so, what am i doing today? i clearly didn't catch up to the alter-reality, and i need to very quickly.
for now, i'm putting it off for one more week. i may have to flip it over and focus strictly on it until i catch up, when i get there. i actually have some legal stuff to focus on before the end of the day, today. so, i'm going to put together some loose ends and focus on that.
unfortunately, i fell asleep right before it was time to eat, so i'm six hours behind on eating again. i at least got some actual sleep and i'm at least caught up in the sense that there aren't lagging meals or the need to double them. so, that's fine - i should catch up quickly. but, it means i need to spend the morning eating.
i don't expect to get any recording done this weekend, but this is the last weekend in the cleaning phase - i should have the recording pc up and running by monday at the latest.
it will depend on whether i have to deal with the drugs from upstairs or not, but i hope for a long day today that ends with some final closure on the ordering of this space. but, there's a lot of stuff in the other room, and it's not going to clear out any time soon.
today's post is inri010:
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here's the biting, satirical, misanthropic anarchist jessica that you know and love! finally...
this is the first thing that shows up that's explicitly political in more than a social sense. the lyrics are clear, obvious and mixed very much to the front. here's the story on that: i'm emulating a beat-box situation. i'm a politician, tongue-in-cheek, with a sound system in the back. the paper crumpling sound in the middle is meant to represent me spoiling a ballot.
in hindsight, i suppose that the idea that i'm trying to get across is largely gramscian. in the language of modern memes, the track simply tells us to keep calm and vote for the status quo. but, you'll note that i'm focusing a lot on the deficit of discourse. this could be interpreted a few ways. you could think about how the function of advertising is to suppress thought, for example. however, what i was thinking at the time intersects most cleanly with the idea of the state functioning as the modern church. in this system, which does not only exist on the right, the politician is also a priest and enforces the same role of thought suppression that the church did in the middle ages. the politician herds the sheep into the polls to uphold the status quo; democracy consequently leads to stasis, and prevents any kind of real change. what i had actually read at this age was not gramsci or chomsky but orwell. yet, what's actually driving me is something closer to what we would today associate with dawkins - largely through asimov.
you'll note that i'm not particularly hopeful about the process, either - i don't have a lot of faith in humans to transcend this process of control. it's a deep form of misanthropy, with little way out. yet, my idea of human nature is that we are very malleable, not that we are fixed in perpetual assholery. even at this age, i realize that we are not doomed....
....we're just very poorly equipped to get our shit together.
initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reclaimed july 12, 2015. vocals added july 15, 2015. sequenced, released and finalized on july 22, 2016. as always, please use headphones.
the album version of this track appears on my second record, inriched (inri021): jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched
this recording is a part of the following collections:
1) inriℵ0: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/flac-dvd-disc-volume-1
2) inriℵ2: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched-box-set
3) inriℵ4: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/mp3-dvd-disc-volume-1
5) inriℵ6: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1
6) inriℵ17: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/flac-bd-disc-volume-1
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 (1996, 1998, 2013, 2015, 2016).
released april 19, 1998
j - guitars, effects, bass, drum programming, drum kit, synthesizers, found sound (paper crumpling), pick scrapes, tapes, noise generators, cool edit synthesis, sampling, vocals, digital wave editing, production