no, you were right - i like punk.

but that isn't punk. sorry.

so, i don't know where those numbers are coming from, exactly, but what they're not taking into account is that marijuana is an economy of scale.

a dime bag is usually quite a bit less than a gram, nowadays - typically even pushing towards more like a half a gram. but, the same person that sells you a half a gram of shake for $13 is going to offer you a quarter of dank bud for $60 and that's where you see prices get under $10.

a lot of people are going to be legitimately surprised when they see how big a gram actually is, and happily pay $10 for something they're used to paying $15 for.

but, if the price doesn't scale, the province is going to forfeit the top end of the market, leaving the store fronts to cater to casual users.

https://www.narcity.com/news/this-graph-shows-you-the-average-cost-of-marijuana-across-canada

there's no affidavit on file. what that means is that there is no legal evidence that they require me to move out of this unit - the form is incomplete, and the case will be dismissed.

they could still provide an affidavit. they have until the trial date.

there's two explanations for this, that i can see:

1) incompetence. and, they've demonstrated more than enough of this to consider it plausible...except that they now have counsel, and this would be pretty pathetic if it's incompetence by the counsel. regardless, it could still be coming, and i'll need to call back every day and check to see about it.

2) they never intended this to go to trial - it was a tactic to try and scare me out. in other words, there's no affidavit because there's no family member to move in - it was a bluff, and i've called it.

i need to call every single day. i need to prepare a defence. but, as it stands, they don't have an actual case to present and i'm consequently not under a serious threat of eviction.

so, should i re-open the harassment case? this is my smoking gun, clear as day: an eviction notice without an affidavit is clear and obvious harassment.

1) except for the eviction notice, they've been leaving me alone for the last few weeks.
2) i don't want to present the appearance of lingering conflict - and i can be genuine in avoiding it. the bigger threat is the judge declaring the relationship dysfunctional.
3) i'll be in an even stronger position if i wait it out, as i'll be officially victimized twice and taken advantage of after acting in good faith, the third time. the fourth time will need to be bringing them to justice.

this is counter-intuitive. it's true that they didn't sign the mediation in good faith, but i did. and, so long as they aren't presenting a serious case, i'm better off letting this play out, as it just strengthens my hand.

if this blows over, great - although i'd suspect the judge will award me something as she dismisses the case. i still think they're listing the building soon, in which case i should lay low and wait. and, if they do something stupid, i'll have an easy case, given that i've been so accommodating.

this could change. i'll need to call daily. but, right now, i should wait.

bluff called. i think i'm ok...

except to split out the last track as a single, i've decided not to alter this in any way.

i was moving, conceptually, to more serious styles of music. i wanted to write these epic 20-minute trips that reached into every genre imaginable. you can hear that shift over the last few things i posted, and it really accelerates moving into the year 2000. there wasn't much left of 'inri' by the time i got there.

what i had left was a bunch of noise tracks that i'd been putting aside for a third demo, trinri, that was meant to carry on with the same concept as the first two: "songs" and "collages" would alternate over 19 tracks. the problem i ran up against with trinri was that i was no longer interested in writing songs. what was coming out, instead, were these fifteen minute journeys. that's ultimately the driving reason that i switched things up: the format had worn itself thin.

in an attempt to establish conceptual unity, i pulled the noise collages together (along with some older collages that i had pulled from various sources as far back as my first demo tape) into this thing. i became aware at some point, very suddenly, that the whole idea and product was sort of ridiculous. hence the title.

this recording is consequently void of actual songs. it isn't easy to listen to, and offers few reprieves, but if you're a fan of a specific kind of electronic psychedelia then you may find something of enjoyment here.

written and demoed in multiple stages from 1996-1999. initially constructed in this form in dec, 1999. slightly resequenced in jan, 2014. finalized on sept 19, 2017. this is my third official record; as always, please use headphones.

the last track just got tagged on as an afterthought. it never really fit the theme. so, i've removed it (as of january, 2014) and placed it here: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/book-it.

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1999, 2013, 2014, 2017). 

credits

released December 10, 1999

j - guitar, effects, bass, keyboards, tapes, synthesizers, live drums, drum programming, hammerhead (909 emulator), sound raider, sampling, cool edit synthesis/sequencing, loops, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, flute

i meant to get inri033 printed off on tuesday night, and my first package mailed wednesday morning, but my printer wasn't reading on tuesday night (it turned out my services got turned off, somehow), so i put it down to have a few beers at a local noise show - only to not get home until 7:30. shit happens.

the thing is printed and ready to go. so, that's inr011 & inri033 shipping in the first package, within hours. the next will have what will be something like inri049 and inri057 in it - so i have a lot of liner notes to get through.

i skipped over 31 and 32 just to get the first package out. 32 is download only and will be a quick fix; 31 is going to apparently require a few days to approach. after that, it will just be liner notes for the next 20 or so releases; i'm over the hump, and into material i spent 2014 & 2015 on. it's daylight...

i'm going to have to mail that form this morning, too, as well as figure out how i track down the affidavit in the file.

i should get 32 done, but likely won't be back at 31 until i wake up next.

so, this week's trendy hipster insight is that foucauldianism is just privileged knowledge, and that those elite academics that possess it have some kind of obligation, as though they're liberal activists, to proselytize the good word to the ignorant masses.

yeesh?

well, listen - what have the classical anarchists and other enlightenment-type thinkers been saying the whole time? we've been suggesting that there might accidentally be some insight hidden away somewhere in this pile of rambling, but that it lacks anything resembling an empirical basis and is consequently just, like, somebody's opinion.

"but i hate science."

i know you do, which is why you should go do some - and realize the flaws of an epistemology based on a system of axiomatic deduction.

it would do these people a world of good to go out into the real world and see how poorly their theories apply in it.

regarding the iran deal...

i've been over this point repeatedly: i don't think it's well understood, in the west.

tersely: in order for trump to pull out of the iran deal, and reintroduce sanctions, he's going to need to get russia to agree to adhere to them. and, that's going to be extremely difficult. for a start, they're going to have to look at reversing the sanctions on russia, which they've actually strengthened (thanks to the bullshit around the election).

so long as the united states maintains sanctions on russia, the act of pulling out of the iran agreement is actually going to functionally open up the market - it would be a formal abandonment of iran to the russians.

decades of intense media obfuscation have ensured that there aren't a lot of people that understand this very well. but, it is an obscure misfortune if none of them are advising trump.

red meat for the base.