RRRRRRRRRRIGHT ON!

So, here it is, another Sunday, and it's time for another blog update.

What am I watching this time? The VMA's.
Fuck this is lame. Pink is performing. She sucks, her song sucks, and her face sucks.
You can bet this will be a cynical update (well, at least some of it).
The guy hosting the the awards is pretty funny. I don't know his name, but it seems that the crowd doesn't get him. Maybe he's too sarcastic. Also, Pink says "thank god for double sided tit tape" males in america, however, do not. Travis Barker is playing the drums. This I like.

Anyway, update update update... I guess last week was kind of a slow week... I worked days all week (which I am NOT used to), so I was pretty tired most of the time. On Tuesday night after work, I blogged... so I don't really know why I'm writing about it.

Christina Aguilera is TOTALLY lipsyncing. Like, she's not even trying. It's nice to see that she's back to her stripper-esque roots. Haha. Russell Brand (the host guy) is awesome. He just said he didn't want "any of that rhubarb".

WEDNESDAY: I GOT MY HAIR CUT. Holy fuck, it was really out of control. I'm glad that's over with. Then we headed into Bedford to visit Tophe at work... I had to pre-order some stuff, like LEGO BATMAN(!). We picked up Omar, drove back to Halifax, and hung out here. Danielle was eager to fire up America's Next Top Model, which worked well for me, because I was feeling SUPER CYNICAL. It was kind of a funny night.

On Thursday, we went to wings at Bubba Rays. I love the wings there. I also found out that there is a use for Budwiser, other than making people vomit. It puts out the HOT FIRE IN MY MOUTH better than the keith's I had. It was weird. Chris, Jess, Tophe and Ben all came out, so it was a good time all around.

On Friday, Omar and I jammed. Well, we set up the gear in Omar's most-recently-old room. Then mic'd everything. Then spent time trying to adjust levels. Then played for about 10 minutes. IT WAS STILL awesome though. We got so much shit done, and now there's a tonne of potential that can come out of these recording/jamming sessions. I took a few pics, so they kind of help explain what the hell was going on in our heads as we set things up.

So we moved Steve's kit over to the room, and set up two mics, one being overhead (on the ride cymbal side of things, I think you can see the stand) and one on the underside of the high-hat/snare/tom. After testing it out, we found that there was NO bass drum sound being recorded properly, and when we adjusted the levels so that we could hear it, it sounded like crap.



SO, Omar hauled out a dynamic mic that had a low-end setting to it, which was good. Unfortunately we were without another mic stand, BUT(!) I was able to jimmy-rig something in about 2 seconds to hold it.



HAHA. Here's the whole thing now...



Next we mic'd up the bass amp (pretty straight forward)...



and we ran it into a four track...



As you can see, we have 3 mics for the drums alone. This means that NEXT time we jam, we're going to get our hands on a mixer so that we can bump the drums into that into the four track on 2 channels instead of three. This will make room for a guitar hookup. The sound is pretty good, and surprisingly not over crowded, as I think the dynamic mics really pull their weight and mix down really well. It's amateur, but it's working well so far. I'm so excited I could explode over this.

Here are some more instrument shots:







I gave Omar my USB joypad controller thing, because my PSP is now my emulation-station. IT HAS THE BEST NAME EVARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!



I was going to finish this tonight, but Danielle wants to go to bed, and I'd rather get some sleep than keep writing, so I'll get back to this tomorrow...

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So, back to it, I suppose (it's now Tuesday night). On Saturday night, Omar, Sean, and I Hung out here for a bit, and then we headed to pick up Mike D so we could go to Chris and Jess's new place downtown. It's really nice there, and we had a good time just hanging out AND WATCHING AWESOME HISTORICA MOMENTS ("I smell burnt toast" just to name one). Afterwards Omar stayed over, and we pretty much crashed.















On Sunday, Omar and I hung out all afternoon while I hacked through MGS3 (which I am about 15-20 min of playtime away from finishing). I drove him home when I dropped Danielle at work, and just hung out here and started blogging later on.

That pretty much wraps up what was going on last weekend. Tomorrow brings Chuck's show at Gus's, Thursday is workday (as is tomorrow, but I don't really have any plans. Maybe some after work wings....? Who knows. I sure don't. On Friday, I'm jamming again, this time with Omar and Christian. Christian is bringing out his mixer so we can work around the drum problem, AND, he's bringing out an external HD and an external sound card so we can record right to my hard drive. I'm so damn excited. Maybe I'll be putting some stuff up for you all to listen to. MAYBE. Haha.

Anyway I'm out for the night, so enjoy yourselves, this blog, and the rest of the week.

Tony


PS-> HARVEST MOON KICKS ASS.