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My name is Rodd, and this is a place for me to introduce ideas to the poor unsuspecting public. I will be using this blog as a place to rant on day to day topics, review things I come across, put up some of my own lyrics so others can give feedback, and possibly put up a few home recordings of my musical prowess.
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  • Recreating a scene from Doctor Who’s Asylum of the Daleks.

    ALL of the original audio has been replaced with my own personally created sounds including special effects, Foley, ambiance, music and dialogue by my friends. Yeah they’re not British but oh well ;)

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  • I'm not really sure why I did this...

    starkytower:

    Rule 1: always post the rules.

    Rule 2: answer the questions the person who tagged you has written and write 11 new ones.
    Rule 3: tag 11 new people and link them to your post.
    Rule 4: let them know you’ve tagged them.

    1.) Hobbies? 
    Guitar, recording/mixing/producing music, vidja games (currently Minecraft with my girlfriend), watching too many tv shows, sleeping, watching show choirs, studying people.

    2.) What kind of music do you listen to?
    Coheed & Cambria is by far my favorite. I’ll give anything at least one listen. I like tons of music from progressive metal to Sinatra, from choral works to pop rock, classical music to folk. I’ve been listening to a lot of “indie” stuff for the last year or two.

    3.) What is your favourite colour?
    Eh, I don’t have a specific favorite color. I like black and white color schemes though. And despise yellow.

    4.) Favourite animal?
    White tigers?

    5.) How long have you been on tumblr?
    Year and a half, but I rarely post. Ever. Lot’s of lurking.

    6.) What is your favourite movie?
    The Butterfly Effect 1. (2 sucked and I never bothered to see 3)

    7.) Favourite book?
    Probably HP: Deathly Hallows.

    8.) What are your favourite stores to shop at?
    Hot Topic, Kohls, Pulp Fiction, Best Buy, Guitar Center (though I don’t really like them as a corporation).

    9.) If you could go anywhere in the world right now where would you go?
    Britain. But every time I see LOTRs I immediately want to go to NZ.

    10.) How old are you?
    21

    11.) What is your favourite animated movie?
    Akira was pretty sweet for hand-drawn animation, if not extremely trippy. For CG movies I’m thinking Wall-E right now.

    Sydneys Questions

    1.) Favourite holiday?
    My family is really bad at celebrating holidays, so Christmas is the only one that I can get into the “holiday spirit” anymore.

    2.) Weirdest dream?
    When I was a kid, I dreamed that my entire family lived in a big mansion. And a guy in the Scream mask started chasing me around the mansion with a big ass knife while my family basically just stood there and watched as we ran by. I made it outside to our huge pool where my stepdad Lance lived because he was dressed as Neptune King of the Sea. Lance used his trident to scare the Scream guy off. I went back to the mansion but I then Scream guy showed up again and killed me (I don’t remember how). Then Darth Maul came to my funeral. The end.

    3.) Hair colour you wished you had?
    I’m pretty good with my own color. I’ve never dyed my hair. I wish I could see what I looked like with different hair colors like when you’re making a Sim.

    4.) Nail polish colour your wearing right now?
    No.

    5.) Favourite reality TV show?
    I don’t like reality shows. I can never get past the fact that they are always either actually scripted or edited beyond belief.

    6.) Favourite Musical?
    Next to Normal.

    7.) Coke or Pepsi?
    Neither. On the rare times I drink pop it will be Dr. Pepper.

    8.) Favourite movie?
    Again - Butterfly Effect. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is my second favorite.

    9.) Best Quality about yourself?
    I think my mind is the best thing I’ve got going for me.

    10.) Favourite quote/ song lyrics?
    Impossible for me to answer. Here’s a good one:

    “Every now and again sometimes,
    I get lost on the wind of a dream.
    The air gets clean and the seas get wide.
    And I can do anything.
    The pain it won’t even cross my mind.
    There is wonder in everything.
    The rope gets loose and the chains unbind.
    And I can do anything.” — Anything by Mae.

    11.) Favourite Disney Character?
    I’m so glad I can now say that Boba Fett is my favorite Disney character.

    My questions

    1. Favourite food?
    Any pasta with alfredo.

    2. Favourite subject?
    Music. Duh.

    3. dog or cat?
    Cat.

    4. Have a hundred friends or 1 best friend?
    I’d rather have 1 best friend, though for my intended career I would be better off with a hundred friends.

    5. Stage show or movie?
    Movie. Both can be really hit-or-miss, but I don’t have to feel bad when I stop watching a movie because it sucks.

    aaron’s questions:

    1. What color are your underwear? ;~)
    Black. Deal with it.

    2. Feelings on the Oxford comma?
    It’s such a flake. If it’s going to commit to showing up, it should show up everywhere. Not just whenever it feels like it.

    3. Best yard sale/thrift store/etc purchase?
    Not really a purchase, but I traded a $200 wireless guitar cable for a $400 bass.

    4. Tell an interesting story from your childhood
    When I was in 4th grade my friends and I snuck into an abandoned house by our school. It was still full of furniture scattered everywhere like the people were in the middle of moving out of their house then they disappeared and never came back. We felt like detectives when we found what we believed to be foreclosure letters from about 8 years earlier. How long had this house been empty? From the outside of the house we could see a dark doorway under the rotted out front porch, but when we were inside the house there wasn’t a door to the basement, nor was there a cellar-style entrance from the outside of the house. We couldn’t figure out how to get into this creepy doorway. Years later when we went to go check on the house again, we saw that it was demolished and the only trace left was a slightly darker circle of dirt in the yard. We never found out what happened or how to get into the basement. It turned into a source of ghost stories amongst those friends.
    In retrospect, this turned out to be a really shitty scary story.

    Starky’s Questions

    1. Oldest sibling, youngest sibling, middle sibling, only child?
    Oldest of 1 maternal half-brother and 2 paternal half-sisters.

    2. Mac or PC?
    I know PC too well to change. But I do wish I had a Mac for certain music programs. 

    3. If you could spend a day as the opposite sex, what would you do?
    I’d try to figure out the point of some the clothes women wear because some seriously just don’t make sense at all. I’d also form a famous rock band with a hot female lead vocalist (me) and make a ton of money. You know, all in one day. It could happen.

    4. Your favorite character just knocked on your door and said “Come with me.” and so you go. Who was it?
    The Doctor. 9, 10, or 11. I’ll be the next Rory, especially if my co-companion is as hot as Karen Gillan.

    5. What should you be doing right now that you aren’t because Tumblr? 
    Turning in the rent check, cooking dinner, starting my audio-for-video project.

    6. Guilty pleasure ship?
    I don’t think I have any outrageous/guilty ships really. But I’m watching HIMYM right now and I’m seriously stuck in a Ted/Robin Barney/Robin conundrum where I need to sort out my feels. Marshall/Lily are my rock though.

    I think I answered more of these questions than I was supposed to. Oh well. I’m too lazy to write more.

    (Source: mrsloganhenderson)

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  • A cover of “Come On Get Higher” by Matt Nathanson for my Music Tech III final. I put this everywhere else on the internet, so why not here too. I played guitar, my buddy Dalton sang, and everything else was programmed MIDI instruments.

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  • My Coheed and Cambria cover band Our Secrets Kept is currently working on our tribute to SSTB. We just released Everything Evil and we are looking for a new singer. I did all the mixing and the keys section at the very end.

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  • verticalichallenged:

The Last Centurion is the man

    verticalichallenged:

    The Last Centurion is the man

    (Source: imacompanion)

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  • shercocklocked:

    Inappropriate Jared + Bonus:

    prequel to this.

    (via katiecammm)

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  • The INTJ Way: Rules to Dating an INTJ

    theintjway:

    It’s quite surprising to me that there are MBTI types out there who actually like INTJs and actively seek them out (seriously) so I thought we should list out all the “rules” to dating our type in order to make it easier for us to be understood.

    I’ll start off:

    • 90% of the time I don’t feel…

    (Source: )

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  • The rest of my semester consists of rage and stress

    • Get an apartment for next year
    • Write a Sonata-form composition
    • Piano Proficiency practice and test
    • Psychology 10 minute presentation
    • Guitar Ensemble concert
    • 5 Chapters of Sound Reinforcement quizzes
    • Tech practical exam over C24 control board
    • Edit/Mix a provided song in ProTools
    • Record, Produce, Edit, and Mix my own final tech project
    • Run sound for Vocal Jazz Ensemble’s practices and concert
    • Sight singing test
    • Guitar Sophomore Exam (practice piece and study history)
    • Several Physics tests left
    • Go to 7 more evening recitals
    • Take the General Education Assessment test so I can enroll for next semester
    • Stay on top of my daily homework while starting to chisel down this list

    Gee, I hope I didn’t forget anything.

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  • fyeahmusicmajorostrich:

[Picture: Background: six-piece pie style, alternating white, tan, and  black. Foreground, in middle: grimacing ostrich head. Top text: “Hide right hand in public” Bottom text: “because male classical guitar major”]
For all of us men with nice and long right hand nails

    fyeahmusicmajorostrich:

    [Picture: Background: six-piece pie style, alternating white, tan, and black. Foreground, in middle: grimacing ostrich head. Top text: “Hide right hand in public” Bottom text: “because male classical guitar major”]

    For all of us men with nice and long right hand nails

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  • I started the Supernatural episode “Route 666”. It pretty much sums up my feelings towards all the truck drivers I see in Missouri.

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