#howling star

[maniacalmachinist]

So, finally finished the main assembly of the Kishin-NEBULA and I'm pretty well satisfied. I have the decals for it, but I'm more tempted to try and draw in the highlights for the detailing. Not sure yet. It stands just over 8" tall, and overall assembly time is around 20-24 hours. In the front is a placard of the pilot basically giving her Nebula a good old fashioned body wash. (yes, Cross Core is one of THOSE Gacha games apparently XD).

[maniacalmachinist]

So, its bee a long time since i last built a MG (1/100 scale) mecha model, and I'm proud to show off the CZ-12A Kishin-NEBULA by Howling Star x Cross Core. My main gripe is the Endoskeleton Kishin is almost a waste of time since you wind up removing a lot of it to build up the NEBULA. Aside from the REALLY small parts at times, its a very solid and detailed build. I especially like that the fingers on the hands are static and maintain grip on whatever it weapons it will hold (weapons and maybe decals/detailing later). Overall, a pretty fun 13+ hour build.

[maniacalmachinist]

So, I've been busy . . . got this one a while back and never got around to assembly. This is the Kishin-Nebula, courtesy of Howling Star x Cross Core. Found out Cross Core is some kind of Gacha game.

But, it'll be a nice addition to my classic little army:

So, proceeded to construct the Kishin-NEBULA:

Current progress: Head, Chest, Waist completed (mostly)

Today was leg day XD

[savagecityblog]

The Four Horsemen Tour: Atlanta

Stop one of The Four Horsemen Tour starts places our four bay area bands deep in the heart of ATL. After the horsemen assembled at the Samurai Shotgun house in ATL for an icebreaker game of catch phrase, the gang (horsemen, women, everybody) decided to wind down by visiting The Graveyard Tavern in the East Atlanta Village for some much need 40’s. Although The Graveyard may have provided me…

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[thestariscalling]

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[hearts-alive]

So about the Flying Lotus/Thundercat last night.

So the crew and I are a tad late leaving my place and getting to North Ave. Show started at 8, were at North Ave at like 9 lol but I didn't care that much about the opening act, I really came for Thundercat and I was determined not to miss any part of his show. 

So we jogged. From North Ave to the Masquerade, Carl and I (George and whatever chick he brought lagged behind so we left them) sped up and down hills passing pedestrians and junkies. So we finally made it. When we got to the ticket booth I didn't hear any familiar songs bumping from the interior, so knew we hadn't missed anything.

Now before I explain what happened next, let me first give a brief overview of Thundercat at performances. He's usually faded before and during. Then afterwards he gets straight lit.

So I'm paying for my ticket, and Thundercat just casually walks by the booth. 

"......................."

It all happened too fast. So I was like "Holy Shit!" And he jumped lack O.O. Then he realized I was a fan exclaiming at his sudden appearance and was like "oh, hey" and continued towards the door. So that's the story of how I startled Thundercat. 

Then before we even made it to the stairs to Heaven Stage, Thomas Pridgen also appeared. Once we got inside, Flying Lotus just sort of walked past. This was all happening very quickly for me. 

It was pretty cool that I'm a genius and I timed our lateness perfectly so that Carl and I arrived literally ten minutes before Thundercat's performance. I've spend hours for months looking at videos of him live and studying his style, so actually being at one of his shows was pretty surreal. Just watching everybody solo had me like "yo I gotta be in a band like this one day". I didn't know how to feel when they started on the intro to Mmmhmm. That is one of my favorite songs period, even though Thomas Pridgen sped it up way to much for me, but it was all good. The Cat even performed "Heartbreaks & Setbacks" from his new album coming in July being produced by Flying Lotus. He explained that "The Apocalypse" is dedicated to his long time friend, famous piano prodigy Austin Peralta who passed at the end of last year.

FlyLo's concert was pretty wild. I thought it was going to be chill but it was hella hype. He really likes Atlanta and played some psychedelic trap beats. Of course all the hipsters in the building from like Buckhead and Gwinnett were jumping around acting like they were about that like during the krunk era, but was cool I let them have it. There were two menaces in the crowd who kept pushing everyone to the degree that I almost broke one's arm. I really saw no other option. Still, the set slowed down, and the highlight of his set to me was definitely DMT. He kind of remixed it and it was wild. I didn't know about his side project "Captain Murphy" where he actually raps. Dude can flow, and after hearing "Between Friends" feat Earl Sweatshirt, I may actually look into it.

Carl and I had to leave a little early, but before we left I knew I had to buy a shirt. Went to the back, the shirts were $25 which to me is too much for just one shirt, but the vinyls for "The Golden Age of the Apocalypse" were also $25. So ya boy bought a vinyl. It's gorgeous. 

I had given up on getting a picture with Thundercat because I didn't see him, but after I came back to get the vinyl, low and behold dude is at the bar and lit beyond words. I explained to him that I've been playing bass for around six or seven years now, and listening to how creative his music was changed my entire sound and perspective on music. And that his use of effects is genius. And I even went and bought a six-string and an ME50b processor, and that I'm a completely different musician because of him(My band would likely agree lol). 

We was too lit to understand a word I was saying, but he nodded and smiled. I didn't have a marker for him to sign the album, and I'm honestly not sure he could have in that state, so we got a picture instead. And that was my awesome night. 

[hearts-alive]

Shoutout to ILLyterati's show tonight.

Best open mic in two years. Easy.

Shoutout to ILLmont

And apparently people actually like my band.