Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Ready to party

I don't know if it's gonna be a "Party" but I'm invited at a family get together for thanksgiving at Sarah's uncle's place in North Dakota, pretty near form Fargo. I'll be out of Bozeman for about 4 days.
It's true Ruben that I didn't write much on the blog these days, it has been almost a month!!

Well let's try to summarise a month worth of craziness, I've spent a week-end in Helena MT, the capital city of Montana. Sarah had a conference there and I jumped on the occasion to visit another city. It's a little bigger that Bozeman (around 50 thousand) and it was strangely empty of people. That might be because it was a Friday in fact. Anyway it looked like a nice city with more history than Bozeman.

I've been to work, where I got done some good old coding. I'm thinking about changing my methodology so I would have more to say in my report that I'm planning to start writing next week.

It's been snowing here almost non-stop for the past couple of days. I tell you it's brrrrrrrrr!! The snow melts and creates some nice ice rings on the streets. I've seen some cars missing their turns right from my window. They didn't seem to get hurt, just out of the road.

I've been playing a lot with my new guitar! Let me introduce my new baby, a Gibson SG faded brown. 6 strings, two nice humbekers with a very nice warm sound. The neck is a real pleasure to play, it's really fast. Specially to get the 20th and plus frets, there is no wood obstructing the left hand! This is a nice improvement compared to my old pal, the Epiphone Explorer Goth which design, even if really cool and hardcore, makes it a little harder to play.

With the Acolyts we start being pretty serious about composing an album, I have recorded a few riffs, we are writing lyrics, designing a cool logo for the band and also working on the band itself, its orientation, its philosophical meaning ;) Today, thanks to Justin (Acolyt n°2) we have a pretty near perfect logo that just needs a couple improvements to rock even more! The compositions are for now at early stages but I can tell you it sounds like wicked mix between Megadeth, Judas Priest and Pink Floyd (what ??). Well that's what we would like to do. We are still looking for a drummer who would become Acolyt n°4.

The other day we went hiking and we took some nice pictures form Spanish Creek. So here are the pictures, for the ones who prefer to look than to read!

I'd like to send more but blogger seems to be bugging...































Thanks for reading Montana Clem !!
Scenic & disastrous writing.

7 comments:

Ruben said...

Great! It's good to hear from you! I can see that you have done a couple of things within a month, nice!

How many guitars do you have?! By the way, who are the Acolyts?

Hey you know what? I've met a nice american blond girl called Sarah...

Anonymous said...

Wow, something has finally happened in Montana ;) Hope you were nice with the poor turkey today...

Unknown said...

Thanks for your pictures, they're really beautiful! I'm glad the Acolyts are not dead, they rock, man ;)
By the way, the logo is very nice... lacks some fire or lightening, maybe.
How was thanksgiving? did you eat lots of turkey?

Unknown said...

Hey Ruben, the Acolyts are Justin Mychalski (n°2), Quentin Peigné (n°3) and me (n°1) :)

Be carefull with the nice american blond girls named Sarah.

Cyril, I ate so much ! Sarah's family surely knows how to cook, it was delicious. I had a great time there. Good to be out of Bozo for a few days.

Cécile you're welcome, I have more pictures but I don't want to put only pictures around.

Anonymous said...

Why the hell are we talking in english in this blog?

Merde!

Ruben said...

A question:

On this pic: XL800707-enhenced.JPG.

Did you made the sky darker and the building brighter using 2 layers in gimp?

If I'm right, may I advice you a little soft. It is called qtpfsgui (pretty name) and allows you to make hdr pictures. There is an article here: http://www.framasoft.net/article4402.html

By the way, if you cant say to your camera to take over/under exposed photos, you can always cheat and make yourself theses using gimp.

Unknown said...

Anonymous> I speak in English on that blog because I want it to be readable by all my friends, including a lot of them who don't speak French! Who are you by the way ?

Ruben> Yep I used gimp, but I just used the function auto color if remember right. Thanks for the advices anyway :)