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Now being interviewed by pneudle.
The rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your journal with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
And the questions:
1. What other instrument would you like to be proficient in, apart from the drums?
Can I give two answers?
Keyboards, since I compose on keys, and it'd be really great if I didn't have to think about what I was doing when writing tunes.
Bass, because I love bass, and tend to think of melodies in the bass rather than in the upper registers.
2. What's the hair on your head like?
It's very short; about an average of 5mm long, I'd say. I have a very spiffy new hair trimmer courtesy of my dad and sis' recent trip to the US.
If I ever let it grow out (which isn't going to be any time soon), it'd be wavy. Or curly, but not very curly. It would look good if it was long (and I was tall), but I've no patience for that.
3. What are you like when you're angry?
Either very cold, or furious snarling angry. It depends on how it happens I think. I never used to get furious snarling angry until I realized that bottling it up inside wasn't doing me any good. But at the same time, I'm a lot more zen than I was, and I'm discovering that I get angry a lot less than I used to.
4. What's the song that sums up this entire year for you?
It might be Esthero's Bad Boy Clyde. "... you're always on the run, for just this once, why don't you stay with me?" It has to do with my ridiculous sked, plus I've been listening to this incessantly for months.
5. Tell me an unbelievable fact about yourself (skill/trivia/etc).
I have a bunch of facts that aren't fit to print! ,D Ask me in person.
At my first job, I taught a whole bunch of people to juggle. Juggling's always been one of my biggest frustrations in life, as I've never gotten past the basic 3-ball cascade and a couple of variations of that. It doesn't help that I know _why_ I can't do more than that, and I'm not sure I have the time to fix it. Or maybe I need a juggling mentor. Help, anyone?
In 2001, I was walking through the subway and I found a juggler. He'd just finished a set and was counting his money and resting up. I went and chatted him up, said I could juggle a tiny bit and was looking for a juggling supply store, etc etc. Eventually he showed me a 3-ball Mills Mess which was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I knew _about_ it, but seeing it done live was incredible. I can sometimes _almost_ do it, but I think I'm kidding myself.
Later that day, I went to Brian Dubé, Inc. and it was like I died and went to heaven.
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Lords of Destruction 2 went well, though not as well as I would've wanted. The moment we got there, they said, "next na kayo," and so with no physical warm-up or mental preparation, we had to rush up on stage and set up. Most people have not seen us play for ten years, so I guess those people would not know better anyway, but I sure felt like I wasn't 20 years old and capable of playing double bass for 30 minutes straight.
But they liked and appreciated us, and we played well, and that's the important thing.
Later I got to talking to Randell from Down From The Wound and Ryan from Pus Vomit, the two most kickass brutal DM drummers I have ever seen and quizzed them about their technique. Man, I don't get it. Both of them play French grip exclusively and the way they move their hands is just supposedly wrong. All forearm and a little wrist, no fingers. But they play unison blasts at such incredible speeds, I don't know how they do it.
It just goes to show how willpower beats out "wrong technique" any day.
I'm not willing to switch to French grip (I've never liked French grip) and stop using wrists and fingers, so I'll have to figure out how to achieve that stuff using the technique I already do have, which is like some untutored bastardized mix of Moeller and Gladstone and push-pull stuff. I'm working on it.
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The rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your journal with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
And the questions:
1. What other instrument would you like to be proficient in, apart from the drums?
Can I give two answers?
Keyboards, since I compose on keys, and it'd be really great if I didn't have to think about what I was doing when writing tunes.
Bass, because I love bass, and tend to think of melodies in the bass rather than in the upper registers.
2. What's the hair on your head like?
It's very short; about an average of 5mm long, I'd say. I have a very spiffy new hair trimmer courtesy of my dad and sis' recent trip to the US.
If I ever let it grow out (which isn't going to be any time soon), it'd be wavy. Or curly, but not very curly. It would look good if it was long (and I was tall), but I've no patience for that.
3. What are you like when you're angry?
Either very cold, or furious snarling angry. It depends on how it happens I think. I never used to get furious snarling angry until I realized that bottling it up inside wasn't doing me any good. But at the same time, I'm a lot more zen than I was, and I'm discovering that I get angry a lot less than I used to.
4. What's the song that sums up this entire year for you?
It might be Esthero's Bad Boy Clyde. "... you're always on the run, for just this once, why don't you stay with me?" It has to do with my ridiculous sked, plus I've been listening to this incessantly for months.
5. Tell me an unbelievable fact about yourself (skill/trivia/etc).
I have a bunch of facts that aren't fit to print! ,D Ask me in person.
At my first job, I taught a whole bunch of people to juggle. Juggling's always been one of my biggest frustrations in life, as I've never gotten past the basic 3-ball cascade and a couple of variations of that. It doesn't help that I know _why_ I can't do more than that, and I'm not sure I have the time to fix it. Or maybe I need a juggling mentor. Help, anyone?
In 2001, I was walking through the subway and I found a juggler. He'd just finished a set and was counting his money and resting up. I went and chatted him up, said I could juggle a tiny bit and was looking for a juggling supply store, etc etc. Eventually he showed me a 3-ball Mills Mess which was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I knew _about_ it, but seeing it done live was incredible. I can sometimes _almost_ do it, but I think I'm kidding myself.
Later that day, I went to Brian Dubé, Inc. and it was like I died and went to heaven.
-
Lords of Destruction 2 went well, though not as well as I would've wanted. The moment we got there, they said, "next na kayo," and so with no physical warm-up or mental preparation, we had to rush up on stage and set up. Most people have not seen us play for ten years, so I guess those people would not know better anyway, but I sure felt like I wasn't 20 years old and capable of playing double bass for 30 minutes straight.
But they liked and appreciated us, and we played well, and that's the important thing.
Later I got to talking to Randell from Down From The Wound and Ryan from Pus Vomit, the two most kickass brutal DM drummers I have ever seen and quizzed them about their technique. Man, I don't get it. Both of them play French grip exclusively and the way they move their hands is just supposedly wrong. All forearm and a little wrist, no fingers. But they play unison blasts at such incredible speeds, I don't know how they do it.
It just goes to show how willpower beats out "wrong technique" any day.
I'm not willing to switch to French grip (I've never liked French grip) and stop using wrists and fingers, so I'll have to figure out how to achieve that stuff using the technique I already do have, which is like some untutored bastardized mix of Moeller and Gladstone and push-pull stuff. I'm working on it.
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