Archive for December, 2004
Johnny Depp and the Chocolate Factory
As interesting as this looks… I really wish they’d stop fucking with old movies. Seriously – how many remakes do we have to do each year? Is there such an absence of decent screenplays out there that we have to resort to hedging our bets like this? I’m torn about this film. I really want to see it (which, I…
Levers
I was reminded of this game earlier in the week. This thing is maybe 3+ years old, but still fun as hell.
Pace
I don’t know what it is, but lately… I’ve been running at about 40%. I’m doing work, but my brain is slowed and my attention span seems for shit. I don’t know if I’m coming down with something (I don’t really feel that sick), or if it’s my body reacting to the inevitability of winter. All I know is: I’m…
Camera! Woot!
My new camera arrived. Yeah! I’ve got a ton of reading and experimenting to do. This thing is vastly different from my old camera, and I can’t wait to try it out. So hopefully, there will be more pics on the blog now. Tomorrow, I’m planning on shopping around for a FlashCard reader. I did a search online, and CDNOW…
Recommendations?
What would be great, with the new car? If we could somehow jerryrig a videocamera and mount it on the thing. I’m talking some kind of wireless camera that would be able to send images back to a computer screen. This way, we could drive the thing around the station without banging into every wall. My gut tells me that…
Christmas Comes Early
I came home tonight to find my friend Dan’s CD in my mailbox. What a great surprise! Dan – thank you! Ah, and I just noticed that, on his music page, he did a version of the theme song from Spirited Away!What a coincidence. A week or so back, I happened to remember that song. I recall having written down…
Sweet indignation
Tonight, Justin and I headed over to Danny’s post-work for a few drinks. We got into an interesting conversation about film and the artistic process, particularly as it pertained to music. I was of the mind that having music first would be more of a bias, and interfere with the process; he felt that music helped guide the creation process…
Gentlemen…
XB Mad Bull
This would be the car I won at yesterday’s company Christmas party. Let me insert a story here. Back when I was in 8th grade, I had a science teacher named Mr. Carlson. Among the various chemistry experiments we did, he was open to us students performing our own experiments (many of which took place outdoors). There were a few…
Dear rypunked
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Nostaliga: Christmas Bowling
Tonight, I was reminded of the office Christmas party of 2002. This would have been my first ever Emmis Christmas party, and the one where I lost $81 to Ben on a bowling bet. I’m still convinced he grifted me. ;)
Loot++
Tonight was our annual work dinner, made extra special since we recently purchased the Loop. So there were staff folks from both stations in attendence. Fun stuff, although all I really did was stand back, work the open bar, and sip myself into a scotch stupor. I talked with a good number of folks tonight, but didn’t meet that many…
Request for Audio Messages
There is a site that I stumbled across some months back, called Audible Frequency. I was (and still am) taken with the various audio recordings posted by the site’s author. Some really great stuff there, and the whole site has a particularly unique view (sound) of the world. Tonight, I saw her most recent post and learned that her brother…
Head in Hands
I went digging through some old files this evening, and decided to add this one to the list of experiments. I made this partly as an exercise to see what I could do with just text, and partly because I’ve been fixated on this song for several years. A lot of the initial motion work in this thing is embarassing,…