I wasn't expecting
Merry Chistmas (and A Funky New Year) to get any attention for a little while (six months) longer, but
Deliberate Noise has put together a
belated holiday show because they can.
I found I didn't care for much of it, till the faster paced songs kicked in. Still, I wasn't in the belated holiday mood, though I liked the rant about Bill O'Really and the war against Christmas at the end. Also one of the songs was by
Lee Harris and The Tiajuana Horns.
Harris, I think is a fellow
Prince fan who used to post on
alt.music.prince. Interesting co-inka-dink, if true. Now that I think about it, this might not be the first podshow we've both been played on. I don't feel like researching this, though.
The Deliberate Noise
homepage also hosts a comicbook discussion podcast called
Comicbook Noise, which I will listen to at some point.
Labels: holidays, my music, podcasts, PsychoVoyager
or you can call these my
New Years Resolutions. There have been years I chose not to make such resolutions, but this year I've decided to make a bunch. I should be able to keep
some of them, no?
In no particular order:
Visit a shooting range, join a 2nd amendment advocacy group such as the
NRA or the
GOA. I need to do more research. I also plan on getting my first gun (
a Browning Buckmark?) either at the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007, so I'll have to
apply for a permit during the second half of the year, I guess.
Join the ACLU. Yes. I'm a bit bothered by the whole spying on Americans thing. I'm one of the few people I know personally, who thinks the war in Iraq is a good thing, but the occasional over-reach of Presidential authority by the monkey in the oval office (and his organ grinders) gets at me. There are legal
arguments both pro and con over what the
Prez has done, and while I admit I haven't sorted the whole thing out, I do feel motivated to join the one group who isn't going to sit by and just let shit happen.
Clean my refrigerator -
eeeewwwww!!!!
Finish the songs I wrote and or recorded in 2005. Had a hard drive crash in September that seemed to be the final straw that killed my creative momentum. Temporarily, of course. This music and it's progress has been logged on my
Psychovoyager site.
Write one new song a week. Just lyrics and melody. No elaborate arrangements. Shouldn't be so hard...
Record One cover song a month. Songs written by other musicians that is.
Get my finances in order. *ahem*
Get started on my retro/contemporary Black superheroes comic book concept. My Jewish swordsman epic gets put off till another year.
Getting a new cat. or two.
More exercise. Sure, I look healthy, but I'm forty now. It's not enough that I'm a pedestrian. I need to dust off those weights or something.
Cut down on Altoids consumption. It's an expensive habit.
Finish both pending Black Jesus cartoons by the summer. To be ready as greeting card/DVDs for next Christmas.
Take advantage of my dental plan while I still have one. As an adult, I have never been to a dentist. I shudder to think of the horrors that will be found once I'm examined.
Finish Grand Theft: Auto San Andreas. A few years ago I resolved to finish
GTA3, but my brother moved out and took his PS2 with him. He recently got me my own PS2 as well as True Crime: New York City. In the meantime I got San Andreas for the PC. Aside from the
PSP, which I mostly use when I'm not home, my gaming agenda is topped by San Andreas, followed by True Crime:NYC, and perhaps when I'm done with those, I'll revisit
GTA3. I also have the PC version of Vice City around here somewhere. Never played that one.
Continue to read (when I'm not online) even though I have a
PSP that goes everywhere with me (even on the bowl) and plays just about every type of media; comics, movies, games, music and text, which is unfortunately the least
glamorous of the bunch*. On the plus side, memory sticks are such that if I were on a really long trip, I'd soon enough run out of movies and music. Games are a good time killer, but could see myself
preferring to read some text in the meantime. Provided my batteries weren't dead by that time.
*On the other hand, text is what I spend most of my time on when I'm online. Not porn, not video, music, nor games, though I do spend time on all of those things.
Hmmm. And it's unlikely I'll stop reading books or comic book compilations. I do spend less time with newspapers, however.
Organize my CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. That's some shit that's gone way outta hand. This should be on the top of my list.
Learn to play the flute. Got an inexpensive bamboo flute in Chinatown, sometime in mid 2005. Haven't really gotten very far with it, yet.
Resume my study of Japanese. Got sidetracked for two or three years.
That's about it. At some point, I'll make a permanent link to this list on the side of the page, so I can refer to it
occasionally.
Labels: broken promises, holidays
Got the PSP. I got the money for Christmas, but I had to endure the mall yesterday to pick the bad boy up. Even though one can find *relatively* okay prices for 2 GB memory sticks at Amazon and elsewhere, I couldn't wait so I bought a 1GB memory stick for $99. Also bought
GTA: Liberty City Stories, perhaps the only game I will need for a while. I never finished GTA 3, but playing this game for a few minutes, driving around made me feel like I'd returned to a familiar neighborhood.
I converted some videos
using this tutorial. Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex episodes 9 and 10, Macross Zero 1 and 2, trailers for
Mission Impossible 3 and
Exodus. Two videos by Bloc Party; Banquet and Helicopter, one by Sevendust; Ugly and some
PSP ready trailers from CPM.
I transferred music from
Bloc Party,
Prince (unreleased out-takes),
Damien Marley, Best Of
Kool And The Gang 1969-1976 did not go through probably due to the memory being full (this is for all intents and purposes
NOT THE SAME BAND who gave us songs like Misled, Victory and other crap from the eighties) and this possibly brilliant cat named
Nadir whom I first heard on
Adam Curry's podcast the other day.
Check out his song Slave on his website.
Also read an article about reading manga on the PSP. Tried it with MPD Psycho and so far I'm not impressed. I may need to be more familiar with navigating through graphics, but so far I don't like it. I do like being able to transfer text to jpegs (same article just mentioned) so that I can take lengthier articles with me when necessary.
All in all, this is gonna be a fun toy to play with.
Labels: Anime, Awesome, downloads, fun, holidays, music, PSP, video games
Yes, even better than the
one worn by the Pope. Why? Mine has dreads!!! Okay, they're tiny braids, but it's cool. Made by my co-worker, Ronnie.
Merry Christmas and everything else.
Labels: dead links, holidays, These pictures will come back to haunt me one day
Merry Christmas And A Funky New Year Recorded back in 1994 on a Tascam 688, a multitrack cassette recorder with eight audio tracks or seven with midi - I don't remember if I used midi, but I probably did. Given away to friends, family and whatnot as a cassette tape in '94, then as a CD in 1999, and finally, part of the song showed up as a soundtrack to a video X-Mas card given out on VHS and VCD in 2001. The gift that keeps on giving. Or at least, keeps being given.
Download or stream from the Internet Archive (click here)Black Jesus and Baby Buddha - X-Mas 2003A little video done in flash with digital photos of an area of Hempstead just a couple of blocks from my apartment, used as a back drop. It was given out as a Christmas card that year on DVD-R. I've been threatening to do more of these, and actually started one almost a month ago, but I've put it on hold and will continue it later. It'll be used as next year's Christmas card, maybe.
It can be viewed at Google Video (click here)Labels: downloads, holidays, my music, non music projects, PsychoVoyager, religion