Hey Tim!! I've been having an amazing time. The original plan was some concoction of Cannes, Copenhagen, Paris and London, but I haven't booked until hotels or flights after tomorrow night, so anything could happen.

Thanks! I am having a good day! I just got to Copenhagen and it's very beautiful.

The Hunt by Thomas Vinterberg. I saw the premiere at Cannes. It was great!

I did! Thanks so much! I'm really proud of those mixes, and tracking it was a total blast.

I don't, actually. I guess I think Explosions in the Sky are awesome, I saw them live once and they were great. But generally that's not really a genre that I have expertise in.

Thanks so much!!! You are extremely kind.

Awesome! I think I lived on campus a little too long and got stir crazy, but it was awesome. The professors were some of my greatest mentors and the students I met are still some of my best friends. If you are thinking about going, you're probably on the right path.

As far as the studio composition/production department goes, they generally judge on what they perceive as "raw talent." They generally don't care what your grades were like, they care about you having the ability to become a good songwriter. So just go in and be yourself and show your craft. If you don't get in, this does NOT mean you're not talented. So there's that.

I will! I promise.

I know nothing either, sorry! Jenny seems to know a bunch about that stuff, though.

Not yet! But I will. I LOVE Joss Whedon, and I'm super excited to see what he made.

Thanks! I'm still figuring that stuff out, developments have been made and I'm pretty excited about what I've been recording.

Same old, honestly. At this moment mostly St. Vincent and Harry Belafonte. With some Abbey Road thrown in there.

It was between Berklee and Purchase. You can't enter as a production major at Berklee, you had to enter during your sophomore year. Purchase seemed like a cozier more relaxed school, so I went with it.

Harold and Maude

You don't need a mixer. It would just degrade your signal path if you were to go through your preamp and then a mixer and then your mbox. Your signal path sounds great! The only reasons I ever use a mixer is for its on board preamps when I'm tracking drums or piano at a big studio.

A mixing board would not replace your mbox. Your mbox is a preamp/converter/mixer combo. However, since you're using an external preamp with spdif, you're using your preamp as a preamp/analog to digital (microphone signal to computer) converter combo. You're using your mbox as a mixer and digital to analog (computer to speakers) converter. Using another element in this set up would just confuse things.

There might be some kind of digital mixer that could replace an mbox, being that your mbox IS essentially a digital mixer, but I see no need to do so.

Autotune is a funny thing. I would much rather use an amazing take that had one bad note that needs to be tuned than use a shitty take. I don't really like to do punch ins after the session, because a singer will sound completely different one day from another and it usually, even if very subtly, infringes on the flow. I've definitely used autotune on artists, and some artists I've never used a stitch of it. It all depends on the vibe of the song.

Our ears have learned to expect perfection. If you listen to old pop music from before autotune, you'll notice a lot of imperfections. Those aren't really acceptable anymore in a pop context. I don't feel guilt, it's part of our collective consciousness now.

I will tell you this, though. WAY less people would be singers right now if it weren't for autotune. Not sure if this is good or bad.

Still no.

Nope! Romer is a pretty popular name.

I think it's almost mathematically impossible for aliens to not be among us, on or around earth. With the amount of planets out there in the universe, many of them must have life. Some of those planets that have life must have civilizations.

We are a young civilization, only having started writing things down about six thousand years ago. Imagine the technology we'll have in six thousand more years if we don't destroy ourselves. We've only just gotten to the moon in the last 50 years. We'll be warping through the galaxy in no time flat!

There are probably civilizations many thousands of years ahead of ours, and a civilization with technological capabilities would be naturally curious, otherwise they would never have created said technology. I'm certain that many different species of aliens have already found their way to earth, but know how to cover their tracks. And when they don't, we call each other crazies and liars.

I like to think of the human race as a bunch of fish in a lake thinking we know everything that's going on, assuming that there is nothing happening outside of the lake because we have no way of knowing. Maybe one got caught by a human and had a story to tell, but he got called a crack pot. Us fish have no idea that a mere twenty miles away, some family is watching Glee and eating a king size bag of Doritos for dinner.