the mug of wisdom


justin and the mug of wisdom
just to clear something up – resonance continues as per usual. today is an extended 2 hour show — 3-5 pm with DJ Pants. random radio is its own entity! wooo! something really cool is this: justin (aka formulate) is preparing a production / mix set specifically for resonance. ooooo, this is going to be sweet.
i think one of these weeks i am going to see if i can stay in every night of the week. see how that goes. see what kind of production i can get in. when i stay at home i feel so productive. but.. i really enjoy going out. so.
i would like to duplicate me.

emmy and the mug of wisdom
i went on a bit of an interesting mission last night with emmy. we delivered some things to some very surprised people. those people didn’t expect to get what they received, which was tremendously ghilariousu and neat at the same time. so, to all those who we visited last night, thank you again.
i have begun to receive material for random radio via email from someone who rocks! yeah! i will be collecting the pieces saturday daytime so if you have material/stories/jokes to send me, do so please!
guh.
i am stupid. i just quit safari in the middle of the post.
good thing i have grown accustomed to this stupidness and i have learned to save posts regularly in draft form. yay me!

quentin and the mug of wisdom
anyways. i was saying that tim has a craaaazy music production studio now. he showed me around it last night and i learned a couple things while being over there, like for example that BIAS, the company that makes the mad crazy .AIFF editor known as ‘Peak’ makes a multitracker called Deck or something like that. Maaaan, it looked just like Logic Audio Platinum except i used it for half a minute and it did what i wanted it to! whoah! doood! forget logic audio platinum. really. i don’t know anyone that enjoys logic audio platinum. i have used it for a while and it seems like the dinosaur of multitrackers. it’s like quark xpress to a designer. i mean, i can use quark no problem, but that’s only after a long time of getting to know it and making a book in it. logic is a program i have spent some serious time in and have gotten nowhere. no fun! forget it. quentin has suggested nuendo.

charles paul and the mug of wisdom
i have been getting a bunch of responses from record labels asking for me to send them the Magnetic package. this week, charles paul finished a reaaaaally awesome experimental ambient breaks remix of Magnetic, rounding out the package and finishing the production side of the latest AFK project. things left to do: gather bios, copy writing for the track writeup and the bios, and pictures. then it’s burning the CD’s, printing off the finished 2-pager, and mailing off to the record labels, which i would like to do before the end of next week! jim has volunteered to do copywriting (i don’t know what i can do for him in return!@#) which is [censored] zope. thank you jim!
it’s going to be an interesting day today. apparently 8 inches of snow is expected.

random radio


okay. i have been vague about the new radio show. but no longer.
starting (in all likelihood) this saturday night, on 101.9 FM, from 3-6 a.m. myself, adrian and gurton will be hosting random radio. and i say hosting because we are not the only people involved. we’re looking at having a dedicated producer, some characters, and we have some key writers in mind for this project — however, we’re also looking for YOUR stories to talk about on the air. is it true? at random radio, it doesn’t really matter. we will make fun of any story you send us.
reallllllllly!
do you have a story?
send it in!
also, please email me questions that you would like answered on the air. think strongbad, radio style, except we’ll actually answer your emails. on the air. yeah we’ll do this, and then some. i am soooooOOoOo serious. so send them in, and tune in!

here i am again

with waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many pictures to post.

miss innocent IDing tracks at resonance, slobadon (swedish techno DJ) in the background, spinning.
i am still kind of in awe at how fast a dual 1gHz G4 is.

colleen aka miss innocent spinning on resonance
really fast. anyway, this has got me inspired. alls i need is a good keyboard to play on (shhh don’t tell anyone) and come up with melodies and basslines etc. i usually do it on the computer but it’s really simply not as good.

slobadon aka staffan at resonance. he’s got over 30 12″‘s out. yowza.
i’ll do a bigger post later (because it is in me), but for now, you can know all is mostly well in my life and things are cool, man.

dual 1 gHz G4


yus! the dual processor board is installed. and another 512 megs of ram. tonight, i basically added another few years to the life of my computer. it took about 10 minutes. less if you don’t count the vacuuming of all the freakin’ dust that came out of my computer.
i’ll be going to vancouver this weekend to visit kristen. during that time away, i will be defragging the server, so expect this site to be down friday evening until saturday afternoon or so. or maybe tomorrow during the day. or maybe even tonight! who knows!!

speeding along


the picture above is of nathan’s brand new 2003 celica. yum. i hung out with him a few times recently, the most recent being monday night. we played 4 player snes bomberman and listened to rad music. ahh, mindless fun.
stimulation.
after beating snes bomberman at 4:30 A.M. (yesterday morning), i went home and sat in my room. i then proceeded to order a dual 1 gHz G4 card and 512 megs of ram from Other World Computing. this will be a significant upgrade to my computer (the server this site runs from) and is intended to extend the life of the computer by a couple years at least. it is currently a quicksilver 733 mHz G4 with 640 megs of ram. yeah. this is gonna rock. i have also yet to install panther (10.3) and i am thinking i should grab a 5 button mouse soon.

part of the reason i am doing all of this is because i want to take my music production to a new level. this is an investment in me.
i went out to vista 18 last night with cecelia. she phoned me — she wasn’t sure what to do, but i assured her she had done the right thing by phoning me immediately. she won $5000 at the casino and so we celebrated in style. we went through a bunch of clichés after, such as “those who say they never got a chance often times never took a chance” etc. that was fun. then we hit up hugos where it was agreed that it was a small town bar trying to be a big town bar. which is okay, i mean if there was nowhere like hugos in town victoria would feel really small. i go there every now and then just because it is somewhere i would never go a couple years ago.

travelling changes your perspective on things though — i mean it affects everyone differently, but for me personally it has opened me up to things that i had pigeonholed myself against before. and why did i pigeonhole myself? i don’t know..

it occured to me after hanging out with cecelia last night that getting to know some people better is inevitable. i find myself half-knowing some people, or knowing people in a certain capacity quite often, feeling like i am scraping at the surface. i mean, two people have to be ready to get to know eachother better obviously, however.. there’s also the inherent pigeonholing that people do subconsciously of others.
not that i am in any rush to get to know people better. just, these things are happening. it is the product of spending time and paying attention. oh, and asking the odd question here and there.