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1. Baptized Catholic.

2. Named after a relative who was killed in the Civil War, fighting for the North.

3. Ronald McDonald was my godfather.

4. Was in many musicals, commercials, radio spots, TV shows as a kid and had a small but visible part in a well known feature film. Notable non-imdb-able credit: You can hear me singing and laughing with other kids during the credits to Poltergeist. Shannon Doherty and Chad Allen were two of my childhood friends (no, I don't keep in touch).

5. Was elected president of my elementary school. My only presidential duty was to raise the flag every morning, which I passed off to my veep.

6. Used to write 'Weird Al' style parody songs. Unfortunately, the tape on which I recorded all of these songs was lost long ago.

7. Have wide feet.

8. My first car was a used 1988 Toyota truck which I kept until 2007. It was twice broken into and thrice stolen.

9. Studied percussion and composition at USC.

10. Was in the Disneyland Christmas Toy Soldier band for two holiday seasons.

11. Did not try drugs or alcohol until I was 20.

12. Used to sell my sperm for extra income.

13. Though atheist since high school, I've twice participated in a nude pagan ritual with strippers on an isolated beach under a full moon.

14. Sleep disorders. I get night terror when I'm extremely stressed. I also occasionally sleepwalk, talk in my sleep and get sleep paralysis.

15. Hiked to the top of Half-Dome in Yosemite twice.

16. Own a fully signed Mr. Bungle New Years 2000 poster.

17. Play Theremin.

18. I've performed at Carnagie Hall, Disney Hall, The Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, among other famous venues.

19. Went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2003 with a film that I scored.

20. Scored my first (and hopefully not last) commercial feature film in 2007.

21. Played in the pit for over 100 musicals. (wonder if I've worked with guessandcheck?)

22. Haven't had cable or shopped at a Wal*Mart in a decade.

23. If I had billions of dollars, I would design video games and theme parks.

24. VS is the only online community I've ever become a part of.

25. Six inches, but girthy.

hey krono! Thanks for the promote

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*promote *brief

>> ^mxxcon:
LEDs on his helmet are definitely faked. you can see letter don't move exactly with his head/camera movements.


I don't believe they're fake. The minor movement you see in the text can originate from the difference in refreshrate between the camera and the leds. It's the same effect you get when you film older CRT-computer monitors with a video camera.

>> ^maximillian:
This looks fake. How are the tracks looping? At 2:35 you hear the same sound the DS makes in the beginning, yet he isn't playing the DS and the DS screen isn't doing anything.


Live electronic music is performed by playing an initial track, then placing it on loop.

Of course, this doesn't only apply to electronic music. I used to go to a club in West Hollywood called the Largo where a composer by the name of Jon Brion played drums, bass, piano and guitar, placed them on loops and hopped between guitar and piano to do improv. Didn't need anyone but himself to play an entire set.

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I agree with the comment that it's the best thing I've seen on the Sift for a while. I'm listening to DP on Pandora as we speak.

In reply to this comment by Laekroth:
Thanks for the doublepromote on my video dag! I'm glad you liked it. We definately need more Daft Punk on the sift

In reply to this comment by dag:
awesome! *doublepromote

Thanks for the doublepromote on my video dag! I'm glad you liked it. We definately need more Daft Punk on the sift

In reply to this comment by dag:
awesome! *doublepromote

Agreed; the theremin was great, though.

Maybe would have been more believable if it showed him with a tube coming out of the mask (and he kept playing the keys while tube-voicing), and stomping on a boomerang-box to set up and cue the loops on and off.

Am I the only person that only believed the Theremin? The LEDs on the helmet and the rest of the song - I just...I'm just not convinced.

one of my favorite daft punk songs ever--he should have reverb'd that theremin tho

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Nintendo, Theremin, daft punk, something about us, DS' to 'Nintendo, Theremin, daft punk, something about us, DS, randy george, da funk, helmet' - edited by Eklek

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Enzo, the Fermi paradox accounts for the probability of no faster than light travel. The milky way is at least 13 billion years old. That's more than enough time for thousands of civilisations to arise and colonise other stars using space ships that only reach a small fraction of the speed of light.


DFT, they really threw out most of the trappings of the 1950s original - I didn't hear any Theremin music at all. It was your typical, modern Jerry Bruckheimer style movie music - that is to say - completely forgettable.

How did they handle the music? The original Theremin infused Bernard Hermann score was brilliant.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Worst. Rendition. Ever.


Come on, you have to give the guy credit. He is playing the thing using gloves and a Wiimote. F+ for quality, A+ for effort.

Last year I dressed up as a mad doctor with a terrible German accent, playing Theremin with a friends band. I ran the Theremin through a bunch of effects and completely hammed it up.

This year I'll be a pit musician - which is not totally unlike a ninja - because I have to work that night.

Happy Halloween sifters.