So It's Finally Over 50 Degrees in Boston

(...someone post something)

The Dates Are Set

Just wanted to let the world know that I'll be in San Diego from June 22nd to August 2nd. See all you coolkids later.

Your 2009 Grammy Award Winners

Here. CLICK ME I must say that there are no real surprises here, and that I don't agree with more than half of the winners, well actually I barely agree with any of the nominees, but hey who I am to judge, I only make and listen to music for a living.

And any Grammy list that has fuckin Duffy for a winner and not Sara Bareilles is just rubbish.

But Katy Perry performing in a fruit basket was cool I guess.


And finally, no, I didn't watch the show. I never watch the award shows, so you tell me, what were the best performances of the night so I can watch them.

This is why Rock Band was invented...

Then again, this is why cover bands are still great:

Why I didn't own a dog as a kid...

[The Internet is Terrible]

I was usually the kid at the 0:09 mark running away

Today is our Independence Day

Bill Pullman, from Will Smith's best summer movie, gives the best speech since Van Damme's classic.



Enjoy your holiday!

Manny being Manny

DrewL mentioned this to me last night, and Awul Announcing put the video up. It's the best of Manny Ramirez's bizzare moments, and it's the funniest video I've watched on the internet in quite some time.

Hey, Why So Quiet?

So while everyone else has been out exercising and running, I've been doing the exact opposite. Sitting around while watching TV, eating nothing but sliced bread with turkey, drinking cheap frat party beer and overpriced handles, but having a ton of fun while doing it. After drunk dialing the world and pulling an Ant and forgetting everything that happened the night before, I spend the next day drinking water and soaking up whatever is left in my stomach. The day consists of thinking about doing something productive, but alas, nothing happens.

I've hit that final stretch in the school year. Final project season is in full swing and I feel like I'm ahead of the game which is always good. I plan on knocking out a bunch of my projects this week so I don't become a panicking college student, struggling to paste together shit on the last minute. I can count my days left in Boston on my fingers and toes, and damn I can't wait to get back home. Less than 20 days till I can get my fat self to Cotijas and order up a hash brown burrito and 2 fish tacos, and after eating nothing but sandwiches and pizza nothing sounds better than good, SD style mexican food.

My free time goes to watching shows (30 Rock was so funny) and playing video games, but lately a lot of creative effort has been going into audio production, not just playing piano but doing the whole underground producer thing and making beats and sampling things left and right. After taking a bit of time to look back on the year I realize that I've learned so much not only in music history and theory, but in my goals as an artist as well. As soon as I tell myself that I know exactly what I want to do, more and more doors start to open, more ideas start to flow, more sounds start to come up in my head, and it's all extremely exciting. Next year I'm moving into an apartment with 2 of my friends up here, and we share similar musical styles and we're all into creating and developing ideas, so I'm pretty excited to see what kind of madness develops down the line.

So yeah, that's what I've been up to, hopefully I'll be able to balance my time better in the next few weeks, and I've had a couple features floating around that I might get to soon. Later days everyone.

Taking It Easy

To: Lance, Ray, Adonis
From: Nazer

12:33 on a Saturday afternoon. The sun is shining outside and it looks ridiculously nice, but I know when I step out it's going to be windy as hell. On my desk are leftover Heineken bottles and Mcdonalds napkins, crumpled receipts and magazine advertisements, and more, lets just call it unorganized chaos.

School has been cool, well let me say this again, school is always cool, just some weeks are better than others. I don't think I'm alone in this, but eventually you hit a point in your studies where you feel like you're comfortable with the material, then you read a few more pages of a book and your world suddenly expands and you realize how much you actually don't know; a vicious, repetitive cycle. With only 3 more weeks left and finals I'm just going to stick it out and hope for the best results.

I watched the Padres lose to the Giants, watched "Psycho" (1960) for my History of Film Music class, watched The Office and 30 Rock, and played Portal and Mass Effect on 360. The last page of Entertainment Weekly was entitled Videogame Lunacy by Stephen King, and he talked about the generalizations given to video games as a sort of "evil" in the world. He makes note to say that he isn't a gamer, but he understands when people in this industry lash out because of the comments that are directly associated with them. He talked about a Massachusetts law that's currently in review stating that kids won't be able to purchase Mature rated games until they're 18, but states that the same child can go watch Hostel II at age 17. He also commented on the fact that it is so easy for a reporter to say that video games cause things like school shootings, but what ignorant adult let their kids get their hands on guns in the first place. This is a topic I find interesting because I consider myself a gamer, and I'm not in favor of the stereotypes placed behind them.

So what's planned for the day? Maybe some practicing, getting some school work done, maybe playing some video games or watching a movie, and then another night of hanging out, typical saturday, but we'll see. Take it easy folks.

SD REPRESENT

Game-winning shot.





Competition-winning performance.

Finals make me....happy? O_O

To: "the utterly amazing" Lance, "the extraordinary" Ray, noob Adonis
From: Nazer
Re: Finals make me homesick
Finals make me want to cut my wrists

I haven't posted in a while due to my heavy schedule, but with last week behind me things can continue at their normal pace.

Finals ended last Friday for me, and yeah because of the whole music school thing they were actually pretty enjoyable. Tests enjoyable? Bullshit I know, and I know a ton of kids at Berklee who strongly disagree with me, but yeah I personally had fun with them. I got to write music, conduct a Stravinsky piece, listen to music, give a speech about music and society, and study historical film composers.

Anyways, it seems like the majority of people go on Spring Break next week, so to everyone still taking tests, good luck, because vacation isn't the same without everyone celebrating. So yeah, knock that shit out so we can all go crazy.

I'd also like to encourage everyone to check out all the amazing posts by our affiliates lately (right side under blogosphere). Some fantastic reads there, perfect for distracting one from studying.

Finals make me homesick :'(

To: the extraordinary Ray, Adonis, Nazer
From: Lance

Kotaku's weekend editor, Maggie Greene, a grad student at Adonis' own UCSD, used her Weekend Note to whine about finals so I will too.

I'm horribly behind on an SQL Database project, and a 10 page research paper due tomorrow, but I would like to waste a few minutes to share some final exam bloopers! Most of these have made their way around the internet many times already, but this shit is still funny.

When the news goes wrong...

...hilarity ensues:

SO HORDE!

I could use some of THIS during finals week

Most of you have probably seen this already but I don't care. This video makes me wannna buy some monsters or amps and get loaded off that shit but then I'll probably get the BG's and get even less studying done.

Speaking of the BG's, I apologize to Jay and to the big white guy on my other side during the In4MatX (it's realy abbreviated that way) 111 final. Those sounds were probably very distracting to you, and trust me, they were just as uncomfortable for me. God, I felt like I was gonna explode. My stomach felt like a hot dog in the microwave that was about to blow up because it's been cooking too long.

I could've gotten an A in that class, but if it doesn't end up happening, blame the Lean Cuisine Chicken Tuscan Panini.


Which, by the way, is probably my least favorite of the Lean Cuisine Panini selection, though pretty good on its own merits. I will be sure to put something else down on my dad's commissary list next week. Something like this old standard:


These things don't even taste like pizza but I swear by their addictive goodness and so do many other Lance house veterans.

Shoot me a comment about your favorite frozen snack so I have something for my stomach to dream (I was gonna put "masturbate to" but I guess 3 in a row would've been too much) about while I study.