The Simpson Blog

You may have seen the video of the drunk guy singing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in the back of an RCMP cruiser. If not, scroll down. If so, check out my remix of the drunk guy plus Queen, with some slicing, dicing, tuning and timing mixed in for good measure. (All done in Reaper with included plugins.) And here's the original video: And if you have the urge to do something like this yourself, I'm not going to hoard my secrets. Here's how I did it: - Fed both the original RCMP Cruiser Drunk video and a Queen Bohemian Rhapsody karaoke video into a Youtube-to-MP3 site online and downloaded the tracks - Imported both files to separate tracks in Reaper - Applied an effects chain to the RCMP singing guy: First, a channel mix plugin to isolate just the right channel, since the left channel was only static. That moved the Right channel to center. - EQ to cut the mud and boost around 3k. - ReaTune set to tune the vocal to B Major. In hindsight, I think that might hav

It feels like it's been a while since I've won any awards for my work -- number-one chart rankings at onlinemusicnetwork.ca aside -- but today some big news came down from the RTDNA (formerly RTNDA, in a name change I've yet to make sense of). My colleagues and I in the Rogers Atlantic news-radio cluster cleaned up in a large way this year! Byron MacGregor Award - Best Newscast • News91.9 Moncton for The Afternoon News (Small Market) • News 95.7 Halifax for The Morning News (Medium Market) Charlie Edwards Award - Spot News • News 95.7 Halifax for Ships Start Here Dave Rogers Award - Short Feature • News 95.7 Halifax for Will and Kate on PEI (Medium Market) Gord Sinclair Award - Live Special Events • News 95.7 Halifax for Canada Votes 2011 Peter Gzowski Award - News Information Program • News 95.7 Halifax for Stand Against Bullies Ron Laidlaw Award - Continuing Coverage • News 91.9 Moncton for Romero Cormier on Trial As far as my role, well, The Will

I waited too long to get a haircut, and when I finally got it cut, I forgot to ask them to trim my eyebrows. Then I forgot to trim my eyebrows. Really, I didn't forget, but I didn't have a comb at home to facilitate the trimming. I went to the nearby dollar store and picked up a comb for $1, and headed home to give myself some over-the-eye grooming. I used the skinny side of the comb, put it right up against the skin, and used my beard trimmer to cut it nice and close. Too close. Yeah, I kind of overdid it. Not only that -- Amanda says the cut wasn't exactly even. So, advice to any man considering trimming his own eyebrows (and I say man, because most women know better already): Get a professional to do it, Get your wife to do it, Get your cat to help, Use the THICK side of the comb Be careful Don't go too short Don't try That is all. They're growing back now. I think I look quite fetching, actually.