Aren't We All A Little Bit "Iron Man?"

WARNING: Super-hero movies should not be viewed while under the influence of the boredom from unemployment.

This isn't something that I would have considered writing were it not for my friend, Wendy, who encouraged me to post this blog. It's about the process of sound editing, or in this case, music editing. On the surface it can be a boring andrepetitivejob, but when you scratch just a little below that surface, the tediousness really shines through. And yet... I must enjoy something about doing it.

This summer after seeing the movie Iron Man, I attained a clarity that'snormallyreserved for vision quests or near death experiences. In this case it was probably the combination of action movie adrenaline,unemploymentboredom and movie-snack sugar. I felt as if I was channeling Tony Stark (for the less geeky of you, that would be the character played by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie.) I knew what I had to do. I would convert the garage into a lab and fashion myself one of those fancy iron suits so that I could fly around and

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