What's to say about me...Im a musician, first and foremost. I play guitar, i compose, i sing, i listen...i do it all. Im also a writter and taking up photography. I am a nerd, through and through. I like Star Wars and can probably take anyone on trivia. I read a lot of books, mainly sci-fi/fantasy. I like vampires...
   

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Eternal Lament
This is an ongoing project for me. It started as an idea to make a musical concept album. The premace was of a musician who fell in love with a vampire, an affair deemed illegal by her peers. (sounds like a Romeo and Juliet, right?) After they confess their love for eachother, he asks her to bite him. He becomes a vampire, and then he has to deal with the differences of being one.
Then the idea progressed. After hearing the soundtracks to the 2nd and 3rd Matrix i decided i wanted to make orchestral/electronic music. The I started listening to Trans Siberian Orchestra, and started wanting to make orchestral/rock music.
Then i said, Hell, lets do it all. The project then became a rock/orchestral/electronic concept album on vampires.
The i was thinking the story was very Bruckheimer-esque, and that it would be awesome as a movie. But musical hardly make it these days. But a musical play...that could work. So Eternal Lament finally became what it is now, a musical of a man who loves music, but loves a vampire more, and the betrayal of his situation, and his eternal love for music.
Any music that i have finished and deemed ready for the public will be posted on music site.

The Mainstay of my Net-Life (aka: Cool Pages)

My Audioscrobbler (a page that tells you what kind of music I listen to...rather informative actually)

Ctrl+Alt+Del...a great web comic

The Nerd Test...See how L33T you are! (I got a 85%! W00T!)

L33T 5p3ak F04 N00bs! Or...for those who need this article...How to comunicate with the elite intelligent people (you call them nerds) on a higher plane of comunication. PS. Get used to the lingo...W3 Will Rul3 7h3 W0rld!

Red Vs. Blue...Funny Ass Nerd Humor in the form of Halo

T-Shirt Hell...Great shirts

The People In My Life...Those Cool Enough To Have Blogs...And the Lesser with Some Other Web Journal...BAH!

My First Journal...Where My Neurotic Behavior was First Documented

My LiveJournal...I know...how lame and blog elitist...I had to submit

My MySpace...what a weird thing to say...and yet so pathetic that I have one

Brooke...My partner vampire in taking this world over so us Sanguinarious will rule over our human crops

ElleBell...My West Coast Best Friend

My Music and Photos

My photos

Eternal Lament Music Music


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Friday, September 09, 2005
Phone Fun, Firefly and Finger Workouts

So...the new Motorolla ROKR has come out. I have known about this phone for about a couple weeks but I have had to keep my mouth shut about it because I signed a non-disclosure agreement and this directly fell under the agreement. The phone is a hubrid of a phone and iPod. It can hold something like 100 songs on it. It's an okay phone. Kind of pointless for me because I already have an iPod and I prefer to have a lot more than just 100 songs on it...so I will stay with my Sony Ericsson that stomps all over the ROKR. So, for kicks, my Mum and I went into a Cingular store today and played stupid and asked all about the phone and then said 'Thanks...we have to go see a movie' and walked out. After knowing what they have to say for a secret shopper, the guy did not do all that good.

Then we went into Best Buy where I (finally) got the Firefly DVD set. I realize that so many of my friends haven't seen anything of Firefly and Serenity is comming out at the end of the month. I watched the first episode with my Mom and I forgot how good it was. I remembered all the good lines. I know I have to sit down Elle and make her watch some of the episodes. There are some amazing ones.

I also practiced today for the first time in a week or so. Yeah...that was interesting. I sucked ass really. I think some of it may have been that my house was a bit cold this morning and my hands weren't all the way warmed up, despite me doing my exercises. But I really know that it was mostly from me not practicing. Very bad.

I have been watching some random music video's on Launch right now and 'Love?' from Strapping Young Lad came up. First thing that caught me about this video, aside from the fact that I had heard about this band, was the fact that the video is a mass cameo of the Evil Dead movies. Very cool. Then I started listening to the music. Really good stuff. Devin Townsend can really sing. He screams a lot, but the choruses are awesome. I will need to check out some of this stuff.

It was interesting playing today. Despite me not playing well, I still felt okay about it. I of course was practicing on Carmilla becuase she is my main guitar. After I played all of my exercises and scales and all of that other stuff, I immediatly picked up my Explorer (Helga) and started playing on that. It was so weird. The guitars have a different body shape, yes, but the Explorer just didn't feel right. I played for maybe a minute or two, then hung up Helga and went back to Carmilla. I have no idea what it is, but I prefer the looks even more.

I don't know...what do you guys think?



I have found their uses though. Helga is really only for rhythm. It really isnt even good to play her live becuase of the way she hangs on your body...very neck heavy. Carmilla is amazing for solo's. Her rhythm sound could be tweaked a bit. I want to put a EMG 60A pickup in her, which will fatten up the rhythm sound.

I am hungry...I want some corndogs. I think I will go and warm some up.

Posted at 08:31 pm by Winder13

 

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