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this is why strong gun control is retarded

2009-11-13T04:33:29Z

well among the reasons ...

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".

Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.

Mark Serletic, Filmmaker, used the Sound Lab as a subject for a documentary

2009-11-12T06:20:07Z

also i uploaded the score if anyone wants to listen to it.

thank you jasonthebasson, pasulel, uncle_silas, magnum0. you guys are great.

Dead Air for Radios

2009-11-09T12:59:38Z

this is such a good record.

Kevin, why did you have to get all Indie-OK on us?

suitandtieguy @ 2009-11-06T03:39:00

2009-11-06T09:39:19Z

great someone else is pissed at me.

i love it when a plan comes together

2009-11-06T08:24:44Z

that take felt good enough i'm going to have a smoke.

The A-Team: as scored by Tangerine Dream

2009-11-06T06:36:00Z

OK yeah so this is just as hard as i thought it would be.

i've been working on this since noon, and it's getting near done.

i'm playing 5 synthesisers, 2 drum machines, and the x0xb0x on it.

by the time i'm done with this i'll be ready to score this movie if they hire me. and they should.

don't ask, don't tell?

2009-11-01T12:04:09Z

what a typical worthless music journalist. i'm so thankful for the internet for marginalising these assholes:

"A good example: though I've always heard plenty of talk about the utter awfulness of such infamous albums as Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (a double album of guitar feedback and white noise) or Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra (don't ask), I can now listen to them for nothing, and have an opinion of my own.

They're both terrible, incidentally, but that isn't the point."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8330633.stm

well let's see the first is amazing because of what it represents, and the second is one of those beautiful things that happened back in the 60s when rock musicians (who at the time had some real skills) wanted to stretch beyond the place culture was trying to shoehorn them into.

IMHO The Nice's Five Bridges Suite was far superior and predated it, but Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a fine record.

"i'm really bummed i'm not on the tenth planet working on the big rocket topside!"

2009-10-25T12:30:12Z

don't worry, the japanese are working on Mondasian-style augmentation:

http://www.cyberdyne.jp/English/robotsuithal/index.html

oh yeah and they're called Cyberdyne. and the suit is called HAL.

these guys just want to evoke all the warm fuzzies, don't they?

ever seen 1,426 pounds of chocolate in one place?

2009-10-23T01:41:17Z

wtf. I guess it's about to go on sale.

A Blessing of Tears

2009-10-21T12:41:29Z

fuck. this is 14 years old.

still amazing.

i was pretty happy with this oscilloscope shot

2009-10-21T09:36:46Z

fucking brilliant CS Lewis quote

2009-10-21T05:35:23Z

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences."

flu? Cold?

2009-10-20T16:00:17Z

oh my god I feel terrible.

suitandtieguy @ 2009-10-20T05:11:00

2009-10-20T10:11:29Z

"when u die u get 2 make babies with god"

2009-10-17T22:19:30Z

so the Mormons have started target-marketing to 12 year old girls with t-mobile sidekicks:

surely you can be more creative

2009-10-17T09:24:31Z

some piece of shit just called me a "bitter fat fuck."

let's get small!

2009-10-08T06:56:40Z

small format? i'll show you small.

suitandtieguy @ 2009-10-02T17:37:00

2009-10-02T22:37:55Z

why does it seem like the press release is more concerned with the colour of those victimised than with the whole unlawful search and seizure bit?

http://www.aclutx.org/article.php?aid=781

what the fuck?

2009-10-02T15:09:52Z

healthcare debate

2009-10-01T10:44:34Z

it's a bunch of shit.

the issue is actual cost of healthcare.

arguing about who is paying for it doesn't change anything at all.

deregulate the drug approval process and shorten patent life. you'll see a drop in cost.

also, while you're at it, make any research performed at a state university public domain. those schools are taxpayer-funded and the idea that they've become retarded surrogate for the Bell Labs of yesterday is disgusting.

now go back to arguing about socialism vs corporatism. have fun.

i'm sorry, did that not fit into your democrat box or your republican box?

Earthdance 2009: here's what happened

2009-09-29T12:29:38Z

i might upload some more pics later, but here's the primary report: Chris Sloan and I went to Iowa City and had a good weekend. the power was crappy so i had to deal with equipment failure but i got by.

apparently i played a "minimal dark electro" set. whatever that means. regardless of what it was, according to what i was told by observers i am to assume i can throw down a worthwhile "live PA" set even under duress. this was good to hear.

there were a lot of complimentary and friendly people at the event and it was good to be in a situation like that again. i for one hope that i see The Half-Naked Indian again, even though i don't want to see him anywhere near half-naked.

i also got to introduce Chris (aka pasulel) to Bishop's Cafeteria and Buffet, and chaircrusher took this photo, made this recording, and met us for lunch at a place called Panchero's that makes their own tortillas. pretty cool weekend all around IMHO.

Earthdance 2009, Iowa City IA USA by suitandtieguy

excellent U-Toob comments keep rolling in

2009-09-27T09:41:00Z

this one was in response to a comment that i made saying that i loved the performance but i'd rather hear it on a GX-1 instead:

ebbwvalleys has replied to your comment on Max Takano - Yamaha Electone ELX-1: "Bach-Gigue":

u have to be kidding, there is no comparison between ELX1 and GX-1, the yamaha being far superior

and then this gem:

lothianpar has made a comment on The World's Biggest Trance Lead?:

you're a fucking gimp and you need to get out more.

I"challenge you" to get laid....

9/26/09

2009-09-26T09:24:27Z

Okay I'm finally in bed and I'm at the 31 hour mark.

I don't know what time I'm playing tomorrow, I'm okay with that.

9/26/09 ... 12.30 am ... Iowa 80 truckstop en route to iowa city

2009-09-26T05:34:00Z

I've been up for over a day now. Chris is driving so its ok but fuck this sucks.

OK guys this is real cute. regarding House MD

2009-09-25T10:06:21Z

you have Michael Weston in season 5, and then Curtis Armstrong in the first episode of season 6.

i actually had to look this up on Wikipaedia because i wanted to know why they had the guy who played the PI back as a different character. "what is this ... Doctor Who!?!?"