The Light of Day

General update 7/16/07
KeithHandy posted in Uncategorized on July 16th, 2007

Just to let y’all know, I took a vow of silence and shaved my head. Well, no, actually I didn’t shave my head. Or take a vow of silence for that matter. That’s just what we authors call a “hook”, to reel you in and make you want to read the rest of the post. Bet you’re excited now!

Gosh, normally when I write these things, I have a fairly specific topic to write about. It’s almost harder to just let my hair hang down and say “yo peeps, wazzap”. Let’s seeeeee… well, my first order of business this week is to finish up a special sound design project for an animation Mike is working on — not his animation this time ’round, but one his studio has been commissioned to do all the work on. This one has some girlies in it. When it came to audio, they had the good sense to sub-hire my acoustitransgenderaural talent for fakin’ the girlies. And so, I’m fakin’ the girlies.

Then, the rest of the week is rather unplanned. So I’d better put a stick in it right now before another week of my life goes by. One thought that came to me is that this would be a swell time to film myself doing some more electric guitar work, to simultaneously flaunt my rock star skills and my petite figure. (Not quite a six pack, but a small keg will give you just as good a buzz anyway. Um… okay, this analogy dies here. NOW.) I’ve noticed I actually get a few more youtube hits when the video involves some kind of “instruction” or “how to” angle than when it’s just “listen to my new song! …please listen to my new song!!”. I would put up a “how I write songs” video if it featured more than me scribbling on a sheet of paper and singing the same part of a verse over and over again. When they invent the “in-brain” cameras I’ll reconsider the idea.

I’m pretty sure my next “so you want” installment will be about equalizers, since I kind of opened the door to that when I talked about how the frequencies are laid out… and it would be really helpful too, to discuss what kinds of sounds are happening in what ranges, and why brighter sounds take up more of the spectrum than duller sounds do, etc. (and why this matters to you).

These days I have two mice. Ralph (”Ralphie”) is the small brown wild mouse that emerged out of nowhere and moved into the cage several months ago, and Emily Junior is a half-white, half-dark-gray fancy mouse with a dog-like patch over one eye, the only surviving one from the last group of three I took home from Pet Saver. They get along really well. Since I have two nearly-identical cages (built myself out of wire mesh and plastic storage units), I clean whichever one they’re not in, and then transfer the mice. Problem is, Ralph won’t let me go anywhere near him (her, actually), so I generally let him (her) out until he (she) eventaully wanders over to the clean cage and gets in voluntarily. This didn’t go so smoothly a few days ago, because Ralph kept wandering around aimlessly, spending most of the time up in the window. A bit of adventure we had. Eventually she accidentally trapped herself by falling into a long cardboard box, and I dumped her into the cage.

How have y’all been? Shoot me some mad science! Or whatever the popular expression is these days!