I've had a great day and have a crush on just, ya know, everyone.

It's the stupidest thing-- going to weekly rockband in public tonight. There's a little competition for the release of Pearl Jam's Ten that I'm going to be singing in ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we sat inside during a taping of the Daily Show. Maybe you saw us on your teevee for 0.0024 seconds as they panned across the audience. I'm the cute one ( Read more... )

When they started calling it for Obama, Brooklyn went alive. Atop my roof, I could hear groups of people screaming in delight, a man on the street saying we did it! we did it! An ignorant observer would have guessed the local sports team had won the big game.

Holy calamity, scream insanity.. we did it.

In case you're wondering how I feel about myself, I am..

Two weeks off work: Check.
Train to NYC on the 23rd: Check.
Places to stay from 23rd to 29th: Check.
Money in bank to pay deposits: Check.

In other news, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seenI know that's not enough to get you to clickthrough but.. WOW. This guy wrote some software that will allow you to take *any* recorded sound and manipulate it a single note at a time. Not like you have a guy singing and you can make the pitch go up and down, like you can record a guitar ( Read more... )

I can't believe I never shared these.. for my first audio engineering class I had to make 6 radio ads. They're all 30 seconds long and in my not-terribly-humble opinion pretty fucking funny. If there's a version of narcissism for comedy, I'm guilty.

The first one needs no introduction:
Most people would be too ashamed to admit they made this.. ( Read more... )

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Don't mind the first minute or so-- when it kicks in, it's phenomenal.

Oh wow, today Rock Band released the entire Pixies Doolittle album and it's fucking awesome. Ingrid and I snuck in a few songs during my lunchbreak and let me just say I could spend days just singing UNGH.. said the la-dee to the man she adored and the whores like a choir go UNGH! and Mary aren't you tired? over and over ( Read more... )