the shawshank redemption

I just saw the film the Shawshank Redemption the other day.



It got a 9.1/10 on IMDb and is #2 on the 250 top rated. I thought I would watch it to see why everyone liked it so much. It was really pretty good. It was on the long side but I found that even as it was ending I wanted the story to go on. Tim Robbins is a favorite actor of mine because of Ordinary People and Morgan Freeman did a good job as well. I would definitely recommend this even if you like shorter films, like I do.

I made a lolcat

Click here to rate it: [link]

Linux!

After working all day yesterday to get my Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn GUI to work I decided to download the official Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon iso from ubuntu.com. This time I downloaded the server edition (which does not have an automatic GUI). After spending a long time trying to format my hard drive partitions, I finally just deleted all of my Linux partitions and made new ones. This worked very well. The installation ran flawlessly. When I tried to install the GNOME GUI it took a very long time and then stopped near the end for about 45 minutes. Becuase I was getting tired and wanted to sleep, I decided to abort the operation and start in the mornng. I pressed ctrl+alt+F1 to return to my first terminal. Then, just to see if it had worked I checked all 8 terminals. To my surprise, when I pressed ctrl+alt+F7 the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon GNOME GUI started up. I was able to use Firefox and OpenOffice after a short period of time. I also just installed Flash this morning. This is awesome!

Linux!

My dad just bought me an old eMachines PC (sorry, no picture). I think he got it cheap on craigslist or eBay or something but that doesn't matter because guess what? I have Linux now! The PC has a 600MHz Intel Celeron processor, 30gb hard drive, and 368mb RAM. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) in a 17.5gb partition of my hard drive leaving 10gb for Windows XP SP1 (old!!) and like 2gb of swap. I am currently installing the GUI. Here are some screens. (I know the quality sucks. My camera and my brothers camera are at my mom's house so I had to use my dad's camera which has the worst lighting ever.)

Human Host (Final)

The whole streaming thing has gotten very complicated so from now on if I have any audio for you to listen to I will make it available for download, stream it with a web flash player, and have it available to stream to your choice of music player on your computer.

Here is the web flash streaming audio for my original song, Human Host:

Human Host (Streaming)

I just realized that my song was exported from Ableton as a 121Mb wav file so I have it available for download now as a 13Mb mp3. You can also stream it below.

Click to stream audio

download: [link]

human host

I just finished an original song that I made with Ableton Live. It will be available for download at the end of the blog. Here are some final production screens:






download: [link]
(enter the code and select download. wait 25 seconds for free download.)

Fruit Puppet Project

So, my brother Josh and his friends started a video project that consists of talking fruit.



The project is titled the Fruit Puppet Project. Visit the site for interesting videos.

youtube: [link]
rss: [link]

Ableton Live

I've been messing around with Ableton Live.



I've made some song-like things a couple of times but recently I have been just using the sample wav files and using it to make live music. I made this piece of electronic work with Ableton Live 7.0.1, my NDS, and a YAMAHA electronic drum set. The song is about fifteen minutes. You can download the mp3 file below.

Download: [link]
(enter the three digit code and select download)

lol (too slow/horse)

Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland

I have been playing the game Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland. At first I thought the game would be a simple (but fun) little game with the awesome character Tingle in it. It turns out the game is a full blown original action-adventure game similar to the old GBA Zelda titles.



The game is based on rupees. If you run out of rupees you die, so rupees are like hp. You play as Tingle in his quest of fairy-becoming rupeeland-chasing adventures through multiple areas. You get to decide how much rupees to pay for a lot of things and usually end up getting really ripped off. The game is very fun and very addicting. I haven't beaten it yet but I would definitely recommend the game to anyone who likes cool 35 year old fairy men.

The game is only available in Europe but you can import it: [link]

Download rom (.nds): [link]

NitroTracker

I'm going to try out a similar program to the DS Drum Machine, the NitroTracker. It is a decent tracker for the NDS that now supports MIDI and recording samples with the DS microphone.



This is a video of a NitroTracker rendition of Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead. Very well done:



Download v0.3: [link]

DS Drum Machine

I have been using the DS Drum Machine by The Chuckster. You can make basic beats when you want to. The version I have doesn't have a save feature or a way to delete measures once you create them but is still fun. I think that there is an updated version with more features and samples but I can't find it.


(I think this is an updated version? The version I have is just the top screen and the lower screen is black.)

Download v0.1: [link] (features an .nds file only.)

lolbesity

8 today!

Blogging on a wednesday!

I'm at my mom's house which usually has slow dial-up but guess what? Today I was just checking and it turns out I was able to connect to an anonymous wireless internet router which is giving me internet at 18 to 36 mbps!! So I posted four sketches to Sticky Lightbulbs and was able to download some much needed apps and video game roms/emulators and such.

By the way, the lolbesity count today was 10, I believe.

The Signal

I started downloading this film titled The Signal that I heard about on the Totally Rad Show. It is in the horror genre and is about mysterious signals coming through televisions, cell phones, radios, etc. which begin turning people crazy. Everyone then begins to kill each other. I believe that it is shot from three perspectives by three different directors to get a sort of unique feel. It is an American film and I think has a fairly low budget. I might not get to watch it until this weekend so don't expect a review right away. If it turns out that it is recommendable I could burn a copy or two for people.

lolbesity count

9!

Nine today.
There were ten yesterday so today is a decrease by one at least.

Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV

I just downloaded and listened to all 36 tracks from Nine Inch Nail's Ghosts I-IV [img] this afternoon. I have to say, It was very nice to hear something new from NIN. These recordings were not very industrial at all, more ambient/electronic. It reminds me of the instrumentals off of the Fragile [img] at times. The programming was great but it did stray from NIN's old style of using more traditional instrumentation. I agree with the widely used tag of covering new terrain on this one. Overall, I liked it and would definitely recommend it.

Puchase for $5 from Amazon: [link]
Download Ghost I only (official) from the Pirate Bay: [link]
Download Ghosts I-IV (unofficial) from the Pirate Bay: [link]

Turnstile Blues

I just saw this video by Autolux again. It's pretty good.


I saw them in Dec 06 and I'm excited about they're new album which should come out this year.

New shoes

I got new shoes.



They're Adidas Samba. I ran in them Sunday and they felt pretty good.


I also saw this movie, I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With.

It's starring Jeff Garlin and Sarah Silverman. The movie itself was a little odd but nicely original. The ending was very interesting and the overall length was only about an hour and fifteen minutes. I liked the movie. I thought it was original and nice to watch.

I made some more sketches and those will be up on Sticky Lightbulbs soon.

Last, I just realized that NIN released something new? I'll check that out and maybe write about it.