Just for the record, I fully support your possible decision to support a third-party candidate should Rudy Giuliani get the nomination. In fact, I will fully support your decision to abandon the Republican Party en masse and form your own, explicitly fundamentalist Christian, explicitly right-wing third party, should you decided to go that far.
I think it’s way past time for this bold action, and I encourage you to make double-time on it.
I’d just like to say that casting Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach in the upcoming movie version of the Watchmen is one of the most inspired casting decisions I’ve seen in years. I think he was born to play this part, and can I just say that it’s really cool to see him having a late career resurgence? Seriously, after Kelly Leak and Moocher, it was bit parts, followed by a complete withdrawal from 1993 – 2006, and now he’s cast as Rorschach? I didn’t see Little Children, but I hear he’s really good in it.
Also, they better not fuck up this movie. Heads will roll. That shit better be like, 3 hours long and as far away from the FF movie attitude as possible. Watchmen is precious to me.
Well, I finally, actually finished a track. After years of sketches, experiments, half-efforts and abandoned ideas, I finally saw a track through from start to finish, and, -gasp- I didn’t hate it. I’ve sent it to a couple friends, and lo and behold, they think it’s “tight”, “mixed well”, “coherent”, possessing “flow” and a “head-nodder”.
I’m not gonna link to this track. Linking to it would mean that I felt like it was finished, that it didn’t need any more work, that I was ready to release it to the world. I’m not, but I almost am. If you want to hear it, send me an email and I’ll consider sending you a link.
The funny thing is, I didn’t have to give up being picky about my music or anything. I was picky, and it’s still almost done. It’s not the most amazing track ever made, but I feel it’s all those things my friends said. On a big system, the bass would slay. It would definitely wreck heads.
So, that has led to some increased confidence about where I’m going with this music shit. I think finishing this track was the result of two things: one, getting to the arrangement a lot sooner in the compositional process and two, it’s the payoff of an extended period of committed study to the instruments I play, and synthesis/sampling techniques in general.
Feels good.