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[25 Apr 2007|09:28pm] |
Heh. The usual 1.5 year post.
Things are good. Going to Sequoia for M and my 2-year anniv. at the end of May; Toronto in june. Just got a Canon Rebel Xti ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/7994254@N04/ ) -- Prius purchase tax-break ftw..
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| Come see my show! |
[14 Jul 2005|12:18pm] |
http://www.loop3.com/cinemasonic/
Me and my friend Surya are putting on this show featuring downtempo music and audio/visual acts. We ourselves will be doing a live performance there, featuring laptops and live instruments (piano, hammer dulcimer, electric guitar, some vocal bits, didgeridoo, and some djembe hand drumming). There will be other cool acts there too and some installation artwork in a side room.
July 23rd, @ Basswerks (address info at url)
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| Giggin' |
[20 May 2005|10:37am] |
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Have a DJ gig on monday, if anyone is bored and wants to show up: I think me and Andy are alternating 1 hour sets so I'm probably spinning 10-11 and 12-1 or something like that.
Crap, now I have to dig through my CDs. ;)
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Ether:
where ambient, downtempo, and chill sounds go to get busy
Monday, May 23 @
Nova Express
426 N. Fairfax Ave.
(2 blocks north of Beverly)
9pm to 1am
As always...NO COVER
Live visuals by Ty
Full menu - pizzas, salads, and other goodies
Beer, wine, caffeine, smoothies and soju
cocktails
Free public parking on Rosewood, one block north of
Nova, east of Fairfax
See you out!
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| Obstructions.. |
[18 May 2005|12:34am] |
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Today was long. Didn't get home from work till 9:30. Had something dropped in my lap that is very large and tricky and needs to be done by friday, or next monday or tuesday at the latest. Not to mention one of my other group-members is sick and will be out this week. Hopefully I won't have to pickup his slack either.
Did finish watching Lars Von Trier / Jorgen Leth's The Five Obstructions. I'd have to say that was an interesting metafilm.
Also bought a song off of ITMS that I heard on KCRW earlier this week, Naci Orishas by Los Orishas, from the album El Kilo. Its a pretty funky cuban hip-hop song with touches of bossa-nova and samba in there.
I've totally been on a folk binge of late. Rufus Wainwright's cover of Kate McGarrigle's I eat Dinner (featuring Dido) has been stuck in my head a lot.
I guess I'll balance that out when I see the electronic noise that is Autechre on saturday night.
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| Refreshed. |
[16 May 2005|08:45pm] |
Woo. After months of sitting around on my ass because of work, I'm using the benefits of my new-found free time to start running. I used to be decent at cross-country, but alas, sitting on one's ass depreciates said skills quite rapidly. A bunch of coworkers run a regular route 3 times a week and I'd like to join them, but that route is 3.5 miles long and 80% uphill (we're at the bottom of a tilted square as far as our building is situated). Right now the distance I can run reasonably is embarrasingly below that, but I'm working on it.
Started reading this this weekend. It's scary, but cool too :)
Some nifty songs I've been listening to lately: Adam F's remix of Fever from the Verve Remixed 3 compilation, Rufus Wainwright and Dido - I Eat Dinner, Golden Brown - The Stranglers
On a geekier note, been watching the specs and details of the PS3 come out at E3 today. Interesting stuff, will be neat to see what the Cell processor can do when its fully harnessed.
Weekend plans are not firm yet, 'cept for the Autechre concert at the El Rey on saturday night. Anyone run with their ipod? I heard it doesn't handle that so well if you run a lot. Maybe I should get a shuffle ;) (Yeah, I know, I'm an apple whore .. at least my ibook and powerbook have good reasons behind em :) )
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| A random geek moment. |
[16 May 2005|01:23am] |
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I have a guitar stand a few feet from where I'm sitting. It has 3 guitars on it, but I only see two of them in full view from this angle. One of them is an electric guitar that is on long-term loan from a friend of mine. My friend, fellow geek that he is, stuck a sticker of the pi symbol on it. I just realized that my acoustic guitar which is next to it, being a gibson epiphone.. has the letter e on its pick guard.
Clearly I should stick an "i" sticker on the 3rd guitar in the rack (my classical).
(This post brought to you by Roger Penrose's "Road to Reality" which i just started reading)
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| Weee drum'n'bass |
[13 May 2005|01:27am] |
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Silence! |
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Just got back from a really awesome night of drum'n'bass at Respect (at the Larchmont), the thursday night weekly dnb event. Tech Itch was the mainliner, and he was pretty damn good. Everyone was pretty good actually, the MC also didn't make me cringe, which is good! I got 3 hours of solid pushing-the-limit dancing in... haven't been out dancing in a while and I was starting to feel the need to get my fix.
Now I have to get up at 8 so I can be out the door at 9, since my carpoolmate has a 10am meeting and I have a 11am meeting. The 11am meeting isn't even strictly necessary, I was just swapping out with a coworker so he can spend the morning getting some flying hours in with his girlfriend (he just got his pilot's license).
Got my CDs that I mentioned a couple days ago (yay cheap-cds.com for prompt delivery). The verdict on a quick listen:
La Kahena - interesting; more middle eastern than the first two Cheb I Sabbah albums, and featuring more vocal bits; will give a proper listen tomorrow.
Warsaw Village People - nice, folksy but with an edge, and weird polish lyrics.
The two decemberists albums seem pretty damn cool, I love their lyrics.
Ok, time to drink some tea and head to bed. Sometime this weekend I need to comb through my current cd collection for songs to spin at my gig on the 23rd (at Ether at the Nova Cafe on fairfax). I'll post details next week if anyone wants to come, its a chill little venue (that happens to dedicate itself to Cthulu, which is also a bonus).
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| The switching of many contexts... |
[11 May 2005|06:05pm] |
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Enduser - Not So Distant Drums |
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My brain seems so stuffed these days:
Here's a breakdown of what I'm doing at work (for the not so geeky or plain just don't care crowd, just assume "a lot" and skip to the non-work part ;) ): I'm basically splitting time between three different groups right now. I'm still debugging a bunch of annoying and very time consuming simulations to finish off my chip verification duties. On top of that I'm writing large amounts of API code to work with the chip that needs to be done by july/august. Since I'm also in the h/w side of bringup I get to play around with writing FPGA code for the test platform for once the chip gets back. Fun, but goddamn keeping all that shit straight is annoying :)
On the non-work side: I've got a performance piece I'm doing with Surya doing audio/visual stuff for a show in july. Of course, we're also throwing said show, so the organizational side of that is fairly complicated too (finding other artists, sound, etc. etc.). Add to that a theme song for Josh Wolf's show on some PBS or local tv channel, and the ever-present finishing of the current album (which is about 75-80% done right now) and I'm being kept fairly busy outside of work. Oh yeah, lots of socializing time with certain people too ;)
Heh, beats being bored :) Can't complain anyway, life is in general pretty good right now.
On the book front, I just finished M. John Harrison's "Light" (eh, 6-7/10) and am starting David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas".
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| Boys and Girls in cars... |
[10 May 2005|12:41am] |
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Peter Gabriel - Here comes the flood |
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(Subject gaffled from Vieve's name-that-song-from-the-snippet-in-the-subject meme)
Why I stay up till 12:45 when I only got 3 hours of sleep last night, I know not. I guess I'm not carpooling tomorrow, maybe I'll sleep in. Surya bugged me about posting onto our backpack site for setting up the audio/video chill party in july so I posted a bunch of ideas about setup and also about what kind of audio/video rig we are using.
It should be a pretty cool setup, I'm envisioning something where both Surya and I will swap instruments and swap turns at driving the audio/video elements so its totally collaborative and the video and the audio are produced in conjunction. Assuming I have enough instruments I plan to contribute as many processed instruments as we can handle (dulcimer, ac. + electric guitar, flutes, etc.) plus some choral vocal stuff that i run through fx. Surya plays guitar so I think we can balance out playing on instruments as much as we throw loops and textures around. Should be a fun show. I really want a weighted keyboard for doing piano stuff, but the Alesis is a goddamn bitch and a half to transport.
Talked with M tonight for a bit about random things, including my surprising cell phone bill this month because I totally forgot that night minutes start after 9pm, not 8pm..
Ok. Time to sleep.
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| A post! A very palpable post! |
[09 May 2005|11:36am] |
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Stargaze 11 - Singularity, Pt. 1 |
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Yes. I am actually attempting to make a habit of posting more often.
I'll start small because for various reasons I will get into later, I got 3.5 hours of sleep last night (4am to 7:30am).
Anyway, I ordered some new music today:
La Kahena by DJ Cheb I Sabbah - this just came out, presumably cool but I haven't sampled it yet.
Castaways & Cutouts and Her Majesty by the Decemberists
Uprooting by the Warsaw Village Band (weird folktronic-ish odd stuff)
Hopefully they will all not suck. Other recent album purchases of mine: 69 Love Songs Pt. 1 by the Magnetic Fields (nowhere near as sappy as it sounds, its actually pretty lyrical stuff) and the new Christopher O'Riley album Hold Me To This (more covers of Radiohead, not as good as True Love Waits but really damn good piano composition).
Music stuff is going well, almost finished my acoustic-electronic-weird album, stuff in progress posted up at the usual place.
Hopefully I'll post more :)
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| Blah. I hate being sick. |
[30 Oct 2003|07:22pm] |
Being sick sucks, especially when contemplating the rockstar-ish weekend ahead (spinning at bloodwerks, followed by driving up to the bay sat. to spin at the BZ halloween party)... I'm hoping that I can sleep early tonight and knock the body-suckage part of it out of me tonight...
I was going to hit up Aardvarks for some costume ideas, but meh.. I really should just order in some decent hot food and sleep early.
Got permission to work from home tomorrow so worst case I can hit up aardvarks tomorrow afternoon.
Damn it I *will* make it to both parties, even if I have to be lame and costumeless.
Maybe I can print out one of the nigerian spam emails and go as Nigerian-Spam-Boy..
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| Un-woot |
[03 Oct 2003|09:43am] |
Grr. Ok that sucked. Got a second email from the guy who runs audiobulb saying he had given a second listen to the tracks he had wanted to use and they were "close but not exactly the sound he wanted for his label" ... see this is what happens when I get excited.
BAH.
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| WOOT! |
[03 Oct 2003|02:00am] |
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Chiral - Geek Boy Waltz In C# |
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I just got asked if I wanted one of my tracks on a compilation release by audiobulb records ... WOOT! The guy who runs the label is an artist on www.em411.com where I have been releasing my tracks recently..
*hippity hop*
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| "So Close" |
[26 Sep 2003|12:37am] |
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Just got back from watching a hilarious movie. Its a Hong Kong import called "So Close." Basically: hot asian chicks fighting people, hot asian chicks fighting hot asian chicks, hot asian chicks fighting people with katanas and wakasashis. Oh right, there was some minor hot lesbian asian chick innuendo. I recommend seeing it if you can, its highly amusing and the action scenes, especially the katana sword fighting, is done quite well. In the moments when the movie attempts some plot exposition, just blur your eyes so you can't read the subtitles and cover your ears while they play annoying elevator music. Don't worry, the "plot" parts don't last too long :)
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| ... at work @ 11pm ... |
[24 Sep 2003|11:07pm] |
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Lamb - Gorecki |
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Hopefully I will leave work soon. My carpoolmate has some stuff to do for tomorrow and I also have some stuff I could get done tonight so we're pulling a late-ish night in. Hopefully we'll take off before midnight. Interesting story I heard at dinner today. My friend Mike from work lives on a boat that moors in a harbor in Oxnard (or Ventura, can never remember which). A couple of weeks ago the algal bloom caused red-tide, which a number of people on SG & SR noted. Apparently the red-tide stuck around for a while, at least in this particular harbor. At a certain point the amount of algae hit some sort of threshold and all the fish in the harbor suddenly rushed to the surface gasping for air, with many of them dying.. The seaguls immediately noticed and dived into the newly opened buffet. Apparently one seagull so engorged himself that when a dead fish rose to the surface right in front of him he tried to eat it but failed miserably. As the week went on the stink in the harbor started to rise, which tailed off a bit as the tide washed away the dead fish. Strange but true.
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