Obama announced today that tomorrow he's giving a major address on race, so buckle up 'cause this is set to be grand, in every way. Big metaphors, big ideas, big crowds, massive applause and probably a pumping song blaring over the speakers when it finishes. If you haven't seen an episode of The West Wing before, Obama's address looks to be the ( Read more... )

Today has been one of those days. A lot of "bittersweet distractors". I spent most classes enjoying my musical mindspace all to myself. Figured out where one of my songs is supposed to go (Not as much doo-wop as I first expected) and that left me happy, 'cause I've liked this song for a while ( Read more... )

I've gone through three or four different demo programs to slow down mp3s to help with the toughest, fastest parts of the transcriptions I've had to do this year. Tonight, the night before the next transcription is due, I find out that my pre-installed Quicktime has a built-in playback altering. Daym ( Read more... )

I would love to see Huckabee v Obama in the general. Those debates would be off the wall, man. But Huckabee's dragging and Joe Lieberman has been standing awfully close to his bff McCain lately, and Obama has only tied up with Clinton. If you had a McCain+Lieberman ticket vs a Clinton+anything ticket, who would the conservatives hate more?

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This room kills peace, love and good ideas.

Someone pulled the fire alarm here at Humber res at 4:13AM. It's 5:03, I just got back in. I feel awful, and today will be exhausting, but I got to have fun with a couple hundred people in their jammies for 50 minutes. So I guess that was cool.

Now that you found it, it's gone ( Read more... )

There's an arguement to be made that I'm biased towards Radiohead. It's true ( Read more... )

Turbulance and obstacles are are giving us a chance to think about new ideas. If we split the ideas in two, instead of trying to keep them together under pressure. One group of intensely old-school super soul 60's power ska, reinventing the same old. And then another, slightly larger (11/12 person) big band power pop, radio-friendly, commercially- ( Read more... )