Hello, I'm Hunter "Rubix" Short. I've got ADD, OCD, potential Asperger's and slight social anxiety; this gives me capacity to be whacky, wild, and obnoxious (what I call "letting loose" or "having fun"), yet also at times calm, coy, cool, collected, and what some might or might not call "smart".
I talk and type with hick dialect to effectively lower my communication standard and relax some; born, raised, and residing in Texas.
Musical Influence
I've loved Phil Collins since he and Mark Mancina scored Disney's Tarzan when I was 3 or 4. I believe that was the first CD I ever called my own. My collection slowly grew: Phil Collins' Hits, Genesis' Turn It On Again, other stuffs - Michael Jackson's Thriller, Best Of The Police, some Toto, and more - which I didn't listen to nearly as much. Since my first decade, I've grown less obsessed with video games and tech as I've grown more interested in both music and film. Thus, last year when I discovered I'm not much of a [computer] programmer, I decided I'm a film composer. That's my primary career goal and focus now. My favorites? James Horner's A Beautiful Mind and Bicentennial Man and Searching For Bobby Fischer (his Magnum Opus, what people know him for, is James Cameron's Titanic); Michael Giacchino's LOST and The Incredibles and Up (Up won him most every film score award of 2009, Oscar to Grammy and more); Hans Zimmer's The Dark Knight and Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Inception; too many others.
Therefore, as video games have been my primary obsession (to an extreme) since I was introduced through Rare's Donkey Kong Country and Acclaim's Batman Forever (as well as the SNES port of NBA JAM) as a baby, I've also always appreciated video game music. Love Koji Kondo and Marty O'Donnell and Dave Wise and Kenji Yamamoto and...
Vigilante's Beneath The Surface, an instrumental smooth jazz solo(s)-focused extension of the classic Aquatic Ambience theme from Donkey Kong Country 1, is my favorite OCremix. BLiNd's Jade Catacombs and BigGiantCircles' Nova Siberia also come to mind.
I'm not much of a noob; I've submitted a few mixes these past few years, and my latest - Jolly Bowser's Road, a piano medley sorta mix - got good marks. (as fer my older ones....) I figured I oughtta finally formally introduce myself. Apologies for being too thorough.
I'm very interested in directing an OCR album/project soon. I agree with Emunator's kind advice: that I oughtta get my name out there a little more before I try to rally an album team and community remixer interest. So I'll put up a couple ol' tracks o' mine in the Workshop to see what y'all think soon. Thanks! Love everybody here, OCR rocks!