David Menestres

Hello stranger! Thank you for the input. Another friend also suggested I look into Godox.

Love when folks respond but obviously have no idea what I'm talking about.

Excellent kind of Basil there.

My 283 but quiet is essentially the goal.

My 283 rules. It's just loud as hell when it's charging and that's a problem when shooting quiet music performances. Like it is disturbing to the performers loud. And yeah I think modern stuff is all radio. What I want is so simple and cheap I'm sure nobody makes it.

I like 24hr time but I refuse to believe 17:00 is a thing that happens once a day.

This gig just got even more exciting. Details soon.

The Effect of an Increased Minimum Wage on Infant Mortality and Birth Weight Objectives. To investigate the effects of state minimum wage laws on low birth weight and infant mortality in the United States. Methods. We estimated the effects of state-level minimum wage laws using a difference-in-differences approach on rates ...

1 of many studies showing a link between raising the minimum wage & improved health outcomes

“A US$1 increase in the minimum wage above the federal level was associated with a 1%-2% decrease in low birth weight births & a 4% decrease in postneonatal mortality”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

"While this censorship might seem brazenly anti-constitutional to most Americans, it has been the reality faced by incarcerated individuals for decades. In the name of 'security,' prison officials have punished and even killed people for possessing literature they deemed suspect." @theintercept.com

I assume I'll never probably never see a doctor again except in dire circumstances. I don't have insurance and I can't afford to go into years long debt again. You know, the average American healthcare experience.

Three heart shaped balloons entangled in tree branches high above my head. Some blue sky and white clouds too.

I ofc wouldn't block Tina Weymouth but I feel like she's too old to be interesting on social media, even if she's a god on the bass.

I've blocked most of the talking heads on here. Even those I might agree with because I just can't see that stuff all the time.

I blocked him somewhere along the way so I doubt he can answer. Thank you for trying though!

Preferably a modern flash with good battery life. But lol at asking technical questions that do not appear on spec sheets.

Sat a few feet from him at Big Ears 2017 and listened to him play this all the way through.

Any suggestions for a quiet flash for an old 35mm camera that works with a sync cable not a hot shoe? I love the Vivitar I have but the sound of the capacitor charging is audible from more than 50 feet away which is a problem when trying to shoot quiet music performances.

That I would watch. Anything short of that? No fucking way.

The pit for the opera wasn't tall enough for me to have my bass at the right height so my arm got all jacked up. Good times. Lame ass opera though.

Dang that sucks! I got tendonitis in my left arm in my first semester in music school and it's been a little fucked ever since. Nobody seemed to think physical therapy was important and I didn't know enough then to ask lol.

beyond solidarity, hard to describe the loss of this craft. conn selmer has been an evil company infamously ahead of the times monopolizing an industry then outscoring/enshitffying it, broke the UAW over a three year strike ending in 2009 www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32287...)

When I was in music school there was a running joke that it should be 5 years long and in your last year you learn a practical trade like plumbing.

I wish there was a color eInk type device where I could also annotate PDFs.

Felt /not said, by Mankwe Ndosi & Body mEmOri 8 track album

Mankwe Ndosi & Body mEmOri
Felt /not said (2021)

Body mEmOri:
Silvia Bolognesi
Tomeka Reid
Davu Seru

Usually also the best bakers & cooks in the band.

I wish I had the poignant, sad, yet resolute statements I've seen from the Conn Selmer workers about their love for creating brass instruments, literal extensions of our human creative minds, from metal.

Down with the hedge fund losers who give the middle finger to workers and human endeavors!

This video from the union is brutal
"The fact that I can pick up a tuba and within a second know the weight of the bell and whether the bell should go to a kid or not is being stolen from me"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCyJ...

will leave this here for a few days

Day for Night at Circle thrift on January 13.

Danny Finney - saxophone
David Dominique - penny whistle, trombone, flugelbone
David Menestres - double bass

I only have two gripes: 1) the audience clapping is mixed too loud (a standard complaint of mine lol), and 2) both versions of Birdsong are just very nice melodies with no soloing and this bugs me because it's a melody worthy of solos, and one I was playing often in solo sets a few years back.

Love that the review quote on Wikipedia is "overall, this interesting but not essential set does not live up to its great potential".