Below are the three songs included in my old Roland JV-35. While the standard GM complement of samples sounds a bit dated, I always thought these songs were well done and did a good job of showing off the keyboard. Unfortunately the expansion board didn’t include more ROMs… the wide range of sounds on the [...]
Categories: music
Update: 2010-04-20 — Fixed some timing and EQ issues. Also programed some new drums. Still working on solo. Below is a rough cut of my rendition of devilishlypure‘s song Nerdfighterlike which was then done by Hank & Katherine Green here (of the vlogbrothers). It is fairly rough at the moment and missing the middle solo, [...]
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Tagged: ardour, hydrogen, music video, nerdfighterlike, vlogbrothers
Squeee! Serenity Malcolm Reynolds Browncoat Replica. Awesome! Unfortunately the price is quite steep ($320), but just think of how many Halloweens this would cover where you didn’t have to stress out about what the hell you’ll wear to that party! Here’s what you need to complete the costume: Pants [link] $40 Suspenders Boots [link] $450 [...]
Categories: movies
Tagged: browncoats, firefly, serenity
I did a music video using the extended version of Within Temptation’s “What Have You Done,” again using scenes from Twilight. Once again, WMG are bastards and have blocked the audio on Youtube so I can’t host them there, even though I thought they had reached an agreement a few months ago to start allowing [...]
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Tagged: music video, twilight, within temptation
I heard about Ink today from a blog post about how it had been pirated all over the torrent sites, but as a result had zoomed up the popularity charts. If you have Netflix, it’s available on Watch Instantly, and I highly, highly recommend it. Ink is an incredible independent film written by Jamin Winans [...]
Categories: movies
Tagged: independent film, ink, movie
I’ve been enjoying Delain’s new album “April Rain” via imeem.com. I saw the video for the single “April Rain” a while ago, but never followed up. Female fronted rock and metal bands are really starting to pick up in Europe (Delain is a Dutch band). I hope some of that will eventually translate to new [...]
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Tagged: april rain, delain, grooveshark, music
Dream Theater’s latest album Black Clouds & Silver Linings continues their musical evolution brilliantly and might be their best work melodically to date. Vocal layers are much thicker (just the way I like it) with Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci lending their voices to the mix more than I can remember on any previous album. [...]
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Tagged: dream theater, grooveshark, review