Author: robertjames1971

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Penguin

I just watched the season finale of The Penguin. Eight episodes in Gotham City and only one teeny tiny reference to Batman. I actually enjoyed that piece of it. The season as a whole was excellent. Just a decent mob story, not a super hero or super villain story. If that’s your thing then I highly recommend the show, especially now that the whole season is out and you can binge it quickly.

Now what? I tried watching Gotham years ago. I think I got most of the way through the first season. I think I am going to try again and see how it goes. There’s a Penguin origin story on that show as well. It’s different than this new show, but it’s sort of an alternate universe kinda thing. Same characters, different but similar events. We’ll see.

Sunday Music

I just ran out of rhythm guitar parts to record for this month’s music project. I guess I have to start writing lyrics now. Yuck.

I played through a speaker though! Kick ass! I used my Deluxe Reverb and actually made noises that you could hear. Thankfully my wife was upstairs on her computer with big headphones on so I hooked up my little attenuator thingie, gave the volume knob on the amp a nice twist up, and the attenuation knob on the little attenuator thingie a solid turn down. I got a little tube overdrive without blowing the roof off the house. Sweet.

Look at the amp, with the power light actually on!

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Now look at the blurry background. F1.8, babie!

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Now look at the self timer/selfie that the nerd boy took and laugh at him for being such a tool.

So Much to Do

I have a hundred things that I need to do today but what am I actually doing?

Taking pictures of the cat taking a snooze, and then posting them on the internets.

Yeah. Priorities. I mean, the world is pretty much coming to an end so why not indulge myself?

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2024 NaSoAlMo Day 9/30

Guitars at last. Five of the seven songs got all of their rhythm guitar tracks. That’s all I managed for the day, but given it had been almost two months since I played a single note, five songs was enough. Pain. Finger tip pain. That was a thing.

Here’s hoping day 10 will be as productive. Progress, people!

Even More Jealous

Yesterday I wrote a post about how Jen and I watched a TV show where the cast took a trip to San Diego and it made us really jealous because we seriously want to go back there and spend some serious quality time.

This morning I watched a photography youtube video that included shooting a visit to San Diego. It’s like the universe is just screwing with me now. I want to go back there so badly!

2011-08-06 - San Diego Zoo 260
2011-08-08 Mission Beach 018
2012-04-22 - San Diego Day 2 - La Jolla 419
2012-04-23 - San Diego Zoo 462
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2012-04-27 - Cove and Sunset 371
2012-04-24 - Point Loma and San Juan Capistrano 166
2011-08-07 - Balboa Park and Old Town 204
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2024 NaSoAlMo Day 8/30

Same old same old. I added another song. Full song form with MIDI bass and drums.

I am now up to seven songs. All seven are in 7/8 time. I had this thought early on about taking a bunch of unrelated songs and gluing them together into a big medley. How about this… seven songs in 7/8 time and call the medley, “Sevens.”

That sounds groovy, doesn’t it?

Guitars today… if it kills me.