Gabe is Awesome!

Miss ya Gabe!

The Kills

This is a really cool band. The guitar riff at the beginning makes me want to pick up an electric guitar again. Alison Mosshart is awesome! She has a great voice and the look to go along with it. I will be listening to The Kills this Fall.

No Ending?!?!? Again!?!?!

I don't watch a whole lot of television therefore when I find a show that I like it's a pretty big deal for me. Recently I had two such shows end on a cliff hanger. First it was My Name is Earl. This show was awesome. After watching all of the prior seasons on Netflix I started watching what turned out to be the last season. Not only did the show end but it left me hanging. AARRRGGGHHH!!!!!! The most recent disappointment in T.V. land was Stargate Universe. This show was awesome! I know it sounds nerdy, but it had everything, drama, sci-fi, romance, and a bit of nerdy humor thrown in for good measure. I don't understand why it got canceled. There are many different incarnations of the Stargate series but none compared to this one. So I guess this is farewell to my friends on SGU. You will forever be on an endless journey aboard the Destiny.

Post Happy!

I would like to believe that I will have more consistent blog posts from here on out. I'm not sure that's a promise I can keep. I feel like a new man every time I start blogging. Then the feeling fades and I go into a shy reserved phase. I feel like I'm hiding and can't come out until I get this crazy blogging fever again. I'm not sure anyone looks at this other than myself and Kare so it seems silly to be so weird about it. Is there a secret to being regular. Do I need Activia?

The Pit!

Recently I have taken to calling my studio The Pit. Maybe it's because I'm in the Pittsburgh area or because it's in the basement and it's small enough to be a walk in closet. It just feels like a pit. I have fallen in and I can't get out. The past two weeks have been non stop recording and creating, spending late nights in the studio, well into the morning hours. The record is really in full swing now. I will be very proud to share it once it's complete. I plan on releasing a single and possibly a Kickstarter.com page for the album. This will help complete the final things needed to wrap it up. It's on like Donkey Kong!

Spotify Me!

I'm so glad that Spotify finally came to the States. It let's you listen to music for free with commercials. Unlike Pandora it lets you search for a band, record, or song, then listen to it as many times as you like. I love it!!! I heard about it around two years ago on NPR. I thought it sounded awesome so I have been stalking the website ever since. If you like music you should check this site out.

Music Blog

I miss my music blog. I started it using the music service lala.com. The website let you listen to any song or album once for free. I could listen to a record and write about it, then share it with everyone else. Lala.com died and with it my blog too perished. I'm now on a mission to revive it. All this thinking about music blogs prompted me to go back and check out Hype Machine. It's a wonderful place to discover new music. It's an aggregative blog. It pulls from mostly indie music mp3 blogs.

Here is a song I have been listening to lately.

In My Backyard!

This is very scary. Next it will be foreign water we are fighting over.

UFO's?

This is really cool. I'm so glad this person shared this with the world. It's beautiful!

SF to Paris in Two Minutes from Beep Show on Vimeo.

I like this band!

This song is so cool! They recorded the Arthur theme for the soundtrack. Can't wait to hear it.

I'm a Beta Tester!

I have always thought that it would be cool to be a beta tester. It's been an allusive activity for me. I thought you had to be in some geek club or nerd fraternity to beta test new software or hardware. I now know that this is not the case.

Through my favorite magazine Computer Music Magazine I found this new software called Ohm Studio. I was messing around on facebook when I came across this news clip in my feed about the new software, I clicked it and BAM there it was "Do you want to be a beta tester?" . I quickly filled out the application. As I filled out each box on the form I realized that I was actually very qualified to do this. I wasn't faking it or lying about my skills to get this job. The soon offered the job to me and so here I am.

Here is a link to the Ohm Studio website. More info as it comes!



Yay Me!

Ohm Studio!

This is a new website that offers web collaborative recording. I can't wait to try it out! As you can see from this video the interface is very intuitive. The automatic sync feature is very quick. This will maximize production times.

PI Day!

It's to bad I stink at math or I might try something like this. To help celebrate PI day 3.14 (the date today) I'm posting this video that puts PI to music.

Someone is Profiting...

To further illustrate the fact that the wealthy are profiting while the working class and poor are struggling.

"The super-wealthy were unaffected by an international recession with the combined net worth of the world's billionaires actually increasing twenty-five percent to $4.5 trillion, and their average net worth growing to $3.7 billion from $3.5 billion."

http://www.nerve.com/news/current-events/forbes-publishes-its-annual-list-of-the-worlds-richest-people

And Now for Something Completly Different

I really like this song. I'm singing along as I type this. I think it's really awesome that someone can write such great lyrics in a language that is not their native tongue.

We Don't Need No Education!

So after we rob the poor to give to the rich we can make sure that the poor never rise up by cutting the funding for education.

"Corbett’s plan will cut basic education by almost $550-million, a 10 percent reduction from the current year; and cut another $650-million from higher education.

Four state universities, including Temple University and Lincoln University, will lose more than 50 percent of their state funding. The state system of higher education, which includes the state universities, will also see its funding cut in half."

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/120255/20110308/pennsylvania-budget.htm#ixzz1GCbc6jNm

How does this make any sense?!?!

Now we don't want to tax the gas company.

"... he has no justification for cutting $1 billion from colleges and public schools while Pennsylvania remains the only big gas-drilling state without a severance tax on natural gas.

Nobody really expected Mr. Corbett to tax the industry that so generously funded his campaign.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11069/1130934-155.stm#ixzz1GCcGIfBE

Who is Corbett really supporting? The people or the money that got him elected? It's not the people who elect candidates it's campaign contribution.

Put your state congressman and congresswoman to work! Call and tell them this is unacceptable!

Here is the website to find your local rep. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/

Rob the Poor to Give to the Rich!

After ten years of tax cuts for the ultra rich and mega corporations, two wars (one of them being illegal and unfounded) and bailouts for the financial and auto sectors. Here we are. Politicians are cutting programs that benefit those most in need while protecting the wealthiest in our country.



This cartoon does a good job of expressing this.

I wish it was that easy to blame the GOP and make the Dem's out to be heroes. At this point I'm not sure who is worse. The democrats spineless governing is just as bad as the reckless policies the GOP continues to pursue.

"Even on Wall Street, the land of six- and seven-figure incomes, jaws dropped at the news on Tuesday: After all that federal aid, a resurgent Goldman Sachs is on course to dole out bonuses that could rival the record paydays of the heady bull-market years."

The New York Times

By GRAHAM BOWLEY

Published: July 14, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/business/15goldman.html

Tax payer bailout and record profits. How does this happen?!?!?!

Not everyone is suffering during this recession. Some even MADE money from the losses.

So let's just keep protecting those who want to buy a new yacht and screwing those who need money for their prescriptions that cost $400 each.

Let's not negotiate with drug companies to lower the cost of prescriptions (it's cool for Canadians to negotiate with drug companies but not Americans). We will never raise taxes on that poor guy who needs his new yacht. Why in the world would we do this? Instead lets kill medicaid and social security! Screw those poor folks. They aren't as important as the ultra rich. That's what they're really saying. Right? The poor and sick are less important then the rich and powerful.

I don't understand how people can justify this kind of reasoning. It's disgusting!

I don't have time tonight to start talking about the working poor. UGH!