTE]

I could so do that. But nowhere near enough bass players I'd say.

Yeah, just double up on guitar.

Guitar teachers also always double up on beginner bass so it's worth turning the tables.

I try every now and then but can never get into it.

Guitars wicked easy once you've sat around playing it long enough.

I'm sure it is but it's the sitting around bit that gets me :p

You can stand and practise if you like :p.

Well first things first, clear my $2300 worth of amp and pedals and buy a nice acoustic :p

Absolutely man that too.

I've been planning to for a long time actually, just a nice guitar.

Check out Matons and Cole Clark's, there both wicked. I got a Maton acoustic, it's gorgeous.

Cort. :D

This is from me and my friend talking about piercings:

Kayla says:
but u can get thicker shafts without the end being huge cant u?

Kayla says:
the little flappy bit


Kayla says:
yeah i understand, length not girth

*Shakes head*.

Have you given Raayl's album a listen? I've only had time for the first few tracks of disc one yet but I'm doing the rest later.

I lol'd.

No, I've DL'd it but not listened. *does that now while starting blogs*

Let us know when your blog is up.

I don't think there'll be anything on it yet... Just the accounts and names and stuff, but I'll do that. In the meantime, read this objective review I wrote about Corona.






Corona Extra - An Objective Review
Current mood: argumentative
Category: Parties and Nightlife

For something that resembles fermented cat piss that's been carbonated and injected into a nice clear bottle for the world to see it's difficult to explain the phenomenal sales of Corona in Australia; it's almost as if the Mexicans are playing a big joke on us all. The fact being, that nobody in Mexico actually drinks Corona - and by nobody of course I mean young girls and pussies (I call this the cruiser complex).

I'll attempt to recreate the dissonance that follows buying a Carton of Corona:
- You pay a large sum of money for a sub-standard product
- You get home, crack one open and slam it down
- You think "oh golly, that wasn't really that good"
- You have a second one, just to be sure
- Nope, it really is terrible
- Did I pay $55 for a carton of terrible beer? (this is cognitive dissonance)
- No... I wouldn't do that, I'm not stupid (justification)
- It MUST be good beer (conclusion)
- You buy another case (this is how the most basic of basic marketing works)

And then you jam a stick of lime down the throat of the bottles to help suffocate the toxic, artificial, skunk-like aroma and add some smidgen of flavour to the otherwise succinct taste of watered-down water and something stale.

I would attempt to also recreate the experience of tasting the "beer", but unfortunately it's not easy for me to kick you in the throat through the internet... and steal your money.

The biggest justification of all appears to be the limp-wristed mating call of the amateur dickhead - "but it's easy to drink". So is milk and vodka (I'm not even kidding now), but you don't see people drinking that do you? Believe it or not there's a ****ing good reason for it.

When you have to start justifying why you drink something you know there's something wrong, if you are drinking a vodka and coke, or something with lime and soda, THOSE are 'easy to drink' and they're also ridiculously inexpensive. But the thing is people recognise that they are easy to throw down and say "ah, now there's someone hitting the piss quick", with Corona, they'll laugh and point and you'll have to attempt to salvage your dignity from the pools of laughter-induced spit on the ground.

So it does make very little sense to pay a huge sum of money for something the is universally hated by everyone in the liquor industry. I can tell you right now, next time you're at the bar or bottle-o trying to chat up that certain girl/guy behind the bar and you buy "karowner"; they're going to think the exact same thing my colleges and I do. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is, because the insults/abuse/satirical impersonations etc. vary depending on the time of day and certain other factors. In other words, you lose all credibility of being anything other than a complete douchebag.

Buying this drink is more or less the equivalent of buying something half the price and throwing the rest of it into a nightclub toilet (and don't think I haven't seen that, either).

Go to Hell.










Yes. I have the gall to call myself a writer.

And don't bother pointing out the obvious mistakes I know are in there.

I wrote this about VB too, I get bored a lot. This one isn't even good :lol:







Chapter 2: The VB phenomenon
Current mood: artistic
Category: Parties and Nightlife



After tackling an issue as simple as Karowner, it's a quite a bit more of a challenge for me to grapple with something that's far more insidious; that being, the Australian VB phenomenon.

It happened about 30 years ago now, no one is exactly sure what "it" is, but all we know was it was an event that could quite possibly rival the renaissance as one of the most important events in human history. All we really know is that sometime between 1979 and 1982 something happened and the "box of green" became a national icon (in much the same way that sugar water and vodka became an icon of the ****wit in the mid-2000's, however we will cover the Cruiser Complex next week).

Some say that David Boon had a large role in the popularisation of the 'beverage', however his acts of legend* did not occur until the very late 80's. Whatever the case, Victoria Bitter [colloquialism: Vitamin B], became a major proponent in the drunken antics of many liver cirrhosis patients and lasted from roughly 1980 to 2003.

You might be thinking that this has no relevance to life today (or more importantly, alcohol culture of today), and the fact is: it doesn't. And I can't stress this point enough (irony?). The point I am trying to make is that most people drink beer based on perception rather than any actual taste or personal opinon (see last weeks Karowner lesson). So in essence, this all comes back down to marketing, big suprise right? This leaves us with a small list of assumptions we can make about Australian beer drinkers:

1) They're the furthest thing from intelligent that you can get
2) They're part of a culture based on image
3) They're tools of advertisers whims
4) VB is ****

That last one's extra important, note it down.

I should say though, they were tools of advertisers oppression, most people seem to have come to their senses and realised that point 4 is extremely important. Unfortuantely, the newest alternative is typically XXXX, and while this IS an improvement, it's a fairly small leap forward. Some common terms used to describe VB in it's "QLD post resurgence" phase are: piss, poison, bloody awful, ****ing **** and my personal favourite, carbonated death juice.

This is a radical change from only a decade ago where we would affectionately label the drink and it's containers 'twisties', 'throwies' or 'grenades'.

The thing about VB is that it's still popular in most regions of Australia, which is a crying shame, although for once, Queensland is ahead of the times and "lunch greens" are seeing a massive relegation in popularity. One state at a time boys.



*A note on Boon and "boonanaza":
David Boon is more of a man than the rest of Australia combined, not only did he throw up from excess consumption of liquor before the 1988 Ashes in Englad, he also got man of the match and was generally just a ****in' tank for doing it. The very next year he drank no less than 50 tinnies of VB in a single airplane flight from Sydney to London, and I will personally pay for someones medical expenses if they can better it (offical count must breach 54 to beat all accounts).

The "boonanza" advertising campaign on the mid 2000's saw a small resurgence in VB sales, however not quite enough to make it worth continuing to advertise the product with Boon attached; and you know it's a sad state of affairs when even Boonie can't fix the sale slump.

A quick end note, VB Gold was the worst idea since Golden Oak made a Fruity Lexia cask. Except instead of being enormously popular with poor people, failed harder than a giraffe and octopus cross-species.

You are carrying a lot of rage :p.

Working in a bottle shop in the suburbs I do will have that effect.

Having said that I was always an opinionated douchebag.

And textual expression is better than me smashing someone in the face with a sambuca bottle anyway.

Gaslight why do you have the second most posts in this thread. It's bad for your health.

I'm honestly not sure because I don't feel like I post that much in it. Other than times like this when there's a running conversation going on.

I do love running conversations about how good my Trace Elliot rig is.

Haha.

Yeah you've made a great upgrade from your old rig.