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My new band, [ ], is playing this Friday at Ground Zero at RPI. It will be a fairly short set, but I assure you it will be entertaining.

Ground Zero

Exciting, nerdy things are happening to me lately.  I’ve been getting many ideas, and learning about many new opportunities.  I’ll post more soon.

Here is another song I made recently.  I do not think it is perfect, but I am proud of it.  I think we are going to try to perform it as a band.

“Coagulate”
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This is a song I made for Computer Music class.  It is produced entirely of sounds I have recorded myself.  There are still a few compression issues that I would like to work out, but overall I’m pretty proud of it.

“Splinter”

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This is a video that I made for school this semester for Intermediate Video class.  I wouldn’t say that it is polished by any means, but I was proud to submit it (which is more than I can say for my final project for that same class).  If I remember correctly the assignment was to build a climax using few shots.

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Now in flash for Steve Ballmer. 

And so I’m home for break.  It is a good feeling not having any responsibilties.  I have too many projects that I want to be working on.  On the other hand it is a bit boring sometimes.  That said, I am going to try to have a social life this break instead of working it away like I did last year.  I’ll try.

Flecktones at The Egg in Albany last week was amazing.  I am going to see them two more times this week.  Should be a good time.  I could go to every show and not be bored.  Such an amazing band.

should Mr. Obama decide not to repeal the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000. By simply letting the cuts expire after 2010, as the law now provides, Mr. Obama would in effect delay the tax increase that high-income taxpayers would have faced in the next year or two under his original plan.

-Obama Vows Swift Action on Vast Economic Stimulus Plan - NYTimes.com

That’s what i’m talking about.  Control.

Kevin Smith Has Seen Watchmen: “It’s F**king Astounding” | /Film

If Kevin Smith actually said this, that is so fucking amazing.  Holy shit fuck ass.

Tropic Thunder - Movie - Review - The New York Times

This review is pretty sweet.  I agree entirely with the “beating jokes to death” thing.  That was what made this movie boring at parts, and what I couldn’t articulate before.

One of those is played by an actual black man, Brandon T. Jackson as Alpa Chino, a rap entrepreneur who peddles an energy drink called Booty Sweat and is mainly around to mock Kirk’s impersonation, which is the filmmakers’ way of having their chocolate cake and eating it too.

Yes lol.  No one laughed at the joke from the trailer “What do you mean ‘you people’?”.  That character wasn’t actually necessary, maybe they just wanted to say that a black person’s reaction to the painted black Robert Downey Jr. should also be comical.