I pulled out ol’ faithful tonight (my acoustic guitar). I have an electric guitar also, which I play semi-frequently, but only once in a while do I use my acoustic. I’m not sure why I neglect my acoustic…

I played around with the cheap mic that I have, which I originally bought for Rock Band! I did some tests on the acoustic guitar and the drums and the audio quality doesn’t seem to be that bad. So hopefully soon I’ll crank out some original/covers on my YouTube account with guitar, bass, drums, and piano!

The only problem is finding the time to record…

My friends and I just saw District 9 tonight. I really liked it.

It’s a very dark movie, featuring a lot of violence and suspense, yet still encompassed by a solid story of friendship and love. Directed by Peter Jackson, I knew the presentation of it would be well done, even if the story was mediocre. Luckily, I really enjoyed the story.

Many people didn’t like the ending since it kind of left the viewer wondering “what happens next”. But I think the story up until the end gave enough implication as to how the story unfolds. I love stories that leave you to imagine the conclusion. Anyways, District 9 is a definite buy when it comes out on DVD.

Next movie to see: Inglorious Basterds!

Like usual, I’m up way too late. It’s starting to get light outside and I should have been asleep hours ago.

Anwyays, on Wednesday night I returned from my trip to Canada where I took part in my friends’ wedding.

While I was up there I met some amazing people and I’m already looking forward to making another trip to visit them again (this time without the stress of a wedding). I also was able to have a few Asian meals while I was up there, Japanese, Chinese (real Chinese, not American Chinese), and Korean. I CAN get that type of food around where I live, but it involves taking a trip to New York City.

So congrats to my two friends Jessica and Chad who are now happily married; you know I wish only the best for you both!

This little article is kind of interesting. It talks about and shows some animals who have had to get prosthetics alteration to their bodies. In most cases, the prosthetic body parts worked just as well as if the animal had the real body part. It’s nice to know that prosthesis research extends beyond the bounds of human beings.

I found this article on redditall. It’s a fun little concept, but like they mentioned in the article, it would be a bit of a fire hazard…

So my aunt who lives in Hawaii is coming to town tomorrow. That means that the entire day is dedicated to fixing up the house! This always happens. We wait until something important comes along and then it’s a mad-dash the day before to straighten things up.

However, I won’t discredit my mother and younger brother. They do a lot of work around the house to keep things in order throughout the week. It’s just that I can’t help laughing to myself when I get woken up by my grumpy father to start doing hours of chores, when we could’ve started doing them days before to relieve some of the overwhelming stress.

I was watching television earlier and I happen to flip past MTV where Linkin Park’s new song “New Divide” was playing. Simply put, it sounds awfully close to their last big hit “What I’ve Done”… Naturally the songs were both respectively part of Transformers and Transformers 2 soundtracks, which might merit them sounding similar. Even still, I find it almost depressing that a band can virtually re-use chords from a past song and have that new song hit the top of the charts…

Meh, this is me just ranting about how modern music is pretty mediocre and how a good handful of the famous artists out there really don’t know much about creating unique music. I’ll stop now.

During the past couple weeks I got around to actually re-designing my portfolio! I plan on adding a lot of work to it in the future. I knew I needed to get something up to showcase my work, so I compiled some of the notable projects I’ve worked on over the years. Naturally, Casual, Canny, Crap has been respectively moved to mfwilson.com/blog/ as the portfolio now takes priority of the main domain address.

I want to thank my friend Max Retter for helping out with some of the back-end programming aspects of the portfolio, to getting everything setup exactly as I wished it to be.

I listen to a lot of the British string quartet Bond. I’m a huge sucker for string instruments and I really enjoy their pop-ish covers of classical music. Many people don’t really like Bond because of the fact that they do mostly covers, however I suppose I see through that because I was raised on classical music . The group is made up of four young ladies, who were chosen not only for their talent on string instruments, but also for their looks (typical).

Furthermore, I recently found another group called Escala, who are pretty much identical to Bond… Four women, all playing string instruments, from Britain, covering classical music… I guess I hoped that Bond would stay unique for at least a little while longer. Escala emerged onto the scene this year via the Britain’s Got Talent television show. Furthermore, on the show they played a piece that Bond already has on one of their albums! They’re running out of ways to be identical to each other…

Here is a video of Bond. Here is a video of Escala. See the resemblance?

Oh well, I guess it’s simply how the world works. If someone finds a unique way of making it big, others are bound to follow.

My friend Max and I went to the movies tonight. Before we found our seats we both used the bathroom. It’s really disgusting to watch as 6/9 guys walked out of the bathroom without washing their hands. It’s really gross thinking of all the germs that could be transferring onto your hands with a simple handshake.

Wash your hands!