Somewhere during my undergraduate degree i discovered Squarepusher.  I forget exactly why or how - i do remember pretty vividly the video for Come on My Selector which may have been the catalyst, but it's hard to say.  I know that I was kind of getting into a bunch of IDM at the time for the first time ( Read more... )

i've said this many times and it won't be the last time: the greatest part of the personal and professional relationship that i have with mark is how we complement each other. he has strengths that are my weaknesses, he has weaknesses that are my strengths, and everything in between. and the bottom line has always been one of profound mutual ( Read more... )

It didn't really hit me that a year has passed by since doozel's death until Jess texted me about it. It was interesting to monitor my reaction to her text, to her LJ entry about it, and my thoughts about what to say when i decided that this D entry was going to be for him.

Because when i wrote a year ago about it, i talked about how stupid and ( Read more... )

Twenty years ago, i tried out for drum corps for the first time in my life.

The whole thing happened on a whim. I had just been exposed to DCI maybe a month before from one of my marching band friends who showed the 1991 broadcast at his house one day when we were all hanging out. The marching band that i was a part of in high school was small ( Read more... )

so for those of you that remember the post i made in early june, yeah. i'm retiring my identity as darknote.

my new website is mendellee.com. i paid the money to have my LJ name changed to what it is now. i used my one fb name change to change it to mendel.lee.zero. my twitter is now mendel_lee. although i'm holding on to my gmail email ( Read more... )

On Feb 17, 2011, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nathan Fillion said: "If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet."

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the first time i ever saw drum corps was in 1991, and the next year i tried out for the crossmen. I ended up getting cut from the 1992 line because my high school experience didn't match up to drum corps standards, and it fueled me to practice and become good enough to march in that corps. Marching in the crossmen was my dream. i wanted to get ( Read more... )

i forgot to write about this, and i need to because i think it's a great story.

for those that only get the outside perspective on the mardi gras beads (throw) tradition, receiving beads and throws during mardi gras is not all about showing titties. Sure, if you go to the quarter you can get some of that, but move to the garden district side ( Read more... )

it's times like this when there's a lot of tragic shit happening with people i care about that i'm glad that i have a lot of emotional chops to deal with my high degree of empathy. otherwise i think i'd be a wreck right now.

good thing the next month is going to be super busy.

forgot to mention this.

when i was home for the holidays, my dad paid me to sing tenor in a community choir gig at a retirement home. The gig was pretty fun for what it was, even if it had been a heck of a long time since i've done any singing.

as we were waiting for people to show up, i was exploring the big "concert hall" or stage room or ( Read more... )