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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
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2:53 pm - Keep the Streets Empty
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Fever Ray released a video for my favorite song of theirs.
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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009
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1:49 am
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This week that just ended has been the strangest one of my life ...and wait until I tell you about my life.
current music: James Bernard - Atmospherics
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| Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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5:58 pm - Half a decade of musical naval gazing.
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As of the 26th of October, I've now been tracking my musical listening habits using the voluntary spyware known as last.fm. The charts are below:
Top 20 artists overall, 2004-2009:
1. The Knife (2,812)
2. Biosphere (2,565)
3. L.S.G. (1,066)
4. Johnny Cash (965)
5. Tom Waits (825)
6. Ulrich Schnauss (811)
7. Kyuss (749)
8. Blackfish (712)
9. Klute (645)
10. Aspen (628)
11. Nor Elle (589)
12. Solar Fields (548)
13. Aphex Twin (546)
14. Bullitnuts (544)
15. Mazzy Star (539)
16. Neutron 9000 (538)
17. Peter Benisch (529)
18. Carbon Based Lifeforms (519)
19. Loscil (496)
20. Ugress (488)
Top 20 albums overall, 2004-2009:
1. Knife, The - Deep Cuts (784)
2. Knife, The - Silent Shout (616)
3. Blackfish - Pole Navigation (555)
4. Knife, The - The Knife (520)
5. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (399)
6. Emperor Machine, The - Aimee Tallulah Is Hypnotised (349)
7. Minor Threat - Complete Discography (342)
8. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (338)
9. Solar Fields - Reflective Frequencies (328)
10. Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye (319)
11. Nor Elle - Phantom Of Life (306)
12. Doof - It's About Time (294)
13. Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley (281)
14. Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong's All Time Greatest Hits (274)
15. Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders (269)
16. RMB - Mission Horizon (254)
17. Alamein – Rhetorical Question EP (249)
18. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (239)
19. Galaxy - Science Of Ecstasy (233)
20. Peter Benisch - Soundtrack Saga (223)
current music: See above.
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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7:00 am
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The alternative to taking terrible action is accepting terrible things.
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| Friday, May 8th, 2009
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12:58 pm - Spectrum exploration II.
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When I got home from the Vineyard this past Tuesday, I found the replacement infrared-modified PowerShot G2 waiting for me. The first one was defective and wouldn't zoom properly. I went out on Wednesday afternoon and snapped a bunch of IR shots of the local landscape.
( The longer wavelengths. )
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| Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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12:04 am - Situation.
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I have a lifetime of hell behind me, and a lifelong battle ahead of me. I think I'm okay with that.
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| Monday, April 27th, 2009
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12:12 am - Decker.
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Monday, April 27th, 12:12AM. Sitting in my Subaru on Morse St, Edgartown. "Borrowing" a net connection from a multimillion dollar house. This island is rife with unsecured routers. I started out at the Edgartown Public Library, but its connection was horrible. Stalking and stealing the internets is more fun than the interenets itself. The connection is pretty poor, I'm averaging about 40% packet loss. I did manage to upload five pix to Flickr that I took and processed earlier today. I'm not going to attempt to tag or sort them now, nor am I going to post any of them here. I might follow up later when the Library opens on Tuesday. Until then I must report that the cyberpunk future has been grossly overestimated. Marthas Vineyard air remains wonderful as always. I'm going to sleep like a baby tonight.
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| Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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5:16 pm - First thing we do, let's kill all the accountants.
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*ahem* THE FUCKERS. OH THE FUCKING FUCKERS. I am, uh, extremely ADD. In the last 34 years, I've developed a not insubstantial set of ADD survival skills. I file my taxes months in advance. Today, April 15th, I received a call at 4:20PM (heh) from my tax accountant's secretary, who condescendingly informed me that she was giving me "one last chance" to get my signed forms back to her. I said "What!?!" I looked at the packet I got back from them last week and noted that there were in fact two forms that had small marks in black pen where I needed to sign. There was no letter explaining I had to send these back, nor any marks with a highlighter or those cute arrow stickers my insurance company uses on forms. Also, there was no communication from said accountant previous to this afternoon. Yes, I looked at the paperwork when I opened the packet last week, and I probably should have noticed the marks, but honestly paperwork like this makes me go blank unless there's something screamingly obvious on it. Furthermore, I did sign two articles when I was at the accountant's office last month. I had some additional issues this year (mumble "numbers not final" mumble) that necessitated additional signatures, apparently.
So this afternoon, at 4:30, I had to frantically find a place with a fax machine. The postage shop I've favored for years went out of business last summer, and my DVD rental store owning friend no longer has a fax machine. Fortunately, a new postage store has moved in to the old place's location. They're called "Goin' Postal" appropriately enough. Luckily for me, the store was dead and it took less than 10 minutes to fax the documents, get a transmission confirmation and receipt. Disaster averted.
When I get back from Martha's Vineyard next month I am finding a new fucking tax accountant.
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| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
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1:44 pm - Teabagging, Part Deaux.
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( Serious political discourse. )
MSNBC is run by a bunch of 14 year old boys. This works well as I haven't matured much in the last 20 or so years. Again, I am frustrated by the incompatibility between MSNBC's video embed code and LJ's HTML parser.
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| Friday, April 10th, 2009
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7:33 pm - On Teabagging.
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| Sunday, April 5th, 2009
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7:00 pm - Spectrum exploration.
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I have temporarily acquired a digital camera that's been modified to for infrared photography. Unfortunately, it's defective and is going back to the seller tomorrow. I hope to have a replacement by the end of next week.
( IR )
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| Friday, March 20th, 2009
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1:28 am - When the weather gets warmer...
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| Thursday, March 12th, 2009
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6:03 pm - I feel hip, cool and connected.
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I am now on Twitter. Stop snickering. I don't have a mobile device paired to it. I don't even own a mobile device that can pair to it. Okay, maybe I can update it by text message, but I don't foresee doing that with my Nokia 6133 ...ever. The reason signed up for this popular, but much-maligned service is so I can keep up with Rachel Maddow's musings and see what DK is up to. I haven't a clue what I will post. To be honest, I've always been more a woofer than a tweeter. As ADD as I am, I find myself a bit limited by 140 characters.
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| Friday, March 6th, 2009
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8:18 pm - Leave Limbaugh Alone!
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| Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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6:13 pm - Left Behind, Socialism Ahead.
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| Thursday, February 26th, 2009
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5:18 am - Saturnine released.
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Almost five years in the making the DJ mix project from hell is finally done. I started it not long after I began doing lights in some of the local nightclubs. I have worked on it off and on (more "off" than "on" to be honest) since the spring of 2004. The first few years were just me, a pair of CDJs and a mixer. I even went so far as to lug the Borg Cube and a CD recorder to Marthas' Vineyard (where that pic was taken, actually) and attempt to record it there. Sadly, that CDR turned out to be unreadable. Sometime in 2007, I began working in the studio with Ricardo, using Ableton Live to construct the mix. We worked on it with reasonable regularity ...until Ricardo got involved in a particularly tempestuous relationship. *ahem* resuming in 2008, we got a lot done in pretty short order. Ricardo visited Hawaii and decided to move there (he's scheduled to leave at the end of May) but we managed to finish the mix just before New Years. I met a mastering engineer on a headphone snob site I frequent, and he offered to master my mix for a very reasonable rate. There were a few other delays, including my Windows desktop dying (I just resurrected it this week, solely for the purpose of working on this mix.)
I am not going to be publishing a tracklisting, but for amusement's sake here's a list of the countries of origin for tracks featured in this mix:
UK: 6
Germany: 5
US: 3
Canada: 2
Italy: 1
Greece: 1
Sweden: 1
Netherlands: 1
In order that's: US / UK / DE / UK / DE / DE / UK / IT / UK / US / DE / UK / CA / GR / CA / UK / SE / NL / US / DE
The musical theme is about what one would expect having ever listened to my radio show in the last seven or so years, or heard any of the opening downtempo sets I've played locally (which isn't that many, to be fair.) The general idea is isolation, loneliness and dark melancholy. It does a get bit more cheerful at the end.
Track selection and arrangement are mine, but others are due credit as well:
Engineered by Ricardo @ Dub LR studios.
Mastered by Luis Flores at Fire Phoenix Audio.
Thanks to: josephin, dikonstrukt, libcrypt, BioweaponTPF, and of course EMA.
Download links are below:
LAME V2 mp3. Mirror. (104MB)
LAME V0 mp3, Mirror. (130MB)
iTunes AAC. Mirror. (132MB)
Both hosts are quite fast, but the mirror server is sitting on an underused 100Mbit connection. I suggest trying it first.
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| Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
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12:52 am - Disadvantaged technology.
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Yesterday I dug out my film body and walked around in the snow and shot twelve frames on the roll of ISO 400 B&W film that's been languishing in the camera since the middle of December. 11 frames were done with my 17-40mm superwide zoom and one with my manual focus 135mm F/2.8 Orestor.
I cleaned the snow off my car just as it was getting dark and went out and bought a replacement bulb for the wannabe lava lamp my friend knocked over when he was drunk. Fortunately, the bulb wasn't terribly exotic or expensive ($6 for two). I came home, called Ricardo to confirm that he'd be home around 11:00PM. Drove to NoHo, picked up my PC and helped Ricardo pick out a digital camera (Canon SD1100 IS Elph for $150-ish). Also gave Ricky a mastered copy of the Saturnine mix. Drove back home and concluded I was too tired to set up the PC.
Today I ran a bunch of errands including picking up my two bits of McIntosh tube kit from the repair shop (pictures Real Soon Now). I managed to get home and unload them in time to grab my camera and get a few shots of the fleeting sunset. When I returned home, iscovered that the refurb'd PSU I got from PC Power & Cooling as replacement for my dead unit is also dead. Or more to the point, it's now dead. It worked yesterday at Ricardo's house. I re-installed my old 420W supply. After two effing hours spent futzing with the IDE cables, jumpers, power connectors and bios settings, I had a machine that would boot from CD and recognize the new system drive. It took the Windows installer for-fricken-ever to format the system drive, but now it's done. It kept on doing [God knows what] and eventually rebooted. Now it wants to boot from CD, but cannot for some reason. I think I'm done fucking with it for the night.
( Large pictures below )
current mood: still need a photography icon
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| Saturday, February 21st, 2009
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6:43 pm - Interim.
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I've got a long-ish post about photography and slide film brewing, but it's not done yet, so you'll just have to wait. At the moment, I'm downloading the last part of the mastered version of the DJ mix that I started almost five years ago. I have to inspect the contents, determine what, if any, changes need to be made, and then distill it into a couple different formats.
LAME V2 mp3: for the MySpace masses
LAME V0 mp3: for the more discerning lossy crowd
AAC VBR - for the Mac snobs
FLAC - for the headphone snobs
I will also be burning a handful of CD audio copies for my luddite friends and family members.
All of this is going to take some time. To really produce the mp3s, FLACs and m4as the way I want, I need a PC running Windows (I thusfar have refused to soil my Macintop with any MS products.) Fortunately, Ricardo thinks my injured desktop machine is quite salvageable. As much as I don't relish continuing to have a Windows machine, it is handy to have one, for several reasons: foobar2000 and Exact Audio Copy. Also it's nice to have a desktop, period. Lappies are great for pretty much every task except long term internet transfers. Bittorrent and uploading huge files (like lossless copies of my DJ mix) to my server.
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| Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
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6:25 pm - Tag 'em and bag 'em.
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On and off for the last two days, I have added tags to my past LJ entries. 25 different tags for just under 400 entries. A few of the more recent entries are missing tags (phone and food, in particular) and many entries have no tag at all. The process was rather a PITA, especially compared to Flickr, which makes tagging easy. I have a feeling these tags will be a help to exactly nobody besides myself, but that doesn't phase me too much.
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