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The Status of Things
So my buds from Pedestrian Status (riverside crew!) dropped me off a demo of their new full length, scheduled for release as soon as I give him my two cents on the record... yea right. Anyway, sweet stuff, ya'll should check out some of the mp3's on their website.
Anyway... They're about as close as anyone that I know personally has come to achieving musically what this town is capable of giving. They solicited the help of some star studded players (mostly fellow wanderers from the north, they being from canada,) including a kickass pedal steel player from The Cowboy Junkies.
Well... I guess all I'm saying is that Austin is the goddamn Nashville one-up and that means country. Country, Folk, Americana whatever, it doesn't matter, it's just there's a redankulous amount of talent in this town, and the vast majority of them play in a traditional sense. They're songwritters, not experimenters. They work with what has/does work: Verses, Chorus, Bridges etc...
Lets play music people. Music is love and love is a song. People sing it. Dance to it. They don't stare at it waiting for it to do something completely and utterly unique, something that's never been done before, we don't need that. We've found something good, let's keep it going.
4.26.2005
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My Valentine
I know this is a little off season... but these are amazing prints from a friend of a friend type person. Check em out:
Funlap dot com / Valentine
4.20.2005
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v. 2.1
Well, after spending more hours than I'd ever care to admit in public... I believe I'm done with my new web site's template. The finishing touch was a flash mp3 player that is nothing near what I had originally wanted it to be. The cool things about this one: To change the content in the player all I have to do is upload files to the server then make simple changes to a .txt file. So it's dynamic in it's ability to load a playlist, which is cool and fun.
What I absolutely hate is the fact that I'm not able to take advantage of Flash's streaming audio capabilities, which would make the load times about 3 seconds whether you were on the worlds fastest internet connection or dialup. Now as it stands the dial-up folk could wait as long as 20 minutes before a song begins to play... Oh well... I will eventually design my own embedded streaming mp3 player (more accurately I'll finish the one I'm currently working on, based off an I-Pod.)
4.17.2005
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v. 2.0
Well here goes another attempt at a web page... I just got my hands on the Macromedia program, Fireworks MX and this is my attempt to learn how to use it... Pardon the amateur design layout and cheesy rollover navigation, once I get enough motivation and time I'll integrate some flash animation into this page. This is all really just an attempt to start building something that resembles a design portfolio, we'll see where that goes.
4.14.2005
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