Let me reiterate that Dinosaurs are sweet

Posted on 20th December 2010 in Something Daily

I hope I get more Dragon Ball Z for christmas! I’ve also learned the perils of being too upfront about my love of dinosaurs when I meet new people, which is a bit of a problem…but not really that big of a deal. I mean my computer background is a picture of two dinosaurs making out,

I have a poster of dinosaurs on my wall,

and a dinosaur comic in my wallet. What’s the big deal, right? Also I have a blog called “Three Stegosaurus Moon”…what does that even mean?

I just finished my paper on Zappa’s Joe’s Garage. I think it went really well. At the very least, I got to listen to album two full times while writing it. I feel like listening as I write a paper like this is actually really helpful, albeit sometimes distracting. It gives me a better perspective on what it is that I’m actually writing about. Beside that, I just love the crap out the album, and I pretty frequently jumped up to play the songs along with the record. I still remember a decent amount of the easier ones from when I did Joe’s Garage with the School of Rock (who have an incredible new website, what the heck?). That was a fun show, though. We did the whole album start to finish, with costumes and the Central Scrutinizer with a megaphone and the whole thing. I ended up playing about half of the songs on the album, but I learned all of them for fun (and just in case the opportunity arose to vampire a song from some other keyboardist). What a great album. Seriously, people, go to Grooveshark and type in “Joe’s Garage Frank Zappa” and then listen to the album. You will certainly not regret it.

And now I’m listening to Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots and writing a blog post, having just finished that paper. I have a test tonight, which I’m only a little bit worried about, mainly due to the fact that I went to bed at 11:30 last night and was still awake at 1. I’ve been having trouble sleeping these last few days, I’m not sure what that’s all about. Hopefully that will chill out after finals (only three more to go, two after this evening). I go home on Thursday evening, after presenting the multitrack of our bluegrass “Get Low” cover, which has been finished but unpresented for a while. I’m bringing my skateboard and SNES home, which together will have to be enough to hold me over until the spring semester.

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If You Leave Me Now

Posted on 17th December 2010 in Something Daily

I didn’t expect it, but I was actually incredibly productive today. Not in the first part, but in the second part. I woke up at 7 AM for my last Friday morning tech shift, and did pretty much nothing the whole time. It was absurdly boring. On the other hand, though, I’ve pretty much gotten used to the tech shift being boring, at least the Friday morning ones. I browsed reddit for a total of about three hours this morning – it’s a tough job, I know. My male boss also braided my male coworker’s hair. I tried to snap a picture, but he dodged it. I was so close! Afterward, though, I got to meet up with my friend David, and he gave me a christmas present! His professor wrote a book about the implications of video game culture (called Gaming), and David bought it for me. It looks like a very interesting book – he talks about Shenmue a lot, which makes me want to play that (I never have).

Other than my pizza outing with David, I worked on a paper on Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage for class. I got four pages done in just a few hours! Joe’s Garage is an amazingly sweet album, so it’s really easy to write about. I’m mentioning the use of prerecorded guitar solos over new rhythm tracks, as well as showcasing some of Zappa’s ridiculous lyrical stylings. It’s a fun paper to write. I just finished my work on that for the night, and I’m off to dinner in a few minutes.

Justin and I recently became obsessed with the Chicago song “If You Leave Me Now”, mainly because Butters sings it in a South Park episode and it’s awesome. It’s likely the cheesiest song I’ve ever heard, but singing it with Justin is a great time, if I do say so myself. We’ve worked up a little keyboard duet on it, with him on piano and me on my synth, rocking the crap out of the pitchbend wheel. We’re ridiculous people.

Some of my plans for winter break:

  • Kario Mart
  • Star Fox for SNES
  • Too much hot chocolate
  • Seeing everyone at home again
  • Maybe I’ll program something awesome

I’m really tired today, probably as a result of having to wake up at 7. It’s ok, though. I have an exciting day tomorrow, and then a break coming up very very soon! Can’t wait! I hope my blog is going alright for you, the reader. Finals week involves a lot of work combined with unrivaled lethargy, which is not a great combination for interesting blog posts. Sorry, I’m trying. I think I’m doing ok, but maybe not.

You know what? Screw it. Who cares what you think, right? It’s my blog anyway. It’s mine, my own, my….precious…..

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