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I grew up in Va Beach, and there was a guy named Holland who made and repaired amps. I'd go there, if you can find where he's working.

I'm really familiar with Richmond...do you play in a local band?

Now then - never mind that gotdamn golden epistemological bagel, and you tell me how the heck you can avoid the dilemma I pointed out RE punctuated equilibrium or whatever the heck it was called. 'Cos as far as I can tell if you've got continuous change, then getting a necessarily stable system of ...

Can't believe you're even considering working at such a half ass studio...

In all seriousness, if that studio's half assed, then what I've got is about one-billionth of an ass.

God, I've been on Pet Sounds for about 15 months straight...seriously. I can't get it out of my head, much less the CD player. But right now I'm into: Son Volt / Trance...nice warm recording Righteous Boy / I Sing Because of You...decent songs from a guy who apparently can't sing all too well (it gi...

I've also heard that Stipe used a 57 on a cut from Murmer...Perfect Circle I think it was. I don't know if this is true, but I do know that it is a great vocal take.

Dead strings...can't stress enough how much that made my acoustic tracks sound better. I'm using a pretty plain Washburn acoustic...nothing too special, and lately I've also been using a Rode mic (NT1000), through an HHb preamp. I used to think I was being very pro by swapping on a new pair of strin...

Recommend a book and I'll pick it up when I'm at the library later this week. Then we'll have something concrete to discuss on the sociobio site, and someone who you think isn't crazy. Though it's not specifically dealing with sociobio - it is within the realm of ethology - I find de Waal's Good Na...

Or maybe you have a bagel that can change categories and concepts into dynamic systems of representation.

Friends, why are we wasting our collective energies on this ivory tower dilemma when we could be finding a way to make this bagel happen? Pure genius.

You are - ultimtimately - reliant upon language (which is a necessarily stable system) to describe an unstable phenomena. Therefore you cannot hope to represent it properly. Ahhh...linguists. I don't think our ability or inability to describe fluid dynamic systems with a stable language set has any...

If I were you I would cut my losses and admit that the strongest definiton of truth you can possibly hope for is some form of pragmatism. Yes - this will mean that you are now positioned amongst other non-scientific weltanschauung, but this should only serve to test your reserves of magnanimity. If...

It's precisely the definition of 'truth' that's at stake here though. We are contesting the view that science's claim to truth is preferable to another's. What the scientific method assumes is that the verification principle is the method. But that principle itself cannot be verified. It's a value ...

Just wanna give props for the Raoul Duke quote...very nice.

BUT, I'm going to raise my book of Zohar point again. Yes, theoretically, it is possible that you are right. But I can also summarize Kabballic thought in a rational and plausible way, just like you did for evolutionism. Where is the scientific basis that you claim this theory has? Why is this a go...

Does eveolutionary theory hold that change is restricted to particular periods - which, in turn, are sandwiched between periods of stability? Depends on whether you buy the argument for punctuated equilibrium or not. Jury's still out, but it is probably periods of stability interrupted by periods o...

If, as must surely be the case, species are continuously evolving, how is it possible to identify a particular, discrete category of species?? Won't this necessarily involve the employment of arbitrary, unempirically based criteria? In the long term (and RE evol theory there IS only the long term),...