Christmas nearing! Politics boiling.

     Hello!  To anyone reading this, Happy Holidays regardless of what you do or don't celebrate.  I think they're important: it's good to kick off miserably cold weather with some festivities, right?  Yesterday was the winter equinox which, according to scientists, is the very same day we're going to die in 2012.  I don't know how I feel about that, but what happens happens, man.

     This holiday should be interesting.  It's the second time my older sister won't be coming home from New York, and we also have deaths in the family surrounding the event.  I'm not upset about that as death is every bit a part of living as living is.  We should celebrate it!  But it's going to be different.  I haven't started shopping, and I don't really know what to get any of my family – Rachel already has her present (I have mine as well) – and all I really want is one of the exercise half-balls fixed to a rubber base and maybe some tools.  I'm easy this year.  That, and I feel bad because my parents are already spending enough money on me.  My car broke down last week and I just moved into a new apartment so I'm already broke... they helped me out.  Dead battery.  Now I need to get my anti-freeze checked.  I hate cars.

     I'm becoming so upset with everything going on in Congress that I've pretty much resigned to leaving this country.  People say they're leaving all the time, but Rachel and I think we've finally had it with the corruption, the sleazy levels of politics, and the outright denial of the freedom of American lives.  I'm not Republican, I'm not a Democrat.  I'm a free thinker.  I've had it.  People ask me where we'll go where government isn't corrupt.  I have an answer!  We'll go somewhere where the people don't give a flying f*** about their government, like Italy!  Tax evasion in Italy is like a national sport.  And politics is more like a high school club, from what I gather.

     I'm afraid that's exactly what will happen here though: This democracy built on the voice of its people will become so rife with corruption and avarice that the ordinary citizen will have no choice but to let it go, live passively to the whims of the bastards at the top.  I am disgusted.  It's interesting, despite the warnings of "The Forefathers" that we have divided into a bipartisan country.  There is no free thought, it's controlled through two routes (both in political association and money).  If you're not one or the other, you don't get the money.  That's that.

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Exams are over

Exams are over!  My life can return to normal!  This week I: Took an exam in scriptwriting, turned in a five minute mini-documentary, produced a live, fifteen minute radio show complete with legal ID's, promotional tools and three commercials packages, wrote an existential manifesto for the Brave New World, replaced my car battery, finished my KeyNote presentation for BallState.  Now I just need to get through the weekend, write a 1500 word statement on my value to the Digital Storytelling department and I'm gold for the break!

Phew!  A lot's been going on, and after 2:30pm today I will be completely moved out of my university housing and getting on with my life at my new apartment.  The sun is shining (not really).  

And despite not having any money, and owing bills out the ass... I'm really excited for Christmas!  I'm getting older and realizing that it's the people and the sentiment.  I don't care about the commercialization, or even the cost.  I have enough to get by, and I want to share myself with family and friends.  All you need is love, right?

In the coming few weeks, I have some major video projects to wrap up that should be fairly lucrative, so as long as the client comes through I'm good for money.  Security. What else can one hope for in this society?

I wish I had a video, or even a photo or two to upload.  Hmmm...  I saw this on YouTube yesterday and was fairly amazed:

Video Link: A Guitar Hero Christmas

I don't know how this worked... maybe because I don't know how automated lighting systems work, but I still think it's amazing.  Check it out, let it uh... fill you with cheer.

Peace!

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New music

  
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Rain (Walker Foley Final).m4a (4833 KB)

It's been a  while for anything posting, anything twitter, anything whatever.  We're entering exams week at UD and I just spent the past week getting together materials for Ball State, OurVinyl, several end-of-term projects and have been painting/preparing my new apartment for living.  Good news: We have cats!  I love it!  Cats in the house!  Desmond and Percy.  Beautiful things.

Anyway, here's a song I put together as a final project for my music technology class.  The upper synth melody is a little off in timing, but I like that; human is imperfection.  I was working on something else, but the weather has been so miserable lately that I decided to drop the original plan and make this piece about the rain.  It's drizzly awful here.

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Thanksgiving, among others

Here's some images I found Googling "Crazy pictures" and "sunsets"...  I just feel like I haven't poster anything visual in a while.  I think the muppet is my favorite one and in some unsettling way portrays how I've felt over the Thanksgiving weekend.  We went to the mountains in West Virginia to see the family and visit the family farm.  Shot guns and ate deer jerky.  I love seeing my cousins.  In a way, I think I'm closer with them than I am with my extended family in Dayton.  The Dayton family does whatever it can to avoid itself; I haven't seen some of them in several years, and I know it's a two-way boat, but we've drifted so far apart on these waters.  What can you do?  What I've come to: Family is most important.  And when I have kids, they will know it.

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Dreams.

Strange dreams lately... The first, an esoteric nightmare with anthropic beings trying to genetically alter me and those around, one by one.  They spoke in a babbling language that Hunter S. Thompson himself might have invented, and lulled people into seclusion, where they would inject them with chemicals... once done, it was over.  You were theirs.  No understanding, no logic following.  Done.  It was terrifying.  A lot of the people who were affected went into this trance-like coma.

The second: More fun, but also scary.  Holed up in a large house defending human refugees against zombies (always on my mind, right?).  At one point the severed upper torso of a little boy grabbed onto the back of my shirt, screaming and flailing wildly with blood-stained mouth and hands.  I woke up so startled that I whipped around and almost punched my then-sleeping girlfriend in the face.  

"How'd you get that black eye Rachel?" 

"Uhhh..."

I don't know why I'm having these dreams consistently.  I haven't had "nightmares" since I was a kid... but I'm trying to look to them for inspiration and actually look forward to having them.  It's in our dreams where we truly and absolutely create... and these dreams have been completely lucid.

Maybe I should put them on hold until I finish the semester... I have so many projects and papers due.  This has been one of the most intellectually and academically challenging semesters of my college career.  I'm thankful for it, but at the same time I'm screaming my head off.  Oh, research paper due tomorrow!  It will be a long night.

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Bands I like today

The Dodos

Bowerbirds

Devendra Banhart

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Google Announces an OS

Google announced today a new operating system: Google Chrome OS

Looks to me like another ambitious attempt to monopolize our digital lives.  Google is taking a hold and could very well the way of the future.

I don't know how practical the OS looks though.  There's a video on the link above, tell me what you think.  I'm just imagining the slow grind of third parties to develop their software for a new OS.  I'm trying to imagine a whole new NLE programmed by Google that could rival Avid, Final Cut, and Premiere.  It's going to be an interesting year!

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