The start of summer…

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Usually I’m really happy to get away from school, I usually look forward to the freedom of doing anything I want to without any deadlines. But I have found that having this structured mess called IPR in my life makes everyday pretty fun. Sure, there is a lot of tough homework and tests can get on your nerves, but how often do any of us music nerds get to spend so much time with other like minded nerds?

I haven’t seen so many talented people in one place.

I have never felt totally right with the people I spent time with until now.

I have made a lot of friends. Maybe some enemies- don’t know until there is an attempt on my life. And I have just met some really cool people that don’t mind sharing some of their knowledge with someone who wants to know more.

Take advantage of this IPR goers. You probably will never have an opportunity like this where you can meet people of extremely different interests and be able to get non-smartass answers about their area of expertise.

Why does the word Blog suck so much?

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I have never liked the word Blog.

The word alone was the leading reason I never wanted to have one.   I avoided any website that had the word Blog in the title because I figured it was probably some crappy myspace style blog.

I want to petition to get this word changed to something more aesthetically pleasing.

I’m looking for ideas but I have a few.

How about the lengthened version of blog? Web log?

Not as dumb but it is two syllables.  Sort of like journal.

Maybe a shortened version of Internet Journal.

Internals, net journal, InJours! (pronounced injures)

Please! Help me come up with something that doesn’t sound as idiotic as Blog!

Can’t get enough Metal…

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To come from these fingers. I need to practice practice practice. But that isn’t just me, you all need to practice too. You can’t expect to improve without some effort. My problem right now is that I have again fallen into my old trap. I have started to focus more on technique then on writing. Sure a really heavy part sounds great but if it appears to come from nowhere, it really doesn’t matter how cool that one part is. I need to just jam out, no more of this, “where can I insert finger tapping and sweeps without it sounding TOO cheesy?”

That issue aside…

I have fallen in love with my seven string guitar again. It is just so mean and it has a great eighties hair metal lead tone if I want it.

My goal for this summer is to get my own PA system. A new amp for the guitar, and maybe even a new 7 string. Longer scale, more chunk, maybe some sort of alder body super strat with some corksniffer pickups in there like some BareKnuckles. But BareKnuckles aren’t worth it if I get some cheapy 7 or even in my current Japanese made 7. I’m not going to cheap out on my next 7, simply because what sort of variations on a seven would anyone really want? If I just got one really nice 7 make specifically for tight clear and big sounding metal, I wouldn’t need any other 7 again. That isn’t true for 6 strings. You can get 9 entirely different guitars and you still could be unsatisfied with the overall diversity of guitars. Also, One nice metal 7 can replace a glam rock 6. It would accomplish the same thing if you used the appropriate amp settings.

Domain Name? That sounds fun

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So I’m investigating Domain names, which is a pretty crucial part of having your web presence be of value in some form or another. I’m trying to imagine what I would use my unique domain name for in the coming months. I’m sure it would be a higher priority to actually get one if I had money coming into my bank account in some way. But I think I still know what I could use my own website for.

I’m an aspiring Audio Engineer and the benefits of having my own dot com are a plenty! I can have detailed information about myself and my work all localized in one easy to reach place, along with rates and fancy pictures. I could also use it to spout out my opinions about music in my area and maybe even what I think about the music I hear on a regular basis from around the world. I could also use the site to link to bands and artists that I am working with and ones that I am soon to work with.

For example my band, Grandeur4clARC.

Or a band that I am the recording, mixing, and mastering engineer for, Akhenaten

Or that band that I’m working on the pre production steps with at present, Ateeth.

I don’t know for now, It is a bit much to think about when I hardly have any plans on how to market myself. More soon…`

Becoming Jesus 101: Accelerated Enlightenment

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There is apparently a large amount of people that desire nothing more than to become the Great Son of God.  One creative business, situated in the Vatican, promises to turn you from heathen to savior in a few short weeks.  The company is a subsidiary of Apple Corporation and is personally run by Steve Jobs. He jokingly calls the graduates of the program iJesuses and the graduates quickly forgive him and hold no grudge as they are now Jesuses.The Great Creator

There are some skeptics, Bill Gates being the most prominent, that think that creating so many Jesuses is diluting the holy power possessed by the graduates, thereby turning them back into normal people that just so happen to have solid morals and a few cool party tricks like boosting the alcohol supply with the old water to wine trick of the first Jesus.  And these same skeptics wonder if Steve Jobs is also bringing the world closer to the big apocalyptic end foretold in the book of Revelations.  “The second coming of Jesus is supposed to mark the beginning of the end of the world,” cried a random street preacher that stands on Washington and 2nd ave north in front of sexworld, “even if his first engineered Jesus didn’t set it in motion, what makes him think that the third, fourth, or 666th Jesus wont!?”

So far, no demon spottings have been reported so it may be safe to say that we are not at risk of the Apocalypse at present.

People wonder why Steve Jobs never took his own class and it is believed that he is actually God himself, he is the great creator of the Jesus University and the now available iPad.  No word on the powers of Jobs, maybe because no one has witnessed any lightning bolts or miracles, but it is difficult if not impossible to witness omnipotence.  We plan to continue reporting on this because of the massive uproar on both sides. One of our reporters plans to attend the school and see what really goes into making an iJesus, technical specs will be provided with our next press release.

iJesus on a cross