sample used without permission (initial upload)

initially written in 1996. recreated in jan, 1998. reclaimed july 2, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/sample-used-without-permission

marriage was really the last thing that needed to be broken apart to complete the separation of church and state and move into a fully secular society. it's at the end of something that's been going on since 1776. there's still the thatcherite idea of the church being responsible for social services, but that's on a different level than this. so, you have to expect this kind of response, as it's the final end of the christian order.

this is not how i'd preferred to have seen it happen. i'd prefer to have seen marriage abolished, and financial aspects of relationships dealt with on an issue-by-issue basis. the contract about the house shouldn't be the same as the contract about the kids; these are different things. but, it's overdue.

you shouldn't doubt or trivialize the trauma associated with this. it's a real thing. it's a collapse of a worldview.

rather, you should look at it like an epiphany in understanding that they're missing. there is still a flat earth society.

in fact, the earth revolves around the sun. evolution is a fact. and homosexuality is entirely natural and normal.

they may be upset and confused right now. they need empathy. but, they also need to understand that their viewpoints are wrong and change their perspectives accordingly.

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+deathtokoalas I totally get what you're saying here. It's almost uncomfortable to watch a group of people recognizing their worldview is moving into the past.

americans seem to have difficulty following the plot.

so, back in 1945, north america and europe entered into an alliance to prevent russian expansion into western europe. whether that was ever a serious threat, and how much of a driver it really was under the alliance, and whether it was ever what europe really wanted, are open questions, but that isn't the point; the basis of the alliance was to militarily protect western europe from communism, be it for altruistic reasons or to protect an export market.

somewhere along the way, the threat resolved and europe and russia interlinked economically.

now, we hear americans grumbling that europe is not "doing as much as we'd like". what does that mean? what is the basis for this expectation? it's as though the alliance was always offensive. that it's irresolvable. or - let's be real - that europe is an insolent province.

nato was not designed as a staging ground for an invasion of russia. or, at least, we're told it wasn't. america has no right to expect that europe will facilitate this; rather, it ought to expect the opposite, given the nature of american aggression.

a true spiritual successor to nato would be an alliance across europe (including russia) to minimize american influence.

ali is his own worst enemy.

i didn't want to be running around tomorrow, at least, so i walked to the second furthest store and got some soy milk. laundry will need to wait until tomorrow, and that will slow me down a little, but at least i'm locked here in the cabin for about ten days.

i was planning on ramping down today and hermiting for the next two weeks, but everything's been pushed back a day due to the fact that i can't find any soy milk. that means i'll be doing laundry tomorrow, instead, and could conceivably have something up by the end of the night. on the other hand, if there's no soy milk at the grocery store tomorrow then i'm in for a long day looking for it. it's the central part of my diet. i get almost everything i need from my daily smoothie (1 banana, 5 strawberries, two scoops of cherry ice cream and roughly 300 ml of vanilla soy milk). they had the plain soy milk, but it was for a higher price than i'd normally pay for the vanilla and, like....the vanilla is essential to the smoothie. i may crack tomorrow and get it, but i'm not going to be happy about it. i also can't get the light stuff, because it's my primary source of fat.

note to world: fat from milk is good. if you want to lose weight, eat less big macs, don't cut the healthy fat out.

i'm done all of the tracks that i specifically wanted to *remove* the vocals from. there's still a few that i'm not sure about yet; i'll have to mix them with vocals, and then decide what i want to use. i'm leaning heavily towards a full instrumental, and just dropping the vocal remixes on to the aleph disc. i've already decided that i'm not swapping anything into the main records, largely because these aren't exact replicas - pretty much everything is missing a fill or an overdub that i added at the productions stage and have no way to recreate. that needs to stand as it is.

half of me would like to work it into the second inricycled, which is now becoming superfluous. the idea was to put together some ideas that stripped the vocals out. now, i'm stripping the vocals out altogether. i may decided to retain it as a shorter mix tape (the mix tape portion is only about 30 minutes) and strip the full tracks out. i'll figure this out when i get it all in front of me. but, if i decide to backtrack on the singles, after all, it could get me through this without renumbering.

in some neighbourhoods, the boogeyman is slightly more than an imaginary monster

initially written in 1993. first full recording in 1996. recreated in dec, 1997 and again in jan, 1999. reclaimed on july 2, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/in-some-neighbourhoods-the-boogeyman-is-slightly-more-than-an-imaginary-monster

use value is somewhat difficult to define in the human propensity towards artistic expression

recorded in jan, 1998. reclaimed june 29, 2015. remixed july 2, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/use-value-is-somewhat-difficult-to-define-in-the-human-propensity-towards-artistic-expression-2