the two new accusations of franken-groping are from somebody that claims it happened before a picture was taken (with the picture being of him touching her arm) and from another anonymous source.
there remains no meaningful evidence, here - just a militant demand to accept hearsay as evidence, despite all legal norms to the contrary. you could make the case that the plurality is evidence, except that these are all questionable sources. army vets are property of the establishment, not paragons of virtue. she may very well have killed innocent people in her role. they train you to be a psychopath, and to take orders.
and it remains the case that franken is the #1 guy that the establishment would want to ditch, right now. there is an overwhelming motive for a co-ordinated campaign against him.
with each hokey claim designed for obvious maximum media effect, the credibility of the accusations is diminishing, not increasing.
but, again: it's clear that this isn't going to stop until he resigns. he's not wanted in the halls of power. at all.
there is again a lesson here: be careful of who you let photograph you. any picture of anybody touching anyone....
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
so, i'm from canada. and, as such, i'm pretty normalized to a multicultural society. i wouldn't say i attach any real value to it - i don't think it's preferable to, nor do i think it is worse than, a less diverse society. diversity is neither a strength nor a weakness in totality - it has pros and cons and balances out. i might not have made the choice that was made in the 60s, but i wouldn't act to reverse it, either. but, i'm used to it. it's what is.
what i'm hostile to is any attempt to moralize how somebody should or shouldn't behave, so long as nobody is being harmed, in context. the harm part is fundamental. it's academic, really. and, i'm pretty equal opportunity in what i go after, despite realizing that certain cultures are less free than others. i think i have every right to criticize them for that, too.
but, canada is a colonial state. virtually everybody can state that some of their ancestors migrated here from somewhere else, with the promise to build a life in a free society. there are indigenous peoples here, but they have been marginalized to an extreme point.
a country like poland is not a colonial state. in fact, poland is barely even in the realm of historical civilization. but, when it entered history in the middle ages, it entered it not as colonizers but as the colonized. poland has no history in the greek or roman worlds as anything more than a staging ground for nomads to wander south. the only reich it was a part of was the third one. the areas to it's north and east were not christianized until the renaissance.
as such, poland is not within the mediterranean cultural sphere, defined by romans and greeks and carthaginians and arabs and jews. it is a completely different cultural space, with a completely separate history.
the protestors in poland are completely incoherent. they're regurgitating right-wing talking points that are neither complete nor consistent. one should not take what they say seriously at all. but, at the core of their reaction is a legitimate rejection of a force that has wreaked havoc on who they are as a people, and largely stolen their identity from them.
multiculturalism in canada is a function of what the state is, as a colonial entity. but, there is no reason at all why poland should adopt multiculturalism. and, the poles are right to see the idea as an invasion by stealth.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
what i'm hostile to is any attempt to moralize how somebody should or shouldn't behave, so long as nobody is being harmed, in context. the harm part is fundamental. it's academic, really. and, i'm pretty equal opportunity in what i go after, despite realizing that certain cultures are less free than others. i think i have every right to criticize them for that, too.
but, canada is a colonial state. virtually everybody can state that some of their ancestors migrated here from somewhere else, with the promise to build a life in a free society. there are indigenous peoples here, but they have been marginalized to an extreme point.
a country like poland is not a colonial state. in fact, poland is barely even in the realm of historical civilization. but, when it entered history in the middle ages, it entered it not as colonizers but as the colonized. poland has no history in the greek or roman worlds as anything more than a staging ground for nomads to wander south. the only reich it was a part of was the third one. the areas to it's north and east were not christianized until the renaissance.
as such, poland is not within the mediterranean cultural sphere, defined by romans and greeks and carthaginians and arabs and jews. it is a completely different cultural space, with a completely separate history.
the protestors in poland are completely incoherent. they're regurgitating right-wing talking points that are neither complete nor consistent. one should not take what they say seriously at all. but, at the core of their reaction is a legitimate rejection of a force that has wreaked havoc on who they are as a people, and largely stolen their identity from them.
multiculturalism in canada is a function of what the state is, as a colonial entity. but, there is no reason at all why poland should adopt multiculturalism. and, the poles are right to see the idea as an invasion by stealth.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
so, i have completed the order.
sort of.
the cover art has been printed, but i need to wait for it to dry. and, i won't have time to ship it until probably tomorrow, if i can stay awake long enough. but, it exists.
i get the keys in less than an hour. hopefully. and, then i need to spend the next 24-48 hours transiting items out of here.
i won't get back to completing the sequence until things are moved, but i'm going to make it a priority to do so, as well. it will be the first thing i do, before i even unpack everything else. and, it shouldn't take more than a few days.
period 2 is really legitimately nearly final.
and, then i'm on to the alter-reality, and a year worth of journal entries from my 16 year old self.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
sort of.
the cover art has been printed, but i need to wait for it to dry. and, i won't have time to ship it until probably tomorrow, if i can stay awake long enough. but, it exists.
i get the keys in less than an hour. hopefully. and, then i need to spend the next 24-48 hours transiting items out of here.
i won't get back to completing the sequence until things are moved, but i'm going to make it a priority to do so, as well. it will be the first thing i do, before i even unpack everything else. and, it shouldn't take more than a few days.
period 2 is really legitimately nearly final.
and, then i'm on to the alter-reality, and a year worth of journal entries from my 16 year old self.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
one of the most sure signs of colonialism is when you change the name of items on the map, like cities.
one example is when the french colonists built cities like montreal and st. louis on top of existing native settlements. another is when the arab colonists changed the name of jerusalem to al-quds.
justice requires some honesty. we can acknowledge the history of the region without deducing that palestinians shouldn't have rights. and, perhaps doing so might even help them get some.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
one example is when the french colonists built cities like montreal and st. louis on top of existing native settlements. another is when the arab colonists changed the name of jerusalem to al-quds.
justice requires some honesty. we can acknowledge the history of the region without deducing that palestinians shouldn't have rights. and, perhaps doing so might even help them get some.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
publishing inri071
i've taken to splitting my discography into phases, and my hitch-hiking trip to british columbia is a very important separation point - both in terms of the nature of the material that came out afterwards and what is now a substantial body of work that came before it. that makes it a natural point to look backwards and build compilations of intersecting ideas.
a characteristic of my work is that it does not conform well to genre norms. this is not an accident; when compiling a record, i'm guided more by the late beatles' philosophy of vast diversity in a small space than i am by any kind of desire to collect together nice singles, or by some kind of compulsive organizing into categories or concepts. i write psychedelic music. that means something different in 2015 than it did in 1966, but the commonality is that it's necessarily challenging. i want all of my records to do everything at once, and accomplish everything by their end point. that makes compilations of this sort inherently difficult, because every song touches on every compilation idea at the same time. the jazz record would have the same tracklisting as the punk record, the classical record and the folk record - and none would really be what they're claimed to be.
the one exception to this conundrum is how i interacted with ambient music in this period. i very regularly utilized ideas from the genre, but i tended to interpret ambience as something that is necessarily obscure. in this period, ambient pieces are almost always outtakes or b sides. i tended to interpret covers and remixes as ambient pieces, probably because that was unexpected. when ambient ideas make it on to the record, they're almost always for effect: introductions, endings, connecting passages, that sort of thing.
when i began reconstructing my discography in early 2014, i came across a handful of songs i'd written out into midi format and put aside for later. a number of these ended up reworked into ambient pieces, and released as b sides. i also ended up converting some of the material i wrote in this period into ambient sound collages that are more in the style of music i created after 2003.
the end result is enough bsides and remixes to put together two full cds of ambient music. none of the tracks on volumes one or two are on any official record as they appear here; this is technically a collection of remixes and outtakes.
this package was initially released with a mix tape of fragments from 1996-1999, but it has since been moved into it's own release (inri035): jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-works-vol-0
initially written and recorded between 2000-2003 and remixed between 2014-2015. sequenced over mid may, 2015. the final compilation date was initially may 20, 2015, but both discs were mildly updated with some more appropriate mixes of the same tracks on nov 29, 2017; disc subsequently finalized as lp020. 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 (2014, 2015, 2017).
a characteristic of my work is that it does not conform well to genre norms. this is not an accident; when compiling a record, i'm guided more by the late beatles' philosophy of vast diversity in a small space than i am by any kind of desire to collect together nice singles, or by some kind of compulsive organizing into categories or concepts. i write psychedelic music. that means something different in 2015 than it did in 1966, but the commonality is that it's necessarily challenging. i want all of my records to do everything at once, and accomplish everything by their end point. that makes compilations of this sort inherently difficult, because every song touches on every compilation idea at the same time. the jazz record would have the same tracklisting as the punk record, the classical record and the folk record - and none would really be what they're claimed to be.
the one exception to this conundrum is how i interacted with ambient music in this period. i very regularly utilized ideas from the genre, but i tended to interpret ambience as something that is necessarily obscure. in this period, ambient pieces are almost always outtakes or b sides. i tended to interpret covers and remixes as ambient pieces, probably because that was unexpected. when ambient ideas make it on to the record, they're almost always for effect: introductions, endings, connecting passages, that sort of thing.
when i began reconstructing my discography in early 2014, i came across a handful of songs i'd written out into midi format and put aside for later. a number of these ended up reworked into ambient pieces, and released as b sides. i also ended up converting some of the material i wrote in this period into ambient sound collages that are more in the style of music i created after 2003.
the end result is enough bsides and remixes to put together two full cds of ambient music. none of the tracks on volumes one or two are on any official record as they appear here; this is technically a collection of remixes and outtakes.
this package was initially released with a mix tape of fragments from 1996-1999, but it has since been moved into it's own release (inri035): jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-works-vol-0
initially written and recorded between 2000-2003 and remixed between 2014-2015. sequenced over mid may, 2015. the final compilation date was initially may 20, 2015, but both discs were mildly updated with some more appropriate mixes of the same tracks on nov 29, 2017; disc subsequently finalized as lp020. 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 (2014, 2015, 2017).
credits
released April 28, 2003
j - guitars (acoustic, electric, nylon), effects & treatments, bass, synthesizers, electric air reed organ, orchestral & other sequencing, drum & other programming, generative programming (sounder), "projectile synthesis" (audiomulch), granular synthesis (granulab), sound design, electronic and conventional drum kits, sampling, loops, films, voice, digital wave editing, composition, production.
sean - vocal ideas (tracks 4 & 7, disc 1), ring modulator (track 9, disc 1)
jon - background guitar performance (track 4, disc 1)
greg - drum performance sample source (track 5, disc 1)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include synth bass, electric bass, acoustic bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, nylon guitar, guitar effects, guitar noises (fret noises, pick scrapes, knocks), synthesizer, synth pads, mellotron, choir, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, string section, pizzicato strings, french horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, oboe, english horn, bassoon, clarinet, flute, piccolo, mallet, piano, woodblock, music box, xylophone, tubular bells, other bells, orchestra hit, electronic drum kit, melodic toms, drum machine and orchestral drum kit.
j - guitars (acoustic, electric, nylon), effects & treatments, bass, synthesizers, electric air reed organ, orchestral & other sequencing, drum & other programming, generative programming (sounder), "projectile synthesis" (audiomulch), granular synthesis (granulab), sound design, electronic and conventional drum kits, sampling, loops, films, voice, digital wave editing, composition, production.
sean - vocal ideas (tracks 4 & 7, disc 1), ring modulator (track 9, disc 1)
jon - background guitar performance (track 4, disc 1)
greg - drum performance sample source (track 5, disc 1)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include synth bass, electric bass, acoustic bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, nylon guitar, guitar effects, guitar noises (fret noises, pick scrapes, knocks), synthesizer, synth pads, mellotron, choir, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, string section, pizzicato strings, french horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, oboe, english horn, bassoon, clarinet, flute, piccolo, mallet, piano, woodblock, music box, xylophone, tubular bells, other bells, orchestra hit, electronic drum kit, melodic toms, drum machine and orchestral drum kit.
publishing inri072
an unexpected result of the project to complete my discography, undertaken in late 2013, has been the construction of a handful of orchestral pieces, mostly as remixes of original tracks from the jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj period. while these tracks were initially written out as scored pieces for expanded instrumentation, they were generally written around the guitar and the expanded instrumentation was largely meant simply for colour. the exception to this is the psilocybin symphony, which was written as a piano concerto from the start and previously completed in early 2006.
the ability to expand these pieces into orchestral works is the result of the advances in vst sampling technology that have occurred since 2003. while changes in instrumentation have been accompanied by extra writing (mostly on the guitar), tempo shifts and other general rearrangement choices, the existing technology makes it very easy to rearrange a rock song for an orchestra, by simply multiplying staves and changing the sound fonts.
the condition i've set for a piece to be "orchestral" is that it must utilize the entire orchestra: it must have percussion, piano, horns, woodwinds/reeds and strings. guitars are generally treated like "first violins", whereas violins are generally not considered to be more special than other similar string instruments. some of the tracks also have prominent choral sections. all of these pieces meet this condition, except the last one which does not have a woodwind/reed section.
my delve into scorewriting ended in 2003; the material in my third phase is more focused on live and manipulated guitars and synthesizers. i consequently feel that this is an interesting summary of my second period, taken from a specific angle that is otherwise largely relegated to single-only remixes.
initially written and recorded between 2001-2003 and remixed and recorded further over 2014-2015, except track 2 which was completed in early 2006 and track 5 which was completed in 2017. the initial final compilation date was may 23, 2015, but track five was then added on oct 14, 2017 and the disc was finalized as lp021 on nov 29, 2017. track 7 was added as a download-only bonus track on jan 14, 2018. 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 (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018).
* download only
the ability to expand these pieces into orchestral works is the result of the advances in vst sampling technology that have occurred since 2003. while changes in instrumentation have been accompanied by extra writing (mostly on the guitar), tempo shifts and other general rearrangement choices, the existing technology makes it very easy to rearrange a rock song for an orchestra, by simply multiplying staves and changing the sound fonts.
the condition i've set for a piece to be "orchestral" is that it must utilize the entire orchestra: it must have percussion, piano, horns, woodwinds/reeds and strings. guitars are generally treated like "first violins", whereas violins are generally not considered to be more special than other similar string instruments. some of the tracks also have prominent choral sections. all of these pieces meet this condition, except the last one which does not have a woodwind/reed section.
my delve into scorewriting ended in 2003; the material in my third phase is more focused on live and manipulated guitars and synthesizers. i consequently feel that this is an interesting summary of my second period, taken from a specific angle that is otherwise largely relegated to single-only remixes.
initially written and recorded between 2001-2003 and remixed and recorded further over 2014-2015, except track 2 which was completed in early 2006 and track 5 which was completed in 2017. the initial final compilation date was may 23, 2015, but track five was then added on oct 14, 2017 and the disc was finalized as lp021 on nov 29, 2017. track 7 was added as a download-only bonus track on jan 14, 2018. 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 (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018).
* download only
credits
released May 1, 2003
j - controller inputs, drum & other programming, orchestral & other sequencing, live guitars, live bass, live synths, effects, sound design, digital wave editing, composition, production.
the various rendered electronic orchestras includes violin, viola, cello, contrabass, electric guitar, nylon guitar, guitar fret noise, bass guitar, synthesizer bass, french horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, english horn, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone, bamboo flute, flute, piccolo, synthesizers, mellotron, organ, piano, harp, koto, music box, clavinet, kalimba, xylophone, agogo, mallet, hammered percussion, woodblock, tubular bells, tinkle bells, glockenspiel, orchestra hit, melodic toms, electronic drum kit, timpani, orchestral drum kit and choir.
j - controller inputs, drum & other programming, orchestral & other sequencing, live guitars, live bass, live synths, effects, sound design, digital wave editing, composition, production.
the various rendered electronic orchestras includes violin, viola, cello, contrabass, electric guitar, nylon guitar, guitar fret noise, bass guitar, synthesizer bass, french horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, english horn, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone, bamboo flute, flute, piccolo, synthesizers, mellotron, organ, piano, harp, koto, music box, clavinet, kalimba, xylophone, agogo, mallet, hammered percussion, woodblock, tubular bells, tinkle bells, glockenspiel, orchestra hit, melodic toms, electronic drum kit, timpani, orchestral drum kit and choir.
republishing inri074
around october, 2002 i met a friend. i was sort of in need of a friend, and i mean that in the friend sense. but, the mental condition i was in was the explanation of why i needed a friend, if you see what i mean; i was completely unstable in this period and did all kinds of absurd things, which isolated me - and i wasn't getting any better.
i dropped out of school under the realization that i was walking down a path that wasn't getting me anywhere close to what i wanted out of life. i ended up working three jobs to raise money for gender reassignment, and it crossed me paths with somebody that was also trying to think of ways to get out of the box in terms of ways to exist.
she was trying to save up money to go to british columbia. it was some kind of warped take on the grapes of wrath, where everything works out perfectly. but, the rent was eating into her savings, which was making the goal seem impossible. well, unless we stopped having fun.
so, i suggested she should just stay at my parents place. part of it was a hope that she would move her drum kit in, although that didn't happen. and, i might add that this was done with all of the reckless abandon that could be contemplated - we were moving stuff in without even asking, it was really remarkable.
and, it seemed to me that we were getting pretty close over that period.
so, when the time came that she had all that money put aside to go to bc, it was kind of a downer to let her go. and, she initially wanted to go with a friend who dropped out. so, i ended up going across the country with her.
now, i need to be clear: we weren't planning on coming back. we were going to pick fruit or something - we didn't know, exactly, we'd figure it out when we got there.
so, this was meant as a sort of farewell to certain people i hadn't talked to in months and didn't care if i was leaving, anyways. i think it let me work some things out on weird subconscious levels, but the truth is that these songs really aren't about anybody except me, and there's no use in pretending they are - i just liked the idea of a farewell disc.
this disc was initially passed around with a cut up version of the pretentious untitled mix at the end, but this was almost immediately ejected from future burns and is not present on this ep due to the poor quality of the mix. the remaining five tracks became combined into what i now call my eighth symphony.
written and recorded in late 2002 and early 2003. this was initially uploaded unmodified from a cd-r rip in may, 2015, but this was replaced with a version from source on nov 29, 2017 due to clipping due to an unrealized normalization on the burn. disc finalized as symph008 on nov 29, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the hidden track is the final version and also appears on my ninth record, {e} (inri08x): jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
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 (2003, 2015, 2017).
i dropped out of school under the realization that i was walking down a path that wasn't getting me anywhere close to what i wanted out of life. i ended up working three jobs to raise money for gender reassignment, and it crossed me paths with somebody that was also trying to think of ways to get out of the box in terms of ways to exist.
she was trying to save up money to go to british columbia. it was some kind of warped take on the grapes of wrath, where everything works out perfectly. but, the rent was eating into her savings, which was making the goal seem impossible. well, unless we stopped having fun.
so, i suggested she should just stay at my parents place. part of it was a hope that she would move her drum kit in, although that didn't happen. and, i might add that this was done with all of the reckless abandon that could be contemplated - we were moving stuff in without even asking, it was really remarkable.
and, it seemed to me that we were getting pretty close over that period.
so, when the time came that she had all that money put aside to go to bc, it was kind of a downer to let her go. and, she initially wanted to go with a friend who dropped out. so, i ended up going across the country with her.
now, i need to be clear: we weren't planning on coming back. we were going to pick fruit or something - we didn't know, exactly, we'd figure it out when we got there.
so, this was meant as a sort of farewell to certain people i hadn't talked to in months and didn't care if i was leaving, anyways. i think it let me work some things out on weird subconscious levels, but the truth is that these songs really aren't about anybody except me, and there's no use in pretending they are - i just liked the idea of a farewell disc.
this disc was initially passed around with a cut up version of the pretentious untitled mix at the end, but this was almost immediately ejected from future burns and is not present on this ep due to the poor quality of the mix. the remaining five tracks became combined into what i now call my eighth symphony.
written and recorded in late 2002 and early 2003. this was initially uploaded unmodified from a cd-r rip in may, 2015, but this was replaced with a version from source on nov 29, 2017 due to clipping due to an unrealized normalization on the burn. disc finalized as symph008 on nov 29, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the hidden track is the final version and also appears on my ninth record, {e} (inri08x): jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
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 (2003, 2015, 2017).
credits
released May 3, 2003
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, voice, piano, drum programming, generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, sound design, soundscaping, loops, bowls, claps, tables, ebow, orchestral sequencing, digital wave editing, sampling, production, composition
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, voice, piano, drum programming, generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, sound design, soundscaping, loops, bowls, claps, tables, ebow, orchestral sequencing, digital wave editing, sampling, production, composition
so, you initially had sumerian groups in modern day iraq, and they were neither indo-european speakers nor semitic speakers. they were probably speakers of a lost offshoot of the caucasian language group and probably looked like modern day armenians. they mingled with akkadians, who were semitic speakers.
they were eventually pushed back to the north by invading semitic tribes - babylonians, assyrians.
to their east, were elamites, who were probably dark-skinned, like modern indigenous indians, and who probably spoke a dravidian language. they were eventually overrun by indo-european speakers, who in turn took over mesopotamia for about a thousand years, before they were pushed out again by another northward movement of semitic tribes, called arabs.
the jews are admittedly weird. the closest thing to monotheism in the ancient world was zoroastrianism, and the sky god is a broadly indo-european motif, and certainly not a semitic one. yahweh is a skyfather - a zeus. and, some influence from the north is consequently apparent.
genetically speaking, jews - and palestinians, who are the descendants of the ancient hebrews - cluster more with caucasian groups than they do with "purer" arabs from the peninsula. they are not alone in this. the same is true of syrians and kurds. and, one must remember that hebrews have often spoken aramaic or greek rather than hebrew, which has often been a strictly liturgical language.
short of inventing a time machine, history will probably never be able fully untangle the complex syncretism that underlies jewish religion and culture - they speak a semitic language, have an indo-european religion (with deep egyptian influences) and appear to be genetically caucasian. you can make a strong argument in any direction.
but, none of this changes the archaeological record, which has found no evidence of destruction horizons, or even of large scale settlement. the archaeologists will tell you that the jews were always in canaan. and, so one must ask the question of whether it was ideas the migrated to jerusalem, rather than people.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
they were eventually pushed back to the north by invading semitic tribes - babylonians, assyrians.
to their east, were elamites, who were probably dark-skinned, like modern indigenous indians, and who probably spoke a dravidian language. they were eventually overrun by indo-european speakers, who in turn took over mesopotamia for about a thousand years, before they were pushed out again by another northward movement of semitic tribes, called arabs.
the jews are admittedly weird. the closest thing to monotheism in the ancient world was zoroastrianism, and the sky god is a broadly indo-european motif, and certainly not a semitic one. yahweh is a skyfather - a zeus. and, some influence from the north is consequently apparent.
genetically speaking, jews - and palestinians, who are the descendants of the ancient hebrews - cluster more with caucasian groups than they do with "purer" arabs from the peninsula. they are not alone in this. the same is true of syrians and kurds. and, one must remember that hebrews have often spoken aramaic or greek rather than hebrew, which has often been a strictly liturgical language.
short of inventing a time machine, history will probably never be able fully untangle the complex syncretism that underlies jewish religion and culture - they speak a semitic language, have an indo-european religion (with deep egyptian influences) and appear to be genetically caucasian. you can make a strong argument in any direction.
but, none of this changes the archaeological record, which has found no evidence of destruction horizons, or even of large scale settlement. the archaeologists will tell you that the jews were always in canaan. and, so one must ask the question of whether it was ideas the migrated to jerusalem, rather than people.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
deathtokoalas
listen, i'm fairly sympathetic to palestinian sovereignty concerns - even if i think they're better off fighting for civil rights inside israel - but, they need to stop pretending they have any legitimate claim to jerusalem. when it was frankish knights trying to resurrect the roman empire, their arguments made sense. but, look at the name of the city. jew-rusalem. if there's anywhere in the region that should be under israeli occupation, it's this city that is the cradle of their civilization. even the muslim claims to the city are some kind of take on the jewish heritage. so, muslims the world over need to bend on this.
i understand that there isn't really anything left, if they give up jerusalem. but, the truth is that the united nations made a terrible mistake in trying to set the city up as a joint territory, and the palestinians followed the wrong tactic for decades in holding to it. they should have tried to use it as leverage, and ultimately sought abandonment. but, now, it's really too late: all they can do is exploit the demographic problem to their benefit.
gur rah
Your ignorance is towering and is based on Zionist propaganda. It's the Palestinians that has the ONLY legitimate claim to Jerusalem, which is recognized by international law and by the international community. Everyone knows that the land belong first and foremost to the people who live in it, cultivate it and have a history in it.Never in human history was a religion given the right to sovereignty. Jerusalem was named after the Jebusites, not Jews. Muslims aren't claiming Jerselum, Palestinians are, and only East Jerusalem which is universally recognized.
P. Thomas Garcia
Utter and complete nonsense. "Should be" and "under occupation" are two phrases, when met, that have no justification and amount to total nonsense, exceeded only in the attempt that one would use the name Jerusalem (misreading it and accentuating Jew) to authenticate Israeli or Jewish claim by heritage. Jerusalem predates ancient Israel and means the City of Shalim, named after a Canaanite god.
deathtokoalas
why do you idiots need to start every discussion with an ad hominem? it is your own ignorance that is staggering, and it is the idea that the jebusites and jews are different people that is zionist - and christian - propaganda. in order to accept that account of history, you have to believe that there was somebody named moses that led a tribe of escaped slaves across a desert to inhabit a land that was promised to them by god, and that is something that is utterly ridiculous on it's face. the reality is that there is no evidence that there was ever any migration into israel; the israelites are descended from the canaanites, and the jews are the jebusites.
moses never existed. joshua never existed. david never existed. and, there is no scientific evidence of any exodus from egypt, at all. all evidence suggests absolute continuity throughout the bronze and iron age, and the development of a purely local culture, from the very start. and, it follows that the most ancient inhabitants of jerusalem were the ancestors of today's jews - which are also the ancestors of today's colonized palestinians, who are in truth actually genetic hebrews.
however, there is staggering evidence - it is historical fact - that the city was conquered and colonized by arabs very early on in the muslim conquest. the arabs have no more of a legitimate claim to jerusalem than the english do to los angeles.
now, the point - which you missed entirely, in favour of kneejerking over some identity politics - i was making about jerusalem being partitioned is that the idea is unworkable. you can't split a city in half. if you want to throw around nonsensical allusions to biblical fabrications, consider the story of the judgement of solomon, where it was deduced that the rightful owner of a child is the one that would not cut it in half. it's a lot of nonsense, but i'll admit that i like this story a little better than the one where god trolls his dipshit slave into almost stabbing his son, and then glorifies the lack of critical thinking.
there is no solution in partition. there never was. there is only a recipe for conflict. and, you only support partition if what you actually want is conflict. if you want peace, you throw the idea in the trash heap of history, where it belongs.
also, i can think of lots of other examples where an area should be under occupation. and, if you'd stop to think for yourself for a moment, i'm sure you could, too.
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to be clear: it is not true that the city of jerusalem is named after jews, and that's not what i said. as jews are descended from canaanites, it could very well be true that it was named after a canaanite god by the canaanite ancestors of the modern jews, although that is really just another story and it probably isn't true. what i meant, and this is true, was that the religion of judaism was named after the city of jerusalem, even if it was mostly developed in exile from it.
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fwiw, i just did some cursory research into the etymology of 'jerusalem', and my slightly better than amateur analysis, as cursory as it is, would suggest that the common root 'ur' in the oldest references to the city suggest it was probably sumerian/caucasian in ultimate origin. this is admittedly circumstantial. but, the sumerians and their descendants, urartians, tossed this 'ur' around all over the place. and, as sketchy as the bible is as a historical document, it aligns with the basic truth that if the jews came from anywhere besides the levant, it was from modern day iraq.
al-Haider
Jessica you are really for a better lack of better word stupid as hell. How do the Palestinians how have called Jerusalem home for mellinium until the Israeli occupation stop their claim to the city. If someone came and evicted you out of your home claiming that your house once belonged to them 2000 years ago , would you give up your house and space for that ridiculous and non existing claim. BTW it's Jerusalem not jewrusalem
deathtokoalas
jerusalem had a christian phase, but, unless you're referring to the crusades, it was neither white nor on this side of a thousand years ago.
and, the palestinians do not call the city jerusalem. like all colonizing entities, they changed the name; they call it al-quds. that name change alone demonstrates the point about who is colonizing what. i don't think they should expel the palestinians, i believe in full civil rights for them as citizens of israel, but it is the idea that there is any future in a divided city that is stupid, and the unfolding of the last 70 years of history makes that abundantly clear.
i repeat: if the palestinians want peace in the region, they need to drop the idea that they have any legitimate historical claim to jerusalem as a basic pre-condition. there will not be peace here until they drop their historical delusions around this point.
there are no holy cities. there is no holy land. there is simply the cradle of an ethnic identity, which has been destroyed, paved over and colonized.
on the question of public apologies, i agree more with the elder trudeau than the younger one.
but, this is true when it comes to most things.
it's all very nice that he's sorry and everything, but i ultimately don't care if he is or not. it's easy to apologize for something that happened largely before you were born, and then exploit the optics for cynical political gain. yet, i don't even care if he does that or not: that's politics, that's how things work. what i care about is the legislation that he's writing. you want this neo-liberal pro-market slant, fine: show me the legislation. and, on that note, i'll agree that the legislation that was presented is a positive, if it helps people clear their names, for whatever use that is to them. but, i'm more interested in the present and the future than i am in the past; and the legislation exists today in the present, not in the past.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
but, this is true when it comes to most things.
it's all very nice that he's sorry and everything, but i ultimately don't care if he is or not. it's easy to apologize for something that happened largely before you were born, and then exploit the optics for cynical political gain. yet, i don't even care if he does that or not: that's politics, that's how things work. what i care about is the legislation that he's writing. you want this neo-liberal pro-market slant, fine: show me the legislation. and, on that note, i'll agree that the legislation that was presented is a positive, if it helps people clear their names, for whatever use that is to them. but, i'm more interested in the present and the future than i am in the past; and the legislation exists today in the present, not in the past.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, what happened today?
i got the discs printed, and then i realized i was out of paper, or didn't have enough paper to complete the process. so, i decided to do a compost run, only to get there and realize that they've shut it down.
i got my paper, but i haven't created any liner notes yet.
i get the keys tomorrow at 1:30, so that should give me time to ship in the morning. and, then, i'm going to be moving all night. sorry, jessica moss & ben shemie. i'm not sure what you're even up to, but you're in town on the one day this decade that i can't spend at phog. them's the cards, i guess.
i need to eat. then i'm going to shower. and then i'm actually going to throw myself back into sequence.
the ambient works got rearranged a little: i put the ambient mix of fuck boxes where it was intended to go, and replaced the version of the intersection i initially used with a more appropriate one. i also reconstructed reflections from the source; i had previously used a rip that was normalized on the burn, and that was a bad idea.
but, i'm going to actually try to get this done in sequence. i think i can.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i got the discs printed, and then i realized i was out of paper, or didn't have enough paper to complete the process. so, i decided to do a compost run, only to get there and realize that they've shut it down.
i got my paper, but i haven't created any liner notes yet.
i get the keys tomorrow at 1:30, so that should give me time to ship in the morning. and, then, i'm going to be moving all night. sorry, jessica moss & ben shemie. i'm not sure what you're even up to, but you're in town on the one day this decade that i can't spend at phog. them's the cards, i guess.
i need to eat. then i'm going to shower. and then i'm actually going to throw myself back into sequence.
the ambient works got rearranged a little: i put the ambient mix of fuck boxes where it was intended to go, and replaced the version of the intersection i initially used with a more appropriate one. i also reconstructed reflections from the source; i had previously used a rip that was normalized on the burn, and that was a bad idea.
but, i'm going to actually try to get this done in sequence. i think i can.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
ok, so today's the last day for this, until i move, so i want to finish what i'm doing.
i'm not closing the blu-ray disc, yet.
i'm not doing the guitar works (inri069), yet. the idea is developed.
i'm not closing thru, yet (inri070).
the 6th flac disc will close around here. as will the second lp only disc. it's not clear where, exactly.
i will be printing inri071 (ambient works). but i won't finalize it until it gets to sequence.
i will be printing inri072 (reflections), but i won't finalize it until it gets to sequence.
i'm not closing the chamber works, yet (inri073).
i will be printing inri074 (reflections).
the numbers are finally clear. that's what i needed to print the parts at the end.
this order isn't completely done yet. he overpaid for shipping, and he bought two items twice, so he'll get another shipment, after i move.
but i need to get this out...
i might get the keys today. if i do, i'll need to get this going. if i don't, i'll start filling i the pieces this evening.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i'm not closing the blu-ray disc, yet.
i'm not doing the guitar works (inri069), yet. the idea is developed.
i'm not closing thru, yet (inri070).
the 6th flac disc will close around here. as will the second lp only disc. it's not clear where, exactly.
i will be printing inri071 (ambient works). but i won't finalize it until it gets to sequence.
i will be printing inri072 (reflections), but i won't finalize it until it gets to sequence.
i'm not closing the chamber works, yet (inri073).
i will be printing inri074 (reflections).
the numbers are finally clear. that's what i needed to print the parts at the end.
this order isn't completely done yet. he overpaid for shipping, and he bought two items twice, so he'll get another shipment, after i move.
but i need to get this out...
i might get the keys today. if i do, i'll need to get this going. if i don't, i'll start filling i the pieces this evening.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Monday, November 27, 2017
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to put it more explicitly: when big government serves the interests of people, that's called democracy. and, my anarchist vision would be minor tweaks, not large changes. anarchists believe in assemblies and collective action. so, we could usually use some more democracy. but, we don't really need to change it if it works.
but, when big government serves the interests of capital, that's called fascism, and it ought to be dismantled.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
but, when big government serves the interests of capital, that's called fascism, and it ought to be dismantled.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i was actually vocally unimpressed by elizabeth warren's work in setting up a ready-made institution for capture, with the cpfb. these things always end the same way.
if you set up a bureau to regulate fox access to the hen house, you can be guaranteed that it will be taken over by foxes within the decade. it doesn't matter what it is. it's really the last thing you want to do, if you want to hold people accountable - because the history is so crystal clear on the point. any financial protection bureau will inevitably become the banker protection bureau. and, then what you've done is give them a tool to further their own power with.
i know there were people pointing to this as the reason elizabeth warren should have run for president, but in my mind there were only two possible explanations: (1) this was designed for eventual takeover by the banking industry or (2) it's an example of extremely poor judgement. either way, it struck me as disqualifying.
but, that's why i'm an anarchist, and not a "progressive".
i don't think you get around a system of exploitation by policing the people with power. i think you have to tear the system down, and you're just running on a hamster wheel until you figure it out.
we'll actually be lucky if trump dismantles this. that's the least damaging outcome.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
if you set up a bureau to regulate fox access to the hen house, you can be guaranteed that it will be taken over by foxes within the decade. it doesn't matter what it is. it's really the last thing you want to do, if you want to hold people accountable - because the history is so crystal clear on the point. any financial protection bureau will inevitably become the banker protection bureau. and, then what you've done is give them a tool to further their own power with.
i know there were people pointing to this as the reason elizabeth warren should have run for president, but in my mind there were only two possible explanations: (1) this was designed for eventual takeover by the banking industry or (2) it's an example of extremely poor judgement. either way, it struck me as disqualifying.
but, that's why i'm an anarchist, and not a "progressive".
i don't think you get around a system of exploitation by policing the people with power. i think you have to tear the system down, and you're just running on a hamster wheel until you figure it out.
we'll actually be lucky if trump dismantles this. that's the least damaging outcome.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
publishing inri068
in the
summer of 2013, two formative things happened at almost exactly the same
time: my father died after a lengthy battle with brain cancer and i
moved from ottawa, ontario to windsor, ontario. they were within a week
from each other; my father died while i was camped out in a tim horton's
on tecumseh, waiting to sign a lease and catch a bus back 'home'. but,
dad was really the only remaining thing that made ottawa home, in the
first place.
the reasons underlying my move were legitimate, if somewhat forced. my gear was stored in my father's garage, and i had been given notice that i would not be able to keep it there more than a moment past his death. my stepmother and i haven't spoken since. i legitimately couldn't find anything in ottawa, so finding the place in windsor was actually somewhat of a stroke of luck, given the urgency of the situation. i had hitched down there to meet friends, but in the end they couldn't sign a lease, so i went by myself.
the culmination of occurrences had me in the mindset of fresh beginnings. i finally had a stable income source on odsp, and a new apartment in a new city. so, i almost immediately set about completing all of the music that i had been putting aside for so long, in preparation for my own imminent demise, relative to the immense expanse that is time.
through whatever coincidence, i am permanently closing my second period during the week that i am being evicted from this same apartment, for the supposed reason of personal use. this apartment will consequently forever be associated with the completion of my second period.
yet, the bulk of the work done in this apartment - through immense difficulties with malfunctioning gear, questionable electrical outlets and a probable atmospheric magnetic field - has been in the realm of (re)mixing, orchestrating, programming and rearranging. it was just the nature of what needed to be done around an assortment of midi compositions and flat mixes from the early 00s. the really heavy lifting in completing my discography will come in finishing the third period, which i will not start until i move into a new apartment, around the corner from here.
with the exception of two vocal tracks (for inri020 and inri062), this disc is a comprehensive document of what was actually written as it was being recorded in the basement at 805 marion ave, in windsor, ontario, canada, in the form of a collection of overdub mixes that can be pasted on top of the existing demos in order to create the final products. it is mostly guitar and bass tracks, but also includes some orchestral and other sequencing and some electronic drum parts. everything else that was done in this basement was either created from existing sound or was constructed from existing midi instructions, however elaborately and however abstractly.
in hindsight, i can state with some force that this basement is not well suited for a recording studio. yet, these problems will be forever embedded within my own history, as well.
with those words, my tenure here ends. so long.
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. this compilation is dated to nov 27, 2017; disc simultaneously created and finalized as lp017 on nov 27, 2017. 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 (2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
the reasons underlying my move were legitimate, if somewhat forced. my gear was stored in my father's garage, and i had been given notice that i would not be able to keep it there more than a moment past his death. my stepmother and i haven't spoken since. i legitimately couldn't find anything in ottawa, so finding the place in windsor was actually somewhat of a stroke of luck, given the urgency of the situation. i had hitched down there to meet friends, but in the end they couldn't sign a lease, so i went by myself.
the culmination of occurrences had me in the mindset of fresh beginnings. i finally had a stable income source on odsp, and a new apartment in a new city. so, i almost immediately set about completing all of the music that i had been putting aside for so long, in preparation for my own imminent demise, relative to the immense expanse that is time.
through whatever coincidence, i am permanently closing my second period during the week that i am being evicted from this same apartment, for the supposed reason of personal use. this apartment will consequently forever be associated with the completion of my second period.
yet, the bulk of the work done in this apartment - through immense difficulties with malfunctioning gear, questionable electrical outlets and a probable atmospheric magnetic field - has been in the realm of (re)mixing, orchestrating, programming and rearranging. it was just the nature of what needed to be done around an assortment of midi compositions and flat mixes from the early 00s. the really heavy lifting in completing my discography will come in finishing the third period, which i will not start until i move into a new apartment, around the corner from here.
with the exception of two vocal tracks (for inri020 and inri062), this disc is a comprehensive document of what was actually written as it was being recorded in the basement at 805 marion ave, in windsor, ontario, canada, in the form of a collection of overdub mixes that can be pasted on top of the existing demos in order to create the final products. it is mostly guitar and bass tracks, but also includes some orchestral and other sequencing and some electronic drum parts. everything else that was done in this basement was either created from existing sound or was constructed from existing midi instructions, however elaborately and however abstractly.
in hindsight, i can state with some force that this basement is not well suited for a recording studio. yet, these problems will be forever embedded within my own history, as well.
with those words, my tenure here ends. so long.
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. this compilation is dated to nov 27, 2017; disc simultaneously created and finalized as lp017 on nov 27, 2017. 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 (2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
credits
released April 24, 2003
j - electric guitars, digital & analog effects & treatments, bass, synthesizers, electric air reed organ, drum & other sampling, drum programming, drum manipulations, electronic drum kit, orchestral & other sequencing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, digital wave editing, voice, production, composition.
greg - drum performance sample source (2)
the rendered electronic orchestra includes at least one of each of the following: violin, viola, cello, contrabass, koto, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, agogo, tubular bells, glockenspiel, piano, melodic toms, timpani, orchestral hit, orchestral drum set and various full string sections. it also includes choir.
j - electric guitars, digital & analog effects & treatments, bass, synthesizers, electric air reed organ, drum & other sampling, drum programming, drum manipulations, electronic drum kit, orchestral & other sequencing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, digital wave editing, voice, production, composition.
greg - drum performance sample source (2)
the rendered electronic orchestra includes at least one of each of the following: violin, viola, cello, contrabass, koto, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, agogo, tubular bells, glockenspiel, piano, melodic toms, timpani, orchestral hit, orchestral drum set and various full string sections. it also includes choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, is al franken doing this right?
well, he knows he can't stand there and call people liars. and, he's right: he can't do that. i can do that. his friends can do that. but, he's a senator - he can't do that. it's maybe a little counter-intuitive, but it's absolutely correct. he'd get eaten alive if he tried that.
i still kind of think he should do it, though. to me, that is a matter of principle: to call a spade a spade. and, maybe somebody else could do it convincingly. but, this isn't a politically palatable option for most politicians, and i didn't expect him to do it.
instead, he needs to say things like "i don't remember it that way" and "i'm sorry if she felt that way" and let people connect the dots.
what he's saying is he needs to be more careful. and, he's right about that, too. all his opponents need is a picture of him touching somebody to fabricate an anonymous accusation. and, there's no doubt thousands such pictures out there. nor are the people out to get him likely to stop, either. he needs to ensure that he isn't handing his opponents any more 'evidence' they can use against him. he needs to be walking around in an imaginary ten foot bubble for the rest of his political life.
the rest of the world should realize that they need to be more careful, too - any picture of anybody touching anybody could be framed this way.
so, is he doing this right? from the perspective of his brand, maybe. but, in the end, there might not be a way for al franken to do this right.
at least, it should be acknowledged that he's mostly produced a set of tautologies, and that these are tautologies that almost everybody can learn something from.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
well, he knows he can't stand there and call people liars. and, he's right: he can't do that. i can do that. his friends can do that. but, he's a senator - he can't do that. it's maybe a little counter-intuitive, but it's absolutely correct. he'd get eaten alive if he tried that.
i still kind of think he should do it, though. to me, that is a matter of principle: to call a spade a spade. and, maybe somebody else could do it convincingly. but, this isn't a politically palatable option for most politicians, and i didn't expect him to do it.
instead, he needs to say things like "i don't remember it that way" and "i'm sorry if she felt that way" and let people connect the dots.
what he's saying is he needs to be more careful. and, he's right about that, too. all his opponents need is a picture of him touching somebody to fabricate an anonymous accusation. and, there's no doubt thousands such pictures out there. nor are the people out to get him likely to stop, either. he needs to ensure that he isn't handing his opponents any more 'evidence' they can use against him. he needs to be walking around in an imaginary ten foot bubble for the rest of his political life.
the rest of the world should realize that they need to be more careful, too - any picture of anybody touching anybody could be framed this way.
so, is he doing this right? from the perspective of his brand, maybe. but, in the end, there might not be a way for al franken to do this right.
at least, it should be acknowledged that he's mostly produced a set of tautologies, and that these are tautologies that almost everybody can learn something from.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
ok, i got it up as a stub.
to be continued...
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/percussive-works
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
to be continued...
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/percussive-works
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i didn't get as much as i wanted done yesterday, but the situation remains the same: i need to ship either tonight or tomorrow morning, probably tomorrow morning, and absolutely still can finish before then.
if not, i guess i'll have a few items to ship next week.
the only other thing i need to do before i move is a compost run. and, worst case, i could always do it after i move. i don't want to do that, though; i want the compost out tomorrow.
it's not year clear what inri068 is going to be. but, i've just pushed the percussive works forward. i feel like the material i've compiled for this is very strong, but there's only a half hour of it. this can and should be an epic release, but it just needs more material in order to bring it there. the beginning of the ninth symphony, as well as an unreleased track from early 2007 called 'the crash', should effectively add to this release. so, i'm planning to release this at the end of period 3, instead. period 3 will run from summer, 2003 to spring, 2007.
if there weren't existing ideas in the discography to flesh this out, i'd consider releasing it as an ep. but, there actually are good ideas to explore for this, and the end result will be better if i wait it out.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard
if not, i guess i'll have a few items to ship next week.
the only other thing i need to do before i move is a compost run. and, worst case, i could always do it after i move. i don't want to do that, though; i want the compost out tomorrow.
it's not year clear what inri068 is going to be. but, i've just pushed the percussive works forward. i feel like the material i've compiled for this is very strong, but there's only a half hour of it. this can and should be an epic release, but it just needs more material in order to bring it there. the beginning of the ninth symphony, as well as an unreleased track from early 2007 called 'the crash', should effectively add to this release. so, i'm planning to release this at the end of period 3, instead. period 3 will run from summer, 2003 to spring, 2007.
if there weren't existing ideas in the discography to flesh this out, i'd consider releasing it as an ep. but, there actually are good ideas to explore for this, and the end result will be better if i wait it out.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard
Sunday, November 26, 2017
publishing inri067
the ftaa project, much like it's namesake, was never an idea that was carefully developed, which is very much an anomaly in this discography, where almost everything is developed at such a microscopic level of detail. the idea initially developed as a means to protest the government's response to the 9/11 attacks, from what most people would identify as a libertarian perspective. however, rabit is wolf ended up becoming my main focus in that period, instead, and by the time i got back to the idea, the initial impetus had largely stalled. all activism was necessarily diverted to stopping the war....
....but, i also found myself in a much different reality, starting in late 2002. for the first (and only) time in my life, i had a partner, and it took away most of the time that i would have otherwise spent on music production. on top of that, i found myself working long hours in order both to maintain a dating lifestyle and to deal with real world expenses that the relationship created, and i hadn't ever had to deal with before. i did create some music over 2003, but my head was almost entirely inside of this relationship.
the ftaa project initially completed in may of 2004 and was composed of some of the parts of this recording plus an anti-war song. it will re-release in that space as my 7th record, but as an instrumental recording like the rest of them, thereby jettisoning both these sample collages to their respective singles and the idea of a record of sample collages altogether.
i considered re-releasing the ftaa project as a double with the samples on the other side, but there's something asynchronous about this that i don't like. further, in hindsight, i ended up putting the deny everything recording through more or less the same process, so it makes more sense to combine the jettisoned tracks together into an outtakes disc, and release it at the end of the second period.
another way to look at this recording is to interpret it as a reaction to the presidency of george w. bush, and i've left the tracks in chronological order for that reason. the first two tracks were initially on deny everything (inri041) and have the thematic unity of being a warning regarding the bush presidency, even if the trudeau character sounds more like trump, in the year 2017. the next two tracks were an explicit reaction to the 9/11 attacks. the fifth track takes those ideas to their conclusion, in exploring the thesis that the attacks were the catalyst to end the period of liberal democracy in the united states, and potentially also in it's satellites, and usher in a period of totalitarian rule. as of 2017, that process appears to be nearing it's completion.
so, this is really the actualization of the intent behind the ftaa project, even if it isn't quite in the form that it was initially released in. as such, it should be viewed as almost an official record - despite the overlap and the historical revisionism.
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. this compilation is dated to nov 26, 2017; disc simultaneously created and finalized as lp016 on nov 26, 2017. 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 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2017).
....but, i also found myself in a much different reality, starting in late 2002. for the first (and only) time in my life, i had a partner, and it took away most of the time that i would have otherwise spent on music production. on top of that, i found myself working long hours in order both to maintain a dating lifestyle and to deal with real world expenses that the relationship created, and i hadn't ever had to deal with before. i did create some music over 2003, but my head was almost entirely inside of this relationship.
the ftaa project initially completed in may of 2004 and was composed of some of the parts of this recording plus an anti-war song. it will re-release in that space as my 7th record, but as an instrumental recording like the rest of them, thereby jettisoning both these sample collages to their respective singles and the idea of a record of sample collages altogether.
i considered re-releasing the ftaa project as a double with the samples on the other side, but there's something asynchronous about this that i don't like. further, in hindsight, i ended up putting the deny everything recording through more or less the same process, so it makes more sense to combine the jettisoned tracks together into an outtakes disc, and release it at the end of the second period.
another way to look at this recording is to interpret it as a reaction to the presidency of george w. bush, and i've left the tracks in chronological order for that reason. the first two tracks were initially on deny everything (inri041) and have the thematic unity of being a warning regarding the bush presidency, even if the trudeau character sounds more like trump, in the year 2017. the next two tracks were an explicit reaction to the 9/11 attacks. the fifth track takes those ideas to their conclusion, in exploring the thesis that the attacks were the catalyst to end the period of liberal democracy in the united states, and potentially also in it's satellites, and usher in a period of totalitarian rule. as of 2017, that process appears to be nearing it's completion.
so, this is really the actualization of the intent behind the ftaa project, even if it isn't quite in the form that it was initially released in. as such, it should be viewed as almost an official record - despite the overlap and the historical revisionism.
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. this compilation is dated to nov 26, 2017; disc simultaneously created and finalized as lp016 on nov 26, 2017. 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 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2017).
credits
released April 23, 2003
j - guitars (electric, nylon, acoustic), mandolin, electric bass, digital & analog effects processing, synths, sampling, pythagorean sequencing (sounder), drum and other programming, drum manipulations, drum kit, voice, flute, sound design, sound raider, noise generators, cool edit sequencing, digital wave editing, composition, production
sean - ring modulator (5)
greg - drum performance sample source (5)
j - guitars (electric, nylon, acoustic), mandolin, electric bass, digital & analog effects processing, synths, sampling, pythagorean sequencing (sounder), drum and other programming, drum manipulations, drum kit, voice, flute, sound design, sound raider, noise generators, cool edit sequencing, digital wave editing, composition, production
sean - ring modulator (5)
greg - drum performance sample source (5)
publishing inri066
when i sat
down to complete my discography in 2013, one of the ideas that
immediately jumped out was to try and reinterpret some of the inri
tracks from the late 1990s as modern pieces. as i believed that my
source tapes were unusable at the time (which i eventually realized was
not the case - see inri024), the conditions for this being a workable
project would need to be the existence of the original drum tracks,
along with the existence of some midi files.
i was gifted my ry30 in the summer of 1997 to compensate for the loss of my drum kit and studio space, but i did not have any recording gear again until christmas. so, i spent the fall programming the drum machine and teaching myself the basics of sequencing and sound design, using the primitive tools i had available to me. by the time i got my four track, as well as my jx-8p, the ry30 was full, and re-recording my first songs was just a matter of transferring the completed material from the electronic equipment to tape. so, i initially considered making a companion ep to inrisampled that would document my time spent programming the ry30 along with my time sent learning how to manipulate sound. the difference between the drum tracks at this stage and the initial collage experiments, however, is that the drum tracks were not complete songs. so, this was abandoned due to the product being a little dry. but, i still wanted to make an ep around the ry30, perhaps by orchestrating the existing companion midi tracks.
this idea then quickly merged with what would become thru (inri069) and eventually discarded itself within itself when it was realized that the existing midi files for the 90s material were too sparse to really utilize, especially in comparison to the midi files from the early 00s. thru was deleted and then resuscitated over the course of 2014 and 2015, eventually releasing in mid 2015 as a 2001-2003 project, leaving the 90s material in the dustbin of my own history.
it was in june, 2015 that i realized that the source tapes were usable after all, and cycled back around to the beginning of the reconstruction in order to complete the relevant tracks as instrumental pieces. this idea kind of recreated itself in the nature of the source tapes, as i had bounced all of the electronics together into the same channel as a mixing step, back in the 90s. so, i found myself with these ready-to-publish electronic tracks right off the tape that incorporated a combination of the ry30 tracks, jx-8p parts, soundblaster programs, zoom 1010 noises and cool edit experiments. all they really needed was a little attention on the mastering.
i flipped this over, in the end: what each of these tracks are is their final album mixes, with the guitar and bass parts deleted (unless the bass was done on a synthesizer). so, there was some post-production added over 2015 in the form of updated soundfonts, digital mastering and digital effects processing. but, these are really flourishes on the existing tracks.
it was at the end of dec, 2015 that further similar electronics-only ry30-centric remixes were creating for some later songs, as well, thereby filling out the disc and closing the project.
i sold my ry30 in may, 2003 to raise money to go to british columbia. my logic was that i'd really maximized what i was going to get out of it, and that i'd already discarded it, anyways: by that time, i'd been writing drum parts in the scorewriter for a few years already, and had barely touched the ry30 in a long time. but, i regret that decision, in hindsight. and, i expect to pick up another one, one day.
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 on physical media, closed and finalized on nov 26, 2017. 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 (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
i was gifted my ry30 in the summer of 1997 to compensate for the loss of my drum kit and studio space, but i did not have any recording gear again until christmas. so, i spent the fall programming the drum machine and teaching myself the basics of sequencing and sound design, using the primitive tools i had available to me. by the time i got my four track, as well as my jx-8p, the ry30 was full, and re-recording my first songs was just a matter of transferring the completed material from the electronic equipment to tape. so, i initially considered making a companion ep to inrisampled that would document my time spent programming the ry30 along with my time sent learning how to manipulate sound. the difference between the drum tracks at this stage and the initial collage experiments, however, is that the drum tracks were not complete songs. so, this was abandoned due to the product being a little dry. but, i still wanted to make an ep around the ry30, perhaps by orchestrating the existing companion midi tracks.
this idea then quickly merged with what would become thru (inri069) and eventually discarded itself within itself when it was realized that the existing midi files for the 90s material were too sparse to really utilize, especially in comparison to the midi files from the early 00s. thru was deleted and then resuscitated over the course of 2014 and 2015, eventually releasing in mid 2015 as a 2001-2003 project, leaving the 90s material in the dustbin of my own history.
it was in june, 2015 that i realized that the source tapes were usable after all, and cycled back around to the beginning of the reconstruction in order to complete the relevant tracks as instrumental pieces. this idea kind of recreated itself in the nature of the source tapes, as i had bounced all of the electronics together into the same channel as a mixing step, back in the 90s. so, i found myself with these ready-to-publish electronic tracks right off the tape that incorporated a combination of the ry30 tracks, jx-8p parts, soundblaster programs, zoom 1010 noises and cool edit experiments. all they really needed was a little attention on the mastering.
i flipped this over, in the end: what each of these tracks are is their final album mixes, with the guitar and bass parts deleted (unless the bass was done on a synthesizer). so, there was some post-production added over 2015 in the form of updated soundfonts, digital mastering and digital effects processing. but, these are really flourishes on the existing tracks.
it was at the end of dec, 2015 that further similar electronics-only ry30-centric remixes were creating for some later songs, as well, thereby filling out the disc and closing the project.
i sold my ry30 in may, 2003 to raise money to go to british columbia. my logic was that i'd really maximized what i was going to get out of it, and that i'd already discarded it, anyways: by that time, i'd been writing drum parts in the scorewriter for a few years already, and had barely touched the ry30 in a long time. but, i regret that decision, in hindsight. and, i expect to pick up another one, one day.
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 on physical media, closed and finalized on nov 26, 2017. 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 (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
credits
released April 26, 2003
j - drum & other programming, orchestral & other sequencing, guitar effects, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, synthesizers, loops, vocal noises & relics, sampling, sound design, production
the various rendered electronic orchestras include organ, sitar, bells, synthesizer effects, tuba, saxophone, flute, clarinet, orchestra hit, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections.
j - drum & other programming, orchestral & other sequencing, guitar effects, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, synthesizers, loops, vocal noises & relics, sampling, sound design, production
the various rendered electronic orchestras include organ, sitar, bells, synthesizer effects, tuba, saxophone, flute, clarinet, orchestra hit, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, i printed inri065 yesterday, which permanently closes (subject to
the eventual completion of the liner notes in the alter-reality) the
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj phase, even as it opens the trivial group phase.
what's left is the string of compilations, and i need to get the bulk of this done by tomorrow so i can ship on monday. i have to ship on monday, dammit.
this is the remaining sequence, for april, 2003.
april 22nd : 66 is the ry30 disc, which just needs liner notes.
april 23rd: 67 will probably be a sample collage disc, and will take the place of the ftaa disc (although the ftaa disc will still release, instrumental, in may, 2004)
april 24th: 68 will be a guitar works of some sort, but the parameters are unclear.
april 25th: i will finish the blu-ray disc one of these days. 25 gb of flac files. around $750. not entirely comprehensive of periods 1&2 but close.
april 26th: there will also be another flac disc closing around here, too.
april 27th: inri069 is thru, the midi disc.
april 28th: inri070 is the ambient works.
april 29th: inri071 is the orchestral works.
april 30th: inri072 is the chamber works
may 1st: inri073 is reflections.
the drone disc will almost certainly push forwards to the end of period 3. i might still make room for a percussion disc, but it will probably push forward. the piano works will push forward. as will the next vocal disc. and, i'm going to need some shape for 'genesis', as well.
this all has to be worked out in the next 24 hours.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
what's left is the string of compilations, and i need to get the bulk of this done by tomorrow so i can ship on monday. i have to ship on monday, dammit.
this is the remaining sequence, for april, 2003.
april 22nd : 66 is the ry30 disc, which just needs liner notes.
april 23rd: 67 will probably be a sample collage disc, and will take the place of the ftaa disc (although the ftaa disc will still release, instrumental, in may, 2004)
april 24th: 68 will be a guitar works of some sort, but the parameters are unclear.
april 25th: i will finish the blu-ray disc one of these days. 25 gb of flac files. around $750. not entirely comprehensive of periods 1&2 but close.
april 26th: there will also be another flac disc closing around here, too.
april 27th: inri069 is thru, the midi disc.
april 28th: inri070 is the ambient works.
april 29th: inri071 is the orchestral works.
april 30th: inri072 is the chamber works
may 1st: inri073 is reflections.
the drone disc will almost certainly push forwards to the end of period 3. i might still make room for a percussion disc, but it will probably push forward. the piano works will push forward. as will the next vocal disc. and, i'm going to need some shape for 'genesis', as well.
this all has to be worked out in the next 24 hours.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Saturday, November 25, 2017
purchasing
this release comes with the immediate download of the release that you
linked to it off of. be sure you make the right choice.
inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri049: written and recorded in the fall of 2001. compiled on sept 6, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 20-21, 2017.
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. republished without modification in 2014. on oct 23, 2017, the poem was added to the disc as an introduction to the track and the disc was subsequently closed and finalized as symph006 and lp012.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing 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.
inri058: written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes (from 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and an expansion from two cds to four cds. disc finalized as symph007 on nov 12, 2017.
inri059: written and recorded in late 2001 and the first half of 2002. mildly remixed in november, 2014 to make the tracks more presentable; nothing substantial was altered, and no new sound was recorded. final mixes were on november 19, 2014. disc released on physical media and finalized as inri059 on nov 14, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 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. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
inri065: written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2003. this compilation is dated to april 21, 2003. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri049: written and recorded in the fall of 2001. compiled on sept 6, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 20-21, 2017.
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. republished without modification in 2014. on oct 23, 2017, the poem was added to the disc as an introduction to the track and the disc was subsequently closed and finalized as symph006 and lp012.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing 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.
inri058: written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes (from 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and an expansion from two cds to four cds. disc finalized as symph007 on nov 12, 2017.
inri059: written and recorded in late 2001 and the first half of 2002. mildly remixed in november, 2014 to make the tracks more presentable; nothing substantial was altered, and no new sound was recorded. final mixes were on november 19, 2014. disc released on physical media and finalized as inri059 on nov 14, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 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. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
inri065: written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2003. this compilation is dated to april 21, 2003. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
credits
released April 21, 2003
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, bowls, claps, tables, e-bow, production
sean - vocals (inri048-inri049, inri053-inri059, inri061), harmonica (inri054, inri057), ring modulator (inri057-inri058), vocal concept (inri062) .
jon - guitar performance (inri048-inri049, inri057)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056-inri058)
bob - hammering (inri058)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, fingered bass guitar, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, brass section, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean, bowed & picked), acoustic guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), synthesizer, synthesizer effects, synth pad, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, mallet, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, celesta, xylophone, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, bowls, claps, tables, e-bow, production
sean - vocals (inri048-inri049, inri053-inri059, inri061), harmonica (inri054, inri057), ring modulator (inri057-inri058), vocal concept (inri062) .
jon - guitar performance (inri048-inri049, inri057)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056-inri058)
bob - hammering (inri058)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, fingered bass guitar, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, brass section, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean, bowed & picked), acoustic guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), synthesizer, synthesizer effects, synth pad, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, mallet, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, celesta, xylophone, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
some time
in late 2002, sean sent me a message over msn or icq requesting that we
begin a song based on looped birds chirping. i thought his idea was kind
of cliched, but i took to working around his suggestions by converting
them into something more musically expressive. i didn't want to write a
song that literally climaxes around birds chirping, but i was willing to
write something tonal that evoked the feeling of birds chirping.
at the time, i had my sister's electronic piano downstairs. she had a miniature grand upstairs. it was initially written on the keyboard with a very strange timing, which the scorewriter had difficulties capturing - partly because i was inconsistent in performing it. the piece was greatly simplified as it was arranged.
however, i believe the piece sat for a long time before the second section was added to it.
sean and i didn't talk much over the next few months, and the truth is that i just never brought this piece up to him. by the time it was finished, i had firmly placed it in my successor project, the trivial group. it was initially dedicated to sean as a part of the going away disc (reflections), but that's really as close as this ever got to being a rabit tune.
i don't have clear memories around composing it, although circumstantial evidence makes it very likely that this happened in the late winter and early spring of 2003. i vaguely recall playing it on the grand upstairs, which could have only happened after sarah moved home to the outer suburbs to get ready for the trip. this was around march. i do remember recording the guitar parts and percussion parts, and am convinced this was in the spring due to memories of the spring sun hitting the bowls. the april 20th date may be a little late, but i have every reason to believe that this was not finished until after exams that year.
the percussion sections in the track are notable. the metallic sounds were created by smashing cutlery into a metal bowl, whereas the woody sounds were created by "playing" a pen on a desk. the track also includes hand claps.
these percussion parts were not notated until 2015. this was a careful, lengthy process that required a lot of careful listening, and a bit of napkin math. notating the percussion allowed for a more comprehensive exploration of the track over midi.
i've included the midi files of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.
written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the title track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
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 (2003, 2015, 2017).
*download only
at the time, i had my sister's electronic piano downstairs. she had a miniature grand upstairs. it was initially written on the keyboard with a very strange timing, which the scorewriter had difficulties capturing - partly because i was inconsistent in performing it. the piece was greatly simplified as it was arranged.
however, i believe the piece sat for a long time before the second section was added to it.
sean and i didn't talk much over the next few months, and the truth is that i just never brought this piece up to him. by the time it was finished, i had firmly placed it in my successor project, the trivial group. it was initially dedicated to sean as a part of the going away disc (reflections), but that's really as close as this ever got to being a rabit tune.
i don't have clear memories around composing it, although circumstantial evidence makes it very likely that this happened in the late winter and early spring of 2003. i vaguely recall playing it on the grand upstairs, which could have only happened after sarah moved home to the outer suburbs to get ready for the trip. this was around march. i do remember recording the guitar parts and percussion parts, and am convinced this was in the spring due to memories of the spring sun hitting the bowls. the april 20th date may be a little late, but i have every reason to believe that this was not finished until after exams that year.
the percussion sections in the track are notable. the metallic sounds were created by smashing cutlery into a metal bowl, whereas the woody sounds were created by "playing" a pen on a desk. the track also includes hand claps.
these percussion parts were not notated until 2015. this was a careful, lengthy process that required a lot of careful listening, and a bit of napkin math. notating the percussion allowed for a more comprehensive exploration of the track over midi.
i've included the midi files of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.
written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the title track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
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 (2003, 2015, 2017).
*download only
credits
released April 20, 2003
j - guitars, effects, bass, synth, voice, bowls, claps, tables, ebow, orchestral sequencing, drum & other programming, loops, digital wave editing, composition, production.
the various rendered electronic orchestras include synth pad, synth bass, synthesizer, mellotron, fingered bass guitar, picked electric guitar, bowed electric guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), violin, viola, contrabass, cello, string section, brass section, piano, celesta, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tubular bells, woodblock, mallet, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum kit and choir.
j - guitars, effects, bass, synth, voice, bowls, claps, tables, ebow, orchestral sequencing, drum & other programming, loops, digital wave editing, composition, production.
the various rendered electronic orchestras include synth pad, synth bass, synthesizer, mellotron, fingered bass guitar, picked electric guitar, bowed electric guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), violin, viola, contrabass, cello, string section, brass section, piano, celesta, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tubular bells, woodblock, mallet, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum kit and choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
see, what's wrong with this piece is that the author is making it seem like the racist undertones in indigenous norse religion are different than exist in other religions. it's absolutely correct to point out that this religion is racist. but, an astute reader should see the parallels with other religions, rather than attempt to draw a set of false contrasts.
so, what the indigenous european religion was about was ancestor worship. as one of the people interviewed points out, it wouldn't make sense for an african or a japanese person to sit around and worship dead vikings. nor would it make any sense for a german to worship dead japanese people - despite the fact that the indigenous japanese religion is, in fact, also about ancestor worship, as are many of the indigenous african religions.
the muslims don't worship their ancestors. but, a non-muslim in a muslim society is to be treated as a second-class citizen - this is almost verbatim, from their religious texts. it's a totally racist religion. judaism attaches itself to an ethnicity and claims that ethnicity is god's chosen ethnicity, then casts out the rest of the world as gentiles. the greeks saw the rest of the world as barbarians. the caste system in india is mostly ethnic-based. buddhists aren't any better, either.
the only religion that i can think of that isn't inherently racist is christianity, and it was probably a lot more racist to start with, before it was co-opted by the roman authorities and used as a means of counter-acting racism. but, the roman empire was a confederacy of disparate peoples, put together only partly through conquest and partly through the peaceful transfer of property; when you inherit a territory as an advanced and civilized culture, that is different than conquering it while still in a phase of barbarism. so, christians are weird, all around.
and, christians, themselves, can certainly be racist, despite the strangeness of their religion, in comparison to others, on the topic.
so, yeah - norse religion is racist. like all the other religions. because that's what religion is really all about.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qbxpp5/how-a-thor-worshipping-religion-turned-racist-456
so, what the indigenous european religion was about was ancestor worship. as one of the people interviewed points out, it wouldn't make sense for an african or a japanese person to sit around and worship dead vikings. nor would it make any sense for a german to worship dead japanese people - despite the fact that the indigenous japanese religion is, in fact, also about ancestor worship, as are many of the indigenous african religions.
the muslims don't worship their ancestors. but, a non-muslim in a muslim society is to be treated as a second-class citizen - this is almost verbatim, from their religious texts. it's a totally racist religion. judaism attaches itself to an ethnicity and claims that ethnicity is god's chosen ethnicity, then casts out the rest of the world as gentiles. the greeks saw the rest of the world as barbarians. the caste system in india is mostly ethnic-based. buddhists aren't any better, either.
the only religion that i can think of that isn't inherently racist is christianity, and it was probably a lot more racist to start with, before it was co-opted by the roman authorities and used as a means of counter-acting racism. but, the roman empire was a confederacy of disparate peoples, put together only partly through conquest and partly through the peaceful transfer of property; when you inherit a territory as an advanced and civilized culture, that is different than conquering it while still in a phase of barbarism. so, christians are weird, all around.
and, christians, themselves, can certainly be racist, despite the strangeness of their religion, in comparison to others, on the topic.
so, yeah - norse religion is racist. like all the other religions. because that's what religion is really all about.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qbxpp5/how-a-thor-worshipping-religion-turned-racist-456
again: people that push back against religion because it's oppressive aren't racists. they are liberals. generally, liberals are critical of religion.
and, people that stand up for religion on grounds of constitutional rights aren't liberals. they are conservatives. generally, conservatives are deferential to religion.
further, people that use race to divide for political purposes aren't conservatives. they're fascists. generally, fascists pick one religion over the others, and pit the adherents of that religion against everybody else.
any questions?
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and, people that stand up for religion on grounds of constitutional rights aren't liberals. they are conservatives. generally, conservatives are deferential to religion.
further, people that use race to divide for political purposes aren't conservatives. they're fascists. generally, fascists pick one religion over the others, and pit the adherents of that religion against everybody else.
any questions?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
ok, let's revisit.
1) the democratic party is the party of conservatives and progressives, which are more or less the same thing. they have never been a liberal party.
2) the republican party is a party of absolute nihilists that advocate some kind of soft fascism. they are not conservatives, but they are historically a liberal party.
3) there are, today, liberals scattered across both parties, in extreme minorities.
4) socialism is dead.
the existing choice in the united states is between conservatism and fascism.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
1) the democratic party is the party of conservatives and progressives, which are more or less the same thing. they have never been a liberal party.
2) the republican party is a party of absolute nihilists that advocate some kind of soft fascism. they are not conservatives, but they are historically a liberal party.
3) there are, today, liberals scattered across both parties, in extreme minorities.
4) socialism is dead.
the existing choice in the united states is between conservatism and fascism.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Friday, November 24, 2017
so, i called the worker at 8:31 and she told me everything is going through.
i called the landlord after noon, and she told me everything will be fine.....but i have to wait until the 29th.
i can't tell my existing landlord that i'm moving until i get the keys.
i have until the 4th to file the appeal, if this collapses. but, i can technically afford first & last month's rent on the 30th, regardless, so it's hard to see what's going to happen besides my new landlord bailing on the deal.
i put my fridge up on kijiji, but i'm wondering if it might be more efficient than what's there. i didn't really check. it's a very big fridge, but it's decently efficient for it's size - it's 700 kwh/year, which is about 60 kwh/month. if the fridge in the unit is very old, i might be better off bringing this one.
with the discount i'm getting, my energy budget is about 250 kwh/month - if i go over that, i start having to actually pay. given that i don't use the stove or the air conditioning, and i'm not paying for heat or hot water, i actually don't think i'll have much to worry about in at least keeping it under 300 kwh/month, which would be about a $10/month charge.
i've never had to pay electricity before, but there's so much hysteria around it that i wasn't going to find anything all inclusive. and, like i say, with the rebate, i'm almost better off with it separated from the rent. the rebate was really the key point, though. if that rebate collapses i might even have to move. but, i'm going to come down on this really conservatively to start: i'm going to keep everything off between 7 am and 7 pm for the first cycle, and try to keep my usage to the absolute bare minimum, to start, just to get a kind of background noise. i'm even going to disconnect my cable modem when i'm not using it. it's just to help me figure out what the bare minimum cost is, so i can slowly bring in more and more things.
i'm going to presume, for example, that my pod xt is probably a pig. if my background noise - fridge, stove top, microwave, lights, one computer at a time, battery charger - is closer to 100 kwh than 200 kwh, i shouldn't worry much about plugging in. but, if i end up pushing the 250 right off the bat, i'm going to need to be more careful.
i only have a few more discs left to close. i'm going to focus entirely on that this weekend, and hope to ship the balance of the remaining order on monday, so i can get ready for the move on tuesday and actually move on wednesday, thursday & friday.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i called the landlord after noon, and she told me everything will be fine.....but i have to wait until the 29th.
i can't tell my existing landlord that i'm moving until i get the keys.
i have until the 4th to file the appeal, if this collapses. but, i can technically afford first & last month's rent on the 30th, regardless, so it's hard to see what's going to happen besides my new landlord bailing on the deal.
i put my fridge up on kijiji, but i'm wondering if it might be more efficient than what's there. i didn't really check. it's a very big fridge, but it's decently efficient for it's size - it's 700 kwh/year, which is about 60 kwh/month. if the fridge in the unit is very old, i might be better off bringing this one.
with the discount i'm getting, my energy budget is about 250 kwh/month - if i go over that, i start having to actually pay. given that i don't use the stove or the air conditioning, and i'm not paying for heat or hot water, i actually don't think i'll have much to worry about in at least keeping it under 300 kwh/month, which would be about a $10/month charge.
i've never had to pay electricity before, but there's so much hysteria around it that i wasn't going to find anything all inclusive. and, like i say, with the rebate, i'm almost better off with it separated from the rent. the rebate was really the key point, though. if that rebate collapses i might even have to move. but, i'm going to come down on this really conservatively to start: i'm going to keep everything off between 7 am and 7 pm for the first cycle, and try to keep my usage to the absolute bare minimum, to start, just to get a kind of background noise. i'm even going to disconnect my cable modem when i'm not using it. it's just to help me figure out what the bare minimum cost is, so i can slowly bring in more and more things.
i'm going to presume, for example, that my pod xt is probably a pig. if my background noise - fridge, stove top, microwave, lights, one computer at a time, battery charger - is closer to 100 kwh than 200 kwh, i shouldn't worry much about plugging in. but, if i end up pushing the 250 right off the bat, i'm going to need to be more careful.
i only have a few more discs left to close. i'm going to focus entirely on that this weekend, and hope to ship the balance of the remaining order on monday, so i can get ready for the move on tuesday and actually move on wednesday, thursday & friday.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
republishing inri064
this was
constructed as a christmas present for my partner, while in a rather
absurd state of entirely preposterous euphoria. only a musician can be
so absurdly invested in something so thoroughly delusional - or manage
to create something so entirely self-reflective out of a theme
surrounding somebody else.
the first part of this was shelved before it was ever released. i was over-exaggerating a sense of self-consciousness, but it still strikes me as unworkable. however, i think it's conceptually important in the idea of this as a christmas present and has consequently been uploaded here without modification. the second part was actually presented to sarah as a present, albeit a little after christmas - hence the jan 1 release date. it eventually found it's way to the center of my eighth symphony, reflections.
these tracks were written and recorded over november and december of 2002 and uploaded, unmodified, in may of 2015. this was initially a download only release, but was expanded to a full release and finalized as such on nov 24, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the second track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
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 (2002, 2003, 2015, 2017).
the first part of this was shelved before it was ever released. i was over-exaggerating a sense of self-consciousness, but it still strikes me as unworkable. however, i think it's conceptually important in the idea of this as a christmas present and has consequently been uploaded here without modification. the second part was actually presented to sarah as a present, albeit a little after christmas - hence the jan 1 release date. it eventually found it's way to the center of my eighth symphony, reflections.
these tracks were written and recorded over november and december of 2002 and uploaded, unmodified, in may of 2015. this was initially a download only release, but was expanded to a full release and finalized as such on nov 24, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the second track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
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 (2002, 2003, 2015, 2017).
credits
released January 1, 2003
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, piano, drum programming, light-sound synthesis (coagula), generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, sound design, digital wave editing, production, composition
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, piano, drum programming, light-sound synthesis (coagula), generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, sound design, digital wave editing, production, composition
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
that's the second day in a row that i passed out waiting for a call.
so, what got accomplished yesterday?
1) i got the moving estimate to odsp, who in turn got it to the city. so, that's in process.
2) i got the oesp consent mailed. so, hydro is set up.
3) i got the internet transferred.
i don't have phone or cable services. & the building will cover heat & water. so, my only utilities are hydro & internet. that's done.
4) i got the issue with the direct deposit worked out - i should get a full check on november 30th, and i'll have to make sure everything is good after that. the worker is still being weird about it, but i'll have to wait until i move to push back on it.
5) i talked to the city about covering the moving costs and last month's rent, and got to the point where the city just needed to call the landlord and call me back.
the ciy never called me back.
so, i'll be on the phone, haranguing them, first thing in the morning.
they never asked me for my landlord's phone number, leaving me to conclude that they'd need to find the information on their own. unless they already have it in some database, they're not going to find it. and, that might be a big problem.
again: i wish they would have left me a message last night so i at least knew what was going on. but, i'm not going to be shy about calling them repeatedly until i at least get an answer.
my takeaway from this situation is that the city is taking far too great an initiative in micro-managing this, and it might in the end work against both myself and my existing landlord, who may have to deal with an appeal that i thought i had avoided. there's no reason to do any of the things that they're doing. i brought them a lease, with a request for last month's rent and an estimate for moving costs. there is no evidence that i have substance abuse issues, gambling problems or any other concerns that would lead to me having difficulty getting the funds from a to b; if such evidence did exist, they may be justified in micro-managing, but the benefit of the doubt should be with the applicant, and these steps that they're taking should be extraneous rather than automatic. they should have just taken the lease and the receipts and written me a check for the difference.
but, i'll be as annoying as i have to be for as long as i have to be. once again: there was an easy answer, but this ubiquity of human stupidity is necessitating this byzantine nonsense.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, what got accomplished yesterday?
1) i got the moving estimate to odsp, who in turn got it to the city. so, that's in process.
2) i got the oesp consent mailed. so, hydro is set up.
3) i got the internet transferred.
i don't have phone or cable services. & the building will cover heat & water. so, my only utilities are hydro & internet. that's done.
4) i got the issue with the direct deposit worked out - i should get a full check on november 30th, and i'll have to make sure everything is good after that. the worker is still being weird about it, but i'll have to wait until i move to push back on it.
5) i talked to the city about covering the moving costs and last month's rent, and got to the point where the city just needed to call the landlord and call me back.
the ciy never called me back.
so, i'll be on the phone, haranguing them, first thing in the morning.
they never asked me for my landlord's phone number, leaving me to conclude that they'd need to find the information on their own. unless they already have it in some database, they're not going to find it. and, that might be a big problem.
again: i wish they would have left me a message last night so i at least knew what was going on. but, i'm not going to be shy about calling them repeatedly until i at least get an answer.
my takeaway from this situation is that the city is taking far too great an initiative in micro-managing this, and it might in the end work against both myself and my existing landlord, who may have to deal with an appeal that i thought i had avoided. there's no reason to do any of the things that they're doing. i brought them a lease, with a request for last month's rent and an estimate for moving costs. there is no evidence that i have substance abuse issues, gambling problems or any other concerns that would lead to me having difficulty getting the funds from a to b; if such evidence did exist, they may be justified in micro-managing, but the benefit of the doubt should be with the applicant, and these steps that they're taking should be extraneous rather than automatic. they should have just taken the lease and the receipts and written me a check for the difference.
but, i'll be as annoying as i have to be for as long as i have to be. once again: there was an easy answer, but this ubiquity of human stupidity is necessitating this byzantine nonsense.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Thursday, November 23, 2017
if the nazis end up back in power in germany due to proportional representation, can we stop arguing in favour of proportional representation?
i mean, we told you this was going to happen. and you said it can't. and it is about to happen. maybe, those opposed to pr were actually right?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i mean, we told you this was going to happen. and you said it can't. and it is about to happen. maybe, those opposed to pr were actually right?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
actually, in my experience, i agree with him.
indigenous sovereignty has been a theme on the left for a while. but, few people seem to realize just how conservative traditional indigenous culture really is in regards to things like gender roles. see, they might have a few extra roles, but erecting this "trans" role and then enforcing it on people isn't really a lot better than erasing it. i'm more into how the greeks did this (with caveats).
i'm consequently led to believe that if we ever had an actualization of indigenous sovereignty, the people i would really have solidarity with would be the people transcending the norms that keep it in place, and trying to overturn it.
i grasp that there are groups that want more control over their lives. and, i don't want to take away their agency. but, i think we're all better off looking past this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/rob-clarke-sask-party-leadership-candidate-says-indigenous-people-dont-believe-in-abortion_a_23285943/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
indigenous sovereignty has been a theme on the left for a while. but, few people seem to realize just how conservative traditional indigenous culture really is in regards to things like gender roles. see, they might have a few extra roles, but erecting this "trans" role and then enforcing it on people isn't really a lot better than erasing it. i'm more into how the greeks did this (with caveats).
i'm consequently led to believe that if we ever had an actualization of indigenous sovereignty, the people i would really have solidarity with would be the people transcending the norms that keep it in place, and trying to overturn it.
i grasp that there are groups that want more control over their lives. and, i don't want to take away their agency. but, i think we're all better off looking past this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/rob-clarke-sask-party-leadership-candidate-says-indigenous-people-dont-believe-in-abortion_a_23285943/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
but, the reason we import all the oil is that we don't have the pipelines! if we had the pipelines, we wouldn't import the oil!
wrong.
to begin with, i'd rather import the oil from cleaner sources, anyways, so long as we need it. i don't want to use dirty tar sands oil. i don't want to use fracked oil, either. but, i don't want to use oil at all. and, i mostly don't. if we could get a better electric rail system in place for imports, or better greenhouse systems for local production, i'd have almost no carbon footprint; my biggest sin is buying fruit from california, and i'd actually simply rather not have to do that at all.
there is, in fact, a pipeline from western canada to eastern canada.
this pipeline is run by enbridge. it goes from the oil producing regions to lake superior, and then from there to sarnia, where it can be refined and distributed to toronto, and then from there across the country. it is actually the longest pipeline in the world.
you can read about this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge_Pipeline_System#Mainline_system
so, why doesn't the government use this system for "energy security"?
this is a quote from wikipedia:
"The Canadian government assumed that eastern Canada could always import enough oil to meet its needs, and that imported oil would always be cheaper than domestic oil."
i believe that this statement is absolutely true. but, how? if we have the infrastructure to ship oil to sarnia, and refine it there, why is it cheaper to import it? and, surely we could build refineries in edmonton, if we had to?
because it's so expensive to refine it. that's the easy answer. but, it's partly a question of having too many hands in between; there's a lot of inefficiencies in not having a centralized network, and parasites taking money off of the top.
so, in the 1970s, the elder trudeau set up a system to increase efficiency in distribution, partly by decreasing profits to western capital. a lot of western capitalists did suffer from this, but the question of whether this was a type of justice or not has been under-analyzed; i don't have a lot of sympathy for corrupt oil barons crying in their caviar, myself. what the system did was make the process of importing oil from the west to the east economical, for the first time, by shaving down the profits. and, the sound of westen whining notwithstanding, it did actually work fairly well - until the oil from the middle east became available, again.
all the saudis have to do is put a pipe in the ground and pump the oil into barrels. their costs are a fraction of ours. it's really not even close.
in 1985, the mulroney government - under the western accord - abolished the controls that trudeau had put in place, allowing the oil industry to set the prices it wanted and to export oil freely, as well. this had the effect of pricing the west out of the market in the east, as these controls were required to refine the oil at a competitive cost. as arab oil was now plentiful and cheap, the western producers just simply got beat in the market; they wouldn't sell it at a competitive price, and they got driven out by consumers looking for cheapest prices.
there's really nothing stopping western producers from taking advantage of the existing lines except for a lack of demand for expensive oil in a region that has easy access to cheap oil.
but, while there are lines to sarnia and to toronto, there are no lines to shipping ports. that's what the new lines are needed for. and, the oil companies don't seem to want to spin these lines off of existing networks, either - probably because it would be too easy for a future politician to stop exports.
it is true that canada exports almost all of it's oil to the united states. the reasoning underlying this is actually not economic, it was a poke in the eye to eastern canada. the choice that they had was to sell to america or sell to ontario, and alberta picked america. alberta does not get a very good price from the united states, either - although it is better than what ottawa legislated. and, most of the united states would be better off buying oil from the middle east, too. the entire industry is really built on a chain of absurdity - you take an uneconomical process, and then you play it up on grounds of nationalism and it works with enough people that there's an industry. if this was purely about economics, this oil would stay in the ground.
the industry will tell you stories to confuse you. it's usuallly quite easily debunked with a google search. just make sure you do those searches.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
wrong.
to begin with, i'd rather import the oil from cleaner sources, anyways, so long as we need it. i don't want to use dirty tar sands oil. i don't want to use fracked oil, either. but, i don't want to use oil at all. and, i mostly don't. if we could get a better electric rail system in place for imports, or better greenhouse systems for local production, i'd have almost no carbon footprint; my biggest sin is buying fruit from california, and i'd actually simply rather not have to do that at all.
there is, in fact, a pipeline from western canada to eastern canada.
this pipeline is run by enbridge. it goes from the oil producing regions to lake superior, and then from there to sarnia, where it can be refined and distributed to toronto, and then from there across the country. it is actually the longest pipeline in the world.
you can read about this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge_Pipeline_System#Mainline_system
so, why doesn't the government use this system for "energy security"?
this is a quote from wikipedia:
"The Canadian government assumed that eastern Canada could always import enough oil to meet its needs, and that imported oil would always be cheaper than domestic oil."
i believe that this statement is absolutely true. but, how? if we have the infrastructure to ship oil to sarnia, and refine it there, why is it cheaper to import it? and, surely we could build refineries in edmonton, if we had to?
because it's so expensive to refine it. that's the easy answer. but, it's partly a question of having too many hands in between; there's a lot of inefficiencies in not having a centralized network, and parasites taking money off of the top.
so, in the 1970s, the elder trudeau set up a system to increase efficiency in distribution, partly by decreasing profits to western capital. a lot of western capitalists did suffer from this, but the question of whether this was a type of justice or not has been under-analyzed; i don't have a lot of sympathy for corrupt oil barons crying in their caviar, myself. what the system did was make the process of importing oil from the west to the east economical, for the first time, by shaving down the profits. and, the sound of westen whining notwithstanding, it did actually work fairly well - until the oil from the middle east became available, again.
all the saudis have to do is put a pipe in the ground and pump the oil into barrels. their costs are a fraction of ours. it's really not even close.
in 1985, the mulroney government - under the western accord - abolished the controls that trudeau had put in place, allowing the oil industry to set the prices it wanted and to export oil freely, as well. this had the effect of pricing the west out of the market in the east, as these controls were required to refine the oil at a competitive cost. as arab oil was now plentiful and cheap, the western producers just simply got beat in the market; they wouldn't sell it at a competitive price, and they got driven out by consumers looking for cheapest prices.
there's really nothing stopping western producers from taking advantage of the existing lines except for a lack of demand for expensive oil in a region that has easy access to cheap oil.
but, while there are lines to sarnia and to toronto, there are no lines to shipping ports. that's what the new lines are needed for. and, the oil companies don't seem to want to spin these lines off of existing networks, either - probably because it would be too easy for a future politician to stop exports.
it is true that canada exports almost all of it's oil to the united states. the reasoning underlying this is actually not economic, it was a poke in the eye to eastern canada. the choice that they had was to sell to america or sell to ontario, and alberta picked america. alberta does not get a very good price from the united states, either - although it is better than what ottawa legislated. and, most of the united states would be better off buying oil from the middle east, too. the entire industry is really built on a chain of absurdity - you take an uneconomical process, and then you play it up on grounds of nationalism and it works with enough people that there's an industry. if this was purely about economics, this oil would stay in the ground.
the industry will tell you stories to confuse you. it's usuallly quite easily debunked with a google search. just make sure you do those searches.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, i actually fell asleep around 3:30 without making any calls.
i dunno; my eyes are really strained. it might be this big monitor. but, my diet's been a little off the last few days, too. and, the smoke from upstairs is noticeable, now that the weather has changed. whatever it is, it knocked me out. but, it wasn't a really short day, either - i was up about 18-19 hours, in total.
it means i need to call the city in the morning to check up on the worker, first, and then call the moving place to see what's going on with the estimate, second. it's almost 3:00. i need to eat. it'll be time to call before i know it.
what do i do if my worker didn't do what she told me she was going to do? well, i'm going to have to see if i can bypass her, first. my primary concern is access to these funds. and, i might have to file a complaint against her and/or ask for a new worker.
i may be misinterpreting a mild push back for an attempt at sabotage. we'll find out in a few hours...
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i dunno; my eyes are really strained. it might be this big monitor. but, my diet's been a little off the last few days, too. and, the smoke from upstairs is noticeable, now that the weather has changed. whatever it is, it knocked me out. but, it wasn't a really short day, either - i was up about 18-19 hours, in total.
it means i need to call the city in the morning to check up on the worker, first, and then call the moving place to see what's going on with the estimate, second. it's almost 3:00. i need to eat. it'll be time to call before i know it.
what do i do if my worker didn't do what she told me she was going to do? well, i'm going to have to see if i can bypass her, first. my primary concern is access to these funds. and, i might have to file a complaint against her and/or ask for a new worker.
i may be misinterpreting a mild push back for an attempt at sabotage. we'll find out in a few hours...
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this is really necessary.
is it going to happen? well, this is the kind of thing that the conservatives will quash if they win in 2019 - or, at least, they have quashed this kind of thing in the past. but, are the liberals credible on this?
mmmmmmaybe.
federal housing initiatives were something his father spent a lot of time on, and actually had some success on. it wasn't just the initial trudeau, this went back to the post-war period, when the anglosphere took a sharp turn left under the ultimate guidance of roosevelt. but, the elder trudeau spent a lot of time on this.
it's kind of the same story everywhere about everything: the progress of the post-war period was largely unravelled in the 80s and the 90s, by conservatives and liberals almost equally, and at all levels of government.
the provincial government in ontario - which is quite a bit to the left of most liberal parties in canada - has recently made a few tenant-friendly legal changes, but they're not the right level of government to really deal with this - it's either the city or the feds that usually deals with this.
i'd be more likely to suggest the liberals have some credibility on this if trudeau hadn't taken so many u-turns. and, this is something that might harm them for decades to come. they have more credibility on a national housing strategy than they do on most other things. but, right now, they don't really have any credibility at all - and it may be difficult to get some.
again: this is necessary. but, rather than make shiny new promises and make it seem like they're trying to fool us twice, maybe they might want to focus on keeping some of the ones they've already made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/liberals-national-housing-strategy-calls-for-billions-in-spending-new-benefit-for-low-income-tenants_a_23285817/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
is it going to happen? well, this is the kind of thing that the conservatives will quash if they win in 2019 - or, at least, they have quashed this kind of thing in the past. but, are the liberals credible on this?
mmmmmmaybe.
federal housing initiatives were something his father spent a lot of time on, and actually had some success on. it wasn't just the initial trudeau, this went back to the post-war period, when the anglosphere took a sharp turn left under the ultimate guidance of roosevelt. but, the elder trudeau spent a lot of time on this.
it's kind of the same story everywhere about everything: the progress of the post-war period was largely unravelled in the 80s and the 90s, by conservatives and liberals almost equally, and at all levels of government.
the provincial government in ontario - which is quite a bit to the left of most liberal parties in canada - has recently made a few tenant-friendly legal changes, but they're not the right level of government to really deal with this - it's either the city or the feds that usually deals with this.
i'd be more likely to suggest the liberals have some credibility on this if trudeau hadn't taken so many u-turns. and, this is something that might harm them for decades to come. they have more credibility on a national housing strategy than they do on most other things. but, right now, they don't really have any credibility at all - and it may be difficult to get some.
again: this is necessary. but, rather than make shiny new promises and make it seem like they're trying to fool us twice, maybe they might want to focus on keeping some of the ones they've already made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/liberals-national-housing-strategy-calls-for-billions-in-spending-new-benefit-for-low-income-tenants_a_23285817/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this story is beyond sketchy, and rather than reinforce the claims against him it's reinforcing the claims of a conspiracy to take him down - as well as the seriousness of the intent behind it.
this could be a rogue journalist at the huffington post looking to make some quick cash, but i think the more obvious reading is that whomever wants him gone is really not likely to take no for an answer, unfortunately. look at the lengths they're going to. they want him out. they're going to make things up until he's gone.
to begin with, it is a fundamental principle of justice that we be allowed to face our accusers. anonymous sources are perhaps useful to kickstart investigations, but they cannot be the investigations themselves. we cannot lower our legal standards to the point where we're willing to take anonymous accusations like this on face value.
but, what's most obvious about this story, to me, is the lengths that the reporter goes to try and make the story seem more credible. supposedly, this anonymous accuser told the very same reporter that this incident happened years ago, but nobody addressed it. suuuuuuuuure.
with all of the fake media stories around russiagate, it should be a red flag that this one follows the same formula.
but, al appears to have stepped on the wrong toes, here. and, at this point, it's becoming clear that he's just prolonging the inevitable.
the good guys usually lose, actually.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/al-franken-two-more-women-groping_us_5a15a455e4b09650540ec295
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this could be a rogue journalist at the huffington post looking to make some quick cash, but i think the more obvious reading is that whomever wants him gone is really not likely to take no for an answer, unfortunately. look at the lengths they're going to. they want him out. they're going to make things up until he's gone.
to begin with, it is a fundamental principle of justice that we be allowed to face our accusers. anonymous sources are perhaps useful to kickstart investigations, but they cannot be the investigations themselves. we cannot lower our legal standards to the point where we're willing to take anonymous accusations like this on face value.
but, what's most obvious about this story, to me, is the lengths that the reporter goes to try and make the story seem more credible. supposedly, this anonymous accuser told the very same reporter that this incident happened years ago, but nobody addressed it. suuuuuuuuure.
with all of the fake media stories around russiagate, it should be a red flag that this one follows the same formula.
but, al appears to have stepped on the wrong toes, here. and, at this point, it's becoming clear that he's just prolonging the inevitable.
the good guys usually lose, actually.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/al-franken-two-more-women-groping_us_5a15a455e4b09650540ec295
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
so, the check cleared today.
i guess it took her a few days to cash it.
that's ok.
i called the odsp worker around 10:00; she claims she didn't get an estimate from the mover. i talked her into submitting the applications without the direct payment, but she was very weird about it, and i'm not sure she actually did; i'll have to call around 3:30 to see.
so, i called a different mover, and he said he'd send me a quote over email before 2:00. no quote, yet. ugh.
i want to wait before i call teksavvy...
so, i wanted this dealt with by the end of the day. it looks like today was just a big waste of time, instead. *sigh*.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i guess it took her a few days to cash it.
that's ok.
i called the odsp worker around 10:00; she claims she didn't get an estimate from the mover. i talked her into submitting the applications without the direct payment, but she was very weird about it, and i'm not sure she actually did; i'll have to call around 3:30 to see.
so, i called a different mover, and he said he'd send me a quote over email before 2:00. no quote, yet. ugh.
i want to wait before i call teksavvy...
so, i wanted this dealt with by the end of the day. it looks like today was just a big waste of time, instead. *sigh*.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
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inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 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. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2002. this compilation is dated to dec 2, 2002. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 22, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 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. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2002. this compilation is dated to dec 2, 2002. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 22, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
credits
released December 2, 2002
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, production
sean - vocals (inri048, inri054-inri056, inri061-inri062), harmonica (inri054)
jon - guitar (inri048)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056)
the rendered electronic orchestra includes orchestra hit, piano,
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean), acoustic guitar, synthesizer, synthesizer effects, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, production
sean - vocals (inri048, inri054-inri056, inri061-inri062), harmonica (inri054)
jon - guitar (inri048)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056)
the rendered electronic orchestra includes orchestra hit, piano,
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean), acoustic guitar, synthesizer, synthesizer effects, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
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