after 10000 years here i am; i think what happened is that i generally write in this to procrastinate, and since school is over and any work i’m doing is enjoyable now, i don’t have very much procrastinating to get done.
i got my official final transcript, i’m graduated with a bachelor of art in music performance. i was a little bit worried because i didn’t really watch any of the 20-something movies we had studied over the entire year in my film elective (that i needed to graduate), but i passed that. i also turned in my astronomy term paper (30% of the final mark) a week late for a total of 25% off. i passed with 6 As, a B, and 2 Ds. sick.
my latest project has been getting video editing going on my new macbook. i’m going to continue to edit in vegas 8, using parallels, because i don’t need a lot of power (all my source video is NTSC-DV widescreen, 720x480p) and i know the program. the problem was getting the video off of the minidv tapes – the new macbooks don’t have firewire, there’s literally zero hardware support for getting video off of panasonic cameras via usb2 in osx, and all of the windows programs either don’t behave in parallels or are terrible (dropped frames like crazy). i eventually settled on ripping to an external drive through another computer with firewire, a more than adequate solution. now i can process all these recital videos i’ve been shooting and free up all seven of my full tapes.
some fun stuff from weekend work in the past month:
(older guy picking out some paper) “it needs to be stiff. being stiff is a good thing in life. i’m not going to elaborate. yes i am. viagra is good for that.”
(different older guy getting cashed out by someone else) (to me:) “have you ever weight trained?” “yes, i work out” “you just have the bone structure for it. you know what i’m talking about. i bet you get great results.”
during a big sale, fat 30-something with his mother (???) buys the last of a product that was supposedly put on hold for an old bargain-hunting princess. BHP sees this after the purchase is finished and grabs onto it as he’s walking out the door and starts screaming. he doesn’t let go and starts yelling in a super whiny voice “STOP IT! YOU’RE HURTING ME! MOM!”. i love it, two people with a combined age of 100 acting like they’re both 5.
i saw star trek 2 weeks ago and terminator last week. star trek was probably the best looking movie i’ve ever seen, i mean supposedly there are ridiculous lens flares but somehow it didn’t bother me. terminator had the best sound of any movie that i can remember – the sound for all the robots was sooo perfect.
last weekend i took sunday off and drove with a couple other graduates of my program for a gig at michael stätlander’s farm/restaurant in collingwood (actually singhampton) for the wild leek festival. we played hand drums in the middle of a forest a little ways off from the festival. that might have been the best (high gourmet) food i’ve ever eaten? 12 famous/amazing chefs each prepared one dish. jamie kennedy made a water buffalo yogurt & sweet potato curry thing that was incredible. one of the members of nexus (robin) came and played with us for a bit.
