The Mother of All Updates: A Soliloquy in Five Parts (3 of 5)

A while back, my dear friend Tre wondered at me via IM whether I had any ideas for a short story. As it turned out, she was working on a project for a multimedia class that involved, well, doing a short story in Flash. I made up some crap off the top of my head and she ran with it, and later on - I forget the actual sequence of events, but someone convinced someone to let me do voiceovers, sound effects, and music for the project.

Eventually, she sent me the raw flash files, and I threw some Looney Tunes-esque orchestra sound effects on there with the help of Kontakt 2.0's Vienna Symphonic Library, ad-libbed a bunch of retarded dialog, and added a couple of scenes just to mess with her head. Since I had just recently bought yet another new guitar (I am a proud owner of a big ol' hollowbody Gretsch, and Sweet Zombie Jesus, it's nice.) I decided to record something to give it a run and dropped a simple little jazz ditty in there as well.

The quality suffered a bit in the translation from Flash to QuickTime to WMV to YouTube, but hey, you're not going to see it at IMAX anyway. Enjoy!


Yes, that is me doing a poor imitation of Sean Connery. She got an A+ on the project, so that'll do, pig. Useless trivia: the elevator sound effect is from the beginning of the Ramones' "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg".

Currently listening to: "Cinnamon Girl", Type O Negative

The Mother of All Updates: A Soliloquy in Five Parts (2 of 5)

Part of my Christmas present from Denise was a gift certificate for singing lessons. I don't really know what she was trying to say, but it's something I've been planning to do for a long time, so I ran with it (I keed, cupcake). I'm studying at Mid Rivers Music with Angela Minahan, a graduate student at nearby Lindenwood University. She's very personable and has not kicked me out yet, so I have high hopes for our continued success, although we have nothing in common musically. I chose Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" as my first song, and we've now moved on to "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables, whereupon she is teaching me to sight-read vocal music. I have to admire her condfidence.

Lessons couldn't have come at a better time, because as it turns out, I'm in a band again, doing lead vocals and guitar. Also involved is the lovely Princess Sara on bass, 1A on guitar, and D on drums. We are currently called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, although that changed briefly to Folsom Prison Bruise. I've actually since appropriated that name for another project - more to come on that later as it begins the downward spiral that is my to-do list. Currently we're working up a few cover songs as we get familiar with each other, and will then move on to writing original stuff, although we really have yet to decide on a genre. The stuff we're doing right now is mostly punk, but there's a little industrial, metal, and plain ol' rock thrown in.

Currently listening to: "Stray Cat Strut", Stray Cats