Entries by ekmesnz

interview with Julian Assange, about the recently published war documents on the Afghanistan conflict.

Is it bad that I'm nearly 22 and Full Collapse STILL impresses me as a piece of music?

Has anyone been playing the most recent Magic set at all? I mention it because I've gotten super into the limited formats (drafting and sealed) and the set out now is very, very fun. Also, when we all gather in December, I'm thinking about bringing home a box of some random old set so that we can play limited formats with it (if anyone would be up for the idea).

I have been cast in one of the Independent Drama Society's (nonprofit org. theater group started by college friends in 2008) summer shows! I am

(don't laugh)

Romeo! In Romeo & Juliet!

It's gonna be great. Eight person cast, Factory Theatre (small venue in a factory on Tremont street), attendant awesomeness.

is a triple album. February 23 is gonna be the best day EVER.

Please tell me what's sometime quoted up there ("Violence, violence!") is a reference to Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

EDIT: ALSO, I love the way this man's mind works.

New Rammstein and Do Make Say Think albums today. Both are great.

I got cast in a play, perhaps the last one I will do that is a "school production." Can you guess who I am?


Anthony Hopkins did it once.


Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you.
This one hand yet is left to cut your throats
Whiles that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold
The basin that receives your guilty blood.


Hint: I kill like five people and cut off my own hand.

I think that it is only fair to warn you all (read: magic players) that my EDH deck is shaping up to be a monster. Also, my friend Phil and I have decided to start playing Standard, except I have sort of resigned myself to always being a middle of the road player because I refuse to pay more than a few dollars for a single card, which puts many rares right out, not to mention Lotus Cobra (at 28 right now) and Baneslayer Angel (still at like 33).

Probably the only truly demented webcomic I read is VG Cats. Brogamers

loooooool

I hereby decree that you, James, Michael, and Will Camarata, as well as anyone you are in contact with in the Nashville area, have ready for play in December a Magic the Gathering deck that conforms to the Elder Dragon Highlander format. It is crazy fun.

Also, I played at the Zendikar prerelease and got second place in the booster draft. Go me.

Here is a wonderful example of how aleatoric music can be made and the pleasing oddness that results. I particularly like this kind, where a visual pattern induced by consistent chance or biological forces is transposed into an unrelated medium. The aleatoric process informs much of what The Books, a simply amazing music group, records.

CHAPTER EINS

1. Two classes took up only half of my time each week, rather than every waking moment.
2. I wasn't expected to start studying for a test more than a year in advance.
3. A very serious Chinese man didn't tell me once a day, "You need to work very hard." (The way he says "very" is almost Cardassian. THERE ARE FIVE LIGHTS ALREADY!)
4. I had no vocabulary tests written in a 3000 year old script.
5. All my lectures were in English.

The trade off is, of course, that I'm experiencing academic rigor for the first time in my life, so I guess it works out.

I miss having people to play Magic casually with.

So my friend Phil and I went and played in a sealed deck tournament for the new Core set for Magic the Gathering today (check out the new rules/cards... awesome stuff), which was crazy fun. I, although I didn't make it to the top 8, ROCKED some people with a white/black lifegain + drain deck that used Sanguine Bond and Soul Warden to deadly effect. Protip: put flying creatures in Sealed Deck format tournament builds because 60% of people won't be able to deal with them.

Anyway, we're going back to the grand prix next weekend at the convention center so that should be awesome. I think I've learned that drafts and sealed deck tournaments are far more fun than playing Extended or Legacy games because what are ordinarily "worthless" cards become tools for very inventive strategies.