This week we are joined by Matt’s favorite artist Michael Birawer! Seriously, looking back on it now, Matt totally gushes all over the poor guy. If you can’t picture if you’ve seen Michael’s work before, here’s a sample:
I will point out that there is a low background buzz in this episode. We are trying out some new recording equipment and there was some background noise we didn’t catch in the soundcheck. Our apologies, we’ll get it nailed down for the next episode.
Matt also talks about his wife getting plastic surgery and how weird that is. Seriously, check out her wicked awesome stitches:
So cool.
OK, more talk of sandwich making… I have to weigh in now, with scientific reasoning (aka shit I learn on Food Network).
Mayo always goes on the bottom of the sandwich. Mayo being a fat based food blocks out all moisture which may leak from the meat (ham, turkey, hamburger, etc), and keeps the bread from getting soggy.
CVA FTW!
I thought so.
Our engineer may want to have a few words with you.
Also: Honeytown in Mike Birawer style; WIN.
I thought of that too. Prolly too beautiful of an idea to actually happen.
5:00 Considerable ambient noise, white noise. And an intermittent buzz, but not the good kind.
16:00 Nice messages about the decisions regarding plastic surgery. I agree strongly that someone’s decision depends on what works for them, and not what other people or the world think about the decision.
Plastic surgery story: In about 1998 I was sent to fix/upgrade the computers at a local plastic surgeon’s office. As I was working a man came in with his daughter, a perfectly pretty young girl, and went into one of the offices for a while. Of course I wondered why they were there.
After they left a nurse said to the receptionist “That’s the third time he’s come in here. His girlfriends always leave him after he buys them a boob job.”
*shudder*
50:00 Huh huh… he said “three-dimensional wood” Huh huh…
As I have an artist for a daughter I was very interested to listen to the techniques and processes that Michael uses, particularly the business side.
Ig-no-MIN-ee-us! (Filling in for Pedantic Eric).
Drink!
Some people seem to attribute the “satisfaction brought him back” reply to “Curiosity killed the cat” to Stephen King. He appears to have used the line in more than one stories.
To Salsa, THANK YOU for being the only other guy I know that uses the military phonetics instead of the “B as in boy” crap.
My father was in the Army before we were born, but as kids he taught us the phonetic alphabet. My siblings and I would play a game where we had to spell road signs phonetically before we passed them.
I need to get out more…
I use the phonetics at my place of work, a call center, which we have letter/number serial numbers. Trying to make out B and F over a static-laden call with machines thumming away in the background is always a challenge. I like the greek letters…and have often wanted to use pnumomia and knife….
As an aside, I worked at a center where our reference number was the letter A, then a sequence of numbers. I was working the french line, and since I was taught french in school, when I was older, I tend to think in english and translate before I speak. I gave my caller the reference number “A comme Pomme” which would translate to “A like Apple”. My caller was confused. I laughed, and explained myself. We had a good chuckle.
I know this defeats the purpose of the 1st part of my post, using military phonetics…but, whatchagonnadoaboutit?
Hey I totally have Michael’s BLB painting in my house!