WOO-HOO UPDAAAAAAATE!



and I'm SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGING!!!

WOO!

So, I'm sitting here next to smelly-Danielley (she's "doing homework", which I think is code for surfing facebook) and I'm thinking that it's time for an update. I'm thinking that this update is a few days overdue. But that's small potatoes at this point.

Where do I start? Well, the jam sessions have been going really well with Omar and Christian. We've been recording using my computer through a rather complicated set up. Obviously, as I said, things ultimately end up on my computer but we start by mic-ing up the drums, guitar, and bass and running them through a mixer, much like this one.



For the drums, we have a mics on the kick, under the high-hat and snare side, and over the ride cymbal/floor tom. So three tracks. We level those out, so that I'm not crushing the other tracks with volume. Then we mic the bass amp and the guitar so we get sound from everyone. Awesome. Then, we run the mixer (as left and right channels) into this little device...



which is called a MobilePre. It's basically an external USB sound card interface that allows you to input various audio sources so that you can record through the USB ports on your computer. So with the mixer hooked up, we just plug it into my computer and use an audio recording program to capture the delicious sound.

Yeah we've got quite a bit of stuff that we've recorded so far, and THIS Friday, we're going to try and go over everything and see what we can make of it all. I've got some homework to do. HA!

Now for something completely random...

DON'T SHOOT THE PUPPY. Enjoy.

HAR HAR HAR HAR.

What else has been going on......

LittleBigPlanet!!!!!!



WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW! IT IS A FANTASTIC GAME. How do I know? It's not out yet. OH! I got selected to participate in the beta test for the Game, which means that I got to play the game early and test it for bugs/slowdowns/whatever might effect the gameplay (the beta has since expired, as the game comes out in a week or two).

The game itself is part platform/adventure game and part CREATE A GAME. That's right, within the game itself is a VERY complex and involved level editing program. I had a chance to sample it, but without all of the tutorials in english (because that's just how the beta worked) I wasn't able to to everything that I wanted. However, there were some really nice user generated levels that were made by other people that had me really excited. I think one of the best things about the level editor, is that you can control the various music tracks within a level, and by that I mean you can create your own mixes of multi-layered level tracks, mixing in various bass, drums, lead, and even ambient tracks at different levels and sound types. It's SO VERY VERY DEEP. I can't wait for the full retail version of the game to come out, because I think I'll have a lot more to say about it then. WOOO.

On top of all of THAT, I got an iPod this week. This is actually my first iPod, but I'm very excited because I need it for the gym (my 512 MB player had to be changed out too often), and I like to have something to listen to while I'm driving. It's great. It's a 4th Generation iPod Nano with a 16GB of storage. I pretty much have it filled already. AND my coverflow is fully operational with no DOUBLES and no missing album covers. I took some shots.







it says "Tony iPod". Isn't that awesome. I'm so fucking cool.



RIGHT ON! WOOOOOOOOOO!

Okay, so on Friday after the jam, Danielle and I had people over for some drinking and hangouts. We sat around for a bit and talked and listened to records. I drank a bit, and had a chance to talk with peeps. It was a good time. As things got later (and I more drunk [probably everyone else too]) we decided to bust out the Buzz! game for some quiz time fun. Also, we had some delicious chips. Some of the pics...















SALAD FINGERS?





YOU PIED YOURSELF!







After everyone had a round at that, we fired up singstar! SINGSTAR! It was great. I guess I'm pretty good when I'm drunk. Here are the last of the photos.









Bad ass dance moves?





Mike passed out after 6 beer. He left his tampons on my counter.



Cute















I'm such a ham.



That's it for Friday. It was a really good time, but a few people couldn't make it out. Omar was missed but he made it out for a visit on Saturday, and, at one point I was talking to Steve on MSN, and he wanted me to say "Hi" to everyone, and that he misses us out there. Cool. So I guess that wraps it up for me tonight. HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

GFY (the return of),
Tony I