The sound of failure
So since the music stores were closed on boxingday, I went out with my friend Ana so that she could buy a whole bunch of music recording stuff. So after informing me that she was getting a ride and that I had to take the bus on this rainy-ass day, I get to the store and it's packed as hell. So I find Ana in the guitar room strumming away, and we go to the back of the store where they house all of the home studio swag.

She finds her Microphone in a matter of minutes, but it's an XLR input Mic with phantom power, so she needs the appropiate soundcard with XLR input and Phantom power to connect it to her fictional computer. After nearly spending an hour talking to the MANAGER on the stores first day open after christmas, and he guides her towards a Fast Track Pro USB soundcard and teaches us about Polar Patterns, phantom power, and how to record vocals with acoustic guitar, and $200+ later, she walked out with everything she needs to record and I walked out with a $15 guitar strap. So all said and done, I wait for her outside of the store while her ride arrives and when her dad gets there, she asks me where I live and when I tell her she goes "Ohhh... that's kinda far, Mind taking the bus?" Well obviously I mind taking the bus, It's fucking raining outside and I just spent the day fucking helping you" but I refrain from losing my temper and gracefully wait 45 minutes for the bus in the rain.

The next day I went out with a few friends and smoked a fat spliff. Then while we were playing around in his music room, I though "hey! what if I brought over my computer, she brought over her soundcard and microphone, and we used his music room *equiped with brand new drums, electric guitar and bass, a bunch of amps, and it's rather seperated from the rest of the house.* and he was all like "yeah!!! call her up tomorrow and we'll work something out"

So the next day she comes online and I suggested the idea and she saids "Oh, I took all of that stuff back, my bro said that it's overpriced. He said that he can get a card for $170 that goes into the PC, which is faster, and can do movies and stuff too." She sent me the link to a cinema card, made for making movies, no XLR input, no phantom power, and is useless." I told her about her mistake and she got all defencive. Claiming that she has to have $1000 for new years so that she can buy a plane ticket for a trip she's going on in june, and in the store she said "Oh, $230? that's like 2 weeks worth of work" so I told her straight up that if she isn't going to be serious about this, she shouldn't have wasted my time.

Like fuck, she spent over an hour talking to the manager of a fucking music store about recording and she trusts her older brother who's too retarded to even realize that USB is faster than fuckin PCI. I hate people who can't think anything out.

Alright, here comes the third post