Here's the other mix I did last night. It's a bit longer (38 mins) but actually quite good, IMHOWIOC. Will put up tracklisting later, a man must work after all. Let me know if you like it!
out of sorts today..... can't drink so much anymore. And I got that song "Don't Have to Be So Sad" by Yo La Tengo running through my head. Such a beautiful song. It always reminds me what it's like to be love. (The good parts, caring about someone and thinking about them in idle moments)
I've seen Yo La Tengo twice-- once at Royal Festival Hall in London, once at the Fillmore. Both times it was magic. I imagine their marriage as a thing of great beauty, though I'm sure they've thrown dishes or gone to bed angry like anyone else.
Never go to bed angry
I need to get out to a show again. It used to be such a major part of my life. Two or three shows a week. And then... what happened? Part of it was I lost the desire to stand for 3 hours listening to too-loud music. Maybe I got jaded with indie stuff generally, the lack of costumes and dancers and pyrotechnics. But the other day my friend Will's band was playing at Bottom of the Hill, their last show ever with him in it, and I went to check it out
(it's two blocks from our house fer crissakes)
and some of it sounded too much like stereolab, but then there were parts where they just jammed, and it was really great to hear live. Like an experience you can't get via recording. It made me want to go out again, to stand in darkness with a couple hundred strangers & lose my head in sound. You and me Were at some goldfish pond And I I was tagging along for the ride This ugly big-mouthed fish really made us laugh
And while I stood still I felt a chill I thought that maybe you did too I wanted to feel that way forever
And that's why If you're looking at me I'll try To be what you want to see And if I If I'm ever that lucky You won't have to be so You won't have to be so sad
Last night I was trying to read in bed I got to watching you sleep instead Even when I got tired I couldn't stop Because I love you so And I pray you know But I'm not one for praying You knew I couldn't say that without making a joke
And that's why If you're looking at me I'll try To be what you want to see And if I If I'm ever that lucky You won't have to be so Won't have to be so sad...
1. Favorite bosses of all time (Mutoid Man, the hammer-and-sickle wielding 'collective' from Strider, Krang from TMNT)
2. Time attacks
3. Time attacks / mathematical beauty
4. Everything is art but asking what is art / what is good art still interesting, why? (because someone has to decide what goes in museums)
5. New Yorker on Olafur Eliason; first response = middle finger, second is thinking about roles of a critic, finally 'mature' stance that maybe they have a point. Is interior design art? Must things be difficult, must the soul be tortured and starving?
& from there we're taking the redeye to NYC. Another year, another Pesach. One nice thing about religion is that practicing it makes you very aware of the cyclical nature of time. You get attuned to the seasons. There are celebrations of renewal in spring, and festivals of light during the darkest days of winter.
Judaism especially is all about the sanctification of time. It's been argued that Jews were without a nation for so long that they became "at home only in time." What is the Sabbath if not a abstract cathedral erected each Saturday?
I miss the days when all the programming, design and art for a game could be done by a single person. It seems like there used to be so many of these oddball gems. Thank god for Flash, I suppose.
I know it's treasonous to post a Hulu link, but fuck it. SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy" has always cracked me up. I especially love Sean Connery as a hostile imbecile.
When I hear the words "jazz fusion," my instinct is to run. But listen to this beautiful, shimmering tune from Matthew Herbert and Dani Siciliano. What else could you call it but fusion?
Herbert fet. Dani Siciliano - Addiction Studio !K7, 2001
I like how seamless the song is-- you can't really tell which parts are electronic, and which came from real instruments. Is it just me or does that distinction seem increasingly archaic?
At our housewarming party last night, I went out to the back porch to have a cigarette. Jason was out there and he was done smoking, so I slid out of the way to let him open the door. As he went in, he pulled the door shut behind him. At this point I began to scream. My right ring finger was being crushed in the door jamb. Jason thought it was stuck, so he pulled even harder, increasing the vise-like pressure. It took several agonizing seconds before he realized what was happening and let go.
It had been a long time since I'd experienced such pain. My finger felt like it was going to explode. I staggered through the crowd in the kitchen and got some ice from the freezer. I couldn't find any paper towels, so I grabbed boxers from our bedroom and used them to hold the ice around my finger. It was throbbing like mad. I started to feel a little light-headed. It was a weird feeling, almost like drug-sickness. But I wasn't on drugs. Had I been drinking too much? I'd only had a couple of cocktails. Unsure what was happening, I laid down on my bed.
Eventually I decided I was recovered enough to go back out, so I got up and went to the hallway. Megan & her friends were there, so we started chatting. Just then I started feeling weird again. Next thing I know, I'm on my back on the floor, with people standing over me looking concerned. It was completely disorienting. They helped me back to the bed and told me I'd passed out for a second. It had never happened to me before, and I felt really uncomfortable and disturbed. What was going on?
The most likely theory, according to everyone I talked to, is that I fainted from pain. People said it's not uncommon for this to happen. I would prefer a less wussy explanation myself.
"Real time" mixing is for the birds I'm no DJ athlete Andrew recommended Audacity, so I'll try that instead Cosmo says you need a real board with knobs & such to use Traktor properly I'm no knob-twiddler
Update 12:30AM Nuts to Audacity Interface is horrible Feels like I'm trying to pick up peas with mittens Maybe "MixMeister Studio"
Update 1:23AM More like MixMeister Suckio F*** this, I'm just zippin the tracks Please mix them in your head
Been trying to teach myself Traktor. Beat matching is hard. I know you're supposed to learn by juggling two copies of one record, but that sounds so boring.
I had this idea for a mix, "songs that only make sense on a system with good bass." It seems like bass is fundamental to a lot of types of music, but some more than others. Like classic rock doesn't need it, but hip hop/electronic does. I wonder if the deep sub-woofer tones you hear in certain modern songs are deeper than anything that came before.
It's probably just 21st century arrogance on my part even thinking so. I mean, gongs are super deep, and they're ancient.
In high school I was friends with this guy Greg. He was very into his car's sound system. He had military-grade subwoofers. You know how sometimes a car will roll by and the bass will be so ridiculously loud that windows start to rattle and you can feel your clothes vibrating? Greg's car was like that.
I remember one time he was playing something-- very heavy, BOOM BOOM BOOM, and I asked him what it was. He replied, "Bass." Well yes there is certainly bass in this music, but who's the group? "It's just bass, man." He handed me the CD. It was a compilation, "Best of Bass Vol. 4." All the artists had names like "Bass2Dark" and "Basstronic" and "Bass Crew". Haha
