Re: Pets?
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:02 pm
Gearmond wrote:my snail is the best at asplorin places.
right now he's on my forearm so i can type.
I no like snails... I no like snails...Page 5 of 7
I no like snails...Re: Pets?
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:52 pm
i think a snail pet is kind of intriguing. but then, we have banana slugs here, which are great huge shell-less molluscs that can be four or five inches long. it's pretty startling to find one on the stoop, or attached to the front door in the morning.
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Re: Pets?
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:54 pm
dubkitty wrote:i think a snail pet is kind of intriguing. but then, we have banana slugs here, which are great huge shell-less molluscs that can be four or five inches long. it's pretty startling to find one on the stoop, or attached to the front door in the morning.
oh no you di-int!
banana slugs?!that's it...I'm outta here! :runs away from Pets? thread:
Re: Pets?
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 2:16 pm
When I was younger, I kept some slugs as pets. In the time I had them, they reproduced (which was cool to watch). and the babies grew up.
Their favorite food was dry dogfood.
Their favorite food was dry dogfood.
Re: Pets?
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:21 pm
da bunnies 
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:02 am
hah! Little Poodle Movement!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8QDYVZFsg[/youtube]
from about 25 seconds in you can see my little monster pedal jumping. then lap sitting.
it's oddly relaxing to have a tiny warm bundle in my lap when i'm doing musics. be weird to do that at a gig though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8QDYVZFsg[/youtube]
from about 25 seconds in you can see my little monster pedal jumping. then lap sitting.
it's oddly relaxing to have a tiny warm bundle in my lap when i'm doing musics. be weird to do that at a gig though.
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:53 am
poodles are actually p kickass dogs if you're not making them into mobile hedges.
standard poodles are rad dogs.
standard poodles are rad dogs.
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:09 pm
yeah. mine's loves people, but she's not a pussy little lap dog.
she'll back off big 'uns. she DID grow up in a grooming shop, and i tried to make sure she was a DOG, not a little purse accessory.
she'll back off big 'uns. she DID grow up in a grooming shop, and i tried to make sure she was a DOG, not a little purse accessory.
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:17 pm
poodles are very underrated...they got a bad reputation because back when toy and miniature poodles were the most popular dogs in America, they were horribly over-bred and so all the flaws of the breed came to the fore as happens when a new variety of dog hits the top of the charts. there were a lot of mad-ass little poodles bred in the 50s and 60s. and i think they're way more adorable without the Grace Jones treatment. not that there's anything wrong with that.
many of the cats i've known have loved music. when i lived in Chicago, one of my cats adored saxophones. whenever i put on a record with a sax on, she'd sit by the speaker and purr. it didn't matter if it was Van Morrison or Anthony Braxton, she was happy. my kitty in the early 80s once plonked down on the floor between me and a friend as we sat facing each other in two kitchen chairs playing acoustic guitars, rotated her ears so one faced each of us like radar antennae, and listened to us for a half-hour. and Buddy sits in Zen Meat Loaf Asana next to the practice amp while i noodle and loop, even when i play loud enough that my girlfriend bitches at me to turn it down.
many of the cats i've known have loved music. when i lived in Chicago, one of my cats adored saxophones. whenever i put on a record with a sax on, she'd sit by the speaker and purr. it didn't matter if it was Van Morrison or Anthony Braxton, she was happy. my kitty in the early 80s once plonked down on the floor between me and a friend as we sat facing each other in two kitchen chairs playing acoustic guitars, rotated her ears so one faced each of us like radar antennae, and listened to us for a half-hour. and Buddy sits in Zen Meat Loaf Asana next to the practice amp while i noodle and loop, even when i play loud enough that my girlfriend bitches at me to turn it down.
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:21 pm
About nine or ten years ago, my cat had a very memorable encounter with a Black Sabbath record.
Black Sabbath (the song comes on). She's all "oooh, I'm interested. What is this noise coming from the speaker?"
Inches closer.
Inches closer.
Tritones happen. Stops coming closer.
Ozzie comes in "What is this? That staaaaaands before meeeeeee?"
Fucking bolts out the door faster than you can say "No likey!"
Black Sabbath (the song comes on). She's all "oooh, I'm interested. What is this noise coming from the speaker?"
Inches closer.
Inches closer.
Tritones happen. Stops coming closer.
Ozzie comes in "What is this? That staaaaaands before meeeeeee?"
Fucking bolts out the door faster than you can say "No likey!"
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:53 pm
LOL. it's an Ozzy-cism!
oh, i've played things on guitar that have cleared the cats out of the room in fifteen seconds. 3-knob Great Wall + flanger + tremolo = RUN AWAY. and let's not even talk about the Truly Beautiful Disaster with the Guvnor II in the feedback loop. it were loverly
oh, i've played things on guitar that have cleared the cats out of the room in fifteen seconds. 3-knob Great Wall + flanger + tremolo = RUN AWAY. and let's not even talk about the Truly Beautiful Disaster with the Guvnor II in the feedback loop. it were loverly
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:01 pm
behndy wrote:hah! Little Poodle Movement!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8QDYVZFsg[/youtube]
from about 25 seconds in you can see my little monster pedal jumping. then lap sitting.
it's oddly relaxing to have a tiny warm bundle in my lap when i'm doing musics. be weird to do that at a gig though.
This is awesome!!!!
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:14 pm
best. sideman. EVER.
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:06 pm
yah. she only freaks out when it's super peaky filter stuff. like, she doesn't care about dub bassy rumblings, but something that sweeps too high too quick makes her not happy.
gah. i miss cats too. they're such weird little beasts.
gah. i miss cats too. they're such weird little beasts.
Re: Pets?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:09 pm
cats and dogs don't like the ultra-highs...they hear more bandwidth in the treble range than we do. you may know the anecdote of haw the Beatles put a 17kHz (i.e. inaudible/barely audible) tone in the tail-out groove of Sgt. Pepper's to confuse people by making their dogs bark.