Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
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10:20 pm - rodan- rusty
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i bought a copy of this record today.
i haven't owned a copy since i lost the tape (and my walkman) in san diego at the end of my first trip to california about 8 years ago.
man.
weird.
it was on sale for $4 because its not cool anymore.
works for me.
i can't get enough of the music i listened to when i was 17-18 lately.
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Sunday, May 14th, 2006
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7:56 pm - i don't even know.
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big sur is amazing.
its funny how INCREDIBLE a pizza, salad, iced tea, and beer is after just 3 days in the woods. but it was.
reggae.
sly and the family stone.
popol vuh.
the spring.
word.
johnny walker tasting tomorrow. expensive whisky is going to be SICK.
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
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10:49 pm
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sometimes its funny realizing you've reached this point in your life without understanding the personal mechanics behind some things that should be learned extremely early on. oh well. so it goes.
some days are perfect. or at least approaching it. my afternoons lately have been such. leaving work around 3. drinking beer while lounging in the sun in a beautiful park reading a great book. who could ask for more basically.
also riding fast through downtown on bike at night = 2nd best thing in the world.
so extremely excited for our backpacking trip in big sur this weekend. 4 days. long hike. adventures? whisky! fun!?! i feel underprepared but fuck it. we'll make do.
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
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7:57 pm - (addendum)
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7:17 pm - aggro lately
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if you don't absolutely LOVE the following things your taste is 100000000,000% not to be trusted....
-the song "is it because i'm black"
-the album "darker than blue" (and esp. the cover of the aforementioned song)
-soul music in general and dancing to it in specific
-BEER(or at least appreciate the concept if you teetotal)
-lying in the park watching the grass blow in the wind nursing a hangover while blissing out to popol vuh
this list could go on but that is a good start.
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
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11:35 pm
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most of the last week has been spent drinking and spending time in a daze betwen starting drinking again. hmm. guess thats not so healthy but its kinda fun.
chicago is an amazing city.
scalpels is an amazing band and i feel wonderfully honored to have shared a set with them.
i really just want to be in a band that sounds like parson sound all the time.
evan and jean are amazing.
so are so many friends i don't get to see often enough.
sf is chill too though....
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
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6:01 pm
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2:37 pm
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
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5:55 pm
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things.
sf is awesome.
biking is awesome.
playing music is awesome. frustrating at times but awesome.
friends (old) are awesome.
friends (new) are slow in developing but are potentially awesome.
job is so-so but the amount of money it pays is awesome.
its weird i have been a bit up and down lately overall but yeah that list of things bascially proves(shows) that i am in a pretty decent place at the moment. and things can pretty much only go up still so yeah a new year is good......
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5:49 pm - was it the question about being grumpy?
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
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6:59 pm - happy holidays everyone here is a gift for you.....
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in honor of continuing the war on xmas i present a mix dl for you to enjoy. mainly single songs i've downloaded recently. works suprisingly well......word.....
miles davis- rated x
dead dred- dred bass
roberta flack- compared to what
fursaxa- tura tura
b12- hall of mirrors
the chi-lites- have you seen her (screwed and chopped by og ron c)
kool g rap- its a shame (butcher mix)
ugk- one day
linval thompson- i love marijuana
scalpels- scalpels in space
stephen vitiello- water
arthur russel- in the light of the miracle
(the miracle of jesus that is, christmas haters)
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haven't written much else in a while obviously. hope everyone is well these days......
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
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8:18 pm - sometimes i feel old
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but yeah thats how it goes. i got free music today over AIM. no big deal i know but yeah. i feel like its a new era of technology or something. thankfully between my friends and ubu.com i think i have enough music to listen to for a good long time. and the continuing stream of free music will be nice.
my regular work is done which gives me too much time to myself. i mean its nice but also i find my attention defecit kicking in and i wander around between things without actually getting anything done. i think possibly my quest for minute change/endless sound in my music is a way in which to force myself to deal with something for an extended period of time. that said here i am typing this while listening to my best "system composition" yet....
which brings me to one issue i've been pondering lately. how do you perform a composition that basically amounts to turning on my computer and pressing "on". i mean i do have some panning control i exert (and am getting a preamp that has up to 6 channels later this week so i'll be able to tweak a surround version) but yeah. i am contemplating adding vocals which might be cool but at the same time the whole idea is the simplicity of the interaction between very simple (sine) waveforms.....so yeah. i really want to hear it REALLY LOUD myself though so i need to find a way.......
and the next issue i've been pondering. how do you define if your artistic ideas are interesting/important/valid/not someone else's? i mean in this age of too much information how do you cope with knowing what has been done before and freeing yourself of previous ideas(?). i don't know. i haven't gotten to a point where i can articulate this well enough. but yeah thinking about school and writing up a statement of purpose or vision is daunting. i mean it is good to really kknow what you want to do (or at least think you know) and i do but yeah how do i know if it is really worth investigating? or hasn't been investigated as much as it should?
that said i am very happy that i think i've been learning very quickly how to create systems that with little interference create long subtly shifting patterns. that seems like a simple concept and it is, but it is suprising how hard it can be to tweak things so that there is change, without that change being obviously present.
hmm. also. the gre scares me. verbal skills/vocabulary are not my forte......
current music: my bullshit sine waves.............
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
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10:11 am - WHAT IT DO
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screwed and chopped, chopped and screwed all the time. listening to hip hop radio around here is kinda cool since the majority of the actual rap songs they play are made by dudes from houston. unfortunatly for the most part the stations share the commercial radio problem of having like a 12 song playlist. 6 of which are r&b songs i'm not feeling......and the 6 songs i am into i'm pretty sick of. but yeah. horror movie atmosphere and deep deep bass=great music. sort of similar to khanate or something...........
anyway. that may be all. been sitting in my dad's studio contemplating wave behavior and slowly detuning and retuning and pressing a string while listening and watching it vibrate for hours on end. fun times. actual it is very nice and relaxing getting inside it. can't really tell if the music that results would be interesting to anyone but me but that is kind of secondary right now(?) anyway, it makes me jealous of alvin lucier having the space/equipment to do "music on a long thin wire" as the behavior of something like that is way more interesting/easier to manipulate than that of a guitar. however his whole deal was trying to not overly manipulate anything......which is not so much my philosophy on these things......
i kind of think i want to live overseas at some point in the (not so but kind of)near future.......
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
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10:21 am
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busy busy.....well not doing anything terribly "fun" but busy all the same. helped my parents move and am continuously helping them get their new place set up. then i had to drive a group of angolans to dallas to evacuate from the hurricane that was going to destroy houston. so i got to work a 16 hour day. then i decided i did not want any part in the mass exodus traffic on thursday so my brother got to do that trip instead (and get stranded at a hotel in dallas for the weekend). instead i got to spend most of thursday and friday helping my dad board up all of our windowns. a task that you would think wouldn't take quite so much work but it did (and they don't even have a big house). then got to sit through what was a tiny storm. lost power for 12 hours but that was it. oh well. it was nice being in town with almost no people around. this city is much nicer 75% empty. well except for the heat which is still unbearable. went for a nice 30 mile bike ride, a loop through downtown that my dad does weekly. was able to keep up at a pretty fast pace for the whole ride which felt good especially since the last weekend i didn't get to go ride. i'm starting to teach myself how to build my own effects with bidule. its cool. weird but cool. i built a cool delay thing and some basic filters and some other mindbending noisemakers. i need to spend some more time doing this but it is fun. something to think about all the time at least.
anyway.. i found some killer tapes my dad has while unpacking. lots of old weird indian music that i need to digitize. maybe i'll make a mix of the best of them. hopefully we can get settled enough for him to tune up and show my the basics of tambura playing soon.
chill.
booked a ticket to come out to california at the end of november. death valley and hanging out here i come. excited.
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
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6:51 pm
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hmm so another entry....that is more than like the last year in the last 2 weeks.....anyway......still not much going on here. went for 2 more 40 or so mile rides early saturday/sunday morning this weekend. i'm enjoying doing that a lot, even if it means i get up at 6 am or earlier every day of the week. that actually isn't even that bad anymore it just means i can't stay up much past 11 which, i don't really have any compelling reason not to. looks like next weekend i'll have to put the rides on hold though to help my parents move all their stuff into their new house. that should be "fun" but oh well. at least as soon as that happens i'll have my own space for a bit. finally got my head around what i was trying to do musically and put together a few pieces that i'm happy with. still need to edit things lengthwise for the 12" that they are for and all of that but yeah they are good. doing more audio editing/sculpting/grafting together of parts for these but yeah its kind of cool how you can structure things/merge them together when music is about sound/texture over anything else.
so yeah other than that my life has pretty much been about werner herzog, popol vuh, terry riley, a book about sicily/mafia/italian politics, jorge luis borges, iranian new wave films, and football lately. not bad i guess.....
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
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7:15 pm
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hello.
i want to thank everyone for the kind words after my last post. yeah. things here are still kind of rough but its hard to worry about that shit with what else has happened in the last week. insane.
anyway things here are working into a routine. getting up at 6 am actually isn't too hard once you do it every day for a week. i even got up at 6 or earlier every day this weekend to go biking with my dad. did 35, 38, and 41 mile rides this weekend. the 41 mile one of course was the one with the hardest terrain (drove an hour out of houston to get some hills) and it fucking killed me, but the physical activity was really good and i am hoping to keep biking on the weekends and getting into good shape and shit.....
other than that just getting up. coming home from work making a fried egg and cheese sandwich. spending lots of time with my computer/guitar, renting dvds, going back to work, coming home making dinner, watching a movie, crashing early. so yeah its ok. not terribly exciting but ok.
ravi shankhar is playing here in 2 weeks. i'm thinking about buying a ticket even though even the cheap seats are kinda expensive and its in the orchestra hall here. but you know, when else am i going to get a chance to see him? seems like it could be worth splurging on.
ok think thats it for now.....
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Sunday, August 28th, 2005
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10:24 pm
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inspired somewhat by lili's post and somewhat by myself i'm going to post something here......for the best. who knows. i don't post too much personal shit but yeah whatever i need an outlet at the moment. so i am in houston. i don't like this city at all. i've made a bad decision to spend some time here. its cool but yeah nothing really good is going to come of this. hopefully it is really only temporary.....i don't know. being depressed sucks......yeah i've been thinking about things a lot lately. life is hard. i don't have any idea what i'm doing. i knew if i started typing this i would have no idea how to actually put it. anyway, i keep running from things/thinking if i change something in my life i'll find a way to be happy and i keep forgetting that it doesn't work. i really don't understand how to be a happy person. i don't know how to connect socially with all but like 1% of the people i come in contact with. sometimes this is ok but usually it makes life a fucking pain. this really isn't supposed to be a "boohoo my life is hard thing" but i don't know i need to somehow get this out there and i guess its easier to say things sometimes through this filter. anyway......i know that a number of you are people who i really cherish so yeah this is for you. i just need to say something other than "yeah things are ok" cuz they aren't.....not that they are "horrible" but yeah i'm not doing so hot and maybe i will be soon but for now i feel like i'm down a long tunnel with a long way to go until i see the light.......i thought this would go somewhere else but yeah i don't know if i have much else to say right now.....
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Monday, May 9th, 2005
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4:44 pm
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every time i post on comment on this thing i'm reminded of how weird my profile pic is. its like, yeah............i haven't looked like that in 3 or 4 years. intense. well not really but bizzare for sure.
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Friday, April 8th, 2005
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3:47 pm
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
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4:29 pm - since i have nothing else to write about....
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here is my "write up" for my first solo release. if interested get in touch. word. thanks.
earthen sea- like waves in an earthen sea cd-r now avaliable. 3 songs. 45 or so minutes. 2 pieces of slow-mo drone/doom experience. 1 piece of uplifiting drone. or something. anyway. 1 piece features violin (and my bridge snapping off), the other 2 feature keys. all w/plenty of electronics as well. "nice" full color artwork by me as well. somehow my current obssesion with the inidan/raga idea of music for times of day worked out with this music and thus the titles of these pieces reflect that. anywho. if you want a copy they are $5 ppd in the u.s., add a couple more bucks for postage overseas. i'm open to trades of likeminded (noise/drone/heavy/psych/etc....) stuff. paypal at blood_vessel@hotmail.com or get in touch for other ordering options...
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