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SO,

Trials are finally over, and marks are coming back. Yadda yadda, i really don't want to think about marks more than i have to, haha.

Anyway, for the past couple of days i've been fiddling around with some recording gear, and ended up with this. <- It's the one called "tone test".

It's pretty much just a little test of my gear. The first half is a little original thing with a mostly impro'd lead line, then some random songs that just came to my head. Mistakes, of course, are there - please ignore them, haha. Any criticism would be good, keeping in mind it's a first attempt - everything else before was done with the help of some very experienced friends :D

For the quality of the gear i've got, i'd say it's a decent recording. Pretty much guitar into the preamp of a Boss ME70, using the onboard effects(compression, reverb, delay, EQ, slight gain boost), straight into computer's soundcard (soundblaster or something) and into Adobe Audition, with ASIO drivers.

Moving on,

Just finished speech for 2u english, which means, NO MORE RUSE ASSESSMENTS. Woooooooo

Anyway, that also means that our time at Ruse is drawing to a close. Ah well, nostalgia's never been my thing.

On a completely different note: District 9. Whoa, completely different to what i expected (i.e. independence day esque alien thing), but in a very good way. The documentary style was really well done, and didn't take the focus away from the plot. For a new director in the scene, it was pretty badass, though the violence could have been toned down just a little.

Kinda hard to describe it without any spoilers, so i won't try. Definitely a must see if you're into sci-fi sort of stuff, with [subtle] political undertones.

Dear god my upload speed is shocking.

ON ANOTHER TANGENT:

Back to ye olde dreams, i've had some pretty damn strange ones, but this one stood out the most.

So, i'm walking along a really dimly lit passageway of some sort, seems to be a sewerage treatment plant at first glance (never really thought of this, but you can't dream smells, can you?), and come to a table where two guys are busy cutting up stuffed toys. Assorted parts lie all over the table.

So, i find that really strange and ask one of the dudes, who looks up. His eyes seemed really glassy, but then i realised that his eyes were the same plastic ones you find on toys. I step back in fear, and fall into the water.

The water isn't very dense, and i sink straight to the bottom. It also flowed REALLY quickly, so i get dragged along with it, bumping along pipe corners and seeing the odd solid bit float past (not sure if you can feel pain in dreams either, physical i mean).

Eventually, i get spurted out into a stone courtyard, and i realize it's some sort of ancient Aztec place. It's dusk, and the sky is a weird reddish colour.

So i hear a shout, and these army guys come running out of a forest, shouting and panting. Curious, i tried to glimpse what they were running from, and their officer tells me the get the hell out of here.

Just as i was about to turn and run with them, i see a group of stuffed toys come out of the forest, running really damn fast for their size. They catch up to the last soldier, and drag him kicking and screaming back into the forest.

The other guys stare in horror, and almost stop. One of them yells out "He's gone boys, there's no getting him back". At that point, i go "what, they're only toys for pete's sake". They all turn to stare at me, and point to various points around the courtyard.

Human body parts are nailed to various posts and walls, along with some bits of stuffing here and there.

So their officer decides they've slowed down enough, and calls out to keep going. Without anything better to do, i tag along.

As we're going along, we see more body parts are nailed to trees. But, there's no heads anywhere. Then, a ferris wheel comes out of nowhere, covered in soft toys.

We come to a ravine, and the ferris wheel gets jammed in it, forming a sort of bridge. The guys start shooting at the toys, but there's so many of them, so they resort to bashing them out of the way as they ran across.

Me being last, got grabbed by one of the toys. With a crazy amount of strength, they drag me back into the forest and start bashing the crap out of me - a hit to the head later and i'm out cold.

I wake up a while later (i actually thought i woke up), and everything seemed really blurry to me. My eyes also seemed kind of dry and itchy, so i rubbed them with the back of my hand, only to realize that they were plastic.

At this point, i hear a radio song playing, which is when i ACTUALLY woke up - my radio alarm clock went off.

Weird eh. I wonder what dream interpretation will yield. Probably some inexplicable fear of stuffed toys or something, or fear of going blind, haha.

Anyway, that's it from me.

Enjoy our last few weeks of school!

Tip of the day: Surgical spirits are very good at keeping guitar strings in good nick, but keep away from fretboard at all costs, or you'll end up with dry, cracked fretboards.

LAME JOKE OF THE DAY: What the purpose of a Will? I'll give you a hint: it's a dead giveaway.