Music!

This weekend, I have as my goal to write and record at least 5 short-ish (15-30 seconds) music pieces to use as bumper music for Joe and my Pseudocertainty show. I'm tired of Joe having all the music fun! Also, I think the exercise of my musical muscles will keep me interested in doing some more expansive things.

There are times when I think about recording some covers, just to be doing something with the recording equipment I have. Then, I want to do some of my own things, even if it's re-recording some songs I've already recorded. Of course, all this comes down to really wanting to generate some new material. I actually picked up the acoustic guitar for the first time in awhile tonight, just to start getting into practice playing again, should I use it at all for the recording this weekend. I'll see where the "muse" takes me. It should be fun....

I'm about 80 pages out from finishing the Alastair Reynolds book, "Century Rain," I mentioned a few blogs ago. I continue to enjoy the book, and if I don't finish it tonight, I should get it finished by this weekend.

No real plans for this weekend yet. Saturday should be rainy, so maybe we'll do indoor stuff that day.

NP: The Beatles - Ain't She Sweet

Pseudo!

Joe and I just finished recording a new episode of Pseudocertainty. It went well, and the show should be up on the website in the next few days. These are always fun to do, we work well off of each other, and when we come with material to talk about on the fly.

We really do a minimum of prep for each show, we'll read some articles, find some interesting things on line, or just have some good material to react to. As Joe said recently, we could be the "Car Talk" of aliens...

Dare to dream.

NP: Talking Heads - Heaven

Farscape!

This weekend, I finished watching the Farscape series on DVD, with the TV movie "The Peacekeeper Wars." I had seen the movie when it was originally on, back in 2005 I believe. It was definitely a satisfying conclusion to the series, but I think it did suffer from just having to resolve so much in so short a period of time.

The plot was right where it should be, but over the course of a season we would have seen so many more good character moments. It wasn't that the movie lacked good moments for the cast, but it was just too compressed. But, I still give the move a B+/A-, as it was a solid conclusion to the show. Of course, Ben Browder and Claudia Black are back working together on one of the Stargate shows. A bit of stunt casting, to be sure, but I'm glad they're working.

Just don't make me watch the show...

Tonight's my last night of duty until late in November. Without going into details, it's been a busy week. It wasn't so much the volume of things to deal with, it was that there were odd things, that were a bit off the beaten track for normal residence life stuff. But, that's why I'm paid the moderately low bucks!

I also watched the Japanese-Raymond Burr'less version of the very first Godzilla movie. It's quite good, and a much darker film than the Americanized version was. The American version focuses on the monster aspect, while there's much more of an anti-nuclear (but not anti-American) stance in the Japanese version. It's very well done for basically being a movie where the main character is a person in a dinosaur-monster outfit.

NP: Soundgarten - Spoonman