Saturday, August 17, 2002

ftp://ftp:vuvu.net/music/female/No_Secrets/No_Secrets/o8.ns
ftp://ftp:vuvu.net/music/female/No_Secrets/No_Secrets/o2.ns

rename to .zip
unpack
rock
posted by Irdial , 9:37 PM Þ 

Oh and I got Bro Stair in from the Bermuda Triangle show..."WELL I WILL BE SO KIND"...
posted by captain davros , 12:51 PM Þ 

Gott in Himmel! I must have that record, I must have that record do you hear me?

I played my VH mix, "Green Alex" last night at the gig I was djing at. It's made up of all the intro's from the "Fair Warning" album, along with some Scritti Politti samples from the dub mixes of "Cupid and Psyche '85". It was of course lost on all the indie-mindies there but it simply had to be done. I also played the VH versions of "Pretty Woman" and "Dancing in the Streets".
posted by captain davros , 12:50 PM Þ 

There is no "Go." There is only "Going!"



HECKER, TIM My Love Is Rotten To The Core (Substractif) cd 10.98
This is either totally fucking stupid, or absolutely brilliant. Like a lot of records we love, it's really tough to tell sometimes. And we do love this record. The last Hecker record was one of our favorite post-Oval cd-manipulation/glitch record ever. Dense, thick soundscapes made up of damaged, manipulated and chopped up discs. 'My Love...' follows the same modus operandi, only this time all of the source material is Van Halen. That's right, Van Halen. Your first clue was the pen and ink sketch of David Lee Roth on the cd cover, your second clue is the Van Halen-lyric title 'My Love Is Rotten To The Core'. And of course if you know Van Halen, it's easy to pick out the riffs that surface in bits and pieces amidst all the stutter/shuffling/skipping/skittering. The record itself is gorgeous. Super dense, with the VH guitars lending themelves perfectly to being manipulated into thick slabs of SOUND, shifting ever so slightly, changing the ebullient VH party melodies into stretched out minor key dirges. The songs are separated by collages of VH interviews and radio snippets. We're tempted to dismiss this record as a silly gimmick, with all the clever allusions to Van Halen (without ever actually fessing up to stealing all the songs): the between song collages, the song titles and the cover art! It would've been way more intense and effective to just let the music speak for itself (like COH's metal album 'Iron') because the music, in Hecker's hands, becomes a wholly unique and original sound. But maybe Tim Hecker just really loves Van Halen and this is the best way he knows how to show it!! Either way, this is definitely one of the most fun and creative, and fucked glitch/drone/cut-up/plunderphonic records of the year.
posted by Barrie , 10:15 AM Þ 

tonight, well, i deserve it. it's been too long. way too³
long infact and it's healthy! yes i needst no convincing
but hopefully you all, my dearest blogdialian saviors, do not
frown upon me.

on a shot/yill of "__________" and chillin' at home with serena x(larkin/yennek)
playing in the background. celestia in the fore.

peace y'all and enjoy this life we share. is there blogdial after 50? 60? beyond?
blogdial = reference = rant = inform = deform = unform = reconstitute. do not
pass go.
posted by john , 8:44 AM Þ 
Friday, August 16, 2002
posted by Josh Carr , 7:54 PM Þ 
posted by john , 6:27 PM Þ 

Your post was at 12:03
My post was at 10:13

1203+1013=2216

2+2+1+6=11

1+1=2

2 is prime.
posted by Irdial , 12:10 PM Þ 

Arsenicum Album 6X for burning pains

But I don't want burning pains!

Ba-boom.
posted by Alun , 12:03 PM Þ 

I am left with a very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Take some of these and let us know how you get on.
posted by Irdial , 10:13 AM Þ 

I am celebrating this weekend as some of my work has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Immunology. This work took around 1 experimaental year and 1 writing/editing/submitting/reviewing/revising/resubmitting year. The paper is entitled 'The Innate Immune Response Differs In Primary and Secondary Salmonella Infection' and will prbably take another two months to appear in print. This is my music.


Meanwhile, back in reality. Have you read 'Century'? It is a massive book of photographs documenting major and minor events of the entire 20th century. And it is, in many respects, a Catalogue of Shame.


Leading from this, there have been a couple of recent reports on the attempts of the U.S. to clamp down on Terror. The most disturbing was reported on the radio, that 'almost 150 people remain detained... no trials... arrested following tip-offs from neighbours concerned about the suspects behaviour and/or religious tendencies'. (Source: BBC Radio 5, August 15th)


And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
?



Equally indicative of the American Dream is todays reports that billions of dollars in damages are being sought from those thought to have funded Al-Quaeda. One has to ask whether the families of the 10,000 civilian casualties in the Gulf War could do the same, or those celebrating a wedding in Afghanistan only to have a U.S. bomb interrupt proceedings. Or maybe the families of IRA victims will sue American political parties, banks and other associates for quite blatantly fundraising for a terrorist organisation. I am left with a very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
posted by Alun , 9:38 AM Þ 


The new town hall from a riverboat on the Thames, yesterday.
posted by Irdial , 1:03 AM Þ 

The concert was GREAT! That's all I really have to say. Short set, but I didn't mind, since they started at midnight and was tired as hell and had to get up early this morning (ie: I got four hours of sleep). A very tight band in perfect tune with each other. It was like they emanated energy. Very weird, beautiful, and lovely.
I hate drunk assholes though. There's always ONE at every concert.

Next concert: Bob Dylan!
posted by Barrie , 12:28 AM Þ 
Thursday, August 15, 2002

http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-turley14aug14.story

By JONATHAN TURLEY, Jonathan Turley is a professor of constitutional
law at George Washington University.

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S.
citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely
being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.
Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would
allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and
summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the
courts by declaring them enemy combatants.
The proposed camp plan should trigger immediate congressional hearings
and reconsideration of Ashcroft's fitness for this important office.
Whereas Al Qaeda is a threat to the lives of our citizens, Ashcroft
has become a clear and present threat to our liberties.
The camp plan was forged at an optimistic time for Ashcroft's small
inner circle, which has been carefully watching two test cases to see
whether this vision could become a reality. The cases of Jose Padilla
and Yaser Esam Hamdi will determine whether U.S. citizens can be held
without charges and subject to the arbitrary and unchecked authority
of the government.
[...]
posted by Irdial , 9:36 PM Þ 

Building your own PC is easy.

You need to pick your motherboard,
Buy lots of memory,
Buy a hard disc (or two),
Buy some drive bays to put them in,
Buy a case.
Buy a mouse,
Buy a keyboard,
Buy a monitor,
Buy a video card,
Buy a sound card,
Buy some speakers (I have these; they are out of this world),

and you are all set. Assembly is easy; just follow the instructions that came with your motherboard and your case. You need a screwdriver and your brain.
posted by Irdial , 9:29 PM Þ 

a question: i am having a bit of a hard time getting a mysql db to run
on our machines(iis5). i'm looking thru the docs now at mysql.com.
danke!
posted by john , 7:36 PM Þ 

i've decided to put together my own PC but am daunted by such a task. i don't quite know where to begin or what my options are and i wonder whether any of you have any suggestions or websites with suggestions for this project. ideally it should be a linux/windows system with enough power to do some audio/video work. help?
posted by Josh Carr , 3:18 PM Þ 

"Terence Ross of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the news publishers' attorney, even told me that he thinks Internet users who configure their browsers to disable graphics (a common tactic to boost the speed of Web surfing) are committing copyright infringement because they are interfering with Web publishers' exclusive right to control how their pages are displayed."

InSaNe!
posted by Irdial , 1:08 PM Þ 


Imagine...
One of these...
Crawling...
Into your sheets...
Whle you are asleep...
On vacation.
posted by Irdial , 9:46 AM Þ 

Mikkel, I share your fear! Earlier I fell asleep with the window open. This is the back of my left thigh.


posted by chriszanf , 1:50 AM Þ 



We were on the island one summer, I must have been about 13, it was late and there were beautiful hummingbirds drinking from the fuschias... then we realized that they had antenae, and all hell broke loose. Serious discussions of mutants and abberations. But they were only hummingbird moths. And look how cute they are! This one has a curly tongue.
posted by mary13 , 12:38 AM Þ 

Tonight I am going to see an excellent band called The New Pornographers. I'll let your all know how it goes.

Josh, that moth is beautiful! As are all the others. I love moths. I have a friend, however, who is TERRIFIED of them.

re: "Music slump not caused by piracy"

But Pressplay, MusicNet, FullAudio and Rhapsody have not captured the imagination of consumers in the same way as unauthorised sites like Napster and Audiogalaxy did.

I really like the way they put this. Imagination. With Napster and Audiogalaxy, ANYONE could put up music. You could put up bootlegs. Your own remixes. Anything. When something is regulated, it limits the ability to be creative. And yes, one can even be creative with putting files up for download.
posted by Barrie , 12:16 AM Þ 
Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Jesus Hell, now I'm scared to sleep with my windows open. Freaking 10 centimeter wings! ARR. I hate bugs. UGh.
posted by Mikkel , 8:44 PM Þ 


It may not sound like the hottest thing to hit perfume counters since Chanel No. 5, but to polyphemus moths (E,Z)-6,11-Hexadecadienyl acetate is the very aroma of love. Females release this compound from special glands. Males that encounter the drifting plume of scent change course immediately, flying upwind on four-to-six-inch (10-to-15 centimeter) wings to find the pheromone-emitting female and mate with her. As in many moth species, Antheraea polyphemus males (specimen shown) can detect the come-hither fragrance of a willing female from more than a mile away.

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0205/feature3/
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/14/arts/design/14MOTH.html

for more info about Joseph Scheer see his webpage at http://moths.alfred.edu/
posted by Josh Carr , 7:24 PM Þ 



There was an Old Man who supposed,
That the street door was partially closed;
But some very large rats,
Ate his coats and his hats,
While that futile old gentleman dozed.


On the haiku theme, this limerick may be referred to as an example of how we do not see the world as it really is, but as how we wish to perceive it. And our perception may be wrong.

By the way, Lear would be an excellent vocabulary extender for young and old alike. Some truly outrageous words in there... And as I listen to people on the 38 every morning, I'm amazed at the lack of correct grammar in current speech. Twas ne'er such in my day!
Or is that a subjective observation caused by the same condition ailing the Old Man, above?
posted by Alun , 5:59 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 5:20 PM Þ 

Open-Source Literature


Wired wonk Douglas Rushkoff authored 'Exit Strategy,' a Biblical parable of Joseph retold in a contemporary, net-economy setting. Then Rushkoff went a step further by making 'Exit Strategy' an open-source novel. Not only is the text free online, but anybody may annotate the online version. The idea is to pretend you are an anthropologist 200 years from now. You've just unearthed an antique novel called 'Exit Strategy.' You must add footnotes explaining its cryptic contents to the people of 2300 AD. How will future societies interpret our nascent networked era? You decide. Clever concept; interesting reading. - Curt Cloninger

The premise is that the central manuscript was written in the very near future, then hidden online and discovered 200 years later. Because society has changed so much, an anthropologist has annotated the text for his 23rd-century contemporaries. They are no longer familiar with notions such as venture capital or advertising, much less Microsoft or Nasdaq. The 23rd-century reader even needs a footnote explaining what condoms were used for.

These footnotes are a way for us to conceptualize a future that has moved beyond our current obsessions. Instead of describing that future explicitly, though, we will suggest what it will be like by showing what facts and ideas future readers won’t understand. I've written a hundred-odd footnotes to get us started re-imagining the present from the perspective of the future. It’s up to you to fill in the rest.

Remember, these footnotes don't have to be accurate. They only have to show what anthropologists and other experts from the future think are accurate explanations of our society. And these experts needn't necessarily agree with one another.

--Douglas Rushkoff






posted by Josh Carr , 2:42 PM Þ 

Just reading a piece on the bizarre (to say the least) antics of the Turkmenbashi. He has decreed new stages of the life of a Turkmen:
0-12: childhood
13-25: adolescence
25-37: youth
37-49: maturity
49-61: prophetic
61-73: inspirational
73-85: wisdom
85-97: old age
97-109: Oguzkhan
Apparently the average lifespan of Turkish men is 60 and women is 65.
posted by chriszanf , 11:35 AM Þ 

I like the little way the line runs up the back of the stockings, I've always kinda liked those high heels too
posted by captain davros , 9:51 AM Þ 

'Everybody Wants Some' was the first ever Van Halen I heard; my brother played it to me in our kitchen circa 1982 on our Grundig ghetto blaster which was about the size of a suitcase and had every concievable knob and switch on it that you could imagine. It was in the days when Grundig were still totally German too, so all sonic connections were DIN plugs; I still have the headphone adapter which had a domino pin layout. It was very good and served us well for donkey's years.

JB - thanks for the ack! I'll get some more stuff over to you soon. To return the compliment 'DoyoucarebecauseIdo' is way cool. Do you have the AM at the end on vinyl?
posted by captain davros , 9:50 AM Þ 

"oops"
better rush that ie6.5 out the f-ing door people. just
like you rushed that .net poo on us. .net = .crap.
hmmm, when is that release date again?? ha ha ha ha!!!
2000 will be the ms standard for many years to come
i gaurentee.

mary, hmmm. you are really turning me around(like a record)
on this. i may disagree with your disagree-ing but i'll get back to
you on that.

and dav. your music is superb! glad it's getting out.

yo b.s.; i want some too!

jesus is lord and i want a park. sounds silly dosen't it. np
posted by john , 3:16 AM Þ 

Obviously "Everybody Wants Some."
posted by Barrie , 12:48 AM Þ 

Hey, me DJ'ing at a party on Friday too. Only this is the indie gig I was telling you about earlier where bands play cover versions. It's the promoter's birthday and I have elected to be superstar DJ Spunkle, so I can play my studio pieces in full effect and not worry about the performance angle.

Just been working on my version of Kung Fu Fighting, which is just the "whoa-ho-ho-hooooo" bit stretched out for 3 or so minutes until it segues into 'Breakfast with Werner Von Braun' by Stackridge. I got Allen Ginsberg doing Hindu chants mixed with Black Oak Arkansas too, Led Zep mixed with the music from OutRun and Einstein A Go Go by Landscape, and other seriously monged stuff. The question is though, which Van Halen cover to include? '(Oh) Pretty Woman' or 'Dancing in the Streets'?

It's also the fifth anniversary of the very first Spunkle gig so that's quite a thing too in so many ways.
posted by captain davros , 12:06 AM Þ 
Tuesday, August 13, 2002

eone looks fantastic doesnt it? about a million times better than AOL...
posted by Irdial , 11:59 PM Þ 

OEone's enhanced version of HomeBase DESKTOP software for existing Red Hat Linux users. I'm planning to install RedHat 7.3 tomorrow. This is first time I've tried this. I've been building up to it for a while but easily find other things to distract me!


I found the article on the 'eruv' interesting. A section within a cultures scriptures about how to define the boundries of where they can 'carry' things on their 'shabbat'.

Parsi/Zorostrians are another religion that have 'strange' customs that could be taken as segregating. They are a non-proselytising religion and have a history of being 'private' or not drawing attention to themselves.


I'm DJ'ing at a party on friday in Vauxhall. Haven't done so for a while so should be interesting. Spend far too much time in front of this machine.

posted by chriszanf , 11:01 PM Þ 

that eruv thing is totally pathetic. segment and suffer. segment and perish. very bad to segment oneself.

i totally disagree with you. this is not about segmentation, this is about people practising their faith, and having the fire to stand up and ask for what they want. good for them! why are we so afraid in this world to be interesting? (beyond the obvious history of persecution, this is the part that slays me, how mean and terrible humans can be. and there is no other way to explain it). coming from a very young city, and being raised with no religion, i find demonstrations/architecture of others' faiths fascinating and inspiring! at least they believe in something and have the discipline and mystic belief to make it flourish. some of the most beautiful architecture in the world has been built out of faith. i remember walking through Canterbury Cathedral, i thought my heart was going to burst. i am not sure if the eruv would be "beautiful" but its very presence affirms for me, at least, a faith, a strength of character, a community vibe (;>), something beyond the ordinary.

and this heat is getting to me. thankfully the sushi place opened for lunch again, tuna nigiri just around the corner...
posted by mary13 , 9:31 PM Þ 

(Bloody heat! I was so a happy camper yesterday with the heavy rain. And now it's hot again. *cries*)

Damn Alun, those are great.
posted by Mikkel , 6:04 PM Þ 

Oops! They did it again.
"Malicious hackers taking advantage of the loophole .... Microsoft is looking into the reports, but is playing down the risks ... one of the worst cryptographic vulnerabilities I've seen..."

Those gosh-darn malicious hackers will burn in eternal damnation for taking the works of the Great Bill in vain.

And YEAH! Isn't outdoor music tops!?! Paco Pena blew my ears off Saturday night under the stars up on Hampstead Heath.
posted by Alun , 5:25 PM Þ 

immensely wonderful afternoon on sunday. sonic youth FREE in central park along with wadada leo smith (playing with malachi favors from the art ensemble and jack dejohnette!!!!!!) and monolake. a gorgeous summer day, i lounged on the grass and soaked up the sun and the sounds. sonic youth's expertly sculpted noise was well displayed among the trees and flowers as they dipped into washingmachine, evol, sister, goo and murray street (quite heavily). O! how i love new york. and guitars.
posted by Josh Carr , 4:44 PM Þ 

I'mreading the 4 volume Haiku, by R.H. Blyth. In the first volume he discusses the spiritual origins of haiku and the earlier poets, including Saigyo. Saigyo wrote waka, poems of a longer length than haiku and with more subjectivity, more lyrical content.

Basho, the greatest (but not my favourite) haiku poet once composed this haiku:

A woman washing potatoes
If Saigyo were here
He would write a waka


Issa is my favourite. He is humanist, a bit of a dreamer, and a man beset by ill fortune and tragedy in his personal life.

The moon and flowers
Forty nine years
Walking about wasting time
posted by Alun , 1:58 PM Þ 

A stream by the path
With clear clear waters.
"In the willow's shade
I'll stay just for a while", I thought
but for long couldn't move away

Saigyo, poet and monk, (1118-1190)
posted by Mikkel , 7:04 AM Þ 

o'reilly books are great but there is a teach yourself series
"ty" that are just awesome. but massivly overwritten. a good
technical book can fit in your pocket.

and btw: i love everyone(disclaimer) but you are too true!
noone, i repeat NOONE is special. just people think
they are sometimes. isn't that why so many hate americans? i guess
there are other reasons for that as well though. that eruv thing is
totally pathetic. segment and suffer. segment and perish. very bad
to segment oneself. but then again that is a struggle with music too, hmmm.
there are no answers for the gormless, just more questions in an endless
spiral into total oblivion and ignorance. dime store.

btw: cultus lake. wuz
here this past weekend and....well, i mean geez. i have never been so relaxed.
summer = good. but that is a duh.
posted by john , 2:42 AM Þ 

Silly season comes early.
posted by Irdial , 1:39 AM Þ 

I read this about something called an "eruv" and then read this expanded eplanation. Interesting stuff!
posted by Irdial , 1:30 AM Þ 

I find it amazing that no can can even satirically mock Israel anymore, without angering millions of oversensitive buffoons. It's completely disgusting.
GORMLESS! GORM GORM GORM!! Best word ever.
posted by Barrie , 12:48 AM Þ 
Monday, August 12, 2002

Ruthless has a nicer parent. Ruth. However, one cannot be ruth (as one can be ruthless). One must have ruth towards somebody/thing. It's an old-fashioned version of empathy, perhaps.

Similarly, with the characteristically northern English word GORMLESS, meaning stupid, dim-witted, a fool. Derived from the much older and antiquated root word, gaum, meaning knowledge or wisdom.

Are there any other now orphaned words, parents lost in the vocabular drain that follows the globalisation of a language? Or am I just particularly sad (modern sense) today?

AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! Should have consulted google before writing. Here is a font of word origins, and the bugger already has gorm(less), and also the very nice feckless. No ruth though. Hah. Amateur.

Here are the professionals.
posted by Alun , 5:59 PM Þ 
posted by Josh Carr , 4:42 PM Þ 

Juki Net Will Die

TOKYO -- Ever since their computerized ID system switched on a few days ago, Japanese citizens have dropped out in droves from what many resent as a "big brother" monitoring of the people.

The dozens of protest groups that have popped up are planning a rally Monday at which demonstrators will show their outrage by ripping up the papers being sent out by the government to assign every citizen an 11-digit number.

"To start with, giving a number to people is a violation of our individual human rights," said Eiji Yoshimura, one of the protesters. "We have absolutely nothing to gain from this system."

Several local governments have refused to participate in the system, which began last Monday. Yokohama, a Tokyo suburb of 3.4 million people, is giving its residents a choice of hooking up or not.

The government is assigning each of Japan's 126 million citizens an ID number that will link into a nationwide computer system. The idea is to streamline Japan's cumbersome bureaucracy by making it easy to obtain basic personal information during administrative procedures.

Critics worry about loss of privacy, and some fear government officials will misuse the information.

The disenchantment some Japanese express toward the registry underlines a deep, although often hidden, distrust of government that is surprisingly common in a nation known for orderly, conformist behavior.

"I don't especially enjoy being called by a number. It feels like a prisoner," said Yasuyoshi Ban, a 60-year-old truck driver.

One worry is the computer system will be vulnerable to computer hackers. An even bigger fear is the potential for abuse by someone inside the government using the stored personal information for improper ends, such as harassing dissidents. Some people worry about criminals stealing identities. [...]

Newsday
posted by Irdial , 10:21 AM Þ 

Oh, I thought O Reilly sucks was an anti O'Reilly books site.

Me and the missus went geocaching this weekend in Dorset and found our first one! Really cool and it's now only a matter of time time time until we make our own. In fact I might release my next CD like that, buried in a tupperware box somewhere in the countryside with only a GPS waypoint to find it. That'll put the audience to the test. The goodwill in geocaching is excellent - the cache we found had a disposable camera, loads of toys, CDs and so forth in it. No one's looted it or anything, just taken one thing each and added another.

Sound engineers are like tailors; in both cases you need advice and assistance and are willing to pay them for your time. If you are lucky you'll get someone friendly, with taste and experience who will enhance your vibe, educate you, give you the best for your cash and make you want to go back. If you are unlucky you get a flashy fool who tells you what they think you need, over charges you and leaves you with something you feel embarrassed to share with friends once the novelty has worn off.
posted by captain davros , 10:00 AM Þ 

"Harmony is the exception, and that's the only reason why it is surrounded by an attractive aura of meaningfulness. If it were the rule, one would have to break it in order to enliven the inferno of sound with wonderful dissonance. Music moves us simply because it is a potential and not a positive phenomenon, and tonality interests us because it clears the wilderness, not because musical notes have reigned supreme for a thousand years. Chords move us because they ease our suffering, not because of the rules of musical harmony. The world is not sound but space for its potential. It is no symphony, but a noisy nightmare which has reason to remind itself that out of the maelstrom of noise a vision of resounding order can rise." Peter Sloterdijk

1980-2000 - Einstürzende Neubauten. 20 years old and still outsiders.

neubauten.org
posted by Ken , 8:43 AM Þ 

"i started as an assistant on the early queen albums," he remembers. "when they first arrived they were like an in-house band for trident studios. then the whole punk thing happened and i worked with martin rushent and martin hamnett. i did loads of punk bands like the buzzcocks, all the wire albums, the first public image limited single, all that sort of stuff. then i went more esoteric after that."

eventually, thomas' punk travels led him to the underground label 'fetish records', with whom he worked a great deal. "we did 23 skidoo, clock DVA and all those kinds of alternative bands. we had 'throbbing gristle' on our label so i produced the first two 'psychic tv' albums. i did a lot of early industrial stuff like 'test department' and 'einsturzende neubauten'.


Thats an exceptional pedigree.
posted by Irdial , 2:43 AM Þ 

If they dont understand what you are doing, then you are in for a bad time and bad sound.

i went to see Sigur Rós and they brought along Ken Thomas. This man is a genius... Well, at least I think he is... Look see: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/promedia/soundonsound.html
posted by alex_tea , 2:16 AM Þ 
Sunday, August 11, 2002

Join the Irdial Prime Movers
posted by Irdial , 11:27 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 11:05 PM Þ 

Real World studios...interesting...Ive worked in American studios with racks and racks of "plumbed in gubbins", and I have to say that whilst the sould you can get out of these SSL'd high spec places is awesome, you are totally at the mercy of the engineers, who actually know the studio and 0wn your sound while you work there. If they dont understand what you are doing, then you are in for a bad time and bad sound.

My next studio installation is going to be free-form, with nothing plumbed in permanently, deliberately limited number of channels on both the desk and tape so that it essentially has to be rebulit for each session.

In this way, I can stay out of habbit, which is completely essential if you want to explore.

Read this partial description of the Black Ark Studios kit, where so many awesome, and completely perfect recordings were made. Studio design is a black art...there dont seem to be any rules, other than that there are no rules.
posted by Irdial , 10:22 PM Þ 

Vastu and the New York Twin Towers


You may have wondered about the VASTU of the twin towers in new York that unfortunately were recently destroyed. According to the Vastu sastras (scriptures), the higher a building climbs the more its size must reduce, like the famous Egyptian pyramids and all the greatest dome shaped ancient structures of India. In the great science of Vastu, the horizontal and vertical shape of a building are very important in determining its overall auspiciousness. If a building goes up and up and remains the same width, not reducing the amount of doors and windows on each higher level, it attracts inauspiciousness. The higher a building ascends in that way the more the inauspiciousness is increased. This is stated very clearly in the Vastu sastras. The workings of Nature are difficult to understand and sometimes seemingly cruel, and our hearts go out to all those affected by the unfortunate New York disaster. But if we adhere to the laws of the Vastu sastras we can learn the art of pacifying Mother Nature and seeing only Her auspicious side.

hmmmmm
posted by Irdial , 9:51 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 9:18 PM Þ 

Peter Gabriel's studio? Wow! I bet it had quite an impressive array of... stuff in it.
yeah, i didn't go inside the main studio, one of the others. realy nice though and the accomodation is cool... the desk was scary, i have no idea what or how engineers do stuff, but it's amazing...

Real World Studios

Ya, its good at first, and then...oh shit. Like Theakstons old peculiar, but with A Bad Finish®
yes indeed... i was going to go through all the beers they had there, we started with summer ale which was nice and light and then went on to Old Bob. Not good! Couldn't do anything after that... :(

We must got there ay?
got? or go? i miss east london... well some of it is good other things bad... haven't been to that part of town for a while, but my girlf is moving to whitechapel so no doubt i'll be down the foundry a bit more... one of the best nights there was teh VX LABS gig where Gimpo let a banger off in the basement...

And wher the hell have you been AT?

AT == A dot T || AT == @ ?

either / or i have been Paris / London / Reykjavik / Bath / Brighton work work work... which is all very exciting.

off to Singapore in a couple of weeks! Oh the life...

:)
posted by alex_tea , 4:54 PM Þ 

oreilly-sucks.com The highest rated cable "news" show in the USA, the terrifying Oreilly Factor on Fox, is countered by this site. This page has some interesting stuff in it.

You can watch the Oreilly Factor if you have Sky...
posted by Irdial , 1:20 PM Þ 

Who will rid us of these evil men? Someone...

WWhen the Miami Police first found Benito Que, he was slumped on a desolate side street, near the empty spot where he had habitually parked his Ford Explorer. At about the same time, Don C. Wiley mysteriously disappeared. His car, a white rented Mitsubishi Galant, was abandoned on a bridge outside of Memphis, where he had just had a jovial dinner with friends. The following week, Vladimir Pasechnik collapsed in London, apparently of a stroke.

The list would grow to nearly a dozen in the space of four nerve-jangling months. Stabbed in Leesburg, Va. Suffocated in an air-locked lab in Geelong, Australia. Found wedged under a chair, naked from the waist down, in a blood-splattered apartment in Norwich, England. Hit by a car while jogging. Killed in a private plane crash. Shot dead while a pizza delivery man served as a decoy.

What joined these men was their proximity to the world of bioterror and germ warfare. Que, the one who was car-jacked, was a researcher at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Wiley, the most famous, knew as much as anyone about how the immune system responds to attacks from viruses like Ebola. Pasechnik was Russian, and before he defected, he helped the Soviets transform cruise missiles into biological weapons. The chain of deaths -- these three men and eight others like them -- began last fall, back when emergency teams in moonsuits were scouring the Capitol, when postal workers were dying, when news agencies were on high alert and the entire nation was afraid to open its mail.

In more ordinary times, this cluster of deaths might not have been noticed, but these are not ordinary times. Neighbors report neighbors to the F.B.I.; passengers are escorted off planes because they make other passengers nervous; medical journals debate what to publish, for fear the articles will be read by evil eyes. Now we are spooked and startled by stories like these -- all these scientists dying within months of one another, at the precise moment when tiny organisms loom as a gargantuan threat. The stories of these dozen or so deaths started out as a curiosity and were transformed rumor by rumor into the specter of conspiracy as they circulated first on the Internet and then in the mainstream media. What are the odds, after all? [...]

A typical sketpic drivelfest, published in the New York Times where probability is rolled out as the explanation for everything, science is held up as the only true reality and the only tool need to explain everything.

There are no conspiracies, only mathematical probability. Its a predictable, condecending piece of tripewriting. She even put in strawman false data, knocking it down further in the argument and parading it as proof that her argument is right.

Someone has stepped up to the plate, and is eliminating these evil pigs who are hell bent on destroying the world, one pig at a time. It must be costing a fortune, there will be no thanks given, no awards for saving humanity..."You do not know these men. You may have looked at them, but you did not see them. They are the wind that blows newspapers down a gutter on a windy night... and sweeps the gutter clean."
posted by Irdial , 10:31 AM Þ 

Yahoo News

Ashcroft Asked to Target Online Song Swappers
Fri Aug 9, 5:21 PM ET

By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have asked Attorney General John Ashcroft ( news - web sites) to go after Internet users who download unauthorized songs and other copyrighted material, raising the possibility of jail time for digital-music fans.

In a July 25 letter released late Thursday, some 19 lawmakers from both sides of the aisle asked Ashcroft to prosecute "peer-to-peer" networks like Kazaa and Morpheus and the users who swap digital songs, video clips and other files without permission from artists or their record labels.

The Justice Department ( news - web sites) should also devote more resources to policing online copyrights, the lawmakers said in their letter.

"Such an effort is increasingly important as online theft of our nation's creative works is a growing threat to our culture and economy," the letter said.
posted by Barrie , 1:52 AM Þ 

A link from autopr0n to a very strange blog.
posted by Irdial , 1:10 AM Þ 

Alex... Peter Gabriel's studio? Wow! I bet it had quite an impressive array of... stuff in it.
I'm a big fan of his. Let us hope that his new album isn't the schlocky mess that OVO was.
posted by Barrie , 12:34 AM Þ 

Yes Old Bob is quite strong and sickly, like a thick syrup of a beer...

Ya, its good at first, and then...oh shit. Like Theakstons old peculiar, but with A Bad Finish®

I guess you drunk that at The Reliance...

Y

£2 to get in?

Not for the post gig 31337.

The Foundry is much better and is always a bit weird...

We must got there ay? And wher the hell have you been AT?
posted by Irdial , 12:00 AM Þ 
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