Who cares?! It's good!!!

Well, I was about as sick as a proverbial dog (or a literal one; take your pick) this week, and I've gathered all the leads and can definitively point to Jon Taube as the source of all of my woe! Well, maybe not all of it, but certainly a significant amount of woe is due to Jon Taube! My brother and I had lunch with him and Mona on Valentine's Day, and Jon took a sip from both me and my brother's drinks; I figured it was harmless since he couldn't possibly be contagious anymore, but look at who's sick now! DANG YOU, JON TAUBE!
So basically, Nate and I were sick all week, and I even ended up missing my studio class on Wednesday and the first half of Thursday. Luckily, I recovered enough mana to make it to my Sound Design class that evening with Brad. I showed him my foley projects I did last semester in Pro Tools. You have no idea how awesome those are until you can witness them yourselves, people. During the class itself we talked about additive synthesis (which is just a fancy way of saying "making a synthesizer sound by building up each of the individual 20,000 harmonics in that sound;" it's one of those theoretically possible, but ultimately unfeasible and even insanity-inducing things you hear about all the time) and each member of the class had to devise a sound effect for a minute long segment of the classic film Metropolis. I got the sound of the robot taking on Maria's physical features; I killed that sucker.
I went up to Milwaukee last night on an absolute whim, really, to check out "J.B." and I gotta tell ya, it was a pretty sweet show. Conrad Birdie makes a pretty good Satan. Or... is Conrad Birdie Satan?!?!?! He's everywhere! He's everywhere!
Afterwards, Shawn, Shanna, Jenny and I went to Domino's (since all the classier joints were closing) and feasted like kinds and queens. I got back to Janesville at about 1:30, but found that an early morning Walken practice was called for (it makes sense, we have a show on this Friday and I'm the new guy) so we ripped that for a couple hours, as well as an impromptu cover of "Eye of the Tiger." I don't care what any of you have to say, that song rules.
That's about it, really. I'm still getting over my cold/illness/infection but I sound way better... I think... Erin's in town, so we're gonna paint the town a bright crimson and watch Airplane! (By the way, all movies would benefit from having exclamation points in their titles. Kudos, Brad.)
I guarantee you an Atlantis dissertation within the next 2-3 days, so: be ready. Either it's going to be fascinating, or you'll want to pull a Pullman and off yourself right there. Hopefully it's the former.

Love,
Ian

P.S. Pig Destroyer frickin' rule the world with an iron fist! The Apples in Stereo reign over the Earth, spreading joy and harmony. They both dominate, though.