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Work & Music...
So, I've been pretty busy working on music lately. Got myself to age 30, which was a surprise. I have, in the past 6 months, put together 2 EPs, an LP, & am almost done a entire cover of one of my favorite albums of all time. I had a friend that put together a cover album on his 30th birthday, so I guess this is a tribute to him. It's odd how people can make such an impact upon you.
Anyway, I am trimming down the stuff here on my site. Going to make it simpler, as I don't use it much & think it would be best suited to use if it was pretty much just a blog again.
Took me long enough to come around to that decision, right?
Anyhow, that's all I've got for now.
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Hello... hello again.
Well, I've been playing with my new iPad for several weeks, and I have found it to be far more useful than I expected. I am using it in place if my MacBook quite a bit for things like light web browsing & taking notes. I am writing this post on it right now, using a bluetooth keyboard that I got last night. I have actually found myself able to touch-type on the device quite well though, so I really just got the keyboard as a luxury. It's also nice to be able to read books & comics on my iPad, much easier than reading on a laptop. Anyway, all I've done is gush about the iPad this post, which feels quite juvenile.
I interviewed a cool person at work last week. Her name is Catherine & she starts Monday. She is a gamer-geek at heart so i think she'll fit quite well into our little group, at least on a personal level. She'll probably hate me because I am an evil task master in terms of web-junk. She has pink hair though, & that's always a ++.
I am still fine tweaking this website, believe it or not. Adding & subtracting modules here & there to get just the right usability for myself. I don't need many fancy items, but I would like the site to look nice, function nice & still fit my asthetic.
I think it is working well.
I finished the NIN Remix CD I was working on. It came out well & fit into my concept parameters. Good for me.
Going to see the Melvins & ISIS in June. Yay. Hopefully going to see The Protomen at the end of the month.
Okay, well, I'm done for now.
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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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