I put together a simple techno loop as background music for an interview sequence in a video project I’m working on. Just something I slapped together with Acid and some great sounds from analoguesamples.com. Stupid fun: find out your wu-tang name with WuName. Worth checking out: bradsucks.net (lots of info relevant to musicians).

Recent list o’ flicks: Storytelling (a good idea but a failed effort), The Time Machine (ends up being an Indiana Jones-ish action picture. Still need to read the H.G. Wells story), The Brothers McMullen (really good Ed Burns movie), 15 Minutes (Ed Burns and DiNero in a Man Bites Dog-ish tough guy action flick with [...]

I spent part of the weekend in Little Rock with my friend Ben. We had a nice visit and ate some good pizza. Ben & his wife Meredith showed me around LR a bit. I feel much more comfortable than I had before about the prospect of living there (though that, if it happens, is [...]

Dov Charney, CEO of americanapparel.net is my new hero. He runs a successful garment factory in L.A. And he goes a long way to proving that you can run a successful business w/o exploiting workers or making their lives miserable. The L.A. garment industry is suprisingly third-world. Exploitation of all kinds and unsafe/unhealthy working conditions [...]

The Minimalist Web Project from Textbased.com was cool enough to link to my site. Imagine a world with no blinking Gifs; it’s easy if you try…