greg's little plaything on the web
Melodies & Music
Played with the site more
Feb 14th
So instead of doing something useful, like maybe writing more of my story, I played around with the site. I probably will write more in the next few weeks, as my hours have been drastically cut. In the newest schedule, I only got 12 :’( Which is a HUGE drop from the 40 I worked last week.
Oh well.
Anyways, I added a shoutbox. Not that anyone will ever use it except me :P I also changed the countdown from Percy movie to Justin Bieber’s new CD :-D
I’ve also added a page about hosting here. I don’t do much, but hey, if it brings a few bucks to my pocket, sure, I’ll share the server.
Speaking of the server -- Wikimon is back up! And we have a MUCH more powerful processor now, plus 4GB of ram! We are looking pretty damn sweet now :D
And Ryan (Yeah, that Ryan) has his own blog thing going now. You can see it here. We’ll see if he does anything with it… he paid for the domain, not me. xD But I am hosting him. ♥
Here are some shirts I want, linked to where you can buy them for me. ♥
Aren’t they both hot? ♥
Anyways, that’s about it for today. Spam the shoutbox, buy me t-shirts, and buy hosting from me. That’s the moral of today.
Or if all else fails, BUY ME JUSTIN’S NEW CD. ♥♥♥♥♥♥
August Rush improv
Nov 18th
So when I did that Justin Bieber post, I came across his doing the improv scene from August Rush. Wellllllll… I found more :-D First one is the actual August Rush scene.
(my favorite)
When I first saw the movie, I thought it was a bunch of rubbish, that you couldn’t actually *do* that with a guitar. Wow was I surprised when I found out it’s entirely possible.
It’s pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.
I’ve always kinda wanted to learn to play the guitar but never had a chance really…
Understanding my sister’s taste in music
Nov 17th
So in an effort to try and understand my sister’s taste in music a bit more, I’ve been attempting to listen to a local radio station KDWB. They fall more into the hip-hop poppy kinda stuff, rather than the (soft) rock that I normally listen to.
One of the singers on there happens to be some kid named Justin Bieber. The only reason I even looked it up is because I rather liked the lyrics to his song “One Less Lonely Girl” and wanted to check the video. It’s rather cute -- ranks up there with Plain White Tee’s 1234 in the “Awww” department.
Anyways, I thought I’d share this new talent, who appears to have gotten his start on YouTube. Whatcha know?
And then here’s his “main” song, One Time. First one is the official music video, second is an acoustic version that I actually rather liked. He does have a decent natural voice, which is better than most artists out there can say :-)
Here’s an old one, from before he got noticed. It’s a cover of “Angel” by Sarah Mclachlan and you can tell he’s still not great XD
OMG, another old one, where he’s singing Respect. His dancing makes me laugh. :3
Here’s a Lifehouse cover. I am a pretty big fan of Lifehouse, and I have to say that his version rather sucks… it’s too fast. But he tries, so that’s okay.
I didn’t look at rest of his videos, he covers a lot of songs that I simply do not know. HOWEVER. HOWEVER. There is one there that is beyond win. Beyond win.
Why? Because it’s from one of my favorite movies :)
YES! August Rush! That is a really epic scene, and I love the soundtrack for the movie. (Both, actually. The instrumental and the one with the vocal songs on it. Did you know there are two?)
Well, that’s it for now. Enjoy tonight’s random bit on some random kid that’s rather ugly. (His face isn’t laid out right…)
