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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.

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.
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.
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? why would i do that? i needed to spend my time earning mad-cash-money! 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. ideas? suggestions?