This past weekend was my 37th birthday and as part of celebrating I got a chance to re-connect with one of my childhood best friends, Alex Wong. I haven’t seen Alex since we were kids, but have kept in touch periodically here and there over the years. Back when I was working on The Lord of the Rings we briefly touched base over email and I found out he was in a band called The Animators.
I purchased their cd also got one of my favorite t-shirts of all time:
Anyway, it was wonderful seeing Alex again and catching up. He also gave me one of his new cds for a band he’s in called The Paper Raincoat. I love the music and the design of the cd packaging is brilliant. Please go check it out! You can read a review of the band here:
Paper Raincoat at Joe’s Pub | Random Musings.
I’m posting this for a couple of reasons.. first, because I’m really proud of Alex and what he’s accomplished & what an amazing person he’s turned out to be. Second, I think that he’s a great inspiration for people to really go out there and chase their dreams. It makes my heart glow when I see someone doing something they love really really well.
Anyway, enough blathering on.. go check out the music! 🙂
-jason
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Hi Jason, I’m a longtime follower of your blog and wanted to say “Thanks!” for all the inspiration, and now, “Thanks!” for the music recommendation. I checked out your friend’s music, and I am in love with it! I’ll have to pick up The Paper Raincoat album.
It’s great when the people you love are doing well. Happy Belated Birthday! Cheers!
Jason,
I am new to your blog. I have been working my way through the AFR series. I am running the 64bit version of Maya 2010 and I have been running into problems loading the shelf and using some of the scripts in Tutorial AFR3A.
If you have time I would appreciate any help you could give. I already did the corrections that allow it to load but it is only a partial load.
Anyway thanks.
John
Awesome! Their album cover art is really cool too!
Wow! I can’t believe you know Alex Wong! I saw him perform with Vienna Teng (who you should also check out if you haven’t heard her stuff) in Raleigh. Super talented bunch of musicians! Small world…