Author: davin

i just gotta say that james holden has made my morning. if you can find the james holden balance CD’s (it’s a 2 CD set) go and get it. utterly awesome, one of the best things i have heard in a long time.
it’s nice to have some great music to go with the productivity. perhaps the two are related.. i get inspired by music. all this thinking about luke chable (doesn’t have a website) and never mentioning it on my blog is really wrong. basically everything this guy has touched is gold. he’s sort of james holden-y and produces under the name Quest and sometimes his own name. but really, he kicks ass. and i am in the process of putting this new CD together and i am trying to figure out what the last track is gonna be and i keep coming back to Luke Chable tracks. really, that’s not bad, is it? the problem is that there are already 2 of Luke’s tracks on the CD. this is supposed to be a dj ariz0na mix cd, not a Luke Chable remix and production compilation!!! i think i’ll make one of those too. and a starecase one, and a hybrid one. would you like that? i would.
tomorrow i have a rather massive set prepared for resonance which is on at 3 pm on 101.9 FM. or click on the website for streaming audio directly from the station! there is word of recording capabilities directly at the station but right now it’s just a rumor. that would be optimal for recording the radio show, ’cause it would be a .wav file and i could splonk it directly to mp3 and transfer it over to our radio show website. that would be goodest. recording the show to minidisc and then recording it to computer means i triple the amount of time i spend on the show every week just so that people who don’t listen when its on can listen later. yeaaaaah right! listen to the show!!! 😛 seriously, i’d like to archive it though. that was my hope from the beginning.. so that i can listen to the show too 😉
anyways i am sure i have bored all of you to tears with my dj babble so i’ll talk about the victoria blog meetup tonight, 7 pm @ QV’s. come with your ideas for a victoria central blog site and we’ll jam over coffee!

well thanks to the superior advise of mr formulate, myself and angie got reason 2.5 working on her windoze machine. wasn’t hard at all either. yay!
i have no idea when we’ll have time to work on music together but i hope it is soon. i’d like to learn more about vocal processing and effects before working with such a qualified singer.
today i learned more about the people that work at the subway near work. i go there for lunch almost every day. mr formulate commented that i talk to everyone and it’s almost true. i don’t talk to people i don’t like. people that i don’t like sometimes talk to me, and that becomes awkward on a trace level, something i was talking to adam about yesterday. adam is someone that is regarded by a lot of people i know to be aloof.
i used to get flack for being aloof, but the truth was that i was unaware that anyone had interest in talking to me. usually it was because i was a dj that they wanted to talk to me. i would be minding my own business and someone would come up to me and say “you’re dj arizona!! yeah!!” and i would respond with “yeah.” and then turn my head and go back to the conversation or whatever that i was already involved in, and not come back to that person. i was slightly confused by the attention, but when people started noticing that i was irresponsive if i didn’t know them, they were the ones that were confused. i would meet people, promptly forget their names because the conversation would be about parties or DJ’s.
i never took the time to ask them about themselves.
there was no tangibility.
how was i supposed to remember them?
in any case.. it used to bother me when people would identify me as dj ariz0na and move on without saying anything else. these days i stop and start talking to whomever has initiated the conversation. it sounds like it takes more effort, but it actually takes a lot less effort and i am finding that i am remembering a lot more of the people i meet. so if any of my 5 readers that haven’t met me are going to meet me, bring a story with you.
i’ve got one for you, too.

there’s something about a sunset that makes you feel like you’re in the right time and place, no matter when or where you are.
profound if we leave it at that.
but..
why is this?
it’s a thing of beauty, to be sure. and cameras have a way of capturing them which sometimes make them look even better than they actually were. are there things more beautiful? well, if there is anything equal or more, then i would wager that it gives you this same feeling of being in the right place and the right time.
oh and .. good bye september 2003 and the summer. it was lovely while it lasted.
tune of the day: boyd westerman – loop life

it’s been a weird weekend. friday night was completely fun, and we even ended up at denny’s for a big texas chicken fajita skillet! it was great to see so many people out and enjoying themselves. i ran into someone who i had not seen in years and years on friday night.

i have a bunch of housework to do — mostly sorting out papers that have been sitting dormantly on one of the two desks that my computer sits at. i have a tonne of stuff to recycle and a bunch more to file. i loath filing. i can do it, but to do so effectively requires some organization real physical space. which i don’t have.
so instead i have procrastinated by sorting through my iPhoto collection. it is at over 6000 images, which is a bit too high for iPhoto. it runs like a slug with that many images. i found some other thumbnailing software but it lacks some of the cool features that iPhoto has.. unfortunately.

for entry number 400, i am going to advise all 5 of my readers to not give out their email passwords or MSN passwords. i got some seriously weird messages today from one of my friend’s MSN accounts and and i knew it wasn’t her that wrote them. she recently moved away from victoria, but it was not renee (as pictured above.) hi renee!
i was a bit confused for a brief moment, but after a few seconds i figured out what was going on. yeah. i can’t imagine saying what this person said with another persons account. or it could have been a joke.. but not a very cool joke. it’s just not her style.

neofunkcian is on resonance this week! 2 hour show. booya. the above picture is of marlee, who played a great set last week.
i am pretty tired tonight. not sure what it is but i feel very low on energy. my plans for tonight are off so i am probably going to hit the hay early.
i toasted the red and green picture from the post below because it was giving me a headache. ergh.

lab color: lightness, a

lab color: lightness, b

rgb color: r,g,b
my personal favorite of the bunch is lightness, b.. love those colors in lab mode.
almost all the images you see on this site are unaltered. that includes the trippy night time ones. so if you aren’t sure what is fake and what is real.. well, it’s almost all real. but the human eye doesn’t see with a 15 second exposure really..
i plan on altering more of the photos i take .. some photographers object to changing images after they are taken.. and i agree.. i think there is something to be said for a plain and unaltered image. that being said, you can do some really [censored] cool stuff in the shop. so i am going to do more because i enjoy it! if anyone ever wants to see an original of an altered image.. just comment and i’ll post it.

tonight i looked through lyrics to describe the way i feel right now. i looked through my usual favourites.. but none of them will do.
U2’s lyrics are all about god, sex and drugs. Depeche Mode is all about drugs and occassionally sex. Coldplay writes about bubbles and spies and general nouns. bah.
for someone who likes lyrics, i sure have struck out tonight. anyone want to suggest some good lyricists?

on the 15th, the oak bay rec center re-opened. this is good, because
1) they have a swimming pool and
2) it is open until 1 a.m.
3) wait a minute, 1 a.m. isn’t late enough!
yeah, that’s right. i want to go swimming right now, but not in the ocean or in a lake. it’s almost 3 a.m. gimmie all night swimming, or at least until 4 a.m.!

ahoy mateys!
avast all ye scurvy dogs, allow i to remind ye that it is international Talk Like a Pirate Day today.
so raise up all ye grog — smartly, landlubbers. arrr!!
if ye do not wish to talk like a pirate, i reckon ye be spending not enough time playing the hornpipe. so all ye bildgerats whom forget what music be, best take note that the beauty marlee be spinning records on me radio show, resonance on this fine day. avast all ye radiolistenarrs, there may also be some JeLo as well. what be that, arrr!!
as all ye can see in the above pictograph, the port city of victoria be on alert on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
arrRrRrrRrRRrRRRRrrr!!!