not so fun friday

Last night I went out for a few beers with some friends that I hadn't seen in a while (Hi Brant!). I hadn't eaten before I'd left, and quite frankly the first few beers didn't even touch the sides. You can see where this is heading, right? I didn't get home too late (maybe midnight?), but I have a class at 8:30am on a friday morning - something that should be banned in my opinion. I woke up this morning feeling a little dry and headachey, but more than anything, tired. Normally, I would have simply turned the alarm off, rolled over and gone back to sleep, but I missed this same class last week, and the truth is, I really like it (Computer Sound Production), even if it is very simple and dumbed-down somewhat. So I dragged my sorry arse out of bed, a little later than I should have, and eventually found my way to school (45 minutes late).

The lecturer is a nice guy - smart, musically talented, friendly - or so I thought. He came over to have a chat, and I mentioned that I missed last week's class, to which he really tore into me. I then asked what I missed and he shrugged the question off with "well maybe you should ask your classmates.." For a second, I thought I had been transported back to high school. Anyway, as the class went on, he seemed to come around to being friendly with me again, but wow that was another side to him.

Brad and I have decided to enter a film competition being held in Geelong at the end of September - should be a lot of fun I reckon. I'm also going to enter some of my older work into a student digital arts awards competition in Japan. Nothing to lose, as far as I can tell. Speaking of Japan, I have finished putting together the DV from last years trip and have burnt a DVD - it looks great if I do say so myself. I worked with raw DV (no compression codecs) the entire time, which sometimes meant working with 8Gb files, but my little beast had no problems at all handling everything and rendering at a great speed. I will encode this is h.264 soon and try to post it online.. no idea where though, as I dont have any webspace. It goes for 35 minutes which I think is too long for youtube.

I'll start taking photos again this weekend, now that the camera is back from overseas. Am also planning a couple of short video art pieces using the DV I have - should look nice.

Sonically, I have posted another recording - you can download it from here. This is less experimental, more straight forward, more guitar heavy. It was recorded as just a rough sketch to get some ideas down, so it is riddled with mistakes, and there are many changes planned, but anyway, have a listen - feel free to leave comments either positive or negative. No vocals yet...

Bah, its 2:20pm and I'm still hungover - I should go get some food and then get to class.

またね。