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In hindsight I probably made the text in this video too small (then i wrote “so i guess sometimes hindsight is more like 80/20.” But just now I googled 80/20 vision to make sure and was surprised to learn that 80/20 is actually super-perfect sight, which is the opposite of what I was trying to say.)
The text you see in the clip is an 11/12 point mix of courier and courier new, when in hindsight, it should have been more like 20/21. The y are an excerpt from the press release on Josh’s near drowning in 2006. I tried to make the text mimic the bass line in the MUSIC:
I tuned the 6th string on my electric guitar way down, so it was the tonal equivalent of a bass, and began playing 4 descending notes on the 6th string, if I remember correctly, from the 10th fret down to the 7th fret, then tapped my guitar looping pedal so that riff would keep playing, and played the same notes in reverse, the 7th fret going up to the 10th, on top of the first bass line.
So one bass line ascends while the other descends, they cross paths mid phrase, but never actually meet at the same fret (i.e. 10-7, 9-8, 8-9,7-10). It gives the impression of movement, but not up or down, which is why it sounds so creepy.
With those two bass lines playing, I improvised those licks, in whatever key I determined the song to be in at the time, which was months before shooting Barstool Blues. After I recorded the loop into my computer, I saved it as “A Drunken Drowning,” but I didn’t know what I would ever use it for. From start to finish the whole song was done in less than 5 minutes. I wish it was always that easy.
Good Samaritan Rescues Fellow Boater
U.S. Coast Guard | May 23, 2006
New Haven, CT. – A Good Samaritan rescued a boater after his 16-foot sailing vessel capsized near Bridgeport.
Josh Anns, 22, a Fairfield resident, attempted to swim to shore after he was unable to right his vessel after it capsized. Denis Hazba, a Bridgeport native, was on his own boat nearby when he noticed the overturned vessel. Hazba made a distress call via Marine band radio to the Coast Guardat 6:10 p.m. after briefly looking for the operator of the overturned vessel in the surrounding water. Hazba then turned down his radio in an attempt to listen for the victim. He soon heard a voice and spotted the victim within seconds. Hazba safely brought Anns aboard his boat. Anns immediately hugged his rescuer before he collapsed from exhaustion. Hazba wrapped him in a blanket and began to administer first aid.
A rescue crew from Station New Haven was immediately diverted when the distress call was made arriving on scene within five minutes, just after Anns was pulled from the water. The crew transferred him to their rescue boat and continued administering first aid. He was rushed to the Bridgeport ferry pier where emergency medical personnel were waiting. Anns was taken to Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport in stable condition.
Fortunately, Anns was wearing a lifejacket at the time of the accident. Lifejackets often are the difference between life and death during boating accidents. Statistics indicate that eight out of ten persons who die in a boating accident were not wearing a lifejacket. The Coast Guard urges all boaters to wear a lifejacket and file a float plan.
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