psyche

Apple enthusiasm is now painful as Apple has been culturally hijacked by pretenders. I have long suffered the drawbacks of being a nerd and have always accepted it with as much humour as possible but I feel I have missed out on some of the advantages! For example, Star Trek: The Next Generation is truly excellent. We must ever live through the achievements of others? Hell yes!

My N95’s web browser makes of proud. If only it could YouTube, eh? Speaking of which, I have some more ideas for my video… A working video camera and tripod would be useful though - I currently use a not-too-old Sony MiniDV one that has curiously stopped recording or playing back its tapes, forcing me to record only when it is directly tethered to the PowerBook by the venerable but now waning FireWire 400…

You know what would have been a beautiful ending to Harry Potter? If Snape had taken his secret - the fact that he loved Lily - to his grave, I would actually love the book.

First ever phone blog post!

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I was meant to go for the Guitar-X thing today, but I woke up too late (at 14:34, to be precise). I don’t know what I’m doing or what I want to do. I’m so tired! It’s unbelievable! Nuclear projects were described as “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon”. Oh no! I am not sure what’s going on, you know. I really am not sure. Ha ha ha! Also, call me retarded, but was the point about Slughorn thinking that Lily was good at potions and that Harry, when using Snape’s textbook, had inherited her abilities because Snape, who had potions with Lily, gave her all the hints he devised? Snape is pretty great. So is Dumbledore. So is Voldemort. All great, really. How great.Sometimes I want to know everything and live forever and meet everyone who died and exhaust everything and just be eternal. Sometimes that’s enough to make me consider religion. HA HA HA, religion. I will live forever as a series of sceptical statements and hopefully scientific achievements. As Elliot said in response to me saying that I wanted to do something significant, “Most people don’t do anything”. How right he was.Pax

I am working on a music video for Requiem in C# Minor and it’s well underway. I need a proper tripod, though - hopefully I can pick one up tomorrow. This kind of shows how much of an Apple fanboy I am; I recorded the song in GarageBand and am doing the video in iMovie. Speaking of iLife, we went to Brent Cross and I attempted to pick up the iLife ‘08. When I told the helpful selling guy that it would be run on a G4, he said “G4… hmm… I don’t know…”, looked at his mate (who pulled a face: “G4? Yeuch!”) and they somehow talked me out of buying it. Good salespeople indeed. At least I may have a real reason to upgrade soon. I actually hate most of the annoying, superficial losers that frequent the Apple store. They aren’t newbies, they’re n00bs. The difference is that n00bs never become productive, seasoned veterans - they keep their abrasive attitude forever.This is from a long time ago - it was recorded on my Nokia 6820 over at Elliot’s house. Warning: involves awesomeness.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_RVfECfFOI] I saw The Simpsons Movie and liked it, actually. It was good.I am going to screw up my exams when I get into gaming properly. The last time I could be even loosely classified as a gamer was back in Durston. A long, long time ago.Pax

Lucifactor - I tried to say Lightmaker, yes. I love the way they did JKR’s website (I’m saying JKR like I used to say JRR for Tolkien). It reminds me of Myst. She will “probably” write an encyclopedia of Harry Potter stuff. I look forward to that. I burnt my hand while incinerating important documents last night. It hurts but it is the only reminder I will ever need of whatever was lost yesterday. Goodbye, past. Hello, future!Until this encylopedia exists, the Harry Potter Wiki on Wikia will suffice. The Myst one is good too.Nick Kellie - the guy taking the course I’m doing at Guitar-X - is going in for a tonsillectomy and so a guy called Les (?) will be taking us for the next two weeks. I’ve learned some interesting things. I had no idea how to make the blues sound bluesy but it appears to be possible to do so (in this case in G) by improvising using the G minor pentatonic over G7 (and the same over C7 but emphasising the important notes of C: C, D and G) and then using D minor pentatonic over the D7. It’s kind of strange. I like it.

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There are many. I have emboldened the one of each type I use most.

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