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Zombie Walk

We celebrated my step daughter’s birthday with dinner and a show in Boston. Apparently we also celebrated with a zombie walk. We had no idea.

Blood and gore in the streets.
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There seemed to be a lot of zombie hunters in the parade too. Most were armed with super soakers. I don’t know how effective that would be in an actual zombie apocalypse though.
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Going against all instinct, the cops seemed to be letting the zeds have the run of the place.
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The zombie walkers sort of melded in with the tourists. Sometimes it was hard to tell which was which.
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The dude in black was taking it very seriously. A little too seriously.
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Somewhere in this throng was a kid dressed as a zombie snow white. Easily the best costume of the bunch.
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Morning Movie

As we head off to a morning movie I can’t help but think…

I sincerely hope that a bus will be picked up and thrown back down while wading through buildings in the center of town and that helpless people on subway trains will scream, “my god!” as they are looked in at.

There goes Tokyo!

2014 NHL Conference Finals Predictions That I No Longer Care About

Yippee.

I picked seven out of eight series in the first round.

In the second round I picked:
The Rangers over the Penguins. I got it right.
The Blackhawks over the Wild. I got it right. You suck, Matt Cooke.
The Kings over the Ducks. I got it right.
The Bruins over the Canadiens. I got it wrong. Choke. Epic choke. Enjoy that President’s trophy. Way to tank like assholes in games six and seven. Way to not even show up to elimination games. The last two games of the series were so bad that it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the players had money on the game. Injuries, sure, but that was just pathetic.

So I don’t give a shit about anything else.

I got three of four in the 2nd round, which brings me to 10 of 12 over all. That puts me at 83.3% which is probably the best I’ve ever done, at least since I started writing them down ahead of time. The Bruins are out of it though, so who gives a flying leap.

This sucks.

Conference Finals predictions:
Canadiens vs Rangers. I loathe them both. I pick the Rangers because they are the lesser of the two hates.
Blackhawks vs Kings. I guess I’m a Kings fan now.

Really, three of the four remaining teams are on my eternal hate list. Nice. I am so interested in the remaining results. That was sarcasm. This sucks. I might never watch another game again.

I Hate Instagram

I have come to hate Instagram. It was such a cool thing when it was first released. It caught on so fast. I enjoyed it mostly for its ability to repost things onto different sites, but it worked well and it made me happy.

Then it went to crap. I’ve deleted it a couple of times. I keep going back to give it another try, but it keeps pissing me off. Forget the spam, forget the begging for hits, forget the way people try to use it like Facebook, forget the way they turned off their Twitter integration, forget the whole Facebook purchase and take over. The thing that pisses me off to know end is the way the interface itself keeps screwing up on me.

It’s built to run on touch screens. Why then does it mistake my scrolling gesture for a double tap? No, asshole, I didn’t just mark that photo as a favorite, I wanted to scroll passed it! One swipe is about as far removed from a double tap as you can get on a touch screen, yet I just fav’d a bunch of pictures as I was scrolling passed them! Scrolling passed is the opposite of Fav’ing! Scrolling means I DON’T want to see it again!

I deleted yet another account (my third, I think) and deleted the app yet again.

Hipstamatic’s answer to Instagram is Oggl. It has the huge downsides of not having anyone I know using it, and it crashes a lot. A LOT. It’s still better than Instagram. Socially speaking I use it the way I use Flickr these days. That means I follow every account I see but if I see anything remotely NSFW from anyone I follow they get axed. I guess you are innocent until proven guilty. Most folks seem okay though. I just wish it wouldn’t crash so much.

Where the Music Projects Stand

I haven’t been pushing the recording very much so far this month. I have one full week left to get stuff done before I take a week off from work. When I take that week off, I’m not going to want to do anything but relax.

There are a total of 20 songs. All of the basic tracks (drums, bass, rhythm guitar) are finished. What’s left?

Three songs still need lyrics, vocals, melody, and lead guitar. They are all from March.
Three more songs have vocals but still need lead guitars. Two from March and one from April.
Two more songs are fully recorded, but still need to be mixed. Both are from April.
The remaining 12 songs are all completely finished. Five from March and seven from April.

And that, dear friends, is where it stands. I suspect it will probably trickle into June. I still haven’t decided if June will get it’s own music month project. July won’t, as 50/90 starts on July 4th and I am planning on failing that one once again.

100% Fender

I recorded the rhythm guitar on this song on Sunday. I recorded the vocals and the lead guitars tonight.

Why is that important? Because I bought the Fender Strat on Saturday. All of the guitars you hear on this song are Fender. There isn’t even a single note played on a Gibson. That has never happened to me before. Also, I used the whammy bar near the end. I have never recorded myself using one of those ridiculous things before. There are firsts all around on this one!

What isn’t unique is that the lyrics are utterly meaningless. You can’t tell me what they mean because I was there and I know they mean nothing. The rhyming dictionary site I use more or less wrote this one for me.