Greater Satellites

Well, perhaps I should be giving myself a bit of a pat on the back. You see, the combined views of all the videos on my YouTube account has just shattered the 10,000 mark. “What are the most watched videos?” you may ask, the numbers don’t surprise me too much… Rockin The Drums has 6462 views as of moments ago. This makes sense because it already had close to a thousand views before I started adding the sketch videos. Rockin’ also has the most amount of comments and ratings. Second place is Wheelchair Race with 1,041 views. It fits in nicely on YouTube; that is to say it’s short and random like a majority of other user videos. The bronze medal winner here on my YouTube goes to Johnny And I with 879 views. It’s the shock factor that seems to be generating a bit of buzz with this one. I’ve received angry comments and messages about it, but I figure that since there’s a pause (stop) button, that I’m not forcing anybody to watch anything. I guess 25000 is the next sweet spot I’ll make a big deal about (when I’m 100 years old).

Another cool thing is that I’m back up over 4000 songs in my iTunes library again. There’s a natural ebb and flow of music with me, and this isn’t the first time I’ve been over 4000, but I just thought I’d make a note of it to provide a segue into what I’m really driving at: new music reviews. I’ve downloaded a lot of new music recently and rather than do my normal thing and save it all for one mega-review post, I’ll review what I’ve thoroughly listened to thus far and get to the rest later. This time will be different, this time I’m going to say the album name and then give a haiku for a review. I think it’ll be fun, so here we go:

Foo Fighters - Skin And Bones
Oh my fucking God
Acoustic Foo is grandeur
Go buy or download

Incubus - Light Grenades
Incubus is back
They lost their edge long ago
Please come back, Dirk Lance

The Human Abstract - Nocturne
What is happening?
Faint of heart, do turn away
This band is insane

That was quick and relatively painless. Perhaps in the future I’ll do more of those. This blog would be inaccurate if I didn’t address any other milestones in my life, so… Oh yeah, ok, I’ve been crazy about someone for a little over a month running. So there’s that. Booyakasha!

This is perhaps the most innovative use of 18,500 gallons of paint EVER.

http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/full

Anything I can do at this point to keep myself awake would be fantastic. I was up all night working on my English Comp mid term, writing some journals (also for Comp class), studying for my Digital Typography mid term today, and finishing a Photoshop project for next week. I’m tired as hell, but all that work is done, and now a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

Right now I’m testing driving a fairly new 2Ghz iMac G5 in the video encoding department. I’m just seeing how long it takes to encode various types of things, etc, etc. I must say I am pleased with the results and cannot wait to get one of these bad motherhumpers for myself (with the Intel Core Duo, of course).

I think I’m beginning to run out of things to say on this journal… It’s becoming stagnant, like the water that gathers on top of a pool cover from the rains during the less-frigid winter months. I really need to finish my personal site, it will encompass everything I have to say, offer, and showcase… All in one spot. Then, when the iMac arrives (whenever my lazy ass gets enough money to buy it), I believe a Video Podcast will be in order with special guests, weekly news stories, and more Su Doku than the human mind can logically figure out! GOOOOO ME!

Soon.

Edit at 12:11 PM: Holy shit, I just remembered that I forgot to post about the birthday and Atlantic City! When I wake up this evening I’ll be all over that shit.