Archive for January, 2008

Vitamin C For The Uptake

Today is my last day of prep before I embark upon my first true attempt at recording an entire album. In the last few days I’ve written some awful lyrics, and made some near-awful decisions to use/tweak some previously created material. All in all, I think it will turn out to be very fun. If [...]

Checking in

I’m going to participate in The RPM Challenge this year. A couple of the Robs are going to help me out as well. I have an outline for the album, which I’m sure will be heavily mended before the fat lady sings. I’m hoping to get most of the pre-production stuff done before the 1st. [...]

I’ll take what I can get

My Dad’s review of that silly Star Trek tune I did this weekend:
That’s real gone. Solid and gone!

Love,
Dad

What I Did This Weekend

If you saw Cloverfield this weekend, or you are otherwise a nerd of any considerable caliber that’s been breathing for the last two years, then you know where I and any other cool person will be on December 25 this year. Yes, Paramount and J. J. Abrams have joined forces to give us a Trek [...]

These and those

Things I wish were different:

I wish I weren’t comfortable enough with my current job/salary to be more or less forced into using a lot of proprietary software and tools that I find far inferior to free (as in both beer and speech) ones.
I wish my current environment didn’t more or less force me into being [...]

Experimental Soup - Avocado/Tomato/Onion

We’ve decided to pay more attention to what we eat. B is treating it as sort of one part in an ordered series of healthy lifestyle changes. I’m treating it as a single megaton of Smart in my 4 megaton Get-Your-Ass-In-Shape Bomb.
I dreamed up this almost-healthy soup on the way home today. I ended up [...]

NYE post soon

The house is still pretty messy, but we’re working on it.
Today I have an unbearable desire to play poker. Anybody else ever get that feeling? Anybody else want to help me satiate this vice?




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