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i think my previous posts on here were already more than enough hype for last night's episode of South Park, so let me just quickly express my feelings on the episode:
Fantastically appropriate.
I had a feeling they would use intentionally sloppy audio samples to construct new Chef phrases, and they were used to excellent effect in the brainwashed new Chef. the parallel between "This is what Super Adventure Club actually believe" and the Scientology episode was exactly what I expected from this episode. Chef's amazingly grusome demise, while upsetting to watch, was again more or less exactly what I imagined would occur. what didn't I expect? well, the child molesting, for one. the strip club scene was another. Darth Chef, i think that took everyone by surprise (though I suppose I really SHOULD have seen that coming). What really sold the whole episode, though, in typical South Park fashion, was the final appeal for reason joke, in this case delivered by Kyle as Chef's eulogy.

We shouldn't be mad at Chef over what's happened the past week, we should be mad at that fruity club for scrambling his brain.

Trey and Matt were not joking with that statement last week. If this episode was anything other than a sendoff for one of the shows most beloved characters, it was an all out declaration of war against the Church of Scientology.

anyway, enough of that.

Jeff updated the senior portfolio webpage today with the portraits we took in class on tuesday.
I look about thirty pounds heavier than usual, and most of it is in that one cheek, but whatever, I display a lot more personality than most of those photos. Now you can finally see the faces of all the people I've been working alongside with and competing with for the past three years. You can also scoff at their utter lacks of websites. I've added speech balloons to three of the pages of mine that display commentary when you roll over them. I think its really quite exciting and this whole "comic book" concept is starting to come together.

also, things are happening over at 49Music, where I am one of three moderators/siterunners. For one, Mike has established a partnership with one of the popular Canadian radio stations resulting in the "Classic Canadian Series," and the first segment is all about Gordon Lightfoot. Also, I've begun embedding music videos from YouTube directly into the artists' videography pages. you can watch four Arcade Fire videos, two Islands-related videos, two Stars videos, four Buck65 videos, six Broken Social Scene videos, three Sloan videos, and six Metric videos. Pavan wants me to try to get to some concerts and interview the Canadian bands. If I wasn't annoyingly far from Miami, I would go over there this week and see if I could talk to MSTRKRFT (I've got a ton of questions for them, actually). I'm actually thinking of setting up a MSTRKRFT section on the site. I feel bad that I'm one of the three guys really doing anything on the site and I've never even been to Canada.