Yearly Archives: 2006

Proto-Con 2.0

It is a way off, but it is time to officially announce Proto-Con 2.0. Though the exact date and location of Proto-Con 2.0 has yet to be determined, it will most likely occur in October and be held in Maryland. So what do you need to do right now? Start making suggestions for events to occur at this year’s Proto-Con 2.0.

It also looks like we have some competition.

A Post-Content Saga (Part n)

Gaji hurled through the air her limbs twisting and gyring in odd directions like the spokes of a God’s Eye with it’s yarn being unwound, each movement carefully calculated to avoid the tripple-pointed, osmium filled, titanium jacketed slugs which would otherwise have torn through her soft humanish tissues. This body was a good one and she could keep it functional even after losing up to a third of it’s mass in the right places, but certain of her aesthetic tastes tended in different directions than the “brute force prevails” mentality. Basically she hated to mar the bone-white epidermal finish she’d so carefully cultivated lo’ these twenty some odd years of it’s existence.

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Spittin’ rhymes

ZOMBIE KILLAH!!

These lines they flow, the undead they know
That no one gonna let them bitches live, specially cool Joe
Cause now it’s time to show, how to kill’em hos!
Don’t do it slow, jus one final blow
Take the blade from the mow, just like sling blade bro
Droppin’ heads to the flo, just like that, there ya go
Some of em are funny, like curly, larry, and moe
Other are scary and chase yo ass like Cujo!


I get all the undead
And chop chop chop dem bitches’ head
Not here for lame ass bloodsuckas
Just rhymin’ bout zombies, muthafuckas

Do not run away, pull da trigga on ya uzi and spray spray spray
No time to delay, pull da hamma on ya saw’d off and spray spray spray
Don’t smell the decay, bust some caps in dem fuckas everyday day day

Some bitches tryin’ to get they rap game restarted
But they rhymes be crazy fuckin’ we todd did
Me I’m just rappin’ for the not so dearly departed
Got mad rhymes, now all I need is to get recorded
I get the zombie, and like Elian they get deported

That’s right I’m a Zombie Killa!
Not those fools in MJ’s Thrilla
Them bitches hard to find, only one in a milla
In this game the sword be mightier than a quilla
I just keep on cuttin’ till I get my filla
And I’ll jus keep on rappin’ til I a platinum sella

(Rough form rap, could definetly use some work and more words, but just add a “yeah, uh-huh yeah” intro and you’re set)

Shake and other things

Recently, Apple cut the price of Shake drastically. Like from $3000 to $500. The educational version is now only $250. I had a $100 certificate for the Apple Store that I had to spend by the end of the summer. So that means I ended up with Shake for only $150 (5% of the original price).

That might sound like a lot of money, but as Mike and I have found out, you can’t take a piss for $150 when it comes to making film/video. So this seemed like a good deal. We actually used it twice last night while finishing up the Green Machine. There was a problem shot were the best take of a particular line was marred by a jiggle in the camera. We used Shake to stabilize the shot (took all of 30 seconds) and while it isn’t absolutely perfect, I think it did a pretty good job. Nice.

In other news

Tears for Phil Collins

I finally purchased a decent set of monitors and the Logic Pro 7.2 upgrade. While playing around with the new software, I figured it was time to start putting up some of the other songs that Mike and I have recorded in the past 2 years. I think this was one of the first serious ones we did here in NJ. It’s called “Tears for Phil Collins.” I’m sure Mike will explain some more about it.

Yay Fascism!

Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say

June 30 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation’s largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages.

“The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,” plaintiff’s lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. “This undermines that assertion.”

The lawsuit is related to an alleged NSA program to record and store data on calls placed by subscribers. More than 30 suits have been filed over claims that the carriers, the three biggest U.S. telephone companies, violated the privacy rights of their customers by cooperating with the NSA in an effort to track alleged terrorists.

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