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27
Mar
2006
12:08
Author: Heath
27
Mar
2006
12:02
A few random tidbits
To anyone in L.A., you lucky people have the chance to go see the brilliant Eddie Izzard:
Eddie will be performing on Weds, March 29 to Saturday april 1 at 9pm(March 2nd – 5th) at:
The Coronet Theatre
366 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Tickets available starting Saturday, March 25 2006 at 12:00 noon PST.
TO BOOK CALL (US): 310.657.7377. NOW!
Secondly, if you really want something to puzzle your brain, check out this site. I’m totally addicted. this is not some simple internet game to pass the time. This takes serious brain work, detective skills, and thinking outside the box. In fact it takes thinking outside, inside, on top of, around, and next to the box. In fact you might need to break the box. I’m seriously addicted. At the time of this post I’m on level 11.
22
Mar
2006
23:40
22
Mar
2006
23:14
“Tomorrow Never Knows”
With much satisfaction I have completed my latest project. For the longest time, I’ve had this idea in my head to remake “Tomorrow Never Knows” by The Beatles album “Revolver”. The song has always been something special to me for many reasons. The original song was recorded using mostly tape loops taken from various orchestral compositions, sound effects, and any other tape The Beatles could get their razor blades on. Since they only had four track technology then, I’ve read accounts of how George Martin had every available person standing in every available space, such as closets, holding tape loops on the ends of pencils and such, so that he could fade them in and out throughout the song. I always thought that it would be fun to recreate the entire song, including all the strange tape loops, on guitar.
This became an even more interesting idea when I started using the Line 6 Variax digital modeling guitar which can emulate a whole studio full of guitars (including electrics, acoustics, banjo, 12-strings, and more), and the Line 6 Pod XT which digitally models amps, cabinets, effects, etc.
Here is the result of my mad scientist experiment (It’s about 4MB). Aside from the vocal, drums and tambourine, everything you hear was done on guitar. Everything. Including the seagulls. And the bass. Everything. Hell, even the vocals got run through my Pod XT for the last verse. I am quite pleased. As is always the case with me, I feel I could do so much more work on it to make it better, but I was anxious to get it out there, and sometimes you just have to designate a stopping point. I’m sure there will be tweaking, as I’m already nitpicking it all to hell, but for the most part I’m fairly happy with it.
21
Mar
2006
15:48
16
Mar
2006
15:00
16
Mar
2006
13:48
I’ve got a fever…
and the only prescription is more cowbell. Awesome.
If you don’t know what this is all about, then just go to Youtube and search for “more cowbell.” If it has Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell and cowbell, then you’ve found the right clip. An absolute classic.
Sadly, even though Saturday Night Live has had more exposure and free publicity than they’ve had in years from people posting popular and funny bits from the show, they’ve also been extremely aggressive in having unauthorized content removed from the internet due to copyright infringement.
13
Mar
2006
18:50
Enneagram. Whoa.
I don’t usually post all these personality test type of things, but I stumbled upon this one recently (thanks, Beth!) that I thought nailed me pretty good. In only two questions. Crazy, scary accurate (with a dew exceptions as usual). This seems to be the consensus of almost everyone I know who took the test. Yes, I know it could just all be coincidence, standard disclaimer, bogus, blah, blah, blah. So, get to know me! Also see the link in Beth’s comment to a much more in depth description of my results.
Apparently I’m a 9 which means:
10
Mar
2006
13:09
0-100 so fast I got whiplash!
Previously I mentioned how much fun I had being psycho Tom Cruise and meeting this great bunch of people. It looks as if I may have fallen into something pretty cool, and definitely good for me. The skit I filmed was for The Austin Movie Show, which has been around for a while in various incarnations and currently airs on our Public Access station. It’s mostly the two hosts reviewing and talking about movies, but also has a lot more thrown in such as the shorts we’re starting to write and film now and some other segments.
10
Mar
2006
10:53
Purchase my soul for $37.94!
If you want to truly know who I am as a person, check out these albums:
“Hey Album!” and “Ready, Sex, Go” by The Marvelous 3
“Left of Self Centered” and “Letters” by Butch Walker
I’ve decided that Butch Walker’s catalog (including his work with Marvelous 3) is a pretty damn good representation of my soul if it were converted to music and packaged on CD. There is such a great range from rocking, funny, witty songs to intensely passionate and emotional songs which you feel as much as you listen to.