How much would you pay (Pt 2)?

First there was the $4,700 audio cable.

So now it shouldn't be too much of a stretch for you to imagine the $150 block of wood (on sale now, usually $200).

Oops. I'm sorry, did I say "block of wood" I meant "Acoustic System Phase Corrector."

According to Pure Music Group, this item "may look like a simple instrument grade maple block," and it does! At least you can't say they're not honest.

Oh, wait. That wasn't the whole sentence. "The Acoustic System Phase Corrector may look like a simple instrument grade maple block but its inner workings are more complex." It corrects blurring of phase coherency "by disrupting the energy pocket near the floor/front wall interface through a combination of resonance and diffusion."

I'm just sorry they don't have a link to the owner's manual.

[UPDATE: This one gets better. They no longer sell the wood block one at a time. They now sell them in sets only. Starting at $2,450.]

OMGWTFBBQ!!1! (again)

The newest manufactured pre-teen pop sensations, The Clique Girlz.

Pitch correction for days, glamorizing vacuousness, sexualizing underage girls, a name that could imply that snubbing one's inferiors is an okay thing to do, plus a look that's kind of a cross between early Madonna, Dixie Chicks and Heather Locklear.

Yep, they'll be a smash hit, I fear. This beats even The Jonas Brothers.

Hard times for Film Arts Foundation

Film Arts Foundation is closing their equipment rental program.

They are selling off all their rental equipment starting this weekend. Sale runs from June 8 through 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Members can get into the sale for free, non-members have to pay $10 to get in.

A partial list of equipment for sale can be seen by going to this page and looking at the rental rate card. All the equipment on that page (and more) will be on sale.

Film Arts Foundation is located at 145 Ninth Street, Suite 101.