Showing posts with label chipmunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chipmunk. Show all posts

10.5.09

Senescent Lost Cat / GarbageBand

I like to make music using GarbageBand, a simple Mac program that allows anyone to think they are talented, myself included. I know adding a few loops and strange sound effects doesn't make music good, but it's as good as I can do. Or maybe as good as I'm willing to put forth effort.

Anyway, I made a song with my sister in less than an hour, recording chipmunk voices and quoting lines from a lost cat poster. The poster looked like a really bad '80s rave dance party, so I made a really bad '80s rave dance song.

I have better songs I could talk about, but this is my most recent (and most inspired, probably).

You can download the song here and listen to more boring music at my MySpace.

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=9t5nlktg9mc

5.10.08

Bullets

My roommate's father came to visit and brought a pistol with him, one that he'd recently bought out of paranoia of the state of the States. We went out to shoot it, at this alcove dug into a mountain. Most of the rocks were volcanic and pieces of shot up computers and broken bottles littered between them. Train tracks were nearby and when we weren't deafened by gunshots, the racing rattling of an Amtrak overpowered our hearing. It was a strange environment, far from the Flagstaff I'm used to.
It was great fun, since I've barely ever shot a gun. I think I was pretty accurate. The best part of the day was when a chipmunk scampered by our shooting range and Kyle tried to shoot it. Every blast seemed to confuse the varmint and it would run over to the puffs of dust where a bullet had just hit. It wasn't smart enough to run away until Kyle was out of ammunition.
Then I tried loading a clip and it snapped up and caught my pinkie finger. I'm a moron and have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to guns except 'pull the trigger'. It left an interesting wound however, like leprosy or little leeches.