Commemorative Swiffers
I have written the script for my TV spot for RTVF class last night. It took all of twenty minutes to create an ad for the Special Golden Special Commemorative Edition Barack Obama Swiffer Sweeper. It’s mostly just silliness, but the technical aspects required are all there, so it serves the purpose.
I also bought my first mac this week. No, it’s not one of the new ones, but I got the previous-gen mac mini at the UNT Bookstore for a steal. The sale discount plus my Apple student discount made the final price of the entry-level machine $459. With the money I saved, I bought iWork and a new printer. Everything worked perfectly out of the box, and I’ve been pretty satisfied so far, but it could definitely use some more memory, since the base model only came with 1GB.
I’m also gonna give NaNoWriMo another shot this year. I hardly even got started last year, but now I’m trying to build on a completely new story, kind of like a Kinky Friedman novel, so hopefully it works out. They’ve also raised the word requirement to 50,000 words. It’s gonna be a hell of a challenge.
Classics
I don’t think I’ve made this confession before on teh interwebz. I like old music. If it was made before the 90′s, there’s a good chance I’ve heard of it and enjoyed it. Anything after ’99? Fuggedaboudit. I either don’t know what you’re talking about or I’ve heard them and think they’re untalented hacks. Seeing as though I’m 19, this doesn’t make any fucking sense. But, I’m proud of my more “classical” tastes.
I own a turntable that regularly plays the great albums of classic rock. The only other tuntables I’ve seen anyone my age own play shitty hipster/screamo albums made on shitty vinyl by six-year-old children in Korea. I regularly go to my local used bookstore and almost always buy a used vinyl. My purchase could range from Little Feat, to Robert Palmer, to Billy Idol, to Sade. Yes, fucking Sade. My MP3 player can shuffle from Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden to Smooth Operator just as easily as it can shuffle from Eric Clapton to Hall & Oates. That brings me to another thing.
I have almost every Hall & Oates album in either digital or analog form. I even have their piece of disco excrement X-Static. I don’t know why I like them so much. Steely Dan is the same. Almost every album. Fleetwood Mac, too. In my defense, I prefer the pre-Stevie Nicks era Mac. Bare Trees was a much better album without Nicks’ sheep-like vocals. But I digress.
I always wonder how I got this way, and I think it was because of my Mom. From birth, I only listened to classic rock. On the way to elementary school, the radio was tuned to Q102, later, KZPS, and for an incredibly short time, Country station KSCS. That’s how I became somewhat acquainted with the Country genre, but it also helped me learn to hate Country music. My mom still quizzes me to this day on who did certain songs. And I always answer.
I shocked some of my high school’s football coaches when I brought up Huey Lewis. He loved Huey Lewis. We proceeded to listen to Huey Lewis in the equipment van on the way to a game. He asked me a question he thought I couldn’t answer.
“What was the band Chicago called before they were called Chicago?” he asked.
I replied, almost without thinking “Chicago Transit Authority.”
His mouth was agape.
But all this still doesn’t explain why I enjoy 80′s pop. I guess I’ll never know. I do know that I’ll leave you with this:
That’s A Wrap
Filming of our RTVF project went very well last weekend, and editing went smoothly too. It’s officially a finished product. My partner and I were really happy with how it came out. After we show it in class, expect a YouTube link here pretty soon.
I’ve also noticed that I’ve fallen into a blogging rut. It seems that Sundays have turned out to be a pretty good day to do this. A day that I can just sit at my local coffee shop and take a big brain dump, for lack of a better term, on the interwebz. This is a rut I think I can stick to.
I’ve been contemplating purchasing a mac mini fairly soon, since my classes later in my RTVF career will most likely require expertise in Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and the other media-type goodies exclusive to the mac. I’m not really looking to use such programs on this mac, but I just want to get myself more familiar with the OS X interface and such so I don’t look like a retard when I go into the editing labs. It would also help me greatly in my computer support job, as well, since it seems like we’re getting more and more macs. I’ve been thinking that the base model mini with a 4GB memory upgrade will be plenty. For big-time storage, I can just dump crap on my Linux box over the network.
This afternoon should be busy, since I have to finish many different activities to finish my Spanish “portfolio” due tomorrow. I need to watch one movie, read three Spanish articles, write brief summaries about the movie and the articles, and rewrite a past Spanish composition. I hate this stuff, but thankfully it’s not too bad. For the next portfolio due, I want to find the Spanish movie where the dude jumps off a boat and directly into a shark’s mouth. Anyone have the title of that film?
And now, on with the rest of the day.
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