Shameless plug alert #204 in a 1017 part series:
Wrote a few more Second Stage reviews… first The Slant, a folky group from Pittsburgh and then Twin Tigers, a new shoegazer quartet from music-hotbed Athens, Georgia.
To read the review and hear the song for the Slant click here.
To read about and hear Twin Tigers go here.
PS… [...]

Awhile back I almost pitched Ghosty’s song “Dumbo Wins Again” off their new album Answers for a Song of the Day essay. I sorta let it slide however because I thought it might be mild conflict of interest since I’ve known drummer Josh Adams and pianist David Wetzel since high school and college (what [...]

Awhile back (September 2006 to be exact), I caught an easter egg joke about my beloved Kansas City Royals on The Simpsons. Back then I wondered if one of the writer’s was either from KC or a enough of a fan to sling such a subtle joke about the perpetually terrible team.
A little less [...]

I had a particularly strong run of songs on my commute this morning, so I thought that I’d share it here for awhile. Don’t always listen to shuffle on my ol’ pod but sometimes it just sounds so good. Here, with only a few exclusions is what I heard this morning while stuffed into [...]

Last night, I trekked up to Silver Spring, MD to the AFI Silver movie theatre to watch the Group D entries into the 48 Hour Film Project site. Running for two Group showings a night for four nights, Group D had I think 12 or 16 entries in the competition\festival….meaning there were perhaps a [...]

Can Pixar ever go wrong? Not likely when even my least favorite of their films (Cars) was far beyond what nearly every other animation house is releasing. While other studios are creating movie after movie of computer animated fare that forgets about telling an actual story with actual characters instead of simply marrying [...]

Ok so we had to get some work done on our ol’ car this week, and so to see if we were getting ripped off I did some searches. I stumbled upon this old commercial:
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Click here if you cannot see the video above.
I just find it amazing how perceptions of [...]

Well before I provide some final thoughts, I figured I’d share the music I came up with for the film project. (Click on the song names to download, or on the newly implemented audio player!)
In The Dark — This was the first thing that I came up with. After leaving the initial [...]

I decided to minimize the amount of posts devoted to this project… so this thread combines most into one larger captain’s log. This reads in reverse chronology, so the most recent posts are at the top. Enjoy!
Rendering The Day Away. — 04 May 2008, 5:25pm

Well we’re in rendering phase, meaning all [...]

Tonight I will start a long weekend of composing music for a short film. The catch is I will be working without seeing the final product. The project is part of one of those “Make a Film in 48 Hours” type competitions, specifically, Washington D.C.’s creatively titled 48 Hour Film Project.
The [...]