updates to the install scripts for the recording pc (sc.reg)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Appearance]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\0]
"Name"="Home/Office Desk"
"Description"="This scheme is suited to most home or desktop computers that are left plugged in all the time."
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\1]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\2]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\3]
"Name"="Always On"
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\4]
"Name"="Minimal Power Management"
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\5]
"Name"="Max Battery"
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound]
"Beep"="no"
"ExtendedSounds"="no"

booting into osx86 for the last time before formatting the drive (i had no use for it, after all)

installation file:
dm pro.lib

installation file:
various.iso

installation file:
key (3).txt

they keep you drugged with religion and sex and tv,
and you think you're so clever and classless and free....

Re: shower

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord

ok, but i'm not sure where you mean. it would seem like there isn't anywhere left to caulk, except the drain itself. i could be totally wrong, though. what i meant by it being a plumbing issue is that it seems to me like the water is coming down faster than the drain will swallow. increasing the rate that the drain pulls at would fix it, but that would require major work. i guess that caulking around the drain would fix that by having the "tub" fill up instead, but that would of course make it impossible to remove the drain for cleaning purposes....

repost, but i think some people need to read this.

http://fpif.org/syria_the_charade_of_humanitarian_intervention

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/19/the-naked-imperialism-of-humanitarian-intervention/

the silver mt. zion memorial orchestra & tra-la-la band - born into trouble as the sparks fly upward

Disappointment

i initially found this record incredibly disappointing, and have to interject a level of frustration attached to that, as it was also the point where people that i knew began listening to the band. yeah, i liked these guys before they were cool and got a little irked when they started selling more records. this was the record that penetrated the outside world, and brought people back to gybe! by proxy (it wasn't the other way around). i suppose that, for a lot of people, it defined the collective, and that is unfortunate because it is actually fairly atypical.

it was never about not wanting to share. in fact, i tried pretty hard to share. "hey guys, listen to this!"; "i'm going to a concert on wednesday night, wanna come?"; "i made you this cd-r because i think you'll really like it"; etc. i was fairly persistent, even. reactions ran the boredom spectrum from passively ignoring to openly dismissing: "it's just some more of that weird music j likes". once presented, however, with an endorsement by an official Figure of Authority - somebody on the radio, for example - minds opened quickly. "hey j, you should check out this band i've been listening to, the silver mt zions, i think you might like it". ugh. such is the actual truth of being a real hipster.

further, it wouldn't even have bothered me so much if this wasn't, by far, their worst record to date. sure, go ahead and send moya viral - or whatever the early 00s equivalent of viral was. it deserved it. i did my part in trying. this record? not really. in the end, misanthropy prevailed. once again.

at the time, it seemed to me like the band was going through burnout from over touring, but, in hindsight, it seems more like they were going through a learning curve. there are a number of people involved on this disc that weren't previously involved. what i initially perceived as a lack of ideas may in reality be a sort of orientation process. perhaps these tracks are overly simple and overly repetitive for the simple reason that that is what happens when musicians write records when they are still in the process of building chemistry with each other. the flip side of this is that it allowed space for the production to be exceedingly strong. this is an aspect of the band that sadly dissipated as the band shifted from a studio side project to a main focus live act, and that hits it's apex here.

bad production can ruin a record, and excellent production can take a set of good songs to the next level, but infinite buckets of the most glistening production in the world can't save a collection of haphazardly thrown together songs, which is what this is underneath it's shiny exterior. it's maybe better to analyze it as a record, as it seems like that is how they meant to construct it. it also provides the proper perspective in understanding the record's flaws...

two of the first three tracks are redundant. it almost seems as though they wrote three introductions to the fourth track, couldn't figure out which one they wanted to use, and so included all three of them. personally, i prefer the first of the three, with it's processed guitar work. i'm predictable. you may prefer the production work on the second, or the monologue on the third. something could be said regarding combining the three ideas into one track. the key is recognizing their redundancy in the context of the record's flow as a more profound explanation (than their minimalism) as to why the record seems uneventful and boring until the distortion finally kicks in.

it is difficult to understate the importance of the fourth track on the band's career trajectory and the montreal music scene in general. it was a sort of a hit single in certain circles. personally, i found it highly alienating in it's references to 80s hair metal and have never warmed up to it. this goes back to the frustration surrounding this record's larger appeal; i tend to avoid accusations of sell-out, but they were definitely floating around the internet. regardless, the appeal of this track is what set in motion the forces that produced that wave of soulless, corporate pop bands from montreal (like the arcade fire, who are from texas and merely struck oil in the st. lawrence). "good" is a very vague term, but there is simply no argument that can lead to describing this track that way, whether you happen to have guilty pleasures inclined that way or not.

the second half of the record has a few higher points, but is no more coherent. track five repeats the long, drawn-out, go-nowhere minimalist theme that dominates the first half of the disc. something these musicians understand in most of their recordings, and yet is absent almost entirely on this disc, is that minimalism requires tension to prevent it from getting boring. over touring or orientation? it's a secondary question. the sixth track is thematically tied back to the first disc, and may even be an outtake, while the seventh is a highly self-indulgent and very badly pasted together studio construction. by the time you get to the last track, you may be shocked to find a nice tune with compelling vocals amongst the rest of this drudgery; it really sounds remarkably out of place here. it always did.

i've periodically debated increasing the grading of this record and have always convinced myself not to. i recognize that, for a lot of people, this is the record that they understand the collective through, compare all their other works to, etc. might i be wrong? if all these other people think otherwise, should i reconsider? what i continually convince myself of is that these songs are objectively poorly constructed (it goes beyond disagreeable stylistic shifts) and that while my continuing reaction is highly personal it is nonetheless based upon a rejection that is rooted in objective terms. it doesn't matter how one approaches this record, it is written in a style of correct, tonal minimalism that is objectively boring.

you're allowed to like boring music if you want, or if the radio convinces you to, but i need to be more honest: this is a disc that can only work as background, and doesn't even work well as background because of the abrupt shifts in volume. while there are legitimately moments on the disc that the band cannot be separated from, i do not recommend the disc at all and will very adamantly reject suggestions that it is a "good", "easy" or "accessible" introduction to the band.

stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ihOcGNBi8&list=PLnpQFjefXCRMStU4rO7P-9iI2koNNaHIa

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/music/artists/ASilverMtZion/2001-BornIntoTrouble/index.html

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RE: shower

From: the initial landlord
To: "'Jessica Murray'" <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>

Jessica, I would like to come and Caulk the edges to rule out that the water is getting through the seams, down the wall and leaking to below the platform. If that does not change anything I will rip out the platform to look at the drain connection. If it is from supply plumbing it would be leaking all the time and it would be constant.

shower

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord

ok, about the shower...

i've experimented with a few things. i think the issue is both pretty simple and sort of complex.

tightening the drain hasn't seemed to have worked. it's actually been worse since you tightened it the second time. you can still feel then water filing up underneath the shower platform, and it still only leaks when you actually step on to the shower platform (thereby pushing out the water). i think this is still the root of the problem, but that seems like a plumbing problem more than a fixture problem so maybe it's better to focus on ways to better control the water flow under the platform.

i understand that ripping the shower out is a time consuming, expensive and bothersome process, and it's not something i really want to go through, either. so, could i just deal with it? i think i could, in the short run. however, the water is slowly eating away at the grout. the grout has progressively moved from a few little holes to what is becoming (but is not yet) a crumbling mess and it's spreading from the one side to the entire base. if it doesn't eventually get fixed, the grout is going to wash off altogether and the shower is going to flood the whole basement.

so, this needs to be dealt with in some form or another.

however, i've noticed something interesting. if a towel is pressed up tight against the grout then the leaking has a delayed reaction that only happens after the towel is removed. that may be short term, though; as the grout crumbles further, the leaks may happen faster. for right now, though, simply blocking the existing small holes seems to be enough to stop the water. so, that seems to indicate that if the grout was replaced with sealer (or sealer was just put around the grout) then the water would drain properly on it's own.

in all honesty, i think maybe there should have been sealer used there in the first place, and not grout....or, maybe there should have been sealer put in before the grout, or if there was then maybe it didn't take. i think something like that is true.

so, that's an idea that may prevent the need to pull the shower out. i don't know, however, whether or not that's going to just create another set of problems regarding water flow on the other side of the shower base.

i just really need to reiterate that leaving this alone is going to result in the grout slowly washing away and the water flooding out from under the platform.

i knew things were back to normal this morning when i accidentally ran over my headphone cords with my computer chair.

"fuck! again? wait...it's been a while..."

a silver mt. zion - he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms

 

Benchmark

there are some records that are best to listen to lying flat on your back, through a pair of high quality headphones. it should be immediately clear, from the opening chords, that a silver mt zion's first record is one of these records. if you do not believe me, give it a try and notice the high pedal tone underneath the now iconic opening broken chords, along with the sound of the drummer walking in and picking up his drumsticks.

the stereo separation is also a fundamental part of the record, and will be largely missed through a pair of speakers. the heavily reverberated soundscape presented here really demands your full attention; your headphones are a virtual reality headset, taking you to a different plane of existence, in which this is your soundtrack....

the theme here is floating, as brought out by the airplane and rocket imagery. sure, you could take the literal approach and think of it as a soundtrack for a doomed air flight, or as sitting between three galloping dogs. you may also interpret it, variously, as flying through hyperspace, as buzzing through flower patches or, perhaps, as falling through purgatory.

i don't know if they ever corrected the record sleeve, but the one that came with the initial pressings of the disk were sort of confusing. it splits the disk up into two proper pieces, each with four movements. however, the last movement of the first piece is an isolated show tune, and the second movement of the second piece is seven seconds long. judging by the track titles, the correct tracklisting is something like this:

i) 13 angels...track 5
ii) long march rocket...track 7
iii) blown-out joy...beginning of track 8
iv) for wanda ....end of track 8

...but that positions 'for wanda' as barely it's own song. the record is really better analyzed as two minimalist pieces, each with three movements, separated by a vocal interlude.

the first track begins with a joke that is so subtle that almost everybody missed it. the band's sense of humour is more clear now than it was then, so i think my claim that the track is a parody should come off as less outlandish now than it did when they were perceived as a bunch of esoteric weirdos living in a shack by the railroad tracks, pumping out obfuscated anarchist manifestos like some kind of musical grothendieck. see, there were many hours spent debating this point. yet, it really does seem clear that the samples were chosen to poke fun of the radio announcer at least, and likely the audience by proxy. this day of peace, where there is no peace. what? no, don't turn to the page, i'll just read it to you. well, that doesn't sound like a request to think independently, now does it. be sober! be serious! that's just tongue-in-cheek.

the piece then opens up into a sort of apocalyptic waltz that runs through fast and slow sections of the same theme before it crashes in on itself in a series of descending piano runs. it's a simple theme, but it's built to maximum dramatic effect. more importantly, it's mixed to take up the entire spectrum, which is why you need your virtual reality gear for it. you're not listening to the notes, here. don't fall into that trap. you're experiencing the alternate reality produced by the notes.

i should point out here that this record was released almost two years before the september 11 attack, and anybody trying to tie the disc's track titles (such as "lonely as the sound of lying on the ground of an airplane going down" or "long march rocket or doomed airliner") to that event isn't presenting an informed analysis. at best, it's an interesting coincidence; at worst, it's an appropriation of the actual intent of the subject titles, which i've actually tended to interpret as references to a thomas pynchon classic entitled gravity's rainbow, which ends with a cursory character being launched out of a v2 rocket. at the time, the band actually claimed it was a tribute record to a recently deceased dog (wanda). of course, the titles also have vague, societal meanings and it's perfectly reasonable to leave them at that. however, other titles like "stumble then rise on some awkward morning" are consistent with the pynchon interpretation, as is the picture in the liner notes of a rocket coming out of an egg.

the separating track is called "movie (never made)" and is apparently a relic of precisely that. it was initially meant as a monologue to that film, which was never made. personally, i couldn't separate it from the show tune at this point if i wanted to. if efrim ever gets this movie put together, that bass rumble is going to start playing in my head whether he likes it or not. it's a powerful little track with some equally powerful vocals that i've swung back and forth on over the years. it may be a sad and angry and fucking naive rant, and i may only be able to understand jewish guilt over contemporary political issues on an abstract level, but he's right fucking on. he really is....

the second half of the record floats off into some netherworld full of loops and effects. your disney programming may interpret walking basslines with images of cats and thieves stalking through the night, but i'm going to try and pull you back to a feeling of disorientation. perhaps there is a cartoonish aspect of drunkenness in that as well, perhaps i'm just hearing the bohemian in it, but, for me, it conjures up images of levitation and of humans being spun, erratically, through an unknown field. the climax here is in a piano working up a thunderstorm that shatters the entire illusion, leaving only a distorted reflection that struggles to reassert itself through a haze of hyperrealism.

i suppose there's a middle point between gorgeous and gutwrenching. while it may primarily be a jam record, this disc really hits that sweet spot in ways that are rarely accomplished and i really can't recommend it highly enough.

stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWLbNXsPfs&list=PLnpQFjefXCRPsmeGJ_xCo2B7SptySvOsA

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/music/artists/ASilverMtZion/2000-HeHasLeftUsAlone/index.html

debussy's wheelchair, on fire

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studio art

sadly, this is the only shirt i have to proudly display on my wall. i left my retired shirts, amongst other things, in the safe keeping of my father, who wasn't able to prevent my step-mother from discarding them as "old rags". i guess they weren't on sale at winners, and consequently weren't acceptable to have in her basement. anyways...

i at least got some shots of my other retired shirts before i moved out of my last place. i'm going to expect compensation in the form of replacement shirts that i can wear back down to worthless rags, and then place on my wall.

that's the only cobain poster i've kept through all these years, and for two reasons. one, he doesn't look horrific. i know that was the sale item, but it's rare to see a nice shot of him on a poster. second, it's a guitar world inset from c. 1995.

that ugly motherfucker is frank zappa. my uncle blew up a bunch of shots and laminated them for me...

missing here is a corgan poster, also from a guitar world inset c. 1995, that had his "siamese dream strat" (with the lace censor pickups, that made the best guitar tone ever) front and center. i don't know what happened to that, but i'm very saddened by it's departure.

i don't know who those guys are, i just like their hair.

they were sending these out with early shipments of the first mt zion record.

i had a come on die young poster, but it has also disappeared...

i believe this came with a floyd record in the early 70s, but i don't remember which one.

i also had a really swell massive genesis tour poster from 1973 (i think) with gabriel in flower costume. i think i may be able to relocate this one...

the hendrix and lennon are also guitar world insets. the sketch is kind of neat: i was busking on the steps of ubc, and a student randomly came up to me and handed it to me. she had been stealthily sketching me for twenty minutes...

missing would be a similar sketch that an ex made of me. she has dozens, perhaps hundreds, of sketches of me. or, at least, she used to. she's been coy about the continued existence of these sketches. it was a nice sketch of me playing, but precisely what i was doing is not really the value of the sketch. i may be able to get a replacement sketch...

also missing: my certificate of provenance. now, that's a downer. how am i supposed to demonstrate my provenance without my certificate? i'd just send off an email to the band, but they're kind of both dead, so i guess i'm fucked with that one....

after a two year hiatus, the studio is finally back

seriously? yes, seriously. finally...

.....and everything else in that corner set up.

i have some cleaning to do tonight, and a number of small pieces of furniture (tables mostly) to make or find over the next few months, but i'm now done the things i can do with the things that i have.

Re: LANDLORD. E-MAIL CHECK .....READ

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: The Initial Landlord

well, i actually unboxed the other shelving unit. ha.

i had to leave a lot of furniture in ottawa, including the speaker tables i had for my studio. it turns out those shelves are the perfect size, and the shelves themselves are really useful for storing cords and stuff. there's a picture attached.

the decent thing for me to do is to offer to buy the shelves. if i stay here for 10-15 years, you just bought me furniture - which would be very kind, but is well beyond your obligations as a landlord. if i move out next year, i think i'll probably want to take them with me because the size is ideal. so, i don't know what they cost, but i can just add that cost to the next rent check.

Re: Please confirm your dental appt. with Dr. Clarke

hi.

i've moved to windsor! so, i definitely need to cancel this and all future appointments at your office.

Shelly Teagan
talked about rondo form in my class today

was gonna take a picture of the slide

but then my teacher saw me

another chance will arise

Jessica Amber Murray
:) funny, i've been listening to mt zion all week and taking note of the persistent use of round singing....

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ok, so i've been going to the same handful of places for a month, and i'm starting to notice people eyeing me. i've had a few interesting responses from men. here's one...

"hey sweetheart can i borrow your.....oh, sorry dude, i thought you were a chick. haha. can i borrow your lighter, man?"
"actually, you were sort of..."
"sorry about that. can't believe i thought you were a chick, hahaha."

ugh.

that, i can sort of shrug off. ultimately, i don't really care. more annoying is getting the eye from women. on the one hand, i'm sort of used to that. on the other, i feel the need to say something.

trans people come in all different types. the stereotype of the gay male transvestite, though, is largely...well, i suppose it applies ok to gay men that like to dress up "like women" at bars, as though they're going to a costume party. it doesn't, however, apply well to people that identify as transgendered 24/7. we come in different types, but the statistical norm for trans-women is actually a very socially submissive personality type that is almost the opposite of aggressive flamboyancy.

it's ok if you think a trans person is cute, but giving them the eye that you give guys at bars is actually borderline oppressive, as it asserts a gender role from a distance. it sends a message of "i see through your disguise, and think you're a cute boy and want you to come to talk to me".

again, it's ok if you think a trans person is cute, but please try to be a little more thoughtful. i'm a very friendly and approachable person, but this heteronormative eye contact shit is not a game i want to play.

cutting ventilation into the desk for the pc tower

cleaning out the recording pc

....and this is my ridiculous, custom-built music pc - all cleaned up after a night of taking it apart and putting it back together. it's a few years old now, but hasn't aged in any meaningful way. to be honest, i'm not sure i can conceive of a reason i'd ever want to upgrade this thing. 1 TB hard disk space, 4 inboard soundcards (including the disabled integrated card....3 in use), 4 GB RAM and i don't care about the rest because it doesn't matter.....

Shelly Teagan
OMFG lenin IS ALL UP IN KISSING LENI

FUCKING LENI

AND NOW IM JEALOUS

It's so super awesome. I'm like overjoyed

Jessica Amber Murray
ugh.

Shelly Teagan
yeah i'm going a bit crazy pver it

Jessica Amber Murray
i'm not really sure what the thing is with leni. but, i think it's important that you apply the same standards to lenin that you'd expect him to apply to you, you know? otherwise, that's gonna be a messy argument.

Shelly Teagan
same standards ? ?

what do you mean ?

Jessica Amber Murray
well, i think lenin's watched you make out with people before, or heard about, i think you're allowed to be jealous, but it's maybe not fair for you to be *too* jealous.

i just mean that you'd rightly tell lenin he doesn't own you. and it's maybe reasonable to remember that the converse is also true, as you run through various fantasies of murdering leni.

that's a shitty thing to see, though. well, you know what you always say about lenin, though...

maybe not what you wanted to hear, but very true. anyways, i'm out for the night.

Shelly Teagan
Lol its not out of jealousy in that way. I feel betrayed because its LENI and she bas been really abusive to me. For some reason lenin is totally cool with it. She also is using him to make me jealous and to win some kind of fucked up power play she’s had with me for thw last year

Its horrifying because she is really fucking abusive to her partner. Her partner is this super nice guy who pays fr her education and has the best politics. He loves her to pieces. I know she cbeats on hm all the time because she fucking boasts about it.

She also sexts people through her partners phone and has sex with them while hes in the next room sleepi.g. shes a fucking parasite and i want her to leave people i care about alone.

Also im infuriated at lenin for doing this and never being accountable for his own shitty perpetuation of lenis power game. Its like he gets a kick out of her being extremely abusive and jealous of me. Because he feels like shes fighting for him as a prize or something.... and i guess its nice to be a prize. Anyways this makes me feel bad, and i dont put up with anything in relationships. If you betray me, were done.

Jessica Amber Murray
i remember her showing up to one of the student strike meetings with bruises all over her, and she explained that she started a fight with her boyfriend and they were punching each other all night... honestly? i know you care about lenin, but it seems  like he's put you through a lot of misery and maybe walking away is a better idea. he's continually displayed an almost chronic deficit of attention to your desires.

Shelly Teagan
lol yeh fuck lenin

RE: LANDLORD. E-MAIL CHECK .....READ

From: The Initial Landlord
To: "'Jessica Murray'" death.to.koalas@gmail.com

Its okay if you screw into the wall......I will have no issues with that.....I have been working this week 7am to 5:30p and possible next week. I will not get a chance to come by soon..., maybe on the week I might be able to stop by with stud finder and pick up shelves.

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1000 homo djs - supernaut

Collector's Item

this is a strange little ep that brings together three disparate al jourgenson side projects. it could have only been released as a throw away to fans, and maybe to get some extra drug money. regardless, it has become a sort of a special little collector's item for fans of several different bands.

the first of these projects is a cover of black sabbath's supernaut (and if you have a good eye, you'll note the cover art parody), with trent reznor on vocals. maybe. see, there's a big story around this that i'll quickly summarize: reznor's label demanded that the vocals be removed and jourgenson responded by claiming he used an alternate take with his own vocals in the first place so there was nothing to remove. reliable sources claim jourgenson was trolling the label and the released product had reznor on vocals. so, there's been an open question ever since: did al actually redo the vocals? well, they did sound fairly similar back then, but i've listened to lots of trent and lots of al and it sounds like.....both. trent doesn't howl like al, that's a stylistic giveaway, and you can hear a bit of al's accent here and there, but at points it sounds exactly like trent, too. it's actually a duet, and was probably meant as one. an "original" version with reznor on vocals was released years later in a special box set, and nobody can hear the difference. as for the track? it doesn't stray much from the original.

the second track appears to be a lard outtake. it's an effective satire, and a good party trick, but isn't something much of anybody is going to want to listen to repeatedly. well, if you can find me somebody that wants to repeatedly listen to an asshole cop being an asshole for eight minutes...

the last two tracks, however, are a lot better. the name, '1000 homo djs', stems from a comment somebody made about early ministry that al thought was comical enough to appropriate. well, that's typical. al really likes to have some sardonic fun with the less intelligent members of our species. so, these last two tracks are what al thought that "1000 homo djs" would want to listen to. :). they're actually from the period right after twitch and consequently seem to capture him in a sort of pivot point, right where he's moving away from synth pop and into satirical electro-metal cyber-punk. it catches him in a sort of a middle point that seems strongly informed by the type of punk rock that was branching out into grunge at the time. it's bluntly catchy and rather different than anything else jourgenson would ever release.

lyrically, though, these are both little gems. it begins with a convincing call to reject bourgeois politics in favour of misanthropy, and to do so with the enticing flair of a homo dj, and it ends with a plea for something better than spending the nights buying rounds while they send our loved ones off to die for no reason...

what you really want is the apathy single, but you won't find that anywhere. i'm not even sure if you'll find this disc any more. i can't claim an ep should have been an ep, so i have to be honest: if you're not a collector, this is best downloaded for free.

those last two tracks are worth checking out, though.

stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcJaZ-Hrr3Q

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/music/artists/1000HomoDJs/1990-Supernaut/index.html

getting closer to actually getting back to using the gear, which is the whole point of all of this.

separating the untangled cords into boxes

naomi klein is awesome. i love that she used the platform they gave her for this purpose.

ps: how many times have i said exactly this?

http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2013/09/04/naomi-klein-urges-unions-join-climate-change-fight/

Re: LANDLORD. E-MAIL CHECK .....READ

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: The Initial Landlord

ok, then i'm going to need to run through with the studfinder again. i'm not in a hurry, just whenever you come back for the shelf.

i'm thinking that if you really don't want me to screw into the wall, what i could do is get some long pieces of wood (should cost less than $10) and screw them into a board on the floor, then l-brace the shelves to the pieces of wood. i'd get what i want, and there would be no effect on the wall that way, so the unit could be just removed one day down the road or you could just leave it there and paint it. i'm going back to home depot at the beginning of october to get some more wood, so i'm sure i'll have some more scrap for extra shelves.

either way, it'll look good. it's a very logical place for a corner shelf.

as for the name, the truth is that i picked jessica because it easily maps back to j. most people have called me j. so, that's actually preferable. j > jessica or jess or other variations thereof > jason.

also, before i forget once again: i noticed some water leaking from upstairs into the shower about 7:00 PM friday night. i don't think it was the shower. i heard some kind of motor running, so i suspect it may have been a dishwasher or something.....?

i never actually took any courses in knot theory.

54-40 - smilin' buddha cabaret

 

hit and miss

eeeeeeeeeeeeye, eye-eye-eye've got an ocean prrrrrl...

it's easy to forget that "grunge" was a north-west phenomenon, not a strictly seattle one. geographically, vancouver is actually closer to seattle than portland, oregon is. of the handful of "grunge" bands that came out of vancouver in the early to mid 80s, 54-40 is probably the most well known and this record, which was massively successful in canada, is probably their most well known, as well, due to the track ocean pearl, which seemed to be on every radio station and every television channel for most of the summer of 1994. while they're not afraid to hit a harder edge sound that i find most reminiscent of mudhoney, the act generally operates in REM territory, mixing straight-ahead alternative rock with acoustic ballads, jangle pop and the odd little studio trick.

while a profound part of my early teenage alt-rock leftist programming, the record doesn't really stand up to too much scrutiny all these years later. there are actually quite a few different styles present here, but somebody else did all of it better somewhere else. U2 did blame your parents better, the ramones did radio luv song better, nirvana did assoholic better, neil young did once a killer better, REM did punk grass better (on monster), sloan did lucy better, pearl jam did beyond the outsider better, soundgarden did don't listen to that better, my bloody valentine did save yourself better, etc. in a sense, the disc works well as a gen y primer to alt. rock, but there's no reason to recommend it ahead of the other, much better records that were released in 1994. on the other hand, if you want to seriously explore 54-40, the better material is all in the 80s.

that being said, the record does have a strong point in it's largely satirical lyrical content, which has some fun with tearing down various aspects of popular culture. this is the actual appeal that the record still has to me, all of these years later. unfortunately, though, the disc is heavily front-loaded. the last four tracks just don't have the bite that the first four do. there's a strong argument that the disc should have been an ep, and it would have been a very good one if it was one.

lastly, please heed this warning: listen to ocean pearl at your own peril, as it WILL get stuck in your head for weeks.

stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Z7U15ut3k&list=PL7epfunGutqmyO2XIffOqjR89K1ADyujv

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/music/artists/54-40/1994-SmilinBuddhaCabaret/index.html

i'll be starting the process of setting up the studio again tonight. it's going to take a while, but i should be back to posting updates here by the end of the month and should have some actual music to post by the end of the year. a lot of it, actually.

Re: LANDLORD. E-MAIL CHECK .....READ

From: The Initial Landlord
To: "'Jessica Murray'" <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>

Jessica or Jason,...... out of respect, I do not know yet which name you want me to address you with...... It will be okay to do what you want, I thought I would try with the shelves staked one on top of each other. The spacing is tight but I though you could give it a try. You can use the one that you set up somewhere else. I will take back the other.

1-Speed Bike - Droopy Butt Begone!

Collector's Item

when i first picked this up, it didn't do very much for me. there will be inevitable suggestions of music constructed with electronics being out of the realm of the average luddite gybe! fanatic, but no such thing would apply to me. it was quite the opposite; the disc seemed too repetitive and not complex enough to satisfy my elite tastes in the electronic spectrum.

it has held up surprisingly well, though. well, ok, some of the spoken word seems a little juvenile. if you didn't have "enough" (??) friends, would you be quiet until you did? is your confidence determined by the solidarity you command, rather than the other way around? i may be keenly interested in the free goat cheese that you're offering after the revolution, but this idea that your analysis is only as valid as the number of people that agree with it is sort of totalitarian and frightening. truth by consensus, people; we'll have a vote on the validity of the laws of thermodynamics after supper, and whether or not they're oppressive in denying perpetual motion. i could continue, but to what end?

i somehow missed a lot of the subtlety in the recording. i'm not really quite sure how. i'm sure i would have listened to it through headphones, although my memories mostly involve listening to it on low volume in the middle of the night while living beside a noisy furnace. i think maybe i didn't miss it so much as i ignored it as ambience. for whatever reason, it is coming out at me in much higher quality right now. this is making the record sound better produced than i would have initially said it was, but it isn't adding anything to the songs themselves.

in it's most basic description, this is "drum and bass" with a tempo that is closer to trip-hop than to jungle. you could get away with calling it trip-hop. the record is largely built around cut up drum loops that aidan performed himself. i'm still suspecting that he's using reel-to-reel loops through large portions of it due to the nature of the loops, but the production does seem more electronic now than it did then. at the very least, he seems to be sampling parts that were treated with old fashioned effects work. a lot of the bass and string samples, though, seem to be ultimately coming from his bandmates. you can pick out parts from fly pan am songs, gybe! songs, etc.

in the end, it's just somebody fucking around with samples. that person has a particularly interesting sample source to play with, but that doesn't transcend it from what it is. the 1-speed bike seems to be a reference to the lack of variation in the tempo, which is something that makes the record drag a bit. it does work well as background music - perhaps for reading, or perhaps for eating (it is, after all, dedicated to the dishwasher) - but there isn't anything about the record that makes it worth finding.

...except the label it was released on and the person that produced it; this is an item for collectors.

i wish i would have been in montreal more often back in the day, though, to hear aidan spin in real time.

stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3ncaHBf-k&list=OLAK5uy_kU8J_OldZQA1XOpzwDtIgd1kVaUWbY11o

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/music/artists/1-speedbike/2000-DroopyButtBegone/index.html

Re: LANDLORD. E-MAIL CHECK .....READ

From: Jessica Murray
To: The Initial Landlord

hi...

just an update on the bookshelf. i set up the first one, and...see, if the thing you're interested in is the aesthetic appeal of the shelves, i don't think the bookshelf is a good solution. i think it's also a little less functional than it could be.

there's a picture attached. the other unit is still in the box. a few things,

1) the squareness of the shelf draws attention to the wobbly corner.
2) the units are meant to be stacked, but you can't really do that here because of the baseboards. so, screwing it into the wall (i didn't do that) would tilt the shelf back. if you lift it up, it just looks crooked.
3) otherwise, because the bookshelf is a lot smaller than the corner, it really looks out of place.
4) the nature of a book shelf in that corner itself looks sort of jagged and out of place.

i'll be honest: from an aesthetic perspective, i think the l-brace approach would look better.

that being said, i think if you wanted to go with something like this in that corner then a stackable *corner* shelving unit (rather than a regular shelving unit) would probably look good. they've got some on the boxes of the units you bought. it's the same idea, just a different shape.

HOWEVER...

...what's the difference, really, between that and what i suggested in the first place? sure, you *could* pay $100 to get some shelves to screw together. but i already have the shelves. the end result is almost exactly the same thing, except for that:

1) the wood i'm using doesn't have a lacquer and
2) the structure of the shelving unit decreases the efficiency of the shelves by taking up space.

i asked out of respect, but in all honesty i think what i was going to do would actually end up looking better. i think i plan on being in this unit for quite a long time; i wouldn't take the shelves with me (they're cut for the corner, and in total are worth around $2), and if there's a desire to lacquer them after i've left....well, that's pretty quick. honestly, that would be the only difference!

as for that shelving unit itself......do you want me to take it back apart and put it back in the box? would they accept it back after it's been screwed together?

in the picture, i've put the towel over top of the shelf to indicate how much more useful *and* aesthetic the larger shelf would be in the corner.

also note that i built the wood shelving unit in the picture beside the white one myself for around $7 in total. if it were to be lacquered, it would be identical to the one you bought at the store, no doubt for much more than $7....

j 

updates to the install scripts for the old pc, as it is being repurposed to stream video from youtube (cleanup.cmd)

rmdir /s /q "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Favorites\Links"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Favorites"
rmdir /s /q "C:\WINDOWS\pss"
rmdir /s /q "C:\WINDOWS\resources"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Credentials"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\NetHood"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"
mkdir "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Windows\PIF"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\History\History.IE5"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\History"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"
mkdir "C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"
del /q C:\WINDOWS\system32\catroot\*.tmp
del /q C:\WINDOWS\system32\catroot2\*.log
del /q C:\WINDOWS\system32\catroot2\*.txt
del /q C:\WINDOWS\system32\catroot2\*.chk
del /q C:\WINDOWS\system32\catroot2\*.edb
del /q c:\windows\*.log
del /q c:\windows\*.bak
del /q c:\windows\{*
del /q C:\windows\cthelp*
del /q C:\windows\system32\*.rfx
del /q "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Cookies\*.*"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5"
C:\windows\regedit.exe /s C:\windows\system32\fileextensions.reg
rmdir /q /s "C:\WINDOWS\NLDRV"
rmdir /s /q "E:\script\files\firefox\Firefox\Profiles"
mkdir "E:\script\files\firefox\Firefox\Profiles"
C:\windows\System32\xcopy.exe /y /E "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" "E:\script\files\firefox\Firefox\Profiles"
copy /y "C:\Documents and Settings\jessica\Application Data\foobar2000\foobar2000.cfg" E:\script\files\foo\foobar2000.cfg
copy /y "C:\Documents and Settings\jessica\Application Data\foobar2000\theme.fth" E:\script\files\foo\theme.fth

screwing in the other l-brackets

cut my finger on the ancient vacuum.

the shelving unit wasn’t really what i was after for the corner.

i asked to screw brackets into the wall, and the landlord gave me this instead

screwing in the l-brackets and putting the fan up

Re: mail

From: grandmother’s email address
To: "Jessica Murray" <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>

Glad to finally hear from you,of course I can understand from your note that you have been really busy.It is great that you are not smoking, keep up the good work.Your place sounds like you have a lot of space,that is a bonus after living in one small bedroom.I am back home now; we spend the weekends at the cottage, so Willy is quite content having the bedroom all to himself.Leo is feeling very well & works full time,I hope he doesn’t take on more than he can handle as he often used to do just that.As for your mail, you are right it is government,bank & carleton U papers.Take care,we miss you but glad to hear you are ok.love nana!

surplus wood cut to scale for the corner

cd damage: nine inch nails - the downward spiral

cd damage: the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium

cd damage: the mars volta - amputechture

cd damage: glenn branca - lesson no 1

cd damage: einsturzende neubauten - perpetuum mobile

cd damage: hater

cd damage: electric light orchestra -

cd damage: cop shoot cop - release

cd damage: gustav holst - the planets / ralph vaughn williams - tallis fantasia

cd damage: the tear garden - to be an angel blind, the crippled soul divide

cd damage: alice in chains

cd damage: alice in chains - nothing safe

cd damage: rem - eponymous

Re: LANDLORD. E-MAIL CHECK .....READ

From: The Initial Landlord
To: "'Jessica Murray'" <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>

I did not see the things in the bathroom and I am not bothered by the gender thing. I do want you to be happy with your unit so I will do extra to keep you content with your place. I will bring a studfinder and if what I bought for the unit is not okay with you I will bring it back and you can do what you want. I do prefer to get involved when things are added so that whatever upgrade is requested it will be good for the next person later on.