"Most people spend their lives lost, not knowing what they really want. They usually wander until something fits.
Then there are a few of us that have a much worse burden to bear, that is knowing what we want and how hard it is to actually find/create/achieve that."
-J.J. Johnstone 07/22/09
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm.”
- George Carlin
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.”
- George Santayana
"I want to meet a girl who knows how to dress, its not that hard. Wearing leggings doesn’t make you fashionable. I don’t care how much i like seeing your butt in them."
-via 50yearstorm
"Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour" atleast since "Hero of a Hundred Fights" broke up, and their band before "brass knuckles for tough guys"
Check out: myspace.com/inappropriatetoughguybehaviour
they are actually pretty rad.
"I danced with the bride of the elephant man and she whispered
You'll always be just a fool in the shadows
Without a face, without a story of your own
You'll always be a rube at the window
Staring like an asshole with a quarter in your fist"
-Bride of the Elephant Man (Spencer Moody)
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
- Charles Bukowski
“What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.”
- Charles Bukowski
Here is a quick shot of FCP from just syncing the 3 cameras on the upper level of the auditorium. 3 HVXs on tripod on the top row; left, center & right. On the main level I had 3 handheld Nikon D90s. Those have yet to be sync'd. The deadline is looming too. There were some issues with cards not being transferred properly from the shoot, so you can see holes in the timeline from corrupted/non-readable disk images. I had to do work arounds for alot of the footage, like using some Japanese MXF to Quicktime software to view the original P2 files in Quicktime. Then exporting those to Pro-Res and bringing them into FCP and syncing them with their source audio there instead of the Log and Transfer function. It worked fine, but made for a long and tedious process of just importing. Then I had to take all the footage, good and bad, and sync it to the final album audio, which was actually from a different show, so the timing is slightly off, meaning alot of minor time remapping.
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
-Calvin Coolidge
I just came across this photo on myspace today. This person is not one of my "real life" friends, but a myspace friend. This photo is recent. It made me feel pretty good, like maybe I have done some cool things in my life. I thought I would share since it made me happy, maybe the few of you that knew me back in the Andromeda days will appreciate it, as you all probably helped me out in one way or another. If anyone has photos online of Andromeda related stuff, comment back with links. I am feeling abit nostalgic after seeing this photo.
Thanks.
(Oh for all of you that didn't know me from 2000-2004, that guy is riding an Andromeda Snowboard, the Conflict model. It was the staple of our brand.)
