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January 27th, 2009
10:41 am - Still here.
I'm here, but I'm getting tired of posting in both LJ AND FA journal...so from now on, if you want to check up on my life, just check my FA journal on my FA page: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/malcolmthebear/
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December 14th, 2008
04:25 pm - New Job...FINALLY!
Well, I FINALLY get to start work again, at the music store that I had put in for some time ago. I start tomorrow, with a 20-hour work week to begin with.
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December 8th, 2008
11:42 am - There were to be two great ceremonies connected with the occasion
These are the rules:
* Grab the book closest to you. Now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write that sentence as your subject.
* Copy these instructions as a comment to your subject.
* Don't go looking for your favorite book, or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one.
(My book: "Mary Queen of Scots" by Jacob Abbott)
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December 2nd, 2008
12:54 pm - Cauliflower Ban
(This is something I'm working on, but I want to see how big of a movement I can make this. I'm planning on creating a Facebook group for this...possibly a MySpace.)
I'm proposing that we call for a nation-wide ban on cauliflower, and I'm looking to garner support from anyone else interested. I personally find it disgusting, so it therefore should be banned nationwide so that no one eats it. My personal opinion of aesthetics and taste should be made into national law. It doesn't matter that other people eating cauliflower has no personal ramifications for me—what matters is that they are wrong and I am right, because I said so and I'm just more important.
There is nothing gained from eating cauliflower that you cannot gain from eating other more wholesome, more delicious foods.
It's unnatural to like cauliflower—if God wanted us to eat it, he'd have made it taste good. This nation is a theocracy, meaning my personal interpretation of my religion needs to be imposed and made into national law. I am doing the Lord's work in trying to get these evil sinners to quit eating cauliflower.
Liking cauliflower is a choice. People can choose to eat cauliflower every day and with prayer, they can overcome their unnatural tendencies.
Children are being exposed to and forced to eat cauliflower in homes that support cauliflower eating. No child ever liked cauliflower naturally—their minds are warped over time to accept it as being a natural food to eat and enjoy.
People who enjoy eating cauliflower are second-class citizens, and we all need to make sure they realize this and are treated as such. They are less human than me for liking cauliflower, and therefore deserve less rights than the rest of us.
Enjoying the consumption of something as disgusting as cauliflower is tearing down the moral fabric of our society. If this trend is allowed to continue, people will start experimenting with eating other disgusting things, such as garbage, sewage, and Arby's. Some people have already started eating insects prepared in many nauseating ways (which they argue are “creative” ways).
If you are interested in joining this movement, be sure to contact me. We need to alert our elected representatives and petition them to support our cause.
One proposed plan is to attempt to convert farmers from using their soil to cultivate this vile food and instead use it to grow other, better foods.
Primarily, though, as this movement is in its infant stages, to get media attention we need to picket alongside other protesters who get more media attention but have the same basic principals in their protests. Gay marriage protesters are most favorable in this light, but it will work with anyone else protesting something on the grounds of chastising another group for being different in a way that isn't physically threatening, but merely threatening to one's own insecurities. Holding signs that say "Ban Cauliflower" or "I Hate Cauliflower" should help get this message across. “God Hates Cauliflower” is another good one, as it's obvious that God hates what I hate. Be sure to answer any questions the media people ask you about this legitimate cause. Keeping this list of principals on hand may prove beneficial for that.
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November 17th, 2008
12:16 pm - Moving?
Okay, so my mom told me the other day that we're gonna be putting the house up for sale soon. Finances here at home have been such that we've been struggling to maintain a house of this size for a while now. My mom has had no luck finding a better-paying job than what she has now, and now is planning to move to Springfield, Missouri, to live with a friend. Of course, my younger siblings will go with her, and my father will have to find a place of his own again. My plans for some months now has been to get a job, get caught up on bills, and move into the Kitsune Den to live with the fur friends of mine I've been hanging out with since April. I just...have not yet found a job. But depending on how quickly things move here at home, I may need to move before I have a job, anyways...which I really don't like to do, since I want to be able to contribute to rent and other bills, even though I know the other guys will essentially be okay with me moving in with them before I have income (as long as I DO eventually get a job, of course).
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November 3rd, 2008
06:56 pm - Thoughts on Music
Last Tuesday, I had "The Mechanics of a Blue Sky" performed by a new ensemble at my alma mater comprised of both students and faculty, whose mission it is to perform and explore new works. This particular concert featured works by alumni composition students of the school, so I was among the composers featured. Anyways, it was great to be in that atmosphere again, and so it got my mind going in that sort of direction, whereas I have been mostly just idly composing since graduation almost two and a half years ago. The drive to and from the concert, I was riding with a fellow composition alumnus--a fine gentleman with whom I've always been able to discuss higher ideas. (It's an hour-and-a-half drive each way, and save for a couple respective phone calls, we chatted with each other the entire way both to and from.)
Among other things, we talked about exploring new sounds and the direction of music in general, and I had a sort of realization. As composers, it's not composing music itself that proves the biggest challenge. It's not even trying to find one's own voice. The real challenge is trying to figure out what we haven't been able to say yet with music, and how we can say it. Music is such an outstandingly far-reaching entity. It's always dynamic, never static, and it can affect us all in ways that no other art nor any other thing in this universe can. It's said to be a universal language, but I know of no one who speaks it completely fluently. If you look at its history, music, like all arts, is always developing over time to present us with completely new sounds and moods and ideas--we've gone from the most simple homophonic melodies with the crudest instruments, slowly developing at first, gradually adding more voices, newer instruments, newer sounds...adding and changing more and more, become ever more complex, until in the latter half of the 20th Century we started throwing out all the rules completely and have developed digital sounds mixed into absolute chaos. The challenge, perhaps especially with our age, is to figure out what we have NOT yet heard or felt or conceived in music, and to present that to the world. To present the world with a new layer, a new facet of that majestic, most glorious art-language we call music.
Current Mood:  pensive
Current Music: "Fractured Equation, Elegant Machine" by ME!
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October 31st, 2008
11:51 am - Movie Fest?
So, since it's Halloween/Samhain/Day of the Dead/Satan's Birthday (lulz)/whatever else you wanna call it....yeah, we all know what time of year it is, and being the movie fanatic I am, I'm recommending for you all some horror movies. So, take your pick--any of these should be scary and/or entertaining enough:
The Abandoned
The Exorcist
Rosemary's Baby
Salem's Lot
Nosferatu
The Mist
Mirrors
Halloween (the first, original one)
Event Horizon
Pan's Labyrinth
Rinne (Reincarnation)
The Ring
Final Destination
Night of the Living Dead
The Hamiltons
The Shining
Saw
So, yeah...there are of course TONS of horror movies out there that are worth at least one watch-through, and most are mindless entertainment. Once in a while, though, you may find one that genuinely scares you. Happy h(a)unting. ;)
Current Mood:  geeky
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October 21st, 2008
11:43 pm - I have an addiction.
I'm addicted to entertainment. I'm addicted to anything trivial like a YouTube video or flash game that will delay me even further from doing what I know I need to be doing, and my addiction is destroying any semblance my person may have at productivity.
This is why I'm not a prolific writer or composer. And this is why I hate myself so much sometimes.
Current Mood:  depressed
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October 16th, 2008
06:11 pm - Guitar Sound?
Okay, guys...I don't know too much about guitars--even less about electric guitars and all their funky effects...so I need some help. There's some sound I've heard here and there in the past that sounds like a typical electric guitar, only as if it were miced further away...is this some sort of special effect that one can find on a pedal or something? How is this sound achieved? I want to know for one of my compositions. I can't find a description of this through an online search, nor any mp3s or anything--not even on YouTube. The only example I can remember for sure is a single guitar note played in part of the mood music for Zork: Grand Inquisitor in the underground area...though I can't find an mp3 of this music, either.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I THINK I've figured it out...I believe it's some sort of modulate effect, such as is demonstrated here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhpbxVkGKUw About 3:20. Ignore the guy's hair.
Current Mood:  curious
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October 13th, 2008
07:58 pm - *slumps and sighs*
So...after having waited since late July, I wind up NOT getting the job at the music store after all. I don't know what to feel now...I've been banking on this for so long. I'm behind on bills. I owe people money. I fucking NEED a paycheck. And the manager at the music store pretty much had me feeling that this was a sure thing, it was in the bag--it was just a matter of waiting for the background check to finish.
But apparently, he also had been having exchanges with his boss in this time about whether or not they had room in the budget to hire someone new. He had gotten the okay back when I first applied...but his boss just recently went back over their books and changed his mind. So now no job for me there--not even a chance until the holiday season comes around. I can't wait that long. I need income. And this would have been the near-perfect job.
Current Mood: depressed
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