Archive for January, 2004

Lovetest

Saturday, January 31st, 2004

Here is a song I did primarily with the software Reason. The main spine of the track was programmed with no external keyboard, i.e all mouse clicks. Pretty amazing software if you ask me. As far as the song itself, I was feeling nostalgic for a time when pop had a sense of humor, as [...]

Monday, January 26th, 2004

Meyers-Briggs

Monday, January 26th, 2004

Leslie and I took the Meyers-Briggs personality test. “School has changed me so much!” she said. We haven’t recieved the results, but I was suprised by how few dillemas it created for me. There were very few questions I needed to hesitate to answer. One that I DID hesitate on was:
The routine portion of [...]

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Lifestyle

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Here is a little song that I recorded on the Roland 1680 (borrowed from Jason Lehning). I played most of the instruments, and John Deaderick played the nice bits of Vocoder Keyboard, and Hillary Lindsey sang the background vocals. Some people who heard it thought that it was mocking hip-hop culture, but that wasn’t the [...]

Happiness

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Finding that old melancholy feeling returning, along with a bank of dark clouds, which caused nightfall at about 4:30, I began to wonder about the nature of happiness.
Webster’s defines it as “being favored by circumstances, lucky, fortunate.”
Is it possible to know you are lucky, and still be unhappy? Of course it is! So [...]

Charlie Chaplin

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

The great genius of comedy had this to say about his formal education:
“If only someone had used salesmanship, had read a stimulating preface to each study that could have titilated my mind, infused me with fancy instead of facts, amused and intrigued me with the legerdemain of numbers, romanticized maps, given me a point of [...]

Pot Roast

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

For those not frightened by the recent Mad Cow scare, I came across a good Pot Roast recipe in the October 2001 issue of Martha Stewart’s Living. I will attempt to describe it.
(a good approximation)
Preheat Oven to 450
Cut up 3 or 4 large peeled and washed potatoes (mix in a few turnips if you wish) [...]