Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Happy New Year and Shit
One thing I’m quickly discovering is that maintaining a blog is quite difficult when you are not stuck in front of a computer all day long wishing you were doing something other than what you are actually doing.
At a desk job? Taking phone calls/placing phone calls/redrafting contracts/sending out contracts? Don’t really feel that these things are the end-all, be-all to your life? You’ll find yourself with PLENTY of time on your hands to blog.
But, say you’re on vacation… or you finally find yourself with the time to unpack since your move over a month ago… or you realize you have the time to catch up on the many movies you’ve recently missed (Milk is amazing; Slumdog Millionaire is a beautiful romantic’s fairy tale; The Wrestler is the most depressing and infuriating movie this year — with one of the most compelling performances since I don’t know when; Revolutionary Road, Che, and Benjamin Button are on deck as soon as possible)… well in those cases, you will find that you’re not really called back to the keyboard to engage in the blog of it all as you may normally be.
Which, of course, is going to make the coming months rather interesting on this website.
In any case, here’s the latest and greatest:
- Phase Two is now underway in regards to getting the Student Films Section online. That’ll be done… well, as soon as the kind folks at the telecine shop can get the job done. Going for the “unscheduled” option, with a four week completion timeframe, seemed the best choice given it saved me 20%.
- I’m currently moving a Nine Inch Nails satire website I wrote on with some friends a few years back called Wearing These Chains over to its new home (the home in training is here, with lots of things not working yet (sorry), but the old home is still here — for now). TypePad is an expensive mofo, and moving over to MovableType is a pain in the ass. Thanks, SixApart. Your total and absolute lack of help and foresight in easing this transition between your two lines of products has been super helpful. It certainly hasn’t encouraged me to stick with WordPress on any other future endeavors. Nope, nuh-uh, not in the slightest.
- My last day at my current gig will be either this coming Friday, or sometime in the following week. No job. No backup plan. Just me and some ideas. It’s gonna be a ride.
Oh, and I seem to have a cold. Not like you gave a shit, but hey — why not throw it in.
Now I am off to go through a bunch of unmarked VHS tapes to see if I can throw them away or not. With this exciting task ahead of me, is it any surprise I suddenly found myself blogging?
I didn’t think so.
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Do you have a delay pedal?
Okay, Mr. Bohemian Artiste, when do I get to chat with you again? I miss you!
Yeah mofo… updates…!!! FYI… for “obbsessive recording Bryan”…. the DVD that came with the new Kreator album has a feature of the recording process (they did the album “live” – one take for all the basic tracks) but they used this insane mic to capture the feel of the space… you will need to see it… looks like a 1950s piece of furniture.
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Had to get that out there. RIP.
Getting everything in order in prep for new work starting Monday. Dealing with this motherfucking lab I’m having telecine my student films. Though I’d heard they were solid, they are the biggest bunch of fuckups in the history of the universe. At least they didn’t ruin the film itself… yet.
Curious about that mic and the recording process, D… really like those little “making of” pieces those bands do.
Oh, and Karen G? An old favorite may be making the leap from web fiction to live performance. You get one L’guess who.
Yeah this one is not super in depth but the mic is nuts. The album blows my mind that the band – collectively – got what they got with one take. Amazing. Fun hanging the other night. We need more nights of Pumpkin Ale and Vinnie Vincent Invasion.