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What did I know

I left the office last Friday before the Labor Day weekend knowing that on Tuesday I was going to have to hit the ground running. I had checked in a rough cut of a project to my boss late in the week and he wasn’t impressed. That was fine… I didn’t like it either to be honest. He made some vauge comments and I spent my weekend with a few changes rattling around the back of my mind. Tuesday morning my boss calls and informs me that the album’s producer would be sending me a new cut of audio. Not a new revision of the same song, but a new cut of a new song. So basically it was my job to redo two weeks worth of work in two days. This is how it turned out, it’s not terrible but I can’t honestly say I like it. My boss was happy and from what I’ve heard others liked it, so it’s served its purpose.

HALFORD III: Winter Songs Promo from David Hildreth on Vimeo.

After a small disaster with Amazon.com I got my hands on The Beatles: RockBand on Wednesday. I’m not sure I can really even explain how fun the game is, you really need to play it. The attention to detail is astounding, the songs are well chosen and it’s just a great experience. I invited a few friends over last night to rock out with me and had a great time. I have yet to try out the harmonies but I’ve heard that it takes the game to a whole other level.

It’s another busy weekend. Having four concurrent projects is proving to be no fun. Even though half of it is free I can’t complain, there are too many people around without any work.
I’m really looking forward to the end of the month, a carefree weekend visiting friends in San Francisco is just what I need. :)

Curse your branches.

It’s been a good week. I headed out to San Diego on Monday morning, did a few hours of work and then had the evening to myself. Besides San Diego being a reasonable temperature during the summer, it’s just a great place to be left with some free time. I spent a few hours just hanging out on the beach and found an awesome brew pub to get some dinner. Tuesday I woke up and had a leisurely drive back to Phoenix… it was a pretty good way to start the work week. I don’t mind traveling for work, but it’s great that I only have to do it about once a month. I’m just not cut out for business travel.
On Wednesday I rolled into the office to hear that my project’s release date had once again been pushed back. This time it’s been postponed to next spring. Once again it’s not my fault, which is good, but the delays are only keeping my from renegotiating my contract. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good that I can even use those terms to describe this job. They have been very happy with my work and every indication I get is that I’m there, and on salary, for as long as I’d like to be. It’s a blessing, I just wish my personal budget included health insurance and more savings.

Speaking of health insurance, check out this clip from the Rachel Maddow show over on MSNBC. If you’re reading this via RSS or on Facebook you’ll need to follow the link below to the original post.

In my opinion there is currently no debate between the right and left on healthcare. One side wants to act like everything is perfect and the other wants to actually fix the problem. If you oppose the current healthcare plan (which is still very fluid) please educate yourself about the way other countries handle this and please don’t just accept our current norm as a solution.

David Bazan is releasing a new album next month and it’s absolutely amazing. The lyrics are thoughtful and at time heartbreaking, the music is inspired and well produced. It is at times a bit over produced, this is definitely the Achilles’ Heel sort of sound. After hearing nothing but acoustic Bazan, for what seems like years, it’s a welcome change to my ears. You can stream the whole album with a pre-order, I can’t recommend it more.

I got to see (500) Days of Summer recently. I’m too pretentious (yeah, do the math on that) to call it the best movie I’ve seen all year… but I did really, really enjoy the shit out of it. Go see it.

No more time for thought.

I’ve joined a group of artists at my church who are trying to get more media into our services. This is a little promo video we did for a new location our church is opening. I certainly don’t mind donating my time, so much of this industry works like that anyway. However it’s always better when you’re donating your time to a project that has a lot of talented people working on it. I edited and did the title work for the video, but it was written, directed and shot by some other talented church members.

Praxis Arcadia Launch Promo from Praxis Church on Vimeo.

At work my project just keeps getting longer. Color correction that should have gotten started this week is now slated for early September. This delay, like most thankfully, are not my fault, but it’s sorta at my expense. I’ll take the next month to work on the later stages of the project so it’s not like I’m left without. I really just want to be done with this DVD though, it was originally going to be done in June.

I’ve had a rude realization about my own stubbornness this weekend. It seems someone can tell me something very true and rather detrimental right to my face and I still won’t accept it. I like to think that I can follow through on things, especially matters of the heart. I really want to believe I am doing what I think is right. Maybe I just want my way for the sake of getting my way, I hope not. If this is a hill I’m willing to die on, I hope it’s at least the right hill.

All in all, I’ve decided that I don’t have time to dwell on things I’ve rehashed in my mind hundreds of times. I have a good week ahead of me. :)

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