i just finished "shimmer," the new cd.

except i just found out that i had been recording at 2 channels, 8 bit aside instead of 16 aside. basically the recording sounds like it was put through a phone. mother effer!!!!!!!!

i am going to go to the oak bay rec now and release some steam.

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that is done.. just deleted 400 entries, and imported the right ones.. there's a new category (on the right) called "dj mixes".. the next step is deleting the music blog, because i made it only for the simple reason that i didn't understand categories before.. or how the category templates worked, to be precise.. but i do now. i was thinking i don't want to have a dj site or a producer site, but i made myself a producer (afk) site, and there should probaby be a dj ariz0na website too.. but i am having more fun producing music and djing with it, so maybe if i could amalgamate "AFK" and "dj ariz0na" into just "davin" it would be nice.

here's that top ten random songs from my iTunes library that krishen was talking about:

1. Underground Resistance - Combustion Chamber
2. Deep Space Organisms - Outer Moment
3. Woob - Pluto
4. Sasha - Artificial Heart
5. Blackwatch - Foreshadow (Medway remix)
6. Hybrid - Live at the Amphitheatre in Florida - 08-31-2003
7. resonance ID take
8. Subtech - Southern Chill
9. Delerium - Innocente (Noel Sanger remix)
10. Subsky - Four Days (Gil remix)

from a playlist consisting for 2582 songs at 18.5 days worth of music. whut does your list look like?

i seem to be having a lack of energy lately. i think it may have to do with just wanting to get things done and finishing projects, both at work and in my music life. progress. i need it.

formulate's set on resonance last night was really quite good. we had some pretty hilarious moments in the on-air studio last night when the mic wasn't on.. totally strange.. hahaha. mellow gold!?!?! oh yeah, the mic WAS on.. shit!

anyway, today i am going to help my friend nathan get some cards printed for his new business, gonna work on a contract project, and watch the canucks game. and then tonight, i dunno what i want to do. i want a bit of adventure.. that trip to port hardy last week was good! i need more adventure now.

i want something truly unexpected to happen.

*poof*

Running into you like this without warning
Is like catching a sniff of tequila in the morning
But I'll try, I'll try to keep my food down
That's quite an after-taste that
You've left now that you're not around

You can just pretend we're not in the same room
Well, alright, I'll just mosey to the bathroom
You flew by like a summer vacation
And you left me with TV - movies and a messy kitchen

I think I'll disappear now, slip out sideways
Just for a while - but until then I'll stay in a sleep late, excuse me

I'll buy a fast car, I'll drive fast from here
There's a beach I haven't seen since last year -
It's far, but I like night drives;
It just makes it nicer where I do arrive.

here's my homework for extrametrical.com, although maybe i was supposed to email it to the e-pilot, but i have posted it here instead. and.. soooooooooooomething is aaaaaaaaaaaalllllllmoooooooost reaaaaaaaaaaaaady!

woohoo!

the metabottle worked!

now i'm just waiting for an email back from that Rob dude. rob dude! email me!

i kicked butt in tenis tonight. working out at the gym on sunday night made a big difference in my playing tonight.. the racquet did everything my brain told it to.

a mountain in the nimpkish valley

myself and craig are recording the first episode of z00mradio, a show that is going to air on wickedhouseparty.org on the last friday evening of the month. it'll be a monthly show and we've decided to go with a 2 hour show instead of a 3 hour because this particular internet radio station wants us to talk over top of the music every 5 minutes.

every 5 minutes. that's a lot of talking.. so we're going to try it out and see if we like it. right now on resonance we talk between sets, ocassionally over the music, and a lot at the end when the music is no longer playing and the show is essentially over. call it a 3 AM radio-experience.

i think wickedhouseparty just wants us to say their name a whole bunch in order to get "stickiness". perhaps we'll say z00mradio lots instead!

so, we're recording the first show as i type this.. we're recording the DJ set first, and then we'll place talk over top later in an audio editing program. basically a 2 hour show will take 2 hours to record the music, 2 hours to insert talking, and then 2 more hours to broadcast. 6 hours total, which would have been 9 if it was a 3 hour show. kind of hard to justify when we don't even know how many people will be listening, but we want the practice anyways. it will be good experience for us, putting together a monthly show and pre-producing.. it may lead to other things. :)

i had a really awesome week, capped off by an entertaining radio show.. this picture is from the nimpkish valley!

that is a picture of my friend angie. the other day she dropped off a book for me that was about writing and marketing hit songs. i don't particularly want to make anything resembling a hit song, but i am interested in the marketing aspect of it, and i am also interested in reading a bit more on the hit song structure, because it has always fascinated me how i knew in advance if something was going to top the charts.

i drove standard some more today in a desolate mall parking lot in port hardy and watched the canucks get thrashed proper by the minesota wild. erik predicted this, and minesota was playing like a team that needed to win, which they did. they are almost out of possibilities in minesota and they would probably miss the playoffs if they didn't play the way they did tonight. it was a pretty embarassing game to watch, but i found out today that willie mitchell, one of the star minesota players, is from port mcneill, the town i am staying in right now.

todays workshop was totally fun and i had a great time. the students were really sharp and creative -- i learned a lot!

tomorrow night is the hybrid massive show on resonance! woohoo!!!

i am going to port hardy today for 3 days! for those who don't know where that is, or for that matter, where i live in the world, i live in victoria, which is on the southern tip of an island on the north west side of north america, sitting between seattle and vancouver. over half a million people live on this island with me. port hardy is up there, on the northern tip of the island. it is a 5.5 hour drive each way.. i am looking forward to the road trip!

don't forget about the resonance 3 hour Hybrid special on Friday night. it's gonna be supah!

i just got a text message on my cell phone from Rogers about one of their new promotions. i promptly phoned them and informed them that, when Rogers sends me the next "promotional message," i will be switching to Telus.

odd thought: some people take the elevator and then go home to exercise on a stairmaster.

i was hanging out with some of my pals last weekend. some of them happened to be female and when the new neighbour girls came knocking on the door to introduce themselves, all the girls i was hanging out with made BITCHEYES at these friendly girls who had taken the time to be friendly. hahahahahaha!! whaddup with that?

wow is my printer ever a piece of junk. i just printed out the cover for friday's resonance show and it looks like garbage. ladies and gentlemen, i have a lexmark Z33. i think you get what you pay for when it comes to lexmark. this printer was about $80 a few years ago. piece of junk.

by the way, my mac is still kicking ass. (see, i am happy with something!)

other good purchase: the radium 61. oh yes, so good. talk about a great keyboard - midicontroller. tooooootally changed the way i make music. i guess i am no longer AFK.. yet i am. but i am not. but i am.

hey here's a bit of weirdness: Softcell - Memorabilia (Starecase remix). Yeah, those guys from the 80's got remixed by those guys from the late 90's and now it is finally seeing the light of day, sort of. i have got it, at least.

i think i am going to play it at the valentines party i am playing this weekend. oh yeah, parrrrrrrrrrrrty! and it doesn't conflict with my radio show. and my radio show doesn't conflict with work anymore. that is suh-weet! i do radio as a volunteer, and it's one of my favorite things ever.

when i was 15, i didn't think i would ever volunteer for anything. i didn't get the concept. i thought, at the time, that working was simply something you had to do to get the things that (i thought at the time) are really important, like cars, clothes, and general bling-bling. volunteer? wtf? why would i do that? i needed to spend my time earning mad-cash-money, bitch! i worked at randy river, a place plagued by heinous management and an awful wage with insulting rates of commission. i also quit the job after a year and a half, knowing that i was to move onto bigger and better things. and so i did, and so i have. now i spend volunteer hours at the 101.9 FM on-air booth and i volunteer at the hospital. it feels good to be doing things with my time beyond work. i am helping people and padding my resume at the same time!

but.. i digress.

if anyone liked James Holden's Balance CD, which pretty much everyone i know did, then you'll love Luke Chable's new tune .. Quest - The Shepherd. really smooth stuff, brilliant production. i also recommend his other new tune called "Melburn." Luke also happens to be responsible for the rather large remix of PQM's "You Are Sleeping" which is on CD 1 of that Balance compilation that Holden put together. i have much more music to recommend, but you'll have to listen to the show tomorrow night to hear it. yes, i have lots lined up. yus!

i want to circulate an 11 x 17" poster for resonance so that everyone knows that it's on fridays at midnight now. we gave out quite a few of the hand-held flyers over the last year. they were good, but now i want to get storefront window posters because, with the new timeslot, it's worth fussing over. i also want to get a real domain for the resonance website instead of resonance.lefty.ca or resonance.dhs.org because they're long and basically nonrelevant subdomains. of course, you could still use those previous URL's but i'd like something that rolled off the tongue nicer.. like resonance.com. or resonanceradio.com. but they're both taken. so, eff. ideas? suggestions?

i can not call my angriness a mistake; it was how i reacted. my response was written feeling, which i think is perfectly fair.

my email was responded to by the president of rogue amoeba, and he defended the way things were set up in their program. i appreciated that he responded to my email within 30 minutes of me sending it. that means something to me, and i respect their efforts for that. all reports from krishen say that it is a great piece of software.

krishen gave me sarah mclachlan's new album for xmas. in that cd, there are a bunch of pictures of sarah. man, she looks hotter now than ever. someone got her a great photographer and fashion / image consultant. or maybe she's just got style, which is a pretty big possibility.

anyways, i found the following on her "enhanced cd".. seems like they forgot to finish it:

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