Saturday, April 28, 2001

Oo nice, I was in Irdial-list =)
Has any of you heard Squarepusher's new single, My Red Hot Car? It's wicked hilarious... 2-step garage parody-like. I'm gonna fuck you in my red hot car. The lyrics will be featured on IDMLyrics Soon™.

...I wonder if I can fit more links in here =)
posted by Mikkel , 7:38 PM Þ 

Hrm, my post seems to have destroyed the one made by Irdial,
but they had reported that The Buzzer had stopped transmission.
Unfortunately I'm in Mac, so I can used by bastardized cubase if I want... but I'll probably go with something more simple. That big long track I spoke of would only need two channels, as its point is to be blisteringly noisy. Mmm, musical dada.
posted by Barrie , 3:45 AM Þ 
Friday, April 27, 2001

What station? Anyway, if you want to make music fast & cheap with a PC, get your head round Fast Tracker for Windows or SoundTracker for Linux/X Windows. Also very cool - Moonfish - Windoze only, but is 3 channel only (i.e. less is more) and can go to 1230BPM! Cubase? Never heard of it... :)
posted by captain davros , 9:39 AM Þ 

klcj;laksdhjf;LKJNsd;lfmnL:SJDFL:KHJWE!!!!!!!!!!!!@#$
OH MY GOD!
Even though my SW is busted and I don't live in europe, I'm still amazed. Crazy!! I was looking forward to one day be able to hear that station...
posted by Barrie , 3:54 AM Þ 
Thursday, April 26, 2001

That painting is great, davros. Similar to some of the themes I use when I'm not working on something assigned. I'm going to put my works up on the web soon enough... then you can all feel the pain of looking at my garbage! HOORAY!
I plan, sometime, to start fooling around with music. I'm currently making field recordings of many things (found this bizzarre conversation of SW the other day... totally distorted). I'll probably start fiddling with cubase or something, since I have absolutely no access to any instrumentation (though I do have a long 20 minute-ish noise piece all planned out in my brain, I'd need every single type of wind instrument to make it happen).
Fun! Now I work on my portfolio.
posted by Barrie , 3:09 AM Þ 
Wednesday, April 25, 2001

I never really looked at it that way... Wow.

Hey davros, that pic is great. At first, I just thought it was a pic of a car. But seeing the tube made me that more horrified. Good job... I mean, paintings don't generally affect me (except maybe Michael Kvium.... [danish painter, you prolly don't know him]).

I wanna build a company like that Cuban guy who owns the Mavericks. I wanna be able to get fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and not care. I wanna get drunk (well, I do that already). But I mean, I want to be able to not give a fuck. *sighs*. I guess it takes work to be lazy. If you don't do anything for it, you end up a bum.

I wish I had time/resources to pursue the more creative side of myself as well. Currently, I'm taking a kind of tradeschool meets computer science thing, and that's all fine and well, but I feel I'm not getting anywhere. I guess it's normal. I draw a lot. In fact, that's what I do in class instead of paying attention (mostly because I'm selftaught anyway, I bought some books last summer). And back in highschool, in art class, I would not do the assignments there. I have chronic anti-authoritative disorder. =P
posted by Mikkel , 6:26 PM Þ 

Indeed, this painting by me is where despair, the annoying cousin of laziness, can get you...
posted by captain davros , 9:53 AM Þ 

Laziness is one of themost powerful energies in the universe.
Closely related to entropy, laziness is like heroin/morphine/percocet addiction. Its ssooooooooooo good, so enveloping, warm comfortable and reassuring, that once you have to give it up, its like being one of the living dead.

Like chemical drug addiction, the Rich can afford to feed their laziness habbit. They can swan around "stoned" all day, drinking coffe, excersising, watching Dragonball Z, screwing, what-ever. And as it is with chemical addiction (coke), the "old money" Rich mind set can live with laziness, and are not destryoed by it; just look at all the pop stars / lottery winners who get rich quick, stop working, and then die because they get "bored".

Yes dear friends, if you can, choose laziness, "Ne travaillez jamais" they said in '68 (aparently).

Words to live by....
posted by Irdial , 9:41 AM Þ 

Hey there. I'm at school, cutting class, cutting work, & I need to do a report. I'm so lazy, it can't possibly be good.
posted by Mikkel , 8:38 AM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 12:05 AM Þ 
Tuesday, April 24, 2001

The draconian-sounding Italian law about people running websites
needing to join the Italian equivalent of the NUJ, have a "responsible
editor" etc. became law on the 5th or April.

I've been following rants about it but don't think I understand what
it really amounts to.

Broadly speaking, it seems to be in line with other Italian
legislation in that it can't possibly mean what it appears to, but
if the authorities decide they don't like you they can probably use it
to put you in prison for ever.

I read a Q&A with one of the supporters of the law which read a lot
like HO stuff here about why RIPA isn't scary.

Does everyone with a website need to register?

No, of course not, that would be silly.

So who, then?

People who run online newspapers.

How do you know if you run an online newspaper?

If you make information available to the general public.

So, any web page?

No, only if you update it regularly.

etc. etc.

This is from memory. I certainly didn't come away with a clear idea of
whether my "recreational maths books" web page would be an online
newspaper if I updated it every time I bought or read a recreational
maths book.

Some of the people who are worried about the law claim that you can
theoretically get a life sentence for breaking it (because anonymous
publishing is very very illegal in Italy).

Mind you, Italy has some odd laws. It's illegal to be rude about
foreign heads of state. Note that as the Vatican is a foreign country
this would make it illegal to be rude about the Pope. Hmm.
posted by Irdial , 10:10 AM Þ 
Monday, April 23, 2001

I did Fine Art at University - did me the power of good and I met some great people, staff and students alike. But also some tossers; JB is right about the group favouring the median - remember to do your own thing! Plus, Uni is only a tiny fragment of your creative life as an artist, so don't worry if you get stupid lecturers who disagree with what you want to do.

n.b. the short stretch track on disc 3 is the infamous "sexy lady" - what on earth was the recording session for that like?
posted by captain davros , 9:55 AM Þ 
Sunday, April 22, 2001

In the vain of recent blogs concerning SW troubles, comes here an old IRC snip

[07:59] > You see, I have this theory about VST.
[07:59] yeah shoot
[07:59] > All of Stienberg are really Buddhists.
[07:59] That explains the coding
[08:00] > And VST is really an illustration of the Buddhist concept that desire is the cause of unhappiness.
[08:00] > You want it to work.
[08:00] > You expect every upgrade to work better.
[08:01] > And you still end up with the Blue Screen of Death.
[08:01] The layer of doubt has been lifted from my eyes.. I must study harder
[08:01] > This is proof that material things do not bring happiness.
[08:02] I beg to differ.. If cubase was to work 100% Iīd be happy ;);)
[08:02] > Ah, but there you have it, SmUt^LoRD.
[08:02] Yes I see now, Oh holy one
[08:02] > You desire perfection, but the material world does not deliver the things it promises.
[08:03] > The lust for material things is the root of unhappiness.
[08:04] But master.. isnīt even treeīs made of material.. And yet we need them
[08:04] > OK, the tree is a part of nature.
[08:04] > We need nature, as we are a part of nature too.
[08:05] > The tree is true to its essential self.
[08:05] *** Joins: Singuy (sadf@ip68.orlando14.fl.pub-ip.psi.net)
[08:05] I understand the concept, but cant grasp the picture oh mighty one
[08:05] > Does a tree want Cubase 3.7?
[08:05] hmmmmm, came here because of advertisement. So what is the big deal?
[08:06] A tree does not need Cubase since itīs already in harmony with the world
[08:06] > We no longer deal in warez.
[08:06] > We are now a channel of spiritual growth.
[08:06] so what is the advertisment about?
[08:07] > Let me explain, Singuy...
[08:07] *** Singuy was kicked by Mr_0-day
[08:08] > Oh yes, the tree does not require Cubase 3.7 because it is in harmony with its essential nature.
[08:09] But how do I become in harmony without Cubase, master?
[08:09] > You, however, feel that to be in harmony with your eesential nature, you need a version of Cubase that works like it's supposed to....
[08:10] Yes
[08:10] > It is not Cubase that is at fault, it is you.
[08:10] > This is the lesson from the Lama Karl Steinberg.
[08:11] Thank you Oh mighty one.. I will consider your words
[08:11] > One can only achieve harmony with one's essential self through spiritual growth
[08:12] > Hey, we should post this on the Steinberg forum :-)
posted by Claus Eggers , 11:43 PM Þ 
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