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Occasionally Vague

Published on October 5, 2009 in Music and Random. Closed

I played a rather surreal wedding gig this Saturday night last. Gothic furniture, dope, fireworks, Pink Floyd and vagueness were the orders of the evening, but all to rather wonderful effect People were getting halfway through speeces, sort of tapering off, then wandering back to their seats.

Oh, and two little fluffy white dogs were just sort of wandering around. It was a bit like our place actually, only our dogs are a little bigger, and one of them is a different colour, and we don’t smoke dope, or conduct fireworks displays. We are occasionally vague though, so the comparison holds some water.

Behold the fearsome power

Oh, and we also don’t own a pair of armchairs that look like they’re out of Lewis Carrol.

Orf with his head! Oh, and get me a scotch. And another scotch. Make it a double.

I also installed Windows 7 x64 on the music PC Sunday, but it was all behaving rather flaky so I’ve reverted back to the old x86 flavour for the moment. Most things worked OK, but Pro Tools wouldn’t play ball, and I sort of need it for the odd file exchange. Seeing as I’m only running 2GB of RAM at the moment anyway, I didn’t really have much to gain from the switch, so I’m not too fussed right now. I’m sure Avid will release a 64 bit version just as we’re all transitioning to 128…

Oh, and I picked up Wusik V5.8.6, and EVE, so I’ve lots of new samples to play with. Fun and games.

Header

Published on August 31, 2009 in Personal and Random. Closed

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So I’ve replaced the header on my lovely new K2 theme, and it’s starting to feel like web-home again. Ahhhh… Thanks to Knotty for the cool photo – I have a framed (and considerably less cropped) version in my studio. Well, by studio I mean garage. But give me a few more weeks and a few more dollars and it’ll be quite serviceable.

Sidenote – it seems that the DIVX decoding on our DVD player responds really really badly to high detail video. Skip, jump, blech.

Wow, this is an extremely non-interesting entry. I’m going to have to either not post it, or come up with a new post category for “things that not even my mother would be all that interested in”.

Decisions, decisions…

Things which I realise aren’t really worth losing sleep over, yet which still irritate me

Published on April 20, 2009 in Random. Closed

People who sit on the aisle seat in buses and put their bag on the window seat, so they won’t have to have someone sit down next to them.
People who do stupid things while driving cars but never seem to get caught.
People who bitch and moan about inconsequential things on the internet (oh, the sweet irony!)

InterNOT

Published on April 6, 2009 in Random. Closed

I’ve learned quite a bit about ISPs in the last few days.

It started when I tried to transfer our ADSL account from our old address to our new one. Same phone number, same suburb, same exchange, just a new address. “Alas!”, came the eventual reply, “you cannot get and ADSL connection at your new address, for you are too far from the exchange!”

Bugger. Surprising, considering we’re actually closer to the exchange as the crow flies, but I’m no expert in telecommunications wiring, and perhaps there are some vagaries of which I’m unaware. So I called our friendly, attentive, and personable monopoly telco for some advice. “No worries matey”, said the affable fellow on the other end. “My check here says you can get all our DSL services at that address, which one do you want?”

Now I’m pretty wary of said telco’s services, but they actually offered me a pretty good deal, so I tentatively stammered in the affirmative, and set things in motion. All was well and good in the land of hypothetical internet arrangements, until this morning, at which point the status checker delivered the depressing news that, upon having performed a few more checks, they actually couldn’t give me any DSL after all.

Flocking hell

Published on April 5, 2009 in Random. Closed

I’ve just installed “Flock”, which is basically firefox that’s been all tricked out to interact with social websites. So it’ll aggregate content from facebook, myspace, youtube, this website (I’m typing on it now) and anything else you can throw a stick at.

So mainly I’m just trying it out here… nothing to report. Well, actually quite a bit to report, but nothing I can be bothered typing up right now.

Ok, you twisted my arm. I’ll do it in dot points though, and perhaps come back and fill in the gaps later.

The Who rocked

Counting Crows were OK

We got a neighbor complaining about Molly barking, but they were quite nice about it

I have a mighty sore lower back

5 weeks is a scary amount of time to finish post-production on 13 animated TV episodes

I’ll be sans-employment again at the end of May

No I’m not going to fly to Melbourne for the 21st birthday party of a cousin who I’ve met only twice and wouldn’t recognise if I ran into him on the street

The previous is not because I’m a horrible person – I have good friends interstate who I’d love to see more often, and I can’t afford to do that either.

I still can’t decide if I like OSX Leopard of Windows 7 better. I’ve been using Win7 beta and it’s verily nice, but I’ve been booting up on the OSX side lately and it’s still very neat.

I’m just filling space now.

The End.

Alrighty, let’s hit post and see what happens

Because I can

Published on December 2, 2008 in Personal and Random. Closed

I’m sitting in a comfy chair in the Hobart State Library, writing this entry on my brand spanking new iPhone. There’s not really any compelling need to do it this way – I’ll be back in front of a “real” computer in about half an hour, and I don’t have anything particularly pressing to divulge – but I’m still riding that wave of novelty-factor that Apple products provide so effectively.
We had a t3e get together on the weekend, and pit down some drum tracks for a little song wer’e planning to have ready by Christmas. Felt good to be working on something that people are actually going to hear.
Actually, I think I’ll pick this up later, as I’m getting a sore index finger from typing…

Coff-sicum?

Published on June 12, 2007 in Music, Personal and Random. Closed

I just found a piece of capsicum in my coffee. Most peculiar. It wasn’t a bought coffee mind you – just a good old Nescafe instant coffee. I’m sure there was no capsicum in it when I put the coffee & sugar in, and the tap on the urn is too narrow. So I can only assume it fell out of my sandwich which I was eating at the same time. Scared the hell out of me. I guess that sounds strange – scared of capsicum – but you have to take context into account.

Cornel is off galavanting around Western Australia, so we had to get together on the weekend and work on T3E songs without him. Oddly enough, it was extremely productive. We’re well on the way (that is, more on the way than before, although with much work to do yet). In bigger news, we may be playing a gig in Melbourne early August. Stay tuned!

I’ve been mulling over the idea of jamming some of my non-T3E material with actual living/breathing musicians, which I might pursue over the next few months if work/life/T3E allow time to do so. Could be fun, and a good diversion from all of this intricate hard rock sort of stuff we’re writing lately.