Tuesday, March 24, 2009 @ 12:40am
by Patrick (Miscellanea)
1. Put the finishing touches on the song we’ve been working on recently. Spent a mere 20 minutes arranging a whole new introduction for it (which will actually be placed at the end of the previous track and lead abruptly into the song…cool shit.)
In other “my music”-related news, I still haven’t actually gotten to see but have been given a description of the cover that a friend of mine is doing for the record and it sounds like it’s gonna be fucking cool. I don’t need the artwork right away, so I told him not to rush his already busy schedule with it, but at the same time I’m really anxious and excited to see what it looks like. I have a great feeling about it. I probably won’t unveil it until after the record has been submitted to the various online music stores (iTunes, Amazon, RealPlayer Rhapsody, etc.) that it will be available on.
2. Bought tickets for Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction. Spent a little over $100 on my ticket, but I think it will be well worth it. I bought pre-sale, meaning I’ll be let in early by NIN’s own staff and probably get to be right on the rail.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009 @ 2:15pm
by Shawn (Life Stuff)
I just got home from a lengthy 7 hour video game and burrito marathon with my best mates. It seems we are all a lot older then we used to be. Dave has a family and is in grad school, and while Kenneth does not have a family, he too is in grad school. So, it is a rare treat to convene at one of our houses and take in a handful of months worth of current video game titles. This is really important to Dave. KP and I are connected to the video game industry in one fashion or another. Kenneth writes reviews for the news paper, and I work as a video artist at a game studio. Dave used to work at the same place, in fact he helped get me this job, but he decided that making more money was fun. This is why these sessions are planned weeks in advance therein maximizing the amount of HD polygonal interactive entertainment that can be crammed in on one single night. These digital game nights normally commence with some version of tasty burrito and put into intermission for a trip to Starbucks. Old standards, inside jokes, and burning witticism are flung about making it feel like we still hang out every weekend in a moldy basement or campus housing. There is something extremely comforting knowing that after all these years I’m lucky enough to have such close friends. Even if they both love man pole. (One of those old standards)
I drove home from this particular cavalcade of gay jokes, video games, and heartburn festering Chipotles, I had a since of pride knowing how much the three of us genuinely support one another and care for each other (pause). Though we sparingly come together these days because of our grown up lives, there still is little more satisfying as a staunch hand clap with Dave or the ebullient laugh with Kenneth. With as much uncertainty in the world right now its good to have some rather extraordinary constants in ones life. For me, I know unequivocally that, I will love movies and video games, gay jokes will never stop being funny, and Dave and Kenneth will always be my friends.
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