i've been saying for years that what the eu needs is what canada calls transfer payments - and they probably would have gotten them, if they would have accepted the last defeated constitutional package, however long ago that was. greece and italy are what canadians would call a "have not province", and they would therefore be eligible for "equalization payments". you simply can' otherwise expect these little  countries to share a currency with germany; it just can't make sense unless you bring a state in to balance it out.

 

so, it took longer to get the kitchen cleaned last night (this morning) than i wanted, and i had to crash half-way through the pasta bowl, not finishing it until early this morning. the spinach didn't add much to the taste, but it did add a bit to the texture. i think that's a fine, stable add. let's try it in the eggs...

and, i'm in, now, for the next several weeks - after going out briefly to get my blood tested. the temperature is falling, and i'm just going to hide inside until it gets better.

i talked to an employee at the clinic, and he explained to me that the reason that some items don't show up in the patient reports is that they get shipped to outside labs. it's also why they need to take separate vials for those items. in fact, all of the items i got today - lead, h. pylori and haptoglobin - are going to be shipped, so i won't be receiving any results in real time. and, it turns out that there is no hepcidin test available here, after all.

no zinc results yet, either.

so, back to cleaning - and let's hope i get more done tonight than last night.

the thing about "vaccine passports" for covid-19 is that the vaccines aren't going to work very well against the increasingly complicated variants. it's not even a philosophical debate about whether it's acceptable or not; the reality is that the science doesn't support it as rational.

and, as i've pointed out, and many others have pointed out, a vaccine will never work as well as natural immunity.

but, there's an underlying error that people have to adjust to - people are trying to compare covid to something like polio, which has a low mutation rate and doesn't require multiple vaccinations. you're going to need to get vaccinated for covid-19 every year, and potentially even more frequently than that.

so, the proper comparison is not to polio, but to the flu.

and, i know of no countries that require travelers to get flu shots before entering, at this time.

it's the kind of idea that comes up when you get a bunch of arts students trying to discuss science; it's not grounded in evidence, and while that doesn't mean it won't happen, it will be a sad day, indeed, if it does.

if we can shut down a few churches and secularize their brainwashed followers, that's major progress.

i just hope the state is applying the same strict rules to all of the other religions, as well.

religious gatherings are pretty much the only thing that i agree should be banned, and that i would ban if i were queen, as they're entirely pointless, frivolous and unnecessary - and attract large percentages of lonely elderly people that are at a high risk of transmission.

so, while i would oppose restrictions on most types of shopping, on restaurants and also on most types of concerts (i would agree with pausing the symphony, as a counter-example), i would actually support restrictions on the frivolity and pointlessness of "religious freedom". your imaginary friend doesn't exist, and gathering together to sing at the wall is too stupid to allow, right now.

so, they will find no ally with me - even as i support secular ways to oppose the lockdown.

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/local-church-stages-mass-for-hundreds-in-definance-of-pandemic-restrictions

today's post is the transitional period 1.3/2.1 outtakes disc, composed of tracks removed from the second, third & fourth records, as well as an original track split off from the covers disc. these tracks were all either on official releases or were unreleased up until 2014, hence, inrimoved. the commonality is that these all had vocal parts i couldn't strip out, due to having lost the masters, or vocal parts i left behind - with the exception of the curious george suite, which had a vocal part that was lost on the crashed hard drive in early 2000. this is consequently both the companion disc to my fourth record, deny everything, and the sequel to the previous vocal disc, inricited. we're at inri042 with this one, and switch into the jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj phase with inri043, after a few aleph posts.

cover art credited to raphael. not the ninja turtle, though. close.

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i began the process of completing the second period of my discography in the final months of 2013, and quickly realized that my presentation was substantially lacking. i had placed an original progressive rock song on a covers disc, and a fruity techno song at the end of a noise compilation. it was immediately clear that i needed to split these tracks off, but it othered them: both liquify and book it! became stranded outtakes, existing only in the purgatory of the non-album single. 

in early 2014, i republished the vocal mix of ignorance is bliss as a standalone single; it had been unpublished since i removed it from deny everything in the summer of 2004. 

in early 2016, i decided i could reconstruct my first two records from scratch as instrumental electronic works after all, but i would have to remove the 14th track from the second record, too cold, in order to do so. this was also split off as a single, which was completed in the fall of 2017. 

upon running through this phase of the discography one final time in the fall of 2017, i realized that i had discarded enough material to compile an outtakes disc and that this material was even conceptually linked - all four of these tracks were some kind of guitar-driven electro-prog, and they all had vocal parts that shouldn't be taken particularly seriously. together, these were the tracks that existed in the transition past inri, and into something else: each of these might have been a post-inri track, but the first three were in the end pulled back, only to be expelled after all, and then left without records. 

i even mused about making this an official record and releasing it before deny everything in the sequence, but i cannot do this. the fact that i can't remove these vocals make these tracks outtakes, necessarily. as my first two records are now entirely instrumental, and remastered from scratch, they would absolutely need to be properly remastered to fit into any kind of album sequence. this can only be an outtakes disc, but i think it's become a rather important one. 

the curious george suite has also been added to the compilation because it fits the aesthetic, it is not on an official record and it would have been a part of deny everything if i didn't think i had lost it; in that sense, it was sort of removed. 

so, this is an alternate release for material recorded over periods 1.3 (1999) & 2.1 (2000) that didn't make it on to an official recording, or made it on to an official recording in an alternate form. it can be thought of as a companion disc to deny everything (inri041). 

this record was recorded over the years 1999 and 2000, but did not take this form until mid september, 2017. the first track list dates to sept 14, 2017. these tracks are technically outtakes, but did not become outtakes until the remastering process removed them from their respective recordings. released & finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 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 (1997, 1999, 2000, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017). 

released november 12, 2000 

j - guitar, effects, bass, synths, piano, flute, loops, drum kit, drum programming, vocals, vocoders, sampling, cool edit synthesis, sequencing, sound design, found sounds, granular synthesis, noise generators, tapes, digital wave editing, digital effects processing, production 

the rendered electronic orchestra includes theremin, ukelele & orchestra hit.