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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
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5:29 pm - Musical Odometer.
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Well, shit.
I hit 100,000 tracks played on last.fm sometime last night.
Top artists, after 100K tracks:
1. The Knife (2,854)
2. All India Radio (2,788)
3. Biosphere (2,702)
4. Tom Waits (1,615)
5. L.S.G. (1,268)
6. Johnny Cash (965)
7. Ulrich Schnauss (855)
8. Aphex Twin (794)
9. Kyuss (776)
10. Boards of Canada (748)
11. Aspen (745)
12. Neutron 9000 (722)
13. Nor Elle (718)
14. Blackfish (712)
15. Peter Benisch (688)
16. Perfume Tree (675)
17. Vitalic (651)
18. Klute (645)
19. X-Dream (615)
20. Fever Ray (609)
Top albums, after 100K tracks:
1. The Knife – Deep Cuts (784)
2. The Knife – Silent Shout (616)
3. Blackfish – Pole Navigation (555)
4. Fever Ray – Fever Ray (529)
5. The Knife – The Knife (520)
6. All India Radio – These Winter Dreams (451)
7. Nor Elle – Phantom Of Life (435)
8. Dick Dale – King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones (432)
9. All India Radio – Permanent Evolutions (410)
10. All India Radio – Echo Other (376)
11. Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See (358)
12. The Emperor Machine – Aimee Tallulah is Hypnotised (351)
13. Minor Threat – Complete Discography (342)
14. Solar Fields – Reflective Frequencies (328)
14. All India Radio – All India Radio (328)
16. Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye (320)
17. M-Seven – Activate (318)
18. Doof – It's About Time (317)
19. Neutron 9000 – Walrus (312)
20. Two Lone Swordsmen – Tiny Reminders (308)
20. Kyuss – Sky Valley (308)
No real surprises here. I've been heavy on the Australian downtempo (All India Radio) in the last year, even surpassing Biosphere. Nothing has usurped my 2006-2007 obsessions with The Knife, especially if one includes Fever Ray in that total. It will be interesting to look at my rolling 12 month charts at the end of this calendar year. A.I.R. will dominate again, I am sure.
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| Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
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7:20 pm - Archivist.
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I just went through all the sets of photos I took in 2009 that were still on my lappy's HDD, and backed up/deleted all but a handful. I freed up some 15GB of space, but at this juncture I more or less never want to look at pictures again. In the Information Age, we're all going completely mad our own sysadmins, DBAs and IT managers. I think I could have been born ~50 years earlier and been perfectly happy cranking up the gramophone and shooting large format B&W film.
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| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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2:38 pm - Top 20 for 2009.
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| Friday, January 1st, 2010
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9:11 am
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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.
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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)
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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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