Audioooo

Hey so i've been really sick and haven't been able to attend classes but I still wanted to share my stuff.

So originally I created a trance/techno/house mix using my friend Matt's help and software called Magix Music Maker (i think that's it) but we ran into problems saving and exporting and we ended up losing it which was extremely frustrating because we spent so much time on it. It was a lot of fun playing around with the different beats though and hopefully we will be able to recover it. Anyways, as a last resort I went to my backup idea which was to show how much some songs are just the same as others.

You might have heard of the joke "Theory of a Nickelback" and whatever else which combines Theory of a Deadman and Nickelback because they sound so similar. Unfortunately i don't have any nickelback or deadman on my playlists (ha. ha.) and i had troubles downloading so I combined two other songs which have points in the song which actually have the same riff.

Sum 41 and Treble Charger have collaborated on a lot of songs and co-written a lot of tracks together and because of that there is a lot of crossover.

So at about 1:39 into the song Fat Lip by Sum 41 there is a breakdown where he sings "don't count on me....etc...etc..."

At about 1:52 into the song Hundred Million by Treble Charger there is also a breakdown and the guitar riff is almost exactly the same as the breakdown in Fat Lip.

I merged the two songs to create one. I wanted to do more overlays and change the timing because Hundred Million is about 1/16 of a beat off from Fat Lip but GarageBand sucks, or I suck for not really spending the time to learn the program. Anyways...

Impersonal Communication

I think it's interesting how impersonal everyone has become with the development of communication technology. It's no longer meeting in person, it's talking on the phone. It's no longer talking on the phone, it's texting. It's no longer texting, it's online messaging. It's no longer online messaging, it's just checking out your status....

There are so many friends who no longer actually talk to each other, but are still up to date on each others' news because they have checked each other's facebook, twitter, myspace, etc. This is not to say that people don't get together over a beer or a cup of coffee, but exciting news is so often broadcasted over these sites, that sometimes the news loses it's excitement... it's appeal.

This could be the intent. Sometimes people just don't want to have to deal with the reactions from so many people. Sometimes people just forget about a friend, but this allows them to reach everyone regardless of who they remember.

I think it it just interesting that people are so keen, and invest so much time in "creeping" or "stalking" others on these websites, but don't take the time to talk to them in person.

Here is a group I created on facebook called:

"I creep peoples' facebook, but don't talk to them in person."

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=276291053280

brand new.

so i have never done anything like this before, and i honestly have no idea what i am doing.

it was easy enough to create the blog, the problem is finding something interesting enough to write which others would want to read.