Jason Carl Ruddy

You can shake me up, but then I’ll break you down.

I’m looking for the post rock track which uses this lengthy sample:
“I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible. We all want to help one another. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each others’ misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another.”

It’s an instrumental track which is slightly reminiscent of Grails, pg.lost and the like. Unfortunately, I needed to clear out my iTunes library and the track is no longer there. I’ve been going through my (vast) library and had no luck so far.

Usually I can remember a track after an hour at most, but this has eluded me for days and it is driving me progressively crazier and crazier.

Can anyone help me identify it?

Admiral Akbar by Joey Ellis (Flickr) (Etsy) (Facebook) (Twitter)

Via: iamross | geekleetist

I’ll break your heart

To keep you far from where

Nice review of a review.

Slow indie rock with some serious dub chamber echo. Good for all the snow.

While there many surprises on that list, I was shocked to see GRAN TURISMO 5 and DANCE CENTRAL there. Someone at WSJ must have been living under a rock in 2010.

“Shit just got real.”

Again, thanks go to Bob for pointing this one out to me.

Regarding first feature: It’s about fricking time. For reals.

Some Christmas sounds for everyone.

Primary art for my company’s first official nengajou (new year card) which will be sent to our clients and partners, sans the new year content.

WIP

Just shy of 4 months. That’s kind of sad.

Just wanted to give a quick congrats to my friend/colleague Yusuke for his article in this month’s issue of Motor Magazine.

Sure, he’s written many articles, but I still think it’s pretty cool.

Very cool.

I read this on Facebook earlier today:

Today I’m especially cognizant and grateful that I am relieved of the impossible task of making myself “good enough”. My ONLY part is to believe in God’s mercy to me through Jesus Christ and let Him do the work!

This just screams of the systemic lack of personal responsibility I detect in many overly religious people. I, too, would be grateful if I didn’t have to put serious effort in bettering myself. Why take responsibility when it’s all up to some higher power? All I need to do is convince myself that I truly believe hard enough that some dude died 2,000 years ago for my sins because his father wanted him to do so and I’m set.

If everyone were to think that way, what sort of culpability would anyone feel for their thoughts or actions? I’m not going to compare the life of the person who said this to hypocritical anti-gay televangelists or former Nazi religious rulers, but I’m quite certain that they all share the same core philosophy; “I’m right with God, and I sure talk about him a lot, so we needn’t worry about how I carry myself in this life.”

Laziness. And irresponsible.

I realise that were I to say “‘I’m in a bad mood” would be a horrific understatement - and this may be a contributing factor to this post. However, unlike the person who posted their comment on Facebook, I actually take full responsibility for my actions and make every effort I can to make myself “good enough”. 

In my estimation, the only thing which makes such a task about self-betterment “impossible” is when you give that responsibility to someone else - let alone a fictional character.

People who take offense to this remark thinking that I am talking about them personally need to be cognizant of whether or not they believe I consider them to be people who take responsibility for their own lives.

Daisuke and I are working at Sign Café, which was clearly designed by Groovisions. Pretty cool spot which will likely replace Blue Square Café as my go to remote office.