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However, after years of only playing locking tremolos, I was not prepared for the tuning instability. I dropped the bridge down to dive only mode, but now feel like I really need to crank on it to get anything. Next up are some locking tuners so I can hopefully get the wiggle back.

A Stratocaster bridge dropped to be flush against the body of the guitar rather than float.

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The main event is this incredible pickguard from our drummer, Dee. Her skeletons are inarguably the brand of the band, and all that space looked like an obvious canvas. I've probably been too precious with my guitars previously, but this broke the dam for further mods.

Close-up of a white pick guard drawn with black marker of various skeletons, mounted on a black Stratocaster.

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Thought I would some level of documentation about how I'm turning the first "real" guitar I ever owned into a dedicated ska machine, let's tentatively call it the Skalecaster I.

Me holding my black Stratocaster with a pick guard decorated with skeletons in front of my face.

In these worrying times of AI, does Deadly Friend (1986) have the #Hooptober answers to guide us? Likely not, and yes I already know about the basketball.

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 06/10/2026

Going back to the 60s for #Hooptober with Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), which appears to be a double turn with Christopher Lee as the face and Peter Cushing working heel. But I have been fooled before.

Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing (in shabby dress), Alan Freeman, Roy Castle, and Neil McCallum in a train car.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 05/10/2026

Tonight for #Hooptober we're revisiting a movie that scared my wife as a child. Let's see if it holds up! (Don't tell her but I haven't seen an Amityville movie before.) Sequels 3/5 Haunted item ✔️

Title card of Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989).

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/10/2026

Friday the 13th has never been my favorite of the great slasher franchises, but this #Hooptober let's see if it works… Sequels 2/5 Steve Miner ✔️ Harry Manfredini ✔️▪️

The title card of Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 29/09/2026

Day of the Dead (1985) has thus far been the best movie this #Hooptoberr by two orders of magnitude. Romero at his best of you have, you know, the stomach for it. Sequels 1/5 George Romero ✔️ Tom Savini ✔️

My living room with the title card to Day of the Dead (1985) on the TV.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 22/09/2026

It took three movies for this year's #Hooptober to get to the 80s with Hide and Go Shriek (1988). A movie with the reputation of being passable, but checks off the work of Screaming Mad George! Decades 3/7 Screaming Mad George 😱▪️

The title card for Hide and Go Shriek (1988).

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 17/09/2026

We'll see #Hooptober can be less problematic tonight with "Enter the Devil" (1974). Decades 2/7 Countries 🇺🇸🇮🇹 "Devil" in title ✔️

Title card showing “The Eerie Midnight Horror Show”, an alternate title for “Enter the Devil”

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 17/09/2026

Started #Hooptober last night with Skinner (1993). We've already watched this one so I'll say that it's buoyed by a fun Ted Raimi performance for a little while anyway.

Television showing the title card reading “Skinner”

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 28/08/2026

Maybe not my best work, but sometimes you should go with your gut instinct. gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/

Map of newly controversial Lake Ontario, except labeled “Lake Wait, Isn’t This Huron? Oh Shit Oh Fuck”

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 04/08/2026

Going back and watching old episodes of the Last Drive-In before they let slip where they're off to next. Heard this one's pretty good? #NowPlaying

Title card on a TV of Late Night with the Devil (2023)

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 08/07/2026

How to fill the football shaped hole in my heart? How? HOW?? #NowPlaying

The title card of The VelociPastor (2017)

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 28/06/2026

I forgot to post about our Porchfest show yesterday, but we're playing a FREE SHOW tonight at the Jungle with Moonsault, @threatlevelb.bsky.social, and 2-1. No ticket link what with the free-ness and all.

New England Ska Presents: Ska, Ska, Ska & Ska Show
June 28th
Threat Level Burgundy, Skaleton Crew, Moonsault, and 2-1
The Jungle Somerville, MA, 6 Sanborn Ct.
Doors 8pm Music 9 FREE

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 25/06/2026

I was looking for AirPod options after I may or may not have dropped one onto train tracks, but what's up with the Apple Store being in maintenance mode.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 08/06/2026

Pretty tasty and lighter than expected, but this definitely the crumb I remember from the breads out of this book.

A loaf of whole wheat bread cut to expose a relatively dense crumb

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 08/06/2026

Trying to get back on my bullshit baking bread, inaugurating a new loaf pan with the Anadama bread from Peter Reinhart's whole wheat book. Since it's whole wheat flour, white cornmeal, and I ran out of molasses this has got to be the only loaf of this bread to be this color.

A loaf of baked whole wheat bread in a loaf pan

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 03/06/2026

If you're in the Boston area and like #ska you probably already know about Summer of Ska, but maybe you don't! Skaleton Crew will be at the Rockwell in Somerville with the Agonizers and the New Limits THIS SATURDAY Tickets here: therockwell.org/calendar/summ...

Summer of Ska
The Agonizers/The New Limits/Skaleton Crew
June 6th, Doors @ 7, Show @ 8
The Rockwell, Somerville, MA

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 30/05/2026

The Happy Wanderers have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration.

John Candy and Eugene Levy as SCTV’s Schmenge Brothers, leaders of local award winning polka band The Happy Wanderers.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 24/05/2026

Repost with the Russian agent spying on your posts

Ilya Kuryakan (as portrayed by David McCollum) in the Man from UNKLE holding a pistol equipped with a silencer

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 10/05/2026

Spent the morning (hopefully) resurrecting an old friend

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 05/05/2026

If I was better at the Internet I would have better documented the complicated journey to this point, but I do love me a holiday-based meal.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 05/05/2026

Feeling under the weather so it's time to find out if this bad boy is all it's cracked up to be. #NowPlaying

The title card to “New York Ninja”, a movie from the late 80s I think but completed in 2023.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 17/04/2026

It’s ya boy, Pretentious City Man, doing Pretentious City Things.

Cityscape from Boston’s Prudential Center courtyard, with a beer and a copy of James Joyce’s “Dubliners” in the foreground.

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 04/04/2026

How’s this whole post show thing work

Dork ass white gig with a guitar giving a thumbs up while a drummer and bassist high five in the background.

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 03/04/2026

Skaleton Crew gonna be at the Jungle in Somerville, Mass. tonight for all yer skankin needs.

Poster for Riki Rocksteady, Sheet Bliss, and Skaleton Crew at the Jungle in Somerville, MA. April 3rd, music from 8-11, $10 advance, $15 at the door, 21+.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 31/03/2026

#NowPlaying Viy (1967), we’ll see if these Orthodox monks can handle themselves a witch. (Probably not.)

A TV with the title card to the movie Viy (1967), admittedly in Cyrillic.

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 21/03/2026

Spending my birthday with some scotch and one of the Great Episodes of Television, as one does.

Drinking scotch and a television with David Brent about to fuse Flashdance with some MC Hammer shit.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 03/03/2026

While I do not think I’d go to these lengths to notate a fingering anymore, I thank myself from 25 (!!!) years ago for making this passage pretty easy to pick back up.

A passage from the Sakura Variations for solo classical guitar with a right-hand fingering written for Every. Single. Note.

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 23/02/2026

Might be tough to make a PokéStop today.

Snowy windswept street, visibility at maybe 50 meters

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 04/02/2026

QTP with your favorite Main Protagonist in a video game that’s NOT Mario nor Sonic~ (cheating with this quote so I can get both in my current rotation)

Aloy from the Horizon series wearing a lowland Tenakth outfit made largely from reeds holding a large sword with her bow on her back.

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 09/01/2026

Me too! I had always assumed they weren't paying ASCAP etc. either for dogmatic reasons or someone forgot, so I guess they've resolved that.

Screenshot from as220.org, the website for the Providence, RI artspace AS220, taken January 9, 2026. The text reads:

AS220 offers all people in Rhode Island the opportunity to perform in our venues, free of charge. We are an unjuried (meaning that anyone who wants to perform or exhibit here, can), uncensored (meaning that AS220 will not censor the content of any art or performance in our spaces), all-ages forum for artists and performers. AS220 aims to support original music - covers are allowed now, but please make it your own!

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/01/2026

I can finally participate in a #LetterboxdFriday again with my #LastFourWatched including some Christmas classics both at home and with my parents followed by a celebration of Public Domain Day.

Recent activity from the movie logging site Letterboxd: Animal Crackers (1930, 4 stars), Wake Up Dead Man (2025, 4 stars), A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965, 4 stars), Rick Steves’ European Christmas (2005, 4 stars).

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/01/2026

A Happy Public Domain Day to all who celebrate.

Groucho Marx dancing in the 1930 movie Animal Crackers, newly in the public domain