Bringin' It.
by maxx
Well drifting back and forth in the blog ocean. I was thinking of sharing some of these photos from last night. And Hawaii a couple weeks ago. I saw Jona Last night he inspired me to get back on the saddle and get blogging!
Wil "Speculator" and Luke of the Rapture Djing at the Cakeshop last night.
This is The end of the longest lava tube in the world!
I am getting more for tommorow.
Jared. Maxx Bass
Posted on January 21, 2006 | Comments (2)
self portrait
by maxx
tonight i hade the urge......
Posted on August 23, 2005 | Comments (1)
Blowfly is god.
by maxx
Posted on July 30, 2005 | Comments (2)
Marlins and Mixxes.
by maxx
Sooooo Yesterday was my birthday. Ill tell you all about it! I woke up at 8am and David Chandler and his gal Julie were sleeping downstairs on my Aerobed®. AWESOME!!!! I went to work really tired cause i was up late talking to the friends. I fugured that they would let me out early number 1 because it was my birthday. number 2 its half day summers. But alas, I didn't get outta there til 7. Thats alright money is good. I ended up going home vowing to nap. I ran in to Maria of marquet on my way home. And made her come over and have a drink with me for my big day. We did. It was great. Carey called in the middle of all that. I was really excited to talk to her but she had to get off the phone really fast.. It's expensive to call from poland. I know it. But i was soooooo good to hear from her. I miss That Lady a whole bunch. After that I watched SAW and talked to people on the phone. No Nap sucky. Then ran out took a cab to go see David play at Tonic with eats tapes. It made me sweat and dance. Lots of great folks there. Jim, shel, crito, samuel, peter, anna. It was weird too. This year there were soo many people celebrating peoples birthdays on my birthday. I mean i met at leats 10 people last night with my birthday. Nyc is where we all meet up i guess. pretty strange. Then I left tonic at like 1230 i was fairly sloshed at this point and decided to go to the cake shop (my work). I went with samuel and anna i was a crazy rock show. everyone was going nuts. slam dancing. been awhile since ive seen that. black cat 2003. stay there for a few. got cupcakes and left. then we went back to my house had a drink listened to a record or 2. and they left. i was alone. so i called evryone at most of the bars that i know and had them hand out a free shot for me. and then i passed out. great birthday!!!! Just wish Carey was here for it. BTW thank you for the amazing gift!!!! Fly away. yessss.
Now in other news.,
I Have my mixxes and orginal tracks I made @ http://www.sweetpancake.com/maxxbass if you wanna check um out. DOWNLOAD FOR FREEEEEEEE.
A Marlin Attack Video , Don't worry nobody got to hurt.
But the best story of the day.
Blind Teen Amazes With Video-Game Skills
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press WriterWed Jul 27, 5:25 PM ET
Brice Mellen is a whiz at video games such as "Mortal Kombat."
In that regard, the 17-year-old isn't much different from so many others his age.
Except for one thing: He's blind.
And as he easily dispatched foes who took him on recently at a Lincoln gaming center, the affable and smiling Mellen remained humble.
"I can't say that I'm a superpro," he said, working the controller like an extension of his body. "I can be beat."
Those bold enough to challenge him weren't so lucky. One by one, while playing "Soul Caliber 2," their video characters were decapitated, eviscerated and gutted without mercy by Mellen's on-screen alter ego.
"I'm getting bored," Mellen said in jest as he won game after game.
Blind since birth when his optic nerve didn't connect because of Leber's disease, Mellen honed his video game skills over the years through patient and not-so-patient playing, memorizing key joystick operations and moves in certain games, asking lots of questions and paying particular attention to audio cues. He worked his way up from games such as "Space Invaders" and "Asteroid," onto the modern combat games.
"I guess I don't know how I do it, really," Mellen said, as he continued playing while facing away from the screen. "It's beyond me."
Mellen knows this much: He started playing at home when he was about 7.
"He enjoyed trying to play, but he wasn't very good at first," said his father, Larry Mellen. "But he just kept on trying. ... He's broken a lot of controllers."
When the question of broken controllers comes up, Mellen flashes a smile and just shrugs.
"I used to have quite a temper," he said. "Me and controllers didn't get along very well."
Now they get along just fine.
While playing "Soul Caliber 2," Mellen worked his way through the introductory screens with ease, knowing exactly what to click to start the game he wanted.
He rarely asked for help. Once the game started he didn't need any help.
"How do I move?" an exasperated opponent, Ryan O'Banion, asked during a battle in which his character is frozen in place.
"You can't," Mellen answered before finishing him off.
"That's what happens. It's why I don't play him," O'Banion said after his blood-spattered character's corpse vanishes from the screen.
How Mellen became so good is a mystery to his father.
"He just sat there and he tried and tried until he got it right," Larry Mellen said. "He didn't ever complain to me or anyone about how hard it was."
Mellen hangs out any chance he gets at the DogTags Gaming Center in Lincoln, which opened last month. Every now and then someone will come in and think he can easily beat the blind kid.
That attitude doesn't faze Mellen.
"I'll challenge them, maybe. If I feel like a challenge," he said, displaying an infectious confidence. "I freak people out by playing facing backwards."
There's nothing he likes better than playing video games, Mellen said.
He will be a senior in high school next year. After graduation, he plans to take a year off because he wants a break from school.
When he does go to college, Mellen wants to study — what else? — video-game design.
Til next time.
maxxxxxxx bass.
Posted on July 30, 2005 | Comments (0)
PETS IN THE NEWS.
by maxx
SNIPPET FROM http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163491,00.html
"Aleaxa is looking for someone who likes long walks, hanging out at the beach and maybe even an occasional "roll in the hay."
Her online dating profile reads like many posted by young women looking for a beau in the big city. But Aleaxa isn't just any woman. In fact, she's not a woman at all: She's a 5-month-old Bichon Frise.
That's right. Dogs have online dating profiles now — just the latest element of the modern pooch's lifestyle, which is becoming more like that of their two-legged companions every day.
Robert Yau, 37, the founder of the Web site where Aleaxa trolls for doggie dates, says the digital lifestyle of the 21st century has separated people more than it has united them. The result? People dote on their pets more. Yau's datemypet.com rakes in over 50,000 users each month."
I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT ME FINDING NEWS ON ANIMALS. IT NEEDS TO END. I HAVE ALREADY GOT TO SOUND WIERD.
I've just been working a ton as usual. Missin' my lady. i did some research on the song "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone" it was originally done in 1971 by Bill Withers it was his first big hit. i found about 15 people who covered it. I actually have a lil' collection if anyone is interested in the covers. So my sister Kendra is getting married crazy......so both my sisters will be hitched. I feel babies coming. ah i think I'd make a good uncle. Uncle Basss. That I could handle. Djing went good at the diesel store. I played mostly new wave, synth, a bit of italo and disco. good times. A french lady came up to me and said in broken english "my son he do dj" i nodded and went on to say "i never seen dj in store" then came the high five. I like djing there. fun stuff. tonight. Derrick May at Cielo. pretty radical. ive got to go get ready now. see you dudes.
bass.
Posted on July 26, 2005 | Comments (1)