March 2008 Archives
Hey friends. Me and my band finished our record today. You can hear it in its entirety on the myspace if you want to, and higher quality mp3s and CDs will be available soon!
In order to do everything I want to do for my work-in-progress, I've been teaching myself motion.
It was reported at 8:53pm on March 27th that Dylan will not be attending the poker game on March 28th.
Sources close to Dylan claim that he is "totally pussing out" and "really just very scared about losing his vest."
The judges were not available for comment, but there is some risk that the judges will declare Dylan's absence a forfeiture and award Sam the best vest.
And Michelle.
If you have two hours, and a few beers, can I recommend streaming Mondo Hollywood, a documentary of sorts of Hollywood in the late 60s. Features people in the Manson family pre Tate-murder, a health nut named Gypsy Boots, Trannys, Reagan, and (maybe removed in the stream, i saw this on vhs years ago) a vaguely pedo-weird section about designer bathing suits for little girls with out tops. Features topless 6 year old models. Very uncomfortable.
LA still sucks.
day8ts: ...
we should make real time chess
me: haha
tempo
day8ts: it could work
resource managemnt
me: pay for moves
2:56 PM day8ts: it could work
the below world feeds the upper world of the chess board
me: right. have to figure out how to allow or not allow pieces to occupy same place at same time
2:57 PM day8ts: well the same matter cant ocupy the same space
you could waste a move getting bumped back
2:58 PM the meta rules of chess could still apply
little resources to move pawns
tons to castle
queen is still light on resources so not nerfed
im thinking about this too much now
getting 2 turns in a row in chess would be insane
maybe
2:59 PM me: yeah, it would unbalance it unless something checked it, like on second move no piece could be captured
queen with two moves would be unstoppable
3:00 PM day8ts: maybe theres a dividing wall in the middle, that falls
the people underneath can either build it up or destroy the foundation
horsey can jump over it though
me: ha
day8ts: you should cut and paste this onto thatsplenty
me: alright
And I get to shill! Also my bathroom is now fixed
Oh Lou Reed. Why are you broing down with Moby at SXSW. Why. You are better than that. Aside from your legendary records and founding VU, don't forget that you played Mok, the rock n' roll sorcerer in Rock And Rule. You don't need anymore cred. And even if you did, hanging out with Moby is the wrong move man. Your name is Mok, thanks alot.
Weird/crappy Brian Froud cartoon from 1981. I vaguely remember being super into this when I was six. Also features the voice of Hans Conried, rad voice actor who was the magic mirror in numerous Disney spots, Snidley Whiplash, Thorin from the hobbit cartoon, and Dr. T from The 5,000 Fingers of Doctor T.
parts 2 & 3 after jump
Speaking of technology making our lives better, check out this video of a dog playing with himself...
Ok thatsplenty, forgive me some audio nerdness, but this is pretty big news in the music technology world. Melodyne has done something that I, and most everyone else considered impossible: individual editing of voices/notes/instruments from an audio file. This is a huge leap in technology, one that I assumed was decades away, which will have vast repercussions in the world of music. The only reason I'm posting about it here is that while playing guitar hero with many of you the discussion has come up: "I wish we could import any song we wanted..." or something like that, and I would say "Thats impossible, a computer can't hear individual instruments". Well, sike. I am now officially wrong. This is as close to magic as I've seen. Thank you, Herr Germans.
After watching everyone's favorite simulated television personality I was reading about him on the ole wikipedia and came across this fun fact: Apparently in 1987 some dudes in Chicago successfully attempted broadcast signal intrusion, which is basically hijacking a television station's broadcast by broadcasting on the same wavelink. During the local broadcast of Dr. Who they cut in with a video of what appears to be one of them dressed up like Max Headroom in their garden shed. This incident is one of only 3 confirmed events in America, and the only one featuring Max Headroom.
Okay, so this is a boingboing repost, which makes me feel like a tool, but 2 Girls 1 Cup didn't make me scream like this. Too good/horrifying not to share.
I got halfway through when my screams of "Oh no!" got so loud the neighbors came over to find out what was happening.
Then we all watched the rest together.
(Text copied from my Yelp.com review of the venue. Sorry for dishing up refries. I'm sleepy. Pictures tomorrow!)
The sound was pretty bad but the visual experience was downright exploitative.
Let me explain.
You can see the stage from pretty much anywhere on the first floor.
The 2nd and 3rd floors? Not so much.
There is a wrap-around balcony which has great views if you are the first, second, or third closest person to the railing. But because the stage is below you, and so you must look down to see it, anyone behind that third person needs x-ray vision to see the stage.
There are risers on one side of the balcony, but on the night I went that area was VIP only. The rest of the 2nd and 3rd floors (which make up quite a bit of square footage, probably 20-40% of the non-bathroom floor space attendees are allowed to stand in, and thus the space counted towards their capacity limit), are given over to bar/lounge areas with stools at the bar and couches against the walls.
None of the bar/lounge areas have any lines of sight to the stage.
If you want to see the stage you *MUST* be on the balcony railings or the 1st floor. The other 20-40% of the venue has NO LINE OF SIGHT to the stage. Meaning that once the first floor has filled up for normal capacity and the balconies have been stuffed, there are still 20-40% of ticketholders for a sold out show that need to crush in as much as possible on the 1st floor. After that, everyone else in attendance cannot see the stage.
Except on one of the many HD screens scattered throughout the venue.
Which, you know, would be nice, except for a big problem: If I wanted to watch a band on an HD screen, I would've stayed home and rented a concert video. But if I'm at Terminal 5, it means that I've paid upwards of $30 after ticketmaster fees, plus traveled all the way to midtown and just shy of the Hudson river to see a live band play. Live. Not on a television.
I've lived here for five years and seen shows in venues from Queens to the Financial District, and I've been to shows in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and Connecticut for ten years before that, and this is the single worst venue I have ever attended. I will not be going back.
I wouldn't go here to see the Beatles resurrect John Lennon and George Harrison to play one last set. I'd wait for the DVD to come out, since in the end I'll probably just be watching the show on a monitor anyway.
And I hope the guitarist's strap breaks, as it did here:
soaked with sweat in March
going again tomorrow
to scream myself deaf
To be fair, the middle of nowhere is relative, as compared to New York where my brother lives. It's really more like quaint liberal suburbia. The middle of nowhere is a couple hours north. So I guess we're south of nowhere.
Anyway... we just moved from a little, cheap, squishy apartment into...
