ALWAYS SOMETHING.

[mercat]

Yep, late again. Still working on this damn reinforced concrete footing design spreadsheet. THRILLING, I KNOW.

Hilarious: watching Australia before or after watching VanHelsing. Also, Nicole Kidman kind of bothers me in this movie.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT NOT AGAIN. It says they did it to Phantom in '09 (?) but I don't recall off the top of my head. (Then again, Red Violin... nobody cared? I didn't say that, haha) There's a strong wave of response to this on my facebook. Is Troop responsible for the video rights? Is DCI? No one seems to know. Anyway, this is CRAP. However, they still have the music rights, so... buy the mp3, rip the video, mash them together. The worst part about the stupid thing is, though, that I'm pretty sure Wanted is the song they didn't get rights to. Which means: no intro, no outro, AND NO CLOSER COMPANY FRONT. Goddamn that's ridiculous.

I'm also a little depressed because just a few days ago my wall was a flood of people registering for camps and buying plane tickets. I miss everyone dearly. I'm starting to wonder how crazy the scene is in Japan, maybe march a summer there or something, huh? That would be crazygonuts awesome. (March with Tatsu and Aya? haha)

ANYWAY, once again, two days worth of prompts while I procrastinate on my other homework some more:

My closest friends... I have a lot. People from high school, college roomies, and corps people. I'll keep it simple for the sake of people's sanity. (Roughly 850 facebook friends ensures this is not a simple answer.)

Three favorite colors? ALSO A LOT. Haha. Generally I lean towards (surprise!) really bright colors, but I also lean towards blue, green, and purple. And then orange, and also pink, and in particular any of these colors with gray tones. Classy.

Comments

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

As far back as 2002, it struck me how much effort the recorded music industry put into keeping its moribund business model alive, in the process alienating an entire generation of young people, who should have been their best customers. The relationship and situation are now so bad that Anonymous is DDOSing the RIAA. I couldn't imagine a bunch of Gen Xer or Boomer hackers doing that for revenge, only for profit, hence the Greed icon.

As for missing drum corps, it took me decades to get over it. I aged out in 1981 and kept on judging until 2006 and writing for Drum Corps World until 2008. Once I got divorced, I considered marching in a senior corps. There is one in Ohio, Cincinnati Tradition. If you're really hard corps,* I'm sure you could figure out a way to march in the Reading Buccanneers in Pennsylvania. That is a world class organization.

*That was a slip of the fingers, but I decided to leave it in.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

I'm saddened by the fact that they refuse to look at the concept that the people who download the most illegally are also their biggest legal supporters. =/

If I ever did senior corps, it might be awhile. I mean, I love marching, but I definitely need at least one real break this summer. (Although that's what I said in '08 and I'm kind of wishing I'd marched, haha.) Probably wouldn't go to Cincinnati Tradition, though, they don't seem to do a whole lot.

But yeah... I think more than anything, while I do LOVE marching, I also miss the people because none of them are local.