Monday, October 17, 2011

New York Comic Con, Voice Demos and a Heavy Elephant gets a Review

Yello Thar Boner Dawgs, it has been a bit since my last post. Pretty much nothing happened until this weekend. ALOT of stuff. Very good, yes? Well if you'd like to stay in touch a little more, follow me on twitter @Facebagel

The Hunter


Looking for an outlet to plug his tusks in
Well First thing first, I bought the new Mastodon Album, The Hunter. Its got a bunch of good songs on it, 13 songs in total. Although not a concept album (the first since their debut), its got a great bunch of "shorter" songs on the record making it great just to drop in on at anytime all-throughout. All of the songs are very well-produced and 'popish' I suppose but still has the country-prog-spacey-goofy Mastodon touch to it. In other words, another stomping foot forward to their discography.


But! All is not 100% delicious. There are a few faults on this album. If you liked, for instance, Crack the Skye and you opted for the extra dollar or two for the bonus DVD footage (really cool-in depth and actually pretty funny) then you'd remember that you got like an hours worth of footage. Well I bought this extra DVD for The Hunter thinking it would be a sick inside scoop of what I'd really like to see. Well, No I was wrong. You get about 30 minutes of, dare I say, 'half-assed' commentary track by track and much the same to the Making Of. Kind of a let down to me but what can you do.

Now for the tough part of the criticism.

It may just be me but if you listen to the title track, The Hunter, it sounds very similar to most of the acoustics on Crack the Skye. I have no idea but that just makes me think of previous work rather than going forward. Now if it was part of concept then I'd be tipping my hat to them whole-heartily. But alas it was not :(.

 Thats about it for the complaining. Even despite that last bit of the criticism I still give this album and 9/10. Here are a few songs that I favorite on the Album:

Octopus Has No Friends - I don't know about you but when I hear Brent Hinds Country Pickin' riffs in a heavy song like this one it makes me shit. Like a real good shit that makes you wanna sit there extra long after it done just because its comfortable. Yeah just like that.



Thickening - This song has such a way about it, the intro includes these screaming lead lines that sound like they are bleeding from the amps. A genius of production. And then out of no where the main riff hits you and it has that double time tambourine with some dark lingering vocals. He's pretty much fucking you with his voice.




So enough reviewing, Onto some very important business! I have my Commercial Voice Over Demo recorded by my lovely voice coach, Joann Joella. A darling indeed, she has helped me so much I don't know how to thank her. Her husband mixed the recording and made it sound fantastic, Thank You Kevin just as much. This is my official Voice Over Demo for Commercial use of 2011:




That will be my second "business card" for the most part and hopefully soon enough you fags will hear me saying "BUY THIS HAMBURGER, ITS SICK" on the radio. And hopefully, if I do my job correctly, you'll go out and buy that fucking hamburger. With Cheese. Extra Money. That Good.


Now even though I have completed my 6 week training course with Joann and received my VO Demo, my vocal chords are still flacid, they gotta be boners. So I'm going to continue honing my craft down to the details and get them boners stiff. So I am going to be working with Rich Orlow and very excited to do so. Always nice to learn from someone who knows more than you ;p






 I have been to one Comic-Con before this one and it was held in Philadelphia. It was pretty much a High School talent show in the gymnasium with some foldable tables put up for some dick head with Magic Cards dressed up like Sailor Moon with his ass hanging out. It was awesome. But the Javits Center did not disappoint. Full of life and energy, something I look for in most things I enjoy. I have a bunch of photos I had taken thanks to a friend of mine letting me use his camera for the day. I took like 100 pictures but around 25 of them were just shitty blurry pics or people got in the way of the shot. Fuck you, stop getting in my way so you can watch Inuyasha and Darth Vader play The Black Eyed Peas shitty dance game. Seriously, that was happening. But I bet your dying to see some pictures....Jah, Here are a few:

Excuse me, Fuck you I'm made of Legos.

The only Viewtiful Joe Costume I have ever seen 

Blue and Red
If you look like me you also will not get what you want out of life

Crowds left and right


 I have the rest of the photos including these in my Photobucket:
NYCC Photos
 (Be sure to read the Captions)

Also check out this little guy, had me cracking up for like 5 minutes. I had to stop it to get a video, it was required. Who ever you were, you did a great job and scared a lot of people ;)



 Finally Onto Animation Stuff

Aside from going up to New York for the Con and to see some good friends, Sean and I had a meeting at Duart Studios again for a sit-down read of the first draft of Fisthead : The Pilot. I swear we are still tending to Fisthead, he is still breathing and very much alive! Stay updated with the Fanpage below:

Also about two weeks ago, we recorded the first audio track of Megapope with our mutual friends Matt and Eric along with Sean and I. We had a fantastic time recording it and its starting to come together quite nicely. We have rare behind-the-scenes footage of some rare things happening rarely.

Thats Eric on the Left and Me on the Right

We plan on video taping a lot of our future endeavors but I'm not sure if it will meet the same high-octane thrills as this one did. Well thats about all there is for this update so keep in touch and thanks for stopping by!



~~Watching - My dad watching the Live Traffic Feed with Van Halens "Feel Your Lovin' Tonight"~~


 Listening - Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo - Blessed Relief
 <3 Zap