Pretty Lights
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Vocal Fry Day (ahahaha)
Friday, March 30, 2007
23:51
I think all the recording and listening I've been doing using headphones is not good for my ears. The hearing in my left ear has felt a little "numb" after a few sessions, and right now, after about 90 minutes of recording, if I shake my head from side to side there's something like a "swish" going on in both ears, stronger in the left. It's already not as bad as it was when I first took the headphones off.
This week has been pretty good. It's gone by quickly though. I got just what I needed on Monday. Some things haven't changed, but everything's changed.
Walk-through of the new condo tomorrow. A bit excited about that.
Been trying to nail down how to get the 1/3 subharmonic going. Have some idea what muscles to move, and how, but can't hold it for more than a second or two. This is what it sounds like (the transition is just for a second near the end), and this is what it looks like. In my feedback to the guy that made Overtone Analyzer I talked about it, and he sent me a clip of a guy singing 1/2 through 1/5 subharmonics! The fundamental is much higher though, so the final lowest sub is in the 40Hz range. Looking at the analyzer trace from tonight, I noticed that happened at one point, with the lowest around 20Hz. But it was just a quick thing, down through the different modes then back up. I don't think I knew that's what happened at the time.
music: Steve Reich - Music For a Large Ensemble / Octet; Meshuggah - Catch 33; gamelan - Between Heaven and Earth
23:51
I think all the recording and listening I've been doing using headphones is not good for my ears. The hearing in my left ear has felt a little "numb" after a few sessions, and right now, after about 90 minutes of recording, if I shake my head from side to side there's something like a "swish" going on in both ears, stronger in the left. It's already not as bad as it was when I first took the headphones off.
This week has been pretty good. It's gone by quickly though. I got just what I needed on Monday. Some things haven't changed, but everything's changed.
Walk-through of the new condo tomorrow. A bit excited about that.
Been trying to nail down how to get the 1/3 subharmonic going. Have some idea what muscles to move, and how, but can't hold it for more than a second or two. This is what it sounds like (the transition is just for a second near the end), and this is what it looks like. In my feedback to the guy that made Overtone Analyzer I talked about it, and he sent me a clip of a guy singing 1/2 through 1/5 subharmonics! The fundamental is much higher though, so the final lowest sub is in the 40Hz range. Looking at the analyzer trace from tonight, I noticed that happened at one point, with the lowest around 20Hz. But it was just a quick thing, down through the different modes then back up. I don't think I knew that's what happened at the time.
music: Steve Reich - Music For a Large Ensemble / Octet; Meshuggah - Catch 33; gamelan - Between Heaven and Earth
posted by taylorsherman at 12:21 AM
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Gallons Per Flush
Wednesday, March 28 2007
24:40
Sunny today. Chilly. Nice in the sun though.
So I have a new toilet now. It's a 1.6gpf thing, not quite like anything I've ever, uh, used before. The super will be back tomorrow morning to touch up some paint on the wall behind it, as the old toilet had a larger tank (and they painted around it at one point). A new faucet aerator was installed too, I don't quite get that. They left my shower head alone, as I'd put my own on there not long after moving in.
Small team for practice tonight. I brought an old drum machine that a coworker at Boeing had given me. It's a mid-80s vintage deal. Anyway, nobody has a metronome quite smart enough to do a "long-short-short-long" rhythm (a 10/8 rhythm that really can't be played against a steady backbeat; I think the Turkish name for it is "aksak semai", a limping somethingorother), so a while ago I put that in as a pattern on this thing, and once in a while we break it out and plug it into a little amp so we can woodshed the timing on "Where Is the Nurse?". Tonight us leads focused on a few trouble spots, I think it was good work. For the second half of practice we looked at some things we'll have to cover for Chris's absence on Monday, and then some more work on KFAD.
music: Res - How I Do. I bought this in 2002, after hearing "Golden Boys" and "They-Say Vision" and really liking them. I was a bit disappointed, as the rest of the album didn't have quite the same sound. So I listened to it a couple times once in a while. I'm not sure when the last time I put it on was, years ago. . .grabbed it on impulse this morning. I like it all now. I looked online to see what she's up to these days – doesn't look like much. An outdated website about a few dates in Philly in 2005, and maybe a new album, sometime. Ah, she's apparently singing w/ Gnarls Barkley. She has a wonderful voice. Meanwhile, all of the lyrics and music were written by other people. I looked up the lyricist – Santi White – and she was in a band called Stiffed, now doing something called Santogold. Both have myspace pages, and both are pretty cool sounding. Totally different from this. The music was mostly written by Doc (Martin McKinney) from Esthero. I've never heard much of their stuff. . .more to look into. Anyway, it was a nice surprise to find myself liking the whole album this time around.
24:40
Sunny today. Chilly. Nice in the sun though.
So I have a new toilet now. It's a 1.6gpf thing, not quite like anything I've ever, uh, used before. The super will be back tomorrow morning to touch up some paint on the wall behind it, as the old toilet had a larger tank (and they painted around it at one point). A new faucet aerator was installed too, I don't quite get that. They left my shower head alone, as I'd put my own on there not long after moving in.
Small team for practice tonight. I brought an old drum machine that a coworker at Boeing had given me. It's a mid-80s vintage deal. Anyway, nobody has a metronome quite smart enough to do a "long-short-short-long" rhythm (a 10/8 rhythm that really can't be played against a steady backbeat; I think the Turkish name for it is "aksak semai", a limping somethingorother), so a while ago I put that in as a pattern on this thing, and once in a while we break it out and plug it into a little amp so we can woodshed the timing on "Where Is the Nurse?". Tonight us leads focused on a few trouble spots, I think it was good work. For the second half of practice we looked at some things we'll have to cover for Chris's absence on Monday, and then some more work on KFAD.
music: Res - How I Do. I bought this in 2002, after hearing "Golden Boys" and "They-Say Vision" and really liking them. I was a bit disappointed, as the rest of the album didn't have quite the same sound. So I listened to it a couple times once in a while. I'm not sure when the last time I put it on was, years ago. . .grabbed it on impulse this morning. I like it all now. I looked online to see what she's up to these days – doesn't look like much. An outdated website about a few dates in Philly in 2005, and maybe a new album, sometime. Ah, she's apparently singing w/ Gnarls Barkley. She has a wonderful voice. Meanwhile, all of the lyrics and music were written by other people. I looked up the lyricist – Santi White – and she was in a band called Stiffed, now doing something called Santogold. Both have myspace pages, and both are pretty cool sounding. Totally different from this. The music was mostly written by Doc (Martin McKinney) from Esthero. I've never heard much of their stuff. . .more to look into. Anyway, it was a nice surprise to find myself liking the whole album this time around.
posted by taylorsherman at 1:00 AM
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Rainy Day
Tuesday, March 27 2007
23:10
Yay, I have a new windshield now. The total cost for replacement wasn't really that much, which actually annoyed me because that means my deductible was almost the whole thing anyway.
The glass shop is about a half mile from my office, so I decided to just drop the car off there and walk. It was almost sunny as I left this morning, so didn't think to bring an umbrella. But it started raining as soon as I got on the road. Not very hard. I actually really enjoyed the walk. It was cold, drizzly, smelled like exhaust, but somehow still fresh. I was there. The walk back later to pick it up didn't quite have that same quality; I don't think that's because it'd stopped raining, but I'm not sure.
Put a couple more tracks down on "Twelfth" tonight. Used my first bass, the one my Mom bought me for my 16th birthday. I did a horrible job ripping the frets out of it a few years ago, I'm not quite sure why I did that. It didn't make it any better. I've thought a few times about putting a new neck on it, but then I'd also need new pickups that aren't super-buzzy, and then what's the point.
Listened to the "fool solos" from Reintegration, just the two tracks soloed together. Eek. The playing is sloppy as hell, but that's no surprise. Fool isn't the right word. Mad, of the insane variety.
My toilet is getting replaced tomorrow morning. Along with the shower head, apparently.
music: Ministry - Twitch
23:10
Yay, I have a new windshield now. The total cost for replacement wasn't really that much, which actually annoyed me because that means my deductible was almost the whole thing anyway.
The glass shop is about a half mile from my office, so I decided to just drop the car off there and walk. It was almost sunny as I left this morning, so didn't think to bring an umbrella. But it started raining as soon as I got on the road. Not very hard. I actually really enjoyed the walk. It was cold, drizzly, smelled like exhaust, but somehow still fresh. I was there. The walk back later to pick it up didn't quite have that same quality; I don't think that's because it'd stopped raining, but I'm not sure.
Put a couple more tracks down on "Twelfth" tonight. Used my first bass, the one my Mom bought me for my 16th birthday. I did a horrible job ripping the frets out of it a few years ago, I'm not quite sure why I did that. It didn't make it any better. I've thought a few times about putting a new neck on it, but then I'd also need new pickups that aren't super-buzzy, and then what's the point.
Listened to the "fool solos" from Reintegration, just the two tracks soloed together. Eek. The playing is sloppy as hell, but that's no surprise. Fool isn't the right word. Mad, of the insane variety.
My toilet is getting replaced tomorrow morning. Along with the shower head, apparently.
music: Ministry - Twitch
posted by taylorsherman at 11:32 PM
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Yeeee haw
Monday, March 26 2007
24:09
Well, that was interesting. I asked someone for a favor, and they were kind enough to oblige. And I'm really grateful for it. Certainly, none of it was what I "wanted" to hear, but overall it was a good thing.
Meanwhile. . .a show tonight. Felt "fuzzy" to us, sloppy, though with some levity at least. Good audience feedback – a larger audience tonight, which helped. I started getting a headache a couple hours before the show, nothing too bad, but some pressure behind the eyes. Thankfully it didn't bug me much during the actual show.
music: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - UFO TOFU; Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day; DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
24:09
Well, that was interesting. I asked someone for a favor, and they were kind enough to oblige. And I'm really grateful for it. Certainly, none of it was what I "wanted" to hear, but overall it was a good thing.
Meanwhile. . .a show tonight. Felt "fuzzy" to us, sloppy, though with some levity at least. Good audience feedback – a larger audience tonight, which helped. I started getting a headache a couple hours before the show, nothing too bad, but some pressure behind the eyes. Thankfully it didn't bug me much during the actual show.
music: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - UFO TOFU; Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day; DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
posted by taylorsherman at 12:35 AM
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Sunny Day
Sunday, March 25 2007
23:26
Wow, no more Galactica until 2008. Quite a season-ender tonight. I'm not quite sure how they pulled that off. They almost lost me when the vocal came in on the song though. I'm glad, it looks like Rekha Sharma's character is going to become more central. Maybe now she'll get "first-page" billing on the cast list on IMDB.
Sunny today, and pretty nice out there. Spent part of the day going through a huge footlocker that contained all my notebooks, papers, tests, etc from college. Everything went to the trash (recycle, anyway) save for: one paper, one Hunt The Wumpus poster, and the April Fools' edition of the "Cooperpolitan" magazine (which may have been the only one? I don't remember any other issues). The paper I remember because it was one of the only decent humanities papers I wrote. I hardly paid attention in most of those classes, I never read all the stuff we were supposed to read, and I wrote all the papers the night before they were due, usually from about 10 PM until around 6 AM. That still more or less applied to this paper, though the readings were short so I did have a chance to actually read them while working on it. Once I turned it in, I largely forgot about it. Apparently I did actually put some thought into the writing though, because my professor was effusive (and somewhat amazed) when she handed it back to me later. The only other humanities paper/project that I can remember much, and feel like I really put anything into, was the final essay for "Postmodernism and Technology". The class had two professors that seemed to hate each other, and seemed to be one-upping each other with their use of large words. It all made absolutely no sense to me. The word itself, "postmodernism", just makes me gag. Then a couple things clicked, and my final paper was an analysis of several pieces of music and how certain qualities of them (that aligned with what I thought I understood their meaning of postmodernism to be) were enabled only via technology. I submitted the paper along with a tape containing samples of the music – all I can remember on the tape was a few snippets from The Downward Spiral (eg the machinery sounds at the beginning of Reptile), and the guitar-synth-as-orchestra break from the middle of Crimson's "Dinosaur". There were a couple more though. Anyway, I don't know if I got the paper back, I didn't find it today, but I seem to remember my professors were surprised and I got a higher grade than on any of my other papers.
Funny, because a similar thing worked for me in my senior English class in high school. We'd read The Invisible Man (which I thought was great, we read more good stuff in that class than I did in total in college), and I compiled a tape of songs that either fit scenes in the book soundtrack-wise, or paralleled it in sound or subject, and wrote about why or how so. The tape had songs by New Order (Murder), The Cure (Hot Hot Hot), Philip Glass (something from Glassworks), and a couple more that I can't remember. Ah, one was "A Musical Joke" by Mozart. Once again, the result was a pleasantly surprised teacher. Oh, for that one I got to play the songs for the class and talk about them too, that was fun.
Read in the news today that two people somehow managed to fall off the Grand Princes somewhere in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Luckily their friends heard them screaming, and the ship stopped (which means it did eventually, and turned around and went back) and they were fished out of the water four hours! later, alive. Nobody's quite sure how they managed to go overboard.
23:26
Wow, no more Galactica until 2008. Quite a season-ender tonight. I'm not quite sure how they pulled that off. They almost lost me when the vocal came in on the song though. I'm glad, it looks like Rekha Sharma's character is going to become more central. Maybe now she'll get "first-page" billing on the cast list on IMDB.
Sunny today, and pretty nice out there. Spent part of the day going through a huge footlocker that contained all my notebooks, papers, tests, etc from college. Everything went to the trash (recycle, anyway) save for: one paper, one Hunt The Wumpus poster, and the April Fools' edition of the "Cooperpolitan" magazine (which may have been the only one? I don't remember any other issues). The paper I remember because it was one of the only decent humanities papers I wrote. I hardly paid attention in most of those classes, I never read all the stuff we were supposed to read, and I wrote all the papers the night before they were due, usually from about 10 PM until around 6 AM. That still more or less applied to this paper, though the readings were short so I did have a chance to actually read them while working on it. Once I turned it in, I largely forgot about it. Apparently I did actually put some thought into the writing though, because my professor was effusive (and somewhat amazed) when she handed it back to me later. The only other humanities paper/project that I can remember much, and feel like I really put anything into, was the final essay for "Postmodernism and Technology". The class had two professors that seemed to hate each other, and seemed to be one-upping each other with their use of large words. It all made absolutely no sense to me. The word itself, "postmodernism", just makes me gag. Then a couple things clicked, and my final paper was an analysis of several pieces of music and how certain qualities of them (that aligned with what I thought I understood their meaning of postmodernism to be) were enabled only via technology. I submitted the paper along with a tape containing samples of the music – all I can remember on the tape was a few snippets from The Downward Spiral (eg the machinery sounds at the beginning of Reptile), and the guitar-synth-as-orchestra break from the middle of Crimson's "Dinosaur". There were a couple more though. Anyway, I don't know if I got the paper back, I didn't find it today, but I seem to remember my professors were surprised and I got a higher grade than on any of my other papers.
Funny, because a similar thing worked for me in my senior English class in high school. We'd read The Invisible Man (which I thought was great, we read more good stuff in that class than I did in total in college), and I compiled a tape of songs that either fit scenes in the book soundtrack-wise, or paralleled it in sound or subject, and wrote about why or how so. The tape had songs by New Order (Murder), The Cure (Hot Hot Hot), Philip Glass (something from Glassworks), and a couple more that I can't remember. Ah, one was "A Musical Joke" by Mozart. Once again, the result was a pleasantly surprised teacher. Oh, for that one I got to play the songs for the class and talk about them too, that was fun.
Read in the news today that two people somehow managed to fall off the Grand Princes somewhere in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Luckily their friends heard them screaming, and the ship stopped (which means it did eventually, and turned around and went back) and they were fished out of the water four hours! later, alive. Nobody's quite sure how they managed to go overboard.
posted by taylorsherman at 12:02 AM
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Sunday, March 25, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Saturday
Saturday, March 24, 2007
23:14
Chilly and rainy again today. Not really too surprising for Seattle in March. Had a fun time getting to practice this morning – the viaduct was closed, so my plan was to just drive up Alaskan. Took a lot of wrong turns trying to do that, I guess I'm only used to going the other direction when driving on the surface streets (which are amazingly convoluted) under the WSB. Didn't get there too late, though. Learned a bit more of KFAD, worked on Jaxie's piece (I forgot the name).
The typical subharmonic used for "throat singing" is an octave below what your vocal cords are singing. I'd noticed sometimes when messing around with this that other modes seemed to be almost there, but not very consistent. This afternoon I was able to get one of those recorded, not much of it, but enough to loop it and have some fun. Turns out it's an octave and a fifth down from the voiced note. So, singing an A2, with a D1 (low D on a 5-string bass guitar, or on a bassoon which is what it sounds more like, pitch is 37Hz) subharmonic. For reference, the Gyuto monks sing around a B2 (123Hz) with a B1 (62Hz) subharmonic (the numbers change at C, so a B1 is higher than a D1). I don't really know yet what to do to make this happen, and when it does I can't really sustain it for more than a second or two.
Got my "newsletter" for the condo today – they're doing "taping and texturing" on my floor, so potentially they'll be painting by next weekend. At least the walls are up and the fixtures are in.
music: Javanese gamelan; Tool - Lateralus
23:14
Chilly and rainy again today. Not really too surprising for Seattle in March. Had a fun time getting to practice this morning – the viaduct was closed, so my plan was to just drive up Alaskan. Took a lot of wrong turns trying to do that, I guess I'm only used to going the other direction when driving on the surface streets (which are amazingly convoluted) under the WSB. Didn't get there too late, though. Learned a bit more of KFAD, worked on Jaxie's piece (I forgot the name).
The typical subharmonic used for "throat singing" is an octave below what your vocal cords are singing. I'd noticed sometimes when messing around with this that other modes seemed to be almost there, but not very consistent. This afternoon I was able to get one of those recorded, not much of it, but enough to loop it and have some fun. Turns out it's an octave and a fifth down from the voiced note. So, singing an A2, with a D1 (low D on a 5-string bass guitar, or on a bassoon which is what it sounds more like, pitch is 37Hz) subharmonic. For reference, the Gyuto monks sing around a B2 (123Hz) with a B1 (62Hz) subharmonic (the numbers change at C, so a B1 is higher than a D1). I don't really know yet what to do to make this happen, and when it does I can't really sustain it for more than a second or two.
Got my "newsletter" for the condo today – they're doing "taping and texturing" on my floor, so potentially they'll be painting by next weekend. At least the walls are up and the fixtures are in.
music: Javanese gamelan; Tool - Lateralus
posted by taylorsherman at 11:49 PM
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For 3/23 23:43
Friday, March 23 2007
23:43
Awoke at 6:01 this morning. It's regular enough in its occurrence now, if not exact time, to not feel noteworthy.
Filed an insurance claim on, and made an appointment to have replaced, my cracked windshield today. A new crack appeared yesterday. It didn't even sound like something hit the windshield, I just heard what sounded like a new crack forming, and there it was. Seemingly unconnected to the two ever-growing ones above it. This one is about 6 inches long, the other two over a foot each (curved). Well at least the deductible isn't that much. My windshields seem to be rock magnets though. I really should have replaced the one in the last car about two years before I sold it.
Found out that I can get in to see my new condo any time, with an appointment. I have no idea how far along the inside is. It's looking like I'll be doing that next Saturday (a week from tomorrow). Time to start boxing some things up, and selling a bunch of stuff on craigslist.
music: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief; Toyah - The Blue Meaning
23:43
Awoke at 6:01 this morning. It's regular enough in its occurrence now, if not exact time, to not feel noteworthy.
Filed an insurance claim on, and made an appointment to have replaced, my cracked windshield today. A new crack appeared yesterday. It didn't even sound like something hit the windshield, I just heard what sounded like a new crack forming, and there it was. Seemingly unconnected to the two ever-growing ones above it. This one is about 6 inches long, the other two over a foot each (curved). Well at least the deductible isn't that much. My windshields seem to be rock magnets though. I really should have replaced the one in the last car about two years before I sold it.
Found out that I can get in to see my new condo any time, with an appointment. I have no idea how far along the inside is. It's looking like I'll be doing that next Saturday (a week from tomorrow). Time to start boxing some things up, and selling a bunch of stuff on craigslist.
music: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief; Toyah - The Blue Meaning
posted by taylorsherman at 12:06 AM
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Look Out
Bill has spotted the photographer and has the fruit at ready.
posted by taylorsherman at 12:16 AM
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Giant Frickin' Moon Lasers
Thursday, March 22 2007
23:53
Forgot to mention rehearsal last night – spent the first half working on King For a Day, which is great, I've always liked that piece. So far I'm learning the bass and the arpeggios, the lead seems to be a real beast but Bob and Igor can have that for now. We worked on Jaxie's new/old piece after that. Hung out for a bit afterwards next door, having some nachos and drinks w/ Curt, Travis, and Igor.
Another rainy dismal day today. Cold wind. Spent most of the day with some things bouncing around in my head that made it pretty hard to concentrate. The problem with having a tendency to think everything has something to do with me (something that everyone does, but in different ways), is that because I know it's a tendency, when it happens it's always accompanied by doubt. I'd rather just be certain, if wrong. Anyway, I suppose I deserve it for being cryptic about things myself sometimes, and/or avoiding direct forms of communication.
The new South Park (well, new last night) was great.
music: Underworld - Everything Everything; David Torn - Cloud About Mercury; Talking Heads - Remain In Light
23:53
Forgot to mention rehearsal last night – spent the first half working on King For a Day, which is great, I've always liked that piece. So far I'm learning the bass and the arpeggios, the lead seems to be a real beast but Bob and Igor can have that for now. We worked on Jaxie's new/old piece after that. Hung out for a bit afterwards next door, having some nachos and drinks w/ Curt, Travis, and Igor.
Another rainy dismal day today. Cold wind. Spent most of the day with some things bouncing around in my head that made it pretty hard to concentrate. The problem with having a tendency to think everything has something to do with me (something that everyone does, but in different ways), is that because I know it's a tendency, when it happens it's always accompanied by doubt. I'd rather just be certain, if wrong. Anyway, I suppose I deserve it for being cryptic about things myself sometimes, and/or avoiding direct forms of communication.
The new South Park (well, new last night) was great.
music: Underworld - Everything Everything; David Torn - Cloud About Mercury; Talking Heads - Remain In Light
posted by taylorsherman at 12:10 AM
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Beauty is relative
The expression reminds me of my Grandfather.
posted by taylorsherman at 1:46 AM
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Succulency
Wednesday, March 21 2007
24:49
The early waking-up continued today, woke up at six something, then half slept until it was really time to get up. It was sunny and cold today. Apparently there was some snow and ice on the Eastside – one coworker fell down the stairs upon leaving his house, not expecting any ice on the stairs at all. Pretty much the same thing happened to him as to me when I slipped in January, it sounded like.
Two years ago today, I was right in the middle of a Guitar Craft course in Lebanon, New Jersey.
After recording it, I felt that the bass solo in the middle of Spectrum was pretty feeble. Then I started thinking about it – first, what the hell kind of chord sequence is that? CMaj7/sus4 to F#7/sus4 and back . . . can't make any sense out if it. C, E, F, and B to F#, A#, B, and E. Now, I can't play over it if I try. I remember thinking about the changing F/F#, but nothing about that A#. It's still a fairly feeble solo in some ways, but, huh.
music: Herbie Hancock - Headhunters; Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers, and Queers; Rush - Hemispheres
24:49
The early waking-up continued today, woke up at six something, then half slept until it was really time to get up. It was sunny and cold today. Apparently there was some snow and ice on the Eastside – one coworker fell down the stairs upon leaving his house, not expecting any ice on the stairs at all. Pretty much the same thing happened to him as to me when I slipped in January, it sounded like.
Two years ago today, I was right in the middle of a Guitar Craft course in Lebanon, New Jersey.
After recording it, I felt that the bass solo in the middle of Spectrum was pretty feeble. Then I started thinking about it – first, what the hell kind of chord sequence is that? CMaj7/sus4 to F#7/sus4 and back . . . can't make any sense out if it. C, E, F, and B to F#, A#, B, and E. Now, I can't play over it if I try. I remember thinking about the changing F/F#, but nothing about that A#. It's still a fairly feeble solo in some ways, but, huh.
music: Herbie Hancock - Headhunters; Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers, and Queers; Rush - Hemispheres
posted by taylorsherman at 1:10 AM
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
I had a clever title but forgot it
Tuesday, March 20 2007
23:22
And a tough day today. Started off a little dreary in general. Mid-day, was listening to some music that a coworker has shared out (and, so far, I think is pretty good, I was figuring if I went to listen to it again I'd go get the CD; also, they are playing in town next week), when some pretty intense sadness came over me. Well, intense isn't quite the word. It was massive, but faint. Sort of like a really small earthquake – it doesn't make any noise, nothing is moving visibly, but you are damn sure that you and everything in your world just moved a fraction of an inch and back. But sad, if that makes any sense. This went on for a bit, then I paused the music to go do something else. Came back later, hit play, and whoa. Stopped it there. I'm not sure if it was a direct result of this, or because it got me thinking about something else, but from then on I was feeling pretty icky. Back to the point where, about the time I got home tonight, I was holding back the urge to scream. Mostly out of frustration.
Meanwhile – a gray, rainy day. Thai food – the "Palace Special" combo – for lunch/dinner.
Three years ago around this time, I was simultaneously preparing to go off for a 10-day residential performance project and then 10-day West-cost tour, and preparing at work for the release of the first game to be purchasable on Steam via credit card. It was a busy week. And an interesting 3 weeks following it, in different ways for me and the folks at work I left behind. One change in the latter that stands out for me was the formation of an embryonic Support staff, relieving me of such duties (which had pretty much owned me for a few months).
Five years ago today:
Steam was officially announced the next day. I think most of the team were at GDC around then, which is why it was quiet in the office.
My diary from the year before that, at a different company at the time, is all angst about how stupid the decision was to not show at GDC what I had done (a fully instrumented Quake running at 90fps) and instead demo something else (likewise instrumented - but with the un-modified-by-me software - Hexen, running at 5fps). My guess, and confirmed later by some folks in the know, was that my work had been rejected by the people on the original project simply because I was some kid working downstairs that poked his nose into their business. Ahh, it is such a sweet, sweet thing to not have to deal with stuff like that anymore.
music: New Order - 1981 – 1982 (I always refer to it by the catalog number, FACTUS 8, though the CD is FEP 313); New Order – The John Peel Sessions, 1981; New Order – The John Peel Sessions, 1982; Skinny Puppy - Rabies
P.S. woke up at 7 this morning (alarm set for 9).
23:22
And a tough day today. Started off a little dreary in general. Mid-day, was listening to some music that a coworker has shared out (and, so far, I think is pretty good, I was figuring if I went to listen to it again I'd go get the CD; also, they are playing in town next week), when some pretty intense sadness came over me. Well, intense isn't quite the word. It was massive, but faint. Sort of like a really small earthquake – it doesn't make any noise, nothing is moving visibly, but you are damn sure that you and everything in your world just moved a fraction of an inch and back. But sad, if that makes any sense. This went on for a bit, then I paused the music to go do something else. Came back later, hit play, and whoa. Stopped it there. I'm not sure if it was a direct result of this, or because it got me thinking about something else, but from then on I was feeling pretty icky. Back to the point where, about the time I got home tonight, I was holding back the urge to scream. Mostly out of frustration.
Meanwhile – a gray, rainy day. Thai food – the "Palace Special" combo – for lunch/dinner.
Three years ago around this time, I was simultaneously preparing to go off for a 10-day residential performance project and then 10-day West-cost tour, and preparing at work for the release of the first game to be purchasable on Steam via credit card. It was a busy week. And an interesting 3 weeks following it, in different ways for me and the folks at work I left behind. One change in the latter that stands out for me was the formation of an embryonic Support staff, relieving me of such duties (which had pretty much owned me for a few months).
Five years ago today:
24:49 -
It did turn out to be a fairly long day. Got to work earlier, nothing much happening there. Got a "todo" done off the list. It started snowing pretty hard around 2:30, and I started stressing. I wanted to leave at around 4:30 so I could make it home in time to get my gear and go practice w/ Rosyvelt. So I watched as the snow kept falling, and, though it wasn't sticking, traffic got worse and worse. Left at 4:30, got home at five to 6. Had a quick bowl of soup and headed back out. No problem getting to the space (in Georgetown). Got to play with Sam the drummer for the first time. It was definitely rough for me, most of the time I'd put in had been on the wrong songs off the CD. We focused on a few, ran through them a few times. Lots of find-the-note from me. Sooo. . .I think I'll be joining them at their gig at the Industrial next Wed for a couple songs. Yikes.
Got home around 10, made a pizza, watched TV - South Park ("...it's better than flying!"), The Daily Show.
car music: Joy Division - Les Bains Douches; RFSQ - The Bridge Between
Steam was officially announced the next day. I think most of the team were at GDC around then, which is why it was quiet in the office.
My diary from the year before that, at a different company at the time, is all angst about how stupid the decision was to not show at GDC what I had done (a fully instrumented Quake running at 90fps) and instead demo something else (likewise instrumented - but with the un-modified-by-me software - Hexen, running at 5fps). My guess, and confirmed later by some folks in the know, was that my work had been rejected by the people on the original project simply because I was some kid working downstairs that poked his nose into their business. Ahh, it is such a sweet, sweet thing to not have to deal with stuff like that anymore.
music: New Order - 1981 – 1982 (I always refer to it by the catalog number, FACTUS 8, though the CD is FEP 313); New Order – The John Peel Sessions, 1981; New Order – The John Peel Sessions, 1982; Skinny Puppy - Rabies
P.S. woke up at 7 this morning (alarm set for 9).
posted by taylorsherman at 12:09 AM
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Exhibit
Friday night I uploaded one of my photos to a website. Saturday morning (local time), it was displayed in a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. For how long, I'm not sure, probably a second or two. A photograph of the exhibit was automatically taken, and emailed back to me. This is it.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
You can call me anything you want
Monday, March 19 2007
23:44
A tough show tonight. Very small audience. Low energy, looking at the other players they appeared more unenthusiastic than is usual (than they usually appear, making no claims about the actual enthusiasm). It got better as the show went on, then finally got some life during the encore. Somehow the trend has become that we get called back for a second encore. A little strange. But it was OK tonight. Still a small group out to the Hi Life afterward. I got the same curried veggies and tofu as last week, but it was just barely edible tonight. Crunchy rice, not very flavorful.
Drizzled today, then stormed for a bit during the show. The sound of the rain against the windows after some of the songs ended was very nice.
Still kicking myself for being unsociable the other night. A look can convey quite a bit. I've never been very good at that sort of thing, though. In this particular example, "serious" is about as far as I got. Beyond that. . .
music: New Order - Brotherhood; Arcadia - So Red the Rose; GTRRSTRFE – s/t; The Minus 5 – s/t
23:44
A tough show tonight. Very small audience. Low energy, looking at the other players they appeared more unenthusiastic than is usual (than they usually appear, making no claims about the actual enthusiasm). It got better as the show went on, then finally got some life during the encore. Somehow the trend has become that we get called back for a second encore. A little strange. But it was OK tonight. Still a small group out to the Hi Life afterward. I got the same curried veggies and tofu as last week, but it was just barely edible tonight. Crunchy rice, not very flavorful.
Drizzled today, then stormed for a bit during the show. The sound of the rain against the windows after some of the songs ended was very nice.
Still kicking myself for being unsociable the other night. A look can convey quite a bit. I've never been very good at that sort of thing, though. In this particular example, "serious" is about as far as I got. Beyond that. . .
music: New Order - Brotherhood; Arcadia - So Red the Rose; GTRRSTRFE – s/t; The Minus 5 – s/t
posted by taylorsherman at 11:58 PM
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
Longevity
Sometimes I think that people may think the title of my "blog" is something pretentious. Not really. It's an anagram. . .
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Not "omlette" like I always think it is
Sunday, March 18 2007
23:31
Slept in. Got an omelet "wrap" and coffee for breakfast. Watched some TV (Deep Impact - which somehow I'd never seen before; not bad, predictable but interesting, and god it's definitely better than Armageddon). Went up to the space to do some singing; probably weirded out the caretaker, Dave. Didn't quite feel like moving all the cushions out of the main room to increase the reverb. Went to the bank, and the grocery store. Spicy tuna rolls, a bagel and cream cheese for dinner. Watched more TV - Unbreakable and "Battlestar Galactica", also a little Titanic and some Law and Order: CI.
It was sunny today, and warm enough that I didn't need a jacket in the car. Didn't really get out in it as much as I felt I should.
Took down the Alex Gray painting I had up over the fireplace. Whatever it was that I got from it when I put it up, what a year ago? little more maybe, isn't there now. It just seems cheesy. Pretentious, in fact. Oh well. I still do like the one I have up in my office. The laminated "Power, Corruption and Lies" poster is up in its place, and the spot where that used to be now empty. A bunch of posters have been up more or less since I moved in here; they bug me now but I'm leaving them until I move.
music: King Crimson - Vrooom Vrooom
23:31
Slept in. Got an omelet "wrap" and coffee for breakfast. Watched some TV (Deep Impact - which somehow I'd never seen before; not bad, predictable but interesting, and god it's definitely better than Armageddon). Went up to the space to do some singing; probably weirded out the caretaker, Dave. Didn't quite feel like moving all the cushions out of the main room to increase the reverb. Went to the bank, and the grocery store. Spicy tuna rolls, a bagel and cream cheese for dinner. Watched more TV - Unbreakable and "Battlestar Galactica", also a little Titanic and some Law and Order: CI.
It was sunny today, and warm enough that I didn't need a jacket in the car. Didn't really get out in it as much as I felt I should.
Took down the Alex Gray painting I had up over the fireplace. Whatever it was that I got from it when I put it up, what a year ago? little more maybe, isn't there now. It just seems cheesy. Pretentious, in fact. Oh well. I still do like the one I have up in my office. The laminated "Power, Corruption and Lies" poster is up in its place, and the spot where that used to be now empty. A bunch of posters have been up more or less since I moved in here; they bug me now but I'm leaving them until I move.
music: King Crimson - Vrooom Vrooom
posted by taylorsherman at 11:47 PM
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Paint Sad Tricks Day
Saturday, March 17
17:06
So, I'm still in love.
Another thing that came home with me last night, besides the stamp on my wrist: my clothes smell like strawberries. Maybe half-rotten ones. It's a typical tavern smell, that used to be an undertone of the cigarettes. Now that those aren't allowed anymore, this is the dominant flavor. Why strawberries, I don't know. It's not exactly that smell, but it's the closest thing I can think of.
Up at 6:30 this morning. Sleepy. The line was shorter than usual at Besalu, so got my coffee there along with a ham and cheese pastry. Yum. Think it had two sticks of butter in it, though. Rehearsal was OK. Spent a lot of time on IMR. Found out that the plug has been pulled on Triangulation. I didn't think we'd heard enough to make that decision yet, but oh well. Moving on. I did agree with Curt's assessment that, so far from what we've heard, it sounds better played on piano (even if MIDI) than guitars. I think the minimum I could arrange the fugue section for would be four pianos – one playing the fives, and the other three each covering one part w/ each hand.
Spent some time this afternoon transferring a few old songs from tape to hard disk. Mostly the Stinky Cheesemen tracks – a one-show band in college that included my girlfriend and a couple of other friends. I played bass, Yaron played guitar, Monica and Karen sang. We played "TV Party" by Black Flag (as a slowed-down singalong), "True Love" by Yuppicide, and "Beat My Guest" by Adam and the Ants. It all sounds absolutely horrible, but it's great. The guitarist and I are out of tune, I'm pretty sure he's just playing wrong chords all over the place, we're not in time, the singers are usually a half-measure or so off (understandable given no drums and that me and the guitarist don't agree much on where the one is), they can kinda sing, etc.
The other track I grabbed was the HTW version of "Red", the digital copy of that I already had has what sounds like the CD skipping during the middle section (I think it is a consequence of whoever mastered it trying to use pitch correction on the bass part, which Eddie forgot and hence clammed up pretty good). Did a little work on it to fix EQ and balance issues, then did what I could to lower the bass part during the middle section.
music so far: Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
25:38
Pho for dinner. Napped for a couple hours. Watched TV, tried for an hour or so and failed. Nothing sufficiently interesting to distract from the restless energy I had. So, over to the computer to do some recording. I titled this one "Funk" before I'd put anything down. I'm not sure it still qualifies. A 5/16 ostinato in an octatonic scale, harmonized in minor thirds, over a 4/4 funk beat. A Cm6 comped over that, plus some noodly guitar.
17:06
So, I'm still in love.
Another thing that came home with me last night, besides the stamp on my wrist: my clothes smell like strawberries. Maybe half-rotten ones. It's a typical tavern smell, that used to be an undertone of the cigarettes. Now that those aren't allowed anymore, this is the dominant flavor. Why strawberries, I don't know. It's not exactly that smell, but it's the closest thing I can think of.
Up at 6:30 this morning. Sleepy. The line was shorter than usual at Besalu, so got my coffee there along with a ham and cheese pastry. Yum. Think it had two sticks of butter in it, though. Rehearsal was OK. Spent a lot of time on IMR. Found out that the plug has been pulled on Triangulation. I didn't think we'd heard enough to make that decision yet, but oh well. Moving on. I did agree with Curt's assessment that, so far from what we've heard, it sounds better played on piano (even if MIDI) than guitars. I think the minimum I could arrange the fugue section for would be four pianos – one playing the fives, and the other three each covering one part w/ each hand.
Spent some time this afternoon transferring a few old songs from tape to hard disk. Mostly the Stinky Cheesemen tracks – a one-show band in college that included my girlfriend and a couple of other friends. I played bass, Yaron played guitar, Monica and Karen sang. We played "TV Party" by Black Flag (as a slowed-down singalong), "True Love" by Yuppicide, and "Beat My Guest" by Adam and the Ants. It all sounds absolutely horrible, but it's great. The guitarist and I are out of tune, I'm pretty sure he's just playing wrong chords all over the place, we're not in time, the singers are usually a half-measure or so off (understandable given no drums and that me and the guitarist don't agree much on where the one is), they can kinda sing, etc.
The other track I grabbed was the HTW version of "Red", the digital copy of that I already had has what sounds like the CD skipping during the middle section (I think it is a consequence of whoever mastered it trying to use pitch correction on the bass part, which Eddie forgot and hence clammed up pretty good). Did a little work on it to fix EQ and balance issues, then did what I could to lower the bass part during the middle section.
music so far: Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
25:38
Pho for dinner. Napped for a couple hours. Watched TV, tried for an hour or so and failed. Nothing sufficiently interesting to distract from the restless energy I had. So, over to the computer to do some recording. I titled this one "Funk" before I'd put anything down. I'm not sure it still qualifies. A 5/16 ostinato in an octatonic scale, harmonized in minor thirds, over a 4/4 funk beat. A Cm6 comped over that, plus some noodly guitar.
posted by taylorsherman at 5:39 PM
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Aw Shit Man
Friday, March 16 2007
24:07
Warmer today. Sunny-ish.
I've got a Betty Boop stamped on my left wrist.
Went out after work to see some coworkers play w/ their band, Fall City. Good stuff, they were having fun. I was feeling kind of antisocial but that's nothing new. Well, more shy than antisocial. Stuck around for the first couple songs by the next band, Memphis Radio Kings. They were OK, the sound was not very good though, so it wasn't really coming through.
Ahi and a salad for lunch. Was really breakfast and dinner, too, counting the energy bar I had later as a snack.
For the first time today, I let WMP go off and choose tracks at random from the "library" I have on my work computer. It's only a few dozen albums, plus random bits and pieces of stuff. Still, it was sufficiently random to be kinda nice. I could probably fit all my music, at low quality, on one of the larger IPods. Soon it'll all fit on one using lossless compression. Who knows if I'll ever get around to ripping all thousand or so discs, but that would be a pretty weird thing to be able to carry all that around with me.
music: Smiths - Hatful of Hollow; random randomness
24:07
Warmer today. Sunny-ish.
I've got a Betty Boop stamped on my left wrist.
Went out after work to see some coworkers play w/ their band, Fall City. Good stuff, they were having fun. I was feeling kind of antisocial but that's nothing new. Well, more shy than antisocial. Stuck around for the first couple songs by the next band, Memphis Radio Kings. They were OK, the sound was not very good though, so it wasn't really coming through.
Ahi and a salad for lunch. Was really breakfast and dinner, too, counting the energy bar I had later as a snack.
For the first time today, I let WMP go off and choose tracks at random from the "library" I have on my work computer. It's only a few dozen albums, plus random bits and pieces of stuff. Still, it was sufficiently random to be kinda nice. I could probably fit all my music, at low quality, on one of the larger IPods. Soon it'll all fit on one using lossless compression. Who knows if I'll ever get around to ripping all thousand or so discs, but that would be a pretty weird thing to be able to carry all that around with me.
music: Smiths - Hatful of Hollow; random randomness
posted by taylorsherman at 12:04 AM
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Friday, March 16, 2007
vanilla
I'm not sure whose pictures I've faved more, seventytw0dpi or darkshapes.
posted by taylorsherman at 12:09 AM
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
ah ah ah ah ah
Thursday, March 15 2007
23:35
Someone said today, "That wallows in lameness." When I said "that's an Almost Live! joke" he was pretty surprised that I picked up on it. Shit, I bet that's on Youtube somewhere. . .brb. . .YES!. Some other good ones there too, ah, classics – Mind Your Manners With Billy Quan . . . Sluggy . . . haven't found "Cops: in Wallingford" yet though.
Other than that. . . a day not much unlike many others. Oh, so is 15/8 really supposed to only mean five groupings of three? I can completely understand 6/8 v. 3/4 -- two ways of writing the same thing, so they can take on two distinct meanings. It seems hokey though to have to write alternating bars of 8 and 7 (or whatever) instead of just saying 15. . .and it's not 15/4. . .well maybe that would be correct. Some people would say 8+7/8. Which reminds me of the confusion over the time sigs in the middle section of "Breathless" off Exposure. The ET page still has the same "3/3 plus 3/8" quote, and two notes on what that may mean underneath it. I've guessed that what RF probably said was "33+3/8", as the drum pattern is pretty clearly three elevens and a three. I emailed the webmaster a couple years ago about that, but no reply or mention on the page.
music: Lilys - In the Presence of Nothing; Robert Fripp - Exposure; Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
23:35
Someone said today, "That wallows in lameness." When I said "that's an Almost Live! joke" he was pretty surprised that I picked up on it. Shit, I bet that's on Youtube somewhere. . .brb. . .YES!. Some other good ones there too, ah, classics – Mind Your Manners With Billy Quan . . . Sluggy . . . haven't found "Cops: in Wallingford" yet though.
Other than that. . . a day not much unlike many others. Oh, so is 15/8 really supposed to only mean five groupings of three? I can completely understand 6/8 v. 3/4 -- two ways of writing the same thing, so they can take on two distinct meanings. It seems hokey though to have to write alternating bars of 8 and 7 (or whatever) instead of just saying 15. . .and it's not 15/4. . .well maybe that would be correct. Some people would say 8+7/8. Which reminds me of the confusion over the time sigs in the middle section of "Breathless" off Exposure. The ET page still has the same "3/3 plus 3/8" quote, and two notes on what that may mean underneath it. I've guessed that what RF probably said was "33+3/8", as the drum pattern is pretty clearly three elevens and a three. I emailed the webmaster a couple years ago about that, but no reply or mention on the page.
music: Lilys - In the Presence of Nothing; Robert Fripp - Exposure; Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
posted by taylorsherman at 11:50 PM
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karijoe1997
This is the first picture I "favorited" on Flickr. My old college roommate Joe and friend Kari.
I hear about and meet up with Kari once in a while via some other friends, but I haven't heard anything from or about Joe in about five years.
I hear about and meet up with Kari once in a while via some other friends, but I haven't heard anything from or about Joe in about five years.
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Lined Up
Wednesday, March 14 2007
24:26
Not much enthusiasm for simply recalling the day's events here. Good practice tonight. Worked on the "fives" pattern – lots of glossy eyes there – and the sequence for the other patterns – which they picked up very quickly.
music: Shriekback - The Y Records Years (there are a couple tracks on these discs that I like, and then a lot that bore me); Angels of Light - New Mother; At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
24:26
Not much enthusiasm for simply recalling the day's events here. Good practice tonight. Worked on the "fives" pattern – lots of glossy eyes there – and the sequence for the other patterns – which they picked up very quickly.
music: Shriekback - The Y Records Years (there are a couple tracks on these discs that I like, and then a lot that bore me); Angels of Light - New Mother; At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
posted by taylorsherman at 12:30 AM
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
A-Mouse-For-Dinner
The first time I've "blogged" someone else's picture.
posted by taylorsherman at 12:18 AM
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Tuesday
Tuesday, March 13 2007
24:07
It was sunny but cold, with a bitter wind today.
music: Tool - Undertow; The Cure - Faith; Meshuggah - Catch 33; Ratatat - Classics
24:07
It was sunny but cold, with a bitter wind today.
music: Tool - Undertow; The Cure - Faith; Meshuggah - Catch 33; Ratatat - Classics
posted by taylorsherman at 12:10 AM
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Making Flippy Floppy
Monday, March 12 2007
25:28
Ahh, a really good show tonight. Felt good from my seat, and audience feedback was great too.
Had a moment when I came home. Stuff wasn't where it should have been. Got that feeling someone had been in here. But, why would they only move this chair over here, and this gig bag over here? It wasn't until I got my camera to take a snapshot before moving things back, that it clicked: right, I'd done it right before leaving this morning, so that I could get a headshot of myself w/ a white backdrop, to use on an access badge.
music: Joy Division - Still; Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense; some gamelan gong kebyar
25:28
Ahh, a really good show tonight. Felt good from my seat, and audience feedback was great too.
Had a moment when I came home. Stuff wasn't where it should have been. Got that feeling someone had been in here. But, why would they only move this chair over here, and this gig bag over here? It wasn't until I got my camera to take a snapshot before moving things back, that it clicked: right, I'd done it right before leaving this morning, so that I could get a headshot of myself w/ a white backdrop, to use on an access badge.
music: Joy Division - Still; Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense; some gamelan gong kebyar
posted by taylorsherman at 1:36 AM
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Take 331
Sunday, March 11 2007
23:53 PDT
Did a double-take last night, while typing an email, looked at the clock and it said 3:00. . .oh yeah. Wow, its surprisingly weird to have DST kick in so early. It always feels a little "not right" after the change, and today it was just even more so that way.
Spent a couple hours on the new recording, with not much to show for it. Tried to put some voice back on it, but it just wasn't working. Frustrating. Sonar says I've hit record 331 times on that project.
It was windy and rainy out today. But the wind was almost warm. Looked cold, but it wasn't. Kinda nice.
More weird dreams this morning, including one where someone from work kidnapped me, and was trying to take me to Canada, in an 18-wheeler. Something about her kids. Doesn't much compare to Friday's dream, that one takes the cake so far this year.
music: Opeth - Ghost Reveries
23:53 PDT
Did a double-take last night, while typing an email, looked at the clock and it said 3:00. . .oh yeah. Wow, its surprisingly weird to have DST kick in so early. It always feels a little "not right" after the change, and today it was just even more so that way.
Spent a couple hours on the new recording, with not much to show for it. Tried to put some voice back on it, but it just wasn't working. Frustrating. Sonar says I've hit record 331 times on that project.
It was windy and rainy out today. But the wind was almost warm. Looked cold, but it wasn't. Kinda nice.
More weird dreams this morning, including one where someone from work kidnapped me, and was trying to take me to Canada, in an 18-wheeler. Something about her kids. Doesn't much compare to Friday's dream, that one takes the cake so far this year.
music: Opeth - Ghost Reveries
posted by taylorsherman at 12:03 AM
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
brrrng
Saturday, March 10 2007
25:42
Spent a couple hours on the new recording this evening. Removed the voice, added a lot of other stuff. Not done yet. Uploaded it to MySpace for the time being, but my page still has the song it replaced there (and playable). Not sure what that's about.
Good rehearsal today. Had a hard time getting up this morning, but managed it without sleeping in later than I wanted. The (45-minute) sitting seemed to last about two hours, was dozing off near the end. A full team for rehearsal for the first time in a while. Focused mostly on three pieces. I got whiny about people tapping their feet during empty measures. If it was always in time, it'd just be a presentation issue. But it's not always (or, more often, the group does not always have a coherent sense of time, and having several feet tapping disparately does not help the situation). Also, when people try to tap silently, the end result is I'd just hear the "shush" of their leg moving or something, and that's not even anywhere near the beat. If I were relying solely on my own sense of time, the sounds wouldn't throw me off. But I know from experience that, if I do that, I'll come in before everyone else. So really it's all about being very sensitive to what's going on with the whole group. In this state, a stray tap here or there seems to really derail me.
For the last 20 minutes (and then some), we worked on some new circulation exercises (several groups at a time, interleaved, up and down two or three octaves in a scale). Fairly challenging.
Napped when I got home for a good solid 4 hours. Recording, dinner, and TV after that.
music: Cocteau Twins box set selections
25:42
Spent a couple hours on the new recording this evening. Removed the voice, added a lot of other stuff. Not done yet. Uploaded it to MySpace for the time being, but my page still has the song it replaced there (and playable). Not sure what that's about.
Good rehearsal today. Had a hard time getting up this morning, but managed it without sleeping in later than I wanted. The (45-minute) sitting seemed to last about two hours, was dozing off near the end. A full team for rehearsal for the first time in a while. Focused mostly on three pieces. I got whiny about people tapping their feet during empty measures. If it was always in time, it'd just be a presentation issue. But it's not always (or, more often, the group does not always have a coherent sense of time, and having several feet tapping disparately does not help the situation). Also, when people try to tap silently, the end result is I'd just hear the "shush" of their leg moving or something, and that's not even anywhere near the beat. If I were relying solely on my own sense of time, the sounds wouldn't throw me off. But I know from experience that, if I do that, I'll come in before everyone else. So really it's all about being very sensitive to what's going on with the whole group. In this state, a stray tap here or there seems to really derail me.
For the last 20 minutes (and then some), we worked on some new circulation exercises (several groups at a time, interleaved, up and down two or three octaves in a scale). Fairly challenging.
Napped when I got home for a good solid 4 hours. Recording, dinner, and TV after that.
music: Cocteau Twins box set selections
posted by taylorsherman at 1:53 AM
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Saturday, March 10, 2007
Spectra
Friday, March 9 2007
24:00
Just spent 90 minutes doing some new recording. Didn't intend it to be 90 minutes again, just worked out that way. Began with overlapping notes on the fretless from C1 up through the harmonic series, as closely as I could (not playing harmonics, but playing regular notes at around the same pitch). Got up to the 16th harmonic, yielding a sort of big chime sound. Scrunched that down and looped it, then copied it to another track, reversed it and looped it. Put some reverb on both those. The end result actually sounds a lot like something from The Downward Spiral, don't remember which track though. Put some beats in. Added some voice, mostly droning on C w/ the 8th harmonic, sliding up to E then up to the next C once. Just a couple quick takes on the voice, needs work.
Earlier – I think MI2 may be the dumbest movie ever made. Thandie Newton is a beautiful, beautiful woman. Ah, I was thinking this was the first movie I'd seen her in since Flirting, but that's right, she was in The Chronicles of Riddick.
Before that. . .field trip to Tukwila today. A little bit of computer doctoring and then a lot of grunt work. Renaming and labeling a bunch of servers that came from disparate backgrounds, and hence had various arbitrary names and numbers, into something resembling a pattern. Then tracing power cables from computers to sockets, which involved lots of wiggling a bit here then finding which one was wiggling in step on the other side of the tie-downs, as they were all bundled together. Somehow the mapping was all wrong, net result being that the wrong computer was remotely power-cycled the other day. I'm reasonably certain it's correct now. Exciting stuff. . .
No return yet of the sunny weather we got teased with on Tuesday.
Woke up this morning around quarter to five ... after a really, really weird dream. After a few groggy minutes I realized it was very quiet outside, so probably earlier than I figured, so I looked at the clock, and it was 5:09. Fell back asleep not long after that, then woke up again around a quarter after seven.
music: Electric Gauchos - Blue Orb; Swans - Various Failures
24:00
Just spent 90 minutes doing some new recording. Didn't intend it to be 90 minutes again, just worked out that way. Began with overlapping notes on the fretless from C1 up through the harmonic series, as closely as I could (not playing harmonics, but playing regular notes at around the same pitch). Got up to the 16th harmonic, yielding a sort of big chime sound. Scrunched that down and looped it, then copied it to another track, reversed it and looped it. Put some reverb on both those. The end result actually sounds a lot like something from The Downward Spiral, don't remember which track though. Put some beats in. Added some voice, mostly droning on C w/ the 8th harmonic, sliding up to E then up to the next C once. Just a couple quick takes on the voice, needs work.
Earlier – I think MI2 may be the dumbest movie ever made. Thandie Newton is a beautiful, beautiful woman. Ah, I was thinking this was the first movie I'd seen her in since Flirting, but that's right, she was in The Chronicles of Riddick.
Before that. . .field trip to Tukwila today. A little bit of computer doctoring and then a lot of grunt work. Renaming and labeling a bunch of servers that came from disparate backgrounds, and hence had various arbitrary names and numbers, into something resembling a pattern. Then tracing power cables from computers to sockets, which involved lots of wiggling a bit here then finding which one was wiggling in step on the other side of the tie-downs, as they were all bundled together. Somehow the mapping was all wrong, net result being that the wrong computer was remotely power-cycled the other day. I'm reasonably certain it's correct now. Exciting stuff. . .
No return yet of the sunny weather we got teased with on Tuesday.
Woke up this morning around quarter to five ... after a really, really weird dream. After a few groggy minutes I realized it was very quiet outside, so probably earlier than I figured, so I looked at the clock, and it was 5:09. Fell back asleep not long after that, then woke up again around a quarter after seven.
music: Electric Gauchos - Blue Orb; Swans - Various Failures
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Friday, March 09, 2007
Thursday
Thursday, March 8 2007
24:39
Had a really nice time at dinner tonight with an old friend. Lots of catching up to do, and also some delving into deeper subjects here and there. The food, Ethiopian, was pretty good. A little too much of the same flavors on the platter we got, next time I'll have to try something different.
Not much else of interest today.
music: Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within; Tool - 10,000 Days
24:39
Had a really nice time at dinner tonight with an old friend. Lots of catching up to do, and also some delving into deeper subjects here and there. The food, Ethiopian, was pretty good. A little too much of the same flavors on the platter we got, next time I'll have to try something different.
Not much else of interest today.
music: Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within; Tool - 10,000 Days
posted by taylorsherman at 12:45 AM
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Three Seven Oh Seven
Wednesday, March 7 2007
24:47
I noticed something last night, and it's really driving me crazy. Having some insight into the way your mind works is usually interesting, sometimes amusing, and after a while pretty frustrating; insight into how your emotions work can be really painful. They're both just as mechanical in nature as your body; I've accepted that for the former, but not the latter. The mistake looming in front of me is dismissing (or, really, any such reaction) the emotions now that I see part of why they sprung up.
Not so sunny, and definitely not warm, today. Rained. The post-rain air was really nice this morning, however; yesterday there was quite a bit of smog visible driving by downtown.
Spent 30 minutes at the beginning of rehearsal today working on Triangulation. Making some progress, and hearing how it sounds at least for the most part with a bunch of guitarists in a room. Mostly encouraging. We also revisited "In My Room" for the first time in a while (they worked on it while I was away; for me, I hadn't played it since last year, took a while to remember some of it). Amazingly, progress made there too, the zither bits coming together in a way they never did last year.
A little socializing after that, then home for a snack and some TV.
Having dinner with Tizzy tomorrow night – Ethiopian food. Haven't seen her for a while, a year or more maybe. Looking forward to it. Never had Ethiopian food either.
music: Herbie Hancock - Headhunters; REM - Murmur; David Bowie - Low
24:47
I noticed something last night, and it's really driving me crazy. Having some insight into the way your mind works is usually interesting, sometimes amusing, and after a while pretty frustrating; insight into how your emotions work can be really painful. They're both just as mechanical in nature as your body; I've accepted that for the former, but not the latter. The mistake looming in front of me is dismissing (or, really, any such reaction) the emotions now that I see part of why they sprung up.
Not so sunny, and definitely not warm, today. Rained. The post-rain air was really nice this morning, however; yesterday there was quite a bit of smog visible driving by downtown.
Spent 30 minutes at the beginning of rehearsal today working on Triangulation. Making some progress, and hearing how it sounds at least for the most part with a bunch of guitarists in a room. Mostly encouraging. We also revisited "In My Room" for the first time in a while (they worked on it while I was away; for me, I hadn't played it since last year, took a while to remember some of it). Amazingly, progress made there too, the zither bits coming together in a way they never did last year.
A little socializing after that, then home for a snack and some TV.
Having dinner with Tizzy tomorrow night – Ethiopian food. Haven't seen her for a while, a year or more maybe. Looking forward to it. Never had Ethiopian food either.
music: Herbie Hancock - Headhunters; REM - Murmur; David Bowie - Low
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Sun
Tuesday, March 6 2007
24:15
Lovely day. Sunny and maybe 70? Joy joy joy as I get in the car this morning and reach for the sunroof-open button. Stepped on the scale this morning. I've lost 15 pounds since around Thanksgiving. I'm attributing that mostly to not drinking as much soda. I've also been eating a lot more fish. Had sushi for lunch today. I ordered the "Cabo" rolls, the waiter must have heard "Combo", as I got the sampler plate. Wasn't sure what was in it/them, so I opted to wait for what I ordered. Not bad (tuna, jicama, avocado).
Played some bass, w/ the Cure's Concert cd. Every time I hear "Charlotte Sometimes" it reminds me of Claire Silverman. She used to tell me about that book, and how cool it was that Robert Smith wrote a song about it, and how the girl in the story was also known as "Clare", and had the same initials as her. Claire was one of many times where my response to the world around me lagged reality by a good year or two. By then, she'd moved on. I'd really like to know how she's doing these days. She was one of the few people I wanted to see at the 10-year reunion that wasn't there. I tried Google, and it seems she lives in the Bay Area (where her family moved here from just before high school), with one or more Italian greyhounds.
I suppose if there was going to be a 10-year reunion for my Cooper class, I would have heard about it by now.
music: Japan - In Vogue; ProjeKct Four - West Coast Live; ProjeKct Two - Live Groove; Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
24:15
Lovely day. Sunny and maybe 70? Joy joy joy as I get in the car this morning and reach for the sunroof-open button. Stepped on the scale this morning. I've lost 15 pounds since around Thanksgiving. I'm attributing that mostly to not drinking as much soda. I've also been eating a lot more fish. Had sushi for lunch today. I ordered the "Cabo" rolls, the waiter must have heard "Combo", as I got the sampler plate. Wasn't sure what was in it/them, so I opted to wait for what I ordered. Not bad (tuna, jicama, avocado).
Played some bass, w/ the Cure's Concert cd. Every time I hear "Charlotte Sometimes" it reminds me of Claire Silverman. She used to tell me about that book, and how cool it was that Robert Smith wrote a song about it, and how the girl in the story was also known as "Clare", and had the same initials as her. Claire was one of many times where my response to the world around me lagged reality by a good year or two. By then, she'd moved on. I'd really like to know how she's doing these days. She was one of the few people I wanted to see at the 10-year reunion that wasn't there. I tried Google, and it seems she lives in the Bay Area (where her family moved here from just before high school), with one or more Italian greyhounds.
I suppose if there was going to be a 10-year reunion for my Cooper class, I would have heard about it by now.
music: Japan - In Vogue; ProjeKct Four - West Coast Live; ProjeKct Two - Live Groove; Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
posted by taylorsherman at 12:43 AM
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Peace Attack
Monday, March 5 2007
23:45
Small audience tonight. The good weather probably played a part – it was actually warm, in the sun, today. Anyway, a half dozen friends in the audience and three new people. Kind of an odd show – one player short, we'll be back up to the full team next week – and things started off a bit lethargic, but picked up. Very good feedback from the first-timers.
There's a park in downtown Bellevue. It's not bad, but it's got a serious duck poop problem these days. Still braved the goo to have lunch in the sun today.
You know, that JSA conference at the Hyatt must have been in the second half of my junior year of HS – because when Scoff came on, I could tell it was Nirvana but didn't know the song, as I didn't have Bleach yet. So that was certainly before May 1992 when I made that tape.
The more of other people's pictures from the cruise I see, the more I wish I went ziplining. Of course, that would have meant not driving around on the scooters, which was a blast. So, I think the thing is I just have to go again sometime. Have to snorkel w/ the stingrays, nurse sharks, and cuttlefish too. I also kind of wish I went to the beach party on Thursday – it was a pretty nice day as it was, but that looks like it was lots of fun.
music: ProjeKct Three - Masque; Sonic Youth - Nurse; The Cure - Concert
23:45
Small audience tonight. The good weather probably played a part – it was actually warm, in the sun, today. Anyway, a half dozen friends in the audience and three new people. Kind of an odd show – one player short, we'll be back up to the full team next week – and things started off a bit lethargic, but picked up. Very good feedback from the first-timers.
There's a park in downtown Bellevue. It's not bad, but it's got a serious duck poop problem these days. Still braved the goo to have lunch in the sun today.
You know, that JSA conference at the Hyatt must have been in the second half of my junior year of HS – because when Scoff came on, I could tell it was Nirvana but didn't know the song, as I didn't have Bleach yet. So that was certainly before May 1992 when I made that tape.
The more of other people's pictures from the cruise I see, the more I wish I went ziplining. Of course, that would have meant not driving around on the scooters, which was a blast. So, I think the thing is I just have to go again sometime. Have to snorkel w/ the stingrays, nurse sharks, and cuttlefish too. I also kind of wish I went to the beach party on Thursday – it was a pretty nice day as it was, but that looks like it was lots of fun.
music: ProjeKct Three - Masque; Sonic Youth - Nurse; The Cure - Concert
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Monday, March 05, 2007
Smooth Light Industrial Jazz
Sunday, March 4 2007
24:19
Continuing from Friday – the other thing about "Scoff" is that, after it ends, I always hear the opening beat of KMFDM's "Piggybank" coming next. This is from a mix tape I made in May 1992, titled "Industrial!!!". It was mostly NIN, Nitzer Ebb, Nirvana (seemed to fit somehow), and Skinny Puppy, with some Front 242 and KMDFM thrown in. I now have "Love Buzz" stuck in my head. Anyway, I think I listened to that tape a lot, mostly while driving, senior year.
Glad I went to the show last night. The price of drinks on the ship wasn't really that bad in comparison, I paid $11 for an Oban at ToST (though it was a healthy pour). The music was loud, didn't really make for a social environment, everyone was pretty much either watching/listening to the band, or just somewhere else. I almost got clobbered by a guy in a Subaru while crossing the street on my way home. Got the walk signal, started to cross, he came flying around the corner. Slammed on the brakes too late, if I hadn't seen him coming and known there was no way he'd stop, I'd have been dogmeat.
Slept in today, catching up a little. Never really did much on the housecleaning front. Just a few little things. Spent an hour or so putting some "guitar fool" solos in the new song, still tentatively titled "Reintegration". While taking out the trash I noticed it was almost a nice day out, and the sun was about to set. So, I hopped down to the park – the idea being to mostly chill out, but I also took the camera, and ended up mostly taking pictures. The new funky white balance ends up making any sunset look spectacular, so it felt like cheating but I got a couple really nice pictures that way.
Then back here, to the store for stuff and dinner (Chinese deli). Watched Battlestar Galactica – I'd lost interest in the show a few weeks ago, which was surprising as I always loved it; but I'm glad I watched tonight. Then The Bourne Supremacy.
24:19
Continuing from Friday – the other thing about "Scoff" is that, after it ends, I always hear the opening beat of KMFDM's "Piggybank" coming next. This is from a mix tape I made in May 1992, titled "Industrial!!!". It was mostly NIN, Nitzer Ebb, Nirvana (seemed to fit somehow), and Skinny Puppy, with some Front 242 and KMDFM thrown in. I now have "Love Buzz" stuck in my head. Anyway, I think I listened to that tape a lot, mostly while driving, senior year.
Glad I went to the show last night. The price of drinks on the ship wasn't really that bad in comparison, I paid $11 for an Oban at ToST (though it was a healthy pour). The music was loud, didn't really make for a social environment, everyone was pretty much either watching/listening to the band, or just somewhere else. I almost got clobbered by a guy in a Subaru while crossing the street on my way home. Got the walk signal, started to cross, he came flying around the corner. Slammed on the brakes too late, if I hadn't seen him coming and known there was no way he'd stop, I'd have been dogmeat.
Slept in today, catching up a little. Never really did much on the housecleaning front. Just a few little things. Spent an hour or so putting some "guitar fool" solos in the new song, still tentatively titled "Reintegration". While taking out the trash I noticed it was almost a nice day out, and the sun was about to set. So, I hopped down to the park – the idea being to mostly chill out, but I also took the camera, and ended up mostly taking pictures. The new funky white balance ends up making any sunset look spectacular, so it felt like cheating but I got a couple really nice pictures that way.
Then back here, to the store for stuff and dinner (Chinese deli). Watched Battlestar Galactica – I'd lost interest in the show a few weeks ago, which was surprising as I always loved it; but I'm glad I watched tonight. Then The Bourne Supremacy.
posted by taylorsherman at 12:11 AM
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Sunday, March 04, 2007
Should have napped
Saturday, March 3 2007
25:32
Sleepy. Up at 7, practice until 1. Lunch – pho – w/ IA. Later, up to Fremont to see Electrochakra play at ToST. Three sets, from 10 to 1. The third was the best. Not terribly busy in there, though one of the guitarists just got married so some friends and family showed up for a while. To sleep now.
music: King Crimson - Vrooom Vrooom; ProjeKCt Two - Live Groove
25:32
Sleepy. Up at 7, practice until 1. Lunch – pho – w/ IA. Later, up to Fremont to see Electrochakra play at ToST. Three sets, from 10 to 1. The third was the best. Not terribly busy in there, though one of the guitarists just got married so some friends and family showed up for a while. To sleep now.
music: King Crimson - Vrooom Vrooom; ProjeKCt Two - Live Groove
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Gimme back my alcohol
Friday, March 2 2007
24:08
Spent the past 90 minutes doing some recording, with 5 minutes of music to show for it. A few flubs that could use some touch-ups but I'm not really enthusiastic about doing that now. Also needs some mixing and EQ. The scale and droning notes in the bass line remind me of "Disintegration", so the working title for now (DORD) is "Reintegration".
I think Bleach is my favorite Nirvana album. It wasn't the first I heard: I remember seeing it up as "Album of the Year" at Cellophane Square, but at the time I was more interested in The Smiths and New Order, and wrote Nirvana off as some noise I wouldn't like. So "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the radio was my introduction to them. Anyway, every time I hear "Scoff" it reminds me of an interesting weekend. The last Junior State convention I went to was my senior year (not sure if it was in 92 or 93) of high school, and it was at the Hyatt in Bellevue. I knew ahead of time via a friend of mine that ErinA was going to be there, a girl I'd sort of socially collided with at some parties the previous year, causing me much angst and leaving her, I was certain, hating me for some reason. Anyway, that night there was a "dance" in one of the ballrooms. The music was lame and everyone was just sitting around mostly. Erin was there, she'd gained a little weight but was still very cute. So then "Scoff" comes on, some guy from a downtown high school yells out "There IS a God!", and soon 20 or 30 of us have formed a tight little quasi-mosh-pit on the "dance floor". Five minutes of happy, bouncing, sweaty teenagers. I remember bouncing off of Erin a few times, and both of us were smiling. They shut down the dance immediately afterwards, something about "too loud" or "dangerous" or something. And that was that. I think I saw Erin during the next day's events, but that was the last time I ever saw her.
As for the rest of that weekend. . .it was mostly miserable. I had a bit of a crush on one of the girls from my school that was there; we argued a lot, she was "a republican". Anyway, I had no idea she even had a boyfriend until she asked if she could borrow my nametag to get him into the hotel (I agreed, savoring the irony at least). So at some point she went off to meet up with her boyfriend, "Taylor". I was also the only boy from my school there, so I got to share a room with three guys from Roosevelt or Garfield I think. I spent as little time there as possible; while trying to sleep on the floor mostly I listened to them get stoned and talk about "getting on" various "nasty chicks" that were there. They kept the pipe in the bathroom, so while it was enough to stink I didn't even get a 2nd-hand high.
And the final surreal moment was winning "Best Debater" for a debate I wasn't even officially involved in. It was a debate over nuclear power, and both pro and con sides were pathetic and knew nothing about the subject more or less ("it's clean" v. "Chernobyl"). After one round the pro side yielded time to the chair, so I got up and talked about modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, and how they recently tested one in Germany and it was self-regulating and meltdown proof, and how their modular, mass-produced designs would cut the construction costs by an order of magnitude, etc. The con's rebuttal to this was mostly "oh, wow, really?".
Those conventions were always pretty weird for me. The highlights include spending an evening wandering around downtown Portland with friends, and congregating w/ a bunch of people in one of the girls' rooms to watch that night's Twin Peaks at the Seatac Red Lion. I wasn't really that interested in the whole debate / mock government side of things.
music: Nirvana - Bleach; King Crimson - Beat, and Absent Lovers
24:08
Spent the past 90 minutes doing some recording, with 5 minutes of music to show for it. A few flubs that could use some touch-ups but I'm not really enthusiastic about doing that now. Also needs some mixing and EQ. The scale and droning notes in the bass line remind me of "Disintegration", so the working title for now (DORD) is "Reintegration".
I think Bleach is my favorite Nirvana album. It wasn't the first I heard: I remember seeing it up as "Album of the Year" at Cellophane Square, but at the time I was more interested in The Smiths and New Order, and wrote Nirvana off as some noise I wouldn't like. So "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the radio was my introduction to them. Anyway, every time I hear "Scoff" it reminds me of an interesting weekend. The last Junior State convention I went to was my senior year (not sure if it was in 92 or 93) of high school, and it was at the Hyatt in Bellevue. I knew ahead of time via a friend of mine that ErinA was going to be there, a girl I'd sort of socially collided with at some parties the previous year, causing me much angst and leaving her, I was certain, hating me for some reason. Anyway, that night there was a "dance" in one of the ballrooms. The music was lame and everyone was just sitting around mostly. Erin was there, she'd gained a little weight but was still very cute. So then "Scoff" comes on, some guy from a downtown high school yells out "There IS a God!", and soon 20 or 30 of us have formed a tight little quasi-mosh-pit on the "dance floor". Five minutes of happy, bouncing, sweaty teenagers. I remember bouncing off of Erin a few times, and both of us were smiling. They shut down the dance immediately afterwards, something about "too loud" or "dangerous" or something. And that was that. I think I saw Erin during the next day's events, but that was the last time I ever saw her.
As for the rest of that weekend. . .it was mostly miserable. I had a bit of a crush on one of the girls from my school that was there; we argued a lot, she was "a republican". Anyway, I had no idea she even had a boyfriend until she asked if she could borrow my nametag to get him into the hotel (I agreed, savoring the irony at least). So at some point she went off to meet up with her boyfriend, "Taylor". I was also the only boy from my school there, so I got to share a room with three guys from Roosevelt or Garfield I think. I spent as little time there as possible; while trying to sleep on the floor mostly I listened to them get stoned and talk about "getting on" various "nasty chicks" that were there. They kept the pipe in the bathroom, so while it was enough to stink I didn't even get a 2nd-hand high.
And the final surreal moment was winning "Best Debater" for a debate I wasn't even officially involved in. It was a debate over nuclear power, and both pro and con sides were pathetic and knew nothing about the subject more or less ("it's clean" v. "Chernobyl"). After one round the pro side yielded time to the chair, so I got up and talked about modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, and how they recently tested one in Germany and it was self-regulating and meltdown proof, and how their modular, mass-produced designs would cut the construction costs by an order of magnitude, etc. The con's rebuttal to this was mostly "oh, wow, really?".
Those conventions were always pretty weird for me. The highlights include spending an evening wandering around downtown Portland with friends, and congregating w/ a bunch of people in one of the girls' rooms to watch that night's Twin Peaks at the Seatac Red Lion. I wasn't really that interested in the whole debate / mock government side of things.
music: Nirvana - Bleach; King Crimson - Beat, and Absent Lovers
posted by taylorsherman at 12:44 AM
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Spleen
Thursday, March 1 2007
23:41
Well the appointment I tried to make online to get my windshield replaced apparently didn't work so well. I asked for an appointment today, but nobody ever called. I just filled out a different form, the "request a quote" form. This one took an email address; we'll see what happens. The cracks haven't grown too much longer at least.
I really need to clean my apartment, it is way overdue. Sunday. Maybe.
Personal practice tonight was mostly a bunch of random stuff, with the metronome set a little faster than I could really play. Which is higher than it was a few months ago; could just be the batteries though. Began w/ the "airport exercise" after getting sent a link to Steve's youtube video today.
music: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (disc one); Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal; Melvins - Houdini
23:41
Well the appointment I tried to make online to get my windshield replaced apparently didn't work so well. I asked for an appointment today, but nobody ever called. I just filled out a different form, the "request a quote" form. This one took an email address; we'll see what happens. The cracks haven't grown too much longer at least.
I really need to clean my apartment, it is way overdue. Sunday. Maybe.
Personal practice tonight was mostly a bunch of random stuff, with the metronome set a little faster than I could really play. Which is higher than it was a few months ago; could just be the batteries though. Began w/ the "airport exercise" after getting sent a link to Steve's youtube video today.
music: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (disc one); Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal; Melvins - Houdini
posted by taylorsherman at 11:51 PM
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Crazy Town
Wednesday, February 28 2007
24:25
Short-handed practice tonight, only six there. Worked on Triangulation a bit at the end, at Jaxie's suggestion.
Was reminded about the Police reunion tour today; the first show is apparently sold out at the Key, the second goes on sale Saturday. Looks like ticket prices will be in the hundreds of dollars. Not worth it for me. If the show was at the Showbox, or the Moore, yes. Also noticed that both Modest Mouse shows in Portland are sold out.
It snowed today in various places around town.
music: Velocity Girl - Copacetic; Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique; Meshuggah - Catch 33; Radiohead - OK Computer
24:25
Short-handed practice tonight, only six there. Worked on Triangulation a bit at the end, at Jaxie's suggestion.
Was reminded about the Police reunion tour today; the first show is apparently sold out at the Key, the second goes on sale Saturday. Looks like ticket prices will be in the hundreds of dollars. Not worth it for me. If the show was at the Showbox, or the Moore, yes. Also noticed that both Modest Mouse shows in Portland are sold out.
It snowed today in various places around town.
music: Velocity Girl - Copacetic; Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique; Meshuggah - Catch 33; Radiohead - OK Computer
posted by taylorsherman at 12:31 AM
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