Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in KHAAAAAAANN's LiveJournal:

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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
12:15 am	Two Songs in Two Weeks is Some Kind of Record Yeah. This particular song is called "Epic Failure", and it's my longest, most prog-rock like song yet. Check it out! And don't forget the rest of my site here. -EE (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
10:29 pm	I Am a Damn Songwriting Machine If for some reason you don't visit any of my other non-website hubs, you may wish to know that I wrote and uploaded another new song. The song is called Tuition Madness, and I honestly can't remember if I wrote about it here when I first wrote the lyrics. Anyway, check it out, and leave comments here or here! -EE Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Monday, February 18th, 2008
10:23 pm	I wrote another new song. Hooray for me. Check it out here, and you can leave me comments on it here or here. -EE (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
8:41 pm	HAY GUYS I R GRATE SONGWRITER. Or just really vain about my bass skills. Judge for yourself here. Or see a more complete update of sorts here. -EE (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
10:30 am	I'm back from MAGfest! Indeed! My full summary of the event is here. An addendum is here, and from those two entries I think you can get to most of my thoughts on the challenges and the convention in general. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
10:36 pm	I have a new song. It's at my website. It's called "Liberation", and it's an acoustic little tune about a baby's first hours of life. It's something really different for me, so hopefully you'll like it. Leave me comments either here or on my site--I do read them, really! Also, this is a reminder that my site also serves as my primary blog now, so check that out for reviews and thoughts about various facets of life. -EE (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
10:24 pm	Another New Song I have another new song on my website. It's called "On a Cloudy Monday", and you can download it here. Let me know what you think either here or on the site! -EE (Comment on this)
Monday, November 5th, 2007
7:52 pm	I wrote a song. It's at my website, if you haven't seen it yet. It's called "Arrowsmash", and it's a silly little song about playing Dance Dance Revolution and games like it. Also check out this page about my upcoming album. -EE (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
8:35 pm	I have a website. That's right. Not a MySpace (Though I have one of those), not a FaceBook page...an actual, honest-to-goodness, dot-com-level website. In the future, I'll probably be posting any updates I have in my life to there, so make sure you bookmark it! Although the main page of the site looks like another blog, the reason I invested in it was because lately I've been getting back into writing music in a serious way. At some point, I actually want to record and release an album, and so I got the website to get a bit more of a professional image surrounding it (Even if the main site is the blog). MySpace pages are nice and all, but I think having the site will make me stand out a bit. So yeah. Check it out. Download all my music and thrill at its awful production. Leave some comments on the entries that are there if you feel so inclined. Give my new e-mail address (Which you can click on the sidebar of the site) a workout. And just generally keep watching it, as I'll be updating it more frequently than I have this Journal (Which isn't exactly difficult). -EE (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
12:51 pm	On post-college Adulthood Recently I made a payment on my school loans, bringing the amount I owe down to roughly $11,500 USD which, with the state of the dollar today, is roughly 3 units of any other currency. The recent woeful performance of the US dollar in the world market is not my primary concern, however. Rather, I've been thinking about the mindset that society takes where there is this immense pressure to follow a very narrow track in life--that is, go to school, go to college, get the hell out of your parents' house as soon as possible. While I admit I've done almost no formal research on the matter, but it's my understanding that the last part of this path in particular is a rather recent--and perhaps United States-centric--social construct. It's also not a construct that I can see surviving for very long if things keep up the way they are. The housing market bubble has popped, homes are getting foreclosed on left and right...to say nothing about how quickly the cost of college is rising. College is, many would tell you, essential if you want to "make something of yourself". Yet fewer and fewer people can reasonably afford it--the cost continuing to rise at something like three or four times the rate of inflation. One of my former bosses remarked that college is effectively like a second mortgage nowadays, and while you can nitpick the word choice of that sentence (Since, for most people, college comes first, I think it would technically be more accurate to say that the mortgage is like a second college debt), the point--that most will be paying off their school loans for many years after the fact--is definitely correct. In my own case, I've been out of school for about a year and a half, with close to a year of that spent working at a job that actually pays pretty well. In that time, I've thrown basically every dollar I have toward paying off my college debt, intentionally forgoing looking for my own place to live, a better car, etc. to do so--my line being "I'll accept being thought of as a 'loser' (And it is this attitude that I think will become less and less prevalent as time passes and college costs become more and more of a burden) for the next two years if the payoff is I'm not a slave to my debts for the next twenty.". And I still owe more than ten thousand dollars! My point boils down to this: How can anyone possibly live up to the expectations of US-ian society while living anything other than paycheck-to-paycheck, paying off insane amounts of money to various lending agencies for the rest of their lives? Something has to give. -EE (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
10:41 pm	I continue to live. Hooray! I recently wrote some more lyrics, which you can see here. And so this isn't just a redirection post, welcome to 2006. Or the 1980s. Or something. -EE (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 6th, 2007
10:11 pm	A video for you gamer geeks out there Take some archive Nazi footage. Add in the first minute-twenty or so of Nobuo Uematsu's "One Winged Angel". What's the result? Entirely too perfect. -EE (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
9:49 pm	I can has lyrics Yeah. I wrote some stuff here. Let's see. Other than that, not a lot has been going on here really. Still alive, still have a job, still working on getting myself the heck out of my college debt. -EE (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
11:41 am	Okay, so.... We've got India, China, France....wait, no, not right. So anyway, I'm still alive, as always. Presumably, this is preferable to being dead, and who am I to argue? So I guess mega-conglomerate MTV Networks has their own Youtube type of site called ifilm. As some of you probably know, one of my geekish hobbies is performing speed runs of various video games, more specifically NES games. So I'm checking the SDA forums and notice I have a new private message. Apparently my Battletoads run got the attention of ifilm and they wanted to use it on the site, so I said "ok". You can see the young speedrunning section of that site here. I don't necessarily expect the run or myself to get more publicity as a result of this--presumably, SDA is still the "go-to" site for this sort of thing--but it is pretty cool that something tangentially related to MTV (Regardless of what I think about the current status of the network that started it all) recognized the run, especially given any number of other quality runs (Either on more famous games, or runs where the quality of the play is better than mine) they had to choose from. So that was pretty neat. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
1:29 pm	Hooray for death metal covers of pop songs! What's this? Actual content in one of my updates? Well, sort of. I'm here to plug a UK-based band called Ten Masked Men. They do death metal covers of pop songs. Good stuff, particularly their "Eye of the Tiger" cover where there are brief points where the singer is growling IN KEY with the song. Also, if you don't know, I have a Myspace that you can see here. -EE Current Music: Ten Masked Men- "Eye of the Tiger" (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
12:50 pm	Happy Easter! Regrettably, I will not be attending any death metal concerts this Easter Sunday. So I'm still here, doing the stuff that alive people do. You know how it is. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
11:57 am	I'm still alive! Really! Um, not much going on here really. Still working and all of that. -EE Current Music: PBA Skills Challenge 2005 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 4th, 2007
10:35 pm	Dear Football Media: I extend my regrets that Peyton "Can't Win a Playoff Game Can't Beat the Patriots Will Never Win the Big One Super Bowl MVP" Manning has robbed you of your football stories for the next ~10 years, effectively putting you all out of a job. I wish you all the best in all your future endeavors. -Emptyeye (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
12:46 pm	I'm not here to start no trouble. You know the title of this post is true, because a "lol Pats lose" post was conspicuous by its absence last Sunday night. Anyway, with a week to go until Super Bowl XLI (That's 41 for you non-Roman Centurions out there), I figured I'd let you all feast your eyes on what may be the ballsiest display by a football team ever (Sorry for the EBaumsworld link, but it's about the only one on the 'Net that Evil Copyright Raps haven't yet gone after). Yeah, you're saying to yourself, "What's so ballsy about this? The '85 Bears went 15-1 and won the Super Bowl!" True enough, but that all came AFTER they recorded this song. Making a song and video called the "Super Bowl Shuffle" before you've won anything that season takes guts. (It should be noted that this wasn't entirely showboating/ego-stroking on the part of The Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew. The proceeds from sales of the song and video went to a Chicago area charity, which is pretty cool) -EE (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
9:25 pm	I find this highly amusing. HowManyOfMe.com There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name? Yeah. (EDIT: What makes this funny is the fact that I did it using my REAL NAME. And, you know, that I live in the US.) -EE (2 Comments |Comment on this)