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What is a slunk?
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009According to William S. Burroughs in Naked Lunch:
Slunks are underage calves trailing afterbirths and bacteria, generally in an unsanitary and unfit condition. A calf may not be sold as food until it reaches a minimum age of six weeks. Prior to that time it is classified as a slunk. Slunk trafficking is a subject to a heavy penalty.
Thought you moght like to know. I got the name from an old Smashing Pumpkin’s B-side though.
New mixes coming soon.
DJ Hero
Friday, January 25th, 2008So, I got Guitar Hero III for Christmas, which makes me a dork. I know. Why does pressing 4 buttons (can’t figure hard yet) on beat with selected notes and songs from relic rock tunes make me feel so good? Why do I feel like I accomplished something when I get 5 stars on Welcome to the Jungle? Again, I know: dork.
But playing it gave me this idea.
Wait for it…
MIX MASTER!!!
Think about it the game comes with a 2 white, plastic “turntables and mixer”- not to scale.
Basically, the object of the game is similar to Guitar Hero in that you start at the bottom of the party scene and try to make your way up. The difference being you are a DJ that starts off with a limited amount of money and has to buy enough “records” to spin at your first party.
Next, you’re at the party and in the mix. The challenge is to keep the crowd rocking. You start off with only a few people dancing in the crowd, but based on your song selection and how well you can mix, the crowd either increases or decreases. The set length would start off small and increase as you rise through the DJ circuit.
Musical genres could be unlimited dance, hip hop, rock and every thinkable sub-genre under the sun. A major difference between Mix Master and Guitar Hero is that in Hero players only enjoy the well-known songs. I don’t want to rock out to Brett Michael’s new solo effort single. But in Mix Master, the whole would be greater than the some of its parts. Most all DJs strive to have the hottest, newest or underground-est tracks, so this could easily apply to Mix Master. Basically, the fresher the music you add to your “crate” the easier it is to rock the party.
Other ideas:
Back in black?
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I was listening to Portishead the other day and was thinking how odd it was that here was a band that for all intents and purposes completely disappeared from the face of the earth. They weren’t ever hugely popular, but they released to records in fairly short succession, plus the best orchestra-backed live album out there (sorry moody blues), and then poof they’re gone.
Just thought that was strange. Anyway, they might be back. Some new music.
i hate fm
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/11/losing_its_edge_josh_venable_n.php
I won’t pretend that I was a big listener, but if i was in my car on Sunday night I’d always check it out. I’d listen for no other reason than to listen to a DJ in control of the play list and sometimes be turned on to some new music. Isn’t that what radios supposed to be about?
8 ways to drive a designer mad
Friday, August 10th, 2007Fear the baby-eating cancer-giving werewolf designer:
5-Chosing your words
When describing what you want in a design, make sure to use terms that don’t really mean anything. Terms like “jazz it up a bit” or “can you make it more webbish?”. “I would like the design to be beautiful” or “I prefer nice graphics, graphics that, you know, when you look at them you go: Those are nice graphics.” are other options. Don’t feel bad about it, you’ve got the right. In fact, it’s your duty because we all know that on full moons, graphic designers shape-shift into werewolves.
http://groy82.blogspot.com/2007/03/8-ways-to-drive-graphic-designer-mad.html
But seriously, if you [the client] hire me [the designer] for my knowledge and skills, why not trust me? Tell me the street names, but let me find the best route.