from the communists at the world economic forum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCdruGsI1fw

don't let them tell you it's about a rising middle class.

they're looking to exploit the cheap labour.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

so, i'm finally done typing up the liner notes on this thing. i did a lot of second guessing, but i'm done with it.

i'm going to need to eat, first.

after that, i'll distribute it over facebook, do the actual liner notes and print it.

it's a civic holiday here tomorrow, so i'll have to wait until tuesday to ship. but it should be ready to go, a least.

tuesday should be a busy day, as i'll need to get groceries & get my bike fixed & call around about utilities & odsp, as well.

59 & 60 will be fast, but it looks like i'm going to have to do an aleph run after 60 so i probably won't get the next package done by tuesday. the next package will be 60 & 62 when it's ready to go, maybe by friday.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

sure, it's an encylopedia entry.

but, sadly, that's maybe where so many people need to start on the topic. canadians seem strangely ignorant of our own history.

canada was an extremely important player in the cold war. it wasn't by repeating everything that america said, and following it's every command, but rather by proposing an alternative path towards dispute resolution. we played an integral part in the disarmament treaties. this carried forward into a number of other conflicts, including the hostage situation in iran.

when i hear "canada is back", that means, to me, that it is back to the historical role that it played as a mediator. but, it isn't back. it is, in truth, further from it's historic place than it's ever been.

the reason canada will not get a security council seat is that most of the world does not see it as having an independent foreign policy. it is not much different than giving poland a seat in 1960. this is a travesty, for a country that has historically been such an important foil to the dominant narrative of east v west, and that has one of the largest economies in the world.

the person to blame is stephen harper. i don't recognize my liberal party. but, of all of the ways that this government has carried on with the previous one's policies, it's in the realm of foreign policy that it's most disappointing.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/middle-power/#h3_jump_0

i would like to see the ndp put a strong emphasis on defeating chrystia freeland in the next election.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i opposed the invasion of iraq, because saddam hussein was not a pillaging barbarian in any meaningful sense of the term. you could at worst accuse him of engaging in a type of hostile corporate takeover. it was more like he stormed the board of the corporation of kuwait.

and, kuwait is quiet nowadays, isn't it? you never hear anything about kuwait at all, any more.

but, isis are a group that is actually composed of pillaging barbarians, and they really do want to rape and enslave you and your family. whatever the reasons for their existence - and american imperialism is certainly at the core of it - they need to be destroyed. this is the reason we have a military: to attack targets like isis, before they come and get us.

we can't be looking at war as though it's a moral question, it just leads to appeasement. sometimes, you have to eat or be eaten. sometimes, you have to do horrible things and then justify it after the fact - and reasonable people will understand that. this is reality. and, reality is not built on idealism.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i will reiterate that there are a couple of things a civilized country needs a military for. they are:

1) defence against pillaging barbarians that want to rape and enslave you and your family.
2) that would include defence against nazis, especially if your existing society is pluralistic.
3) that would also include defence against religious fundamentalists, especially if your existing society is secular.

i'm sorry if you're too stupid to see the reality in front of you.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

republishing inri058

there are a few ideas in my discography that i've explored from multiple angles, but nothing else at all like this track, which has been through multiple complete rethinks involving multiple people over the course of sixteen years. as the revisions are so diverse, i think that a comprehensive collection of interpretations is a proper entry within my discography.

in the end, this emerges as my seventh symphony.

the collection is to be arranged chronologically in four discs consisting of two 2xcd sets, with the first two discs consisting of mixes that were meant for inclusion in band projects and the third and fourth consisting of mixes that were created after the track was moved into my own various one-person projects. i've placed the third disc at the front of the sequence to stress the july, 2002 release date.

further discussions of the various incarnations of the tracks appear on the track pages, or are linked out from the track pages. please click through.

written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes and an expansion from two cds to four cds. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of the track (track 9), reconstructed in 2014, appears on my seventh record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ftaa

the 2002 vocal mix appears on the rabit is wolf demo:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/rabit-is-wolf

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 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2017). 

credits

released july 4, 2002

j - electric & acoustic & classical guitars, analog & digital effects & processing, electric bass guitar, synthesizers, drum programming, orchestral sequencing (12), drum manipulation, vocal manipulation, voice (9), digital wave editing, loops, equalizers, soundscaping, sampling, composition, production, cover art

sean - vocals/lyrics (2,5,7), ring modulator (7-9, 11, 13-14, 16)

greg - drum performance sample source (4, 6-9, 11, 13)

bob - hammering (3)

the rendered electronic orchestra on track 12 includes tuba, saxophone, flute, clarinet, orchestra hit, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections.

numbers refer to the physical tracklisting, rather than the bandcamp ordering.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

regarding the vlogs...

yes, i'm still vlogging. the major purpose was to document the music, remember. the rest of it is just incidental.

if we assume that i get my keys on nov 29th, and everything works out properly, i should be done finalizing the discography up until about 2004, by then. i'm going to push through until i get to a point where i need to actually do some more recording. that's about that point - maybe a little later, maybe more like mid 2005. things start to get less linear around 2003 until about 2011. this is periods 3 (trivial group) & 4 (proverbs).

the next thing to do is to catch up on the alter-reality, which is getting a little bit urgent.

in order to get back to editing the hundreds of gigabytes of files i have to edit, i have to fix my main laptop, which fried in an electrical storm at the end of august. that is going to be my editing machine. and, i won't get back to doing that until i've caught up on the discography to a proper point.

i'm also going to be moving, now, so it makes sense to tie the apartment upgrades i was doing to setting up the new apartment. and, this won't be the first thing i do, either. i need bookshelves first, probably.

it probably won't be by january 1st. but it will happen, eventually. and, i might even decide to stagger it a year, in the end. it might be kind of intriguing: alter-reality by 20, vlogs by 1.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

listen, i don't know how many times i have to say it, but the reason i don't make any sense to you is that i'm so much older than you.

it's called a generation gap. and, it's mutual. and, it's not my fault that you see me as your age, when i keep telling you that i'm not of your age group - that i'm very firmly in the centre of gen x.

but, i mean, they told me this would happen. when i was your age, i mean. they said we'd get squeezed out - that nobody would acknowledge we even exist. that we'd get passed over by people older than us that don't understand us, and get ignored by people younger than us that don't understand us. we were warned. we knew this was coming.

but, stop pretending there's something else underlying it. it's a generation gap. that's all.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.