"or, you will lead your people astray" may be a more coherent statement, but it's not much of a threat by our supposedly illiterate warrior king. it sounds more like the feigned reasoned words of a demagogue acting as a wise man. but, this is a good example of how religions change to fit the needs of the ruling classes - when islam is a force of domination, it threatens the romans to convert, or else. but, when it wants to be the "religion of  peace", it merely suggests that the infidels are losing their way, and pleads with them to save their souls from condemnation. while later and contemporary historians may prefer the later reading, the history suggests the earlier one is probably more accurate, however incoherent - and however apocryphal, regardless.

the history of western civilization would be quite different, indeed, had islam become a confessional faith that spread through evangelism, rather than a system of law enforced from the top down by the ruling aristocracy, whatever muslims today would have you believe.

as soon as i say i'm not tired...

but, i got a reasonable amount of sleep after a lengthy day. i can do with more days like that. and, here we go again...

i have some more cleaning to do, but i should get to actually doing something by sunrise, i think.

not only am i wide awake, but i've spent all day cleaning and have nearly finished putting everything in the far side away - a huge improvement over where i was. all that's left in the back now is recycle, wood and cds and books, which i can take out of the space and put on he shelves in short order.

i'm going to leave everything in the boxes they're in until i can get to the proper point in the alter-reality to put them away, and then slowly build up the shelves as is appropriate. i still need to get some extra shelves, and i may need a few more units, altogether. but, i can get a handle on where i want things, at least - the big one needs to be for cds, after all, and i'll place the books on the remaining units, as is appropriate.

what i wanted to do today was reduce the remaining "cleaning" to a process that is related to work. so, for example, i have some external drives to clean up before i put them away - which is cleaning, but getting me closer towards re-establishing normality. i'm almost there....

ok, so i've got my 90s laptop set up like an old timey phone over in the corner, i've got a first coat of wood filler on the bookshelf in the bedroom (and pins coming in the mail shortly) and i'm 90% done clearing off the effects pedal table...so i can fill it up with more stuff.

that's huge progress.

and, i'm wide awake, too.

it always feels good to actually solve something.

so, that means i don't need to hitchhike to toronto after all. at least not yet...

it's still unable to play html5 video from youtube, but it's the javascript that's just killing it. it only has 256 mb of ram in it, though. if i can max that out to....it can take 1 gb. if i can get it up there...

the ram in this thing is cheap because it's ancient. like with the 90s pc, i'd better hurry up, though.

i can't do it immediately. soon, though. i should do a total ram run if i can, and get backups on everything.

hey, i bet you thought i was dumb when i bought four wired routers in 2014. but, i still have two for backup. and, where are you going to find a wired router nowadays?

ok, it took me a few tries, but i seem to have got this working. 

at $0.0052/minute, it's manageable, so long as i'm sparing about it.

ok, so my microphone doesn't work, but i can use an old webcam as a microphone.

can i find a free service before i go installing voip and having to pay for it? i mean, it's pretty cheap, but still...

...and, i think i'm finally waking up.

good.

and, today's post is inri025 - the compilation of vocal versions, which would be otherwise only available on the singles. this allowed me to salvage my records as records, and pull this compilation out for vocal sections, instead.

this is the very end of period 1.2, with the next handful of releases closing down the inri period altogether.

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while the main purpose of the inriclaimed project was to remove the vocals from the records, i always intended to put a few tracks away and mix the vocals back in for an ep. this was actually factored into the logic that had me build a sequence of singles, in the first place. while there were tracks that i ruled out, i ended up mixing vocals back into most of those that i considered, constructing enough for a standalone lp. 

there is no other way to get all of the vocal remixes at once. this release consequently fills an important functional gap in the discography. 

this idea was developed in parallel to the inriclaimed project over the summer of 2015 and first compiled on nov 27, 2016. released & finalized on dec 17, 2016. lp005. 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 (2015, 2016).

released january 30, 1999 

j - guitars, effects, bass, synth bass, synthesizers, sequencing, drum programming, sampling, cool edit synthesis, light-wave synthesis, found sounds, noise generators, sound design, digital wave editing, loops, vocals, vocal relics, production

to be clear: i haven't dropped my split. i still want to be doing alter-realities on fridays, period 3 during the weekend and journals during the week, it's just that:

1) i can't really do the music stuff until i catch up on the journals

2) i've got all of this other life stuff that won't stop coming, and the avoidance of which was supposed to be the purpose of living on disability.

*shrug*.

i don't want to have to do all this shit. at all. trust me. but, it's life in a capitalist economy, whether i like it or not.