Geoffrey Taucer

If it's still available, I'll take the footcontroller.

I just saw it yesterday, and I thought it was absolutely brilliant. I think by far the best part was the social/political comentary, and the way it addressed the issues it brought up. While tons of movies have social and political comentary, the Dark Night is unique in that it attacks both sides of the issues it brings up, rather than trying to drive home one specific side of the issue. It shows the incredible power of hope, with two ships full of people potentially sacrificing themselves by not blowing the other up, while at the exact same time showing that even the greatest and purest of white knights can be corrupted. It pointedly shows us just how effective domestic surveillance can be at catching criminals, but just as pointedly shows us that it is unethical and immoral for anybody to have that sort of power. It presents us with a mob of treacherous street thugs who have no rules, no loyalty, not a shred of decency, yet also presents us with a ship full of convicted murderers who collectively choose to sacrifice themselves rather than blow up a ship full of civilians. It is simultaneously hopefull and cynical, and goes to great lengths to show us both the height of human decency and the depths of dispair and treachery. This movie is, in my opinion, a work of absolute genius.

Right off the bat, I love the idea. You captured the style nicely. Production has a bit of room for improvement, though it's not too bad on the whole. Violin could use a bit less reverb. Accordion sounds great. The sample sounds like a cheap one, but you made great use of it. Whatever that lead is comming in at 0:31 sounds quite meh. I think it's supposed to be a harmonica; if so, there have got to be better harmonica samples out there. Guitars and banjos sound great. Overall, the mix could use a bit of EQ to separate out the instruments and get rid of a bit of midrange mud. lol at the flute solo. Doesn't seem like it would fit, but it sounds pretty cool. And the brass sounds much better at this point. I'd say by far the biggest issue is the transitions. Namely, there are way to many of them and they're too jarring. A sort of crescendo + instrument change transition like you keep using here works great once or twice in a song; you use such a transition about every five seconds. You never give yourself a chance to get going. It seems like you don't take the time to develop any of the ideas, just show the idea briefly and then drop it and go onto the next thing. The violin comes in, and aside from having too much reverb, sounds pretty damn cool and I'm excited to see where you're going with it, but you don't go anywhere with it; you transition almost immediately to accordion. Then almost immediately to harmonica and brass. And so on and so fourth. Pick the three or four ideas you like best and develop them and make that your mix; right now it just sounds like a montage of ideas. As it is, it feels like you're trying to stuff too much action into too little time. Keep at it, though; I'd love to see this completed. We need more hillbilly mixes on OCR.

So today wasn't as hardcore as I had planned, but oh well. There's always friday. Got a pretty decent workout today. Threw some tripple backs on trampoline (first time I've done so without a mat being thrown in on warm-up), did a little bit of rings strength, and did leg strength the likes of which I have not done in far too long.

Actually, that foot controller is pretty tempting as well... I'll have to take a look and see what I have in the way of funds, but I may want to grab that as well if nobody else does.

I'll take guitar rig. I'll paypal you the $$ when I get home tonight.

My "Treasure which cannot be stolen" track is done.

You should start your own WIP thread for this. You'll probably get a lot more feedback that way. If you start a thread for this track or post it in #ocrwip while I'm around, I'll give you a full critique.

Did a decent amount of flexibility and maltese work today, but for the most part took it easy. I did much heavier cross strength yesterday than I've been doing, so my shoulders were pretty much fried today. Tomorrow will be a mega hardcore day. In the morning I'll be doing rings strength, trampoline, and perhaps some tumbling and vaulting. In the afternoon, I'm gonna try to do full competetive routines on all three of my events (I don't have a specific routine yet on floor, so I'll just try to do my five biggest tumbling passes in under 70 seconds -- the maximum time allowed for a routine). And then I'll do some more rings strength. I'm getting ever closer to getting my splits all the way down, but these last couple inches are proving to be a real battle.

I might just have to buy this game.

Holy shit! How does one go about gaining entry into this business?

Got a pretty decent workout today. Did one rings routine minus the holds, did both of my vaults once, and went through all my hardest passes on floor (and landed two new moves I hadn't done before). Did a fair amount of strength and flexibility work as well.

I fully intend to jam once again to Toejam Jammin' and Magus's theme. And Toejam would definitely benefit from a good bassist (we didn't have anybody on bass last year)

Ok, I'll definitely be looking to share a room, but I don't know if I'm going to be comming solo or not.

You get a vigorous leg-humping.

I'd say there's a 97% chance I'll be there.

I hope you die. ... Sorry, just had to say something different. Happy b-day.

Got a rings routine video. I'll upload that and some woodward videos this weekend.

Videogame soundtrack job wut?

ROFL, I was like what the fuck? Took me a second to recognize the thread.

I will hopefully be recording a video of my rings routine tomorrow.

Worked pretty hard today. Had a light workout in the morning, then beat the shit out of my entire upper-body in the afternoon. 30 bulgarian dips and 30 narrow-elbowed dips on rings, 50 inverted rowers with a narrow grip and 50 with a wide grip. A total of a minute and a half in stretch band-assisted cross, and several pullouts. I also started working on a straight body, straight arm press to handstand on rings. I work all day tomorrow, with only a brief break, but I'm going to try to film a rings routine during that break.

I'll be getting home the evening of August 10th.

You can take me off the maybe list; unfortunately, there's no way I can possibly make it this year. It's the same weekend as a gymnastics clinic that I will be attending with my team.

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