man on the moon


whoops! i should have been charging my backup battery while i slept. if i had a battery charger (for the Li-ion BP-512), i could do such a task while i go out today and drain my current battery. doh! doh, doh. i think that would be useful. what would be more useful is if my brain remembered to do these things late at night.
oh yeah. i finally saw the man on the moon for the first time ever last night. actually kinda looks like marge simpson.
now it’s off to go meet up with adrian and gurton for some sunday brunch. yih!

blumenwiese neben autobah

i finished my work basically when i thought i would and i didn’t even notice the hour go by. i love it. i have wanted to design for a living for years, and although i am not master designer yet, i feel progress and it’s [censored] fantastic. YUS!!
i should clarify from my last post that i am not planning on ditching pictures by any stretch of the imagination. in fact i plan, on sunday night, to go out on a special mission for more photographs. i did a bit of photography last night in the moonlight and i can’t really say enough that i like nighttime photography so much more than daytime shooting. i love seeing what isn’t there.
i plan on working on a breaks mix of Magnetic this weekend .. maybe late tonight. Magnetic was originally Caveman, and Caveman was originally a breaks choon so it’s a bit of follow-through that is necessary. we played formulate’s supreme remix of Magnetic today on resonance so that’s two weeks in a row of it. heh heh. maybe if i can finish the breaks mix in time it will be 3 weeks in a row, and maybe an ambient mix as well for the next week. well, the breaks mix is going to be semi-ambient i think. so nix that.
the title of this post has a lot to do with my sunday night mission.
so, i hope it works. yeah! full moon sunday night pls k thx.
the radio show was good fun today as per usual, and we had a couple of pretty interesting guests today — miss innocent (colleen) and slobodan (staffan). colleen is moving to vienna with staffan to start up a techno record label. really cool people. i only wish we had more time for them to spin — a 45 minute set between two people is really a small amount, even for techno. i want a longer show!!
once again i would like to say that, as Nathan put it last night while on a trance-breaks drive through East Sooke, ULRICH SCHNAUSS IS THE MAN.

the writer

i am really not much of a writer and not much of a gym person. yet i find myself gravitated towards these two things, working out my brain and working out my body. do i have a fear of laziness? maybe i have been lazy for too long.. the only problem is time. last night i said i was going to update later but i didn’t. i ran out of time. well, so what?
i didn’t actually run out of time. when i got home i turned on the TV because i had a glimpse at the TV at james’ and seen an advertisement for the Daily Show with John Stewart .. now on CTV. this is one of my favorite shows. good as ever last night, after seven months of my viewing hiatus. the only downfall is that it’s only thirty minutes long.
i just ordered ulrich schnauss’ “a strangely isolated place” album online. the mp3’s i have heard of it are not the highest quality but it isn’t that. this guy is worth supporting. the music he makes is unreal. i recommend it .. along the same lines as peter benisch, but possibly larger. huge music!
speaking of working out.. i went to another toastmasters meeting tonight and got up and spoke a bit. well, i spoke way more than i intended to, and what felt like ten seconds of speaking was actually a minute and fourty-eight seconds. whoops! i said “uh” or “um” three times, which i completely didn’t notice.. remember, i thought i only spent ten seconds up there. ten seconds is only enough time to say “uh” or “um” three times and that is about it.
stuff i am looking to do with my writing: avoid numerics, spell the numbers out as much as possible; do more writing, less picture posts; write faster — try to get a flow. and there is one other thing, but i forget what that would be already. ah well.
resonance tomorrow features miss innocent who happens to be in town for a bit on her worldly travels between new york and europe. she’s gigging with Lori the Hi-Fi Princess, someone who almost played on RGM several times but never actually did. miss innocent is going to be playing with her boyfriend er i mean tag-teaming with her boyfriend er. [bleep] none of that sounds right. okay there is this guy she is going to be DJing with tomorrow so it’s not just going to be her. okay?! plus we’re playing the Formulate remix of Magnetic on the show tomorrow. we played the original mix last week. so tune in okay?! 3 pm PST fridays.

drop the anchors


oh boy.. being sick really sucks. it’s kinda like.. whoah. i am actually sick enough to take two days off of work. i don’t think this makes me a workaholic, but i really dislike taking any sick days from work. er except for when i worked at Randy River. hahaha, taking sick days from that job was okay. i didn’t mind at all.
i have got the beginning of James Holden’s double CD stuck in my head. such weird.. strange and great music. i got an email this morning from his agent asking if i am interested in doing some radio stuff with mr. Holden.. the answer is a definite yes (of course)! the man is brilliant — there isn’t anything by James that I either don’t love or respect from a production point of view. Luke Chable has developed a sound that is (in some respects) similar to James Holden’s and i wouldn’t be surprised if the immaculate mr. Chable cited mr. Holden as one of his production influences. word on the street is that they have made a song together anyways, so that’s pretty cool.
the James Holden stuff wouldn’t happen til january or so..
by then nickgurns may have moved away! do i want to do a radio show by myself? hmmmm…… i have done it before many times.. less fun though.
i sorted through all my records yesterday, except for the ones that sit eternally in my closet in a wooden ikea box that i got when i was living in vancouver. i seperated the ones i am interested in playing (for fun) from everything else and i still came up with a fairly large pile of music. most of it is pretty straight forward quivver/chable/holden style progressive house, and also some momu/fretwell/starecase style breaks. one track that is really kicking my ass right now is a new one by Morgan Page and Gregory Shiff featuring Astrid Suryanto .. the tune is called “All I Know” and the M.A.S. Collective remix is [censored] huge. i almost said effing huge there but i’m not on the radio right now.. haha, so how well trained am i?
my throat has cleared up a bit, but in that clearing up it has revealed that it is incredibly itchy. ack, did i eat some nuts by accident?!?! grunt.
i still have that present for justin sitting on my table. i gotta give that to him.
other news:
the canucks spanked detroit last night, 5-1. they’re #1 in the nhl standings early in the season. nobody figured it would be last year that the canucks would rule — everyone said it would be this year. well, so far, so good. keep it up boys, see?
i haven’t been able to watch any of the games this season. seems like less of them are on tv.. i don’t have sportsnet and i don’t think i want to get it just for canucks games. although really, that would be the meat of what i would watch on tv. right now i don’t watch any tv at all.. i caught a bit of the 5:30 – 6:00 ish news last night and i had trouble taking the anchors seriously. i know they are paid to act serious. which is exactly why i can’t take them seriously. bye bye, anchors.

initial site design

i did an initial site design tonight in fireworks and constructed it in dreamweaver. i took the picture that the design is based on earlier in the same day.
the test site is up at /~ariz0na/museum/victoriabloggers/ with a very basic outline of what will be on the site. the core element (being the links to victoria blogs) is currently being powered by jodie’s blogrolling account.
please leave your ideas for navigation elements!

hallowe’en 2003


the devil and .. a guy with a lot of makeup face off. my money is on the devil.
what a crazy night. it was the night i had been waiting for all month and it delivered more than i expected!

first.. i played both formulate’s remix of magnetic and my own.. i put formulate’s remix on earlier in my set, and it went over really well.. stoked the crowd for the next while — there are some really sick edits that justin did in the breakdown and people really dug that. i dig it. yus!
i played my remix and it was received really well. i don’t know actually, people seemed to like everything i played last night. of course, one is more conscious of their own work and so i should say that people enjoyed it. it’s pretty wild watching people turn into zombies from the midsection of the song.

it only took The Artist 5 minutes to grow this quality beard
second.. the costumes. i went as the artist formerly known as prince, and was accompanied by an entire bodyguard team of trained professional killers!
that was tonnes of fun and i had never done a group costume thing before. it was GWARDEZ!!!! (gnarly wicked awesome radical deadly excellent zope.)

number one, james, the artist, kevin, and agent zero.
julie kevin leslie james you rock! more pictures of the group are in a new photo gallery, which i will get to in a minute..

looks like this vampire needs to go back to vampire school. safari sarah escaped unscathed!
the venue was really quite awesome.. perfect size, high ceilings, facilities, room to dance, room to sit, parking, etc etc. raaaaaaaaadness.