For You :: Parachutes B-Sides

So Kelly Carr and I are here in the office, all up on our spiffy MacBook Pros, looking very "coo" if I may say so myself.

We were working on the upcoming 'Drift show-it's coming, promise-when I realized I got a little emergency project for a mutual client to get done before morning. Emergency projects for me usually translate to "CAN YOU PUT THIS TO DVD!?!" And THIS usually is some defunct recording format. Such as miniVHS. Naw, not miniDV. MiniVHS. We're talking 90s prime. Haha.

Kelly is very good at enlightening one towards some good tunes. I'm thoroughly enjoying everything he's playing in iTunes right now.

Speaking of iTunes, I'm totally trying to go for that "Billionth App Download" contest grand prize. Which is of course a new, fully-loaded MacBook Pro, 16GB iPod Touch, $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, and a Time Capsule. Now, true, I do own three of the four prizes listed above, but I would totally sell the extra iPod, give my current laptop to either dad or Michael, keep the Time Capsule for back-up next year at UNT, and well, you know what the ten grand would go to. Lots and lots of indie music.

I'll make my way to Denton for the second time as of late. Got orientation at UNT on the first of next month. Oh man, get this. This is my itinerary for that weekend:

Friday, May 1 :: Leave for Denton around 6AM or so, go through orientation, and get back home around 10 if not 11PM.

Saturday, May 2 :: Get ready, dressed, and prepared for the first performance of Mozart's "Requiem" downtown at First UMC. Total time there will be about 4 hours. Then I'll stay in my tux, make a few colorful changes, and then accompany my lovely Kimberly to her Senior Prom.

*In between Saturday and Sunday, Kim will turn 18! How cool is that? Turning 18 during prom?*

Sunday, May 3 :: The celebration of my Kim's B-Day commences as we transfer to a different location for Texas High's after-prom party, "Project Celebration". Fun stuff. Will be doing that shindig through at least 4 in the morning. Then we'll catch a few Zzz's before dressing back up and heading down to Shreveport for the second performance of "Requeim" at St. John Berchman's Catholic Church. Afterwards, we'll just stay in the ol' Shrevey and I'll be taking Kim out somewhere nice for dinner. Get back from all of that probably somewhere around midnight.

But all is well though depsite the craziness for I'll be rolling around in my new '05 Honda Element. i super-duperly love that thing of which Kim has dubbed Vigo. It's uber rad.

So yeah.......CUHRAZEE things happening in the stock markets these days.

Too good to pass up.

Since half of my known life has been around church TV production, this is simply amazing.



Epic.

2 pairs of glasses, a cell phone, and an iPod Touch.

So Kim and I are just chilling here, and I thought it would be a good time to write another post. . .

I hate if when the little fuzz that permeates my household clings to my MacBook Pro. Arg! Avast ye micro-filth! An garde!

I'm trying to spark excitement for the new Pilotdrift album by building some hype on the #1 entertainment blog in town, TexarkanaRocks.com. Check it out, holmes.

I really, really am enjoying my music composition class as of late. In fact, I think I'll leave ya'll with a pic of something I've been working on.

So what are you going to have? / The Halibut. / Oh! I didn't see that.

Going to see Watchmen in a few hours with some college friends and my voice teacher. Fun stuff.

At present however, I'm watching the season finale of Burn Notice. Also fu n stu ff.

Speaking of finales! I bought Finale 2009 for my new MacBook Pro for only $150! The full Finale for only Un Fiddy! More f un st uf f!

Ah! French! I like singing French, but it's pretty hard. The Debussy I'm studying for performance is great though. Ah, f u n s t uf f.

Debussy! Composers! I'm composing! That by far is my favorite class this semester. It is such fu-

well, you know.

i am a leaky faucet

My Valentine's Day spent with Kimberly was amazing, and I thank her so much for making it so.

I am however disappointed to hear about a recent breakup between two of my good friends. So sad.

My new MacBook Pro is amazing. Now, if only my boss would realize that it is vastly superior to the Windows SpeedEdit machines we have at the station and that it is not a sin for me to want to produce better content on it while during normal operations hours. I think maybe he is afraid of anything that isn't his or that if anything were to happen to it while there, that his insurance would have to cover it. No! That's what my protection plan from Apple is for!

It's much later than I intended upon being up tonight. Right now, I could use all the sleep I can get.

I probably just spent an hour if not a little more on my first quiz (that I now find out won't even count for much) in my online World Geography class. I seriously put some thought into those short answer questions.

I have made statements on here before referring to my reverence of the productions of ESPN. I digress slightly after absent-mindly hearing SportsCenter rerun for the third straight hour after the Texas/Texas A&M game. Oy.

I'm looking around the office for any more spontaneous inspiration to be recorded through this medium, but none are popping with the indelible Zing! of note-worthiness. Haha.

OK, bye.

a nightmare for people like you

New TV, films, and music that I am greatly anticipating:
The Watchman
The rest of LOST
Pilotdrift: ...AHIF (it's coming. I swear. no really.)
The new Mute Math album (though they need to lose the extra baggage (seven guys? really? ya'll were great as a four-piece)
Star Trek
Addison Road! Glad to hear ya'll are in the studio!
Important Things with Demetri Martin
Speaking of which, bring on The Conchords!
Michael told me the other day that Muse has something new coming...ooh...

I'm in an Austin hotel room and happen to find myself watching Charlie Rose on PBS. It's interesting. He and his guests are discussing at present how "snarks" have found their perfect voice on the Internet. Now the conversation has evolved towards privacy on the Internet and whether or not legislation will like arise in the next few years governing rights to privacy on things like blogs, Facebook and Myspace, etc.

I'm regards to this, I believe that the Internet will become kind of like a make-shift social Nazi conformity system. What I mean is that I don't believe sufficient law will ever control the Web and people will soon realize that absolutely anything they ever do can and may end up online, whether written, in photos, audio, or video. This will effect their futures when employers are researching their prospective employees, online daters do the same, and the like.

And it's not like you can ever truly erase things on the Internet; once it is there, there will always be a file of it somewhere.

I think society will slowly grasp that anyone in any situaion can and will be found out. Granted, some out there simply will not care and will do as try please, regardless of the transparency, but then again there will be those who will really try to make themselves look good in every form of media.

There you go folks, my opinion of Internet transparency.

25 minutes of separation.

I found myself on Google Maps' Street view!

I remember seeing their odd-looking-universal-view-camera-mobile in downtown Texarkana one day, and I finally tumbled upon myself in my car.

Anyway, go to street view in Texarkana, go downtown past the federal post office builing and next to the big CapitalOne building, I'll be right there in my little whit Pontiac Gran Prix.

suh-weet.