Mortaine’s Blog

I got into it (only a little) today after I made the mistake on UF of asking people to help me decide on good music for a short espionage-esque video clip for my vlog. I was, clearly, not very precise about what I really wanted (just for people to help me decide between two songs that are already in my inventory and which I mentioned by name), so naturally I got about ten responses, all recommending a different song.

*sigh*

Anyway, one of the song choices was just odd to my mind, especially since it was reinforced with “and then use this other song by the same band as your movie’s theme” which I found amusing since the movie is about 2 minutes long. So I pointed out that she was basically just pimping her favorite indie band, and she got defensive (as I expected she would).

But here’s what I would like to know. How many of you, when someone says “suggest a song that fits into THIS SPECIFIC GENRE” go and look at your favorite indie band’s discography and say “gee, this song almost barely has something to do with it, and even though there is no chance that someone could buy just that song on iTunes, and has no chance of finding the CD in a store, that’s okay, because that just means they’ll have to buy it direct from the band, my very good friends.”

Which I guess is a mini-rant to say that, I have 2,567 songs on my hard drive. When I say I’m looking for ONE song, it’s because I’m actually looking for ONE FUCKING SONG.

Um. This rant/ramble has no coherence and I should delete it.

Click here for the movie! (MPEG-4 format)

Obligatory pimpage: I had help on this particular stunt from my good friend and camerawoman Lise Quintana, who hosts a weekly podcast on religion and spirituality over at Junglemonkey. Check her out– you will NOT be disappointed! Lisa was also my accomplice on Day 5: Out of Order.

{{{{LONDON}}}}

I’ll bet will appreciate this….

I ranted today about the process of starting a new business, using one of her taglines “does everyone think I’m STUPID?!?!?”

It’s been picked up by the Cubicle Escape Pod podcast and will likely be aired…. sometime, hopefully soonish. Perhaps even tomorrow….

[Edit: I'm a dope and used her NaNoWriMo username.... duh.]

You are my hero. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don’t care if the information you have is the smoking gun that could bring down the White House and would result in every red-blooded American standing up and shrieking “OUT” to that ignorant redneck we’re supposed to call “Sir.” Thank you so much for holding so dearly to what seems to be the very last shred of journalistic integrity in the United States.

Thank you, thank you, thankyou!

I will look into sending you cookies. Or a cake. Check carefully for files, plsthx.

I love you.

Love,
Me.