1000 year headache

B/IAS and Pieces of Eight

2009-06-26T14:59:00.000-07:00

So B/IAS is a private sculpture garden in Burien, Wa where several art pieces are on display. It would just be a empty lot, but a couple of people had an idea to place some temporary art pieces up until the owner of the land begins the next phase of buildings. In August one of my musical pieces will be played in the Pieces of Eight performance.

If you check out their website you can see the latest controversy about a new sculpture that went in the space.

Recent deaths in the media

2009-06-26T14:53:00.000-07:00

So several celebrities died in the last couple of weeks. Yesterday in particular two dropped in the same day, from unrelated causes. I must be the minority because I don't have much emotion towards these events. I do have some feeling towards how people have treated these events. I don't need to elaborate, I'll just end up getting in trouble.

tunnelled

2009-06-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

iPhone 3.0 pt 2

2009-06-17T11:04:00.000-07:00

So its 11:04am and I just started downloading. I hope they don't crash in the middle. OooHHH the excitement all over nothing.

iPhone os 3.0

2009-06-17T09:13:00.000-07:00

So I got up in the middle of the night and checked to see if the update was yet available. No luck. Now I see that reports are 1 pm pst, unless they got it wrong then it will be 3pm pst. All I know is I would like to get the update or I will be pstted.

Shellac 06_11_09 Vera Project

2009-06-12T16:37:00.000-07:00

middle of the week around city hall

2009-06-10T11:55:00.000-07:00

some fun photos from last weekend's rave show in Oregon

2009-06-09T15:54:00.000-07:00

My new Stang

2009-05-29T15:31:00.000-07:00

Benefit for the Dutchman Sat. May 23rd with Goodness

2009-05-22T10:17:00.000-07:00

So a long time ago I used to be a live sound engineer. One of the only bands I worked for that I would like to work with again, if I ever decided to come out of retirement is Goodness. In a total throwback to the 90's in Seattle they are going to play their first record in its entirety. There will be other bands too and it is all for a good cause, The Dutchman . You can read all about it on the website. Come on down it will be a fun night.

Glee

2009-05-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

So the other night we watched the pilot for "Glee" a new show on Fox. I could do a total breakdown of all the TV shows and movies it borrowed from, but I won't. Comparison will only sully what I think will be a very enjoyable, funny, and upbeat show in the fall, unless some bottom feeding TV exec decide to cancel before it has a chance. My wife was not totally happy with the lip sync performances, but getting a cast to actually sing the harmonies might be too much to ask. One cast member I love is Jane Lynch (40 year Old Virgin, Best in Show, Party Down) is hilarious as the drill sergeant-like cheerleading coach who schools the new Glee coach about the high school caste system (Glee club is in the sub-basement).

If you missed it the other night it can be seen for a couple more weeks on Hulu. Check it out. It is worth it just for the Journey cover as well as a cover of Amy Winehouse.

No turkey

2009-05-20T09:28:00.000-07:00

Didn't see any over the weekend. I will have to wait for fall season.

Turkey Hunt

2009-05-11T10:38:00.001-07:00

I will be going turkey hunting for the first time this week. Hope we see some.

jasuto modular pt 2

2009-05-08T11:42:00.000-07:00

So I have had the app for a few days now. I still haven't played with it enough to make patches super fast, but I did find one aspect that is amazing. Patches can have automated movements that are so simple to implement its unbelievable.

The app has a few patches that come with it and I loaded them to help me understand how to better create patches. The second one I tried was a remake of the THX sound sweep. All of the osc's had automated movements. You just record the movement and loop, shazam its done.

If you like synths and have a iphone or itouch, get this one quick before the price goes up.

jasuto modular synth

2009-05-05T16:31:00.000-07:00

So after impacttestdummy played a couple of show using only our Iphones as sound sources I thought I wouldn't find anymore cool apps to manipulate sound with or they would be too expensive. Today I was browsing the iheartnoise messageboard and I found a post about the Jasuto modular synth app . It is amazing. Building sounds is easy or complicated what ever the user chooses. Trying out weird ideas it simple want to move an lfo from the input of one osc to another just slide across the screen. I just started playing with it, so I will post more later.

Bars

2009-05-05T10:27:00.000-07:00

Tell em like it is Genesis P.

2009-05-01T11:44:00.000-07:00

Funny Shoe Store

2009-05-01T11:35:00.000-07:00

Some photos from Throbbing Gristle I messed with

2009-05-01T11:32:00.000-07:00

Mates Show

2009-04-21T11:03:00.001-07:00

Throbbing Gristle

2009-04-20T13:34:00.001-07:00

So it is just a few days away. I'm heading to SF on Thursday looking forwasrd to the show.

Anvil movie

2009-04-20T13:28:00.000-07:00

So I took my wife to see Anvil, The story of Anvil this weekend at the Varsity in the U-District.

First the U-District has gotten much sketchyer at night. I haven't been there in a couple of years at night time. We ate at a Falafal joint a couple of blocks from the theater and the collection of drug dealers/users and random homeless was massive, They left us alone, but the reports of muggings recently made me wary.

The movie was great, a little slow, gave a good history of the band and a look into their lives a couple of years ago. Debbie was overcome with the bleak outlook, but I assured her fame has sort of returned for them.

So we went to the movies...

2009-04-14T12:31:00.000-07:00

To see the 3d version of "Monsters vs Aliens". It was quite good. Go see in the theaters in 3d or Imax 3d if you can. The comic relief of both Hugh Laurie and Seth Rogan was perfect.

After we headed to see Fast and Furious. Not in 3d, though that would have helped. They spent too much time talking and no enough driving fact cars and smashing them up. Being that I am male I still want the 1970 Dodge Charger from the movie or any of many of the cars in the film.

i'm lame

2009-04-10T09:20:00.000-07:00

So I was going to go out last night, then I stayed home and watched movies instead.

When people are afraid of clowns

2009-04-09T08:44:00.000-07:00