http://gunsandrecords.com Music and Firearms. Two great tastes...ah, nevermind. Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:06:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve been trying to pinpoint the exact moment I knew, without any doubt, that I was living in the most base and stupid generation in American history. It might have been when all of the warning labels started popping up on almost every product on store shelves. Even replica football ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/09/16/i-was-born-in-the-wrong-era/ I have the coolest job sometimes. Yeah, I know. I haven't written anything in a while. For those of you who decided not to read the "about" page of this blog, I'm a plumber. Most of what my company has me doing can be considered commercial service plumbing. This ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/07/30/im-here-to-lay-pipe-mam/ Some of you might stop reading this blog after this story, and I’m OK with that. If this is the first post you’ve ever read on this site, let me give you some information.  I’m a DJ in a small Dallas bar.  I play hip-hop, reggae, Baltimore Club, and some rock ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/05/20/i-guess-i-could-have-wished-cancer-on-her-that-might-have-been-better/ Being a plumber, I don’t get to eat lunch at regular intervals or at the same place every day like office workers. We take lunch when we can, and sometimes not at all. On occasion, we get to eat with other plumbers that we work with and might ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/05/12/there-are-a-lot-of-things-id-rather-do/ I found myself watching the Masters Tournament a couple of weeks ago on Easter Sunday, and Zach Johnson had just pulled off a nice run past Tiger to win. Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I don’t like golf. Never have. I just happened to be ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/04/22/jesus-is-my-caddie/ I’ve been spinning records in front of people for about 4-5 years now.  When I say in front of people, I mean house parties, weddings, clubs, etc.  I’m primarily a hip-hop DJ, and also incorporate reggae, rock, Baltimore club, and b-boy breaks into my sets as well.  The crowds I ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/03/30/wanna-be-a-dj-heres-how-i-did-it/ DJ Shadow (a.k.a. Josh Davis) released his new album, "The Outsider", on September 18th of last year. Every review I've read on this album has been awful. I feel like I should review it from the point of view of a DJ Shadow fan. If you haven't guessed ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/03/15/dj-shadow-should-be-our-next-president/ I bought a gun yesterday. I had just finished serving my county by sitting in a Jury Holding Room for 5 hours, and felt like buying something. My girlfriend had just sold her 9mm Taurus and had been drooling over my SigSauer .40. I told her she could have ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/03/15/my-newest-purchase/ The old saying still applies here: "You know you're getting old when new music all starts to sound the same." I'm sitting here listening to Led Zeppelin's "BBC Sessions", and I almost started to cry a couple of times.  Not because the music moved me to tears (even though a Zep song ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/03/13/trying-to-find-new-and-interesting-music-youre-fucked/ There's a woman I know who is a lesbian. She likes women, and only women- as far as I know. She doesn't live her life as a lesbian, but as a woman who likes women. At the time of our last meeting, she didn't have one peice ... http://gunsandrecords.com/2007/03/13/im-tired-of-your-rainbow-bullshit/