Of Miles Rausch

I Hate You, Mike Shinoda

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How dare you pen such catchy beats and riff such rockin’ rhymes! I remem­ber when I first heard of Linkin Park. I remem­ber see­ing them on a show called Pharm House (or some­thing) and they were an up-and-coming musi­cal act. I lived and breathed Linkin Park. I went to fan sites and down­loaded B-Sides and rar­i­ties. I mem­o­rized trivia. And now he seems to have done it again, Mike Shin­oda, with his band Fort Minor. I got the CD for that one song (Where’d You Go?) and I (as a joke) lis­tened to the whole album, and I liked it. I really liked it. Who’s heard this? What did you think?

But one song struck me (besides that one song) like [your mom ref­er­ence] hit [sex­ual ref­er­ence]. It’s called “Believe Me”, and I noticed some­thing strange about it. I played againa and again, and then I noticed it. I rec­og­nized the vio­lin line. I thought on it the whole day at work, and then I real­ized, it’s the exact same vio­lin line from a song called Alessan­dra by the band Unor­ga­nized Crime. It’s a lower pitched, a lit­tle slowed down, but it’s unmis­take­able. I won­dered how he got away with that (if at all) or if the two struck an agree­ment. Then I was mess­ing around with Garage­band work­ing on some music and guess what I dis­cov­ered. That exact same vio­lin line! Yeah! They both got it from Garage­band, which, I sup­pose, makes it pub­lic domain, but it was odd.

Last week Holli and I took a walk and took some pic­tures. Her pic­tures are in her Walka­round DSU — Sept 2006 set and mine are in my Ren­dered DSU — 14 Sept 06 set. It was neat. I don’t know much about night pho­tog­ra­phy, so it was a learn­ing expe­ri­ence. Also, using long expo­sures sure show you how dirty your lense is.

Then, this week­end, we basi­cally just lounged around hang­ing out. There wasn’t much on the agenda. Mon­day, how­ever, I went on a spend­ing spree. I had just paid off the last of my bills that week­end, and I still had over half my pay­check left, so I bought Ghost­busters 1 & 2 DVD set, The Office: Sea­son 2, Harry Pot­ter and the Gob­let of Fire, Direc­tions ( a Death Cab for Cutie DVD), and The Gilmore Girls Sea­son 4 ($20 marked down from $50). It was awe­some. So, now Holli and I have a prob­lem. Con­tinue to watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force or go ahead with The Office. It seem that our unof­fi­cial plan of action is The Office, and I’m okay with that. Who’s seen these? What did you think?

I would like to thank every­one for your com­ments on the News­bleeps. I plan on mak­ing more. My even­tual plan for con­tent on MilesRausch.com is going to be two text posts and two mul­ti­me­dia posts per month and all for free! I have some things planned, some things incom­plete, and some­things very nearly ready to dis­close in the com­ing weeks. Some­thing to think on, MilesRausch.com turns 1 on Octo­ber 9^th. So, hope­fully, I’ll have some sur­prises for you. *wink*

This past week I’ve watched the movies Dune and Star Trek: The Motion Pic­ture, and I have learned some­thing about the future and space: both are very weird. I hope I die before 10191, because I don’t think I’d like it much. Also, I’ll be much more care­ful about what sea­son­ing I use on my food from now on. Who’s seen it? What did you think?

This week­end Holli and I are head­ing to Hawar­den. She has some fam­ily gath­er­ing there, and we haven’t vis­ited since May, and her dad is direct­ing their musi­cal this fall. It’s Lit­tle Shop of Hor­rors, and Holli and I are act­ing as Exec­u­tive Pro­duc­ers. Well, not really, unless he wants us to, but that’s what I told Bryce so he would be impressed with me. Unfor­tu­nately, I haven’t seen the movie yet, so we have to do that like right-quick. Who’s seen it? What did you think?

By the by, I injected this post with com­ment starters. Can you spot them? What did you think?