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result of last night's stream!

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So dope!

Sword girl, 18 x 24 acrylic paint and marker on paper

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10 Years of DJing

In the immortal words of Hilary Duff: "Let's go back... back to the beginning..."

10 years ago today, I began my DJ project Blitz Comet and released my first DJ Mix - Summertime Vol. 1. It was the summer of 2013. I had just finished Middle School and what I thought at the time was the worst school year of my life. Though I was nervous about starting High School, nothing made me happier than the school year and Middle School being over and I was looking forward to kicking back and taking a much-needed rest. And kicked back I did.

I spent a chunk of that summer watching glued to Cartoon Network and Disney XD watching Regular Show, Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls, hanging out with my friends in the scorching Pennsylvania heat, writing on the blog I had at the time, figuring out Tumblr, and after asking for it for some time, my sister finally gave me her old iPod Touch and from there I set up profiles on Instagram and Vine (remember that?) and started filling it up with music.

Like all kids, I got bored at points during the summer and while downloading songs for my new iPod, I also got some blank CDs my Dad had in his office and started making mix CDs (remember those?) and I'd play on our CD Changer that was practically never touched in our family room. From there, I stumbled upon a site called Mixtaping.fm (which sadly no longer exists) and started making mixtapes there. I was having a lot of fun with it and decided that I wanted to turn the mixtapes I was making into actual DJ Mixes. I didn't know anything about how to make them, so I went on YouTube and watched a tutorial on how to make mixes on Audacity, which I knew how to use. Shortly afterward, I made my first official DJ Mix, consisting of 7 songs I was heavily listening to at the time. Blitz Comet Presents Summertime Vol. 1 shortly after dropped on Mixtaping.FM and Mixcloud, and the rest is history.

Since then, I've worked on my mixing skills, learned how to use actual DJ software, and have released almost 50 mixes, a handful of mashups, and co-produced some tracks. And there's still more to be done! I want to thank everyone who's been listening and supporting the past decade. Two years ago, I released a remixed and rearranged version of the mix titled Summertime '13, which is available to listen to on SoundCloud and Mixcloud. If you have a half-hour to kill today and are in the mood to listen to some early 2010's EDM, give it a listen! And while I never made another volume of Summertime and it's been a pretty quiet year for Blitz Comet thus far, that may change come this weekend...

TRACKLIST:

1. Kill Paris - Slap Me (Candyland Remix)

2. Skrillex & Damian Marley - Make It Bun Dem

3. Krewella - Alive

4. Adventure Club - Retro City

5. Sirah - Blew Your Mind

6. Wolfgang Gartner - Overdose ft. Medina

7. David Guetta - Play Hard ft. Ne-Yo & Akon

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Love this cover!

Superman #6 cover by Jamal Campbell

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Roots Rock Reggae.

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da south.

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Love this!

Painter space

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DOOM @cyphart

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May The 4th Be With You!

Hope y'all had a great Star Wars day! May the 4th be with you!

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HBO MAX vs. The WB

In the midst of the continued madness in the dismantling of HBO Max (this week, 250 Looney Tunes shorts and the last three seasons of The Flintstones were removed from the service, not because of a technical glitch as initially reported, but because Warner Bros Discovery chose not to renew the streaming licenses. How Warner failed to renew LOONEY TUNES is beyond me and another post for another time), something crossed my mind recently after coming across an article about how Warner Bros Discovery is still trying to figure out what to call their upcoming streaming service that merges HBO Max with Discovery+.

This has more to do with the old regime at Warner when they initially launched the service but nonetheless: Warner missed a huge opportunity to brand-wise revive The WB and call HBO Max that. It's short, snappy, nostalgic, and name-wise, it's a better representation of Warner's vast catalog rather than making HBO the focal/selling point of the service.

Making HBO the primary selling point of the service was never a good idea and is definitely why the service got off to such a slow start upon launch. Why?

HBO is a premium channel that most people don't/didn't have. Hence why Game of Thrones is the most pirated show of all time.

The pricing of the service at launch ($14.99, the most expensive service on the market at the time) definitely reflects the premium nature of HBO. If you already can't/couldn't afford HBO the channel, what's the point of getting its expensive streaming service?

Meanwhile, The WB was a channel everyone had, with tons of iconic shows. And don't even get me started on how awesome Kid's WB was. Regardless, even with the steep initial price point, more people would've gravitated toward the service upon launch if they had revied The WB branding.

The new regime is reportedly closing in on calling the new combined service simply "Max" (which is a terrible name), but if you ask me, it's not too late for them to revive The WB...

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Love this!

Artwork by Evgeny Yurichev

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*Puts on "Decode" by Paramore*

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Can't wait for Across The Spider-Verse!

Spider-Man! By Tom Reilly

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Hello Peter.

HELLO PETER