i am doing this update while i take a bus i have never taken before.. the #250! it goes from where i work (park royal) to town, where i am going to transfer to the skytrain, take it to main street, transfer to the #3 and arrive at broadway and main. i’ll walk a block east and meet kristen and ben at JIRO, a sushi joint that does all-you-can eat which is good, because i be one honnngree man.
we’re just about to cross the lions gate b ridge. this is one of the worst merges (consistently) that i have ever seen in my whole life. luckily the bus gets to go ahead of at least a kilometre of merging and so the whole deal is rather brief indeed compared to if we were not a bus. but we are a bus, so it is much faster. i can’t believe how narrow this bridge is, the lions gate bridge. they recently redid the bolts.. not sure why they didn’t just tear the thing down or rebuild it or something. it only has 3 lanes. that is pathetic. the second narrows bridge has 6 lanes. thats’ way more appropriate.
i guess they would have to tear up part of stanley park to make it 6 lanes. hmmm.
so the shaw guy arrived this morning on time (how about that?!) and hooked me up. so now i am all ready to go with a high-speed connection at home. this long weekend i will be in victoria to pick up my computer/server/musicmakingmachine/picture collector/etc and some other things too, like that box of clothes that i forgot. that had a lot of my clean clothes, and the clothes i wear frequently. and my shoes.
i talked to my friend matt(bass) last night for 2 hours. he is an amazingly cool guy, and a great friend to boot. and talented, a mega talented bass player. we are plotting on making music together — he’ll send me 2 or 4 bar cuts of him playing the bass at a certain bpm and i can filter and use them and tweak them in my own music. very cool. kind of like what anand does already on his own. speaking of, me and anand helped soren do a faux-news clip for soren’s voice-over portfolio. we taught him the correct news-intonation and then made a custom “news track” for him to speak over. the track took 10 minutes of me and anand pointing at the screen and reprogramming arpegiation and lining up some great triplets of strings in a chord over top of military style snare drums. then we threw his voice in with it, applied some radio-esque fades, and some radio-esque compression. voila! like buttah. that was fun.
this has been a fun bus ride (10 mins) but i gotta go. there is no one on the bus so that’s the only reason i am doing this right now. a very smooth and quiet ride!