Never been one to let the carrier drop

54% feminine.

Hmm. As with all things, I sit squarely on the line between genders. Which isn’t a bad place to be particularly.

I survived my extended family.. even enjoyed being around a couple of them. [I discovered that the children of my favorite great-uncle are just as cool as he was – I guess that’s not suprising. I still miss him sometimes.. ]

(For those of you who don’t know me personally, every year my extended family on my dad’s side has a holiday called ‘Thanksmas’. I’ve avoided it for years and years, very carefully – since my extended family on my dad’s side don’t have a lot to reccomend them. And they were mostly just as bad as I remembered – of course, they still don’t think much of me either. They were glad to see me anyway, though, even though they think I’m a commie left-wing pinko longhaired freak.. 😉 My favorite quote from the visit: “Jonathan, you know you’re a little too late to be a hippie, right?”. No, no one told me that peace and love and weed had gone out of style.. 😉

Anyway, so, I went to south carolina and back, and more-or-less survived the experience – my first time there in 13 years, it’s amazing how much their house had shrunk. Perspective is a interesting thing. I also remembered Clemson, SC as being a huge city.. heh heh heh…

And now I’m back at work on the parking meters that just don’t quit. P. wants to borrow the living room for a party on friday, so I also have to drag the piles of boxes, packing material, computer components, and old mail out of it, which should be interesting and time consuming.

In other news, I figured out how to control my lights via MIDI and audio, and have been having all sorts of fun with them. I need to get one more tree to set up the two more I-scans, and perhaps pick up one more laser.. (if only the blues weren’t $3000). Still, they look really, really sweet.

And I’ve collected a ton of samples.. some of which are truly priceless. I’ve also been editing some of the recordings me + ron made, and have one pretty close to presentable..

S.

You are ‘Christmas Time is Here, by Golly!’, by Tom
Lehrer. Hmm, you really don’t like Christmas,
do you? From the moment they start playing
carols in the shops in October to the
appearance of the first Easter Eggs in the
shops on New Years Eve, the rampant hypocrisy
of the Christmas spirit sets your teeth on
edge. You know just how many family fights
start over Christmas dinner, how many people
are injured in the Boxing Day sales, and how
few people actually find Christmas even
remotely merry. You liked Scrooge far better
before those ghosts got to him, and you are
only doing this quiz because you are bored at
work and anything is better than listening to
everyone else discuss their Christmas shopping.
Still, it is two days off work, which does
count for something… Enjoy the break.

What Christmas Carol are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

How cheerful. 😉

I bought myself a AudioTron. I’m not entirely sure why, otehr than it was cheap on e-bay.

While the MP3-player is okay, the interface is not nearly as handy as a computer. But, there is another side to the audiotron.. a far cooler side.

A few seconds after I plugged it into my LAN, it detected a list of radio statins. 147 of them. Right now I’m listening to psytrance.. it’s been going for a hour, at 128kbit quality, and there have been no ads.

How cool is that?

S.

(whose head is killing him)

Go to google.

Type in ‘miserable failure’. Hit ‘I’m feeling lucky’.

S.

001. name : Sheer
002. nicknames : Jonathan
003. sex : Any time.
004. birthday : May 2nd
005. age : 27, and would like to be younger
006. sun sign : Taurus? I have no idea what this is
007. place of birth : Heidelburg, Germany
008. current residence: Seattle, WA
009. hair colour : Dark blond
010. eye colour : Blue-Green
011. height : 6’2″
012. writing hand : I don’t write if I can help it. And I use both hands to type.

____BODY ILLS + SKILLS
013. do you bite your nails : Yes
014. can you roll your tongue : No
016. can you raise one eyebrow at a time : Yes
017. can you blow smoke rings: No
018. can you blow spit bubbles : No
019. can you cross your eyes : Are you kidding? I can use them to look at two monitors at once!

020. colored hair : I did blue this halloween
021. tattoos and where : None
022. piercing and where : None
023. do you make your bed daily : I don’t know that I’ve ever made my bed.
024. what goes on first bra or underwear : I don’t wear underwear, or bras.
025. which shoe goes on first : I’d never given the matter much thought.
036. speaking of shoes, have you thrown one at someone : No
037. how much money is usually in your wallet? : $50, mostly in $5s
038. what jewelry do you wear 24/7 : A necklace that P. made for me when she was 14.
039. whats sexiest on a guy : Two words: George Michael.
040. whats sexiest on a girl : Eyes, upper back, stomach if well defined
041. would you rather be on time and look ok or late and look great : I’ve never been either on time or looked great.
042. do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it : Neither. I do the ‘Lady and The Tramp’ suck. 😉
043. how many cereals are in your cabinet : Three? Four? Depends.
044. what utensils do you use eating pizza : My hands and my mouth
045. do you cook : Sometimes, usually mac n cheese, sometimes pasta or chicken. (somehow I think it’s funny that I didn’t have to edit this line from the person I lifted this quiz from)

____GROOMING
046. how often do you brush your teeth : twice a day
047. how often do you shower/bathe : every day
048. how long do these showers last : 5-20 minutes.
049. hair drying method : Roll down window on interstate.
050. do you paint your nails : Once
051. do you swear : Yes
052. do you mumble to yourself : Mumble? I hold three-sided debates!
053. do you spit in public : don’t even spit in private
054. do you pee in the shower : Sure

____OTHER
055. the cd player : Or mp3? 😉
056. person you talk most on the phone with : Probably Lee Hart.
057. what color is your bedroom : Under the dirt?
058. do you use an alarm clock : No
059. name one thing or person you’re obsessed with : music, electric vehicles. Oops, that’s two.
060. have you ever skinny dipped with the opposite sex : Yes
061. ever sunbathed in the nude: No. And the world thanks me.
062. window seat or aisle : Aisle.
063. what’s your sleeping position: Curled up.
064. what kind of bed do you like : Vinyl
065. in hot weather do you use a blanket : Yes
066. do you snore : Not that I know of.
067. do you sleepwalk : Not usually
068 do you talk in your sleep : No
069. do you sleep with a stuffed animal : Sometimes
070. how about the light on : Never
071. do you fall asleep with the tv or radio on : No
____WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU
072. had sex : 2 days ago?
073. were kissed or kissed someone : 2 days ago
074. watched bambi : 2 years ago?
075. cried : 2 weeks ago?
076. talked on the phone : Today
077. read a book : Today.
078. punched someone : Middle school

____MUSIC
079. is music important to you : Yes. Is air important to you?
080. do you sing? : Sometimes, when I feel like torturing people
081. what instruments do you play? : Keyboard, guitar, drums occasionally
082. what do you think of Eminem : Mostly I can’t stand him,a lthough I do like the ‘Brittney Spears’ remix of ‘The Real Slim Shady’
___DO YOU LiKE
083. pop music : From the 80s, sure. 😉
084. rock music : Yes
085. punk music : Sometimes.
086. rap music : DJ Jazzy Jeff, yes. Aesop Rock, yes. WHat most people call rap, no.
087. hip-Hop/RB : Occasionally
088. country : Occasionally
089. jazz : I’d give it a 7. I dig it but I can’t dance to it. 😉
090. classical : Yes
091. new age : I *write* new age.
092. what is one band/singer you absolutely love that no one else does or seems to have heard about : Emmit Swimming
093. Techno? : Yes, please, more, more, more, louder, more lasers, can we get some more people dancing and less people making out please? You, over there, would you go ask the DJ if they could turn up the midrange so that it keeps up with the bass? And turn down the Suck knob a couple of notches?

It’s the email, the email, what what, the email..

https://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/tshirt.php?sku=a251

S.

A way to ask, ‘given these keywords, how many pages down would this site be’?

Just my opinion. 😉

S.

So I was listening to d&b artist radio of a friend of (see http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=227247&T=9470 ) and watching some optical illusions posted by at http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/index.html and I experienced my very first ever acid flashback.

Lasted about 20 seconds, and it was unmistakably the feel of tripping.. fun!

S.

[p.s. kids, I’m not saying to go out and try acid. it definately has down sides, like most recreational chemicals. Among other thngs, when mixed with sleep dep it can cause insanity in some people i.e. me..]

Good and bad today..

Went to sleep at 5 am after admitting that I couldn’t beat the computer as GLA. Dreamed that 5arah had gotten a copy of C&C generals to play me. Very strange, since I’ve never met her. Woke up to phone. evparts is moving their server back home. No complaints here – they’ve been bumping the hell outta my bandwidth cap, and I’m paying isomedia more than they’re paying me in bandwidth overages every month.

Okay, so lost sleep over that. Came home, went to sleep, and dreamed that I was installing a car stereo while driving a car.. had volume remote on steering wheel even though none of the cars I’ve ever had had.. and was trying to get to work.. then realized I was driving and paniced.. then stopped in a police station to finish the work, went inside and they had this thing where you confessed to a crime and they sentanced you on the spot.. and a giant rabbit bit my nose, and then I couldn’t see but some other animal was sinking its fangs into my face..

So, yeah. On the other hand, called Ron up, we’re gonna be hooking up some more trance jam goodness in the basement monday night. I must must must prepare a happy bizarre sample bank, which means wading through the [THUNK!] instruction manual for my new snazzy (well, used ebay but whatever) hardware sampler.

Ron likes his early christmas present though. Scott also likes his.. hopefully P. will like hers. G. got all bent out of shape when I offered to buy her a (used) Roomba because it was too expensive. My sister and dad are still mysteries.. my mom has suggested giving my dad a trip down there to go canoeing, but I did that last year..

I don’t know what’s up with me and christmas this year.. I just feel like I want to find everyone the perfect gift for some reason… like a compulsion. Something to remember me by after I’ve died of skin cancer.. 😉

[seriously, I may have to reconsider my stand on health insurance here, one of my mole-thingies shows _every single one_ of the list of danger signs for skin cancer. Great. I gave up smoking so I could die of skin cancer?? To quote Lou Reed, No good. No good at all.]

I want to listen to some Jesus Jones – not ‘Right Here Right Now’, which doesn’t describe how I feel about this moment in time politically very well in any case, but more like ‘Welcome back victoria’, which kind of does. Or maybe ‘international bright young thing’.

And I keep meaning to do a real, kickass techno version of strongbad’s techno song. But I can’t find my extra ADAT cables. I bought two extra, and I stuck them in a box in the living room, and then I moved it to the basement, and now I can’t find it. Waah. Waah.

L., if you’ve read this far, want to make some money helping to clean the studio? Can you over-under coil? 😉 [sha, right, like I ever over-under. Like I ever coil, for that matter…]

International bright young thing..

I miss songmeanings.net. And I don’t believe they’re ever coming back.. I think the music industry got to them, threatened them with nuclear meltdown if they didn’t stop providing all those lyrics in such a conveniant and non-advertising-infiltrated way. And now they’re collecting donations because hey, why not?

[let me put it to you this way: Does it really take two months to upgrade a server? No, it does not.. They’re coming back like napster came back.. owned by the man. I emailed napster like three times asking how I, as a amatuar recording artist, could share my works on their servers. No reply, no response. So I’m not paying one cent to them.. sticking with good ol’ WinMX.]

I’m offering one cookie to anyone who actually read all this.

Bleh.