i mean, i'm asking the court to pull the file due to unreasonable delay and gross incompetence.

and, they missed the deadline and asked for an extension. great. default, then, guys. perfect.

so, i'm going to grab some fruit and soften the air in here a bit.

i've been at this for the better part of the last 18 hours, and i got two liner notes done from scratch and updated the first one, as well. the first one was lengthier due to typesetting, whereas the second was shorter because there wasn't much to add. there are four more left that should all be more like the second, so i should conceivably be able to get them done by the time i get my christmas eve pizza. but i should get the forms in order for the request first, because i'm not going to wait long before i request an order. if i can file the order tomorrow i will.

they have now sent me two requests for an extension, and i have rejected both. i don't celebrate christmas, and am not going to give them a break for the holidays. if anything, i'll take advantage of it to force them to default. if i could just cease to have to deal with them ever again, that would be incredible.

but, i'm happy i'm making some progress.

i still need to get through december/13 & january/14, both of which are shorter months, before i can start making entries in the alter-reality and start refocusing on period 3.

it was actually quite pleasant today when he was at work.

but, as soon as he got home, the smoke started.

i guess i'm not entirely certain that he's actually smoking. i dunno. maybe he's lighting really brutal candles. maybe it has something to do with the heating. maybe he's farting. maybe it's the dog.

but, the smoke, whatever it's source, is clearly correlated with his presence. it's obviously something he's doing. and it's making me cough and wheeze and hack and giving me a sore throat.

i'm updating a few files to finish inri003, and then i'm going to stop to eat and take a shower. the only thing that seems to work to counteract whatever he's doing is to increase the humidity down here.

first liner note release for inri003

i spent the summer and fall of 1997 programming drum tracks into an ry30, notating them into a tablature program and sequencing them using noteworthy composer. i did not know how i was going to record these tracks. i think i was expecting to use the computer, but that was probably naive; instead, i was gifted a 4-track recording machine. i then spent the next year and a half rearranging and rerecording the songs i programmed over that period. as these tracks were recorded into my pc, they are time stamped...so i have a much clearer understanding of when they were finished.

the jump to incorporating computers into the recording process is something i always wanted to do, it's just that it wasn't really previously feasible. first, there was a learning curve. i was a smart kid, though; the learning curve was just a time concern. the larger problem was simply access to a pc. i did have a pc at my disposal, but it did not have a modem and it was only equipped to run windows 3.1, which basically meant i could run civ 2 and wolfenstein and little else. the windows 95 computer had dial up but it was in a central location for family use.

when we moved across the city, my dad bought a new computer and i happily inherited his old one. this gave me internet access, which allowed me to download some freeware. it also gave me the time i needed to learn how to do certain things.

i'm separating out a handful of my first electronic sound experiments and collecting them together into an ep. what these blasts of noise have in common is that they were constructed on a windows 95 computer out of samples or generated sound and with very primitive software while i was waiting to get some kind of recording equipment. most of it was pasted together meticulously using the windows 95 sound recorder; the rest of it was constructed in cool edit, which i used as a sort of a synthesizer.

for the most part, these weren't really ever meant to be songs. i ended up using them as connectors, introductions, background. "continuity". yet, i find the idea of throwing them together here to be interesting from an autobiographical perspective.

created in mid 1997. sequenced and converted to stereo in november, 2013. released on nov 9, 2013. corrected in september, 2014. finalized on july 5, 2016. first liner note released added on dec 23, 2019. as always, please use headphones.

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 (1997, 2013, 2016). as of dec 23, 2019, the release includes an 8 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process over nov, 2013. 

credits

released December 1, 1997

j - cool edit (wave synthesis, digital wave editing), windows 95 sound recorder (sampling, digital wave editing), yamaha ry30 drum machine (programming)

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrisampled

first liner note release for inri001

my second demo, recorded over the second half of the tenth grade, is a considerably more polished recording. by this time, i had learned a lot about how to record things and had improved my drumming and keyboard playing. while the vocals remain highly erratic, ranging from precociously insightful to devastatingly stupid, the music here is actually not far from a professional recording.

recorded in spring 1997, remastered in fall 2013. finalized on july 3, 2016. first liner note release added on dec 23, 2019. as always, please use headphones.

i consider this an archival release with little direct listening value. i've pointed out repeatedly that i was 16. however, various segments have been isolated and pulled out for a higher listenability value over here:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inricycled-a

this release also includes a printable j-card insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1997, 2013-2019). as of dec 23, 2019, the release includes a 35 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process over nov, 2013.

credits

released June 1, 1997

j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, keyboards, tapes, vocals, found sounds, metronomes, production

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-2

so, there has been some communication between the oiprd and the court, which is also open tomorrow.

i need to ask the parties for consent to file the addendum to the factum, and i may not get it until after christmas. if they don't give me consent, i'll have to ask the judge to file a motion.

i'll look at this tomorrow or friday.

inri001 is basically done, but i have to test it first.

no response regarding the court case, yet.

i'm going to call the divisional court next, to see if they're open. if i can, i basically want to just push forward without them.

so, i've now updated inri000 to include some posts from nov, 2013.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-1

i'm running into some chronological contradictions.

one of the last things i did before i stopped for legal stuff was add the inri000 liner notes to the october music journal download. i've now added some posts from nov, 2013 to that liner note package, which also has notes from sept, 2013 and will eventually have notes from various periods between 1996-2026. so, what do i do now?

i was initially considering leaving half finished versions strewn across the downloads, but that doesn't make sense and will end up messy - that's a bad idea. the other approach would be to update everything as it comes up, so that this liner note package would appear everywhere it intersects with, but that strikes me as overkill and difficult to maintain.

rather. i think i've demonstrated to myself that these are different ideas. the music journal is just that; the liner notes are a subset of the broader journal, and need to exist in their proper context.

therefore,

1) i am going to remove the inri000 liner notes from the october, 2013 music journal download, and i will not be uploading the liner notes to further journal entries.
2) i will need to update the liner notes for each relevant release at the end of each subsequent month, which could be messy, but is necessary.

so, i'll need to update the language for october first, and then for november, and then reupload the new notes for inri000, before i get to inri001.

listen.

i'm an introvert, and an atheist. i never had time for christmas; i always thought it was kind of stupid. even when i lived with family, it would generally be difficult to try to convince me to come out and sit with people - i genuinely disliked the premise.

and, while it is true that, on some years, i may prefer to spend the solstice slowly eating into a quarter, i am actually eager for sobriety, right now. i don't really believe in resolutions. but, i've been pointing out for a while that i'm getting older and starting to feel it. i can't promise you that i'll spend future solstices sober, but i think i'm leaning more in that direction. we'll see how i feel.

what i'm getting at is that i'm actually enthusiastic about spending my time this week typing in a basement by myself. this is where i'm in my element, it's where i'm happiest.

i'm just hoping the guy upstairs takes off somewhere so i don't have to deal with him smoking.

speaking of which, i'm still not really at full strength, although i'm fairly close.

now that i have the template finished, i'm hoping to publish several liner notes today. i will need to stop briefly mid-afternoon to give the divisional court a call, but i don't expect them to actually be open.

ok.

i got a start on inri001, but i'm fading.

i need a nap.

let's try again later.