got it, actually...

ok, this is going to take longer than i thought, so i have to eat.

i need this filed before i leave the house, too.

so, what i want to do with this tonight is very simple, and it may be all i do with it at all - as this kind of pre-track for the interplanetary isomorphism is more or less stranded. in the end, i'll have to decide if i want to pull it back into the final product or leave it here, but for now what i need to do is just pull the vocals out and put them back in slightly more quietly.

i was still using cool edit to mix at this point, so the files were pasted on top of each other. period 3 is the last period using this method, but it's still dominant until early 2007. as mentioned many times, there are actually major benefits to this (and i'll continue to come back to it when i want something with a certain blurry sound, like the reprise to the time machine), and the material done in this period really exaggerates it, but it means i have to reline everything up in cubase from scratch to remix it on the existing hardware.

unfortunately, the vocals and guitars were both pasted in with a clip so it's not as easy as phase reversing them out - it leaves the distortion there as a relic. so, i have to rebuild it.

so, what i've done is copy the abandoned combined mix i had into cubase and then take each of the parts and put them into their own new tracks. once i've phase reversed each part out as best i can, they'll be lined up - and i can then reverse them back to where they were initially and mix them without the clipping.

ok, i'm caught up.

so, it's time to eat and get to the next thing, which is creating a first run of inri076.

listen, i'm pretty vocal about the need to stand up for free speech, free association, bodily autonomy and other individual rights that would be considered "political".

but, i'm just as vocal about rejecting much of any concept of property rights, including intellectual property rights.

and, while i'm not a marxist, marx and i wouldn't actually have much disagreement about rights - as i'd also agree with his denunciation of natural rights theory as fantastical, pseudo-religious statist nonsense.

that video i watched yesterday was really mislabelled, but it was more due to the interviewer rather than the author, who i take it wanted to talk about marx & natural rights but instead got hijacked by a discussion of post-modernist interpretations of leninist conceptions of human rights, which have little to do with marxist theory. i had some mild difficulty following it (i think i followed the content of the conversation, even if i didn't get the references), but he seemed to think that marxism was the same thing as leninism (ack.) and then tried to define marxist human rights theory as this pseudo-fascist application of taylorism to leninism, as it existed in the soviet union (double ack.).

it's sort of baffling to me that anybody would define themselves as a leninist in 2021, but the point needs to be stated as clearly as possible: leninism is not marxism, and people that call themselves unhyphenated marxists don't tend to cite lenin very often. certainly, if you're going to title a video with a reference to marx in it, you shouldn't talk about leninism as the content - and if you're going to talk about leninism, you shouldn't title your talk as being about marxism. these aren't related traditions anymore, if they ever were. unhypenated marxists tend to interpret leninists as cryptofascists, and leninists tend to look at marxists as smelly idiots. 

so, it took me some time to figure it out...

i'll readily concede that human rights were not particularly important ideas in the soviet union. china's not in the realm of european civilization, so talking about human rights is a complicated thing, but the russians are europeans so the discussion can be had in the context of european rights theory - and the soviets were pretty vicious, there's no question, and right from the start to the end, too. but, lenin's economic theory was not marxist, it was taylorist, which is the point that unhyphenated marxists make in rejecting him as a fascist. taylorism was the same economic theory in use in american manufacturing at the time, had parallels in dickensian england and was the basic economic framework adopted by mussolini and hitler (although hitler was also famously a fordist and a keynesian). this is a big part of why unhyphenated marxists are so dismissive of leninism - it's just based on the same economic framework as then contemporary capitalism, as orwell so aptly pointed out. 

and, if you read lenin carefully, he didn't even obscure the fact. for all the talk of russia trying to leapfrog the capitalist state of development, lenin was actually pretty explicit in his embrace of historical materialism, and the need for russia to go through the process in the right order - which is why it ended up the way it did, rather than in spite of it. mao tried a little harder, but lenin was fully cognizant of the restraints imposed on russia within the theory of historical materialism, and didn't even get that far before he was dead.

stalin was of course a tsar, so the whole thing falls apart after that. but, this idea that lenin was doing anything other than just trying to convert russia's backwards economy into an american-style taylorist capitalist state is kind of outside the realms of actual factual reality. there's just so much propaganda around it, including his own, that it's hard to get to the really simple, unremarkable facts of the matter.

so, marx would have been just as critical of the russian revolution as he was of the french revolution, and trying to frame marx' views on much of anything in terms of leninist theory is a ridiculous category error.

...even if it took me a few tries to figure out what they were even talking about.

marx lived before any meaningful articulation of "human rights", anyways - what he had in front of him was "natural rights theory", as begun by religious scholars and culminated in things like social contracts and lockeanism. as mentioned, i agree that the crux of this theory is a lot of bullshit - there are no rights out there in the ether to find with human reason, and there is no god to put them there. but, we do have democracy, and ought we not use the legislature to decide certain things are inviolable by the state? indeed, we must.

marx had no faith in a bourgeois state to actually uphold any concepts of rights theory, though, and i don't blame him for that view, at all. you have rights until you don't - because they're not out there in the ether, there is no god to put them there and the bourgeoisie can eliminate them with a stroke of a pen if they truly want to. but, to suggest that means we ought to shrug it off is both nonsense and entirely the opposite of what marx meant to say; marx' point was not that rights don't or ought not to exist but that, as we cannot trust the bourgeois state to uphold them, we must constantly be vigilant in upholding them - or risk collapsing into slavery. if he were alive today, he'd be as vocal a defender of individual rights theory as anybody.

he didn't like property rights,  and i do not either, but it's a result of the proudhonian idea (that he stole) about property being theft. marx would have advocated the libertarian principle that an individual's rights end where another's begin, and for that reason would have argued that property rights are impossible, and aligned with proudhon on that point as a result of it - even if he attacked him in an apparent attempt to deflect from the fact that he stole a lot of his ideas and then tried to take credit for them. it's because of things like this that anarchists can accept marx as a valid theorist, while rejecting people like lenin and trotsky as basically fascist goons.

so, i mean, i'm not a marxist, and i'm not interested in reading all these secondary sources on the evolution from marxism to marxist-leninist-maoism, as it becomes a kind of fascism in the process. but, i know enough about marx to know he'd have stood with me and the other anarchists on most rights issues, and not with these post-leninist cryptofascists that want to bring in taylorism (along with some kind of cult of reason) at the boot of a gun  - and that that guy was badly misinformed via solely reading misleading secondary sources if he thought marx would be aligned with taylorist producerism over enlightenment liberal rights theory.

my peripheral eyesight is not particularly good and helmets make it harder for me to see what's happening around me, as well as slow down the amount of time it takes for me to turn my head.

while i'm hyperaware of what's happening around me (i've never been hit by a car in 30 years of heavy biking), i actually ride on the sidewalk or try to take back roads rather than major highways....and would encourage more cyclists to do so.

regardless, the probability that i'm going to alter my behaviour under any sort of incentive system is 0%. you can write me tickets, and i'll file a constitutional challenge. and, if i lose the challenge, i'll just throw the tickets in the trash - and you can't collect because i'm too poor. then, if i ever get any money, i'll just pay the fine, instead.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-should-it-be-mandatory-for-all-cyclists-to-wear-a-helmet/

today's post is the second version of the lps-only dvd.

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purchasing this release does not come with a download. 

inri053: written late 2001 and early 2002. this file is ripped from a cd-r that was burnt around 2002, as that was the option that would produce the most accurate reproduction of the original composition. published without modification on oct 6, 2014. expanded, re-released and finalized as symph006 and lp012 on oct 23, 2017. 

inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. re-sequenced and first released in june, 2002. re-released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing and re-released on november 8, 2014. except to sequence the record, these files have not been altered since 2002. disc finalized as lp013 on nov 3, 2017. 

inri063: these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. released may 2, 2015. disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017. this is my sixth official record. 

inri066: originally written, programmed and recorded from 1996-2002. reclaimed & remixed from june to december of 2015. initial completion date was december 31, 2015. disc finally released, closed and finalized on nov 26, 2017. lp015. 

inri067: written and recorded between dec, 1999 and july, 2002, except the hidden track (which was created in the summer of 1998). none of these tracks were remastered or otherwise modified after 2002. disc simultaneously created and finalized as lp016 on nov 26, 2017. 

inri068: originally written, programmed and recorded in varying states of finality over 2001 and 2002, except the hidden track (which was programmed in 1997). the associated tracks were completed between february, 2014 and may, 2015; these mixes, however, were spun off as late as nov, 2017. released as lp017 on nov 27, 2017. expanded and finalized on jan 1, 2018. 

inri069: initially written and recorded between 1997-2003. this compilation idea was developed and expanded upon as an intended full record release between 2006 and 2011. reinterpreted, reconstructed and remixed between 2014-2018. sequenced over december, 2017 and january, 2018. disc released & finalized as lp018 and tetris I-IV on jan 7, 2018. 

originally created from 1997-2003. this compilation is dated to april 28, 2003. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2013-2018. compilation finalized on jan 9, 2018. as always, please use headphones. 

released April 28, 2003 

j - guitars (electric, acoustic, classical), digital & analog effest processing, bass, bass synth, synthesizers, electric & grand pianos, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, mandolin, voice, vocal noises & relics, electronic & analog drum kits, drum programming, drum manipulations, drum sampling, vocal manipulations, loops, orchestral & other sequencing, sampling, equalization, sound raider, found sounds, octavers, noise generators, cool edit synthesis, granular synthesis, generative synthesis, coughs, digital wave editing, production, composition, cover art. 

sean - vocals, lyrics (inri053, inri057), harmonica (inri057, inri063, inri069), ring modulator (inri057, inri067, inri069). 

greg - drum performance sample source (inri057, inri063, inri067-inri069) 

jon - guitar performance (inri057) 

the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, ftuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, flute, bamboo flute, piccolo, organ, sitar, bells, orchestra hit, melodic toms, timpani, orchestral drum set, drum machine, electrmoic drum kit, piano, clavinet, kalimba, hand drums, nylon guitar, distorted & clean electric guitars, guitar effects, guitar noises, synthesizers, synthesizer effects, music box, agogo, tubular bells, glockenspiel, koto, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. it also includes choir.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/lps-only-volume-2

so, i stopped to eat last night and crashed for far too long, instead.

i need to get this done, today.