you will meet white people around here that acknowledge their immense privilege, as they complain about having to wake up early to flip burgers around the corner from the university, with it's 40% foreign born student populace.
they had opportunity, mind you. but, they decided to study a dead-end in philosophy, whereas their less privileged peers became doctors and engineers.
i'm a realist. i'm an empiricist. i just want people to see things as they actually are, not as their synthetic a priori theory incorrectly predicts them.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
well, if they don't recognize the succession then it remains in the eu as a part of spain.
and, if they do recognize the succession then it should follow that they remain in the eu, too.
i cannot imagine a scenario where the eu would recognize the succession, and yet deny entry. the political situation would have to dramatically deteriorate, to start.
https://www.thelocal.es/20171010/analysis-an-independent-catalonias-tricky-path-to-eu-membership
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
and, if they do recognize the succession then it should follow that they remain in the eu, too.
i cannot imagine a scenario where the eu would recognize the succession, and yet deny entry. the political situation would have to dramatically deteriorate, to start.
https://www.thelocal.es/20171010/analysis-an-independent-catalonias-tricky-path-to-eu-membership
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
if the catalans intend on staying in the eu, it's hard to escape from the narrative that what's driving succession is a desire to avoid taxes.
but, it won't even work: if those taxes do not go to brussels, they will go to an elite in barcelona, and the middle class will be no better off.
i should have some historical attachment to catalan independence. but, this appears to be a right-wing nationalism that is in dire need of a class analysis.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
but, it won't even work: if those taxes do not go to brussels, they will go to an elite in barcelona, and the middle class will be no better off.
i should have some historical attachment to catalan independence. but, this appears to be a right-wing nationalism that is in dire need of a class analysis.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this is new.
i'm not suggesting you should take this seriously, but i am suggesting that you should be concerned about it, because it's very reminiscent of the nonsense they floated before they went into iraq.
the timing is very suspect.
it would simply be retarded for the americans to pull out of this.
give it a day or two. but if the administration runs with this then i guess the americans are, in fact, retarded.
this is full retard. full-stop.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/10/irans-secret-sites-linked-to-nuclear-weapons-development-revealed.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i'm not suggesting you should take this seriously, but i am suggesting that you should be concerned about it, because it's very reminiscent of the nonsense they floated before they went into iraq.
the timing is very suspect.
it would simply be retarded for the americans to pull out of this.
give it a day or two. but if the administration runs with this then i guess the americans are, in fact, retarded.
this is full retard. full-stop.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/10/irans-secret-sites-linked-to-nuclear-weapons-development-revealed.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
ten years ago, some observers were arguing that alberta's influence would make the rest of the country more conservative.
all you'd have had to do was call up an albertan and talk to them for five minutes to learn that alberta's wealth has been a magnet for unemployed people, and it has in turn made the province more liberal.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
all you'd have had to do was call up an albertan and talk to them for five minutes to learn that alberta's wealth has been a magnet for unemployed people, and it has in turn made the province more liberal.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
again: being brown doesn't give you a free pass to run for office on backwards religious ideals, or an excuse to legislate your morality at the expense of people that disagree with you.
sikhs. christians. muslims. what's the difference? i'm not voting for any of them: they're all equally ineligible for high office.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
sikhs. christians. muslims. what's the difference? i'm not voting for any of them: they're all equally ineligible for high office.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
the neo-liberal intelligentsia just doesn't get: it doesn't understand that there's a fundamental opposition to putting religious people in positions of power in this country, and that while it is strongest in quebec it is dominant pretty much everywhere outside of alberta - and even becoming dominant there, too.
the opposition to jagmeet singh is not going to be about what's on his head, it's going to be about what's in it. people are not going to like what he has to say, and they're especially not going to like where he's coming from when he says it. but, the press will endlessly obfuscate the point, and pretend it's about a fashion decision rather than that the fact that canada is a progressive country means it rejects the confluence of religion and politics.
electing somebody that thinks they have a magic beard is not progress, it is a leap backwards to the nineteenth century.
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/09/pariahs-to-power-brokers-sikhs-have-become-a-major-political-force-in-canada.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
the opposition to jagmeet singh is not going to be about what's on his head, it's going to be about what's in it. people are not going to like what he has to say, and they're especially not going to like where he's coming from when he says it. but, the press will endlessly obfuscate the point, and pretend it's about a fashion decision rather than that the fact that canada is a progressive country means it rejects the confluence of religion and politics.
electing somebody that thinks they have a magic beard is not progress, it is a leap backwards to the nineteenth century.
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/09/pariahs-to-power-brokers-sikhs-have-become-a-major-political-force-in-canada.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
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.
inri036: written and recorded in late 1999 and early 2000. these versions of these tracks were sequenced without further modification in jan, 2014. remainder of hummer added as a bonus track, and release finalized, on oct 3, 2017.
inri037: recorded in spring, 2000. released, unmodified, in jan, 2014. release finalized on oct 3, 2017.
inri038: written and recorded, 1999-2001. track 3 was reconstructed out of existing sound in june, 2004. initially sequenced in jan, 2014. four new mixes (maximal mix (2017), electronics only mix (2015), single mix for lp010 (2017), full instrumental mix from deny everything (2014)) were added on oct 5, 2017; release subsequently closed.
inri039: this was constructed over a little more than a month: from 7/7-8/20, 2000. it seems to have been recombined into one track around 2007 but has otherwise not been modified since it was completed. first released as an ep in jan 2014. release finalized on oct 8, 2017.
inri040: recorded in april, 2000. samples added in oct, 2000. album version reverted to original mix in sept, 2006
inri041: recorded over the space of the year 2000. remixed substantially in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014. existing version constructed in jan, 2014. finalized as lp009 on oct 9, 2017.
inri042: 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. finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.
originally created from 1999-2000. this compilation is dated to dec 1, 2000. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2013-2017. compilation finalized on oct 9, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
inri036: written and recorded in late 1999 and early 2000. these versions of these tracks were sequenced without further modification in jan, 2014. remainder of hummer added as a bonus track, and release finalized, on oct 3, 2017.
inri037: recorded in spring, 2000. released, unmodified, in jan, 2014. release finalized on oct 3, 2017.
inri038: written and recorded, 1999-2001. track 3 was reconstructed out of existing sound in june, 2004. initially sequenced in jan, 2014. four new mixes (maximal mix (2017), electronics only mix (2015), single mix for lp010 (2017), full instrumental mix from deny everything (2014)) were added on oct 5, 2017; release subsequently closed.
inri039: this was constructed over a little more than a month: from 7/7-8/20, 2000. it seems to have been recombined into one track around 2007 but has otherwise not been modified since it was completed. first released as an ep in jan 2014. release finalized on oct 8, 2017.
inri040: recorded in april, 2000. samples added in oct, 2000. album version reverted to original mix in sept, 2006
inri041: recorded over the space of the year 2000. remixed substantially in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014. existing version constructed in jan, 2014. finalized as lp009 on oct 9, 2017.
inri042: 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. finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.
originally created from 1999-2000. this compilation is dated to dec 1, 2000. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2013-2017. compilation finalized on oct 9, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
credits
released December 1, 2000
j - guitars of all types, effects, bass, synth, piano, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, drum kit, drum programming, sequencing, sound design, found sounds, granular synthesis, noise generators, generative synthesis, generative percussion, cool edit synthesis, light-sound synthesis, loops, films, tapes, sampling, vocals, vocoders, digital wave editing, digital effects processing, treatments, coughs, a broken equalizer, production
the rendered electronic orchestra includes ukelele, theremin, orchestra hit, string ensemble, taiko drums, gongs, trumpet and saxophone.
j - guitars of all types, effects, bass, synth, piano, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, drum kit, drum programming, sequencing, sound design, found sounds, granular synthesis, noise generators, generative synthesis, generative percussion, cool edit synthesis, light-sound synthesis, loops, films, tapes, sampling, vocals, vocoders, digital wave editing, digital effects processing, treatments, coughs, a broken equalizer, production
the rendered electronic orchestra includes ukelele, theremin, orchestra hit, string ensemble, taiko drums, gongs, trumpet and saxophone.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
the united states government cannot be consulting with a universally acknowledged clown like benjamin netanyahu in determining serious policy - and the state department will be the first people to tell you that.
the united states will consult with stable institutions like mossad and the idf, which routinely contradict what bibi says.
the israelis are an important ally. but, netanyahu does not represent the jewish state at all.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
the united states will consult with stable institutions like mossad and the idf, which routinely contradict what bibi says.
the israelis are an important ally. but, netanyahu does not represent the jewish state at all.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Monday, October 9, 2017
publishing inri042
i initially began the process of completing the second period of my discography in the first weeks of 2014, and soon realized that the sequencing decisions i made upon initial release required a revisiting. i had unfortunately placed an original progressive rock song (liquify) on a covers disc, and a fruity techno song (book it) at the end of a noise compilation; it was immediately clear that i needed to remove these tracks from their respective official records, but that unfortunately othered them - both liquify and book it then became stranded outtakes, existing only as non-album singles.
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 the first two periods of my discography one final time in the fall of 2017, i realized that i had removed enough material from my first four official records 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 three of the four had somewhat embarrassing vocal parts that i wanted to remove from the tracks but was unable to due to having lost the original source material. 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 initially pulled back, only to be removed again and left without records.
i strongly considered 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, these tracks would absolutely need to be properly remastered as instrumental recordings to fit into any kind of album sequence. this can consequently only be an outtakes disc.
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. the hidden track is added solely due to aesthetic similarities with the rest of the disc.
this is an outtakes record of discarded and rejected material recorded over periods 1.3 (1999) & 2.1 (2000) that was all removed from some completed, official recording. it can be thought of as an outtakes disc for my fourth official record, deny everything.
this record was written and 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 all very thoroughly rejected outtakes, but did not become outtakes until the remastering process removed them from their respective recordings. finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.
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).
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 the first two periods of my discography one final time in the fall of 2017, i realized that i had removed enough material from my first four official records 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 three of the four had somewhat embarrassing vocal parts that i wanted to remove from the tracks but was unable to due to having lost the original source material. 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 initially pulled back, only to be removed again and left without records.
i strongly considered 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, these tracks would absolutely need to be properly remastered as instrumental recordings to fit into any kind of album sequence. this can consequently only be an outtakes disc.
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. the hidden track is added solely due to aesthetic similarities with the rest of the disc.
this is an outtakes record of discarded and rejected material recorded over periods 1.3 (1999) & 2.1 (2000) that was all removed from some completed, official recording. it can be thought of as an outtakes disc for my fourth official record, deny everything.
this record was written and 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 all very thoroughly rejected outtakes, but did not become outtakes until the remastering process removed them from their respective recordings. finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.
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).
credits
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.
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.
this is a
project that has been through many incarnations and reversions, which
should hopefully stabilize now that the tracks are entirely instrumental
and the substantial number of outtakes have been categorized into
companion eps. i don't expect to modify this further; as of jan, 2014,
the slow, 15 year process of removing samples and reconstructing
instrumental sections is now entirely complete.
what's left when the thematic ideas are stripped out is an eccentric and elaborate delve into psychedelic and electronic music that has no clear parallels that the author is aware of.
the record can be sectioned into 4 parts:
- ignorance is bliss [introduction]
- entropy/curious george/gravity's rainbow [program]
- a commercial break [intermission]
- acidosis [finale]
recorded over the space of the year 2000. remixed substantially in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014. existing version constructed in jan, 2014. finalized as lp009 on oct 9, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
an audience exists somewhere that will cherish this as the truly unique monstrosity that it is.
what's left when the thematic ideas are stripped out is an eccentric and elaborate delve into psychedelic and electronic music that has no clear parallels that the author is aware of.
the record can be sectioned into 4 parts:
- ignorance is bliss [introduction]
- entropy/curious george/gravity's rainbow [program]
- a commercial break [intermission]
- acidosis [finale]
recorded over the space of the year 2000. remixed substantially in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014. existing version constructed in jan, 2014. finalized as lp009 on oct 9, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
an audience exists somewhere that will cherish this as the truly unique monstrosity that it is.
credits
released November 11, 2000
j- guitars of all types, bass, programming, drum programming, sequencing, synthesizers, live drums, piano, loops, films, noise generation, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, treatments, effects, found sounds, sampling, sound design, generative synthesis, granular synthesis, generative percussion, light-sound synthesis, digital wave editing, production, coughs, a broken equalizer, cover art
the star trek sample in 'gravity's rainbow' is from the episode "errand of mercy" (mar 23, 1967).
the rendered electronic orchestra includes theremin, ukelele, orchestra hit, string ensemble, taiko drums, gongs, trumpet & sax.
j- guitars of all types, bass, programming, drum programming, sequencing, synthesizers, live drums, piano, loops, films, noise generation, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, treatments, effects, found sounds, sampling, sound design, generative synthesis, granular synthesis, generative percussion, light-sound synthesis, digital wave editing, production, coughs, a broken equalizer, cover art
the star trek sample in 'gravity's rainbow' is from the episode "errand of mercy" (mar 23, 1967).
the rendered electronic orchestra includes theremin, ukelele, orchestra hit, string ensemble, taiko drums, gongs, trumpet & sax.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this track was taken from the then lost curious george suite (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/chimpanzees-cant-dance)
and loaded up with samples to raise awareness. the impression i was
trying to create was that bush wasn't going to be a president who was
particularly concerned with civil liberties because he had stated as
much rather clearly. this is still pre-9/11, it was right before the
election, and i still had no idea what was coming. i was just conscious
of the fact that this is a guy that isn't going to stand up for
anybody's rights, have much interest in maintaining the rule of law
(international or otherwise) or have much respect for the democratic
process.
even listening to it today, a lot of it is really surreal. at the time, i was focusing a bit on the irony. for example, his "people who are going to commit crimes shouldn't have guns" quote is cited in reference to himself - by that logic, he should have overseen an american disarmament. "this guy's not elected, he just took over office" quip was also meant to apply to him. i think it's largely forgotten that the news of a possible attempted coup hit before the 2000 election did. there was a buzz on the internet that the people behind bush (military contractors) weren't going to let him lose. the "court battle" in florida wasn't a completely surprising turn of events. it was gore's disinterest in fighting the legal battle (because it would "destabilize" the country) that hit people by surprise.
i've split this into it's own space because it belongs in it's own space. deny everything (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything) has been converted into abstract instrumental music; the samples don't belong there. it also seems disingenuous to insert it into the lost suite.
i think i need to be careful in stating that historical hindsight inoculates me in explaining what i hoped was obvious: that this is a thinly veiled call for the assassination of bush before he takes over. a tree fell in a forest here. alas.
recorded in april, 2000. samples added in oct, 2000. album version reverted to original mix in sept, 2006. as always, please use headphones.
the album version appears on my fourth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
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 (2000, 2006, 2014, 2017).
even listening to it today, a lot of it is really surreal. at the time, i was focusing a bit on the irony. for example, his "people who are going to commit crimes shouldn't have guns" quote is cited in reference to himself - by that logic, he should have overseen an american disarmament. "this guy's not elected, he just took over office" quip was also meant to apply to him. i think it's largely forgotten that the news of a possible attempted coup hit before the 2000 election did. there was a buzz on the internet that the people behind bush (military contractors) weren't going to let him lose. the "court battle" in florida wasn't a completely surprising turn of events. it was gore's disinterest in fighting the legal battle (because it would "destabilize" the country) that hit people by surprise.
i've split this into it's own space because it belongs in it's own space. deny everything (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything) has been converted into abstract instrumental music; the samples don't belong there. it also seems disingenuous to insert it into the lost suite.
i think i need to be careful in stating that historical hindsight inoculates me in explaining what i hoped was obvious: that this is a thinly veiled call for the assassination of bush before he takes over. a tree fell in a forest here. alas.
recorded in april, 2000. samples added in oct, 2000. album version reverted to original mix in sept, 2006. as always, please use headphones.
the album version appears on my fourth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
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 (2000, 2006, 2014, 2017).
credits
released October 13, 2000
j - guitars, effects, drum programming, sampling, sound design, digital wave editing
j - guitars, effects, drum programming, sampling, sound design, digital wave editing
jagmeet singh must cut his beard
it's thanksgiving in canada.
i'm not going to do the lecture; i've done that enough. call your grandmother, if you can. she'll appreciate it.
but i wouldn't expect that this is a holiday that is recognized by many people under 40, or a tradition that will be carried forward into the next generation.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i'm not going to do the lecture; i've done that enough. call your grandmother, if you can. she'll appreciate it.
but i wouldn't expect that this is a holiday that is recognized by many people under 40, or a tradition that will be carried forward into the next generation.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
yeah.
time for a deduction, kids: iran. what's going on?
well, it's easy to conclude from the coverage that the president is a fucking moron, and that he's about to do something stupid - something stupid which would happen to hand over yet another oil producing region to the country's primary competitor. and, i bet the democrats would have fun insinuating that putin and trump are in kahoots over it, too, right?
that's not reality.
i like to find little pieces of evidence that would be impossible if it weren't for the alternative narrative i want to present; it's a kind of proof by contradiction - although i'm abusing the language, here.
iran is threatening to blow up american military bases if they put down sanctions. that's not scary; that's comical. it's a threat that's emptier than jagmeet singh's suits. but, they would hardly risk that kind of language if they weren't told the truth about what's happening.
iran knows that what trump is doing on iran right now is for domestic consumption, so it is producing it's own nonsense for it's own domestic population, and the media is laughably reporting it all as real. there is no other way to make sense of iran's threats, and america's decision to not even respond with a sardonic remark.
i kind of expected this from trump. the only thing he was ever really serious about was china. everything else he said ranged from ignorant to absurd.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
time for a deduction, kids: iran. what's going on?
well, it's easy to conclude from the coverage that the president is a fucking moron, and that he's about to do something stupid - something stupid which would happen to hand over yet another oil producing region to the country's primary competitor. and, i bet the democrats would have fun insinuating that putin and trump are in kahoots over it, too, right?
that's not reality.
i like to find little pieces of evidence that would be impossible if it weren't for the alternative narrative i want to present; it's a kind of proof by contradiction - although i'm abusing the language, here.
iran is threatening to blow up american military bases if they put down sanctions. that's not scary; that's comical. it's a threat that's emptier than jagmeet singh's suits. but, they would hardly risk that kind of language if they weren't told the truth about what's happening.
iran knows that what trump is doing on iran right now is for domestic consumption, so it is producing it's own nonsense for it's own domestic population, and the media is laughably reporting it all as real. there is no other way to make sense of iran's threats, and america's decision to not even respond with a sardonic remark.
i kind of expected this from trump. the only thing he was ever really serious about was china. everything else he said ranged from ignorant to absurd.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this is my fourth symphony.
it's a sort of a pun; it uses the medical condition of acidosis, which is when the ph level of a person's blood dips to a level that causes complications or death, to draw an analogy to the environmental destruction being carried out by industrial civilization. it also forwards my intuitive hypothesis that homo sapiens will ultimately end up as an evolutionary dead-end. more specifically, my view is that intelligence, as a trait, is ultimately an evolutionary disadvantage. well somebody else probably has that view too.
(...i learned later that it turns out to be the seminal evolutionary biologist, ernst mayr, in fact. he made evolutionary syntheses, not hot dogs....)
the material is presented here in fragmented format to properly outline the structure of the piece.
that sexy cover art is a couple of bitmaps of neurons played with in paint and superimposed onto each other in coagula. the sound of that sexy bitmap is heard in the song.
i think i'd rather let the piece stand by title alone, other than to point out that the reaction explored in the piece is really more general than any specific narrative justifies. it's a systems break down.
the music is half generated algorithmically and half played. the half random, largely atonal notes i had programmed into the generator created unusual jam circumstances that were fun to play with. as an example, the piano part is live, but it's being spurred on by the random synth bass underneath it. the computer was driving me, creatively; i think it produced interesting results, both out of me and in itself. as a rhythm section, the computer holds it's own here - as random as the notes are.
what centres the track, though, is a classical guitar part that i recorded very late one night. i was weirded out about things and wanted to get some shit out, so i recorded myself playing for close to a half hour. i think a lot of people don't realize just how powerful a guitar can be as an alternate outlet for aggression. psychologically, that's powerful shit.
i listened to the jam when i got my head clear and i was sort of fascinated by it's just raw emotion. it didn't make any musical sense, but it expressed an idea through it's dynamics. i ran it backwards through an effect designed to simulate a record player dying over exaggerated lengths of times and that became the idea to build around. the shape grew slowly, all the way into the analogy, from there.
this was constructed over a little more than a month: from 7/7-8/20, 2000. it seems to have been recombined into one track around 2007 but has otherwise not been modified since it was completed. first released as an ep in jan 2014. release finalized on oct 8, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this ep appears as a single track on my fourth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
it's a sort of a pun; it uses the medical condition of acidosis, which is when the ph level of a person's blood dips to a level that causes complications or death, to draw an analogy to the environmental destruction being carried out by industrial civilization. it also forwards my intuitive hypothesis that homo sapiens will ultimately end up as an evolutionary dead-end. more specifically, my view is that intelligence, as a trait, is ultimately an evolutionary disadvantage. well somebody else probably has that view too.
(...i learned later that it turns out to be the seminal evolutionary biologist, ernst mayr, in fact. he made evolutionary syntheses, not hot dogs....)
the material is presented here in fragmented format to properly outline the structure of the piece.
that sexy cover art is a couple of bitmaps of neurons played with in paint and superimposed onto each other in coagula. the sound of that sexy bitmap is heard in the song.
i think i'd rather let the piece stand by title alone, other than to point out that the reaction explored in the piece is really more general than any specific narrative justifies. it's a systems break down.
the music is half generated algorithmically and half played. the half random, largely atonal notes i had programmed into the generator created unusual jam circumstances that were fun to play with. as an example, the piano part is live, but it's being spurred on by the random synth bass underneath it. the computer was driving me, creatively; i think it produced interesting results, both out of me and in itself. as a rhythm section, the computer holds it's own here - as random as the notes are.
what centres the track, though, is a classical guitar part that i recorded very late one night. i was weirded out about things and wanted to get some shit out, so i recorded myself playing for close to a half hour. i think a lot of people don't realize just how powerful a guitar can be as an alternate outlet for aggression. psychologically, that's powerful shit.
i listened to the jam when i got my head clear and i was sort of fascinated by it's just raw emotion. it didn't make any musical sense, but it expressed an idea through it's dynamics. i ran it backwards through an effect designed to simulate a record player dying over exaggerated lengths of times and that became the idea to build around. the shape grew slowly, all the way into the analogy, from there.
this was constructed over a little more than a month: from 7/7-8/20, 2000. it seems to have been recombined into one track around 2007 but has otherwise not been modified since it was completed. first released as an ep in jan 2014. release finalized on oct 8, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this ep appears as a single track on my fourth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
credits
released August 20, 2000
j - guitars of all types, bass, drum programming, synthesizers, piano, loops, noise generation, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, treatments, effects, found sounds, sound design, generative synthesis, generative percussion, light-sound synthesis, digital wave editing, production, coughs, a broken equalizer, cover art
j - guitars of all types, bass, drum programming, synthesizers, piano, loops, noise generation, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, treatments, effects, found sounds, sound design, generative synthesis, generative percussion, light-sound synthesis, digital wave editing, production, coughs, a broken equalizer, cover art
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
and, you might not realize this, but it's absolutely true: in the wider academic community, not just math and science but pretty much across the spectrum, business people are broadly looked down upon as mindless idiots that lack the brain power to pursue a fulfilling subject matter.
an mba is like a doctorate in religion: it's not seen as a real education, and they're not seen as 'educated people'.
this goes way back, too. if western culture is fundamentally built on top of plato (due to christians burning all the other books. thanks guys.), you could argue that the entire purpose of academia is to slag business people as shallow and singularly-minded.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
an mba is like a doctorate in religion: it's not seen as a real education, and they're not seen as 'educated people'.
this goes way back, too. if western culture is fundamentally built on top of plato (due to christians burning all the other books. thanks guys.), you could argue that the entire purpose of academia is to slag business people as shallow and singularly-minded.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
actually, tit-for-tat demonstrably outperforms more sophisticated strategies, in just about every possible simulation, and that is maybe what the media missed, all along: somebody playing 0-dimensional chess with force and conviction is actually likely to handily defeat somebody playing 18-dimensional chess, as he steam rolls over all of the logic bending around and collapsing in on itself.
what the math actually says in these scenarios is that you want to keep it simple, stupid. but, you're not consulting the math. you're consulting some hare-brained theories written by a bunch of half-literate charlatans with worthless mbas.
i keep telling you to take a course in game theory. it doesn't require advanced math - some simple algebra, that's it. but, you don't listen.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/trump-corker-attack/index.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
what the math actually says in these scenarios is that you want to keep it simple, stupid. but, you're not consulting the math. you're consulting some hare-brained theories written by a bunch of half-literate charlatans with worthless mbas.
i keep telling you to take a course in game theory. it doesn't require advanced math - some simple algebra, that's it. but, you don't listen.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/trump-corker-attack/index.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, as with everything else with this administration, they're setting up a crazy house of smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the issue - expect a lot of bravado and a lot of words, but not much action.
this is good.
as i've stated repeatedly: putting sanctions on iran at this point is equivalent to rolling out the red carpet for russian troops to enter tehran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-08/trump-s-iran-gambit-is-said-to-keep-worst-deal-ever-intact
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this is good.
as i've stated repeatedly: putting sanctions on iran at this point is equivalent to rolling out the red carpet for russian troops to enter tehran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-08/trump-s-iran-gambit-is-said-to-keep-worst-deal-ever-intact
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
nationalism. racism. religion. tribalism. patriarchy. traditionalism. conservatism. heterosexism.
they're all the same thing, and they all need to be abolished simultaneously in order to prevent one from regenerating the rest of them.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/545/docs/Wendy_Wood_Research_Articles/Social_Influence/hall.matz.wood.2010.final_why_dont_we_practice_what_we_preach.pdf
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
they're all the same thing, and they all need to be abolished simultaneously in order to prevent one from regenerating the rest of them.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/545/docs/Wendy_Wood_Research_Articles/Social_Influence/hall.matz.wood.2010.final_why_dont_we_practice_what_we_preach.pdf
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Saturday, October 7, 2017
again: leftist ideology sees the world in terms of class conflict and argues for the necessity of a violent revolution to overthrow the existing status quo of capitalism.
we hate pacifists.
historically, it has usually been conservatives that have argued against war - and leftists that have waged them.
when leftists have pushed back against wars, it has not been on a pacifist moral ground but due to arguments about poor uses of resources. a leftist will argue that a specific war is pointless or counterproductive, but will never argue against war as an idea; to the contrary, we are always looking forward for the day when our war is waged and won.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
we hate pacifists.
historically, it has usually been conservatives that have argued against war - and leftists that have waged them.
when leftists have pushed back against wars, it has not been on a pacifist moral ground but due to arguments about poor uses of resources. a leftist will argue that a specific war is pointless or counterproductive, but will never argue against war as an idea; to the contrary, we are always looking forward for the day when our war is waged and won.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
infrastructure?
the united states government builds infrastructure?
since when?
the procurement is mostly about military contracts, and i'm kind of not upset about that.
here's an idea: instead of focusing on getting contracts in the united states, why doesn't this government build some things in canada - and shut american firms out of the bidding process?
https://globalnews.ca/news/3776722/nafta-americans-canada-same-access-bahrain-freeland
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
the united states government builds infrastructure?
since when?
the procurement is mostly about military contracts, and i'm kind of not upset about that.
here's an idea: instead of focusing on getting contracts in the united states, why doesn't this government build some things in canada - and shut american firms out of the bidding process?
https://globalnews.ca/news/3776722/nafta-americans-canada-same-access-bahrain-freeland
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this was the buried report from the climate barbie fiasco:
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_201710_01_e_42489.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_201710_01_e_42489.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
we'll never get rid of the koalas if this catches on.
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/14715/scientists-explore-eucalyptus-as-an-alternative-to-dense-jet-fuel
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/14715/scientists-explore-eucalyptus-as-an-alternative-to-dense-jet-fuel
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
your brain plays tricks on you sometimes.ard.
i imagined pita bread as used in fajitas, soft tacos, burritos - it struck me as fundamentally mexican, and i guess i got to thinking it was made from corn, making it inherently indigenous to central america.
i was thinking pita was a tortilla.
but, of course, pita is greek - middle eastern. and, had somebody said it was greek, it would have clicked.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i imagined pita bread as used in fajitas, soft tacos, burritos - it struck me as fundamentally mexican, and i guess i got to thinking it was made from corn, making it inherently indigenous to central america.
i was thinking pita was a tortilla.
but, of course, pita is greek - middle eastern. and, had somebody said it was greek, it would have clicked.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Friday, October 6, 2017
republishing inri038
this is a
collection of versions of a track that was important to me around the
turn of the century: five electronic versions (seven including the
downloads) and an electric folk version that i often played as a sort of
a drunken party trick. after the lead track, the electronic versions
are arranged in decreasing complexity, and the electric folk version is
at the end. the extra tracks are both vocal mixes; i felt that only one
was really necessary, but included them here for scope.
it's sort of about me, and sort of about my dad, and sort of about caricatures. we never had a dog drown, and i simply have no knowledge of the dynamics of my parents' sexual relationship. that's just an old country song. yet, there were a lot of stressful problems in both his work and family life, and that was being pointed to as a cause of his heart problems.
in hindsight, i'd tend to lean more towards genetics (and perhaps lifestyle) than stress. of course, that's something i have an interest in understanding further as i age. at the time, though, the focus was all about reducing the amount of stress he was dealing with.
i really just sort of didn't get it. i still don't *really* get it. stressed? well, chill out then. spark one up. put on a tune. it's maybe not as easy as snapping a finger, but it has to be about a general philosophy of life. see, i guess i place a lot less faith in the idea of free will than most people do - and my father, being a rush fan, and don't get me started on that travesty, put far more faith in it. when one is absolutely convinced that their entire life is determined by the choices they make, including the ones they don't make, it produces a lot of pressure to make or not make the right choices. meaning? he did it to himself - his atlas never shrugged.
ultimately, universe gonna hate. your so-called free will is doomed to be crushed in a wave of stochastics. the universe is a random, chaotic place defined by poorly understood probabilities. so, why bother concerning yourself so deeply with the consequences of your actions in this pointless existence, to the point that it might cut that existence short? it was the idea of him driving himself to cardiac arrest that pissed me off. you could be hit by an asteroid in your sleep. you could spontaneously combust. you could even wake up one day to find that aliens have landed and are taking over the world using robot gunships. once you get *that*, trying to fight for control seems pointless. embrace the random, and spiral out....
or, so, the debate went. i wasn't really comfortable writing a song *about* my old man, so i took a fictional first-person perspective and went to town with it a bit.
the cover art bitmap is one of the files i put through coagula to produce sound out of light. inristart was a working title for the piece.
written and recorded, 1999-2001. track 3 was reconstructed out of existing sound in june, 2004. initially sequenced in jan, 2014. four new mixes (maximal mix (2017), electronics only mix (2015), single mix for lp010 (2017), full instrumental mix from deny everything (2014)) were added on oct 5, 2017; release subsequently closed. as always, please use headphones.
the full instrumental mix of this track appears on my fourth record:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
the lead track also appears on the inrimoved compilation, which is a lost record of discarded vocal pieces:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimoved
...and the folk version appears on my fifth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
*download only
it's sort of about me, and sort of about my dad, and sort of about caricatures. we never had a dog drown, and i simply have no knowledge of the dynamics of my parents' sexual relationship. that's just an old country song. yet, there were a lot of stressful problems in both his work and family life, and that was being pointed to as a cause of his heart problems.
in hindsight, i'd tend to lean more towards genetics (and perhaps lifestyle) than stress. of course, that's something i have an interest in understanding further as i age. at the time, though, the focus was all about reducing the amount of stress he was dealing with.
i really just sort of didn't get it. i still don't *really* get it. stressed? well, chill out then. spark one up. put on a tune. it's maybe not as easy as snapping a finger, but it has to be about a general philosophy of life. see, i guess i place a lot less faith in the idea of free will than most people do - and my father, being a rush fan, and don't get me started on that travesty, put far more faith in it. when one is absolutely convinced that their entire life is determined by the choices they make, including the ones they don't make, it produces a lot of pressure to make or not make the right choices. meaning? he did it to himself - his atlas never shrugged.
ultimately, universe gonna hate. your so-called free will is doomed to be crushed in a wave of stochastics. the universe is a random, chaotic place defined by poorly understood probabilities. so, why bother concerning yourself so deeply with the consequences of your actions in this pointless existence, to the point that it might cut that existence short? it was the idea of him driving himself to cardiac arrest that pissed me off. you could be hit by an asteroid in your sleep. you could spontaneously combust. you could even wake up one day to find that aliens have landed and are taking over the world using robot gunships. once you get *that*, trying to fight for control seems pointless. embrace the random, and spiral out....
or, so, the debate went. i wasn't really comfortable writing a song *about* my old man, so i took a fictional first-person perspective and went to town with it a bit.
the cover art bitmap is one of the files i put through coagula to produce sound out of light. inristart was a working title for the piece.
written and recorded, 1999-2001. track 3 was reconstructed out of existing sound in june, 2004. initially sequenced in jan, 2014. four new mixes (maximal mix (2017), electronics only mix (2015), single mix for lp010 (2017), full instrumental mix from deny everything (2014)) were added on oct 5, 2017; release subsequently closed. as always, please use headphones.
the full instrumental mix of this track appears on my fourth record:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
the lead track also appears on the inrimoved compilation, which is a lost record of discarded vocal pieces:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimoved
...and the folk version appears on my fifth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
*download only
credits
released July 11, 2000
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, sequencing, drum programming, vocals, vocoders, sound design, sampling, digital wave editing, production
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, sequencing, drum programming, vocals, vocoders, sound design, sampling, digital wave editing, production
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i think the crux of it is passed.
i wanted to get a lot more done this morning, but all i was able to do was curl up in a ball.
i guess i need to try some aspirin before i determine if i'm in for the night or not. i'm about 50/50 right now. at least the weather looks navigable.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i wanted to get a lot more done this morning, but all i was able to do was curl up in a ball.
i guess i need to try some aspirin before i determine if i'm in for the night or not. i'm about 50/50 right now. at least the weather looks navigable.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this is why we need a new left:
http://www.unifor.org/en/whats-new/press-room/energy-easts-demise-unwelcome-news-workers
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
http://www.unifor.org/en/whats-new/press-room/energy-easts-demise-unwelcome-news-workers
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
i was convinced that the reason hillary clinton kept coughing and fainting all of the time is that she is a drunk and a prescription drug addict.
it's interesting to see theresa may go through the same problem, almost like it's scripted - right down to holding up the cough drop.
i promise you that that isn't actually a cough drop, but some kind of nerve calming drug that she's having a physical withdrawal to.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
it's interesting to see theresa may go through the same problem, almost like it's scripted - right down to holding up the cough drop.
i promise you that that isn't actually a cough drop, but some kind of nerve calming drug that she's having a physical withdrawal to.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
selling s-400s to saudi arabia is far more disturbing than selling them to iran.
i'm actually usually cautiously supportive of russian geo-political strategies, as they are designed to create balances of power that make conflict less likely. putin is purposefully trying to create a permanent stalemate, and that's a far better idea than the neo-con push for global hegemony. america used to do this, itself - the american term was 'mutually assured destruction'. peace is of course preferable, but in the absence of it due to the war economy, i would love to see america get back to this. as it is, the world should be thankful that vladimir putin exists to present a counter-balance to the war criminals in the pentagon. if it weren't for putin, america would be bombing in a dozen places on top of the dozen places it's already bombing.
this is taking the situation a step further, as the saudis are the most dangerous regime in the region and the one that the world should be ensuring can be toppled, if necessary. if america ever gets a sane government, one of the first things that is going to happen is an attempt to modernize the saudi state. i might even go so far as arguing that the democratization and secularization of saudi arabia is the single most important pre-requisite to a lasting peace in the region.
putin will take the money, but what this move is designed to do is give the saudis a little bit of independence from american military dominance - these systems can take down just about anything that doesn't use stealth technology, and while the american military has the technology to overwhelm them, it doesn't have the hardware on hand to do it. it's an effective deterrence. and, that's a problem.
there's an upside to it, which is that if the saudis can accept russian supremacy then they might stop funding isis. maybe putin's got his eyes on something longer term, and maybe he's balanced this out. but, i'm uncomfortable with this, and that's rare, coming from them.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/putin-opens-talks-saudi-king-kremlin-50297785
jagnmeet singh must cut his beard.
i'm actually usually cautiously supportive of russian geo-political strategies, as they are designed to create balances of power that make conflict less likely. putin is purposefully trying to create a permanent stalemate, and that's a far better idea than the neo-con push for global hegemony. america used to do this, itself - the american term was 'mutually assured destruction'. peace is of course preferable, but in the absence of it due to the war economy, i would love to see america get back to this. as it is, the world should be thankful that vladimir putin exists to present a counter-balance to the war criminals in the pentagon. if it weren't for putin, america would be bombing in a dozen places on top of the dozen places it's already bombing.
this is taking the situation a step further, as the saudis are the most dangerous regime in the region and the one that the world should be ensuring can be toppled, if necessary. if america ever gets a sane government, one of the first things that is going to happen is an attempt to modernize the saudi state. i might even go so far as arguing that the democratization and secularization of saudi arabia is the single most important pre-requisite to a lasting peace in the region.
putin will take the money, but what this move is designed to do is give the saudis a little bit of independence from american military dominance - these systems can take down just about anything that doesn't use stealth technology, and while the american military has the technology to overwhelm them, it doesn't have the hardware on hand to do it. it's an effective deterrence. and, that's a problem.
there's an upside to it, which is that if the saudis can accept russian supremacy then they might stop funding isis. maybe putin's got his eyes on something longer term, and maybe he's balanced this out. but, i'm uncomfortable with this, and that's rare, coming from them.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/putin-opens-talks-saudi-king-kremlin-50297785
jagnmeet singh must cut his beard.
well, just from a logistics point of view, there's almost not another
option - the island is going to cost billions of dollars to rebuild, so,
what do you do? add another 20 billion dollars of debt? can they even
get credit, when they're 130 billion dollars in the hole already? so,
then what else do you do - let the island sink? there's really only two
choices for puerto rico, right now: debt forgiveness or total
evacuation.
remember: trump is somebody that understands bankruptcy quite well.
(jagmeet singh must cut his beard.)
so, what they seem to want out of this is to put the electoral system under the oversight of the secret service, which would be the end of american democracy - as tenuous as it already is.
this is a power play by the deep state: claim the russians are interfering, and then use it as an excuse to take control, themselves.
it's absolutely transparent. completely obvious.
you can't even be thinking of supporting the democrats right now. they are the threat to american democracy. and, they must be stopped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1AMD1OngU
(jagmeet singh must cut his beard.)
this is a power play by the deep state: claim the russians are interfering, and then use it as an excuse to take control, themselves.
it's absolutely transparent. completely obvious.
you can't even be thinking of supporting the democrats right now. they are the threat to american democracy. and, they must be stopped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1AMD1OngU
(jagmeet singh must cut his beard.)
the clinton war machine has locked into it's target and is set to 'destroy'.
he can't be serious, though.
dude: you're like 35.
go fuck your wife.
http://observer.com/2017/08/dear-democrats-unless-you-nominate-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-will-win-in-2020-fake-news-media/
(jagmeet singh must cut his beard.)
he can't be serious, though.
dude: you're like 35.
go fuck your wife.
http://observer.com/2017/08/dear-democrats-unless-you-nominate-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-will-win-in-2020-fake-news-media/
(jagmeet singh must cut his beard.)
the democrats are sure treating him like he's going to.
https://www.gq.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-probably-isnt-running-for-president
(jagmeet singh must cut his beard)
https://www.gq.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-probably-isnt-running-for-president
(jagmeet singh must cut his beard)
i'm not really a fan of mark zuckerberg, but it's really ironic the way they're going after him - as though he's a russian oligarch that is threatening putin or something.
his actual crime is not being a democrat.
i think the last person they went after like this was bill gates, and he had to put his money into a trust and step down from his company in order to get them to stop. all for refusing to adhere to the party.
it's disappointing that most americans can't see themselves in the mirror, or realize that this vilification of russia they're being bombarded with is just a projection of themselves.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
his actual crime is not being a democrat.
i think the last person they went after like this was bill gates, and he had to put his money into a trust and step down from his company in order to get them to stop. all for refusing to adhere to the party.
it's disappointing that most americans can't see themselves in the mirror, or realize that this vilification of russia they're being bombarded with is just a projection of themselves.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, i got a new flavour of doritos on my way home - sonic sour creme. it's doritos, so it has the superlative adjective..
i don't know the global availability of the product.
but, i'm thinking that i'm kind of the perfect test subject for doritos, as i'm contemplating how it came to be that the only bag in the store is placed in my target area.
then, i start thinking - it's true, consider the economic benefit of these spin-off industries. but, then i realize that these are industries that the state is trying to suppress.
the ideological way out is through decriminalization. there are, in fact, good reasons why the state ought not want to be involved in manufacturing, but they are not good reasons for prohibition.
it has to be the end point. this is just a fight against history.
or a cynical ploy to maintain votes through a slow unravelling. and, unfortunately, it might work.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i don't know the global availability of the product.
but, i'm thinking that i'm kind of the perfect test subject for doritos, as i'm contemplating how it came to be that the only bag in the store is placed in my target area.
then, i start thinking - it's true, consider the economic benefit of these spin-off industries. but, then i realize that these are industries that the state is trying to suppress.
the ideological way out is through decriminalization. there are, in fact, good reasons why the state ought not want to be involved in manufacturing, but they are not good reasons for prohibition.
it has to be the end point. this is just a fight against history.
or a cynical ploy to maintain votes through a slow unravelling. and, unfortunately, it might work.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
i want to clarify, though, that the communications coming out of the ndp around this are not indicating that they understand the problem.
i mean, this is two beardos in a row, guys. c'mon. what are you thinking?
apparently, niki ashton is crying sexism - and my intuition is that she's on to something, but it's less of an anti-woman thing and more of a legitimate cult of male virility. there's a long history of this on the left.
to these people, the beard is some kind of show of masculinity. and, i don't even want to have that debate, i just want to reject the idea that i want the prime minister to be the fucking dos equis guy. why don't they just go get putin?
one of the things they're floating around is this idea that singh should win by default because his beard clearly annihilates trudeau's pirate goatee. but, guess what, guys? trudeau doesn't have the pirate goatee anymore - because his pr strategists identified it as evil, burned it off his face with a blowtorch and then buried the fumes at chalk river.
i tried to tell them with mulcair, too, y'know. but it was the same hipster bullshit.
i bet jagmeet singh would do wonderfully at a community council meeting in brooklyn. but, most people actually have a very strong dislike for hipsters.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i mean, this is two beardos in a row, guys. c'mon. what are you thinking?
apparently, niki ashton is crying sexism - and my intuition is that she's on to something, but it's less of an anti-woman thing and more of a legitimate cult of male virility. there's a long history of this on the left.
to these people, the beard is some kind of show of masculinity. and, i don't even want to have that debate, i just want to reject the idea that i want the prime minister to be the fucking dos equis guy. why don't they just go get putin?
one of the things they're floating around is this idea that singh should win by default because his beard clearly annihilates trudeau's pirate goatee. but, guess what, guys? trudeau doesn't have the pirate goatee anymore - because his pr strategists identified it as evil, burned it off his face with a blowtorch and then buried the fumes at chalk river.
i tried to tell them with mulcair, too, y'know. but it was the same hipster bullshit.
i bet jagmeet singh would do wonderfully at a community council meeting in brooklyn. but, most people actually have a very strong dislike for hipsters.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i've decided that, so long as jagmeet singh is leader of the ndp, i will campaign for him to cut his beard.
he won't win with that thing on his face. that is obvious.
so, will he put his party and his country ahead of himself, or will he insist on maintaining a selfish and narcissistic anti-fashion decision at the expense of the people that are counting on him to win?
if he can cut the beard, he can go a long way to proving that he's reasonable, and that his religious views won't affect his politics - but if he refuses to budge on this, he proves he's driven more by his religious convictions than by rational considerations, and he disqualifies himself from high office.
i'm serious: this is the litmus test.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
he won't win with that thing on his face. that is obvious.
so, will he put his party and his country ahead of himself, or will he insist on maintaining a selfish and narcissistic anti-fashion decision at the expense of the people that are counting on him to win?
if he can cut the beard, he can go a long way to proving that he's reasonable, and that his religious views won't affect his politics - but if he refuses to budge on this, he proves he's driven more by his religious convictions than by rational considerations, and he disqualifies himself from high office.
i'm serious: this is the litmus test.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
i mean, this is why the ndp never gets anywhere.
at exactly the point where the planet is pushing back hard against liberal elitism, it runs an end-around it's own members to put a liberal elitist in charge, in order to better appeal to other liberal elitists.
they do this - not this exactly, but this level of cluelessness - over and over again.
and, what are the liberals doing? they're reacting to the information on the ground as best they can, and trying to create a political position out of taxing those same liberal elitists - because they can at least grasp what's happening around them.
at exactly the point where the planet is pushing back hard against liberal elitism, it runs an end-around it's own members to put a liberal elitist in charge, in order to better appeal to other liberal elitists.
they do this - not this exactly, but this level of cluelessness - over and over again.
and, what are the liberals doing? they're reacting to the information on the ground as best they can, and trying to create a political position out of taxing those same liberal elitists - because they can at least grasp what's happening around them.
she gets upset that people think that singh is a closet liberal, then
accuses the members of not being "tolerant and inclusive" - which is
boilerplate milquetoast neo-liberalism.
being progressive does not mean being "tolerant and inclusive", it means leaving the world of superstitions in the past. that's what the members have been getting across.
and, i'm not interested in being "tolerant and inclusive", because i'm not a liberal, i'm a socialist.
but, this whole debate is going to go over these peoples' heads. it's the end of history, after all.
people will vote in the end, and the liberal elite that currently runs the ndp will need to get the lesson the hard way - despite the fact that it could have learned the easy way by reading the news.
http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/its-time-for-the-ndp-to-end-its-ideological-loyalty-test/
being progressive does not mean being "tolerant and inclusive", it means leaving the world of superstitions in the past. that's what the members have been getting across.
and, i'm not interested in being "tolerant and inclusive", because i'm not a liberal, i'm a socialist.
but, this whole debate is going to go over these peoples' heads. it's the end of history, after all.
people will vote in the end, and the liberal elite that currently runs the ndp will need to get the lesson the hard way - despite the fact that it could have learned the easy way by reading the news.
http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/its-time-for-the-ndp-to-end-its-ideological-loyalty-test/
so, i was absolutely mortified of george w. bush considerably before it was cool.
clinton had some problems, and gore was, at the time, a cartoon character; if you want to blame it on something other than the rain (and the moon and the stars), you should blame it on low turnout - something that was largely probably spurred on by the assumption that bush couldn't possibly actually win. well, maybe it was a fitting way to end the 90s. here's your apathy, kids. served cold. ice cold. cold as the blood of a shape-shifting lizard person...and cold as the blood on it's hands.
of course, standing in the spring of 2000, i had no way of knowing what was about to be unleashed. i was mostly still just pissed at clinton for bombing medicine factories in the sudan. i mean, the level of assholery underlying it was just.....the threat of "terrorism" could hardly justify that kind of indiscriminate bombing....fucking medicine factories...
the way i interpreted it was something more along the lines of this half-evolved hominid of undisclosed type slowly riding into town on horseback (with cronies in tow, including one with a yellow hat). it felt like you could see him coming days in the distance. it was unclear what was going to happen when he got to town, but it felt ominous. there was nothing to do but just wait, maybe prepare a little and ultimately hope for the best, even while bracing for the worst.
so, i did what i do - i wrote a conceptual piece about it with the intent of raising awareness. even just amongst friends would help, if they'd talk. etc.
...or, well, i sort of did, anyways. see, i lost a hard drive around this period, and most of the song along with it. what is posted here is a 90% done version that i thought i had lost completely but stumbled upon a few months after the election, after i had moved. given the circumstances, i'm lucky that i found this at all. however, it's remained unreleased as a cohesive piece all of these years.
well, the election was over. it was no longer worthwhile to finish it. i suppose that if i was operating on a profit motive, or a desire for control, i would have finished it. instead, i just felt like i failed to warn people, and it actually put me into a pretty deep depression for a while. it was too late, i blew it, we're fucking doomed....finishing it wouldn't matter....nothing mattered anymore...
listening to it now, it could maybe use a bass part. all this was really missing, though, were the vocals - which were also lost on the hard drive. i have no recollection of them at all at this point and don't see the value in making new ones up.
i did have the first and second section put aside somewhere, on a cd-r. i was able to fill that up with samples and get it out just before the election, and it also ended up sequenced into deny everything. so, it wasn't a total loss.
as for this suite, though? i present it as i've recovered it, with no further comment than that it accurately represents the deep, foreboding fear of the future that was in the air around the period that bush was elected.
this is a song cycle.
recorded in spring, 2000. released, unmodified, in jan, 2014. release finalized on oct 3, 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 (1999, 2014, 2017).
credits
released May 10, 2000
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, drums, drum programming, sequencing, sound design (sound raider, audiomulch, granular synthesis, noise generators), loops, digital wave editing, production
====
track 1...
i can date this well, and report that this was the initial idea of the track. if you read the books (and i'd advise against reading these to your kids), there's actually a fairly graphic section at the beginning where george is captured from the jungle by the man with the yellow hat.
the man with the yellow hat really comes off as a dick.
anyways, that's what's going on here with this.
the cd-r i found has an early version of acidosis followed by this suite. over time, i began to interpret the jungle sounds as being more connected to acidosis than to this suite and this did end up there, in modified form, as 'life goes on' (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/life-goes-on). that being said, the version attached to acidosis was reconstructed from the initial samples because i lost this collage when my hard drive crashed...
the source files (along with the files for part 2) are dated to the end of april, which seems roughly right.
what i did was get a bunch of jungle sounds together and let sound raider mess with them. i then created a file in audiomulch that produced some exotic drum effects and adds in some unusual noises.
it's an atmospheric track in either context.
credits
from the curious george suite, track released April 24, 2000
j - sound design: soundscaping with found sound (sound raider), drum programming & noise generation (audiomulch), digital wave editing, production.
===
track 2...
this section was augmented with samples:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/curious-george-2
it was also released on deny everything:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
musically, the track is a combination of an experiment with an idea. i should note that this suite together is maybe the first original track in the style that dominates my output over the next few years, even if it's incomplete (albeit hereby decreed complete). the idea was about creating "guitar symphonies" (and while i was aware of the work of oldfield and fripp, and of sonic youth and gybe!, branca was a black hole for me at the time) in a minimalist, electronic framework that most readily draws to mind the work of trent reznor. this is the first of many expressions and evolutions of that idea. the experiment was with a program called "leaf drums", which is a fairly basic drum machine except in it's ability to manipulate samples with effects in realtime (remember that this is the spring of 2000). once i had that loop running, i started playing some of the riffs i had put aside for the guitar symphony, mostly just to play around with them. it stuck far better than i expected....and that's really the extent of the track.
the bush sample at the beginning is a constructed loop rather than a direct quote. he was talking about gore - "this guy would say anything to get elected, i'd...". that was flipped around to "i'd say anything to get elected" and looped. well, at this point i don't think anybody is going to stand up for bush' honesty or credibility. regardless, the way i looped it purposefully pans it to make it obvious that it's not a direct quote.
the lost version was built up considerably further than this; this version has three guitar parts, the lost version had closer to ten. i was too focused on getting the samples together to worry about re-recording the guitar parts. i don't remember them at this point and will not make up new ones. to be honest, this is far easier to listen to, and, while i mourn the loss of the completed version, i'm actually happy that i kept a more stripped down one.
credits
from the curious george suite, track released April 24, 2000
j - guitars, effects, drum programming, digital wave editing
===
track 3....
if i could find a source for the "people who are going to commit crimes shouldn't have guns" quote, i could maybe date this better. unfortunately, i suspect google has done some scrubbing for the bush family, which is a scary thought. i think it was early may, but it may be a little later.
i can't remember if i finished most of this, put it aside for later, recorded acidosis and then lost the hard drive OR if i finished the very beginning of this, recorded acidosis, then recorded the second half of this and then lost the drive. meaning, this is either early may or it's mid-september.
there's a number of reasons to lean towards may, though. the drums, firstly. there are not live drum parts in any of the material recorded from mid-may forwards. that indicates that they weren't available to play. second, i remember the early summer sun hitting me when recording the fourth part - and specifically in the hilliard basement, rather than the lexington basement i'd move to over the fall. there's a kind of nausea attached to the mid -season sun that only occurs in april/may and sept/oct.
musically, this extends out of the previous experiment, but it's easy to hear that that is an introduction to this, that this was meant to be the song that that leads into. as the big, ridiculous arena-rock tune it is? it holds up well. note that the aim was to push a message, and the arena rock theme wasn't an accident. this was supposed to be the take-away, the radio play, the thing that got stuck in your head.
i never added a bass track and don't see a point in doing so now. however, what is actually lost is really solely a heavily vocoded vocal track. i won't re-do it. i'll explain it a little. the theme underlying the curious george analogy was one of seeing bush as a corporate puppet. wherever george went, the man in the yellow hat would follow - to oversee, influence and ultimately dominate. i wasn't taking the analogy very far, i was simply drawing it with the aim of hoping that people would educate themselves about the dangers that he posed.
===
track 4...
this was meant to be instrumental, and wouldn't have been modified in any way except maybe to embiggen the end part. i didn't expect to ever release this, so i raided the track for inclusion in ftaa:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/through-the-looking-glass
credits
from the curious george suite, track released May 1, 2000
j - guitars, effects, drums, synthesizers, sequencers, granular synthesis, noise generators, digital wave editing
clinton had some problems, and gore was, at the time, a cartoon character; if you want to blame it on something other than the rain (and the moon and the stars), you should blame it on low turnout - something that was largely probably spurred on by the assumption that bush couldn't possibly actually win. well, maybe it was a fitting way to end the 90s. here's your apathy, kids. served cold. ice cold. cold as the blood of a shape-shifting lizard person...and cold as the blood on it's hands.
of course, standing in the spring of 2000, i had no way of knowing what was about to be unleashed. i was mostly still just pissed at clinton for bombing medicine factories in the sudan. i mean, the level of assholery underlying it was just.....the threat of "terrorism" could hardly justify that kind of indiscriminate bombing....fucking medicine factories...
the way i interpreted it was something more along the lines of this half-evolved hominid of undisclosed type slowly riding into town on horseback (with cronies in tow, including one with a yellow hat). it felt like you could see him coming days in the distance. it was unclear what was going to happen when he got to town, but it felt ominous. there was nothing to do but just wait, maybe prepare a little and ultimately hope for the best, even while bracing for the worst.
so, i did what i do - i wrote a conceptual piece about it with the intent of raising awareness. even just amongst friends would help, if they'd talk. etc.
...or, well, i sort of did, anyways. see, i lost a hard drive around this period, and most of the song along with it. what is posted here is a 90% done version that i thought i had lost completely but stumbled upon a few months after the election, after i had moved. given the circumstances, i'm lucky that i found this at all. however, it's remained unreleased as a cohesive piece all of these years.
well, the election was over. it was no longer worthwhile to finish it. i suppose that if i was operating on a profit motive, or a desire for control, i would have finished it. instead, i just felt like i failed to warn people, and it actually put me into a pretty deep depression for a while. it was too late, i blew it, we're fucking doomed....finishing it wouldn't matter....nothing mattered anymore...
listening to it now, it could maybe use a bass part. all this was really missing, though, were the vocals - which were also lost on the hard drive. i have no recollection of them at all at this point and don't see the value in making new ones up.
i did have the first and second section put aside somewhere, on a cd-r. i was able to fill that up with samples and get it out just before the election, and it also ended up sequenced into deny everything. so, it wasn't a total loss.
as for this suite, though? i present it as i've recovered it, with no further comment than that it accurately represents the deep, foreboding fear of the future that was in the air around the period that bush was elected.
this is a song cycle.
recorded in spring, 2000. released, unmodified, in jan, 2014. release finalized on oct 3, 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 (1999, 2014, 2017).
credits
released May 10, 2000
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, drums, drum programming, sequencing, sound design (sound raider, audiomulch, granular synthesis, noise generators), loops, digital wave editing, production
====
track 1...
i can date this well, and report that this was the initial idea of the track. if you read the books (and i'd advise against reading these to your kids), there's actually a fairly graphic section at the beginning where george is captured from the jungle by the man with the yellow hat.
the man with the yellow hat really comes off as a dick.
anyways, that's what's going on here with this.
the cd-r i found has an early version of acidosis followed by this suite. over time, i began to interpret the jungle sounds as being more connected to acidosis than to this suite and this did end up there, in modified form, as 'life goes on' (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/life-goes-on). that being said, the version attached to acidosis was reconstructed from the initial samples because i lost this collage when my hard drive crashed...
the source files (along with the files for part 2) are dated to the end of april, which seems roughly right.
what i did was get a bunch of jungle sounds together and let sound raider mess with them. i then created a file in audiomulch that produced some exotic drum effects and adds in some unusual noises.
it's an atmospheric track in either context.
credits
from the curious george suite, track released April 24, 2000
j - sound design: soundscaping with found sound (sound raider), drum programming & noise generation (audiomulch), digital wave editing, production.
===
track 2...
this section was augmented with samples:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/curious-george-2
it was also released on deny everything:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
musically, the track is a combination of an experiment with an idea. i should note that this suite together is maybe the first original track in the style that dominates my output over the next few years, even if it's incomplete (albeit hereby decreed complete). the idea was about creating "guitar symphonies" (and while i was aware of the work of oldfield and fripp, and of sonic youth and gybe!, branca was a black hole for me at the time) in a minimalist, electronic framework that most readily draws to mind the work of trent reznor. this is the first of many expressions and evolutions of that idea. the experiment was with a program called "leaf drums", which is a fairly basic drum machine except in it's ability to manipulate samples with effects in realtime (remember that this is the spring of 2000). once i had that loop running, i started playing some of the riffs i had put aside for the guitar symphony, mostly just to play around with them. it stuck far better than i expected....and that's really the extent of the track.
the bush sample at the beginning is a constructed loop rather than a direct quote. he was talking about gore - "this guy would say anything to get elected, i'd...". that was flipped around to "i'd say anything to get elected" and looped. well, at this point i don't think anybody is going to stand up for bush' honesty or credibility. regardless, the way i looped it purposefully pans it to make it obvious that it's not a direct quote.
the lost version was built up considerably further than this; this version has three guitar parts, the lost version had closer to ten. i was too focused on getting the samples together to worry about re-recording the guitar parts. i don't remember them at this point and will not make up new ones. to be honest, this is far easier to listen to, and, while i mourn the loss of the completed version, i'm actually happy that i kept a more stripped down one.
credits
from the curious george suite, track released April 24, 2000
j - guitars, effects, drum programming, digital wave editing
===
track 3....
if i could find a source for the "people who are going to commit crimes shouldn't have guns" quote, i could maybe date this better. unfortunately, i suspect google has done some scrubbing for the bush family, which is a scary thought. i think it was early may, but it may be a little later.
i can't remember if i finished most of this, put it aside for later, recorded acidosis and then lost the hard drive OR if i finished the very beginning of this, recorded acidosis, then recorded the second half of this and then lost the drive. meaning, this is either early may or it's mid-september.
there's a number of reasons to lean towards may, though. the drums, firstly. there are not live drum parts in any of the material recorded from mid-may forwards. that indicates that they weren't available to play. second, i remember the early summer sun hitting me when recording the fourth part - and specifically in the hilliard basement, rather than the lexington basement i'd move to over the fall. there's a kind of nausea attached to the mid -season sun that only occurs in april/may and sept/oct.
musically, this extends out of the previous experiment, but it's easy to hear that that is an introduction to this, that this was meant to be the song that that leads into. as the big, ridiculous arena-rock tune it is? it holds up well. note that the aim was to push a message, and the arena rock theme wasn't an accident. this was supposed to be the take-away, the radio play, the thing that got stuck in your head.
i never added a bass track and don't see a point in doing so now. however, what is actually lost is really solely a heavily vocoded vocal track. i won't re-do it. i'll explain it a little. the theme underlying the curious george analogy was one of seeing bush as a corporate puppet. wherever george went, the man in the yellow hat would follow - to oversee, influence and ultimately dominate. i wasn't taking the analogy very far, i was simply drawing it with the aim of hoping that people would educate themselves about the dangers that he posed.
===
track 4...
this was meant to be instrumental, and wouldn't have been modified in any way except maybe to embiggen the end part. i didn't expect to ever release this, so i raided the track for inclusion in ftaa:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/through-the-looking-glass
credits
from the curious george suite, track released May 1, 2000
j - guitars, effects, drums, synthesizers, sequencers, granular synthesis, noise generators, digital wave editing
republishing inri036
this is a collection of three tracks that were recorded in late '99 and early '00 with the intent of being included on record number three ('trinri') but were either discarded or stripped of samples on the way there. the purpose of this ep is not to be comprehensive, but to act as a transitional time capsule: this is the sound of exiting one project and entering another. as such, the narratives are scattered and better told separately.
trinri eventually became deny everything:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
written and recorded in late 1999 and early 2000. these versions of these tracks were sequenced without further modification in jan, 2014. remainder of hummer added as a bonus track, and release finalized, on oct 3, 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 (1999, 2014, 2017).
credits
released January 25, 2000
j - guitar, effects, synth, drumkit, drum programming, sequencing, sampling, digital wave manipulation, treatments, production
===
track 1...
this was initially written to be the first track on my third record, which i was calling trinri as a working title. yet, it was written about the same time as i was finishing up my covers disc. i wanted to add at least one more track to the disc to make it a bit longer. for whatever reason, i ended up using it as an introduction to the hummer cover, rather than as it's own track.
record number three, deny everything, ended up with it's own introduction. however, i've pulled it out here, in instrumental form - and as an introduction to this ep.
the hummer cover is here:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/05-hummer
written in the fall of 1999. isolated in jan, 2014.
===
track 2...
so, this is an interesting thing to have sitting on my shelf. it's the 'i have a dream' speech, orchestrated with some soaring guitars.
i should point out immediately that i got a lawsuit thrown at me by the king estate when i tried to upload this to mp3.com back in early '00. i thought that was really trite, but it's not really a legal battle i want to have. i would react more or less the same way should i be threatened a second time, except to point out this time that it's fair use so long as i remove the price tag and basically just do that.
the story behind the song is not very remarkable. the working title for the track was just 'progblues thing'. it was intended to be a structured instrumental guitar track that mixed the flair of hendrix with the minimalist structure of steve reich. the speech sort of came to it by accident.
it was also the result of my dad getting himself a drumkit for christmas that year, which my step-mother promptly placed in my bedroom as a disincentive for further use. score, i guess. but it didn't survive the move a few months later. in the mean time, i got some recordings out of it - as well as a few moderately crazy drunken weekend jam sessions.
i'll note that that christmas also produced a grand piano a few feet outside my door. it's intended recipient was my sister, but she wasn't around much. me? new pc, with a convenient recording interface, and some more functional microphones. despite talk of family jam spaces, one might suspect my father was actually conspiring in my favour. there is probably a great deal of truth in this suspicion. these conditions held for less than a year, but i made the most of them.
so, the idea of the track was initially about experimenting with the new reverb system built into my new soundcard interface, by triggering it with the drumkit that had recently magically appeared out of good fortune. it had been a few years since i'd played the kit much, and, unfortunately, it kind of does show. i had spent a little time practicing along with "nevermind" and "siamese dream" for a few weeks to get back in shape, but i wasn't really "there" yet at the time of this recording. i didn't want to program loops into the song, so i compensated by splicing the track up. of special interest in this wave editing is the backwards cymbals, and especially how they intersect with the soaring guitars.
and of those soaring guitars? a fairly simple blues pattern. sure is lovely, though, isn't it?
the speech became attached to the track when chance managed to have them playing simultaneously for me. i had cnn on in the corner. it was doing some kind of special on mlk, perhaps related to an anniversary that is related to a yearly holiday. placed together, it knocked me flat on my ass.
the idea in my mind from the start was integrationist, if not really consciously so. on the one hand, the guitar part is raw southern blues. on the other hand, the structure is sterile white minimalism. i didn't just realize this juxtaposition, i was trying to exploit it, even if the racial context hadn't occurred to me. when king's speech was played over it, though, the idea really exploded; the context became much deeper. it was an instant exponentiation in profundity.
i also thought it would work well as a foil to the doonesbury sample that is in the track that follows this one [entropy (original mix)].
in hindsight, there are some problems with this. i was a moderately wealthy white kid from canada. there was never much chance of me turning a profit on this, but if i did it would be a type of appropriation. this track does appear on the deny everything demo (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/a-commercial-break) but under the title of "a commercial break" - and without the dr. king samples. that's probably for the best.
that doesn't change the feeling i got when i first heard the two things together, or take away any of the power that the pairing produces.
i think this is worth sharing.
---
this was initially released as a download only ep. as of the fall of 2017, i have revisited this decision and reversed it: i need to have this release available in some capacity, and it follows that i'm being kind of silly in not offering the full range of options.
for example, if i were to offer the release as a download only, i'd have to offer it at $7, because it is original music, one way or the other. then, why wouldn't i offer it as a physical item? or, if i were to offer it as a $1 download and a normal physical offer, what am i doing besides punishing myself, really?
maybe i could say something about how it might have been better if i didn't create this, although i don't think that's really fair, either, as i do think it's worth sharing. but, i can't undo time. there's no "undo" button in reality. really. i've looked. strenuously.
i suppose that if i get sued i'll have to react, but i'm just going to treat this as any other release and carry on.
written and recorded in the winter of 1999/2000.
====
track 3...
this is an augmented experiment with a program called "sounder" that takes advantage of some obscure midi qualities to transport the act of triggering a note into the physical world. imagine a midi tennis ball that triggers at different intensities based on how hard the ball is thrown at a wall. now, imagine a frictionless space where that ball can bounce around indefinitely. sounder virtualizes this reality.
the experiment was augmented with synthesizer and guitar parts, and a sample of garry trudeau posing as a political candidate and being interviewed by larry king. i first interacted with that sample early in the morning in a deeply altered state and came to attach certain feelings to it that are difficult to describe. while it's clearly parody, it hit me as being frighteningly representative of reality. i suppose that all effective parody has this quality. perhaps my reaction speaks more of where i was at this point than anything else. i wasn't reacting well to the return of republicanism; i was very much dreading the future that i had no control in preventing. the absurd truth, here, cut me right down.
i was fucking baked.
eventually, i decided that the sample is just not worth listening to repeatedly and removed it from the track. an instrumental version is available on deny everything:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/entropy
written and recorded at the very end of 1999.
credits
from let freedom ring, track released December 17, 1999
j - guitars, effects, synths, sampling, pythagorean sequencing (sounder), digital wave editing
====
track 4...
this is the second half of the instrumental version of the hummer cover, presented as a hidden track.
the hummer cover is here:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/05-hummer
written in the fall of 1999. isolated in oct, 2017.
trinri eventually became deny everything:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
written and recorded in late 1999 and early 2000. these versions of these tracks were sequenced without further modification in jan, 2014. remainder of hummer added as a bonus track, and release finalized, on oct 3, 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 (1999, 2014, 2017).
credits
released January 25, 2000
j - guitar, effects, synth, drumkit, drum programming, sequencing, sampling, digital wave manipulation, treatments, production
===
track 1...
this was initially written to be the first track on my third record, which i was calling trinri as a working title. yet, it was written about the same time as i was finishing up my covers disc. i wanted to add at least one more track to the disc to make it a bit longer. for whatever reason, i ended up using it as an introduction to the hummer cover, rather than as it's own track.
record number three, deny everything, ended up with it's own introduction. however, i've pulled it out here, in instrumental form - and as an introduction to this ep.
the hummer cover is here:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/05-hummer
written in the fall of 1999. isolated in jan, 2014.
===
track 2...
so, this is an interesting thing to have sitting on my shelf. it's the 'i have a dream' speech, orchestrated with some soaring guitars.
i should point out immediately that i got a lawsuit thrown at me by the king estate when i tried to upload this to mp3.com back in early '00. i thought that was really trite, but it's not really a legal battle i want to have. i would react more or less the same way should i be threatened a second time, except to point out this time that it's fair use so long as i remove the price tag and basically just do that.
the story behind the song is not very remarkable. the working title for the track was just 'progblues thing'. it was intended to be a structured instrumental guitar track that mixed the flair of hendrix with the minimalist structure of steve reich. the speech sort of came to it by accident.
it was also the result of my dad getting himself a drumkit for christmas that year, which my step-mother promptly placed in my bedroom as a disincentive for further use. score, i guess. but it didn't survive the move a few months later. in the mean time, i got some recordings out of it - as well as a few moderately crazy drunken weekend jam sessions.
i'll note that that christmas also produced a grand piano a few feet outside my door. it's intended recipient was my sister, but she wasn't around much. me? new pc, with a convenient recording interface, and some more functional microphones. despite talk of family jam spaces, one might suspect my father was actually conspiring in my favour. there is probably a great deal of truth in this suspicion. these conditions held for less than a year, but i made the most of them.
so, the idea of the track was initially about experimenting with the new reverb system built into my new soundcard interface, by triggering it with the drumkit that had recently magically appeared out of good fortune. it had been a few years since i'd played the kit much, and, unfortunately, it kind of does show. i had spent a little time practicing along with "nevermind" and "siamese dream" for a few weeks to get back in shape, but i wasn't really "there" yet at the time of this recording. i didn't want to program loops into the song, so i compensated by splicing the track up. of special interest in this wave editing is the backwards cymbals, and especially how they intersect with the soaring guitars.
and of those soaring guitars? a fairly simple blues pattern. sure is lovely, though, isn't it?
the speech became attached to the track when chance managed to have them playing simultaneously for me. i had cnn on in the corner. it was doing some kind of special on mlk, perhaps related to an anniversary that is related to a yearly holiday. placed together, it knocked me flat on my ass.
the idea in my mind from the start was integrationist, if not really consciously so. on the one hand, the guitar part is raw southern blues. on the other hand, the structure is sterile white minimalism. i didn't just realize this juxtaposition, i was trying to exploit it, even if the racial context hadn't occurred to me. when king's speech was played over it, though, the idea really exploded; the context became much deeper. it was an instant exponentiation in profundity.
i also thought it would work well as a foil to the doonesbury sample that is in the track that follows this one [entropy (original mix)].
in hindsight, there are some problems with this. i was a moderately wealthy white kid from canada. there was never much chance of me turning a profit on this, but if i did it would be a type of appropriation. this track does appear on the deny everything demo (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/a-commercial-break) but under the title of "a commercial break" - and without the dr. king samples. that's probably for the best.
that doesn't change the feeling i got when i first heard the two things together, or take away any of the power that the pairing produces.
i think this is worth sharing.
---
this was initially released as a download only ep. as of the fall of 2017, i have revisited this decision and reversed it: i need to have this release available in some capacity, and it follows that i'm being kind of silly in not offering the full range of options.
for example, if i were to offer the release as a download only, i'd have to offer it at $7, because it is original music, one way or the other. then, why wouldn't i offer it as a physical item? or, if i were to offer it as a $1 download and a normal physical offer, what am i doing besides punishing myself, really?
maybe i could say something about how it might have been better if i didn't create this, although i don't think that's really fair, either, as i do think it's worth sharing. but, i can't undo time. there's no "undo" button in reality. really. i've looked. strenuously.
i suppose that if i get sued i'll have to react, but i'm just going to treat this as any other release and carry on.
written and recorded in the winter of 1999/2000.
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track 3...
this is an augmented experiment with a program called "sounder" that takes advantage of some obscure midi qualities to transport the act of triggering a note into the physical world. imagine a midi tennis ball that triggers at different intensities based on how hard the ball is thrown at a wall. now, imagine a frictionless space where that ball can bounce around indefinitely. sounder virtualizes this reality.
the experiment was augmented with synthesizer and guitar parts, and a sample of garry trudeau posing as a political candidate and being interviewed by larry king. i first interacted with that sample early in the morning in a deeply altered state and came to attach certain feelings to it that are difficult to describe. while it's clearly parody, it hit me as being frighteningly representative of reality. i suppose that all effective parody has this quality. perhaps my reaction speaks more of where i was at this point than anything else. i wasn't reacting well to the return of republicanism; i was very much dreading the future that i had no control in preventing. the absurd truth, here, cut me right down.
i was fucking baked.
eventually, i decided that the sample is just not worth listening to repeatedly and removed it from the track. an instrumental version is available on deny everything:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/entropy
written and recorded at the very end of 1999.
credits
from let freedom ring, track released December 17, 1999
j - guitars, effects, synths, sampling, pythagorean sequencing (sounder), digital wave editing
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track 4...
this is the second half of the instrumental version of the hummer cover, presented as a hidden track.
the hummer cover is here:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/05-hummer
written in the fall of 1999. isolated in oct, 2017.
for the record, and i guess this is directed at younger people that don't remember, but trump is not as bad as bush - neither on policy nor on...
bush was just completely clueless, most of the time. trump is often lost, or relying on scripted help, but it's just not on the same level. bush had difficulty following and answering questions, or even making it across the room a lot of time. he legitimately often did not know what his own officials were doing. and, he was frequently obviously fucked up on something.
i've posted here more than once that i'm still not sure which is the lesser evil: trump or clinton.
bush was in his own category. it was just impossible. surreal.
bush was just completely clueless, most of the time. trump is often lost, or relying on scripted help, but it's just not on the same level. bush had difficulty following and answering questions, or even making it across the room a lot of time. he legitimately often did not know what his own officials were doing. and, he was frequently obviously fucked up on something.
i've posted here more than once that i'm still not sure which is the lesser evil: trump or clinton.
bush was in his own category. it was just impossible. surreal.
i'm procrastinating; i don't want to make a choice about this.
i think the closest precedent i have is to inri003, the inrisampled disc. that was transitional, and a self-contained ep, but it was used in the upcoming lp.
one thing i'm deciding upon: this is not an ep single, but an ep. that gives me the freedom to avoid making it comprehensive.
let me list my options:
1) download $1 + no physical, like inri032.
- this isn't consistent, because there is original music on this disc. only the hidden track is truly a cover.
2) download $1 + regular physical. hybrid. unique.
- i liked this at first, but it's kind of a cop-out: i'm just punishing myself, really. it's sort of silly.
3) download only at $7, like inri022. this was the initial choice.
but, i i'm going to put it up as a download, why not manufacture it?
4) download & physical at normal price, like any other ep.
yeah. after all.
i'm not 100% comfortable with this.
and i'll finish my write-up carefully.
but i'll do it.....
i think the closest precedent i have is to inri003, the inrisampled disc. that was transitional, and a self-contained ep, but it was used in the upcoming lp.
one thing i'm deciding upon: this is not an ep single, but an ep. that gives me the freedom to avoid making it comprehensive.
let me list my options:
1) download $1 + no physical, like inri032.
- this isn't consistent, because there is original music on this disc. only the hidden track is truly a cover.
2) download $1 + regular physical. hybrid. unique.
- i liked this at first, but it's kind of a cop-out: i'm just punishing myself, really. it's sort of silly.
3) download only at $7, like inri022. this was the initial choice.
but, i i'm going to put it up as a download, why not manufacture it?
4) download & physical at normal price, like any other ep.
yeah. after all.
i'm not 100% comfortable with this.
and i'll finish my write-up carefully.
but i'll do it.....
His followers say
that after about 3 years, uncut hair follicles develop an antenna at
the end that collects cosmic energy, thus a haircut condemns one to a
3-year drought of magnetism.
i know you think this is completely wrong.
but, it's not even.
i know you think this is completely wrong.
but, it's not even.
i'd actually love to be in the room.
"you need to shave your beard."
"i can't shave my beard, man."
"you think it's magic."
"i don't think i have a magic beard."
"then why won't you shave it?"
"because i can't."
"...because..."
".........because....."
"....because you think it's magic."
"i...i don't..."
"then, why won't you.."
hopeful response:
"alright. alright. i'll shave the beard."
likely response:
"fine. i think it's magic. what happens next?"
"god help us all."
"you need to shave your beard."
"i can't shave my beard, man."
"you think it's magic."
"i don't think i have a magic beard."
"then why won't you shave it?"
"because i can't."
"...because..."
".........because....."
"....because you think it's magic."
"i...i don't..."
"then, why won't you.."
hopeful response:
"alright. alright. i'll shave the beard."
likely response:
"fine. i think it's magic. what happens next?"
"god help us all."
this hasn't happened in canada for a few decades.
but, we have a parliamentary system. what that means is that sitting ndp mps could theoretically leave the party and start a new one, or perhaps join the greens.
the party got hijacked, and this guy...i don't know, give him some time, maybe, but i don't think he's workable: outside of parliament, not certain to get in and probably more likely to become a long term joke than prime minister.
the ndp might not have a serious future, after this, anyways.
it should be contemplated.
but, we have a parliamentary system. what that means is that sitting ndp mps could theoretically leave the party and start a new one, or perhaps join the greens.
the party got hijacked, and this guy...i don't know, give him some time, maybe, but i don't think he's workable: outside of parliament, not certain to get in and probably more likely to become a long term joke than prime minister.
the ndp might not have a serious future, after this, anyways.
it should be contemplated.
i guess there's actually a story in the hebrew bible about this guy samson, that had superhuman strength because of his hair.
no - it's not a dc comic, it's in the bible.
and, the philistines captured him and cut his hair off, as he was holding the temple up, which led to it crashing - which i believe was a stolen greek story.
now, is it not true that any self-respecting leftist would hoot and guffaw if they heard a conservative start talking about the story of samson?
i'm not going to uphold a double standard, here. i'm going to treat him exactly the same way i'd treat a christian - same disdain, some dismissiveness.
in fact, i'm about to lose interest...
i'm just kind of flabbergasted that this has happened.
maybe his magic hair will give him the energy to overcome.
no - it's not a dc comic, it's in the bible.
and, the philistines captured him and cut his hair off, as he was holding the temple up, which led to it crashing - which i believe was a stolen greek story.
now, is it not true that any self-respecting leftist would hoot and guffaw if they heard a conservative start talking about the story of samson?
i'm not going to uphold a double standard, here. i'm going to treat him exactly the same way i'd treat a christian - same disdain, some dismissiveness.
in fact, i'm about to lose interest...
i'm just kind of flabbergasted that this has happened.
maybe his magic hair will give him the energy to overcome.
again: what exactly do you expect that i'm going to say to you after you've looked me in the eye, with a straight face, and claimed that your facial hair is "sacred" because it's "natural"?
do you expect me to respect that opinion?
because i'm more likely to laugh at you.
if you want to win this thing, you need to shave.
do you expect me to respect that opinion?
because i'm more likely to laugh at you.
if you want to win this thing, you need to shave.
the particular problem was when you parked him next to trudeau. it really exaggerated the contrast.
trudeau is a good looking guy anyways, but he's far better looking when he's standing beside mulcair - and he will be even that much better looking when he's standing besides jagmeet singh, unless he mows that thing down, somehow.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/14/tom-mulcair-beard-shave-image_n_3922175.html
trudeau is a good looking guy anyways, but he's far better looking when he's standing beside mulcair - and he will be even that much better looking when he's standing besides jagmeet singh, unless he mows that thing down, somehow.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/14/tom-mulcair-beard-shave-image_n_3922175.html
step three: i know you like your beard, and i know the ndp is trying
to cultivate some kind of beardo counter-culture, but....if mulcair had
just gotten rid of it, he'd at least still have a job, right now.
yes: mulcair's beard was a major factor in his inability to connect with voters.
it's gotta go. if you're serious, that is.
the last canadian prime minister with facial hair was robert borden, and he was a complete asshole.
the turban is probably not a serious problem, but the beard must go.
yes: mulcair's beard was a major factor in his inability to connect with voters.
it's gotta go. if you're serious, that is.
the last canadian prime minister with facial hair was robert borden, and he was a complete asshole.
the turban is probably not a serious problem, but the beard must go.
it's probably the single most important thing you have to be able to do for the job.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=jack+layton+beer&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPtqG1g9TWAhXJ24MKHUWbBlUQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=650
https://www.google.ca/search?q=jack+layton+beer&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPtqG1g9TWAhXJ24MKHUWbBlUQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=650
listen.
if jagmeet singh were trying to represent the liberals or conservatives, we could have a discussion about whether an accusation of being 'full of hubris' is something like calling him 'uppity', although i'd deny that it actually is.
but, he's trying to represent the party of the working class - drawn largely from a combination of union members and low-income students. and, he's walking around in $5000 suits and $3000 watches, while showing no interest in connecting with constituents.
even if he was running for the liberals, that would be a bit much. as a dipper? he's a fish out of water, and he's just not going to connect with the base.
he's a snob.
i bet he drinks fucking perrier, right?
i've actually read some interviews where they get across the idea that he only puts the suits on for the camera, and he dresses like a normal person when there aren't cameras around.
step one, jagmeet: ditch your gq bullshit and start dressing like a member of the working class.
if jagmeet singh were trying to represent the liberals or conservatives, we could have a discussion about whether an accusation of being 'full of hubris' is something like calling him 'uppity', although i'd deny that it actually is.
but, he's trying to represent the party of the working class - drawn largely from a combination of union members and low-income students. and, he's walking around in $5000 suits and $3000 watches, while showing no interest in connecting with constituents.
even if he was running for the liberals, that would be a bit much. as a dipper? he's a fish out of water, and he's just not going to connect with the base.
he's a snob.
i bet he drinks fucking perrier, right?
i've actually read some interviews where they get across the idea that he only puts the suits on for the camera, and he dresses like a normal person when there aren't cameras around.
step one, jagmeet: ditch your gq bullshit and start dressing like a member of the working class.
i think everybody is missing the point.
which constituents does mr. singh intend to represent? because he's already indicated that he's looking right past them.
do you know the last time we had a party leader with that kind of arrogance and hubris? michael ignatieff.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/10/02/elizabeth-may-tells-jagmeet-singh-that-prime-ministers-in-canada-arent-elected_a_23229963/
which constituents does mr. singh intend to represent? because he's already indicated that he's looking right past them.
do you know the last time we had a party leader with that kind of arrogance and hubris? michael ignatieff.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/10/02/elizabeth-may-tells-jagmeet-singh-that-prime-ministers-in-canada-arent-elected_a_23229963/
see, they think that their grassroots movement is being hijacked.
they don't realize the extent of it, or what the real point of the whole thing actually is.
to be clear: the cops are there. that's not up for debate. what i've claimed repeatedly for years is that they're not just there, but actually in charge.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/surveillance-black-lives-matter-cointelpro_us_55d49dc6e4b055a6dab24008
they don't realize the extent of it, or what the real point of the whole thing actually is.
to be clear: the cops are there. that's not up for debate. what i've claimed repeatedly for years is that they're not just there, but actually in charge.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/surveillance-black-lives-matter-cointelpro_us_55d49dc6e4b055a6dab24008
i disagree with this; they've been taking responsibility for things they didn't do for years, but the media didn't see fit to question them.
i don't think they did the paris attacks, for example. i actually think that was the russians.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/02/isis_s_claims_of_responsibility_are_getting_more_dubious.html
i don't think they did the paris attacks, for example. i actually think that was the russians.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/02/isis_s_claims_of_responsibility_are_getting_more_dubious.html
Monday, October 2, 2017
i'm glad that they didn't walk down this path, as they would have just ended up paying out damages.
i think that 'not criminally responsible' should mean no chance of parole, myself - it should be the strongest possible sentence, not a reason for leniency. reintegration necessitates an ability to understand what was done.
i'm more interested in this person's history of prescription drug use than i am in his reading habits on the internet.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/terrorism-charges-edmonton-attacks-1.4316450
i think that 'not criminally responsible' should mean no chance of parole, myself - it should be the strongest possible sentence, not a reason for leniency. reintegration necessitates an ability to understand what was done.
i'm more interested in this person's history of prescription drug use than i am in his reading habits on the internet.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/terrorism-charges-edmonton-attacks-1.4316450
here's the thing about gun control: whether it works or not depends on whether you want it. but, it's not at the actual root cause of anything, good or bad.
we have far more gun control in canada than in the united states, and we're able to enforce it - because we want it. gun control is actually quite popular, here. i'm 36 years old and i've actually never seen a gun before. nor do i feel like i'm missing out on anything.
but, is it the gun control that is the reason that we have less gun violence? no. rather, it's the fact that we don't have a culture of guns that makes us more willing to voluntarily uphold the rules around gun control.
this is how you get gun control to work: you have to get the community together to willingly destroy their arms. make it a party. a celebration.
this is how gun control doesn't work: you send cops around door-to-door demanding people hand over their weapons. then, they're moved underground, and the gun culture proliferates.
so, i'm broadly in favour of gun control. but, i know better than to think that it's going to solve the problems that america has with gun violence. these problems are cultural and need deeper fixes than that.
we have far more gun control in canada than in the united states, and we're able to enforce it - because we want it. gun control is actually quite popular, here. i'm 36 years old and i've actually never seen a gun before. nor do i feel like i'm missing out on anything.
but, is it the gun control that is the reason that we have less gun violence? no. rather, it's the fact that we don't have a culture of guns that makes us more willing to voluntarily uphold the rules around gun control.
this is how you get gun control to work: you have to get the community together to willingly destroy their arms. make it a party. a celebration.
this is how gun control doesn't work: you send cops around door-to-door demanding people hand over their weapons. then, they're moved underground, and the gun culture proliferates.
so, i'm broadly in favour of gun control. but, i know better than to think that it's going to solve the problems that america has with gun violence. these problems are cultural and need deeper fixes than that.
this...
...i'm torn over what to do with this.
i understand why i shouldn't be selling it, but i also want the release inside of my physical discography. and the truth is that i'm not actually solving any problems if i put the thing up for download for the price of a physical disc, then don't offer it - i'm not actually addressing the problem i've posed for myself.
i have three releases that are cassette only. besides that, the only recordings i've left download only are inri022 (which is rejected tracks; this is not a really interesting release) and inri032 (which is a covers disc, and may be released some day - this is potentially temporary). these tracks were discarded, but they are not rejected in the same way that the ones on the rejected comp were. they were just remixed, actually.
i'm toying with the idea of flipping it around, and providing the download at a trivial price ($1) and offering the recording at a normal price. that would allow for the physical disc to exist in the collection, and yet allow for (almost) free downloads.
i need to nap. i'll work this out when i wake up.
...i'm torn over what to do with this.
i understand why i shouldn't be selling it, but i also want the release inside of my physical discography. and the truth is that i'm not actually solving any problems if i put the thing up for download for the price of a physical disc, then don't offer it - i'm not actually addressing the problem i've posed for myself.
i have three releases that are cassette only. besides that, the only recordings i've left download only are inri022 (which is rejected tracks; this is not a really interesting release) and inri032 (which is a covers disc, and may be released some day - this is potentially temporary). these tracks were discarded, but they are not rejected in the same way that the ones on the rejected comp were. they were just remixed, actually.
i'm toying with the idea of flipping it around, and providing the download at a trivial price ($1) and offering the recording at a normal price. that would allow for the physical disc to exist in the collection, and yet allow for (almost) free downloads.
i need to nap. i'll work this out when i wake up.
something that stood out about donald trump during the primaries is that he campaigned strongly against dubya's legacy, including being highly critical of his katrina response. he stated repeatedly that he'd be a lot better.
and, the reason he sided with the democrats on the debt ceiling is that he didn't want to jeopardize relief funding, because he's aware of the political liabilities.
the error that joy reid made with this piece is that she published it too early, thereby demonstrating that she's attempting to frame a narrative.
i don't know what the reality is on the ground in puerto rico. i know that the official death toll is currently set at 16. and i know that the democrats are politicizng something that they ought not to be politicizing.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-rico-has-become-trumps-katrina
and, the reason he sided with the democrats on the debt ceiling is that he didn't want to jeopardize relief funding, because he's aware of the political liabilities.
the error that joy reid made with this piece is that she published it too early, thereby demonstrating that she's attempting to frame a narrative.
i don't know what the reality is on the ground in puerto rico. i know that the official death toll is currently set at 16. and i know that the democrats are politicizng something that they ought not to be politicizing.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-rico-has-become-trumps-katrina
Sunday, October 1, 2017
with the pieces in place, is it time for a 2019 election preview?
it's kind of insane, but i'm going to do this.
- the election of andrew scheer has put the socred/tory coalition in some serious jeopardy. he doesn't seem to have gotten any kind of a bump over the interim leader, who was probably a better choice for prime minister. given that inter-election polling always overestimates tory support (due to undecideds), this 30-33% polling average is probably something more like 25-28%, and these are approaching historic lows. these trendlines are old, and almost nothing was going to reverse them. in a lot of ways, andrew scheer is the right person to lead the socred part of the base, but he has almost no appeal to the center; a centrist would have just split the party, again. 30% is probably a ceiling for the conservatives in the next election, who are going to be more focused on tending to their base (which is really about one thing: abortion) than they are going to be on winning the most seats. as almost all millenials that would have been pcs grew up into liberals, they will not have a personal connection to the party, or feel any need to ride out a (perceived) temporary shift right. they will lose what few urban ridings they still have - including, potentially, in alberta. moving into 2023, the conservative party is going to see itself as a largely spent force, representing only a fringe of mostly aging voters that are concerned about social issues that the broader society considers settled. if this party comes back some time in the late 20s or early 30s, once it's base of boomers has died, it's going to be a completely different animal, and it's not really possible to predict it. i think it's more likely that the conservative party is in the process of unravelling back to it's socred base, while the tories have just been absorbed by the liberals - and the future is perpetual obscurity.
- the ndp is going to get trounced in 2019. it might think it's rebranding itself for a quick shot at power, but what it's really doing is entering a long process of transition. you don't build a new foundation on top of a leaky one, you have to rip it up first. so, how badly it does is going to depend on how quickly it can build a mobilized force of voters in it's new support base: if it cannot build this base in the next two years, it is going to be completely decimated. it will likely be somewhere in between: they may win some urban ridings, but i would also expect them to lose most of their remaining left-wing voices and most of their quebec mps, leaving a small group of mostly ethnic mps that singh will rebuild the party around. this is going to allow the party to redefine itself as a voice of minorities, and it's policies will shift along with it, into a space that is less concerned about advancing socialism and more concerned about religious pluralism. the new ndp is going to be a moderate conservative party, concerned about maintaining the sanctity of traditional culture, in advancing the dignity of the individual and in the application of the universality of human rights - one nation under god. might make the masons proud. they are going to find themselves fighting with the liberals for ethnic votes that would have leaned ideologically conservative in the last century, as well as for moderate christian votes.
- for 2019, the greens are going to, in some way, benefit from the ndp's swing away from the left, but it remains to be seen if this is going to be a fleeting protest vote or something more substantial. with the ndp abandoning the left, and the liberals just being dishonest, leftist voters are going to either need to find an outlet or accept being disenfranchised - and they may choose the latter, opting for struggle on the ground over participation in a bourgeois system full of lying and back-stabbing politicians. unfortunately, the current leadership of the green party is centrist to centre-right on most issues, and likely not particularly able to take advantage of what it should see as a clear opportunity. whether through hostile takeover or through retirement, the greens must eventually adjust to this new spectrum - but due to the continued existence of hanger-ons, 2027 is a better prediction than 2019, and in the process they may very well lose the opportunity to a new party.
- the ndp will not do well in quebec. is this opening up a space for the bloc? well, if you moved from the bloc to the ndp because you're a secular and federalist leftist, the liberals might not offer you what you want, and you maybe find yourself floating back. the bloc, however, are also shifting right, meaning quebec voters may find themselves badly disenfranchised. i would expect a new political force to appear in quebec within the next 5 years. it may be more regional than explicitly sovereigntist, but it may also be the only social democratic force in the country.
- the liberals are going to take a hit on voter apathy, as they have not lived up to even the weakest forms of expectation. this is probably the biggest bust of a government in the country's history. but, trudeau remains lucky: he doesn't have a serious opponent. the biggest opponent that the liberals are going to have in the 2019 election is apathy. they won a lot of close seats in 2015, and they will probably lose most of them. but, they will probably gain seats, too. where the other two parties are in a free fall that neither will be able to stop, the liberals are trying to maintain momentum in the face of friction created by their own feet-dragging. the best way for the liberals to fight this apathy is to actually do a couple of the things in their election platform, but that's probably not going to happen. nonetheless, they will likely keep their majority, and could even expand it.
i'd expect the results to look something like this:
liberals: 39%
conservatives: 28%
ndp: 13%
greens: 13%
quebec party: 5%
other: 2%
directed movements:
conservatives--->liberals (red tories, continuing)
ndp--->greens (protest voters & leftists, picking up)
ndp--->quebec party (historical bloc voters)
liberals---->non-voters (apathy, not as low turnout as 2011 but trending downwards)
it's kind of insane, but i'm going to do this.
- the election of andrew scheer has put the socred/tory coalition in some serious jeopardy. he doesn't seem to have gotten any kind of a bump over the interim leader, who was probably a better choice for prime minister. given that inter-election polling always overestimates tory support (due to undecideds), this 30-33% polling average is probably something more like 25-28%, and these are approaching historic lows. these trendlines are old, and almost nothing was going to reverse them. in a lot of ways, andrew scheer is the right person to lead the socred part of the base, but he has almost no appeal to the center; a centrist would have just split the party, again. 30% is probably a ceiling for the conservatives in the next election, who are going to be more focused on tending to their base (which is really about one thing: abortion) than they are going to be on winning the most seats. as almost all millenials that would have been pcs grew up into liberals, they will not have a personal connection to the party, or feel any need to ride out a (perceived) temporary shift right. they will lose what few urban ridings they still have - including, potentially, in alberta. moving into 2023, the conservative party is going to see itself as a largely spent force, representing only a fringe of mostly aging voters that are concerned about social issues that the broader society considers settled. if this party comes back some time in the late 20s or early 30s, once it's base of boomers has died, it's going to be a completely different animal, and it's not really possible to predict it. i think it's more likely that the conservative party is in the process of unravelling back to it's socred base, while the tories have just been absorbed by the liberals - and the future is perpetual obscurity.
- the ndp is going to get trounced in 2019. it might think it's rebranding itself for a quick shot at power, but what it's really doing is entering a long process of transition. you don't build a new foundation on top of a leaky one, you have to rip it up first. so, how badly it does is going to depend on how quickly it can build a mobilized force of voters in it's new support base: if it cannot build this base in the next two years, it is going to be completely decimated. it will likely be somewhere in between: they may win some urban ridings, but i would also expect them to lose most of their remaining left-wing voices and most of their quebec mps, leaving a small group of mostly ethnic mps that singh will rebuild the party around. this is going to allow the party to redefine itself as a voice of minorities, and it's policies will shift along with it, into a space that is less concerned about advancing socialism and more concerned about religious pluralism. the new ndp is going to be a moderate conservative party, concerned about maintaining the sanctity of traditional culture, in advancing the dignity of the individual and in the application of the universality of human rights - one nation under god. might make the masons proud. they are going to find themselves fighting with the liberals for ethnic votes that would have leaned ideologically conservative in the last century, as well as for moderate christian votes.
- for 2019, the greens are going to, in some way, benefit from the ndp's swing away from the left, but it remains to be seen if this is going to be a fleeting protest vote or something more substantial. with the ndp abandoning the left, and the liberals just being dishonest, leftist voters are going to either need to find an outlet or accept being disenfranchised - and they may choose the latter, opting for struggle on the ground over participation in a bourgeois system full of lying and back-stabbing politicians. unfortunately, the current leadership of the green party is centrist to centre-right on most issues, and likely not particularly able to take advantage of what it should see as a clear opportunity. whether through hostile takeover or through retirement, the greens must eventually adjust to this new spectrum - but due to the continued existence of hanger-ons, 2027 is a better prediction than 2019, and in the process they may very well lose the opportunity to a new party.
- the ndp will not do well in quebec. is this opening up a space for the bloc? well, if you moved from the bloc to the ndp because you're a secular and federalist leftist, the liberals might not offer you what you want, and you maybe find yourself floating back. the bloc, however, are also shifting right, meaning quebec voters may find themselves badly disenfranchised. i would expect a new political force to appear in quebec within the next 5 years. it may be more regional than explicitly sovereigntist, but it may also be the only social democratic force in the country.
- the liberals are going to take a hit on voter apathy, as they have not lived up to even the weakest forms of expectation. this is probably the biggest bust of a government in the country's history. but, trudeau remains lucky: he doesn't have a serious opponent. the biggest opponent that the liberals are going to have in the 2019 election is apathy. they won a lot of close seats in 2015, and they will probably lose most of them. but, they will probably gain seats, too. where the other two parties are in a free fall that neither will be able to stop, the liberals are trying to maintain momentum in the face of friction created by their own feet-dragging. the best way for the liberals to fight this apathy is to actually do a couple of the things in their election platform, but that's probably not going to happen. nonetheless, they will likely keep their majority, and could even expand it.
i'd expect the results to look something like this:
liberals: 39%
conservatives: 28%
ndp: 13%
greens: 13%
quebec party: 5%
other: 2%
directed movements:
conservatives--->liberals (red tories, continuing)
ndp--->greens (protest voters & leftists, picking up)
ndp--->quebec party (historical bloc voters)
liberals---->non-voters (apathy, not as low turnout as 2011 but trending downwards)
so, the apparent explanation of what happened in the ndp leadership race is that angus' supporters didn't show up to vote. it's curious how often the establishment's least preferred candidate has difficulty getting the vote out, isn't it?
i mentioned the other day that if there's shenanigans then they'll likely be in singh's favour, and the idea of singh winning on the first ballot does kind of seem like shenanigans. that's how the establishment avoids getting it's candidate ganged up on on the third ballot.
was angus a preferable candidate? the answer is that he really wasn't. he refused to condemn new pipelines, clearly mindful of the success of the ndp in alberta, and the importance of unifor in the party. and, his attempts at folksy populism have always seemed forced and contrived. his shtick was supposed to be about rebuilding trust, but he came off like a smarmy used car sales person.
i think the party should have picked niki ashton. but, in stating as much, i'm presenting a different tactical analysis. clearly, the party feels it's path to power is through minority votes.
a part of the reason it thinks that is that it realizes that it has difficulty convincing ideological leftists to actually vote. but, it's missing the point: i wouldn't have wanted to vote for charlie angus, either, because he's not really on the left, either. if they're going to go around representing this historically left-wing party, and then present policies that are unappealing to left-wing voters, of course they're going to have difficulty with voter apathy: they're totally disconnected from their voter base.
the party has decided that it is going to keep the right-wing policy trajectory, and just focus on getting new voters.
and, you know what? with andrew scheer representing the fundamentalist wing of his own party, jagmeet singh may, in the long run, be an extremely appealing candidate to the country's shrinking swing demographic of red tories. a pyrrhic victory to be sure; by the time singh gets to them, they'll be dead.
destruction is not necessarily negative, because one has to destroy to rebuild. that is likely going to be what the ndp is going to go through in 2019, as singh enters parliament with a rump that he can reconstruct from scratch.
but, i am not a moderate conservative, and my voting interests will follow the leftist exodus, wherever it leads. perhaps we can learn a lesson from the singh campaign, and use what he did to the ndp as a model to crash the green party with.
i mentioned the other day that if there's shenanigans then they'll likely be in singh's favour, and the idea of singh winning on the first ballot does kind of seem like shenanigans. that's how the establishment avoids getting it's candidate ganged up on on the third ballot.
was angus a preferable candidate? the answer is that he really wasn't. he refused to condemn new pipelines, clearly mindful of the success of the ndp in alberta, and the importance of unifor in the party. and, his attempts at folksy populism have always seemed forced and contrived. his shtick was supposed to be about rebuilding trust, but he came off like a smarmy used car sales person.
i think the party should have picked niki ashton. but, in stating as much, i'm presenting a different tactical analysis. clearly, the party feels it's path to power is through minority votes.
a part of the reason it thinks that is that it realizes that it has difficulty convincing ideological leftists to actually vote. but, it's missing the point: i wouldn't have wanted to vote for charlie angus, either, because he's not really on the left, either. if they're going to go around representing this historically left-wing party, and then present policies that are unappealing to left-wing voters, of course they're going to have difficulty with voter apathy: they're totally disconnected from their voter base.
the party has decided that it is going to keep the right-wing policy trajectory, and just focus on getting new voters.
and, you know what? with andrew scheer representing the fundamentalist wing of his own party, jagmeet singh may, in the long run, be an extremely appealing candidate to the country's shrinking swing demographic of red tories. a pyrrhic victory to be sure; by the time singh gets to them, they'll be dead.
destruction is not necessarily negative, because one has to destroy to rebuild. that is likely going to be what the ndp is going to go through in 2019, as singh enters parliament with a rump that he can reconstruct from scratch.
but, i am not a moderate conservative, and my voting interests will follow the leftist exodus, wherever it leads. perhaps we can learn a lesson from the singh campaign, and use what he did to the ndp as a model to crash the green party with.
Saturday, September 30, 2017
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