Advanced Sound class went to visit Chris Jenkins at the Alfred Hitchcock theater at Universal last night. They’re just finishing printmastering for The Interpreter. We got to watch (and listen to) the first reel. Too bad I can’t say anything about the movie. Not that I don’t want to, but I’ll have to wait until April 22nd to give my thoughts on the film. (Or April 13 in Europe—weird, huh?) What I can say is that the Harrison digital console they’re using at Universal looks like it’s going to shape up to be pretty awesome. It’s basically a prototype—it has some issues still to work out as they’ve only mixed two movies on it so far. It has waveform scrolling, 10-second cache looping (sans ProTools), plugins, and all sorts of Jenkinsised features. Anyway, it might be fun to work at Universal some day, starting possibly as a mix tech and hanging around their Blue Wave studios, where they do transferring, QC, remastering & digitizing, trailers, you name it. Chris says some folks who get a good start have musical backgrounds. I cerainly qualify for that. 🙂

Always do your best work—you never know when or if you will work on it again.

Hard at work, attentive, focused, disciplined, and committed. Heh. Yeah, right.

From left to right: J, M, R, M, M, Z, B, and A.

Do people love being in love or are people just in love with the idea of being in love? Do you remember being in love? Do you remember falling out of love? Do you remember that stasis between the two? Which do you prefer?

What does intimacy mean? Why have I not found someone? Have I been looking? Have I missed her? Is she right under my nose? Is that my upper lip?

Why does sex sell? What’s wrong with the media? What’s right with the media? Why so many questions?

I consider this argument particularly pertinent. Read it and tell me what you think. Humorous, intelligent, and fatalistic.

http://www.nothingisreal.com/girlfriend/

Daily Trojan updates Gustavo’s story.

http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/2005/02/18/News/Remembering.Gustavo-869559.shtml (dead link)

This was a student from my building. I didn’t know him, but apparently he was a doctoral business student in his last year.

Please, people, please be careful when crossing the street. It’s not your fault, but just be safe! Look both ways and never assume any crazy, inconsiderate, hit-and-run coward will ever stop for you.

http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/2005/02/11/News/Student.Killed.In.HitAndRun-861179.shtml (link no longer works)

Above: Just slightly below and left of center is the sheet covering the victim’s body. This was about 25-50 yards from the front door to my apartment. The crosswalk where he was allegedly hit was much further down the street.