transmothraMusic page updated slightly with some older songs and an early mix of that damn song i’m trying to finish now. (If you’ve already heard “10 Silver Needles”, it’s the same over-compressed, clipped-bass mix. For those who haven’t heard the older stuff, it’ll give you some idea of my complete lack of stylistic focus.)
Dusted off the old multitrack tonight, have renewed energy for recording… just want to get that stupid ballad polished enough to move the hell on. It’s been almost a year now since i first started recording it, and i haven’t touched it in several months now.
See, for some reason, i can’t back up that one song, and i want to free up some disk space to make the noise i need to make to get my engines revved up again… so i got to take this mountain down, piece by piece, until the valley is in view and i can move forward again.
So right now i’m re-tracking the bass part. It clipped so badly before, and i think i was drunk when i recorded it the first time.
It’s hard to get a good performance when you’re too lazy to punch in, but it sure feels better knowing it’ll be a one-take track.
Latest musical problem: there’s a $400 digital piano i NEEEEEED so badly but it’s being discontinued and i won’t have the money for it for another two weeks; after that, i’ll have to pay $600-800 for a decent machine. I need 88 keys, and i’ve been having weird oscillator problems with the old 61-key Juno 106, which doesn’t have expressive dynamics anyway and the sounds aren’t really all that. Of course, i’ll still need a synth. And a better drum machine. Sigh.
One of my favorite friends of all time is Melissa R. She and i go way back to around 1997-98, when we wore headsets at AT&T Wireless together. I really only knew her in proximity for several months, actually, because she ended up moving to the left coast relatively soon afterward. But we got along so very well. She’s the kindest, most gentle soul who has ever graced this planet. She’s also wicked funny, madly intelligent, and insanely charming. She’s been though a lot, and has the most wonderful beaming smile that just fills you up with such incredible, serene warmth. Truth be told, she’s one of my favorite iterations of the Bodhisattva. I’m very, very lucky to have had the opportunity to meet her in the short year and a half that i worked at that company.
I haven’t seen her for a long, long time. It’s been a couple of years since last we spoke, in fact. But thanks to her comment on one of my posts recently, we’re back in touch. What a great weekend for memories. I was thrilled to hear that her little buddyboy (2 1/2 years old!) is doing great and that she’s got a new beau and is going back to college. She deserves so much that is good, and so i am very pleased!
I was so sad when she moved away. Her wit and general personal splendor are like nothing else you can find anywhere – once you’ve met her, it’s impossible not to be moved in a big way. Her humanity is overwhelming – i could have easily lost my faith in people entirely if not for her. It’s great to know such a fabulous woman.
Speaking of fabulous women, Holly and i are coming up on our first year together in August. I thank “Bob” for giving me the SLACK necessary to cheat so well at the game of Life by merely knowing her. Like so many ancient heroes, she has been to hell and has returned more powerful than ever. She’s so funny and bold and intelligent and sexy and tough. A quicker, more delightfully sarcastic wit can not be found anywhere else in this galaxy. When we met, i knew she was important and special and she impressed the hell out of me right away. I was very lucky that “the cute black-haired girl in the elevator” (she looks a little like an [American] Indian Janeane Garofalo) started temping at the same job i was starting. We’re such soul mates it’s just pathetic.
It’s hard to believe that our first year anniversary is coming up. It flew right by. That’s a great sign, although i know that much of the flying is also due to the long hard hours of work that we both do. We get very little time outside of work. But i cherish every moment with this incredible girl (as much of an asshole as i am about having time to myself).
I am glad for the memories i have of all the special people in my life, most of whom are not mentioned here but are in my heart always and forever.
No matter how much you want to believe otherwise, you’re just not ever going to believe these startling, floor-dropping-out-from-under-you news stories of Ro-bots*, and of chickens. Science to the rescue?! I think not, good sir! If only we could turn back the hands of time toward yesterday, when things were so more… innocenter.
The tables have finally turned! Humans can now control The Ro-bots via thoughts! Never again will a Ro-bot control my thoughts, or control me with its thoughts! And i’m kinda glad about that, i guess, but i think that by some measure, i will miss the old days.
This just in: Egg came first after all. I really do wish i didn’t have to keep continually using this next phrase, but it certainly is warranted in this case: Sorry, chicken.
* or, as Holly calls these metal demons, “Ro-bits”
Three Legged Legs – “Humans!”
A hilarious and depressing short animation about the scourge upon Earth that is humanity.
Shit. I just submitted my FAFSA.
Now i’m fucked/saved.
Finally! My online portfolio is nearly finished… The only thing left to do now is to acquire the main files from my most recent project and remove all proprietary informations.
I thought i’d NEVER get that shit done. That last one was a bitch to nail down – it turned out that it made much better sense to lose the damn b2evolution blog and just write in static content.
Lisa’s lease is up next month. (She still works in the same department as Holly and me. Ostensibly anyway.) Rumor has it that she’s moving to Columbus to be with her Trek-uniform-wearin’ nerd. Here’s to being rid of that nasty, creepy little brat once and for all time!!
Finally! My portfolio is nearly finished… The only thing left to do now is to acquire the main files from my most recent project and remove all proprietary informations.
I thought i’d NEVER get that shit done. That last one was a bitch to nail down – it turned out that it made much better sense to lose the damn b2evolution blog and just write in static content.
Let’s say you have a web portfolio of some web sites that you built.
And let’s say you’ve found a few errors that you didn’t catch in 2002.
Maybe even throw in a little obsolete code, which wasn’t actually obsolete at the time.
…Is is ethical to clean it up? Is it ethical to present something that, for all intents and purposes, looks and functions almost exactly the same as it did back then, yet has been tweaked to fix small errors?
In other words: is it okay for me to fix my mistakes?
YouTube: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Most hilarious mashup i’ve seen in hours!
I just took a small plunge i can’t very well afford in order to notch the music-creation thing up a little. All i bought were good distortion and digital delay pedals, plus some wall-juice and signal cables. But that’s a pretty big $200 right now. I’m kind of stressing it, but the sale on Digitech gear at MF ends this weekend. I only have a week until payday, but even then, i have to pay rent and utilities out of that.
I need this like air to breathe.
Music is absolutely everything to me, and i can NOT just keep fucking around anymore: i’m getting old, and my body aches, and i haven’t really had much creative output in years. Much worse: i have not yet left my mark, and so am unfit to die, having done nothing remotely profound with my life. If nobody comes to my funeral, or if there is no crying and no dancing, then i don’t even want to die at all. Not until i get it right.
And… i have an ulterior motive: i want to make a rock record that my grandpa can be proud of, before he leaves this world forever. I hate the thought of him dying with nothing going on at the last leaf on the family tree. It’s like letting him down in the worst possible way ever. So i am even more desperate to get started as soon as possible.
Someday, you will be able to hear the music that i hear in my head, and you will rejoice and/or despair. Possibly both at once.
Fourteenth Colony of Kobol discovered a scant 41 light-years away!
The first two orbit closer to their sun than does the Earth from its own; the third lies in a more habitable zone, although it likely has a crushingly heavy atmosphere. Cool news.
In the St. Louis, MO suburb of Black Jack, “Family Values” means getting legally married, or living on the street in a cardboard box with your kids.
CBS News: Black Jack, Mo., To Evict Unmarried Couples With Children From Homes
Mayor Norman McCourt said starting Wednesday the city will begin trying to evict groups who do not fit into Black Jack’s definition of family…
So, essentially, this means that if this kind of thing flies, the gummint will have a say in who you’re with, where you live, and how many children you have. What’s shocking is the the idea of evicting a couple with children. Homeless kids, i’d hazard, are never good PR for a city.
Well, it’s been taking forever, but finally!, my portfolio is online and pretty much more or less all (well, most) of those old dead sites are recreated and re-animated and essentially living again, albeit with synthetic blood this time around. Don’t look them too closely in the eyes, as there is no more soul in them as there is in an idiot, slack-jawed goldfish.
It’s been quite a learning experience… in fact, it really is amazing that i got away with such junk HTML in some of those sites. Actually, on the most prominent website i ever did, i actually used double-quotes within inline CSS. Which effectively turned off succeeding CSS rules, and invalidated the whole mess. It’s quite lucky, i’d guess, that anything worked at all in some cases.
There’s just a couple more sites to put up.
Things Creationists Hate