(part two)


Comment or shoot as an email that says, "Enter {magazine/blog name/website} into the contest please!" After four of five groups do that, we'll set up a poll with the best entries. Then it's up to YOUR readers to nab you a sweet advertising space!

Notes:
-You will make the advertisement(200x200 px). If it looks bad or doesn't go with our color scheme, we might change it.
- To be entered into the poll, your blog must be clean, and active. We do not want to promote a dead blog!
- This DOES NOT have to be a class ezine blog. You can choose to promote a personal blog, a store, even Taylor Swift!

(:

<3 Nat

TUESDAY

2:00 am.
I taught my sister how to get into the Taylor Swift Fan Club Presale. My sister, Noreen, is a senior and stayed home during TAKS week. She would be able to purchase the tickets for me.

9:59 am.
I was nervous.

12:30 am.
I finally got my phone back. I turned it on. I had a text from Noreen: "i got tickets"

12:31 am.
"WWWOOOOOOOOAHAHAWLFLQWJKNHQWIPHWINHDQIPWHNI"

12:32 am.
I reply: "Where are the seats?"
She replies: "Arena. Section 40. Row 20"

12:33 am.
This is when I started to run around screaming, "I GOT TAYLOR SWIFT TICKETS, SUCKERRZZZ"




So~~

Anyone else get tickets? Today is the general sale, so everyone can purchase tickets. They went on sale at 10 am though, so you might want to hurry! (:

If you got tickets, post where your  seat is! We can like.. hang... and shtuff.....

...or not..? xD



<3<3<3 naaaaaat

He's an Australian actor, recently seen in "I Am Number Four" and "Flipped".
He's sort of.... amazing (:

Anyways, for those of you who are fans of the "Hunger Games" book series, it's set to come out on the big screen March 23, 2012. When I heard this, I freaked out.

"CALLAN FOR PEETA! CALLAN FOR PEETA! CALLAN FOR PEETA!"
Those were the only words I could say for the following weeks. Imagine my distraught when I found out Josh Hutcherson was playing Peeta. Yes, the boy from "Bridge to Teribithia". Here's a nice picture of him.


Oh... wait a second.. WHY IS HE PLAYING PEETA?! HE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE PEETA. PEETA IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE THIS:


Blonde hair, pointed face, the whole shebang. The world went crazy. Fan pages, comment sections of news articles, etc were filled with "OH MY GOODNESS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CASTING DIRECTOR."

Moving on.
They also cast Gale (Katniss's other love interest). Who did they choose for the brown haired, brown eyed hunter that supported his large family since age 12? LIAM FREAKING HENSWORTH FROM "The Last Song" WITH MILEY CYRUS. Am I the only one confused here?!



And Katniss, the main character. Described as "olive skinned", "dark haired", and small/petite. Here's the lovely actor:

Sighh.... I give up. Katniss is a young hunter as well, not one of the more "sexy" tributes from District 2. She's a little girl! And here's what Katniss is supposed to look like:


Just one more thing....
Peeta and Katniss are supposed to be sixteen. SIXTEEN. I have no idea how they're going to pull that off (especially the girl actress, Jennifer). Gale is supposed to be eighteen.

I'm in a little bit of an outrage, though its a tad calmer now (:
The rest of the castings were good: age-appropriate, with correct skin/hair color, and with the acting chops (:

Sorry for the excessive use of images. I felt it'd put a better picture across if you could actually see the actors and the people they are playing.

So-- how do you feel about the casting? Are you as outraged as me? Think the actors can pull it off? Comment! (To comment, click the "** comments" under the title and scroll down).

Thanks guys, and talk to y'all later!
<3 Nat

A few days ago, 4/20 passed - the marijuana day.

Lots of artists talk about marijuana in our music today.

Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Birdman, Snoop Dogg and many other artists have songs including it, or songs all about it.

What are your thoughts about all the talk of it? 

-Fly on the Wall

Explosions in the Sky, a local Austin band, has released its sixth and final album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. Gigging since 1999, the band has evolved their instrumental music since their first album How Strange, Innocence.


With international tours, and the exclusive rights to the Friday Night Lights soundtrack, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care is a great representation of the band. The three electric guitars create beautiful melodies, and Chris Hrasky's drumming brings the solid album together.

--
Quaver

Happy Easter! Jesus defeated death and rose from the grave, giving us a chance to have a relationship with him and spend eternity in heaven (:

Enjoy this skit! It's called the "Everything" skit. It's super powerful.



Happy Day by Tim Hughes

The greatest day in history // Death is beaten, you have rescued me // Sing it out, Jesus is alive

Empty cross and empty grave // Life eternal, you have won the day // Shout it out, Jesus is alive // He's alive

Oh happy day, happy day // You wash my sin away // Oh happy day, happy day // I'll never be the same // Forever I am changed

When I stand in that place// Free at last, meeting face to face // I am Yours, Jesus you are mine

Endless joy and perfect peace // Earthly pain finally will cease // Celebrate, Jesus is alive // Yeah, He's alive



<3 Nat

What is going on with everyone? How's life?

Photo provided by Maniasmias at Blogspot.com

HEY VINYL.


I didn't realize how pissed upset y'all were over our fake counter. Sorry :3
Anyways. I kept the fake counter up because I'm too emotionally attached to it to delete it (SEPARATION ANXIETY FTW), but I put the real counter back on the blog. It's under the fake one xD

SO PLEASE STOP BEING MAD AT ME :o
It's not a contest, tahahahh. Just for daa lulzzz.

Anyways, what y'all did HERE was pretty cool. Mhmmm.

Yeah, so I WE LOVE Y'ALL <3 <3 <3

<3 The AuxCable Team
//Natalie :D

P.S. YOU WON THE ADVERTISING SPACE BY DEFAULT.
kay, byee (:

Hey guys!

For my feature story, we have to post some possible leads. My feature story is about chiptunes. Chiptunes are songs that are made that are primarily composed through video game console soundboards.

Compare and Contrast:
Just over 50 years ago, a computer was first used in the production of music. Since then, computers have become better and better at creating sounds that cannot be replicated by traditional instruments. Now, artists are busting out their Gameboys and creating rave songs with the same chips that have created the famous Mario and Zelda themes.

Descriptive:
An amazing party has begun. Bodies are pressing up against each other on the dance floor as hordes of people jump to the techno beats of the DJ. That DJ doesn't have any fancy equipment though. Alex Luna stands there with nothing but two Gameboys, and the crowd loves it.

Twist:
Music creation has always been expensive. Instruments cost upwards of several hundred dollars and it takes time and dedication to master one. However, people like Alex Luna are making catchy techno music - for as little as $25 - with nothing but a single Gameboy.


--
Quaver

Leads:

Daniel Chen had a wife and two small children. But he still felt empty. Every night after work, he would come home and get a beer from the fridge as his family sadly watched. He was depressed, and he was desperate to find a way out.

Description:
Thousands of eyes are closing. Hands are raised as if pushing through the ceiling. People laugh, cry, and dance. Tonight, nobody cares about how they’re thought of. For them, it’s all about God.

Direct Quote:
“Worship is more about the heart more than the music itself,” said high school sophomore Emily Wong. 


Which lead do you like best? Tell me how to fix and improve them, please! :3


<3 Nat

4:00 PM. The designated time of the meeting. My heart pounds. The interviewee is still offline. The clock slowly ticks, and Father Time grows older. at 4:15, I break out into a cold sweat and quickly prepare to ask an inquisitive email. I close my eyes, composing the message in my head. Not too sad and disappointed, not to angry. I settle on just the right arrangement of words, impossible to draw any tone out.

Oh hey, there's a new email.


"Hey Arnav,
I'm running a tad late and was wondering if you could push this back until five. Prior engagements are preventing me from doing the interview on time, but I will be ready in about an hour. Hope that's okay.
Alex"

I breathe out a huge sigh of relief and go get some food.

IAYD or Alex Luna's new album "Like a Phoenix!"

The first fifteen minutes of waiting for popular Chiptune artist IAYD was terrifying. I was terrified that I had entered the wrong username, or possibly made a type when sending Alex my username.

In the end, we had our interview, and it worked out really well. Alex Luna was incredibly nice and fun to interview.

--
Quaver

1) Descriptive:

The clock was close to tick three in the morning, the deepest hour of the night, but Jessica Martinez didn’t care. She was fatigued after completing hours of homework, but she knew it was the perfect time to spill a few words of pure freestyle and compose a new ear-catching rap.

“They’re honest. I am too tired to put effort into anything. So they are just completely feelings.” She explains as she gives off a chuckle and looks down at her fingers. Jessica began writing her own raps since she was in middle school, and now a junior at LASA high school, she continues to do so.

Every couple of days or weeks a new pack of rhymes and words would hit her at any time of day and Jessica would infatuate herself with them until the wee hours of the morning.

2) Narrative:

A petite girl bobbed her head as the words spilled out of her mouth in complete harmony and style. Jessica Martinez was practicing the verses to the new rap she would be performing at her school’s musical event. As she swayed her hands around in swift motions you could feel the dedication she felt for rapping radiating off of her.

“When you get the rush man, especially with hip hop it’s just this adrenaline. A really empowering feeling.” Jessica says as a smile plays on her lips. Although it would be one of her first times performing her own rap lyrics, Jessica couldn't help but feel secure with herself and her song.

3) Twist?

It was a typical day in the class of physics for Jessica Martinez, a junior at LASA high school. She was writing vigorously in her notebook as the teacher continued to lecture. “And so the ball would move because...”

She had done this millions of times, it was like a craving that couldn’t be ignored. She swiftly moves her pencil across the page as a new verse for her latest rap forms in her head.

“[When I get an idea for a song] I act on it immediately,” Jessica says. “ If I’m flowing then I’m flowing.”

Jessica then re-reads the lyrics she wrote and edits her work until it is seen as perfection in her eyes.

HEY GUYZ. TAYLOR SWIFT IS COMING TO AUSTIN (as you know...) AND TICKETS GO ON SALE APRIL 29TH AT 10 AM. Which happens to be during school...... o.e;;


Anyways. I'm supposed to talk about how my feature story interviews went! Basically, I go to church on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So I pulled my phone out and interviewed people. Most of the people I interviewed was great, but interviewing some of the older people was awkward. Transcribing was pretty easy for me, I'm used to it.

Overall, the interviewing experience was good, except for the awkward people (:

LOVE,
NATATTACK.

What is going on kiddos?

All right, as part of the magazine the Aux Cable Staff is making this year, we are interviewing some pretty legit people. Awesome, right? That's what I thought. Anyway, I decided to interview a really amazing chick who happens to rap some pretty amazing lyrics. Now, I'm not gonna tell you guys this girl's whole story (you're going to be able to read it when the official magazine comes out) but I am going to tell you how it all went down.

Now this chick is pretty awesome, and I was pretty excited to interview her, but you know what I wasn't excited about? Actually doing the work.

You have to come up with questions to ask the person. Then you have to ask them. Then you have to write it down, including everything they said and if you didn't record the interview, you had to hand write it as they spoke. But if you did record it, you had to listen to it and type it up.

Now, this wasn't too bad you guys. It was actually pretty fun. Except for the part where I had to transcribe a forty-something minute interview onto paper.

It's all good though, I got my interview done, met a female rapper, and am one story closer to being able to release the official Aux Cable magazine.

So that is all for now my ducklings.

-Juumbie

Descriptive - By day, Jay Robillard works as an electrician in Austin. As he flips switches and replaces fuses, music runs through his head - from exotic lounge music, to 80’s punk alternative, to pop orchetra.

Descriptive -  Jay Robillard does not know exactly how many records he has in his collection -- but he thinks its around 20,000.

Narrative - KOOP radio was born out of a bet between friends.

Direct Quote - “This is what I want to do for a living,” Jay Robillard said to himself when his parents took them to their radio station as a child and let him watch the DJs. 

-Fly on the Wall

Feature stories take a lot of time.....

You have to come up with an idea relevant to your magazine....

Find someone to interview....

Interview them.....

And BAM! You aren't even 1/16th of the way done!

Transcribing notes from your interview is a tedious task.

Writing the story is a whole other thang (thing).

Have fun.

-Fly on the Wall

-Fly on the Wall

What?! What's that?! Look's like Aux Cable got a makeover! We're proud to show off our new clean layout which gives a nice fresh feeling. We're still tweaking a few things, but it should be completely up and running by the end of this week.

Also....
WE HAVE ADVERTISING SPACE!
Do you want it? I bet you do. Here are the rules:

• Make a little graphic, 200x200, advertising your blog.
• You must be following our blog
• The graphic must be sent to our staff email: auxiliary.cable@gmail.com by APRIL 15.
• Finalists will be chosen by our staff. We will be looking at the quality of the graphic and the content you post on your blog.
• The winner will be chosen by a majority vote from our readers (and yours too if you send them this way *wink wink*)

Have fun!
-Nat Attack and the rest of the Aux Cable Team

Hey guys, round three of album reviews! This time we'll be reviewing Rilo Kiley's fourth album, Under the Blacklight.



This album is very different from the previous albums I have reviewed because there really isn't a set genre that I can classify this under. Rilo Kiley is a four-member outfit that features vocalist Jenny Lewis. Lewis is much more authentic than most modern female artists, as she doesn't use auto tune. Her vocals are pure and sweet, but can become grating after a short period of time.

The backing instruments are great. They have this fantastic jazz/country sound to them,  and the melodies are simple and nice, but easily forgotten.

Overall, I'm not such a huge fan of this genre, but I think it's very interesting and fresh.

Please leave some comments on what albums you'd like to see discussed next week. Also please check out our sister blog vinylezine.blogspot.com for some hilarious footage of the Aux Cable team singing "Friday" by Rebecca Black.

--
Quaver

During my hourly Taylor Swift Google news searches, I came across an article, you can find it here.   Taylor Swift has just added sixteen locations to her already massive tour. One of these happens to be in the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. Tickets are rumored to be around 135 dollars, slightly more expensive than Selene Gomez's 120 dollar tickets to her tour. Tickets don't go on sale until early May, but several enthusiastic fans have already taken to social networking sites to express their excitement. Obviously, the second I heard the news, I ran to China and back in 12 seconds. I'M SO EXCITED :3