The Evil Schultz Empire

So I woke up today in the mood to buy music. There were a couple albums that I had wanted for a while, the new(er) Arctic Monkeys album and They Might Be Giants’ Flood. Regardless of what you think of my musical tastes you will probably agree that it is just easier to open up iTunes and buy, download and enjoy the music you want in a click. I’ve only bought 2 or 3 albums and a few singles over the years off of iTunes MOSTLY because I don’t like AAC 128. When I rip a CD it’s MP3 320 or bust. So though I am not an elitist “everything must be Apple Lossless or even better Uncompressed” person. I rip discs at a rate that I can’t tell is compressed. I admit it, my ears really can’t tell the difference on the average song. Now that you understand my needs, you’ll understand why I decided to give AmazonMp3.com a try. MP3 256vbr with no DRM. That is music to my ears, and more importantly to my wallet. So I went on their site and got the albums and they sounded great and it was easy to buy them and their selection is vast and… one of the songs was wrong. The reason I wanted They Might Be Giants’ Flood was in a large part for Birdhouse in Your Soul. I went to play it and though it was labeled correctly (down to the AmazonMp3.com Song Serial Number) it wasn’t the song. It was a strange sensation, kinda like drinking from a glass you thought had soda in it but you got milk.

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So I pretty much came to the conclusion today that I know nothing about blogging. I know a lot about Twittering (find me on twitter as EvilSchultz) and I love it. But actually sitting down to write a post whether it be well written or not escapes me on a daily basis. But this year I’m gonna give it a try. It’s not an ’08 resolution… I hate resolutions (especially below 1900×1080 HAhahahAHAHAha). But I am going to do a few things to make this blog better. First off my Twitter posts will be put here though I do suggest subscribing to my feed. I am going to put up Post Production Tips and I am welcoming questions to be emailed to me through the contact form. I’ll do my best to answer them all. I’m also going to talk about projects I am working on. Not information compromising the project but I’ll discus challenges and how to get through them. I’m going to review and talk about new products that I buy and use (first one of those is coming in the next 2 days). Occasionally I’m just gonna throw up life commentary, and to top it all off I am gonna try to do some video content for the site either as a video post or just to enhance the moment. Not sure how that’s gonna work yet. Ok well I’ve put it out there for all 2 of you who come here to see… so send me some post questions and get me working.