News for August 2006

August 23, 2006

I nearly finished the music for my friends video short €˜play-dough-a-constrictor€™ which is a 5 minute video of her son making a snake out of playdough, it turning into a real snake, and then chasing him around a playground.  It€™s a fun fast paced and super creative video – one of many that she€™s made, but only the first that I€™ve gotten to meddle with.  So now I give her the music, she syncs stuff up and tells me what she wants changed, and before you know it, it€™s on you tube.  It€™s been a lot of fun – I used a ton of sample so that I could work on it when my daughter was asleep, but my drums made their premier, as did my daughter yelling, €˜GO! GO! GO!€™  Once this is done I pack up the studio and box it up for Battle Lake.  Ah, transition. yuck.

Posted: August 23rd, 2006
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August 21, 2006

hey fans and folk enthusiasts, My wife and I caught a promo for a (new) football movie coming out. I didn€™t catch the name (catching and football have never really gone hand in hand for me); I think it was something like €˜invisible€™ or €˜inevitable€™ and it looked like it starred Marky Mark of Funky Bunch fame. Needless to say the trailer was giving out good vibrations. I€™ve never really cared for the sports genre – it seems they all tell the same story. €˜look the underdog won/almost won€™ €˜hey the star player is getting his act together/showing up in the nick of time and still being allowed to play/getting good grades now/handicapped/ a blast from the lower class/learning an important life lesson we can all pick up on and use as a teachable moment example in the next corporate training event we take part in etc€¦
But then I realized something profound. That sports story is my story. It€™s your story. It€™s our story. So next time somebody calls you dumb€¦ start chanting €˜Rudy!€™

In other news I just got back from an amazing week at Outlaw Ranch in South Dakota. The Houge family is preparing to move, and at this point, after August 26 I will be on performance hiatus, probably till 2007, check the website for odds and ends that come out of my new home studio in Minnesota€™s lake country, Go! Fight! Win! Air Houge #29

Posted: August 23rd, 2006
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