tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-315254302011-12-03T12:55:45.743-05:00lafingputzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09920692413668564849noreply@blogger.comBlogger851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31525430.post-16658205328927651092011-12-03T12:54:00.002-05:002011-12-03T12:55:45.838-05:00

So, memory didn't prevail, and furthermore, won't. The tour was fun, and I sure know that I'm always ready to get back on the road. Lives continued as normal, we've played some shows since the summer, but not many. We'll be wrapping up the year with a show in Havertown, PA, and then taking a break January and February to get a new van.Matt and Armine are still working on Temet Nosce, and from

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I have been seriously lacking in posts as of late. Tour is something you get caught up in, and I did, so...I probably won't be posting any more till the end of tour, and then I'll recap everything after my last post up till the end. As much as I liked recapping events at night, I'd rather live the event, and recap it after all is said and done. Thanks for reading, stay tuned for the end of tour

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...as Matt put it while traversing the millions of tunnels it takes to get there. We stopped once so far, and were treated by down home yokels from the good ole US of A. I know that it s exactly how we sound, but hearing other Americans order cappuccinos, coffee, and various food items makes me ashamed at how stupid our accent sounds compared to the whole of Europe. I've lost track of how long

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Today, I am in Italy, and had my first experience with a bidet. It needs to catch on in America because it was absolutely wonderful. It was like a shower just for my ass, leaving you feeling fresh and clean. My legs are covered in itchy bug bites from last nights fiasco with the horror that was our dinner situation, and I'm trying real hard not to just rip apart my legs right now.Today we're off

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Woke up this morning in the sweet hotel we were given, opened the window only to be attacked by flying bugs, so I closed it again. The view was absolutely outstanding, lots of pics to come. Andrew and I roomed together, but woke up too late to catch breakfast, we pretty much starved till we got to the show in Italy.We took a much deserved detour on the way to the show, and it was un-f**

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Passing through Germany and Austria on our way to a festival Italy. The view is great. We were watching 'the last samurai' when Matt said he needed to pee, so he grabbed a bottle and prepared. Mike ended up pulling into a truckstop shortly after that, much to Matt's happiness. The parking lot was on a sting upward slant, in fact, we had been traveling uphill for white a while now. As we pulled in

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We had to go back to Bratislava this morning to go back to the mall we bought the kick drum head at. We accidentally got a 20inch head, when we needed a 22inch. We hangout for a while just passing the time, time we thought we didn't have, but when we got to Austria, and pulled up to the venue, they weren't even open yet.Mike got some pizza from across the street, which made us fear that that was

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Another hassle crossing borders today. I guess they assume every van with dirty dudes in it is smuggling drugs. This time they did actually check the gear in the back, and individually searched all our bags, asking each of us if we had any drugs, but still found nothing but dirty clothes. I understand that it's their job to stifle the trafficking of drugs and illegal substances into their

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My only view of Bratislava before this tour was the scene in Euro-trip where everything is rundown, and $2.30 American gets them pampered in a 5star hotel. Things were obviously embellished, or things have come a long way since then. Either way, it looks like a fun place. Though we only got to see the city in passing, but the people seemed cool. Dave was pretty upset at the fact that we were

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Happy 4th all. We celebrated the 4th of July the only way we could while in Poland...go to a hostel, check our facebooks, then get sleep in preparation for a ridiculously long driveWe're on our way to Slovakia which is about an 8hr or so drive, but we're just happy to be getting out of Poland. Not that it's been all bad, but, we've had some pretty crazy experiences in the past week, and really

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Sorry for the lack of updates, I thought it'd be best to do all the Poland shows in one fell swoop, so, without further ado, here is our seven days in Poland.Day 1:The drive was short, only about an hour or two. We got into town, and Persil (our driver) was stoked, cause this is his first time to Poland. We got the square that the venue was apparently in, but couldn't find it. We finally called

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Rain again. Rain every day so far we've been here...except today, so far. We actually arrived to the venue early for once, and were able to chill for a while. The show was in a giant old SFT speaker factory. The venue was on the 1st floor (or for the Europeans, that's the ground floor), we setup mercy on the 2nd (euro - 1st), and we slept on the 3rd (you get the idea). On the floor where we slept

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I apologize in advance for never knowing where I am at any given time. Sometimes I'll be able to know. In the case of last night in Ljubljana, I only remember cause I thought it was a really funny sounding name for a city. The 'J's are actually pronounced like 'Y's, so it's 'Lyublyana' (pronounced 'lee-ub-lee-ay-na'. The last couple of shows have been pretty crazy. Nice turnouts on all of them.

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First day flights were unremarkable. Philly to Toronto, and Toronto to Frankfurt. We were picked up at the airport and immediately driven to the place where we were renting the gear for tour. We had to exchange some stuff cause it had already broken (city of ships has already been on tour for a couple weeks now) and we had to pick up a double kick pedal for me to play. Then it was a 2nd drive

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So I just got ahold of a blogger editor on the iPad, and so far it looks fantastic. This will be what I'll post through the while in Europe. It's got picture, HTML, and video support built right into the posting, no need for me to write any code, pretty rad. I'm at the Barbary in Philly at the moment, our last show before the European tour. Starting to get stoked. I usually don't get stoked for

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So...It's been quite a long time since I last posted anything on this blog. I've had absolutely no interest of sharing anything, because a) nothing I'm doing is that interesting, and b) I'm too lazy to write up an article about stuff that people would actually want to know. I update my twitter, but not even that often anymore. I check Facebook, but hardly ever post anything anymore. I've been

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So I've lost track of the days. Turns out today is Thursday, and I don't do Thursdays well. I'll get to the rest of tour in a bit.We're currently staying at Matt's in-laws house in Morgan Hill, CA. Very nice place, very, VERY big house. They're going to cook Korean bar-be-que for use today, along with having mass salad, and sushi, but this isn't the punch line of the story. We stayed here

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So I've lost track of the days by now. All I know is, today is Tuesday, and we're now sitting at a cafe called 'Red Table Cafe' in Ft. Collins, Colorado.So, let me see if I can recap (remember) the last couple days:Day6&7We've been having tons of fun with the frisbee. It's probably the best thing to happen to touring the US since air conditioning. First point of order, Armine shaved his head (

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Day5The Triple Rock Social Club is fantastic. We got to the venue, loaded gear in. It was raining like mad when we get there so we had to rush everything inside. We then headed over to the bar/restaurant they have attached to it. Free food for all the bands, plus, it was Wednesday, and they have free bacon every Wednesday night. I'm not a big eater of the bacon, but when you're on tour, and it's

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Day3Chicago looks exactly how we left it. There was some used fireworks in an elementary school recess yard, which was the most exploded ordinance I've ever seen in one place in my life. The venue wasn't open when we arrived so we walked to the aldi and got some groceries. I got a box of straberries, and a box of cherries.They were extremely delicious.After the show we went and stayed with one of

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Day2Pounding headache, sore muscles, but otherwise, super duper. Dave's promising a decadent breakfast of stuffed french toast. Can't wait.--Got to the show. The fireworks were already flying all around us. It sounded like a war zone…only prettier. The venue is a house, and the basement we're playing in is 'cozy' which means, we barely fit and it's gonna be god awful hot. Luckily the upstairs

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Day1-So I woke up late. We went to pack the van at 10pm Friday, which was a mistake, since I had to be up at 6:30am Saturday to start my pickup run. I also had to do my laundry, but fell asleep once I put everything in the dryer.I woke up to my cell phone jingle ringing on my desk across the room. I darted up and over to pick it up and had an awkward conversation with Armine. He asked if I had

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Rosetta leaves for [US] tour this saturday the 3rd. I will be continuing having a tour blog/diary like the one I did when we toured Europe. I'll try to update it every day, but I can't guarantee that I'll have internet access every day. I might get the mobile blogger application for android so I can update without using my laptop. There will be pictures, longwinded rants, and funny and

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So, as I sit here watching 'Ghostbusters' in my living room, typing this on my laptop, I think to myself, "mmm…a full torso apparition…and it's real!" - well, not really, but I love this movie (fyi, ghostbusters is my #1 favorite movie of all time). Just walked down to the corner store and got a monster and vitamin water.I just moved into my new house. Still setting things up and getting situated

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A friend of mine a while back told me about this website, it sounded like a fun idea, but then (me being me) immediately forgot what it was. I went on with my life. More recently, a friend on facebook put up the website link as an update. It sparked my curiosity. I had been wondering about this experience of random chatting. It's a great idea, thrown into a 1-on-1 conversation with a complete

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...movie making me feel my life is empty w/o a girlfriend/significant-other. One of the big repetative themes in everything I see is, "your life is meaningless without love, or something like it." More and more lately I've been feeling like something's missing, like something BIG is missing. I love what I do, I love my friends, and I love my family, but I feel like I need more. I'm not talking

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So I wasn't actually at the mixing session weekend cause I got stuck working on stuff in Philly, but rest assured, I can only say that mixing is boring, and I probably wouldn't have used much (if any) footage from that session anyway. So, on to business. I'll post here, and other places asking for videos with good quality video and sound (originals, not rips from youtube) of us playing live.

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It took me uploading it 3 times to youtube before it worked correctly. First time cut off the beginning and the end, second time there was no sound, but finally the third is successful. So here we are with the third installment of the Rosetta recording clips.And some pics for ya.I also uploaded to Vimeo, but it's still converting as I'm writing this, so, I'll post that link later on my twitter.

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Another weekend in the studio in NY. The glitz and glamour….out the window, and we're here to work!Mixing board!Guitar tracks are grueling, and Matt as usual is stressed out, but what's a Rosetta record without Matt getting stressed out?Here's a lovely shot of Matt's pedalboard.And then the heads used for Matt's guitar tracks (there's one missing, we ultimately used 5 heads).All guitar tracks are

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So, Rosetta is in the studio again (this time not ours) and we just wrapped up our first weekend of recordings. We'll be recording every weekend for the duration of November (with mixing the record extending a bit into early December). Andrew welcomed us warmly, and so did his dog Brady (I didn't get any pictures, but I got a lot of video). Starting at around noon, it took around 6 or 7 hours to

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So I've finally crossed over. I've gone out and purchased a MacBook Pro (which I am now writing this on). It's glorious, and fabulous, and it makes me happy....Okay, enough fanboy talk. It's a quality machine, and a HUGE step up from my iBook G4 which was a joke even for watching videos on youtube. Don't be fooled too much. I still love to death my PC desktop that I built myself, mostly cause

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So we're in the studio this weekend to record demos for the new record we're gonna be recording in November with Andrew Schneider and it's gonna be awesome. We're having fun and fooling around. We had Indian food from this great place called Saffron, and made Matt fart a lot, and the studio smells bad now. I'll have to open the windows, turn on the fans, and light some incense or something.

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Since Matt posts all about his guitar gear and what-not, I'm gonna start soon posting stuff about my drums, as well as our studio 'Jane-Doll Studios' and it's gear (since our first two records and the balboa split were all recorded there). So stay tuned, for the info be flowing before ya know it.

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A meeting? What family reunion has a meeting, with a historian, head corrispondant, and treasurer? Mine. No one talks to each other (at least outside of their immediate family), unless it's to make mildly witty banter as if we were stangers we needed to amuse. Boring people. Talks of cancer, lineage in diseases, hereditary problems, and more.Like a business meeting, there are reading of past

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Been playing a game called Prototype lately. It's really fun. It's sort of if you combined GTA4 with an X-Men game and then said "Blow s**t up, (while trying to figure wtf is going on)". I'm enjoying myself. I haven't gotten too far into the story yet, but it seems interesting. Anyway, I just posted a video of game footage I took using Fraps, a video capture program for video games. A little

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Writing this from Long Island, NY. On the beach too. My cousins' house is right on the beach. Not a normal beach house like you'd imagine, when it's just for coming and swimming, having a place to rest during the summer, and hangout on the beach. This is a fully dignified year-round live-in house. The other thing too, is that when I walked in, I thought the air conditioning was on. Turns out it's

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I was randomly searching through my HD today looking for old projects that I could either play with, or just delete and I found some random folder labeled 'scripts'. Here are two short...whatevers that I found in two different files. I think they're quite neat. Feel free to borrow and re-post these to stuff if you actually like them, but please give credit where credit is due, I'm extremely proud

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I've been looking at videos of us [Rosetta] for a while now since we've been back from tour (and wishing I were back on tour), but this one video really shows how crazy it got. This is a video from Budapest, Hungary. Good times had by all if you read my journal entry earlier about it. Anyway, here's the video:...while writing this I also found this other video of one of our new songs from

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New video I've been working on. Again, simple stuff compared to some other things I've been working on, but, that's why it's finished first. It's a zoom effect, much like those cheesy ones when some dude screams, and the zoom out to space, and you can STILL here him. Crazy. Enjoy, more to come.

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I've been playing after effects a lot recently, and this is the not so neatest thing I've done, but the other more awesome things I'm doing aren't finished, cause they take considerably longer to do. As this video is only a simple title animation, I finished it a lot quicker. It's just the text 'Jane-Doll Studios' but it zooms out as it's written as if on a blueprint, then starts shacking as if

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--day 13 (cont)Show was crazy...hot. I had a fan on me, but it sucked cause it blewin all directions except at me. We played well, and the crowd wentcrazy. Met a girl after the show 'nadia'. Pretty name, nice girl. Wasreally apreciative of us coming to Tilburg. It was funny during thebuildup of out last song, Armine was way up front and I guess gotreally close to her, so she took her glass of

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--day 12Internetted this morning, on the road to holland now. Only a 2hr drive or so. Lots of horses and cows here. Had a monster from the the waffle place from yesterday. Twas delicious. Davey from maudlin and his parents really took care of us these past few days. If I had the capacity to learn all these languages, I'd move to Belgium. People here speak german, Dutch, French, and some eve

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--day 11 (cont)Went out to the bars to hang out. People got crazy. The craziest part was that a guy from work at home was at the same bar, in the same city, in the same country in Belgium I was at tonight. It really blew my mind.Onto holland tomorrow. Dave's gonna feel like crap. I think this is the most he's had to drink all tour. Once again, nothing to report back from the bar situation.

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I'm gonna be posting all my pictures to flickr (though I may still post a few to twitpic just to quickly put them on twitter). The link is in the left menu bar, but here it is quickly for now:http://www.flickr.com/photos/lafingputzenjoy.

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--day 10Show was pretty bad but whatever. As much as it interferes with tour, I'm seriously craving some female companionship right now. The show today is at some sort of festival. People are saying it'll be good, but I'm questionable. At least we'll be able to play more than one song, I would hope.Walked around the city center for a bit. Had some coffee. Came back and had more coffe, oj,

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--day 8Long ride to Leipzig. Not much of interest on the way so far other than we were pulled over by what I guess was border patrol coming into germany. Checked our passports, asked a few questions about why we were here, and he was interested in our bands and such. His final question was "you don't have any drugs with you do you?" all at the same time we all say 'no' excitedly, cause none

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--day 6 (cont)Got spoiled in Budapest with a buffet dinner. Food was delicious. Was Hungarian pasta and turkey in some sort of tomato sauce, plus lettuce in salt and vinigar. Apparently the sound guy here is the 'american' type of sound guy, and thinks we're too loud. Working out the problem now.Some girl came up to the merch table confessing her love for our band and cried as she gave

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All photos for this tour (up till this post) can be found here.--day 5We're at a local Czech restaurant and about to eat this fried cheese dish with fries. I'll take pictures. It's gonna be epic. Carbonated water is all the rage here. I hate it, but I get it whenever I ask for 'soda' but I think I have to ask for 'voda', not sure though.Fried cheese is goooood. Authentic Czech dish, picture

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Someone stole my sandwich from the hostel fridge last night, and somedude threatened me with what I think was bitchslap in a language Ididn't understand. He mimed the slap.Armine got stopped at the airport security in Prague cause he had apicket knife in his bag that even he didn't know about. Funny, causethe US and Frankfurt airport security didn't catch that. Way to go.Suck it got confiscated

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Gonna start just copy/pasting my days notes into emails and submitting to my blog that way, since it's getting harder to find unlocked wifi, except when I'm busy having o load or play a show. So here goes.--Took forever to load up and get going. Finally leaving wroclaw at 2:30pm (we were supposed to leave around 11am). Turned on the radio in the van, and nickelback was on :- /On to Prague.

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So...this show was rediculous. We played two encores. wtf? After we played I walked out of the show near the merch tables, just to throw out some water bottles and stick paper-wrapping, and got hounded by people asking me to sign everything from their tickets to beer bottles (not kidding) and tells me they've seen Isis and cult of luna live, and we were tons better. Weird.More later on in Prague.

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Everyone went to a play of Hamlet last night. I opted out to lay back and relax...though I ended up passing out in my bed fast asleep.Got to the venue and setup shop at the merch table.saw a dead pigeon w/o a head.and now it's setup and soundchecks....more to come.

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Just got back from a stroll around Wroclaw. It's a nice place, and I can't understand a word anyone is saying. I tried to order a cappuccino, and I failed, I had to utilize my charade skills again by pointing at the menu, then trying to ask what something else said. Apparently it was some kind of upside down chocolate brownie/muffin with chocolate sauce and caramel on it, with cherries all around

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Cost me 4.05 euros...which is like, $6 US. Got an orange soda and some pretzel sticks, w00t. The flight wasn't that long, but it was annoying. For one, I was unusually uncomfortable. Usually I'm fine on planes for sleeping, but for some reason this time I had trouble getting to sleep. Secondly, we apparently sat in front of 2 gentleman from the Philadelphian Italian Mafia, and their mother, whom

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I procrastinate like whoa...Meant to spend the whole day doing laundry and packing, but I ended up setting up my drums and writing/recording two new songs. It's now (at the time of writing this sentence) 12:47am. I have a bunch of stuff to do tomorrow before 2pm which is when we're leaving, so hopefully I have the intelligence to pass out after posting this.Here's how my desk looked prior to

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Sending in my blog via email to test this out before we head off to Europe. I'll keep updated with my awesome descriptions of awesomeness, and take many pictures. We'll be bringing a video camera as well, but I don't think I'll have the footage off that till we get home.Anyway, stay tuned, and rawk on!

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Sure, there were two sequels to Jurassic Park, but one would be required to sustain an egregious head injury in order to enjoy them. This is perplexing to me, considering that the conflict of man versus genetically re-engineered dinosaur clones is one of the most fundamental in a writer’s arsenal.

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Apparently he only lives in Upper Darby or is from there, but I was (am) at work at starbucks today. I serve a few customers this afternoon, and all of a sudden Jamie Kennedy is at my register asking for a black iced tea. Now, I'm not one of those people that goes star crazy, I just think it's kinda fun when I see someone from a movie or band I like. I thought it was him from knowing his face,

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Why is it that everyone but me gets pulled over in my van...other than me. A while ago, I had the van (this is the van that rosetta tours in) inspected, but there was a problem code that came up in the diagnostics about the transmission. I didn't have any time (nor the money) to go get it fixed at that time, so I just let it go and told them I'd be back to finish the inspection once I got it done

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So...I originally was gonna do a review of the wolverine movie friday night, but it was late, i had work in the morning, and I've been in NY for shows all weekend, but I think that the delay in reviewing is actually for the better. We stayed with a very awesome good friend of ours in NY Sunday and he showed me his roommates video he made called 'Wolverine [in 30 seconds]' and it...is...incredible

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Well....do you? I don't want you coming to my blog and infecting millions across the interwebs....Okay well, I don't think anyone actually reads this, but it'd be nice to think so. But on a more serious note...nah, just kidding, what the f**k is up with this swine flu crap? One death in the U.S. so far (as of me writing this and the fact that I didn't actually read any news this morning) and it

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So as I twittered while I was there, two things I came to the conclusion about.One was the fact that I could never get married, and not cause I'm incapable of love, but because marriage is a very religious experience and past-time, and I am, for the most part, athiest. Now, I guess I'm not really, truly athiest in the 'I don't believe in anything' way. I do believe in a being or force (yes...I

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Seems a woman who once knew the comedian claimed that Cohen libeled her by name during a spoof interview with historian Gore Vidal by claiming to have had sex with her. “No reasonable person could consider the statements made by Ali G on the program to be factual.To the contrary, it is obvious that the Ali G character is absurd..."read more | digg story

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...long story short, my iPhone died and I'm going to either get it fixed, or get a new one tomorrow afternoon....long story long...I only got the my iPhone a month or so ago, and I was stoked. I now had my email, twitter, my blog, some cool games, linked in, and even had access to google calendar (which I need so badly cause I used to be so horrible with scheduling and such).Yesterday (Monday,

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anyway...It took FOREVER to render, and then upload to youtube, but it's finally up. I recorded myself playing drums on my video camera and then wrote guitar and bass to it. It turned out awesomely, but I'll let you be the judge. Good or not, I still had fun making it, and it's fun (at least for me) to watch.

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This is just a video I found. It's a skydiving instructor playing around in an indoor wind tunnel used for training skydivers. He's doing some crazy tricks that if I tried, I'd probably fail miserably at, but he makes it look so easy. Guess it comes from years and years of jumping out of airplanes to possible doom. It makes you awesome.

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The creation of teh int4rw3bs has brought about some unusual spelling, abbreviations, and words. blog, vlog, weblog, etc. whatever. I've been interested in these things for a while, but never really....cared. I'm now getting really into this twitter thing, along with breaking down and posting videos to youtube, as well as, writing this journal thingy. I've seen a lot of people have vlogs now too

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So we played a show in Harrisburg tonight, and to get us home safely without me driving off the road and killing us all, I loaded up on massive amounts of caffeine to make the drive. So I was (and still am as I type this) a little wired when I finally stepped in my front door at quarter after 5am.On the drive home I was thinking of things to do while I was still awake waiting for the caffeine

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Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the Saudi daily Al Watan reported Monday. According to the report, the man, who was arrested on Friday, was carrying a press card identifying him as an employee of Al Jazeera. read more | digg story

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Having been posted a few days after April 1st of this year, and not having read the comments on youtube yet, I started watching this video thinking it was completely serious...but in fact, it is not. The funniest part is that it could be real. I'm sure someone watched this and immediately started their brain rolling on ideas for advancing microbloggins/nanoblogging/bathroomblogging technology. My

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A robot scientist that can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them has made its first real scientific discoveries. Dubbed Adam, the robot is the handiwork of researchers at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge in the UK. All by itself it discovered new functions for a number of genes in Saccharomyces...read more | digg story

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These Concept Phone designs are no matter unique, but I bet no Normal Person will ever want to take these types of Phones with them in front of Public. Here are 12 Weird, Foolish and pointless Phone Concept design that no company will ever want to manufacture.read more | digg story

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"We are proud to announce a once in a lifetime offer, trips to Mars."I love April Foolsread more | digg story

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"Some people really love Star Wars. So, to show their love, they will go to great lengths to dress up as their favorite characters for nerd conventions, nerd parties and any other nerd-based gatherings. Here are some of the worst."My favorite one is the homosexual Darth Maul outfit.read more | digg story

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Going into this movie, I knew that it was going to be a big hype-fest. Lots of quick cuts, scary music, cliche character setup, and the fact that it's 'based on true events' makes is that much more enticing because it connects with you in a way that most horror flicks don't. That said...I thought this was a little (I stress 'a little') better than I walked into the theater thinking it was going

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Blizzard just updated their Battle.net webpage and it will allow users to merge their World of Warcraft accounts to the Battle.net. This will be the beginning of what they plan to do where they will merge all Blizzard products under one roof.read more | digg story

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Just got home a while ago from going out and [not] partying on st. patty's day. I did start my evening at a bar/pub though. Hung out with peeps and had some free h'ordeuvres (chicken fingers, meatballs, and really awesome crisps). After watching some of my friends have 'Irish Car Bombs' which looked like it would make me instantly go into anaphylactic shock...or just make me throw up, I headed

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Apparently the famed SciFi channel has realized that they don't actually like their 'geeks and space aliens' crowd that frequents the channel. They're going to be changing the stations name from 'SciFi' which is short for 'Science Fiction' they thought it'd be 'cooler' to rename the channel to 'Syfy'...which sounds stupid. Unfortunately I've heard that some people that are not in the know (idiots

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New link up to the left. Got the blog up for my upcoming web series 'Community Theater' which is in the writing process right now. Hoping to shoot end of summer, and release the first episode by fall. Stay tuned. My previous post has the pilot/test episode of it, and you can find more detailed info about that at the theater blog here. Enjoy!

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Posted my 2nd ever youtube video. It's called 'Community Theater' and it's a project I did with my sister a while back. I just had a script lying about that I fixed up and we filmed and edited it all in a matter of 2 days. I'm re-writing the script a bit, and hopefully we'll be setting up to shoot this soon. We're gonna re-do the entire first part (the parts in the video) higher quality, and with

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Just uploaded two audio files I've been working on. I helped out a friend with projects for his audio class, and these soundscapes are what we came up with. The first is a zombie attack, where I get eaten, and the second is a star wars soundscape. Both were really fun to make, and will probably have some more.Zombie Attack | Star Wars

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...because it's awesome. Done.Only kidding. Now, I read the 'graphic novel' and I understand hardcore comic book...*cough* graphic novel fans of watchmen how once again, Hollywood has destroyed a story, characters, and an overall idea of something we love, but C'MON! I mean, the book aside, that movie was still really kickass. I do have to say, that I agree with friends of mine that said the

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To accompany my new blog design, I've updated my websites design. lafingputz.com. It has the same design as my blog at the moment, but as time progresses I'll update it, make it snazzier and such. I'll be posting my projects, be they video, audio, or photographic. So check it out, have fun, and...yay!

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Got my own template up here and rawkin' hard! Pretty excited. Had this design for a while, and I've used it on numerous projects, and for clients, but never edited it for a blog or anything. Had more javascript and crazy menus and such setup, but seemed a bit much for blogger, so I shaved down a lot of the bells and whistles for something super-simplistic for this blog. Hope you like it.Not much

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Just got home from a show in Ithaca, NY. We were incredibly late, and when we showed up, quite possibly the worst band I've ever heard (well...not true, I've heard worse) was playing. It was a drum-bass duo. Anyway...it was like, not hipster city, but it was extremely not anything cool. I counted about 7 mo hawks though, circle pits galore, and tons of girls, that had to be college freshman from

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