Never been one to let the carrier drop

I was just looking at some republican/conservative propiganda. (www.consumerfreedom.com – they must be kidding. Why is it the republicans are always talking about freedom as they lock up those using their first amendment rights?)

I don’t see how anyone.. liberal, conservative, or otherwise, can vote for bush. I mean, we all know now – he lied to start a war. He ignored the largest protests in history. He’s signing away the bill of rights, he was friends with a man who stole millions from honest workers, his vice president owns stock in a company that makes electronic voting machines guaranteed to lose your vote (if you don’t vote for him ;-)).

But it’s oh so important to stop the tax-and-spend liberals that if we have to vote for pure evil to do it, we will..

Wake up, republicans. There are times when the lesser of the two evils doesn’t belong to your party..

Well, the good news for all of you conservatives out there who keep saying ‘if you don’t like it, leave’.. if Bush gets re-elected, I will.

The deal: You’re supposed to guess what song and band they’re from and post your answers as comments. Since I didn’t have a playlist loaded, I picked from recent and old favorites instead. Some of these are easy, some are quite tricky indeed..

1) I can feel it coming, days are getting longer, hearts are getting closer, love is getting stronger..

2) But if the weather holds, I’ll have missed the point.. that’s where I need to go

3) [trick question] Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve accomplished much conflict so there can be further destruction. WE’ve created raging disease and persistant poverty on a massive scale in Iraq

4) I dream of fire, Elaine.. Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never die..

5) I can’t wear any uniform without some compromises.. because you’ll find out that we come in different shapes and sizes

6) Yah, the settlers laugh.. you won’t be laughing when your covered wagons crash..

7) Some rich men came and raped the land.. nobody caught ’em.. put a bunch of ugly boxes, and jesus, people bought em

8) But I don’t think it’s coincidence, and I don’t believe in accidents, it’s time to ask ourselves.. why are we still here?

9) I said the tragedy is how you’re going to spend the rest of your nights with the light on – so shine the light on all of your friends, well, it all amounts to nothing in the end..

10) Remember how they taught you.. how much of it was fear.. refuse to hand it down.. the legacy stops here

11) Those creatures jumped the barracades, and are headed for the sea..

12) Hear my words taht I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you..

13) I don’t even try to explain I just hold on tight and if it happens again I might move so slightly to the arms and the lips and the face of the human cannonball that I need to, I want to..

14) I blame you for the moonlit sky, and the dream that died with the eagle’s flight..

15) To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel…

16) And I believe that we’ll conceive to make in hell for us a heaven a brave new world a promised land a fortitude of hearts and minds..

17) That’s when I asked her where was that actress.. she said, ‘That was somebody else’.. then I asked her why she looked so happy.. she said ‘at last I like myself’

18) They have no mission, they have no passion But they dare to tell us what’s bad and what’s good!

19) Don’t compromise.. you don’t live my life.. and I don’t judge you, when I look in your eyes

20) I want to know what that’s got to do, with what it takes to find out what’s true, with everyone from the president on down trying to keep it from you

really long large file for broadband peeps only.

Alex may cut a few of the better bits out in which case I’ll post them individually.

A micropay music video on demand site ($2.99 for all you can eat for a month, as far as I can tell – paypal handles the transaction, so it seems pretty safe) they have a preview function which lets you see 1 minute of each video before you’ve paid) http://www.singingfool.com

And they have roxette, and toad the wet sprocket, and information society, and REM, and Madonna, and a little bit of Billy Joel, and ..

I better get back to work. But this is cool – it’s what we should have built at onair..

Actually, yikes, how’d it get to be 4a? I better get to _sleep_

I have no idea what I just did. I now have a bunch of buttons for bold, underline, bullet points, links, etc. I’m not sure if I’ve gone into moron mode or what. I suspect my post is lost. It’s okay, it just detailed my 28th birthday. The highlights:

1) Rollerblading around greenlake with P.

2) New breaks beatmeister came over, made some tasty beats as me and Tory threw down some other assorted audio.

Apparently VA just passed a law banning not only gay marriage, but also civil unions. I’m sure my mom is happy. I guess that’s the good thing about state/local government is that it can ajust to however backwards, bigoted, and otherwise moronic the constituants are.

Except that occasionally the federal government steps in (thank you, Rosa Parks!) and says, ‘oh no, you don’t.’

Except that occasionally they do the opposite.

My text is not likely to make a lot of sense today. I’ve got quite the sunburn from sitting out in the sun debating/wrangling/whatnot over who was to represent Kucinich to our state. I ran, but they (wisely, considering that I couldn’t even talk coherently when asked to state why I should be sent) chose to send older and wiser heads. Which was fine with me… I’d written in all older and wiser heads on my ballot myself [I didn’t vote for myself] except for my neighbor and alternate delegate.

Anyway, so, yes, I did the democratic caucus thing. It had some very uplifting moments – Congressman McDermott, who is _my hero_ (or at least one of them) spoke, the group at large loudly passed a motion to add to the democratic party platform in WA legalizing gay marriage, and not endorsing or agreeing with any federal amendment attempting to do otherwise.. and the Kucinich supporters were just as nifty as I thought they’d be. I passed around my email address to a few, maybe I’ll meet them at future progressive/uberliberal events.

It’s really encouraging to me how many people show up for these things. Seattle is a very politically charged.. and very progressive.. town. I don’t think I could ever live in NoVA again.. except I feel kind of like I’m one of the sheep, now. Just another progressive in the herd.

Anyway, it was a good time and I met many people, some of which I hope will become some real life friends which I am a little short on.

Speaking of real life friends, Tory is coming over tomorrow night again and I am looking forward to some kick ass beats. I went and talked to my neighbors last time after he left and one couldn’t even hear me, and the other could hear but didn’t mind a bit, so I shall be having no fear 😉

I am getting less afraid.

P.s. it’s after midnight. Happy birthday to me.

S.

I have decided I am going to change the wiring of my studio rack to reflect a radically different philosiphy.

Thus far, I have been trying to maximize bandwidth to the MIDI modules. My current topology looks like a star, with two MOTU midi interfaces giving me 16 busses, and each bus talking to one module.

The problem with this is it requires computer console work every time I want to change routings, and it’s, frankly, very confusing. I have to remember which port reflects which module.

As I see it, a more sane topology would be to program all the rack-bound modules to each respond to some limited number of channels, with the number of channels assigned to them reflecting the amount I used those particular modules in my musical meanderings. Using the MIDI THRU jacks on the back of each module, this would enable me to construct a single MIDI bus which all traffic from controllers would be routed to. By determining the channel a comtroller was sending on, it could easily choose what instrument to play. Not only would this be much easier during live performance (jamming), it would also considerably simplify finding the right instrument during session work.

There are of course a few exceptions to this. My stage controller (KZ-9000) is not smart enough to not respond on all channels, while the lighting board is not smart enough to not respond on channel one. In addition, since the 505 and 307 are not really bright enough to cope with different MIDI channels, they would seem to need their own bus as well.

The resulting topology should look something like this:

BUS 1:

Channel 1 & 2 = P2K
Channel 3 & 4 = Audity
Channel 5 & 6 = QSR
Channel 7 & 8 = 4500 [if I ever get off my ass and put a new HDD in it]
Channel 11 = ?

BUS 2: Korg N1
BUS 3: Mixer
BUS 4: Lighting

BUS 8: KZ-9000

Okay, I’m going to wander downstairs and impliment this. Wish me luck.

Scooters all flat as pancakes except the one that needs tags and doesn’t have them. I could chance the cops, but I think I’ll just take my bike instead. Assuming I can find my bike lock keys, of course

Why is it I feel like I must be cool if there’s a scope screen displaying a sine wave in my office?

Well, Finally getting around to listening to the CDs I bought the other day. The Paul Okenfold sucks, which will teach me to buy CDs before downloading. The Yes is awesome. And the Bill Hicks turns out to be one I’d already downloaded under a different name. Oh well. 😉

[I’m still amused that the record store had Bill Hicks but not Andrew Dice Clay or Dennis Leary or any of the comics I’m used to thinking of as ‘big name’.]

Trading emails with lots of interesting people lately.

Am starting to aquire a bit of a fuck-it attitude towards everything. Not so much apathy as lack of concern. I’m working harder than I’ve worked for a long time, juggling many balls, tossing off emails, and unconcerned. It’s nice to not have to worry about embarrassing anyone. [Well, I could worry about embarrassing me, but I’m slowly developing a immunity towards being embarrassed. About fscking time.]

A little superglue and my e-bay tape robot is ready to back up stuff. at $5 for 20 gigs, it even beats hard disks. 😉

Apparently my 3dm guess turned out to be right for what was sick in SoCal. That’s good and makes me a happy camper.

I’m getting the itch to go somewhere. I mean, Seattle is beautiful and worthy of hanging out in, but..

I played a open mic on monday at the chai place on 45th between neptune and university. Seemed to go well. Who can tell?

Tory’s coming over tonight, so I better run downstairs and reconnect some of the things I’ve disconnected.

And, P.’s games night is tonight, so I need to run up to the ave and take her Clue and whatnot. I might take one of the scooters, it’s been far too long since any of them have seen cycles..

My digikey parts came today, so that’ll be something else to mess around with. And Bruce has a UCM-II in my hands, and autopark is still about a quarter written, and Radio Shack is asking where their latest patch is, and arrrrghhhhhhhh!

On the other hand, I met the !PERSON WHO FOUNDED E-MU! last night. (e-mu, for those of you who don’t keep track, made the first commercial sampling equipment, thusly beginning the electronic music revolution.

Brig informs me, via code I wrote, that my birthday is in five days. I’m not even sure how old I’m going to be, but I know it’s too old. gotta slow this train down, it keeps spinning faster and faster..

This Yes CD, on the other hand, is wonderful. Makes me wish I had a joint in my hand.. but alas, too much work, no time to slack.

No time to keep writing journal entries for that matter 😉

Hope you all are well, my LJ friends.

I wonder if google is indexing my journal?