I’m working on three sites, Free Shooters, Boinzy and Something Next.
I’m actively working on Something Next (with Goku), and it’ll be geared toward letting people know about musicians they might not already know about.
Even though they’ve been around for ages, I’ve been getting into 12 Rods (I picked up their album, Separation Anxiety based on the cover art and cheap price in the Sam the Record Man bargain bin a few years ago – while Sam’s was still around).
Here’s one of their videos for ‘Split Personality’
If I give George Lucas credit for one thing (and I guess I am, because I’ve never given him credit and I’m about to), it’d be that I think he did a pretty good job of describing a nice little Holmes/Moriarty manipulator/manipulatee situation between the Sith Lord and The Jedi.
The only shortcoming here though is that the Sith Lord has to adopt an alter-ego in order to do it. It would be better if he never had to put on his Sith cloak, he just did it all as Palpatine. It’d be harder to write that way, but I think it could be done, because of plausible deniability and the presumption of incompetence before malice.
This is what I mean, say Palpatine wanted to seize control of the Senate, destroy his enemies and bring down the stability of the whole Empire without anyone suspecting his true motives. How would he do that? That’d be more interesting than having him playing dressup, it’d also make him a much more effective evil leader. When you’re incompetent, no one can hold you responsible for the evil you’ve wrought, because the assumption is your judgment wasn’t good enough to at least usually choose right over wrong.
I have the worst voice imaginable. My singing voice is kinda like a 15 year old boy’s who is just going through puberty. It cracks, it changes key/octave on its own (makes it sound like I actually have a range though) and it’s scratchy and terrible.
There’s not one good element to my voice. That’s why I don’t sing. I’m a limited guitarist too, but since it’s not my voice no one’s going to laugh at it as much.
If I started singing then everyone would make me cry by telling me how bad I am.
Now, my DAW doesn’t need an upgrade at all, and if I did upgrade it I’d probably get Guitar Rig 3 as opposed to upgrading to Cubase 5 but this actually does sound neat.
Wait, what am I saying? I’m the guy who records a whole tune’s lead part in the wrong key and doesn’t fix it because he likes one or two things about it. I don’t think I’d have the patience to fix a horrible vocal track a warble at a time.
Having been an apartment dweller for my entire adult life (I became a full-fledged grown up at the age of 32 – about six months ago) I have to make like Grumpy Guy and lodge a formal complaint.
Why do people own animals? Or at least, loud animals? There’s a dog in close proximity to my apartment and it’s loud, keeps me up, wakes me up and is altogether a pest (never seen it). Why are people so lonely that they need the companionship of a needy, shedding, slobbering, pooping, peeing and overly loud pe(s)t? Especially if they already have a kid. Go buy a fish.
Here’s my second rant. When Software Update on my Mac installs a new version of Quicktime, which is just a silly media player for some reason it insists on having me reboot my computer. Why? I have a Windows PC and I don’t think it insists on me rebooting when I update that. But, nooo, on a stupid Unix box it does though? That seems backwards to me. And stupid. Grrrrr.
