Music for Film

So where does a person, an individual with perhaps not a lot of resources (organizational or financial) at their command, find some decent music they can use in a Youtube video? Under a Creative Commons license that allows derivative works, or the like. I've looked around a bit and found what might be starting places, but frankly I'm out to sea on this. Could delay the previously advertised video slightly.

Speaking of Which...

Don't Try This At Home

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/chemistry.html

I read this article back when it originally came out, I'm pretty certain, but I'd sort of forgotten about it since then. I ran across it again today, and did a little looking around... Things have really only gotten worse. When I was a kid I had one of the last Chemcraft chemistry sets, and I remember all the little empty spaces in the rack of chemicals for things they weren't allowed to include. Of course, people remember the exception; we remember that someone with access to chemicals built a bomb, which very rarely happens, but we seem to forget how many people with access to cars and alcohol kill themselves and others all the time. We see cars and alcohol everywhere, they're part of our lives, so we're not scared of them, but "chemicals" ("Without chemicals, life as we know it would be impossible," as my father would say) are foreign and frightening. Which is exactly the problem with the world in general. We don't really care whether you can build a bomb or make drugs; truth is, we can't stop you from doing either. We're just terrified of you being different.

Depressing.

I wonder if the new keg is ready to serve from yet...

The Last Pint

Why is the head on the last pint from my first keg better than any of the others? Seriously, it's creamy and awesome, almost Guinness-like. Is it to do with sediments, proteins perhaps, picked up from the bottom in the last sputtering of the tap? I know I'm not really supposed to serve that stuff, but as I'm serving myself and I actually rather like the dregs, I went right to the bottom.

Hm... Didn't last, though.

Operation: Stand Up

The operation has begun.  Reconnaissance began tonight and was highly successful.  It appears the initial assault will require about five minutes worth of material, with an emphasis on the filthiest stuff the lab boys can cook up.  Resistance is expected but it should be slight; we will be greeted as liberators.

In other news, it's looking like at least some of the soundtrack for Dr. Zombie-Hands is not going to be available, at least in its original form. Apparently the film is more lost than I thought despite being less than forty years old. I'm still going to do the best I can, though - I may simply have to substitute modern covers or closest equivalents for some tracks.

Next Time, I Guess

I've kegged my latest batch of beer, and in the process tried a little...  I don't know if carbonation will really bring it out somehow, but if not, I don't think there's going to be much effect from the juniper berries.  I didn't notice them at all when I took a little sample, anyway, you certainly can't smell them.  Clearly I did not crush them adequately, next time I'll try actually grinding them up as opposed to just smashing them.  I'm not sure how this batch is really going to work out in general, to be honest, I also managed to lose two liters of it somewhere.  I can take a lesson for next time from the juniper berry thing, but I have no idea where those two liters of beer went.

Life's like that, though, I guess.  You don't always learn from everything, you just try and see if it happens again.  Is it better that it does, and the universe is consistent, or that it doesn't, and it's better the second time?

Those little helicopter seeds are falling so thickly past the streetlight outside I thought it was an early snow at first.

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