April In Review

Another month, another month with no job. And this month, no game days, either -- as anticipation builds for Ludophilia 2011 the second week of May.

But I did manage to finish recording the last few songs -- and mixing and mastering all of them -- for the next Ancient Order of the Killer Owl album.  And check this out. While visiting family in Dayton around Easter, some random guy saw my dad wearing a Troubled Loners sweatshirt (ah, remember them?) and wanted to know where he could get one.  Now if I can only get my dad booked as a guest on Conan or something -- wearing the sweatshirt, of course -- I'd be sitting pretty.  Maybe I shouldn't have created a new, better band!  One dude in 20 years is quite a blip on the fan activity meter.


I finally opened the Rock Band "precision" bass that came as a bonus with the Mustang pro guitar I got about four months ago.  The strum bar on my Rock Band 2 guitar is pretty shot, which I guess can happen after a couple years of solidly regular use, even though I'm not very rough with my things. And, surprisingly, the strum bar on my Guitar Hero World Tour guitar isn't that great, either.  Which is odd, since I rarely play that, and when I did, I usually used the Rock Band guitar.  So, rather than torturing myself with those two any longer, I opened this new one which I only got since it was included with another purchase.  It's pretty nice, but the stiff strum bar takes some getting used to, and its wireless signal seems kind of weak, if you're the type to wander far from your console; hopefully the strum bar is what puts the "premium" in this model and it'll last longer.  Join me.  KillerOwl1.  On PSN.  (When it comes back to life.)

Finally, I did manage to see some movies.  A couple popular oldies -- which I had never seen before but which turned out to be pretty good -- were "Deliverance" and "Biloxi Blues".  I think "Deliverance" was playing at a drive-in when I was a kid -- or I've always believed that to be true -- but I only stayed awake for whatever movie came first. I always kind of thought of it as my first R movie, even though I slept through the whole thing back then. I would have been less than ten.

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| 2011-04-02 - Deliverance (1972)                        |
| 2011-04-03 - Quintet (1979)                            |
| 2011-04-04 - Zombieland (2009)                         |
| 2011-04-06 - Time Bandits (1981)                       |
| 2011-04-07 - Zapped! (1982)                            |
| 2011-04-08 - Quiet Earth, The (1985)                   |
| 2011-04-09 - Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)               |
| 2011-04-10 - Biloxi Blues (1988)                       |
| 2011-04-10 - Futureworld (1976)                        |
| 2011-04-13 - Fountain, The (2006)                      |
| 2011-04-14 - Amazing Adventure, The (1936)             |
| 2011-04-16 - Last Samurai, The (2003)                  |
| 2011-04-17 - Lovely Bones, The (2009)                  |
| 2011-04-18 - Catch Me If You Can (2003)                |
| 2011-04-20 - MacGruber (2010)                          |
| 2011-04-21 - Lottery Ticket (2010)                     |
| 2011-04-23 - Time Of The Wolf (2003)                   |
| 2011-04-27 - Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965)      |
| 2011-04-29 - Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) |
| 2011-04-30 - Edge Of Darkness (2010)                   |
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