Geoffrey Taucer

Congratulations!

Check the forums. There's an archive of all concept art to date (and most of it is absolutely amazing) somewhere, but I forget where. There's probably a link somewhere on the forums.

This was undertaken as a project awhile back, and the forums are still up: www.imario.tk We ended up getting a ton of great ideas and concept art, but never really got past that. I think at this poitn it has sort of stalled and stagnated, but you can try to get the ball rolling again; no point in reinventing the wheel.

Jill, do you know if there are any buses or anything that go from Philly to State College?

That sucks. Carlin's brilliance was truly a gift to humanity. RIP

GET SHITFACED! erm, I mean HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Oh man, I was just watching the olympic trials, and it got me really pumped up and excited. I think I'll be getting some pretty intense workouts over the next couple weeks.

Like I said: Talk to trenthian. If you and he can arrange to have this played by an actual orchestra, it would fucking pwn. (also: if you ever want to be any good, you can't just give up on the production aspects; you're gonna have to learn them sooner or later, so you might as well make it sooner)

This is fucking wicked. Obviously wouldn't pass in its current state, but I LOVE the arrangement.

Hey, is there anybody else besides Escariot who could swing by State College to drop me off at Woodward after the meetup? Escariot says he may not be able to make it.

Holy shit, this is awesome. Production is meh, but I LOVE the arrangement, and I normally don't like orchestral arrangements. There are some points where the samples work relatively well, but still, if I were a judge, I would give this a NO solely on production. See what you can find in the way of samples, but also check out zircon's real instruments tutorial. EDIT: HOLY SHIT! You know what else you could do? Talk to trenthian. I know at one point he had an actual orchestra at his disposal for remix performance; I don't know if that orchestra is any good, or even whether the option is still open, but it's definitely worth looking into.

Didn't do much actual training today, but took one turn on rings and nailed all my strength holds for my routine: back uprise to cross, press from cross to maltese, press to inverted cross, and back uprise to straddle planche. I'll see if I can video the routine sometime soon.

JOSE, CHECK YOUR FUCKING PM INBOX. Also holy shit, just over a week away.

I'd definitely like to go, but I don't think I'll be able to afford to take another trip and miss another day of work in july.

I did a lot of strength work yesterday, so I took it fairly easy today. Went in for a morning vault workout, then just hung out at the gym for the rest of the day, occasionally jumping up on rings to do a cross or a press or a few dips. EDIT: Also: A WEEK AND A HALF UNTIL WOODWARD! The week of July 4th, I and nine of the kids I coach will be going to a weeklong gymnastics camp in PA, so I'll probably be working out almost all day every day while I'm there. Should be awesome.

Doug, I think this mix exemplifies your biggest strengths: your excellent choice of sounds, and your impressive ability to take mediocre samples and make them sound amazing.

So it's looking like I'm going to take an overnight busride from Raleigh to Philly, which will get me there around 8:30 AM on Saturday.

Well, wednesday this week was a great day for me, but I haven't done anything at all since then. The wrist braces I ordered a week and a half ago still haven't arrived, so that's been limiting me a bit. But it's mainly just laziness on my part.

Forgive me if this is too dark, but if somebody were to get killed by a snapping piano string, that would actually be pretty fucking cool.

Fuck lurkers. Citan Uzuki is, quite simply, the man.

Oh, man, today was one hell of a day. Spent 3 hours working out this morning, a good chunk of it on rings strength -- and I was having a pretty good rings strength day. I was hitting my crosses relatively easily and cleanly, and straight-arm press handstands on rings were absolutely nothing to me today (only two months ago I could barely do them). I didn't keep track of numbers, but I know I spent more time in a cross during that workout than I usually do in an entire day in the gym. I also did a bunch of strength sets in a spotting belt (the set I used was back lever, pull to cruss, press to maltese, press to inverted cross, lower back to maltese, drop to back lever, repeat). After that, I got lunch, then went straight back into the gym and spent another hour or so on strength (broke my records for longest straight-body planche and longest straight-body front lever), did a set of crunches and a set of reverse crunches (45 of each -- I usually stop at 30), two sets of 10 muscle-ups, and some lunge jumps and calf raises. It was fucking great!

Beautiful. And I'm definitely getting that Linkin Park vibe (and I, unlike Dave, AM a Linkin Park fan)

Ah! I knew you were in NC, but I didn't realize you were in Raleigh.

One thing I've been making a lot of progress on that I keep forgetting to mention here: flexibility. I've been working flexibility, with an emphasis on shoulders, and have made some definite improvements, resulting in swing skills on rings being much easier and less painful lately. Today I spent a bunch of time working giants and double layouts on rings. I still tend to bend my arms in my giants, and my double layouts are still a bit piked, but both are definitely looking better than they ever have in the past. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get the double layout solidly (and hopefully start twisting it) when I go to camp woodward in a couple weeks. I also did a little bit of work on corsses, malteses, and inverted crosses. My inverts are getting much more solid, but I'm definitely losing ground on the cross and the maltese. Hopefully once my wrist brace arrives I'll be able to spend more time on those. Over the next couple weeks, I'm going to start putting together full routines on rings and floor. (though odds are high I'll have to change them a bunch after the olympics, when the new rules are published -- they give the rules of the sport a complete overhaul every 4 years)