Wheeeeeee
Oki doki, so I am in a really good place right now, which is quite odd to me. Yay.
I am working on a concept remix CD of a bunch of Nine Inch Nails songs. Most of them are from year zero, but a few from the slip and ghosts I-IV are sneaking in there too. The concept of the CD is "peeling away the layers to find that there is nothing"... sorta. I thought it might be interesting to try to re-tell "The Downward Spiral" using different songs. So, that's where I'm at. The two mixes I like most thus far are the [Opal] mix of Discipline, which was heavily influenced by the mix of Head Like a Hole by the same name, & the [My absence of faith] remix of The Good Soldier.
I was making a really shitty mix of The Good Soldier, & it was try number 3 on this particular song... I just really wanted it as filler. I was trying to create a drum pattern to suit the lack of creativity on my part that i had before me, & gave the original drums a listen. Only the drums... And I got to the last 4 bars of the song, & was struck by the Tom/Snare combo... It was the same beat as closer... So, noticing that the guitar part of The Good Soldier is the "Downward Spiral Motif" I ran with it... I am quite pleased with the results.
So, I have uploaded it for your listening pleasure...
Oh, & a quick hi to Kathrine, who emailed me tonight to complement me. Hi!
This probably isn't the start of me posting a great deal again, as I have no time for anything anymore, but, thanks for stopping in.
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[Edit: Yeah, I have done a few upgrades & tweaks to the website. I like this look a little better.]
So all my plans for the evening fell through...
I have been trying to come up with something to blog about all day, and it just wasn't happening, so i decided that i would open up a new post and start typing... We'll see what happens.
I need a new hard drive for the laptop, as this one is constantly full. I suppose having 90GB of music may not be helping matters, but i love me my music.
There is nothing on TV tonight? Is anyone else watching anything exciting? I am up for anything right now... Boredom persists.
I am taking my sweet fucking time with the Mr. Meeble remix i am working on, mostly due to the websites that are dominating my life. I know it is personal preference, but i fucking HATE flash with a passion. I mean, nice little gadgets like audio players are nice, but full sites in flash for flash's sake are tedious. Sometimes i like just getting the information i am looking for and am completely disinterested in seeing your dancing fucking panda. I suppose this explains my take on building websites, sorry if my simplicity isn't flashy enough to hold the attention of most twelve year old children with ADHD.
I think i am going to uninstall the video editing suite on my laptop, and instead install it on my other Mac. It is taking up far too much space for something i am not at all using. We all know I need the space for making verbose remixes of songs that no one will listen to!
It is weird to be trolling IMDB and Twitter all day, i feel like i somehow tripped and landed in my life from 5 years ago. I was listening to an old radio show of mine last night, and realized that it was from May 2006. Has it really been that long? That kinda blew my mind. I think i need to breathe new life into Shattered Reality Radio, but i am completely uncertain as to how i should go about doing it. I love doing live broadcasts, with a chatroom and people listening, but i have so little time anymore to do it, and no one is around anymore to listen. If i had some people that were into it, i would make it happen. I miss DJing. I sent a txt to Leanne last night about this very topic, and i think i just need to find a club where i can DJ. Yeah, i see that happening.
I am conflicted about people following me on Twitter. I don't mind the real, actual people following me, but random people named Mary that only post "Please follow me" in their twitter give me pause. Why are they even following me...? I am assuming it is an attempt to get me to follow them, but to what end? Do they then re-sell the twitter account to someone with some sort of advertising message to send...? And if that is the case, do not the followers of that account disappear after all the account does is start to spam adverts that no one wants to read? I think i am spending too much time analyzing this trend.
I am now browsing through Netflix for something to instantly watch this evening. Not really finding anything but Stand-up to watch. I really wanted to watch a movie... Netflix is recommending i watch Clash of the Titans. I should shoot myself for even contemplating it. I love my mythology, but... no, can not do that to myself this evening. Oh, here we go, another recommended gem: The Postman. I might just do it at this point... I am just that bored.
I wish i had someone to talk to, it would make the evening manageable.
Okay, this post is descending into a place i certainly want it not to go... So i am off.
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Hi there.
So, as you can tell, if you've been paying attention, i have updated the color scheme a little bit so it would fit in line with the old-school colors of the site. I am so fucking psyched that it looks this goooood. (I know, i am weird, but i dig the feel).
I am listening to Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains. It is no Death From Above 1979, but what is? I am really into it though, so thanks for putting out a nice little album Sebastien. (I say that like he'll come by and read the blog... ha)
Worked on DOT6 and the RCHC sites today & tonight. The DOT6 site is effing horrible. Someone destroyed their SQL DBs something fierce, so i am playing a lop-sided tug-o-war with them to get the upgrade from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 to work as i'd like. However, the RCHC site is much sexier, and cooperative. For that i am excited.
Fucking Crashed Castles with Alex, Jeff, & Dan tonight. That was awe inspiring hilarity. It must happen again.
Have to get Corey to update his blog here. I don't know why i care so much, but i do.
Okay, sleep time. Lots to do tomorrow, and i get to see Leanne. Let us hope my brain doesn't explode along the way.
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No Blog Post Tonight?
What a jip! How could i not post a blog tonight...? The nerve of me!
Worked a bunch on Woburnite.com this evening, and it was fantastic. Working hard on getting some ideas together to move things in a fast and happy direction.
I am going to re-implement search tomorrow, as i can't figure out WTF is making cron throw temper tantrums. But apparently everything i have tried is wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.
I should be working more on the Regional Center's website tomorrow, as well as delving a little bit into Keith's website. Yay custom hot-rods. I need to focus a bit on the Keith site, as he is giving me a nice car.
In other news: David thinks the FBI is watching my website. So i had better be careful.
So yeah, search will be back, stronger, better, faster, harder.
Oh, and new remixes might be in your future. Thanks to the awesomeness of Mr. Meeble.
Alright, i am off, the dance floor calls...
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I'm feeling it...
So i think i like the stuff i have added to the site. It makes me feel as though i can broadcast myself in as many ways as possible. Now if i could only get people to visit the site! (I am kidding, mostly.)
Scott, Alex & I Crashed Castles almost all the way tonight. It was fun, and funny. I am going to need to do that more often.
I just realized how tired i am, so i think i am going to cut this blog post short, and head to bed. I hope everyone enjoyed the video i had up all day...
Hopefully we'll be collaborating soon with an artist i know from Trig.com/MySpace. Fingers crossed.
Goodnight,
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*Ding!*
Well, first off, search is down. It was fucking with my cron jobs, so it had to bite the bullet. I am looking for another solution, until then, this is what we've got.
I went on a social networking rampage today. Not sure exactly what i am going to do with all of the services, but they may come in useful for something.
I just messaged an old acquaintance on MySpace, it would be nice if she messaged me back and wanted to actually talk. I am also anxiously awaiting news of Act II by The Protomen, because they are awesome, and hopefully will save the world.
You can see our iLike song playlist over to the right now... It doesn't really get us anything, but listen if you'd like. I am also working on getting together an iPhone app, because i am a loser, and i wanted another way to get people's attention.
I have somehow become obsessed with Red Knight from Castle Crashers. He is just so cool.
Somehow i am getting followers on twitter. I am not actively looking for them, but, there they are.
I need a distraction, and someone to talk to, but i don't have either right now. If anyone is bored, drop me a line?
I am going to go make a sandwich, and take some advil, and try to get away from the world.
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Short update.
I just wanted to bump the last post from the front page, so i am posting again with site stuff. I am going to be updating our trig.com player soon, so there will be a new selection of stuff there. Yay.
From what i can tell, the XML Sitemap is working now, yay. I just hope i don't need to run the populater snippet every time i want to update it.
I am going to work on Woburnite.com for a few hours, tweak stuff out a bit and run it by Fel to see if he likes the results.
Going to Alex's again tonight... I am going usurp control of the night from it's master and make all of the plebeians suffer! hehe
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I'm not the...
kiss, a simple kiss
you tease me with, your crimson lips
your laughter shows me where i've gone astray
So i woke this morning to my mother crying because she can't get a new car, and no one in the rest of the family will help her. They don't understand the way her life is... and all i can do is sit here and try to help the best i can.
But honestly, i am so tired, and so lonely, and i need to do things for me. Not to sound selfish, and really, if you don't know me, this will... but when will someone else do things for me?
A scenario was presented before me the other day, and it was honestly the best thing i could ever dream of, but all it was was an idle thought, something that will never come to fruition, and that kills me inside. I want to be able to surrender to what is, and what is to be. I want to live and let live. But why is it that in all of this, i am last? Why can't my happiness be as important to me as everyone else's? Why can't my happiness be as important to anyone, as everyone else's?
This will make all of you twelve steppers laugh, at least those of you that get it... I am listening to "Thirteenth Step" by A Perfect Circle. It should be helping, but it isn't.
God damn me. I am not asking for that much, i never would do that. I say these words now like it will help, like she will read them and change her mind... She won't even read this, so fuck it. Honestly, i am so glad she is happy. What should i even do? I am never going to be happy with things as they are.
No one knows how badly i want to just get fucked up and never return. Never once have i ever given in to that, but i need to find a way to change how i feel. I need to find a way to make it through or to end it quickly.
I begged for help in a txt to her earlier. The funny thing is, her phone is off for the weekend, so she can't hear me. How fucking lame am i? I am reaching out in all directions hoping someone will care. You know, i don't think anyone ever will again, if they ever did. The thing is, i know she cares. I know it... and that makes me feel good... Yet, come the end of the day, i want the little things that make me feel better and i don't care how that effects anyone else. I want what i want for me and i couldn't care less about anything else right now.
A friend of mine is in the hospital. I won't talk about it, but my thoughts are with him.
I don't really have a good resolution for this post, because i don't think anything will get any better... so i am just going to go.
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Sitting in the mourning sun...
I have landed at Alex's place in Needham. Just sorta sitting around so i decided i would update. Having some trouble with my Sitemap.xml, though i am not really sure why. Maybe i am not having as much trouble as i think i am. We'll wait and see Google in about 24 hours when the site drops off because Googlebot can't figure out what the fuck is going on.
I took a new picture of myself. For everyone that doesn't know, which i suppose is everyone that hasn't seen me lately, Leanne shaved my head. Isn't that fun? 15 years of my life all gone.
Alex & Heather have just returned from Waltham. I am sure we'll get started soon.
I am still mulling through what to do with the ARCHIVE of past bloggings. Trying to design a view to organize everything, but the import module is only grabbing 25 of the posts. Argh.
And i am also grumpy because i can't get Doom to run on my phone. I don't have time to figure it out now, so i won't.
Oh, i got the remix done. It isn't very good, but i am sick of fucking with it. So...
The picture currently to the right is of Jeff. He is Alex's brother. He will not lick my third nipple.
Scott & I got a pizza for dinner. It is a greek pizza with Peppers, Onion, Mushroom, Pepperoni, & Sausage. Also, extra cheese.
Okay, time for me to go eat now...
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Fuck if i know.
I am trying to improve navigation of the site some. I have gotten the archive of the old brokensanity.net up and running, so i will link to the archive somewhere. A lot of it is uninteresting out of context, as i don't even know what i was talking about at times, but... it is a giant section of my life, so it is here.
Had an interaction with a pretty good artist today. Mr. Meeble. Sounds like Tweaker to me, so i diggit. I am going to try to remix one of their songs for you, we'll see how that turns out.
Today's song is "Chip Away" by Jane's Addiction. This remix sounds a LOT like us, just with Perry Farrell on vocals, which is cool to me.
Ended up playing Castle Crashers with Alex for a chunk of the evening last night. Alex really appreciates my level 26 Red Guy. He has power-overwhelming.
I am hoping that some money comes in soon from a project i am working on. For those of you that are local, the site is heimlichs.com. Go there for all of your gardening needs. (I know, i know... it isn't done yet... but it will be!)
I am thinking about an XML Sitemap. Google spiders be damned!
I have to make Woburnite.com as fancy as this site. I really enjoy the features i have added here at brokensanity.com.
I'll blog a bit later tonight from Alex's, we shall be geeking out.
Wow, link-heavy post today.
'til later,
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