First Solo Fishing Outing

So I went on my first solo fishing out to the Forebay (much to the, er, chagrin, of the parents), and came back with this!

I was out there from 4:00 to 11:00, and got 2 bites and 2 fish on. The first is seen above, and the second came off due to a faulty hook that was disfigured due to the fish above, which I failed to replace (bummer!).

He fought well. The way we set up is with the sliding weight holder on the main line (10 lb. test), snap swivel, 15 lb. leader, and size 1 or 2 hook. 

Definitely ready for more this summer!

Part 1: Tutorial: Whispers in the Dark: Skillet

1 hour of sleep in the last 36 hours...

Makes you think.

Makes you need to feel alive.

Makes you think about thinking about feeling alive while thinking about sleeping. 

Makes you wish you hadn't procrastinated for the last month.

Makes you wonder why you're writing this and not sleeping, or at least dozing, even. 

Makes you wonder if grades are really worth the effort.

Makes you wonder why you don't need to avoid trying not to love sleep.

Makes you wonder why your body wants to shut down.

Makes you wonder why the body needs sleep.

Makes you wonder why the body needs a coma-like sleep for a third of it's living life on this earth.

Makes you think sleep is a waste of time, yet so necessary, for some reason. 

Makes you write on this blog while procrastinating even more

Makes you wonder why you're writing about procrastinating while procrastinating.
Makes life plain weird.

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Just believe

Change is good and bad. Good change is good.
Acceptance is what everyone wants, but compromise of principles must not happen.
Faith, hope, and love are all a part of your life, as understanding of others is as well.
I'm as real as they come, or so I've thought.

It's come back to salvation. It's come back to compatibility.
It's come back to light and darkness. It's come back to us.

I want to...

Be free.
Surf.
Play music in front of crowds.
Impact lives in the positive way.
Travel to lands I've only seen in photographs, to lands of nevers and forevers.
Be honest, vulnerable, and inspiring.
Live life in the driver's seat, not passively in the back.
Be so much.
See my friends and relatives saved.
Be with you.

YT Collab #1!!!

Our cover of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's song "Falling Slowly."
Break Even Music and Kenneth Lee/Akintomeatloaf


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EQ: Video Editing Audio

So through my (however painful) trial and error, the first collab video will be up shortly.
The main thing was fiddling with the audio and the difficulty with videos that are not synced properly. You can get by with badly-synced video, but the audio is what takes the cake.
Also, not having a full-blown audio editing software program doesn't help. I've mainly used Audacity (free) for my own recordings and music, but having real-time linear audio editing within the video program is both a blessing and a curse. Having one is the blessing, syncing the audio with less features is the curse.
But what do I want for free? : ]
Basically the moral of the story for me was to record all levels (live audio) at a high frequency, either in actual recording or using Audacity to amplify the tracks. Then you can bring levels down to their proper levels. Just as resizing an image down is much easier than resizing an image up in size (because of resolution and sharpness), so also audio that's recorded loudly can be toned down easier without the crackling associated with audio too low and then amplified - you'd basically have too much BG noise as well.
But whatevs. It's going to be a great video, and I hope you guys love it!
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P.S. Also, it's good to lay out how each video will look on the final video beforehand...this way you'll know which videos to layer on top or behind, and can position yourself correctly in each video to make a video where no "dead space" is left from overlapping videos.

The Gospel

ABANDON - "HERO"