Voldamort kills Ron with an axe. Harry inexplicably falls in love with Snape. The end.
Yeah, I read it. I haven't read a single Harry Potter book in my entire life, but even I, strong of will, could not resist the torrential tide of publicity surrounding this book. And in the end, it was good, but not great. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the book, just not as much as I could have been enjoying the new book "Spook Country" by William Gibson, or the new-esque book "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk (or finishing American Psycho which I really need to do).
Now as far as life has been for me as of late, "Busy" is a useful descriptive term. I haven't been especially social for the last month or so. I have been editing stuff in my free time after work, assisting (I use that term loosely) in Rob's movie "Massacre! - The Musical", organizing WisKino here and there, co-wrote for and live-filmed Blitz (in which I had my totally awesome mohawk), and then to add one more thing, I filmed Reverence (a goth/techno/industrial fest) for an unspecified documentary project.
The Reverence shoot was a blast. Not only did I get to film 4 nights of music, but I got to interview most of the bands as well (the lead singer from Bella Morte was surprisingly friendly and outgoing). Caustic (who organized the event) was more than accommodating and generally an all-around cool chap. Hopefully the video will see the light of day sometime soon. If not, well hell, I tried.
Also, I picked up a Holga camera and now I am having fun with the wonderful world of taking photos with film again, but doing it with a camera that has cheap Chinese optics and an unreliable focus setting. The pictures come out all soft and colorful and 70's looking. An interesting toy, I have picture from it on my flickr page.
Now, with any luck, I can get caught up with editing in time to let the upcoming game "Bioshock" temporarily steal away my life, after which I can finally get back to music. Yes, I really seriously totally plan on writing some new shit again finally. This time, I want to do vocals. Something with punk vocals and structure but electronic instrumentation. It could be cool. Or it could suck entirely. I want to call the project "Bloody Effusion" but I think that's too geeky and needs to be saved for some other project.
***UPDATE***
Per converstation with Jesse, Colm, Cara and Pete, the aforementioned punk-techno project will be called "Nipple Rejector" due to a converstation about my friend John's wife's breats.
Now as far as life has been for me as of late, "Busy" is a useful descriptive term. I haven't been especially social for the last month or so. I have been editing stuff in my free time after work, assisting (I use that term loosely) in Rob's movie "Massacre! - The Musical", organizing WisKino here and there, co-wrote for and live-filmed Blitz (in which I had my totally awesome mohawk), and then to add one more thing, I filmed Reverence (a goth/techno/industrial fest) for an unspecified documentary project.
The Reverence shoot was a blast. Not only did I get to film 4 nights of music, but I got to interview most of the bands as well (the lead singer from Bella Morte was surprisingly friendly and outgoing). Caustic (who organized the event) was more than accommodating and generally an all-around cool chap. Hopefully the video will see the light of day sometime soon. If not, well hell, I tried.
Also, I picked up a Holga camera and now I am having fun with the wonderful world of taking photos with film again, but doing it with a camera that has cheap Chinese optics and an unreliable focus setting. The pictures come out all soft and colorful and 70's looking. An interesting toy, I have picture from it on my flickr page.
Now, with any luck, I can get caught up with editing in time to let the upcoming game "Bioshock" temporarily steal away my life, after which I can finally get back to music. Yes, I really seriously totally plan on writing some new shit again finally. This time, I want to do vocals. Something with punk vocals and structure but electronic instrumentation. It could be cool. Or it could suck entirely. I want to call the project "Bloody Effusion" but I think that's too geeky and needs to be saved for some other project.
***UPDATE***
Per converstation with Jesse, Colm, Cara and Pete, the aforementioned punk-techno project will be called "Nipple Rejector" due to a converstation about my friend John's wife's breats.
