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yesterday i finally deposited my paychecks. they won't be processed until monday, but still its a load off of my mind. on the way back, brian and i stopped at the used cd store closing around the corner to check out their 1 dollar cds. i picked up the urge's master of styles because i've had "jump right in" stuck in my head lately, and i got wyclef jean's the carnival because i've had "gunpowder" stuck in my head lately.
i gave some good critique in graphic design yesterday (i say that because my teacher, who always enjoys my critiques, was taken aback and impressed by alot of my statements)
in fact, i was stopped twice during my critique of jamie's book for using what they called twenty dollar words, though i think they are fourth grade words at best.
jamie's object was a manual can opener. his cover was this metallic paper with ridges and dents in it, which was good, and it was clasped with a black ribbon held in place by two magnets on each side, one glued to each cover board, and one magnetically attracted to each of those holding the ribbon in place. i pointed out how i wished that one of the sets of magnets was reversed so when the book was spread out in a circle the magnets would not stick together, forcing the ribbon to come loose when pulled apart. of course, when i said this, i said "reverse the polarity" which stopped the class in their tracks.
i also pointed out how his pages were ragged and disorderly when folded, which complimented the uneven cuts on the lid of a can. the two ways to judge that would be a) its a project and a book and its terrible or b) it compliments his icon and its wonderful. i said i fell into the latter camp, and that combination of words stopped them again.
i did offer some good compositional critiques, but those two examples just stopped everybody, so i thought them worthy of note.

here are two photos of my finished book:



here's the final page spread. i'd post the image here except the final page layout is 56 inches long, so its a bit wider than the blog ever should be. just click the link and see it seperately.

today i've been doing a little work on the post-apocalyptic ID tag for my type class. i also watched Comic Book: the Movie this morning, and i beat eight more races in Need For Speed: Underground on PS2, including race 103, the one brian's been stuck on for a couple of weeks (i beat it in one day, WHOO!) and the dreadful race 111, which theoretically is the final race of the game except that i am now at race 112, so its not. i didn't feel like pushing it, so i turned the PS2 off and came in here.

and i did that new song with brian. check it out on my PureVolume page.
since its with brian, the mp3 is tagged for Between Names and now (sans)krit, which is just me solo. until we put up a seperate page for Between Names, its on my page.