see, the trump people might think that faking payouts for workers to gloss over the tax cut is a good pr strategy, but let's see them run with that.

"yo, i heard on the news that you're supposed to be being paying out on that tax cut. where's my cut?"

hey, anything to raise workers' consciousnesses has to be viewed as in some ways useful, even as the designs around it seem so perilous. those are arguments that the good guys have to win, in the end.

but, i think a worker revival in the republican party was actually inevitable. the historical roots were too deep. the real tragedy is how liberals let the republican party get so far away from them.

maybe the real lesson to be learned from the uselessness of the democratic party is that the left ought to be trying to take over the republican party.

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another decision: i had included a few 'orchestral' works in the epic rock compilation, because it sort of fit, but i've taken them out. the way i'm going to do this is that the guitar disc for the orchestral pieces will be the orchestral works, and i'll add the slow version of the time machine as a bonus track.

there will be material from the orchestral works in the tetris compilation, but where it fits.

i just felt forced to include the guitar concerto on a guitar works, but it doesn't really fit the description of tetris well - it's an overture and concerto and should be catalogued accordingly.

and, so, i should be explicit, and rename the release to tetris, 1-4.

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on second thought, now that i've put the third disc aside as two further potential volumes, i can release a four volume set, if i include the guitar mixes, and why not, it fits the theme.

four is just permanent.

i still need to determine what i actually am going to create and then order it afterwards...

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the most recent update is that the second tetris disc is sequenced, but the third has been put aside; it may end up as two discs. there is at least one more tetris disc to sequence, but i won't be releasing any of them in the inri069 space. as of now. i think. they will likely have a release date of something like 2011, in something like a 6 disc set. but, i could still decide that it's worthwhile to release a double in this space.

right now, what i'm wanting to do is sequence the guitar collage disc, as it kind of has to be sequenced before the next tetris disc. and, i'm realizing that one of my guitar mixes isn't a guitar mix at all.

so, i'm going to have to update inri058. i wish i would have caught this in november, but so be it.

it looks like this guitar collage disc will be what is published in inri069, unless i get a good 4 disc tetris set, in which case i can release the remaining volumes later.

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so, where am i with things?

i've got the second and third tetris discs created, i just have to sequence them. but, i'm leaning towards not releasing this for a while, perhaps positioning it as late as 2013 in a 5 or 6 volume set.

tetris is the idea of mixing technology with guitar music. the three compiled expressions of this are in the form of a dance music setlist, a psychedelic music setlist and an epic rock setlist. a fourth expression of this in the form of atmospheric guitar music may follow shortly.

the only thing i've put aside for definite release in the inri069 space is the disc of guitar mixes - that is, songs stripped down only to the guitar parts. i'm also going to be getting a head start on a number of mix tapes, with the possibility of a release, but the likelihood of half-releases, to be put aside for later.

what i'm doing right now is sequencing these two discs and taking a look at the fourth volume.

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did phillippe couilliard even fall into a separatist trap, however accidental?

i wouldn't assign that level of foresight to the sovereigntist movement in quebec. sorry.

but, consider the oft-maligned line about "money and the ethnic vote.". there was always a certain amount of truth underlying the calculation that federalist support in quebec was dominant amongst recent immigrants, and that they had a tipping effect over the inclinations of the old stock pure-laine population. in the sense that federalist support was always tied to liberal support, you could argue that both the liberals (and the federalist cause) relied on the support of recent immigrants, and their recent descendants. so, what to make of the liberal party's adoption of the charter - which is adopted by the image of federalism, by proxy? they're attacking their key support base.

if i was a montrealer of recent arrival, and i was looking at the political spectrum, it would seem to me like the only provincial party that is of any interest to me is the quebec solidaire. by extension, this is going to make sovereignty more attractive to the "ethnic vote" than federalism, producing a sovereigntist movement that is more reflective of quebec's existing demographics - and therefore more likely to succeed.

i suspect that remaining support for the pq right now is very soft, and especially very soft around this issue. if the vote is framed as a referendum over the charter, that is if the voting decision (where it exists) between the pq and the qs is framed this way, i would expect the pq to crumble. the truth is that the pq has become a provincial voice for old bigots.

i don't expect this rearrangement to be complete by the next election, but rather that the results of the next election will produce it. the liberals may win their fight against caq, as the left splits and crashes. but, the inevitable result of this realignment is a powerful sovereigntist bloc on the left, in time for 2022.

if that happens, this purportedly tactical move by the liberals is going to appear most pyrrhic. and, it may spill over to the federal election, once these voters are released from brand liberal.

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i was talking about how there was some uncertainty around whether the hot air in the atlantic may have something to say about the polar vortex.

that storm on the east coast right now is that hot air in the atlantic getting pulverized by the polar vortex, which is clearly demonstrating itself as the more powerful force. but, this is actually the kind of storm that people around the jet stream, wherever it is in thirty years, are going to have to get more used to during winter, as increasingly concentrated pools of warmth near the equator smash more frequently into these polar air masses.

the latitudes of these storms may push north, or may not. the polar sea may not end up so navigable in the winter, after all. it depends on the sun. right now, the cold is holding it's own at fairly temperate latitudes. but, the onslaught has just begun.

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