Finishing the office cleaning, bopping around listening to loud music, gonna watch some fu and drink some beer. People are coming over in trickles throughout the day, which is always fun :)
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One of my co-workers just turned 21, so we're hitting Ascension on Saturday. Was thinking pre-party at my place (8ish?). Anyone down? Newton & Jezebel, both good kitties, miss you both. So, heading off to Ryan's to try to get some sleep where gardeners are not running leafblowers and mulchers, etc. Been stuck on lyrics on the new CD, I've found sometimes that doing a couple covers can help (frees me from having to write lyrics). So, here, have a Jethro Tull cover: Suddenly, all your history's ablaze The thing about Zack Snyder, is he is proficient at removing any ambiguity in anything he does. While I've on one level enjoyed the films he's done, at the same time, another part of me is always a bit disappointed. He's uncomfortable with the uncomfortable parts of the adaptations he's done, and that's pretty much all he's done at this point, is take other people's work and smooth out the chewy bits. He really has to make there be good guys and bad guys, and while in Watchmen he plays around a bit with the notion that everyone is the good guy in their own story, he still simplifies and tells the viewer who to root for. I think, in a lot of ways, he's the Walt Disney for the 2000s. Not really sure how I feel about that. It was fascinating to me how he had the World Trade Center in every skyline shot he did, except for the final destructo-shot. We're supposed to root for the Night Owl II & Silk Specter II couple, and ignore their complicity, and the journal is definitely found at end, instead of left up in the air. In a lot of ways, it was probably the best adaptation of the source material that could be done, especially because so much of it was tied into the milieu in which it was originally written. I'm interested to see the longer cut on DVD, I think this version was dumbed down to the point of incoherence in some places. Saw it, pretty much liked it, made me want to re-read it, so I shall do so. If you do it through a hole in a sheet: So, I'm trying to do some of the final mixdowns for the new CD, and I need to know how things sound on a variety of sound systems. So, below, I've posted links to a mixdown of one of the songs, Warmer. It's the poppiest, most straightforward song on the CD. Anyway, if you can, please listen to it on whatever means you have, (preferably the FLAC version, if you can, if not, then the MP3 version), and respond with how it sounds on your system (e.g., "too bassy", "can't hear the drums", "your vocals suck", etc.). Then I'll try to take the responses into account this weekend and do another mix of it. I really want to get the mixing right on this one, the last CD had too many problems. Thanks in advance. Was going to try to write down a dream I just had, but it's defying the attempt. It involved a super-powered Wii/rack mounted drum machine/teleprescence device (there was a long discussion with Matt about how it could only let us see things far away; even though it felt like we were there, we weren't really because then we'd be outside our own light cone and therefore time travelling, and the realizing that we were anyway, and suddenly we had actually been teleported to Palm Springs), the fact that Pictish genes are mixed with Viking genes in Orkney due to the Vikings killing off all the males, a video about that for a rap song that sampled Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" that Neil Gaiman posted about on Twitter (and Twitter adding the ability to change the font color on posts), a huge online uproar about the video on the internet, me interviewing the creator of that video and discussing how it wasn't misogynistic/racist (was actually anti-), and saying it was the best hip hop sampling of Sledgehammer I'd ever heard, me referring to "Hip Hop Hooray" then correcting myself that I meant "Pop Goes the Weasel" (then remembering this morning after I woke up that no, "Hip Hop Hooray" samples it too), and then some stuff about Creative Commons licensing, and then I woke up. Looks frickin' sweet: Anyone know anyone who's looking to hire people? I'm really not seeing much of anything. Is there anyone that Obama's gonna pick for his cabinet who isn't an ardent drug warrior? Holder for AG? Really? The man who wants simple pot possession to be a felony? The best time to be handed several hours of work that "HAS TO BE DONE" for a 9:30 am meeting tomorrow is at 4:35... Confirmed, no Distortion. Never mind, they're listing bands for tomorrow night instead of us, we appear to have been given the same treatment as desade, except without the text message. Took forever to get the patch installed, and then to get on the server, but too many important add-ons are broken. If Baud Manifest doesn't get updated in the next couple weeks, I may have to try to fix it myself. Only way to deal with inventory. At any rate, I think I'm gonna wait a week or so to play for things to settle down, should be focusing on music, anyway. So, due to a bunch of work spleenfuckery that I'm not going in to, i had to reschedule my dentist appointment twice, which means I lost my slot tomorrow, and I don't get to get this fixed until next tuesday. Also, supposed to pay more for rescheduling with less than 24 hours notice, may be able to talk them out of that. Also, get to work in the office late late thursday (my part is supposed to start at 9:30, which around here means midnight), for no overtime. Hooray for Shama bringing me mac and cheese, but I managed to bite down on my temp filling, which was rather like being stabbed through the head with a hot coathanger. Fuck it, when I get home I'm taking a vicodin and playing some WoW, assuming the new patch downloads in any sort of timely fashion. Something I've always wondered about (OK, wondered about since it occured to me this morning in the shower): In the Hokey Pokey song, it talks about putting body parts in, taking them out, putting them back in, then shaking them all about, and THEN doing the Hokey Pokey. So, besides the fact that the Hokey Pokey is not described in the song but the little arm waving dance has been passed down in some kind of generational folklore, what is the rest of the dance, the body-part oriented part, called? It can't be the Hokey Pokey, because that's what you're doing after the body-part part. So what is it? |
