the day inri messed the world up (remix/cover for inrimake)

alt.music.nin is a thing that existed, and you can imagine that the release of the fragile was a pretty big deal there. it was the first nin record released in the internet age - the first chance to discuss something new.

in fact, it hit the place like an explosion from friendly fire. giant arguments erupted, quickly giving way to a strange kind of silence. people that had been posting regularly for years couldn't even be bothered to post an opinion. i realized later that it was the first of what were several generational shifts in trent reznor's following. it actually seems to happen after every record. my shift out was "with teeth".

personally, i have a complex relationship with the disc, but this isn't a review of the fragile. it's an explanation of my remix of the track's first single, the day the world went away.

the single was released a few months before the record. people were posting remixes almost as soon as it was released. i actually didn't want to, but i had a few requests so i approached it on that level.

i wasn't entirely sure what to expect from the record, which it seemed like i had been waiting for my whole life. trent had been obfuscating and coy. it was hip-hop. it was orchestral music. it was prog. it was pop. i was just waiting with an open mind. the single didn't help form expectations: two versions of a mopey ambient thing, and a frighteningly awful tongue-in-cheek stadium rock dig at marilyn manson (who i gave zero fucks about, except in the context of him reducing reznor's songwriting quality). how does one approach this?

no. i didn't want to. "c'mon, i wanna hear your interpretation". fuck. fuck. no.

i listened a few more dozen times. i had aged five years, but the lyricist hadn't. i wasn't really connecting to it. but, the musician had aged fifty years and i was connecting to this. the production was.....actually really thin.

strangely.

musically, he had a good idea, but the execution struck me as completely botched. or, maybe, just minimized by record executives? either way, i decided i could make this thing bigger, more epic and more powerful.

that's the central idea in my reconstruction. i just wanted to take the idea in the original track and make it more dramatic.

i got a better response from this than i've ever gotten from anything else. randoms accused me of leaking a track, or even secretly being trent reznor (ok, those accusations were mostly not serious). many people admitted they liked my version better than the single version. i had such a huge spike at my mp3.com page (remember mp3.com?) that some of the tracks hit the top ranking in their categories. inri: mp3.com industrial rock superstar.

my plan was working! finally!

i can't tell what kind of feedback i got on the site. i had forgotten my password, and the site didn't have a mechanism to recover it. they got bought by some huge company soon after (i think it was vivendi) and all the indie artists got kicked to the curb.

drats. foiled....

recorded in the summer of 1999.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-day-inri-messed-the-world-up

this just strikes me as insane.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/connecting-the-visible-universe-with-dark-matter

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=astronomers-surprised-by-large-space-rock-less-dense-than-water&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://phy.so/304015957
http://phy.so/304016779

this is not a step towards something environmentally friendly, it's an attempt to gouge ignorant consumers. worse, it's incredibly wasteful. boycott these assholes...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-hyundai-hydrogen-vehicle-year.html

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/16/gaia-milky-way-space-probe
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-virus-dna-neanderthal-genome-modern.html

right. so, maybe if they'd stop wasting their time on iran's civilian reactors...
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Durban-uranium-stash-sparks-nuclear-alert-20131119

http://phys.org/news/2013-11-holistic-cell-high-performance-cycle-life-lithium-sulfur.html

ok, but what about the thefted dna? more important to me. (btw, this doesn't disprove that the slugs are using the chloroplasts to photosynthesize, it just proves that they have some other survival mechanism)
http://www.nature.com/news/solar-powered-sea-slugs-can-survive-in-the-dark-1.14197

that's one way to solve the problem.
http://www.nature.com/news/budget-crunch-hits-keeling-s-curves-1.14206?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews

http://phy.so/304165008
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2013/pr-exciton-solar-cell-111913.html
http://phy.so/304165311

well, you can see where they're going with this. it's not local, so it's allowed. and i think the idea is what most sane people think is underlying entanglement, whether it turns out to be a mathematical convenience or not.
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211603

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2013/pr-gamma-ray-burst-112113.html
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/cosmic-explosion-calls-theory-into-question
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-genes-entire-chromosome-reproduction-mice.html
http://www.nature.com/news/hpv-sex-cancer-and-a-virus-1.14194

ok.

the sort of wet blanket moment is in realizing that a lot of the existing native genome comes post-contact.

i believe that the modern siberian population that natives are related to would have been living south of the glaciers at this time.

but the gene flow is complex.

they need to date the components, rather than rely on proportional analysis. that's not enough to understand anything.

my migration hypothesis had northern ("european") and southern ("asian") populations merging before the glacier cross. this just makes basic sense. any post-racial analysis would see that it just makes sense. the study basically confirms that.

but we know the admixture is large because the r1 mutation that is prevalent in eastern indigenous populations is relatively recent.

so, we need to date this carefully on a case by case basis. some will be ancient, some will be recent.

messy project, good luck.

http://phy.so/304174874

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nature doesn't get it, either.

*sigh*.

they were so close....making so many positive steps towards a greater understanding...

....and, then hierarchical racial systemics reared itself, again. natives and europeans mixing in canada would upset the racial purity dipshits. those dipshits are mainstream, though. of all races. so, to prevent the mixing they explain all the variation by an early split.

despite the reality that the evidence of late mutation is overwhelming.

this will sort itself out eventually. for right now, we can see that the field is still dominated by the mindset that wants to separate people into types.

very unscientifically.

http://www.nature.com/news/americas-natives-have-european-roots-1.14213

and, no, it doesn't really explain why X ended up flung out in two different places. it reminds us of one already existing hypothesis, but it provides no further evidence for it.

again, they'd have to date it. i don't see any reason to think the barbary/pirate explanation is worse than the hybrid explanation. which was mine, btw. again.

nor is the idea of a greek or phoenician exploration at all outlandish. i mean, the guy presents it like it's crazy talk. well, why is X centered around the mediterranean, then, and nowhere else? seems to require a greater explanation, if you ask me.

turkish pirates, probably. there were a lot of them up and down the coast, you know.

it's going to be interesting to see how the world reacts if confucianism develops fusion first.

not to mention how china reacts. this would change the balance of everything....

we also need to be working on ways to convert atoms. well, i guess we know how to do it. trees can theoretically be converted to steel. but we need to be working on ways to minimize the amount of energy required.

of what value is trade when atoms are infinitely malleable? of what value is currency when alchemy is a corollary of fusion?

i'm ahead of myself.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/fusion-reactor-achieves-tenfold-increase-in-plasma-confinement-time/

sleepy weekend. got stuck in the loop. don't know if other people are familiar with this.

it starts off by sleeping too little. 3 hours, let's say. but you're not tired for whatever reason, so you get up and check your email or whatever. within three or four hours you're sleepy, because you didn't get enough sleep. but you did get a little sleep so you only sleep for an hour or two. when you wake up you're still tired because you didn't get enough sleep, but you can't sleep because you're not tired. after about 36 hours of this nap/read cycle, it seems like you've had an exceedingly long day and need a long sleep - even though you've been barely able to stay awake. so you crash for like ten hours.

i think i just snapped it. annoying, though.