A while back I realized I think of the taste of a beer in terms of a frequency response curve. Here’s the latest: The EQ of a Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA. Plus a few questions and observations, mostly about how nuts this all makes me sound.
I love these guys. I’m glad to have walla back in the (semi-)regular rotation—today we recorded show 301. It was a blast as always. Bobby, Megan, Dan, David and Nikki are all talented and hilarious people, and getting to watch them see an episode for the first time would be fun enough, but then they get to fill it with laughs, screams, mumbling, gibberish and all kinds of goofiness.
I recently got to record two very different DVD commentary sessions. One was four or five people for a full episode of The Cleveland Show. The other was a “side-by-side” segment for Family Guy, where the director of an episode was comparing the animatic (black-and-white sketch animation) to the final color version for a few short segments of the show.
I wanted to say a few things about recording DVD commentary, and generally speaking, a full-episode session with several people is significantly more challenging than a two-minute segment with one person, so I’ll focus on that Cleveland session. This setup, though, evolved out of my Family Guy experience and how my counterpart on that show, production mixer Patrick Clark, did it when I was his assistant.
I have to share some great new music from a friend of mine. Nathan Schafer, working under the name Peaks of Valleys, has just released a fantastic album called Fallen Out Of Line. I think anyone with a love of indie pop or a hunger to discover excellent new music will enjoy this one.
Last night I got to see a screening of the Mad Men episode “Suitcase” at the Television Academy, then watched a hosted panel and Q&A featuring producer/creater Matt Weiner and about eight cast members… and then enjoy a reception where most of the actors on the panel hung out to sign autographs and take photos. They were all just fantastic, and the whole thing was a blast.