Ken vs. the City

While I was at home this past week, I cleaned out my closet and found some old backup CD’s. One of them had this Soylent Green tin can label I made for fun in college.

Just click the image to download the full-sized PNG file. It should fit around a standard soup can. Just get yourself a can of Campbell’s, print out the label, cut to fit and tape it on. As you can see by the ingredients list, Soylent Green is people (sorry to spoil the movie). In the movie, Soylent Green is acually a wafer, but making a label is a little easier than making a box.

Download the Photoshop file if you want to play around with it.

I’ve been re-writing a screenplay that I started about two years ago. I remember typing up my first draft and formatting it by hand using the tab and the caps lock key to format it. Microsoft Word is still bloated with features I never use, but this time I found this pretty passable MS Word screenplay template.

All the styles like dialoge and scene heading are there. Just delete all the junk left behind by the creator to illustrate how to use it, and you have a blank slate for a properly formatted screenplay.

One of my most favorite bands ever, a jazzy-rock-ish-folk-ish quartet from California called Havalina, is no more. However, before departing, they have left their fans (all ten of them) a compilation album available as a free download on their website.

We Remember Anarchy is a 90MB, 26-song retrospective covering all the albums Havalina has ever produced; from 1992 to 2006. It’s a hefty download, but I definately recommend you get it. Songs are in Apple’s ACC format, which is no problem for people w/ iTunes. For non-iTunes users, I recommend the cross-platform VLC Media Player. That sucker plays everything.

An older album, Russian Lullabies (one of my favs) is also available. It’s in mp3 format, so any player should work.

Download:
We Remember Anarchy
VLC Media Player

Things are going well. I’m finding myself busier and busier (which I really like). I have my internship, and I’m helping with a few web sites. I’m still looking for freelance work at one of the papers, which I have to do at the end of the week because I work all day at the beginning.

Today after work I was looking around for a used CD store. You’d be surprised how hard it is to find a store that sells cheap used CDs in New York. Eventually I gave up and went to Tower Records. There was some R&B singer giving a mini concert for the release of one of her albums. It was the wierdest thing. I was trawling through the store shopping for all the obscure music that I like and there was this R&B show going on around me. It was like a dream I once had after eating a whole pizza.

Any way, I bought an mp3 player and I’ve been looking for decent music to fill it up with. I’m cheap and I’ve mostly been looking online. I found that Havalina (www.havalinaland.com) has their whole Russian Lullabies album for download on their website. It’s an old album, but it’s my absolute favorite. I strongly recommend it.