uFeature: BLAST! Tiger Tunes 2008

Squeezing in barely for one more uFeature for the weekend, is the OBU Band Tiger Tunes performance. wow. If the band was allowed to win the competition, there would have been NO COMPETITION. I was thrilled. (oh my) The band performed their BLAST! version of Michael Jackson's Thriller. It knocked my socks off, and right into the isle. A few baritones at Forte is about all it takes to get me excited. If you don't look at any of the other uFeatures from this weekend, look at this one. They really took the show. I only wish that I had done a better recording job. This fun-run-and-gun style that I've developed has it's bonuses, but it also has major drawbacks. Hopefully it got the job done well enough for you to get a glimpse at this impressive performance of... THRILLER!

uFeature: 2008 OBU Halftime Show

Ouachita Baptist's marching band is good. Real good. The OBU Band played three songs, 2 "Blood, Sweat & Tears" and one "Michael Jackson". All three were toe-tapping classics, which got the crowd really into their show. I don't care if my opinions are a little skewed or not, that is one SLICK band they've got over there. They're halftime show this year is an awesome display of one reason why I love them so much. More than anything else, the main thing I like to see in a halftime show is entertainment. The visiting band had an impressive, near-DCI level show. However, their music consisted of crazy spanish marches and junk that nobody had ever heard of. I'd take a toe-tappin' show over a Spanish DCI show just about any day. Especially since I happen to be familiar with one of their Thriller dancer girls... Maybe I'm biased, do I care? no.

uFeature: OBU Tiger Tunes 2008 Winners

Tiger Tunes was this weekend, over at OBU. You can read more about that in my OBU Homecoming Weekend post. The winners this year were the Kappa Chi men, performing as "Coal Miners". I shot the show, in typical CameronMagee fun-run-and-gun fashion. What I mean is, this is not exactly HD that we're dealing with here. I try and keep my Canon SD750 Point-and-Shoot on my hip most of the time, and so this got shot from our seats in the balcony, handheld. enjoy!

my YouTube Channel


YouTube
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YouTube allows anyone to build a "Channel" of their own, on YouTube.com. As soon as you upload your first video, they ask you to build one. They even give you a slick website name of your own, like http://www.YouTube.com/CameronMagee. Not too shabby in my opinion, their website+myname. Sometimes a free URL means it's going to be something like... http://www.YouTube.com/users/nopro/10-/%20/Cameron%20-Magee/479830/389&^$99LL/CameronMagee. So, I'm very grateful that they gave me a pretty good one.

You can go on there and see every video I've ever uploaded to YouTube, right from that page. I also posted a link to it on my personal website, www.CameronMagee.com.

I've been uploading like crazy this weekend, so there is a lot of new material. Every time I upload a video I will do a specific blog post for that video, so there will be a flood of those on here for the next few days. enjoy!

OBU Homecoming Weekend


my Elliott Family
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The Elliott's came to town this weekend. It was nice to have some fresh faces here in town. The whole clan dropped in, Wyley, Stephanie, Aaryn, Mimi & O'Daddy. They woke up at the kerr-RACK of dawn on Saturday morning, and made the 4-hour trip from the (479) down to the (870).

The seven of us had a blast. This weekend was OBU Homecoming, like I had mentioned, so there was not a dull moment. As soooooon as they got here on Saturday afternoon, it was kick-off time. Straight to the game. Aubrey (and the rest of the Ouachita Band) had a GREAT halftime show, and the football team won the game. Final score was... 17-30, Ouachita (I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Elliott).

After the game we all loaded up and went to the Fish Net. Pretty good. The location was a little sketchy looking, from the outside, but the inside was great.

I don't know what it was about the outside that bothered me, I guess it just looked fishy.

I promise I'll never use that joke again.

Then we went to Tiger Tunes. Holy cow. I was not prepared for that, at all. OBU's Tiger Tunes program is a little difficult to explain, you kind of need to see it in person, but here's the gist...

Think massive talent show. Where each act is a social club. No fraternities or sororities over there, they stick with the term "social club". Each act is about 6mins of solid entertainment. Singing, dancing, and musical numbers rule the program. But, some random talents such as moonwalking and the worm are all proudly exhibited, which is what really separates the uniqueness of the acts from each other.

The band had an act, even though they are not considered a social club. They were the best act, too. They performed Michael Jackson's Thriller. They also perform Thriller as part of their halftime show, but this performance was a show of it's own.


Aubrey: the Zombie
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The costumes these band members cranked out were LEGIT.

The first time I saw Aubrey in her Thriller costume I flipped. I don't know any better way to describe it. Her costume was just Off The Wall. Now, I don't Wanna Be Starting Something, but she's usually a Pretty Young Thing. But, that thing was so scary, The Way it Made Me Feel, just plain Rocked My World.

They just skipped town a few hours ago, and this is the first time I've really gotten to sit and relax at the ole' Powerbook in a few days. I'll try and get some more material up from this weekend. I've gotta go take out the trash. I love dorm life.