i tend to dive in to hobbies pretty hard. it's what happened with photography. for me, it's hard to keep two hobbies going at the same time so the photography thing has kind of fallen by the wayside cause i've been trying to teach myself to mix records instead.
i bought these 1200's off my friend jay just a couple of days before he died. when the second year anniversary of his death came up i started feeling a bit guilty that they've gone mostly unused so i decided to give beat matching a go. needless to say, at first it was a cringe inducing cacophony of crap. lately though, i'm finding i can listen back to my practice sessions with only minor embarrassment. wow, i'm really selling it here. anyway, check out the mix below that's definitely got a few noob mistakes but should be mostly listenable... well, depending on your tastes in music that is.
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tracklist:
q lazzarus - goodbye horses (extended version)
alias - hot feet
toddla t - inna di dancehall (count of monte cristal & sinden mix)
larry tee - licky (herve goes low remix)
aquasky - have a good time (herve and sinden mix)
fake shark real zombie! - designer drugs (designer drugs remix)
bamabounce - wu-tang slide
say wut - let's go / yeah (remix pt. 1)
top billin - shake my ass
le le - la bouche (elroy vanderley's je te vois une baltimore edit)
krazy baldhead - crazy moth3f2ck8z (midfield general remix)
lillica libertine - manhunt (stdjs turn the bass up remix)
huoratron - $$ troopers (charlie fanclub remix)
hostage - stab up
moby - go (trentemoller remix)
drop the lime - come 2 life
herman ross - house now!
boyz noise - oh! (a-trak remix)
midfield general - disco sirens (boy 8-bit short vocal mix)
dizzee rascal - sirens (war games rmx)
edu k - me bota pra dancar (crookers edit)
bonde do role - gasolina (crookers crunk)
jamtech foundation feat. king kong - rumble jumble life
our siamese cat maud and brock & em's siamese cat simon couldn't be more different. maud's a total chickenshit that plays passive aggressive games with us and simon is the feline equivalent of rocky balboa trapped in the body of paul from the wonder years. where maud hides, simon comes out swinging his declawed paws. it's really quite funny. sort of like holding your lil' bros forehead at a distance while he tries to swing at you. not that i would have ever done that to my bro of course -ahem-... sorry tony.
it's been really foggy the last few days with all the rain and snow melting. it's felt like those old video games that couldn't draw far enough into the distance so they covered it up with fog. i'm not ashamed to admit that the first silent hill game genuinely scared the shit out of me. zombie dogs are no joke.
this is the first time i've tried to process something using aperture. i'm not totally sure i like it yet. it's disorienting trying a completely new workflow.
what's the general opinion out there on aperture for people that also know photoshop/lightroom? thumbs up or thumbs down?
i've been a vegetarian for i don't even know how long. It's gotta be getting close to a decade now. i'm not gonna lie, there's moments now and then when i see something delicious lookin and think "aaaah hell, i'd give it up for a piece a-dat". this sort of scene is not one of those times.
my soon to be bro-in-law chris got an ef mount for his telescope so we could attach my camera and freeze our asses off while waiting for alignments and long exposures. my hands hurt so bad that i could barely feel the buttons on my camera.
this is our first attempt and it's by no means the best photo of the orion nebula, but i think it's not bad for a couple of noobs. focus and alignment aren't exactly spot on, but we'll keep trying and get better at it with each outing. it'll get a lot easier come summer when we can pull up some lawn chairs and a case of beer.
jen and i spent this past weekend with six of our best buds up at lolly's farm. it's a weekend getaway we do each year that involves eating excessively, playing games much too competitively, drinking, and then eating some more. tensions got a little high when we were playing "celebrity" and brock's clues were things like "the guy who invented cheese", "the easter island statues", and "tall people". brock's inability to understand the rules of our made up game aside this was quite possibly the most successful farm weekend ever.
so here's lesley and emily thinking it would be a good idea to run from the hot tub to the snow and back again. the neon outfits are not unusual. it's all they wear. true story.
last summer after my car broke down in toronto i had it towed to my mechanic in cambridge thanks to aaron's super caa coverage. it was weird riding with a stranger for 50 minutes and shooting the shit to fill the awkward silences. it's exhausting making small talk and feigning interest at 1am.
i took this shot while waiting for jen to pick me up after arriving at my mechanic's abandoned lot. typically, i like shots like this when other people take them, but whenever i try i feel like they fall short. maybe i just can't put my finger on what quality it is about other peoples photos that appeals to me.
jen bon jovi here has been filling in for paul as the singer of the tyra males lately. here she is warming up the pipes and hamming it up for the camera as we continue on our quest to earn 1,000,000 real fake fans.
