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Lyrical Musing

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:06:50 -0400

"Leavin' pussycats like why hoes need Kotex ." -- MF DOOM

So DOOM uses this line in "Accordian" off the Madvillian album (you must listen if you haven't.) Got me thinking about how rarely reference to particularly feminine themes are used in rap particularly, and lyrics in general.

I will have to author a battle-rap wherein I boast of my skills by suggestion that my words hit with such force that they reduce all other MCs to a streak of menses.

If you get into a battle rap before me, feel free to steal this rhyme.

I'm sorry that this is the update I'm making- but it is.

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A NEW WARRIOR Has Entered the Ring

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:42:45 -0500

Hello, everyone!

Are you playing Street Fighter IV? Please friend me on X-Box Live for battlings. My GamerTag is BOODOOperson.

Other news: Amanda and I were considering GDC, but that doesn't look like it will be happening at this point as enthusiasm has leveled.

Haven't played as much music as I should recently, I've been Team Fortressing or Street Fightering instead. I've recorded almost literally nothing, so that needs to change. SG and Strat could both use some attention/setup, but that's no excuse!

I tried to call out due to the storm today, but instead I ended up working the 12:30-9PM shift because two people had beaten me to calling out, one of whom works this shift. Showed up to work and the cafe in our building is closed, so I'm not sure what is happening re: food today. I may eat people's brains.

That's all for now. Peace out, Seacrest!

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Obamanation + Guitar Recordings

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:06:01 -0500

Long time no speak, internet. Hope you're all doing well in the first few hours of the Obama presidency!

I've been working and keeping warm through the snowy season, and I'm about three weeks away from my 23rd birthday. Just two more months after that, and spring is on its way.

This past Sunday, I finally set up the beginnings of a recording solution with my computer. I've started recording my practicing some, to get a feel for recording itself.

Hopefully I can start actually making things and not just mess around on the guitar when I'm bored, but I'm not there yet. I'll be uploading MP3s to Vox as I complete them.

There are 3 MP3s up right now, totaling just under 15 minutes. Different effects/settings are used on each file, but there is repeated material, mostly Melody of Lute from FF IV.

I'm mostly doing this for my own re-enforcement, but if anyone has musical/technical/general feedback I would be grateful for it.

The guitar is a Sigma CS-3 (nylon string) classical. The recording is through two Behringer C2 condenser mics near the sound hole, through a mixer to an external sound card's Line In. Software used is Ableton Live 7.

Also, Joe Biden was president for 5 minutes today. Those must have been the happiest five minutes of his life, narrowly edging out his victory over Little Mac

VP Macho Man

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QotD: Make it Count

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:42:47 -0500

It's Election Day! How was your voting experience?

I was able to vote today, and it was a real vote— not one of those provisional ballots. I'm in Ward 5, Precinct 1 of Cambridge and voted at the LBJ apartments on Erie St. about 3 minutes from my apartment by foot.

They helpfully posted a copy of their registered voters list outside of the location, and my name was conspicuously absent. I had confirmed my registration to vote by VoteForChange.com's Facebook app, so I was surprised.

I was sent home to call the city election people and come back with mail in my name as I'm currently awaiting a replacement of my driver's license. The city people found me with no trouble (in their computer) but I was nowhere at the 5,1 polling place (paper listings.)

The woman who helped me at LBJ was quick, courteous, and knowledgeable. The explanation I received for my name not being on the listings they had was, "You're a Libertarian." I guess they only queried for voters

WHERE RegParty IN ("R","D","U","I")

I also saw a girl in front of me receive and fill out two ballots. One was of course marked SPOILED immediately at check-out, but it was funny that she filled them both out. I felt the very fabric of our democracy tearing. :)

Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice, Alright

Modest Mouse

I'm in heaven
Trying to figure out which stack
They're going to stuff us atheists into
When Peter and his monkey laugh

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I don't CARE if I get to be Jet Boy

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:51:37 -0400

Let's say you love the Venture Brothers— because you should. Maybe you also need shirts, so that those snobs at the supermarket won't call the cops to boot you again.

This is the perfect thing for you, my friend.

Each week a shirt is produced to coincide with that week's Venture Bros. episode, and is printed in volume to match the orders received.

You can either order the shirt per weekum as episodes air and designs are revealed, or you can sign up for the automatic purchase subscription for the full effect of having a shirt delivered to you each week reminding you how good your taste in cartoons is.

If you don't have Venture Bros. shirts you'd better be walking around topless!

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Smash Brothers Brawl Friend Code

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:00:46 -0400

1160-9448-0774

So add me please!

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Today's... Scary Statement of Fact

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:38:16 -0500

Of [...] 80 million new antidepressant prescriptions in the '90s, non-psychiatrists wrote 60 million. And if studies of primary caregivers are any indication, most of those diagnoses of depression were made in less than three minutes.

Which is really upsetting! So then you get really mad at doctors, but then realize they're just giving the people what they want (as patients are now customers) and so you shift the rage to the Pharmaceutical companies for pushing the stuff like cold cereal to elementary school kids.That's not very fair though- no amount of advertising forces you to want/buy something.

So why? Why do such a high proportion of people looking for relief from depression seek it in the same manner? Is there some factor aside from personal decision-making which compels us into the 'take a pill and get on with your life' solution? Well, consider this:

Try getting your company's health insurance to cover the expense of counseling. Odds are, it won't. But it'll pay for pills.

Thanks again to Salon.com, my daily workhorse of a site to read while not working at work. Post coming later tonight about something way cooler and more fun and interesting and relevant to people who are awesome. I also tried to upload some music but Vox is too busy having sex with journaling platforms of its own gender.

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Knut is an (Inverse) Furry

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:54:25 -0500

Some very sad news reported by The Independent yesterday.

Apparently the world's cutest future murder-machine, Knut, has spent too much of his formative years around humans, rendering him a 'psychopath,' presumed incapable of mating with another of his own species. Clearly the solution is to put another polar bear* in a human suit, and Knut won't be able to walk for the involuntary thrusting of his loins. The downside being that this could yield procreation, and until now the only solace I've found in one being attracted to other species is knowing progeny are out of the question.

This doesn't mean Knut is no longer adorable, it just means he's adorable and terribly damaged goods. Knut is both a furry and a child actor. That poor, poor bear. On the lighter side, observe this hilarious Rebus puzzle (stolen from Salon.com's Broadsheet:)

Hillarebus

*Furries have taught me it does not matter what gender the other bear may happen to be.

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Wiki Random Article album meme

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:44:21 -0500

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click Random Article. That is your band's name.
Click Random Article again; that is your album name.
Click Random Article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Mar Ukba, by Subterraneans (band).

Tracklisting:
Tettenhall (which like my home town is between Warwick and Worcester)
Ulrich Roth
高知ファイティングドッグス [Kochi Fighting Dogs],
Col. Thomas Dent
Henry Hastings Sibley (first governor of Minnesota!)
Beacon Hill (Gloucester) (Tom Green and Tom Cruise both have ties here)
list of sportspeople by nickname (This one writes itself)
大本 [Ōmoto] ('The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, is [...] considered a kami.')
Gamm Theatre (a small theatre in Pawtucket, RI)
Scandinavian Bunkering
Episcopal Diocese of Newark
Conservatory Garden
R. D. Hinshelwood
Hüttikon
Henri Meige

I like the idea of a band named "Subterraneans (band)," especially as it's pretty clear that name is already taken.

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WANTED:

nobody@vox.com(BooDoo) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:32:42 -0400

Rock Band - Dead or Alive

So Rock Band is a lot of fun, though the five songs we could choose to perform while being taped due to rights concerns were all kind of butt. We settled on Bon Jovi, which proved hilarious when they told us to 'jump around' for the video as it's difficult to rock out that hard to any Bon Jovi song. I tried, though—check the mad whammying on my bass for proof that I was trying very hard to make 2 notes per measure look interesting!

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