Of Miles Rausch

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Those who know my brother and I also know that as much divides us as unites us. In one par­tic­u­lar area, “hang­ing out”, Bryce and I have very dif­fer­ent behav­iors. I’ve never really been a “hanger-outer”, as they say. I don’t know if it was my gen­er­ally intro­verted demeanor as a child or the fact that my par­ents beat me when I asked if friends could come over, but some­thing caused me to never really think of hav­ing peo­ple over. Sure, we had movie nights and stuff, but I never went to people’s houses unin­vited. Bryce, on the other hand, has always been one to call every­one in his phone and invite them over, even if it’s just to watch home videos.

Hav­ing said that, this past week­end and week have been quite a “hang-y-out-y” time for me. Dan Rausch came up for the week­end, so Holli, David, and I all hung out all week­end. We found time to make a Muse­bleep, which has already been posted, and I’m work­ing on putting together the News­bleep we shot. I think, from now on, News­bleeps will be a Fri­day post­ing, with Muse­bleeps con­tin­u­ing to be a Wednes­day post­ing. It’ll give me more time dur­ing the week because I almost always film on the weekends.

Some of the non-bleepy things we did was make enough spaghetti to feed the last sup­per (as part of an alto­gether fairly com­pli­cated meal), watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (a very good, funny movie), get ice cream and Jones soda at 10 (or so) at night, church, China Moon, 2^nd Street Diner, and much much more. Well, actu­ally, not much more. It was a good week­end. Also, Dan and I “talked shop” about the fam­ily website.

I uploaded some videos that didn’t make it into the News­bleep: How to Save a Life, Hall­ways, and My Room. I also uploaded some pho­tos to that effect. Check out News­bleep 005: Daily Hor­rors photoset.

Then, on Mon­day, Holly and Bob came over orig­i­nally to carve pump­kins, but there are no pump­kins any­more, so we sat and watched Shaun of the Dead instead. Awe­some movie, and both the girls had to keep cov­er­ing their eyes (even though it’s a rel­a­tively tame Zom­bie Movie). Holly and Bob have invited Holli and I to a lot of things, but we haven’t rec­i­p­ro­cated nearly enough, hence the Mon­day night hang-out.

Tues­day was Hal­loween. I dressed as “Miles, circa Yes­ter­day”. Mainly because I still had some Host film­ing to do, and wanted to use the same cos­tume, but also because I’m not that cre­ative. Holli dressed as Pam Beasley, and she did a very good job, even though it sounded like I wasn’t impressed at the time.

Wednes­day, last night, was Recy­cled Per­cus­sion, a “junk rock” Stomp-ish per­cus­sion trio sup­ported by DJ Dirty Soul. They were good. Nor­mally, I wouldn’t go to some­thing like this, because I’m not a stu­dent any­more, but Holli con­vinced me. I paid the $5 and got tons of boot­leg video and pho­tos, and after­wards I bought a DVD from them and they all auto­graphed it. I made one über video called Recy­cled Per­cus­sion that has all the short videos I took put together. Pho­tos are in the Recy­cled Per­cus­sion — 1 Nov 06 photoset.

Wednes­day was also the start of my new novel. If you lis­tened to the Muse­bleep, then you heard me men­tion it. I’m going to try the National Novel Writ­ing Month chal­lenge again. I’m off to a good start. To be on tar­get, I have to write 1,667 words a day, and I exceeded that yes­ter­day. Today might be a lit­tle less writ­ing because I’m writ­ing this post, ain’t I? Any­way, it’s called “Terry, The Fun­ni­est, Smartest Tur­tle, Or: The Majesty and Mock­ery of Music’s Great­est Band”. It’s a Humor & Satire novel, and I’m going to (with some help, most likely) nar­rate parts of the book dur­ing the month of Novem­ber on Muse­bleep. It’s based on and cowrit­ten with Danny Fos­ter, the cre­ator and front man for the British exper­i­men­tal rock band YasBM. And, if you’re lucky, I’ll play some of their music after the show, too. The band is old, and I don’t like announc­ing my fan­dom (they’re not very pop­u­lar), but I thought theirs was the per­fect story to tell. And, Danny also thought it should be a children’s book.

Any­way, to end with a ques­tion, as to get con­ver­sa­tional com­ments, what did you guys dress up for and do for Halloween?