Geoffrey Taucer

Ok, finally home. MAGFEST WAS AMAZING! Best one I've been to. Highlights, in no particular order: 1) SEEING EVERYBODY AGAIN! Too many people to tag in one post, but it's been between 3 and 8 years since I've seen most of you and it was so great to hang with you all again. Hopefully it won't be so long before the next time I see you all! 2) First night shenanigans with relyance and q-pa. 3) Next door neighbors knocking at 2am to tell us they were enjoying our jam session, and requesting that we keep going. 4) OCU concert 5) IRL PP&R with relyance and djp (among others). Gonna jump back in on that thread when I'm a bit more awake. 6) Shumkats reunion! It was great jamming with darangen, stevo, and luiza again. A bit disappointed Jill couldn't join us for our lobby jam session, though..... 7) That mini-concert on the back dock. Beautiful playing, glad I got to hear it. Playing tetris attack with bahamut, the SECOND-BEST player at MAGfest. 9) Delicious juicy butts for dinner 10) Relyance being REALLY REALLY REALLY HAPPY on the final night.

In 24 hours, I will be on a plane headed towards MAGfest

Shnab is a musical genius with no equal. His brilliance defies description. He understands music on a level that is beyond comprehension to most of us. And as brain-numbingly brilliant as his studio compositions are, his live performances are even more amazing. I'm actually not being at all hyperbolic with any of this.

Fun mix!

Overall I'm enjoying AoT. But it definitely has some eye-roller moments.

My biggest complaint about AoT is the fact that there's some sort of bloom lighting effect in EVERY SINGLE FUCKING SHOT WITHOUT EXCEPTION

That zombie episode, tho. Wtf? And that baseball episode.

Rewatching Samurai Champloo. It's almost as good as I remember it being.

When will the album be released?

My track is submitted

First song I ever learned on guitar (not just video game song, but any song) was the chords for Gerudo Valley from Ocarina of Time (though I transposed it to A Minor). Then the chords for Twoson from Earthbound. First song I learned to play fingerstyle was Radical Dreamers from Chrono Cross.

Absolutely stunning! Instant classic. Definitely going among my favorite mixes.

Might do something for this.

No, it's a full time job requiring extensive expertise and it pays accordingly. No, I have no such ambitions. I coach for a variety of reasons, and one of those reasons is that I have to pay rent and buy groceries. Would you go to a lawyer and offer her the "opportunity" to represent you pro bono? There's a difference between somebody volunteering their work and you soliciting work for free. When somebody offers to work for you for free, you should be damn grateful for it and respect that they are probably making an exception for you. It doesn't mean it is then acceptable to then go and ask other people to do the same thing. I'll do free work for charitable non-commercial organizations, and that's it (and even that only if I have the time for it, which I usually don't). My apologies for considering musical work to be worth more than $0. I don't know what could have possibly come over me to make me think such a ridiculous thing.

I want you to take a second and imagine you are talking to just about anybody else -- a plumber, a lawyer, a teacher, a doctor, literally anything other than a music composer -- and imagine you offered them the "opportunity" to provide their services to you for free. Does the above scenario sound ridiculous? It does? That's because it is ridiculous. In other words,

Initial character impressions: Yoshi: feels fucking great. Might be my new main. Shulk: fun. Fox: feels like complete ass, but maybe I'm just too used to how he handled in melee. Kirby and Ness: better than I expected. Ganondorf and Mario: Meh. Rosalina: how do I drive this thing? Palutena: I must Captain Falcon: Feels more or less right, but the timing is just off enough that I have not yet been able to sweet spot the knee a single time. Is there even a sweet spot for it in this game? Shiek: decent. Robin: loads of fun.

Got mine, waiting for a system update to complete so I can play it. I have the 3DS version, but I've hardly played it at all

Visually spectacular! Mechanics look a little weird, but on the whole it looks like a fitting tribute. However..... nintendo is not known for taking a liking to these sorts of projects, and it's overwhelmingly likely that they'll hit you with a C&D as soon as they find out about it, sorry to say.

Loved it right from the first note. Gorgeous soundscape, catchy rythm, beautiful violin. I love everything about this track.

I've actually accomplished almost all of the dreams I had when I was younger. I've been a professional juggler, a professional composerand musician, and while I was never a "professional" gymnast I did get a chance to compete against several Olympians and was the first person in the world to compete a Kaz Double Front vault. Living the dreams was great, but a quieter and simpler life of coaching suits me fine these days.

I've been coaching gymnastics for the last 10 years, and I really don't have any major goals beyond what I've already accomplished. My goal is to see kids stay in shape and build self-confidence and a love of the sport, and I get to do that every day. I think I'd be content to keep doing this for the rest of my working life. But if I could easily switch careers at this point, I think my dream job would be researching in astrobiology. Unfortunately, there's many years of school (and thus thousands of dollars) between here and there.....

Preregistered.

http://youtu.be/I8WQ4U6BJzI?t=19s Riverdance http://youtu.be/v1hrtCC-QWw?t=14s Xenogears (Much as I love Mitsuda, I have to admit that an awful lot of his stuff is either heavily-inspired-by or straight-up-ripped-from other people's work)

Love the flute and ESPECIALLY the guitar!

I'll raise you one: http://youtu.be/kln605W1r3E?t=5m52s (gladiator) http://youtu.be/yRh-dzrI4Z4?t=4s (pirates of the caribbean)