"When you wake up, everything is going to be fine. I guarantee that you’ll wake in a better place, in a better time."
Ah, the summer Streetlight kick. It’s that time of year again, folks. I’ve once again rediscovered my love for Streetlight Manifesto. Wait a second, that implies that I lost it … which I didn’t. But it’s been renewed again. I’ve been watching some videos on Youtube of Tomas’s solo acoustic set at Bamboozle in May, and thus far I’ve really enjoyed it - for two main reasons. Firstly, it’s amazing, just like everything else that Tomas touches. He writes all the songs by himself on his acoustic guitar, so hearing all the songs I’ve come to know and love in their original form is pretty exciting. Secondly, he forgets his own lyrics even more often than I do. It’s pretty nice to be able to point to a musical prodigy and say, “See? Even he forgets his lyrics. I’m pretty sure that gives me the right to mess up a bit when we play at a graduation party after not having performed our songs for three months.” So yeah. I’m also realizing that I’ve got every song from both of Streetlight’s original albums at over 100 plays on last.fm. Well, to be honest three songs are in the 97-99 plays range, but that’ll be fixed before the day is done. Keasbey Nights is a bit further down my charts, with most songs in the 30-45 plays range. Now if only last.fm could keep track of when I listen to legit CDs in my car, and the times I listened to it before I started using last.fm … probably another 100 plays for everything on Everything Goes Numb, easily.
Other than listening to Streetlight, I’ve been up to some relatively boring stuff. I’ve watched quite a bit of Stargate SG-1. It’s keeping me from my work, really. And from Gurren Lagann. I figured out that the runtime of the entire series is 9900 minutes, or 6.785 days. Yes. It is almost a week long. I’m not even halfway done with it.
As for my work, GSoC is coming along nicely. I scrapped most of the work I did the first week in favor of a new plan that my mentor suggested, and the past couple days I’ve really made some progress on it. I’m coding mainly from my new Gentoo installation on my laptop, which is quite nice now that it’s actually set up and mostly functioning.
As for my anime releases … Cowboy Bebop is moving along … slowly. Typesetting takes a lot more time than I had thought. Just the first pass at it is taking about half an hour per episode, and I’m not doing any real editing of the subtitles. Once I get everything relatively typeset, I have to go back and check for errors, edit things to make more sense as I see fit, fix errant timings, etc. It’s going to take a while. I’m going to give DN Angel the same treatment, but beyond that I think I may drop character-specific styling. We’ll see.