I haven\u2019t posted in a long time I suppose.<\/p>\n
I went to Black Angus<\/a> with Amy and her family on Thanksgiving. I was glad to get a meal with other people on that day, but none of us were particularly impressed with the restaurant, it was my first time.<\/p>\n I did get my music recording situation underway. I bought a Creative E-MU 0404<\/a> sound card. I\u2019m putting all live instruments into the MD8 and using it as a pre-amp. I had to get my acoustic guitar fixed up a bit, just got it back on Monday. I have 54 cassette tapes of old Pusher and EM stuff. My goal is to digitize all of it and give it to the band members when I\u2019m in Ohio around Christmas. I\u2019m using Ableton Live<\/a>, which appears so far to be far more intuitive than CuBase (which came with the sound card). I also bought an M-Audio Radium 49<\/a> to use with Reason<\/a> as a synth.<\/p>\n I was listening to the radio in the car the other day. I already knew Aeon Flux<\/a> was going to suck several months ago when the first shots came out\u2026well okay, all of us fans of the original show knew it would suck when they cast Charleze. So anyway – this commercial comes on and the background is that inane Trapt<\/a> song \u201cHeadstong.\u201d (\u201cBack off I\u2019ll take you on Headstrong to take on anyone I know that you are wrong Headstrong we\u2019re Headstrong\u2026\u201detc.) Then I realize that it is a commercial for Aeon Flux. I was laughing out loud. This was the day of release and they were already airing ads showing their acknowledgment that NO ONE who liked the original Peter Chung<\/a> show would enjoy this movie. Better go after the braindead \u201cooh, a hot girl\u201d and \u201cooh\u2026they\u2019ll fight! And things will explode!\u201d crowd. Aeon Flux is a perfect example of how films can ruin an original idea (whether it is a book, tv show, etc.)<\/p>\n I also don’t understand why I should want to see Peter Jackson’s King Kong… I went to see LOTR because I knew that the Balrog would be new and different, and Golom would look cool and be different than any other live action character I’d seen before….and so on. How many versions of King Kong have there been? The previews show A) giant spiders B) a giant gorilla C) a T-Rex and D) bloodthirsty savages on a remote island. I just saw a giant spider two years ago in Return of the King, and it was perfect. T-Rex has been on screen in the past ten years many times – nothing new there. A giant gorilla going ape (pardon the pun) in New York? I’d enjoy it more as a 30 second Coke ad, at least then the antique novelty wouldn’t wear off so fast. Weird goings ons on remote islands…. isn’t there a certain show on a certain network about a plane crash right now with the same setting…starring a certain hobbit from a Peter Jackson film….??? Remakes are great when they ad something or do something the original couldn’t. Making things bigger and longer just because you can never works. I’d buy those pills if they really worked….but they don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven\u2019t posted in a long time I suppose. I went to Black Angus with Amy and her family on Thanksgiving. I was glad to get a meal with other people on that day, but none of us were particularly impressed with the restaurant, it was my first time. I did get my music recording […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}