i'll give you public disorder
Photoshop is crazy, that's all I have to say. I've been drawing pencil sketches, scanning, and putting them through all sorts of filters and colors and things that sound dangerous. I made this last night; by no means a masterpiece, but it's crazy that 12 minutes before it was a quick pencil sketch of a guitar. For the non-photoshopped: filters will basically imitate some art style and apply it to your picture. Colored pencils, wrapped in plastic, behind a pane of frosted glass, watercolors, pixelation, neon glow, stone carvings...it's sick.
I've got bad news and good news...what do you want to hear first? All right, the bad news is that Russ is having oral surgery tomorrow and right before the concert, so he won't be playing with us (this time around). Best of luck with everything Russ; try to steal some novocaine for me. The good news is that Andrew Jennings, also TFA, also at Northeast Middle School, might fill in with bass. In more music news, Eric "I play Guitar like I play Hungry Hungry Hippos" Espiritu sent me some great photos for his website-in-progress. It should be going up in the next few weeks.
I'm going to start leaving a short list of the music I've been listening to lately. For some reason the "blogging community" likes to do this, along with what movies they're watching, what they're reading, how they're feeling, what their current favorite link is, what their latest online quiz result is, blah blah etcetera. For those of you who simply can't live without knowing what Care Bear I'm most like, my apologies. But I've always liked getting listening suggestions - what's the worst that could happen? So you waste 5 minutes downloading and listening to a song. Music's great like that; just because you don't like Radiohead doesn't mean that you're not musically intelligent, just like you shouldn't be ashamed if Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" brings a cold, embittered tear to your eye. I was probably the only music major at UVA who actually admitted to liking Nsync. But I also liked a 17-minute soundscape of the New York subway system, Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, John Cage's 4'33" and some Iannis Xenakis. Doesn't mean that my musical tastes are more "refined" or "better", just that I love "music" with an extremely broad definition. So yeah, this is some of the current background music that's playing during non-school hours of the day.
"Clocks" (Coldplay), "The Irony of It All" (The Streets), "Love Soon" (John Mayer), "Staralfur" (Sigur Ros)
Monday, February 3 at 2:34 PM
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