Just a quick update this time. I swear I'll get this blog thing up in the sky at some point...maybe...ish.
Anyway, news! Lots of travel going on in June! Heading to Ashville with Heather as a day-trip on my birthday. Looking forward to that, haven't been to Ashville in a few years, and it's an awesome place to visit.
Also, finally going to Maryland to see Jon, Angie, the Kids, and everyone else at the end of June. VERY MUCH looking forward to it, as I haven't seen most of those people in over two years.
One more travel-related item here, but not for June. In September, we're planning to go to Dragon*Con in Atlanta. I've never been to a Con before, so I think it'd be really cool. Also, some of my favorite nerd icons will be there, including King Nerd himself, Wil Wheaton! Also some other neat nerdfolk, like James Urbaniak (the voice of Dr. Venture on Venture Brothers). So yeah, hopefully that'll happen.
That's all I got for news right now, maybe blog again later when I have something else to say about something. Later!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Atlanta Trip Part 1: Concert
OK, with the little intro out of the way, lets get started!
So as you may know (read: definitely do know because I wouldn't shut up about it), I just returned from a weekend trip to Atlanta (and a few surrounding towns) to see Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy. I'll talk about the rest of the trip in a moment, but for now I'd like to discuss the concert. How was it?
It was, without hyperbole, the most amazing musical performance I have ever seen.
Now, granted, I don't go to many concerts, and I go to even less orchestra performances, but when I heard that the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra would be performing Final Fantasy music, and the Nobuo Uematsu himself would be in attendance, well, I about fell out of my chair.
Tickets bought, trip planned.
Even though our tickets were in the next-to-last row, it didn't matter. We had a clear view of the Orchestra, as well as a HUGE screen that they used during the songs to project cutscenes from the games. It was helpful in keeping your attention, because some of the songs they played were almost like lullaby's. I caught myself nearly dozing off quite a few times.
You'll notice on the list of songs that Uematsu's most famous song, One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII, is absent. I noticed that as well, and spent the entire concert thinking "There's NO WAY they'll NOT play that. It's his signature. They'll probably play dumb at the end and get the crowd all riled up, then play it.
And sure enough that's exactly what happened. And it was AWESOME!!!
So yeah. The concert was an absolute musical masterpiece. Of course, I'm incredibly biased, but that fails to count for anything when the music is THIS good, THIS varied, and THIS fun to listen to.
I'll talk more about the rest of the trip later.
So as you may know (read: definitely do know because I wouldn't shut up about it), I just returned from a weekend trip to Atlanta (and a few surrounding towns) to see Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy. I'll talk about the rest of the trip in a moment, but for now I'd like to discuss the concert. How was it?
It was, without hyperbole, the most amazing musical performance I have ever seen.
Now, granted, I don't go to many concerts, and I go to even less orchestra performances, but when I heard that the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra would be performing Final Fantasy music, and the Nobuo Uematsu himself would be in attendance, well, I about fell out of my chair.
Tickets bought, trip planned.
Even though our tickets were in the next-to-last row, it didn't matter. We had a clear view of the Orchestra, as well as a HUGE screen that they used during the songs to project cutscenes from the games. It was helpful in keeping your attention, because some of the songs they played were almost like lullaby's. I caught myself nearly dozing off quite a few times.
And sure enough that's exactly what happened. And it was AWESOME!!!
So yeah. The concert was an absolute musical masterpiece. Of course, I'm incredibly biased, but that fails to count for anything when the music is THIS good, THIS varied, and THIS fun to listen to.
I'll talk more about the rest of the trip later.
First Post!
So I know a lot of you are thinking "Oh come on Mason, a blog?!??"
Trust me, I share your skepticism. My attempts at this in the past have been scattershot at best, but I'm gonna try again.
For those of you not thinking that, welcome. This is where I will talk about whatever I damn well feel like. It'll probably be a place where I'll post a link to a news story, and then complain about/praise it.
I'll also post to Facebook whenever I make a post here, because otherwise nobody is going to read it.
With that out of the way, lets get started!
Trust me, I share your skepticism. My attempts at this in the past have been scattershot at best, but I'm gonna try again.
For those of you not thinking that, welcome. This is where I will talk about whatever I damn well feel like. It'll probably be a place where I'll post a link to a news story, and then complain about/praise it.
I'll also post to Facebook whenever I make a post here, because otherwise nobody is going to read it.
With that out of the way, lets get started!
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