Fitz dreams of living in a dome-shaped house surrounded by a vast desert. Therein he would spend his days creating music, doing martial arts, and tinkering with computers.
Until then, he has this
Web site...
Fitz dreams of living in a dome-shaped house surrounded by a vast desert. Therein he would spend his days creating music, doing martial arts, and tinkering with computers.
Until then, he has this
Web site...
The modular synth, which I've nicknamed "Gorf 1" is coming along nicely. I was hesitant as to how much I would actually use such a monstrosity, but it's appearing on all my tracks and has become the first synth I turn the majority of the time.
Oh, and just below it is another new little gem: A Dave Smith Prophet 08 Special Edition. Also quite the honey of a unit.
6/26/2009 | Permanent Link
One of the great synth-pop scores of the 80s has to be John Harrison's Day of the Dead. Rich, warm analog synth sounds pulse away with menace and whimsy. It's a great listen if you can find a copy. For such a big and diverse sound it's surprising the paucity of the synth gear Mr. Harrison used to create it:
Of course, Trent Reznor created the first (and best) Nine Inch Nails album using largely just one board: an Emax Emulator sampler. There really is something to having less gear. Really focusing in on a few choice instruments and getting the most out of them.
6/20/2009 | Permanent Link
Peggy Atwood has a monolithic dome. I'm envious.
6/19/2009 | Permanent Link
I'd like to see gay rights NOW. I want it all. Marriage, benefits, legal protections, and to walk hand-and-hand down the street with my partner with no one batting an eye. I'd love to punish the bigots behind Proposition 8 and "don't ask, don't tell" with a national registry that forever marks them for the shame of their offenses. A bigots list! How sweet that'd be! Then I'd personally like to get into several peoples faces and tell them just how wrong they are!
But...
Incrementalism. A slow drip of gains over time that never gives our opponents anything to push against -- no monsters to rile the villagers. An inexorable and glacial trend that leaves behind a wake of incredulity that gays could ever have been treated so badly.
So I have to ask myself: Do I want victory, or do I want indignation and vengeance?
What about you?
6/18/2009 | Permanent Link
We're an all-digital nation of TV watchers now. Or, if you're like us, you're watching DVDs because your digital-ready antenna can't pick up digital signals worth crap.
With poor analog signals the picture might be grainy and full of ghosts but least it was steady. A poor digital signal just drops out and goes black -- coming back on intermittently to leave you wondering "What the hell did that guy just say!!?? Something about the murderer's identity!!??"
The TV pic, by the way, is one of my favorites Will has ever taken.
6/13/2009 | Permanent Link
Another fine year at Steve and Troy's West Virginia getaway. Steve's Birthday was celebrated and Tim and Brian thru a nice "40th anniversary of 1969" theme party with Tang, jello desserts, and a very popular hippy whig. I was tasked with the tunage and whipped up the below playlist of songs released or on the charts in 1969. It was a very fine year for music, not quite up to the excellence of 1973 or 1967, but damn good. I think next time we'll jump to another fine demarcation of pop music: 1983.
6/10/2009 | Permanent Link
Sunday at 6:30 p.m. my band The Mesmers will take the stage for show at Artomatic for 1 hour (or more if we can sneak it in, we're the last act).
One quick correction: We'll be on the Caberet stage tomorrow, and then the Electric stage next month (I had listed them the other way around).
Artomatic5/29/2009 | Permanent Link