I've been trying to teach myself to play drums lately. It's fun, but maddening. I'm OK with snare + kick, but throw hi-hat into the mix and my kick leg goes totally to shit, or I start playing the kick pattern with my hi-hat hand. I'm not sure why my left hand and right foot seem to be so connected. It takes a lot of concentration to keep a ( Read more... )

I haven't worked on Rollie's new tune yet. But I have listeneded to it an endless number of times. An endless number! Like pi. I am starting to hear things in it that I didn't hear the first hundred listens (Satanic voices), so I guess it's paying off. I haven't taken my bass into the shop yet, so I will work on the song this weekend, and then ( Read more... )

Working is no fun. If I had a million dollars and I didn't have to work, I wouldn't work. I would just do what I want. Right now I would rather be doing what I want than doing work. I would rather be working on my own work that I want to work on. That's right, I just ended a sentence with "on". There, I did it again.
Back to work!

Wally did a Google search and found the solution to our problem. It turns out one of the images I imported into the library became a corrupt file somehow. I deleted it, recreated it in Photoshop, and then reimported it. Now the Flash file opens without any problems. So now I'm back to animating again. I want to try to get this sucker done ( Read more... )

There's this Chinese food place I sometimes go to during my lunch break at work. The first couple times I went there, the food was great. I got the sweet and sour chicken, and they gave me a ton of chicken pieces on fried rice for $4.50. But each time I've gone back, their food has gotten steadily worse. I started to notice a few overfried ( Read more... )

I was working in Flash on "The Abomination Episode 2: Speed Pigeon" last night, and making some pretty good progress, placing Dream Man's heads in sequence to show him eating a big stack of waffles (this is in the first 5 seconds of the episode). His body is not there yet, so it just looked like his head was floating above the table with the chair ( Read more... )

No matter what time I set my entry to, Livejournal ends up changing it when I post my entry. And it's always wrong. So this time I'm not touching it. It will probably say I posted this at 2AM or something. But it's really 1:05PM right now. I'm at work on lunch break ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream I was dying. The way I knew I was dying was because I kept getting more and more tired. I knew that when I finally fell asleep, I would die. So I was trying to stay awake for as long as I could, but I was also resigned to the fact that it wouldn't be very much longer before I died. Everybody was trying to make sure I ( Read more... )

Why is it so damn hard to find a drummer? A good drummer. One who isn't a flake. Or under 21. Who has money ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble concentrating on one thing for more than a few minutes at a time. I keep thinking about different projects I'm working on, but none of them seem to be going anywhere very fast. Has the creative process always been this slow, or am I just getting more impatient with everything ( Read more... )