Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

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Krisis has been creating Crushing Krisis since 2000, writing songs since 1996, and reading comics since 1991. He is a Customer Success and Digital Brand Strategy executive, serial organizer, parent, and feminist, among other things. Based in Philly through 2017, he now resides in Wellington, NZ.

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Courtney was effectively my first hostee, since i had promised to give her space on my server long before Uprush was even a gleam in my eye. Back in the day we both had arty websites with a limited amount of blog-like material, but as i just got bloggier she got more expansive: hosting online zines and livejournalling to supplement her static photography portfolio content. And now, fairly out of the blue, she has her own domain @ FatGirlBreakDown. Courtney assures me she’ll still keep a lot of her content on my server, but i can’t help but be a little sad about the first member of the Uprush clan to graduate to their own domain. You go grrl.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2002/07/85284203/

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Three unusual things i saw while on the bus.

  • 1. Tiny blue Stegosaurus in mid stride, dwarfed by the curb standing at three times his height. He seemed somewhat perturbed and totally oblivious to the parking car that was about to render him extinct.
  • 2. Neatly braided crown of thorns nestled around the body of a lightpole eight feet off the ground. The pole was at least twenty feet high and thicker at the top than the middle.
  • 3. A well dressed businessman in a red compact car engaged in what looked like the drum solo of his carreer. His drumsticks were a shade darker than the car. He seemed to be steering with one knee and using the gas as a kickdrum pedal.

    https://crushingkrisis.com/2002/07/85282439/

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    I am a bit deflated.

    For the record, Radio Shack is Satan. Did you get that? RS = SATAN … Without going into exhaustive detail, the short of it is this: last night i want to my local shack of horrors to pick up some audio cables and a quarter inch signal splitter. After talking for a while to the sales person as i picked out my equipment it became obvious that i was buying things to make up for the fact that i don’t have a digital mixer to run mic and amp signals through. It just so happened that (surprise), the shack had just such a mixer on sale for $99, but at a different location. Biting the bullet solely for the quality of my Blogathon entries, i paid in cash and agreed to pick it up this afternoon. Well, i’ve just now returned from the downtown store sans a mixer, because the mixer had very little to do with anything i’m trying to achieve in my “home studio.” I understand that a lot of instruments and turn tables have a whole ton of RCA Stereo outputs, but i’m a musician and have nothing of the kind, so a mixer with 4 stereo RCA ins and 2 stereo RCA outs just means i need 6 RCA to eighth inch adapters. Did you follow that?


    So, the very short of it is that, for the time being, the Blogathon songs will not be recorded in full-quality digital audio as supposed in the last post. Furthermore, if you know anything about home 4+ channel mixers for under $200, please contact me ASAP.

    https://crushingkrisis.com/2002/07/85279554/