Golden Gram´s Jams

How 2 Play Guitar Like A Nerd & Still Get Chicas! (aaron harmon skivvies vidmix)

Prayers Are Answered! A Shot In The Dark For Lightt part 2

From: Alex Mostoufi <alex@.     .com>
Date: July 31, 2014 at 11:21:22 AM MDT
To: Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios <chicachicagoboom@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Alex, please help a lover of Lightt regain the faith

Hello Mark,

Thank you for the note. This means a lot to me. We are constantly tweaking and unfortunately not always right! Our goal was to minimize confusion some of the users had as they accidentally made changes without not knowing what's going on. We also had the issue of clutter. But all that said, we had many people writing us about this master level feature so as result, we have to listen and bring it back.

Thanks again for being so great and hope we can fulfill your creative journey. 

See you on Lightt!

Alex Mostoufi

On Jul 31, 2014, at 2:04 AM, Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios <chicachicagoboom@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Alex,
I just started using Lightt a few days ago. I was falling in love with it. I thought what made your app unique was several different features, but Lightt possessed two new abilities heretofore unseen by me. The ability to switch between filters and between fx live while recording was something I had never done before. Once I realized this capability my mind was instantly inundated with a myriad of possible uses. The second feature I loved was the ability to manipulate the strength and quality of the fx while recording. The two sliders on the left while in landscape capture.  Lightt was the Rosetta Stone of iOS video apps for me. It made videography as improvisational as playing a solo in a jazz combo.
Now I can play the iPod camera like a trumpet?  Choosing different timbres or fx as I shoot? Or different filters on each at the same time? I was ready to walk the earth proclaiming Lightt as the new King of the iOS camera apps.
Alas, I updated Lightt the next morning. I Saw something about 'simpler capture' but didn't really comprehend and just tapped update...
To me, I only got to play on the Stradivarius violin for one day. Or  Imagine if immediately following Christmas morning was April 15. I realize I may seem a bit too involved, but this is my livelihood, one of my passions, and I will gladly pay for the older version 3.5.1. Is there anything you can do?
Thank you very much,
Mark Stenger


YouTube.com/chicachicagoboom
Facebook.com/chicachicagoboom
Lightt.com/chicachicagoboom

Follow me on twitter
@chicachicagoboo

Find some folderol
juiceboxthoughts.blogspot.com

A Shot In The Dark For Lightt.

First, a little background. I love shooting and making videos with my Apple devices. When crafting these short films I use several different apps, oftentimes on a single video,  to produce the haphazard equanimity in virtue they possess. Last week I downloaded the iOS app Lightt for the first time. After using it for only a matter of hours I realized how truly groundbreaking of a video editing and creation app it was. Then the next morning an update for Lightt came out and destroyed 75% of what made Lightt great. Gone was the ability to switch between visual fx or filters on the fly. Other aspects of the app were severely watered down. Confused, saddened, and underslept, I tried emailing Lightt to figure out what had happened but the response I got was so simplistic I began to wonder if I had really used such an amazing app at all. In a last ditch effort to understand what was going on, I decided to email Lightt's CEO. Here is the email.

From: Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios <chicachicagoboom@gmail.com>
Date: July 31, 2014 at 3:04:35 AM MDT
To: "alex@.     .com" <alex@.     .com>
Subject: Alex, please help a lover of Lightt regain the faith

Hi Alex,
I just started using Lightt a few days ago. I was falling in love with it. I thought what made your app unique was several different features, but Lightt possessed two new abilities heretofore unseen by me. The ability to switch between filters and between fx live while recording was something I had never done before. Once I realized this capability my mind was instantly inundated with a myriad of possible uses. The second feature I loved was the ability to manipulate the strength and quality of the fx while recording. The two sliders on the left while in landscape capture.  Lightt was the Rosetta Stone of iOS video apps for me. It made videography as improvisational as playing a solo in a jazz combo.
Now I can play the iPod camera like a trumpet?  Choosing different timbres or fx as I shoot? Or different filters on each at the same time? I was ready to walk the earth proclaiming Lightt as the new King of the iOS camera apps.
Alas, I updated Lightt the next morning. I Saw something about 'simpler capture' but didn't really comprehend and just tapped update...
To me, I only got to play on the Stradivarius violin for one day. Or  Imagine if immediately following Christmas morning was April 15. I realize I may seem a bit too involved, but this is my livelihood, one of my passions, and I will gladly pay for the older version 3.5.1. Is there anything you can do?
Thank you very much,
M Stenger


YouTube.com/chicachicagoboom
Facebook.com/chicachicagoboom
Lightt.com/chicachicagoboom

Follow me on twitter
@chicachicagoboo

Find some folderol
juiceboxthoughts.blogspot.com

Exclusive First Listen! Shhhhhh...

Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead... Oh wait. I mean don't tell mom that those bodacious blasphemers -AKA Tung & Gruv- are back at it. Take a listen!

Matt Bassano Wins the Innernube Today! Me? Im zesty.

Ah yes, i am very very zesty. I am very zesty indeed. Gruv, the beats brains of Tung & Gruv, My Part nerd and Part nurse,(well he is marrying a Doctor!).Mr. M. Bassano  was chosen to be featured in one of those Chica Missed Calls Make Content thingies over at corporate (read: Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios). and so now  i'm supposed to freemote. freemote for our red headed, corporeal, corporate I mean, Bassano video. And it is
My pleasure y'all! Cuz this boy is good!

Can You Believe This Song is 20 years old!?!!?

Is anybody curious about the 1990's yet? Or did 90's nostalgia subsume itself to the weight of carrying a grunge all these years? Here is my favorite rap song ever. From the 1994 movie soundtrack of 'Above The Rim' I present you....
Wait what?
Big Limpin?  Did we get Rickrolled?

Big Limpin' from Mr. Dr. on Vimeo.

Not Any Easier Still Might Be Better Because...

This is not going to be easy. 


Now she knows I'm awake. 
I should record this.
Her.
Or just turn the music up.
Something I could tell her
That would blow her mind
Or her faith.
And then the cats would stay. 
But how quickly I forget
Nothing ever goes away.

Why bother being good? 
When bad is here to play. 
How quickly I forget
Nothing ever goes away

When home becomes a hindrance
And roots reveal decay.
Turn the other cheek I speak. 
But Blessings enfilade.

Well I'll go and tell 
her that she wasn't just.
Because I am the loss 
of a loss of all trust.

Screaming so much it 
breaks down the time. 
Stop trying to help 
I am up every 
damn time. 
Want to make sure that the cats-

You must've erased it already
United is the first time 
What she's ever sent me. 

But how quickly I forget. 
Nothing ever goes away.

Why bother with life?
When if it's here to stay-
How quickly We'll forget. 
Nothing ever goes away


For Me, Ma bon vivant piquant!

Cat On A Dashboard... Cashboard?

This cat knows what's up! #toonces #sparkcamera #noanimalswereharmed https://t.co/SAHOK5IIbq

— Chica Chica Go Boom? (@chicachicagoboo) July 25, 2014

Sometimes It Snows In April.

It is April in Minneapolis. The sun is shining without a cloud in the sky. The temperature is 5 degrees fahrenheit. It is freezing. Its like the sun has reversed its natural function and is now sucking the heat from the earth instead of providing it. Its bright out. All the brighter to see your breath as it leaves your mouth and lungs and instantly frosts in the frigid air. Please Lord, you say, get me the heck out of Minnesota in April!  I cant even begin to imagine what January is like here!

And now please enjoy our Minneapolis Royalty Hisself's song 'Sometimes It Snows In April'.

Dissed

A List.
 The Gist of which
 U Missed
On a Tryst.
 While we Kissed
 You fled Bliss
 And for This
 I am Pissed.
 Hiss.

Cabin Trip June 2014 w/ Music by Product 626

A little jumbled but scenic nonetheless...

Brand New Life- A live Freakboy #9 track from Whitey Wolfe's last performance in Colorado!

Dig Dig Dig Sean's Bass SOLOOOOOOOOOOO!

I Love @Lyft. Easy and True.

WooHoo! Thx Gordie Cuz U used a free ride @lyft I get one! Join Lyft and get a $25 ride free w/ this link http://t.co/XR688aieR1 #easy #safe
— HNIC (@themarkstenger) July 10, 2014

Click here to get your free $25 ride credit from @Lyft!

Have I mentioned the Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios FB page?

No? Well here's a post from it.

Post by Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios.

You gotta watch the ending!

Quiz no man who is not yo man.

Did you really have the nerve to ask me Who and How For? 

Ok, here is your answer(s). 

Nunya. 

None. uh. ya. business. 

No really. How indeed! How is it even remotely tangential to your oeuvre to know WHO and HOW FOR?

     And what is 'how for?' even asking? I understand 'why come?' as an almost type of question, but your u-turn of a phrase 'how for?' gets my semiotics engine baffling. We'll have to come back to the latter half of your query later.  

    So instead let's push your 'Who' question of a premise a little further down the road. What if 'Who' is a someone you know? Does that create a mandate for snooping, simply because you are aware of their existence? OR, because of your mutual other awareness, do you now both share a bond in an expectation of privacy? It is almost exclusively a human quality, our fundamental choice whether or not we reveal any part of ourselves to one another, or many others. 

With me so far? 

No? 

Well too bad. Because now we have to ask; What if 'Who' is NOT someone that you know? Is their expectation of privacy with you, the unknown individual, diminished by a lack of personal familiarity? No, it is not. I posit that one's expectation of privacy from those they don't know is much stronger than with people they know. 

Why does your paltry 'want to know' complex tend to eclipse any sense of or respect for, a basic human decency? Could it be caused by modern society's over heightened appraisal of TMI in this modern age? Is it a matter of your own proprietary security? Or maybe it's just your big nose? Your big nose not belonging wherever you goes and sticks it?

You'll have to answer those last few Bon Mots on your own time...

Now it is time for your answer(s). 

The answer to Who is...

NUNYA!

And the answer to 'how for?' 

 Cuz 2+2. 

That's how for. 

626 Day Yay!!! FLOW LIKE THIS

I thought this song was the perfect pairing for this video... Do I vague much?

That's David Arnold, the bassist doing lead vocals on the verse. Clap your hands for Dave.
Go on,
Thanks.

Happy 626 Day!!!

So I used to be in a band called 'Product 626’. Matt Loftin, David Arnold, Jonny Aderhold and myself. Today being June 26, it's really 626 day. I'll explain more as the day goes on. For now let's start off with some Product 626 music...

Did You Say Mr. Dr.? Say No More!

Mama Told Me Never With A Blonde- a Mr. Dr. Track: http://t.co/4WLBWo38id via @YouTube
— Chica Chica Go Boom? (@chicachicagoboo) June 24, 2014

Laugh At/With Lightbulb J. Martin

Some Mel Mail

Read This If You Want to Learn to Write Well...

A fantastic piece! Mötley Crüe owes @taffyakner bigtime 4 crafting such a pleasurable read w/ them as a subject... http://t.co/NXPCBre2zt

— HNIC (@themarkstenger) June 13, 2014

Some Colorado Gardening Tips

So everyone in the world now knows about Colorado's legalization experiment. How about some Colorado gardening videos? About tomato plants... Do I really need to wink?

An Exclusive Peek at C. Barrett's Latest Work!

Another Autorap Accident

This photo was on my fridge for 7 years, 3 moves, and 4 girlfriends.

I think I stopped really seeing this snapshot about 6 months after I had stuck it up on the refridge.  But when I came across it in a box the other day it totally hit me unawares. At first I was visually befuddled, confronting the Twin Towers laying casually in a shoebox. It felt disrespectful finding them there, like I just tossed them aside someways back. I set the picture on my dresser and continued at sorting shoebox detritus. But for the rest of the day I couldn't get World Trade Center images out of my head unless I went and stared at this photograph for awhile.
It's 13 years later.
It's still Love.
I think. 

♥️ pic.twitter.com/qYXS9mFSPQ
— HNIC (@themarkstenger) June 9, 2014

If you're in DC next week go see Dead Prez 6/14

You will not regret it.

Dead Prez- Hell Yeah (excerpt in orange) from Mark Demian on Vimeo.
DeadPrez.com is their official website.

Devil v. America- A Mr. Dr. Demo Track.

     June finds MISTERDOCTER in a patriotic mindset this year it seems... Enjoy the harmonies and relish the delicate dischord only a demo track can provide...

     

    And yes, Mr. Dr. assured me that an Actual Boomvie for the completed track will be coming. 


Soon? 
I had to ask...

Sometime this month he said. Before the girl's next birthday.

And Now Here's A Report From Our Latvian Correspondent.

     Marcus you're in our sis and a narcissist sis sis t and you come to my car like a carhartt wanting carls junior But carl doesn't want you to want his junior He's not a john return And that is very wrong yep to figure 1 + 1 is 2 and 2 + 13 so 3 + 1 is for and 8:15PM, June 2, 2014 4 is hey ryan because three's a party no 3 the crowd to the party once a long time And call of me wants call love you allah love you hola v u don't forget that busy you is you you I do h 2 or 22 Goody goody 2 shoes got mushroom in its coo coo he said fred come give me head and its now 711 said it is now 7 that's what 11 said verbatim for both of them gratuitous protest great great discrete dumbass talk text text talk text your rodeo ass the moonwalk

This is what happens (rarely!) when I babysit...

Artwork by C. Barrett

I Used 2 Loooooove The Strokes!

     No really. From 2001 until about 2007 I loved The Strokes unflinchingly. I Loved their albums. Loved their tones. Loved their hair and I Loved their attitude, or lack thereof. I loved their name. But Now? I'd like to blame their most recent, and perhaps final album, for my sense of unease bordering on Motherfucking Fear whenever I hear their name. Said album, 2013's comically and yet exactly aptly titled '80’s Comedown Machine' is not a great or even very good album, but it's also not the disaster most critics declared it to be. I like track 2 'All the Time' and the whole thing is barely 40 minutes long, which brings to mind the old aphorism oft repeated about Colorado weather and almost all Punk Rock songs. If you don't like the rain or that grating bass line?... just wait a minute. Things will change quickly.
     Ouch.
     So my closest male elder relative had a bad Monday last week. No make that a terribly bad Monday. He Suffered A... Hold on, He Endured? Or Had? Was attacked? No. He Was Stroked. He Maintained a Stroke? None of it sounds right because I'm still me and he is still mentally he, but this Stroke is our new normal. Our Monolith. But our Monolith didn't suddenly appear way out by Jupiter. It is right beside us, worming its way inside us, an unwanted Big Fucking Deal. Our Stroke Monolith. Ten days in, can I now consider it a Stroke of luck that he survived and wasn't just struck out?
     His was/is an atypical stroke, one caused by a hemmorage in the brain rather than a clot. Imagine, one moment is spent sitting in an overstuffed easychair, relaxing in the lobby of a client's building. Another moment, not so distinct or identifiable as the next moment, but a later moment, part of his right leg decides that now is the time to take up Astral Projection. With the brained, unseeable aspect of his right leg having jumped ship, his physical leg may as well belong to the overstuffed easychair in which he sits. Because he cannot get up! And the leg is no longer responsive to the millions of increasingly frantic signals his brain is firing off.
    And so this Stroke is a '70’s Comedown Machine'.  And it too is comically exactly, aptly titled. For this is his 70th year on earth, and I would not attempt a more perfect definition for a stroke than 'Comedown Machine'. The last ten days have been sneaky subtle. They have been slow to differentiate themselves in our new normal. I can't discern any change in his condition from a week ago. The Doctors will not operate and I will not pray.
    Ouch.
    But this morning? My father, who is nothing like Darth Vader, this morning my father used the Force. And he used Apple iMessage. But mainly he used the Force.



     Yep. Six inches of movement became monumental. Six inches was more magnificent than the breadth of the mighty Mississippi.

The kicker.
     When I received this video iMessage I was lollygagging in bed, listening to music, pretending to be getting ready for the train ride to visit him at the hospital. It wasn't until after I watched the video twice that I realized what I had just seen. The immutable was muted. The leg had returned, even if just for a six inch visit.  It took me another twenty seconds to bestir myself and realize what the ipod was playing on shuffle. It was the title track to The Strokes 2013 album '80's Comedown Machine'. Fuck it. I gotta keep loving The Strokes.

All the Way. A song by Sound of Corduroy

Who can hold the note the longest?

The 5 F's in Family (newsprint vidmix) from Mark Demian on Vimeo.

Please Enjoy Some Music Muchachas!

It's gonna get bigger...

In Honor of Mayday, A Breakdown of How My 2013 U.S. Income Tax is Being Spent.

Just kidding,
Here's the real data...

I want to be popular
I want to be cool
I applied to a cool school
But I sang karaoke
So my application they immediately withdrew ...

JUKEBOX THOUGHTS

Squeeze it!

Hello ... Good mOrNing.

You Did It Twice SILLzy!!

This is easy.
Third times a charm.


Now lets see you bloG.
   -xdopeshortyx-


ok im taking back the night.
how unfortunate of Justin Timberlake to co-opt an Anti-Rape slogan from
the 90's for a middlingly sexy come on song. And how very very unfortunate
of me to piss on both Justin and the popular slogan by abusing it here.
so lets just look at some art.

Striking huh?

Can anyone out there name the artist?

Tell Me Whats My Age Again?

This is for anyone..

It's up for grabs

It's got two lemons,

A harpoon &

A boondocks retreat;

A tried a true a travesty.

My first stupid, silly!!

"It's the same as your google, silly!"

Aww Hell! A Mr. Dr. Video

Aw Hell!
If you were on fire I would not come
I would not walk jump skip or run 
to you. 
I would just let you burn and warm yourself inside. With us on the 
outs still fine. 
Selfie! 
If you were drowning I would 
go back in time and kill the 
man who invented rope so there'd 
be none for you. 
That's what I'd do. 
So please please do not 
contact me. 
Consider me beyond the grave and there's no psychics. 
Actually consider me never to 
have existed at all. 
Not in your memories not 
even in a blade of grass 
that's been stepped on.

Lazy Sunday Driving is cool again apparently.

Driving with LSD from Mark Demian on Vimeo.

Me Not Drinking is A Bird Not Flying

This is just me talkin to me. So please take it for what it's worth. One ad click.

If you are in NYC go see an art exhibit by Eva and Franco Mattes! (until June 7)

Eva & Franco Mattes

Dos Muñecos Altas

Who hasn't wanted to do this after eating at McDonald's?

X Marks the Spot by xDOPESHORTYx

Some Vimeo Vittles

L's & G's I am proud to present the very first video from our new YouTube channel Chica Chica Go Boom?™

Please enjoy our premiere selection...

So I hope this works. Anything from here on out is the company's fault. Chica Chica Go
Boom? begins officially Sunday March 30 2014. More will come. Ummm.... Say goodnight
Mazzyd626.

Goodnight.