Davin Greenwell

september 19th is talk like a pirate day so don’t forget to pull out your outlandish vernacular on this very special upcoming date.

john wants YOU to talk like a pirate on september 19th!
i saw pirates of the carribean on the weekend. as predicted (by me), johnny depp was rad in the film and (of course) stole the show. not that anyone else had a chance..
the acting was great, the governors daughter was mega hot, the special effects were superb and the whole mood of the film was quite cool. it clocked in at 2 hours and 23 minutes, but that isn’t long enough in my books. yeah yeah, i like movies to be at least 3 hours if they’re good ones. only the bad ones need be shorter than 2 hours.

colin contemplates life without the muffin
colin is applying for work in the uk and is planning on moving in the next month or two. i’ll be sad to see him go but i understand the situation he is in with regards to employment and victoria. it’s tough out here!!

those look like japanese frames. are those japanese frames on emmy?
i’ll be going for coffee with emmy tonight. last time we went it was for spyguy’s going-away. although spyguy didn’t know about it until too late (he had made plans to play video games) we still made a ‘toast’ to him with our coffee-like drinks and drank said drinks to his success. he is spending his first full day in vancouver today.

erik gives the essential obvious expression to the camera
when i say i am going for coffee, that doesn’t mean i am drinking coffee. i rarely actually drink coffee when i ‘go for coffee’. it’s more like, i am going to this place, and the place sells coffee, which some people may purchase. ya got it?

justin smiles for the camera
justin gave me a CD today with 2 new tracks from DJ Brian and John Kelley under the moniker of “Phonetik” — both rather large breakbeat tracks. i am not sure what record labels these will be coming out on, if any at all.. but they’re great tracks and they’re more of what i need in order to do another giant www.protonradio.com featured artist mix. the highlight on the CD is the Phonetik remix of Formulate (Justin)’s “Johnny Brooklyn” which is given the impossibly large sireny breakbeat treatment in the finest order. the final track on the CD is the new Formulate track called “No More” — very percussive, solid track.
nathan played me some of his new tracks last night. i have lost count of how many he has made. i haven’t made anything in a long time. not that i am not inspired, i just don’t have time to sit down and make music like i would like to. soon enough.. soon enough..
at work i listen to tracks, all possible pieces in the puzzle of my next mix or CD. i have found quite a few gems and i am refining the lineup for my next CD in particular. i am very close to being done.. pretty exciting!

it was noted to me today from erik, who is an expert on all things speedy and to do with computers, that the benchmark tests that apple did for the G5 vs. P4 were not truly representative of reality. this doesn’t surprise me — companies bend stats the way that is advantageous for their own purposes — all stats are subject to interpretation.
here is a link to some of the tests that barefeats.com did:
barefeats.com/pentium4.html
now, just judging from the url, the people organizing this seem biased towards the pentium4 — why isn’t it p4vsg5.html or something like that? look a little further and you’ll see the site is hosted on a Mac G4. so take a look..
personally, i don’t really care which is faster, as long as they’re both driving eachother to BECOME faster. apple has been the turtle traditionally, but seriously, there is no benefit in being slow and steady in this race. this is about pure and raw speed. computers have become to the graphic artist what a ruler is to an architect. if i have time to think of a different way i want something to look on an 11″x17″ 300 DPI photoshop document while the computer is executing the previous edit, the computer is too slow.
it’s gotta be that fast for me to make magic with it. okay?! now computer makers.. get back to work!!

i came home from work yesterday and went to sleep. i just woke up..
hardcore!! 14 hours of sleep!!
i am never up this early on a saturday morning. well hardly ever. nobody else seems to be awake. if it is going to be a sunny day, i think i want to go to the sooke potholes. for once i am up early enough for it to be a superawesome full day.
i just saw some strange flash in my basement. i just think i should write that here in case anything similar happens in the future. it went from one side of the house to the other. weird!!

i think that last night was the 3rd or 4th time i have seen baraka. they were playing it at cinecenta last night and i went with craig and erica. we bumped into julie, gerry, sandra, paul, tammie, morgan, leslie, james and monika at the theatre and talked a bit about the movie after.. but i think i need to see it again. it is one of those movies that has a lot of different connections going on and every time i see it, i find a few more than i had found before.
if you have never seen baraka before, i implore you to view it and certainly on a good screen with a good full-range stereo. the soundtrack of the movie is incredible. of particular interest is the power that Dead Can Dance’s ‘The Host of Seraphim’ holds in the movie. watch and you will see. if you have seen, then you know, even if you don’t know the title of the song. just intense.
today is friday, meaning once again i am on the radio. today at 3 pm, resonance airs on 101.9 FM. there is real audio streaming live from the station as well, which is available as a link from the resonance website under “listen”. last weeks show featured freya and it was a superb set indeed, very appropriate for the radio. today we feature AJ McEwan, a local drum and bass dj that is sure to rip it up.
the show is once again 1 hour — it was 2 hours for most of the summer, but we were essentially doing a fill-in for the show ‘pardon my french’ after ours. the dude who hosts that show went on tour with his band and had a rad time, and we had a rather rad time doing the extra hour. 1 hour is just so .. short. damn.
this morning i am in to work early. i banged my head on the van door while getting into the van this morning and i feel a bit out of it. i hope i come-to before any of my meetings this morning. i bought a bunch of new tea and some of it is caffeinated.
that should help.
oog.

note: this is me and donna at 10:21 pm last night.

here we are at around 1:40 a.m., same night. this picture was taken after having the best time that we’ve had in years!!

and with no further delays..

white wine at dinner time (friday night)

neil at the dinner

welcome to the party! (saturday night)

flamingos at the underground party

yoseff and nigel haze

freya

freya

freya

nick “the cockhammer” gurns

vj orion

sarah

someone is with the deejay oooookaay?

put your hands up in the air please! (upon dropping the starecase remix of vega)

kristen and craig (sunday afternoon)

rico in from the tea dot oh

mike/the truth and his girlfriend

kristen/gumbi

poJaZ

lets dance! (sunday night)

the BoS!!

agrosk8r

carleton

carly

the idiots, true to form

marshall aka DJ Stallion at UVic (monday afternoon)

nickgurns and shannon the volunteer coordinator

kate at UVic

101.9 FM CFUV.. remember that.. aiiight?!
🙂

amsterDAMN this is an amazing tune!!

this is very interesting for anyone in victoria who uses moveabletype:
http://movabletype.meetup.com/
in fact, the whole meetup.com idea is pretty interesting. i have always been into online geek real life conferencing (or “meets” as they are referred to by most people) and this is a neato looking tool for such planning. if you are in victoria, and you have not joined this bit yet, do it! we’ll have a moveabletype international meet, pending 5 people or more sign up. i know you’re out there! let’s do it! come on! woo!
here is the email you get when you sign up:

Thank you for signing up…
We will keep you updated via email!
What:
International Movable Type Meetup Day
When:
Monday, September 8 @ 7:00PM
Where:
In up to 561 towns (anywhere that at least 5 people sign up)
The exact local venue is up for a vote.
We will keep you updated via email.
Who:
MT Users and friends

that labour day weekend update is still on the way, by the way. way. i just have so many pictures.. it takes time. i have noticed the disappointing inventory scalability of iPhoto getting in the way of the speed that i post pictures and the like. i am incredibly organized with it, however.. which is a fair trade off, for the time being.
just imagine my weekend for now. a headlining slot at a rave, a house party with old friends who have come back to victoria from all over the world, and exposing the 1st year students at UVic to a new radio station that the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students don’t even know exists.

i’ll be doing a bigger post tonight about the labour day weekend. truly huge! what a rock star weekend indeed.

i went to thetis lake yesterday evening after work. i thought it was going to be a bit cold, but it was not at all. it was surprisingly warm and not even cold enough to be referred to as invigorating. don’t get me wrong, it was extremely refreshing! we dried off, watched the sun set, had a Cold One and ate sandwiches. it was wonderful and a nice way to end a work-filled day. after a great night of swimming and mostly lounging at thetis lake last night, i went home to mess further with my hard drive’s fragmentation. in the last few weeks, there are 10,000 new file fragments. wtf?! this is not normal. it isn’t.
i don’t think it is anyway.
in any case, freya is the special guest on resonance today and i’m looking forward to her spin on the etheric link sound. always a lovely set from that lady!

the weekend coming up is the Labour Day weekend and everyone and their dog has something SPECial planned. i will be DJ the 12:30 – 3:00 a.m. slot at a sataurday night main event.. something i have been looking forward to for some time.
lately i seem to be getting the headline spots at raves and clubs in victoria, and of course on my own radio show.. which is nice. i have been collecting peak-time music on vinyl and CD for a long time so i am more than ready to lay down the blistering beats and ferocious basslines. i have studied the art of the peak-time set for the last 6 years and have spent countless hours mulling over what makes people want to dance longer and more versus what makes people want to go home and go to sleep in their nice warm bed. i have run up and down through my catalog of music, selecting the tracks that will stoke, the ones that will bend your mind, and the ones that will give you a momentary release you from all this tension. i think in soundscapes..
..and then there is the programming..
i’ll save that for another day.
i must depart work and drive to the radio station.. resonance is on the air in 34 minutes!!