I am currently listening to a little stub (as Apollo would call it) of a cheesy Psytrance song that I started this evening. It’s pretty silly stuff, but I kinda like that kind of things sometimes. And the basslines are nice and bubbly, the way good Psy should be.
This may become the ConsuMuse Vol. 2 track for beckteria. It is yet to be named.
Well, I finally went out and bought Rock Band. It’s fun. I’m mostly playing around with the Drums right now. However, I have done a bit of the karaoke part of it as well. I haven’t played with the guitar yet, because it’s a little too much like Guitar Hero, and I’ve already played the shit out of that.
I’ve gotten to medium level on the drums, and tonight I got to Green Grass and High Tide by the Outlaws. I’m pretty much stuck due to the final solo section where I don’t seem to have enough rhythm to keep up with it that fast for that long. I end up getting booed off stage and I want to throw my sticks. I’m not sure if I’m going too fast or too slow, but I just can’t stay on rhythm.
Oh well, I just need more practice.
One thing that I don’t like is in practice mode, I can’t work on individual sections at full speed and that kinda bugs me. I wish I could just play part of it at full speed to get better at it.
Other than that, this has been a fun game. I’m going to see how my brother does with it, since he’s a drummer.
I was told about these songs a few months ago by (I think) Kirsty and at the time I forgot about them. Then on Go Team: Internet, Halon linked to Thou Shalt Always Kill and I thought, “Oh yeah, these videos are amazing”. So I bought the mp3’s from Amazon, and I’ve kinda been listening to them a lot over the weekend.
I’ve created a new category. Obesssions. These are things that I’m thinking about/listening to/watching a lot.
Note: This video isn’t really one of my obsessions…well, just watch it!
2 days ago, April 25, was my birthday. I forgot to blog that until now.
I didn’t really do anything exciting. I just stayed home. I will be going to dinner with my parents and my brother this evening to celebrate.
When I played this song for my brother, he said it reminded him of a CSI Evidence Gathering montage. Now whenever I listen to it, I think he’s right.
…That’s all I ever do.
Well, not really. However, I’m in the middle of 12 days straight where I went into the office. I worked both yesterday (Saturday) and today (Sunday) for about 4 hours each. We’re trying to get one of our “projects” out to beta, so they needed some extra time working on it. At least I’m a non-exempt employee, so when I work over 40 hours, I get OT. This money will go into my “I gotta get outta here” fund.
C|NET has officially closed the doors on Consumating. In doing so, they made the mistake of redirecting the URL to another of their sites, help.com.
This was a huge mistake on their part. Many consumators went there and expressed their feelings in the way that they’re used to doing so on our mostly-unmoderated site. Since help.com is more heavily moderated, many of these comments resulted in banning. This just served to fan the flames which brought more consumators to help.com and a clash between consumating users and help.com users.
Consumating creator and former owner, Ben Brown posted on his new site Go, Team Internet a plea to simply ignore help.com. C|NET handled this poorly. Ben suggested that they simply should have created a 404 page with a picture of Consumating’s Feedback Zombie mascot and left it at that. That would have been an elegant and respectful solution. Instead they attempted to redirect us hoping to ramp their userbase there.
In related news (I always wanted to say that) a group of Bay Area consumators held a candlelight vigil for the death of Consumating at C|NET which included a bagpipe group playing Amazing Grace. It was a fitting sendoff for the website that we loved so much.
Here in a few hours, I will be brunching at Lolo’s Chicken and Waffles here in Phoenix, Arizona. I am told that this is a terrific soul food place.
This will be the final hurrah of my first trip to Arizona. I’ve had a wonderful time and met some very awesome people. Thanks to all of the Phoenix Crew for welcoming me and showing me a great time.
I flew into Phoenix last night at about 11 PM. Pagne and Nelly picked me up from the airport and we drove to Pagne’s condo and had tea and talked for a while. Then Nelly and I drove to her place and I met Qelyn and then crashed on Nelly’s couch for the night.
So far I haven’t seen enough of the city. Today we’re going to the Arizona Ren Faire. It should be fun.
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