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not so new policy. shortened for brevity.
( Newcoming anonymous posters please read. )

i recorded a fabulous video tonight with syncronised audio and then accidentally deleated it.

dammit!

i made a bitchin' video of the new sequencers.

and then i deleated it. data rescue X failed me. let's see what Mr Spec can do.

Manuel Göttsching - E2:E4
some might say this album doesn't go anywhere.

i prefer to say it takes its time. and it's fucking great.

Doctor Who vs The Love Boat
fanvids violate Sturgeon's Law. they transcend 90 percent crap, and move all the way to 99.8 percent crap.

here's your 0.2 percent:

first new track in years and pictures of the sound lab.
pictures of the current state of the sound lab are at

http://pics.livejournal.com/suitandtieguy/gallery/0003yfqy

and i recorded the first thing i played in my new electronic cocoon. it is an electro slowcore track called "AO-27 Trance City," and is located at

http://www.myspace.com/stgsoundlabs

and this is a kit list:

chords - Z1
chimes - Juno 6
solo - Minimoog
octave jumpy thing - x0xb0x
hi hats - CR8000
BD/SN - 909 samples on the Akai under TR-505 control
FX - Studio 400, MPX-100, PCM-80

minimoog and juno played in realtime. one take to two tracks. parts were switched in and out on the Ramsa desk.

also i put up three new tracks to

http://www.myspace.com/thesuitandtieguyband

consisting of my arrangement of Blade Runner circa 2006, and a couple of jams.

The Big Rack
so after a couple of years being relegated to storage, The Big Rack is being called back into active duty in celebration of its sixth birthday. here she is, freshly stained and stuffed in late May of 2002 (and quite a doozy of a folder that is:)

the only gear which i still own which is pictured here is the Mackie mixer. i still have one of the Z1s and the power conditioner, however the Z1 actually belongs to Jim Coker and the power conditioner belongs to James McCaskey.

maybe if i'm hyper productive i'll get a pic of the new "ambient house power station" (maybe i should paint "Battersea" on the side of it) up tonight.

immense success? haha.
“These figures are quite alarming and urgent action is needed. Overall prevalence is up 2% and in some categories, such as 18-29 year old women in certain social classes, smoking levels are at 56%. The Government has set a target of ‘A Tobacco Free Society’ and these figures clearly show that no progress is being made despite the immense success of our workplace smoking legislation”, commented Prof Luke Clancy of ASH.

http://www.irishhealth.com/?level=4&id=13494

no progress equals no success. these people are delusional.

good FSOL article
here's an interview with the Future Sound of London where they talk about their new method of digital distribution via the internet.

in 1994.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/aug94/futurelondon.html?print=yes

your daily dose of taking the radiophonic piss
yeap. that's dan ashcroft, ladies and gentlemen:

300 + gig of this shit.
Poll #1180746 the archive. the question.
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Apparently there's hours of Cory and I jamming in the studio.

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put it up motherfucker!
9 (69.2%)

i want to have nothing to do with your stupid electro jazz berlin school lounge garbage. i also think you're a fat and ugly piece of shit. i don't even know why we're LJ friends.
0 (0.0%)

i only want to hear "Blue Monday Slash Doctor Who"
4 (30.8%)

and it seems that i was incorporating "Stratosfear" into "Blue Monday and Doctor Who"

this current transfer also features "Heaven Knows I'm Fucking Miserable Now" and "The Chase AKA Turkish Prison Guard Part II"

fave spam subject header of the day
subject: erwill your a moron

so i'm watching "Pump Up The Volume: The History of House"
and i need to mention that Derrick May seems like a totally awesome dude.

along with DJ Pierre, Marshall Jefferson, and Orbital.

bugaboos:

a) it was nice to see Youth, but The Orb only "invented" ambient house because it was originally a Jimmy Cauty/Alex Patterson thing. "Chill Out" by the KLF pre-dated "Fluffy Little Clouds" by 11 months, which is an _eternity_ within that history.

b) Goldie is a bit of a twat. so he released some drum n bass in 1995 ... LTJ Bukem dropped "Demon's Theme" in 1991. Goldie got interviewed to hell, and Bukem wasn't mentioned.

3) the inclusion of "UK Garage" as the current sound of dance music is pretty funny. especially when the documentary doesn't mention the Paradise Garage at all.

part 3 is well naff. parts 1 and 2 are really fucking good. that's my review.

this is an amusing blog:

http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

however it seems more like "dumb chicks with douchebags." still amused though.

no, Chris Morris did not make this up.
it goes without saying that this is definitely safe for work:

Her Majesty's Treasury commissioned a new logo for the Office of Government Commerce based on the image of a man pleasuring himself.

this quote is pretty good:

"... it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”

in addition to rants, synths, arts, and cookings, i also make browser-incompatible posts.
the previous entry contained an embedded U-Toob video. this used to work, but apparently for some people is not. i changed the embedded video to a simple link.

in addition to ranting and building synthesisers, i make art too.
here's a couple examples.

the first is one of those "pieces with a message" types of plunderphonic pop art. clickey the piccey to admire my attention to detail. it's based on this.:

and the second is me playing some music last week and people decided to gather round and record it. i'm sure i've done better work but this is the most recent work i've done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQH8l8sOJg

thanks to Cary Roberts for posting that. very nice of him.

no ponies, but a poll instead
i have recently become enamoured of the washed bags of green beans in the produce department. i've never been one for any more than the occasional potato or tortilla chip/crisp, so this is quite nice.

"baby" (ie: a sanded portion of) carrots have always been around, but i'm not too into root vegetables, except for the lighter ones such as radishes. i've always been far too lazy to cut and wash the green beans (cut/wash potatoes? no problemo. beans? tedious as a motherfucker) so this is quite exciting for me.

Poll #1174647
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

what is more enjoyable for snaking?

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potato chips ("crisps" for my UK friends)
4 (50.0%)

raw green beans
3 (37.5%)

fuck you, suit.
1 (12.5%)

Planet of the Ood
okay, so that was the most NA of the RTD era so far IMHO. this means that i also think it was definitely positive, though i'm not going to wax poetically about it. i have no complaints about the storytelling or acting so far this season.

however i should note that the fact that Murray Gold's newest arrangement of the theme, which didn't bother me the first 10 times i heard it, now bugs the fuck out of me because the mid-bass line (the plucked string thing) has now been thrown out of the equation to make room for more post-ST:TNG orchestra shit.

i had more written here but it was just some rambling.

wtf?
guys, i can't make this shit up.

it's fairly obvious that we're all going to be formally enslaved by 2050. have fun with the remainder of free living.