Twittering for a Little Bit
April 30th, 2008
I’m going to be using Twitter for the next few days…link is here.
Archive
Archive for April, 2008
How-To: Work at KFC
April 28th, 2008
Hello Again: R.E.M. “Accelerate”
April 27th, 2008
When I was younger, I was a big fan of R.E.M. My first album purchase was Document. I learned how to play guitar by playing along to R.E.M. songs. At some point, I owned the entire catalog plus a number of bootlegs and rarities, which are now all mostly gone since I lent somebody most of my collection and never got it back.
R.E.M. dropped off the radar for me, just after the release of Automatic for the People and somewhere around the release of “The Great Beyond.” I would periodically check in on what they were up to, but it just wasn’t that interesting anymore. I put them in the category of “sure I’ll check out their stuff, if it’s free to listen to on their site or on YouTube, but otherwise, meh.”
However, their new album (Accelerate) is really good…and check out the above video (and the rest of Vincent Moon’s Takeaways Shows videos with the band)…pretty amazing stuff.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
April 18th, 2008
Michele says I am worse than updating, so here’s one of the things I’ve been up to lately:
Wow, digital cameras have come a long way. I bought my first one from Fry’s Electronics back in 1999, an Olympus that did 640×480. Over the past few years I’ve carried around a Canon SD110 point-and-shoot, which was highly serviceable as well.
I decided a little while ago that I wanted to get back into photography, so I went and got a digital SLR a few weeks ago. Man this thing is awesome, and it’s only an entry-level camera. Toby and I went to Red Rock Canyon last week to shoot. It was super fun.
Just got a super-wide-angle lens today (the Sigma 10-22mm that Toby is using to produce some cool stuff) and I am looking forward to shooting even more. I have revived my Flickr photostream, so please subscribe to it if you’d like.