Haven't said here yet what a great piece of work this is. A lot of the more desparate deadpan glances and pauses are super effective. The songs are a lot of fun, I've been stumbling around trying to learn them. Stumbling per my suckitude, not the teachings.

Teague - funny you mention Ben Folds in the tutorials, your teaching style is crazy similar. He does a couple artist walkthrough lesson things in Garage Band. Will show you some time.

By accident last weekend, this was the first of two filmed things I saw about the death of a pianist. Saw Zulawski's The Blue Note, about the last couple days of Chopin's professional life before he went off to retire and writhe in pain until his body rotted out. There's a lot of similar stuff about artists fighting to make a supreme personal expression on a literal deadline. Couldn't help but think of Max in the dark while watching this thing. Happenstance double features be funny sometimes.

Read some: 

http://theobscenemirror.blogspot.com/20 … -blue.html

Watch some:

That first shot! Fuck yeah! Vomiting blood on a piano! Some of the movie's nutty dream-like-that, but the tone overall is much more this:

But all through the last few minutes, couldn't help but draw comparisons between Disproportionately Happy and:

AT&T iPhones with 5.1 just sort of say 4G now, even if they're only on 3G. They don't have the antennas or means to parse a 4G signal. So you might not actually have 4G coverage, and your network is being a lying punk.

This! Congrats Spiff/Phi! Spiffy!

Campaigning for creations board banner.

*hic*

Miruvor
Two parts mead
One part orange juice
Shake, strain over ice
Fill with 2 parts club soda.

Forgive me, film purists.

Ent-draught
(hot) Double espresso/few oz strong coffee
2tsp maple syrup
Splash sambuca
Shake, strain over ice
Top with few shakes orange bitters

Sounds weird, but it's tasty and all the ingredients come from trees.

Some super powerful magic guy that would run into the Fellowship, be like, "sup guys!" sing a song, and leave.

EDIT: Several times.

Righto! Just the kind of research I was referring to, high five.

So I found this, which amuses me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mi … _and_drink

Which leads to asking if anyone has objections to interpreting Miruvor as a mead-mimosa kind of thing for Fellowship.

Cuz early.

Or Ent-draught as a maple-espresso cocktail for Return.

Cuz late.

*pivots*

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/mod … d384231270

Awesome, all this.

I'd try downloading it again or loading it in a different player, mine finished on time.

EDIT: Wait no, same.

Re: my game v. movie idea:

The Joker as an in-world character that's always ten steps ahead of the audience and in-world opposition?  Sounds like an intellectual Mary Sue for Nolan. There's an obsession with the idea of the "mastermind" in his work. The scene from Dark Knight Rises before Mission Impossible 4 leads me to believe Bane has become that super-manipulator character. Seems like Nolan's only interested in being as antagonistic and subversive to expectations as possible.

Anyone mind if I just pretend that's how that movie went down? Like, from now on?

No?

Cool.