"the honour of the crown"
ahahahahaha.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
inridiculous (original album mix) (inri033) now fully uploaded
i've decided not to alter this in any way.
i was moving, conceptually, to more serious styles of music. i wanted to write these epic 20-minute trips that reached into every genre imaginable. you can hear that shift over the last few things i posted, and it really accelerates moving into the year 2000. this is my last kiddy recording...but it isn't really a kiddy recording.....
see, i had a bunch of noise tracks that i'd been putting aside for a third demo, trinri, that was meant to carry on with the same concept as the first two: "songs" and "collages" would alternate over 19 tracks. the problem i ran up against with trinri was that i was no longer interested in writing songs. what was coming out, instead, were these fifteen minute journeys. that's ultimately the driving reason that i switched things up: the format had worn itself thin.
so, i pulled the noise collages together (along with some older collages that i had pulled from various sources as far back as my first demo tape) into this thing. i became aware at some point, very suddenly, that the whole idea and product was sort of ridiculous. hence the title.
this recording is consequently void of actual songs. it isn't easy to listen to, and offers few reprieves, but if you're a fan of the genre that includes bands like coil, psychic tv, dvoa, nurse with wound and hafler trio (i hesitate to use the i word in context) then you may find something of enjoyment here.
cover art is from 1999. how the hell did the greeks think mesopotamia was an ocean, anyways? surely, they had contact with babylonians, if not indians. that's never made sense to me.
recorded from 1996-1999. this is my third record. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitar, effects, bass, keyboards, tapes, synthesizers, live drums, drum programming, hammerhead (909 emulator), sound raider, sampling, cool edit synthesis/sequencing, loops, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, flute
released dec 10, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
i was moving, conceptually, to more serious styles of music. i wanted to write these epic 20-minute trips that reached into every genre imaginable. you can hear that shift over the last few things i posted, and it really accelerates moving into the year 2000. this is my last kiddy recording...but it isn't really a kiddy recording.....
see, i had a bunch of noise tracks that i'd been putting aside for a third demo, trinri, that was meant to carry on with the same concept as the first two: "songs" and "collages" would alternate over 19 tracks. the problem i ran up against with trinri was that i was no longer interested in writing songs. what was coming out, instead, were these fifteen minute journeys. that's ultimately the driving reason that i switched things up: the format had worn itself thin.
so, i pulled the noise collages together (along with some older collages that i had pulled from various sources as far back as my first demo tape) into this thing. i became aware at some point, very suddenly, that the whole idea and product was sort of ridiculous. hence the title.
this recording is consequently void of actual songs. it isn't easy to listen to, and offers few reprieves, but if you're a fan of the genre that includes bands like coil, psychic tv, dvoa, nurse with wound and hafler trio (i hesitate to use the i word in context) then you may find something of enjoyment here.
cover art is from 1999. how the hell did the greeks think mesopotamia was an ocean, anyways? surely, they had contact with babylonians, if not indians. that's never made sense to me.
recorded from 1996-1999. this is my third record. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitar, effects, bass, keyboards, tapes, synthesizers, live drums, drum programming, hammerhead (909 emulator), sound raider, sampling, cool edit synthesis/sequencing, loops, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, flute
released dec 10, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
at
06:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
inrimake (initial 2013 expansion) (inri032) now fully uploaded
something that happened in the late 90s, when fans of bands started
getting together and talking on the internet, was the phenomena of the
unauthorized remix. schemes were hatched all over the internet to create
remix records, tribute discs, fan collaborations and whatnot. in
hindsight, given what the internet turned into, it was actually a
refreshingly productive use of networking.
different artists have reacted in different ways. i got yelled at by the now deceased singer of god lives underwater for one of these. trent reznor, on the other hand, eventually went so far as to set up a competition (which i didn't take part in, as i'd moved beyond the idea by that point).
once i'd put a few remixes/recreations together, and received more positive feedback doing it than with any of my own songs, i began to realize that if i could get somebody's attention then i could construct myself a launching pad. it seems like that's what a lot of people were thinking; it didn't work out, but i did end up with a number of remixes.
unfortunately, i've lost a lot of them. about a third of them ended up on a cd-r i threw together at the end of 1999. a third just sat on my hard drive, and a third disappeared into the internet. i'm putting them all together here under the title of the 1999 release, 'inrimake'. the initial release ended after "the day inri messed the world up"; the last five songs are 'bonus tracks'.
i was very much going for the *abstract* remix sound rather than the club-friendly mix. you can't really dance to these. you're not supposed to. you're supposed to blare them through headphones and trip out into them.
in terms of my own work, this record very much extends a bridge from the inri period into the deny everything period, to the extent that it arguably realizes the goals of both phases better than either phase does.
recorded sporadically, and without cohesive intent, over '98 and '99. originally compiled in the fall of '99. augmented and minimally edited over november, 2013.
HEADPHONES ARE MANDATORY TO EXPERIENCE THIS AS INTENDED.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synths, drum programming, digital wave editing, cool edit synthesis, sampling, sequencers, loops, remixes, reconstructions, reinterpretations
released october 15, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimake
different artists have reacted in different ways. i got yelled at by the now deceased singer of god lives underwater for one of these. trent reznor, on the other hand, eventually went so far as to set up a competition (which i didn't take part in, as i'd moved beyond the idea by that point).
once i'd put a few remixes/recreations together, and received more positive feedback doing it than with any of my own songs, i began to realize that if i could get somebody's attention then i could construct myself a launching pad. it seems like that's what a lot of people were thinking; it didn't work out, but i did end up with a number of remixes.
unfortunately, i've lost a lot of them. about a third of them ended up on a cd-r i threw together at the end of 1999. a third just sat on my hard drive, and a third disappeared into the internet. i'm putting them all together here under the title of the 1999 release, 'inrimake'. the initial release ended after "the day inri messed the world up"; the last five songs are 'bonus tracks'.
i was very much going for the *abstract* remix sound rather than the club-friendly mix. you can't really dance to these. you're not supposed to. you're supposed to blare them through headphones and trip out into them.
in terms of my own work, this record very much extends a bridge from the inri period into the deny everything period, to the extent that it arguably realizes the goals of both phases better than either phase does.
recorded sporadically, and without cohesive intent, over '98 and '99. originally compiled in the fall of '99. augmented and minimally edited over november, 2013.
HEADPHONES ARE MANDATORY TO EXPERIENCE THIS AS INTENDED.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synths, drum programming, digital wave editing, cool edit synthesis, sampling, sequencers, loops, remixes, reconstructions, reinterpretations
released october 15, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimake
at
05:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
i think it's funny how they gloss over his political leanings as "conservative".
this is the guy that ran the military coup a few years ago. and the major opposition party is essentially the clique that the military overthrew.
in other words, the election is a transparent sham. but, bullshit western monitors will declare it free. and the resistance will have to take more extreme forms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25098965
this is the guy that ran the military coup a few years ago. and the major opposition party is essentially the clique that the military overthrew.
in other words, the election is a transparent sham. but, bullshit western monitors will declare it free. and the resistance will have to take more extreme forms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25098965
at
03:37
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
more proof that democracy is stupid.
if they would have done an issue-by-issue poll, they would have found out that:
(1) chrystia freeland was an acceptable candidate for most conservatives.
(2) linda mcquaig represented the views of most liberals better than chrystia freeland did
(3) as much as i think linda would have been a quality mp, most ndp voters would have probably preferred the green candidate on an issue-by-issue analysis.
(4) justin trudeau is sexier than thomas mulcair
i've been watching this race because mcquaig >>>> freeland in every possible metric. this was an objective choice between superior and inferior candidates, and democracy (yet again....) made the wrong decision.
we need to retain an assembly process. it's representation that does *not* achieve it's goals. the house received the inferior candidate here, and the people in the riding are not properly represented in their views. instead, the more popular party leader kept a seat.
the fastest, easiest way to reform the system meaningfully in a way that can have a large result is to abolish representation in favour of direct democracy. and, ironically, it's pierre trudeau that has the only serious working model in which we can draw on.
let ministries be run by a process that promotes from within, leaving accountability to a theoretical direct democracy. we don't even want elected ministers that are pawns of big business. our parliament incorrectly functions as an executive branch, as it is - why not accept that and make it a presidency, with a party list, but with dramatically reduced scope and power. in other words, let us have a president that must run a plebiscite to determine the exact process of ass-wiping.
this isn't working, and changing the way we do it isn't going to fix it. in an infinity of political positions within the complexity of a riding, the idea that we can find a perfect representative is outrageously absurd! it is reductionism to it's idiotic extreme!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/liberals-win-in-toronto-centre-cbc-1.2439673
the pundits will spin this around every which way.
the optimistic way to read this is that voters prioritized turfing harper over maximizing their own representation.
the realistic way to read it is that voters don't know what they're voting for.
if they would have done an issue-by-issue poll, they would have found out that:
(1) chrystia freeland was an acceptable candidate for most conservatives.
(2) linda mcquaig represented the views of most liberals better than chrystia freeland did
(3) as much as i think linda would have been a quality mp, most ndp voters would have probably preferred the green candidate on an issue-by-issue analysis.
(4) justin trudeau is sexier than thomas mulcair
i've been watching this race because mcquaig >>>> freeland in every possible metric. this was an objective choice between superior and inferior candidates, and democracy (yet again....) made the wrong decision.
we need to retain an assembly process. it's representation that does *not* achieve it's goals. the house received the inferior candidate here, and the people in the riding are not properly represented in their views. instead, the more popular party leader kept a seat.
the fastest, easiest way to reform the system meaningfully in a way that can have a large result is to abolish representation in favour of direct democracy. and, ironically, it's pierre trudeau that has the only serious working model in which we can draw on.
let ministries be run by a process that promotes from within, leaving accountability to a theoretical direct democracy. we don't even want elected ministers that are pawns of big business. our parliament incorrectly functions as an executive branch, as it is - why not accept that and make it a presidency, with a party list, but with dramatically reduced scope and power. in other words, let us have a president that must run a plebiscite to determine the exact process of ass-wiping.
this isn't working, and changing the way we do it isn't going to fix it. in an infinity of political positions within the complexity of a riding, the idea that we can find a perfect representative is outrageously absurd! it is reductionism to it's idiotic extreme!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/liberals-win-in-toronto-centre-cbc-1.2439673
the pundits will spin this around every which way.
the optimistic way to read this is that voters prioritized turfing harper over maximizing their own representation.
the realistic way to read it is that voters don't know what they're voting for.
at
03:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
k. so, i'm pausing for a little bit.
1) my headphone cords should be in the mail early next week. that means:
(a) i need to wait for them for the deny everything material, which exists in multiple ways.
(b) when they get here, i'm going to have to closely listen to what i've uploaded, which may mean some track replacements. the songs won't change, but the sound of them probably will.
2) while i'm waiting, i'm going to work on converting some old stuff into chiptune tracks.
i've uploaded a huge amount of stuff over the last two months. 3 demo tapes, 5 cds, 3 eps, 2 singles. all of it before the beginning of 2000. it's in listenable form. so, while i'm pausing, feel free to stream the records as records.
1) my headphone cords should be in the mail early next week. that means:
(a) i need to wait for them for the deny everything material, which exists in multiple ways.
(b) when they get here, i'm going to have to closely listen to what i've uploaded, which may mean some track replacements. the songs won't change, but the sound of them probably will.
2) while i'm waiting, i'm going to work on converting some old stuff into chiptune tracks.
i've uploaded a huge amount of stuff over the last two months. 3 demo tapes, 5 cds, 3 eps, 2 singles. all of it before the beginning of 2000. it's in listenable form. so, while i'm pausing, feel free to stream the records as records.
at
02:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
superhappyfunsong & drumk (original album mixes)
these were rescued from the initial demo tape and slightly modified to segue better into the noise aesthetic.
recorded in the spring of 1999. edited in december, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/drumk-2
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/superhappyfunsong
recorded in the spring of 1999. edited in december, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/drumk-2
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/superhappyfunsong
at
01:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
tribute (original album mix)
through '99 and '00, and generally very early in the morning, i could often be found recording very long ambient guitar sections into my machine. really, i was just expressing myself. my first proper symphony ended up built around this concept.
when i went to construct this demo, i needed an extra few minutes of ambience to segue between tracks. so i pulled one of the files off the drive and shaped it a bit...
recorded in the fall of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/tribute
when i went to construct this demo, i needed an extra few minutes of ambience to segue between tracks. so i pulled one of the files off the drive and shaped it a bit...
recorded in the fall of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/tribute
at
00:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
book it! (original album mix)
this is another lost track that exists in a sort of an ill-defined alter-reality. the track mixes idm, new age, jazz fusion and progressive rock into a ridiculous, hyperfruity masterpiece. it's a mash-up of return to forever and mike oldfield, as remixed by coil.
it came out of a jam in my basement that fall. i was feeling a little more lonely than usual. see, i was quite literally the only person in my social group that bothered doing grade 13. so, school was converted from my only real social grounding (and i was always an extremely introverted loner) into a place of isolation and alienation. i skipped a lot of classes, actually, in a desire to escape the people. looking back, i sort of regret not reaching out to the people around me a bit more; it would have helped in more than just a social context. but, in hindsight, i'm also able to understand the separation better as one of class; as much as i regret keeping myself isolated, i think i would have been better off not carrying on with school at all.
i mean, i did well. my average was over 90. but i felt hopelessly out of place. i knew i didn't belong there....that they would never accept me unless i became the kind of pretentious jerk i despised. nor did i want anything to do with them, anyways. i really hated the superior attitude that i found myself immersed within. so, i just kept my physical distance and my mouth shut, hoping the condition was temporary (it wasn't).
the flip side of this is that i was also working a part-time job in a fast-food restaurant and i hated it just as much. i didn't fit in any better there, amongst the kids with no aspirations in life except to work in order to exist.
so, i found myself stuck between worlds, not wanting anything to do with either. in both cases, though, what i found the problem was was the people. "i don't mind the job, but i'm repulsed by the staff".
what i really wanted was just to be able to lock myself in a room and never have to engage with anybody ever again. i think that i'm the only person that could have written this. it exudes my idiosyncrasies in surreal, tongue-in-cheek humour. but it's also dead serious.
"i'd rather have a book than a friend.
it's loyalty will never end,
doesn't succumb to fashion or trend,
and all the information it sends,
will never get lost along the way.
when things get as tough as they may,
it will always know exactly what to say,
'cause books don't hurt...
...or do they?"
musically, there's some fancy playing here. everything is completely live: no loops (except the drums, programmed into a 909 emulator). that guitar part is sort of tricky. and check the bass part in the breakdown.
the thing i really like about this the most, though, is the gorgeous kosmische ending section, which is built up on overlapping sixths and is just the most dreamy thing to escape into ever. dramatic ending chord care/of a day in the life.
and, indeed, this is the dramatic ending chord for inri.
recorded in the fall of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/book-it-raw-mix
it came out of a jam in my basement that fall. i was feeling a little more lonely than usual. see, i was quite literally the only person in my social group that bothered doing grade 13. so, school was converted from my only real social grounding (and i was always an extremely introverted loner) into a place of isolation and alienation. i skipped a lot of classes, actually, in a desire to escape the people. looking back, i sort of regret not reaching out to the people around me a bit more; it would have helped in more than just a social context. but, in hindsight, i'm also able to understand the separation better as one of class; as much as i regret keeping myself isolated, i think i would have been better off not carrying on with school at all.
i mean, i did well. my average was over 90. but i felt hopelessly out of place. i knew i didn't belong there....that they would never accept me unless i became the kind of pretentious jerk i despised. nor did i want anything to do with them, anyways. i really hated the superior attitude that i found myself immersed within. so, i just kept my physical distance and my mouth shut, hoping the condition was temporary (it wasn't).
the flip side of this is that i was also working a part-time job in a fast-food restaurant and i hated it just as much. i didn't fit in any better there, amongst the kids with no aspirations in life except to work in order to exist.
so, i found myself stuck between worlds, not wanting anything to do with either. in both cases, though, what i found the problem was was the people. "i don't mind the job, but i'm repulsed by the staff".
what i really wanted was just to be able to lock myself in a room and never have to engage with anybody ever again. i think that i'm the only person that could have written this. it exudes my idiosyncrasies in surreal, tongue-in-cheek humour. but it's also dead serious.
"i'd rather have a book than a friend.
it's loyalty will never end,
doesn't succumb to fashion or trend,
and all the information it sends,
will never get lost along the way.
when things get as tough as they may,
it will always know exactly what to say,
'cause books don't hurt...
...or do they?"
musically, there's some fancy playing here. everything is completely live: no loops (except the drums, programmed into a 909 emulator). that guitar part is sort of tricky. and check the bass part in the breakdown.
the thing i really like about this the most, though, is the gorgeous kosmische ending section, which is built up on overlapping sixths and is just the most dreamy thing to escape into ever. dramatic ending chord care/of a day in the life.
and, indeed, this is the dramatic ending chord for inri.
recorded in the fall of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/book-it-raw-mix
at
00:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Monday, November 25, 2013
let freedom ring (original discarded outtake)
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 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/album/deny-everything) 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.
recorded in january, 2000.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/let-freedom-ring
i should point out immediately that i got a lawsuit thrown at me by the king estate when i tried to upload this 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/album/deny-everything) 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.
recorded in january, 2000.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/let-freedom-ring
at
23:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
missed connection (original discarded outtake)
this was initially written to be the first track of 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.
i've pulled it out here, in instrumental form.
recorded in sept. 1999. isolated on nov 25, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/missed-connection
i've pulled it out here, in instrumental form.
recorded in sept. 1999. isolated on nov 25, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/missed-connection
at
23:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
hummer (remix/cover for inrimake)
this is two things.
the introductory synth section was created independently as the introduction to a theoretical third demo (which became deny everything). i had also already decided to compile the covers disc and ended up using it for an introduction to this cover of hummer, instead. so i "lost" the section. i've regretted letting the part go a few times since. and, going this route factored into the decision to include the first two tracks (which are not covers). anyways...
the rest of it is actually two different approaches to the same thing. i ended up using them both by stringing them together rather than one or the other.
i was also feeling trapped in the covers project, generally. this is something that took a huge amount of time and energy. why wasn't i applying that towards original material? the samples at the end are meant to represent me breaking free of myself, and letting myself loose to get back to my own ideas. so i could live again. i plead guilty to all counts of being a drama queen.
i also ended up co-opting the song, mildly. i focused solely on the instrumental part in the second half of the track, which has a very carefree quality to it. it's not explicitly about rejecting war. but it fits.
musically, for the second part, i need to weight two tendencies. first, it was consciously meant to have this silly fake-jazz strut to it. second, i was clearly more interested in free jamming than composing anything with structure. it's a weird juxtaposition that sounds kind of dorky. sometimes, you have to begin analyzing something by determining whether it accomplished it's goal or not. i feel this did, but the intent was admittedly unusual.
this is so dramatically different from the original that it's reasonable to say something like that it's "inspired by" the original rather than a remix or a cover. it does contain creatively reinterpreted samples of the original.
created in sept & oct, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/hummer
the introductory synth section was created independently as the introduction to a theoretical third demo (which became deny everything). i had also already decided to compile the covers disc and ended up using it for an introduction to this cover of hummer, instead. so i "lost" the section. i've regretted letting the part go a few times since. and, going this route factored into the decision to include the first two tracks (which are not covers). anyways...
the rest of it is actually two different approaches to the same thing. i ended up using them both by stringing them together rather than one or the other.
i was also feeling trapped in the covers project, generally. this is something that took a huge amount of time and energy. why wasn't i applying that towards original material? the samples at the end are meant to represent me breaking free of myself, and letting myself loose to get back to my own ideas. so i could live again. i plead guilty to all counts of being a drama queen.
i also ended up co-opting the song, mildly. i focused solely on the instrumental part in the second half of the track, which has a very carefree quality to it. it's not explicitly about rejecting war. but it fits.
musically, for the second part, i need to weight two tendencies. first, it was consciously meant to have this silly fake-jazz strut to it. second, i was clearly more interested in free jamming than composing anything with structure. it's a weird juxtaposition that sounds kind of dorky. sometimes, you have to begin analyzing something by determining whether it accomplished it's goal or not. i feel this did, but the intent was admittedly unusual.
this is so dramatically different from the original that it's reasonable to say something like that it's "inspired by" the original rather than a remix or a cover. it does contain creatively reinterpreted samples of the original.
created in sept & oct, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/hummer
at
22:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
if you were curious.
(it was obviously the cia. he got shot several times in short range. there's no debate here - it *had* to be set up by his own guys, then suppressed by them. the interesting question is who set it up. dulles? hoover? i lean towards lbj, but we won't know until the documents get released. if they ever even get released.)
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We turned to other subjects, but Fidel came back to Kennedy once more, the next day, when he said to me, apropos of nothing, “Kennedy was very young.”
I later asked Julia Sweig what this might have meant. For Castro, she said, Kennedy may forever stand for something out of reach. “He’ll never know what would have happened had J.F.K. lived. He may have reserved for Kennedy in his own mind the possibility of greatness. It’s completely fascinating and frustrating to him.”
http://theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/fidel-castro-oswald-could-not-have-been-the-one-who-killed-kennedy/281674/
also, castro is such a fucking capitalist pig...
(it was obviously the cia. he got shot several times in short range. there's no debate here - it *had* to be set up by his own guys, then suppressed by them. the interesting question is who set it up. dulles? hoover? i lean towards lbj, but we won't know until the documents get released. if they ever even get released.)
========
We turned to other subjects, but Fidel came back to Kennedy once more, the next day, when he said to me, apropos of nothing, “Kennedy was very young.”
I later asked Julia Sweig what this might have meant. For Castro, she said, Kennedy may forever stand for something out of reach. “He’ll never know what would have happened had J.F.K. lived. He may have reserved for Kennedy in his own mind the possibility of greatness. It’s completely fascinating and frustrating to him.”
http://theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/fidel-castro-oswald-could-not-have-been-the-one-who-killed-kennedy/281674/
also, castro is such a fucking capitalist pig...
at
19:55
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
suppose a really progressive pope decides to shut the whole farce down by declaring himself fallible. could the next pope reverse the claim?
i mean, he could only do so under the truth of the claim he's attempting to reverse; the pope's infallibility could only be reasserted by understanding his fallibility.
this new guy seems to be left of hitler, which is admittedly a nice - if unexpected - change. maybe....?
i mean, it's russell's paradox. it's a problem the church can't just gloss over.
i mean, he could only do so under the truth of the claim he's attempting to reverse; the pope's infallibility could only be reasserted by understanding his fallibility.
this new guy seems to be left of hitler, which is admittedly a nice - if unexpected - change. maybe....?
i mean, it's russell's paradox. it's a problem the church can't just gloss over.
at
19:33
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
http://www.nature.com/news/mice-with-just-two-male-genes-father-babies-1.14219?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews
good points here about the contradictions that saturate the post-modern left.
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/5674/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/15/gris-n15.html
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20094-german-expose-of-americas-secret-war-attracts-quick-strong-us-rebuttal
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/15/refrigerator-wars-in-venezuela/
probably the same reason you beat your wife, fp.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/17/why_has_the_un_given_assad_a_free_pass_on_mass_murder_syria
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gerry-caplan/2013/11/linda-mcquaig-victory-would-make-election-matter-change
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/chog-n18.html
why can't he just declare himself fallible so we can all be done with it already?
http://fpif.org/audacity-pope/
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/11/an-incomplete-legacy/
ironically, this could be the best thing that's ever happened to the palestinians.
http://fpif.org/changing-middle-east-israel-saudi-arabia-cling-together/
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/syrias-silent-chilling-epidemic-of-journalist-kidnappings/281574/
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/17/bitcoin_to_congress_back_off
the way to fight this is population decline. it's why they're doing it. if your state is doing this, don't fight it - get up and move. hit their tax base.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/when-did-fetal-pain-become-pro-life-strategy/281577/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11032
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20028-european-progress-toward-a-financial-transactions-tax
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/15/the_iran_sanctions_stranglehold_and_the_march_to_war
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20039-fracking-unfocus-how-the-epas-long-awaited-hydraulic-fracturing-study-could-miss-the-mark
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4555%3Acanada-signs-free-trade-deal-with-honduras-amid-pre-electoral-repression&catid=23%3Ahonduras&Itemid=46
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/iranian-human-rights-activists-blast-congress-s-sanctions-push.html
well, i mean, they took over an oil rig. what did they expect?
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/18/2_months_after_russias_jailing_of
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/liby-n18.html
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/alberto-mayo-chiles-2013-presidential-elections-it-vote-everything/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/how-many-of-your-memories-are-fake/281558/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/18/why_hezbollah_loves_the_us_iran_nuke_deal
again: a proper student protest is not a strike. it's showing up without paying.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20114-4-chilean-student-leaders-make-the-jump-to-parliament
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/19/wild-n19.html
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/19/two_blasts_hit_near_the_iranian_embassy_in_beirut?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
http://fpif.org/burmas-promise-president-thein-seins-11-commitments-obama/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11040
http://bit.ly/18Msrn2
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/waging-election-income-inequality
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18320-the-accumulation-of-property-should-not-determine-who-should-vote
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11039
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20079-us-history-repeats-itself-with-guest-worker-programs
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/19815-media-control-and-indoctrination-in-the-united-states
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/19/civil_society_isn_t_welcome_corporations
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/19/60236/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20125-regulations-are-killed-and-kids-die
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/11/unhappy-provinces-new-opposition-allies-against-harper-conservatives
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20060-the-dollar-will-be-all-right
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/19/iran-and-the-axis-of-anxiety/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11047
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/19/egy-n19.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/20/indo-n20.html
http://fpif.org/new-nicaragua-canal-china-barges/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/the-great-corporate-tax-shift/
http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/20/us_spooked_by_chinas_nuke_bomber_attack_drone_projects
http://fpif.org/running-war/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/19/african_union_takes_on_the_international_criminal_court%20
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/fidel-castro-oswald-could-not-have-been-the-one-who-killed-kennedy/281674/
it is absolutely imperative that the workers across the region realize that they are not in competition with each other for each other's jobs, but would benefit more from a collaborative process of seizing the means of production and retooling it for domestic production rather than for export. solidarity.
http://libcom.org/news/highs-lows-wage-rise-new-garment-minimum-wage-20112013
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/the-likudnik-house-of-saud-axis-of-terror/
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/why-are-immigrants-being-deported-for-minor-crimes/281622/
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/secret-evidence-plays-growing-role-canada%E2%80%99s-immigration-courts
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20146-militarism-and-violence-are-so-yesterday-its-time-to-make-peace-the-reality
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/time-to-change-course-on-obamacare/
the killer robots that the government sends out to control you will be in the form of adorable trojan ponies. plausibly with unicorns.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/meet-the-marines-humdrum-toy-a-headless-miniature-pony-robot/281678/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/20/rice-progressive-asia-tilt-womens-rights-climate/?page=1#ixzz2lECuH4TW
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/20/exclusive_inside_americas_plan_to_kill_online_privacy_rights_everywhere
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/media-control-and-indoctrination-in-the-united-states/
http://atfp.co/I4k8wh
http://atfp.co/189Gwk5
http://buff.ly/1aIOE8I
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/what_are_russian_mercenaries_doing_in_syria_investigation
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/saving-green-economy
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11045
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/21/surprise-the-us-isnt-leaving-afghanistan/
this kind of co-ordination is important. now, i want to see every walmart store in the country shut down simultaneously.
http://libcom.org/blog/wildcat-strikes-seven-walmart-stores-dallas-21112013
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20061-the-confidence-fairy-and-gnome-debunked
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/21/rebels_inc?page=full
http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/21/karzai_pulls_the_rug_on_the_us_again_in_afghanistan
http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/11/21/al_gore_praises_kathleen_wynnes_plan_to_outlaw_coalburning_for_electricity.html
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18327-revolving-door-sham-jp-morgan-cfo-admits-7-billion-of-doj-settlement-is-tax-deductible
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/money-rules-only-work-if-you-already-have-it-on-gail-vaz-oxlade%E2%80%99s-neoliberal-crusade
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20027-entitlements-and-our-dollar-democracy
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/what-happened-to-immigration-reform/281705/
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/21/syria_iran_us_russia_albright_ivanov
http://youtu.be/-e-2iRRrBts
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11070
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/23/pers-n23.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/the-battle-of-the-titans/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/theres-always-a-class-war-going-on/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20217-blocking-nato-to-stop-drones
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/22/climate_activists_carbon_trading_a_false
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/24/deal_reached_to_halt_irans_nuclear_program
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/this-is-bigger-than-a-nuclear-deal/281792/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20223-obama-hails-geneva-accord-as-first-in-decade-to-roll-back-iran%E2%80%99s-nuclear-program
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11080
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/11/there-only-one-progressive-toronto-byelection
good points here about the contradictions that saturate the post-modern left.
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/5674/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/15/gris-n15.html
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20094-german-expose-of-americas-secret-war-attracts-quick-strong-us-rebuttal
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/15/refrigerator-wars-in-venezuela/
probably the same reason you beat your wife, fp.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/17/why_has_the_un_given_assad_a_free_pass_on_mass_murder_syria
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gerry-caplan/2013/11/linda-mcquaig-victory-would-make-election-matter-change
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/chog-n18.html
why can't he just declare himself fallible so we can all be done with it already?
http://fpif.org/audacity-pope/
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/11/an-incomplete-legacy/
ironically, this could be the best thing that's ever happened to the palestinians.
http://fpif.org/changing-middle-east-israel-saudi-arabia-cling-together/
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/syrias-silent-chilling-epidemic-of-journalist-kidnappings/281574/
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/17/bitcoin_to_congress_back_off
the way to fight this is population decline. it's why they're doing it. if your state is doing this, don't fight it - get up and move. hit their tax base.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/when-did-fetal-pain-become-pro-life-strategy/281577/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11032
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20028-european-progress-toward-a-financial-transactions-tax
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/15/the_iran_sanctions_stranglehold_and_the_march_to_war
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20039-fracking-unfocus-how-the-epas-long-awaited-hydraulic-fracturing-study-could-miss-the-mark
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4555%3Acanada-signs-free-trade-deal-with-honduras-amid-pre-electoral-repression&catid=23%3Ahonduras&Itemid=46
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/iranian-human-rights-activists-blast-congress-s-sanctions-push.html
well, i mean, they took over an oil rig. what did they expect?
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/18/2_months_after_russias_jailing_of
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/liby-n18.html
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/alberto-mayo-chiles-2013-presidential-elections-it-vote-everything/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/how-many-of-your-memories-are-fake/281558/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/18/why_hezbollah_loves_the_us_iran_nuke_deal
again: a proper student protest is not a strike. it's showing up without paying.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20114-4-chilean-student-leaders-make-the-jump-to-parliament
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/19/wild-n19.html
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/19/two_blasts_hit_near_the_iranian_embassy_in_beirut?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
http://fpif.org/burmas-promise-president-thein-seins-11-commitments-obama/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11040
http://bit.ly/18Msrn2
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/waging-election-income-inequality
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18320-the-accumulation-of-property-should-not-determine-who-should-vote
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11039
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20079-us-history-repeats-itself-with-guest-worker-programs
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/19815-media-control-and-indoctrination-in-the-united-states
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/19/civil_society_isn_t_welcome_corporations
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/19/60236/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20125-regulations-are-killed-and-kids-die
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/11/unhappy-provinces-new-opposition-allies-against-harper-conservatives
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20060-the-dollar-will-be-all-right
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/19/iran-and-the-axis-of-anxiety/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11047
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/19/egy-n19.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/20/indo-n20.html
http://fpif.org/new-nicaragua-canal-china-barges/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/the-great-corporate-tax-shift/
http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/20/us_spooked_by_chinas_nuke_bomber_attack_drone_projects
http://fpif.org/running-war/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/19/african_union_takes_on_the_international_criminal_court%20
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/fidel-castro-oswald-could-not-have-been-the-one-who-killed-kennedy/281674/
it is absolutely imperative that the workers across the region realize that they are not in competition with each other for each other's jobs, but would benefit more from a collaborative process of seizing the means of production and retooling it for domestic production rather than for export. solidarity.
http://libcom.org/news/highs-lows-wage-rise-new-garment-minimum-wage-20112013
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/the-likudnik-house-of-saud-axis-of-terror/
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/why-are-immigrants-being-deported-for-minor-crimes/281622/
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/secret-evidence-plays-growing-role-canada%E2%80%99s-immigration-courts
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20146-militarism-and-violence-are-so-yesterday-its-time-to-make-peace-the-reality
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/time-to-change-course-on-obamacare/
the killer robots that the government sends out to control you will be in the form of adorable trojan ponies. plausibly with unicorns.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/meet-the-marines-humdrum-toy-a-headless-miniature-pony-robot/281678/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/20/rice-progressive-asia-tilt-womens-rights-climate/?page=1#ixzz2lECuH4TW
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/20/exclusive_inside_americas_plan_to_kill_online_privacy_rights_everywhere
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/media-control-and-indoctrination-in-the-united-states/
http://atfp.co/I4k8wh
http://atfp.co/189Gwk5
http://buff.ly/1aIOE8I
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/what_are_russian_mercenaries_doing_in_syria_investigation
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/saving-green-economy
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11045
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/21/surprise-the-us-isnt-leaving-afghanistan/
this kind of co-ordination is important. now, i want to see every walmart store in the country shut down simultaneously.
http://libcom.org/blog/wildcat-strikes-seven-walmart-stores-dallas-21112013
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20061-the-confidence-fairy-and-gnome-debunked
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/21/rebels_inc?page=full
http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/21/karzai_pulls_the_rug_on_the_us_again_in_afghanistan
http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/11/21/al_gore_praises_kathleen_wynnes_plan_to_outlaw_coalburning_for_electricity.html
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18327-revolving-door-sham-jp-morgan-cfo-admits-7-billion-of-doj-settlement-is-tax-deductible
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/money-rules-only-work-if-you-already-have-it-on-gail-vaz-oxlade%E2%80%99s-neoliberal-crusade
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20027-entitlements-and-our-dollar-democracy
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/what-happened-to-immigration-reform/281705/
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/21/syria_iran_us_russia_albright_ivanov
http://youtu.be/-e-2iRRrBts
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11070
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/23/pers-n23.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/the-battle-of-the-titans/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/theres-always-a-class-war-going-on/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20217-blocking-nato-to-stop-drones
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/22/climate_activists_carbon_trading_a_false
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/24/deal_reached_to_halt_irans_nuclear_program
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/this-is-bigger-than-a-nuclear-deal/281792/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20223-obama-hails-geneva-accord-as-first-in-decade-to-roll-back-iran%E2%80%99s-nuclear-program
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11080
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/11/there-only-one-progressive-toronto-byelection
at
12:53
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see, i sort of agree with him. i mean, it's a fix. yeah. what i *really* want is to abolish all currency systems and construct a system based on need rather than want. yet, that's not going to happen any time soon.
in a real sense, the options before us are bubbles or austerity. as somebody that has no assets, bubbles are a better choice. if they can be kept going, grand. but do i really care if people lose their assets as a result of gambling them? no.
so, yeah. bubbles + regulation is better than austerity + deregulation. and i think that might be what paul is thinking.
besides trolling. paul's a good troll.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/blowing-bubbles-with-paul-krugman/
in a real sense, the options before us are bubbles or austerity. as somebody that has no assets, bubbles are a better choice. if they can be kept going, grand. but do i really care if people lose their assets as a result of gambling them? no.
so, yeah. bubbles + regulation is better than austerity + deregulation. and i think that might be what paul is thinking.
besides trolling. paul's a good troll.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/blowing-bubbles-with-paul-krugman/
at
04:39
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Windsor, ON, Canada
right or wrong in this context depends entirely on what the goal is. challenging machiavelli isn't in the process of questioning his logic, it's in questioning his altruism. and why should we prioritize this? well, why shouldn't we? and that's the point. he may be less shocking today, but he's no less repulsive.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/machiavelli-was-right/354672/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/machiavelli-was-right/354672/
at
04:17
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Windsor, ON, Canada
we don't need to fight the "culture of entitlement". we're living in super-production. insofar as labour is necessary, it's only necessary to do a very small amount of it. a lot of what hasn't been mechanized has been offshored, which, in context, means we don't have to do it at all. we could split up what's left so that we're each working only a few hours a week and still have plenty to spare.
rather, we need to fight the brutality of the "protestant work ethic" and the mindset that argues that our lives are defined by our ability to provide profit for our employers. we need to have a greater respect for the idea of freedom and it's corollary of idleness.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-gops-cruel-crusade-against-food-stamps/281708/
when somebody uses a word like "entitlement", what i hear is "recognize your place as a slave". what i hear is "we ought to decide if and when you should eat, sleep and shit based on how much work you've performed for us".
years ago, we didn't use the term "entitled". the term we used was "human rights".
we didn't talk about how young people feel entitled to food, shelter, education and at least a pursuit of happiness. we talked about how everybody has a basic human right to these things.
so, i plead to you - the next time you hear some fucking nazi blowhard rambling on and on about entitlements?
yes, you feel entitled to a number of things, and those things are called human rights. and if this son of a bitch feels like he wants to stand in between you and your fundamental human rights, then he'd better grab a shotgun because it's worth fighting for.
rather, we need to fight the brutality of the "protestant work ethic" and the mindset that argues that our lives are defined by our ability to provide profit for our employers. we need to have a greater respect for the idea of freedom and it's corollary of idleness.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-gops-cruel-crusade-against-food-stamps/281708/
when somebody uses a word like "entitlement", what i hear is "recognize your place as a slave". what i hear is "we ought to decide if and when you should eat, sleep and shit based on how much work you've performed for us".
years ago, we didn't use the term "entitled". the term we used was "human rights".
we didn't talk about how young people feel entitled to food, shelter, education and at least a pursuit of happiness. we talked about how everybody has a basic human right to these things.
so, i plead to you - the next time you hear some fucking nazi blowhard rambling on and on about entitlements?
yes, you feel entitled to a number of things, and those things are called human rights. and if this son of a bitch feels like he wants to stand in between you and your fundamental human rights, then he'd better grab a shotgun because it's worth fighting for.
at
03:39
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
hey, it's my boomer crash theory.
except it doesn't mention that the outcome is good news - falling housing costs. wait, that's good news for who?
it's not really a generational fight, it's a class war. it's just that a large percentage of boomers own property, and many fewer of their kids don't.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/the-next-housing-crash/354689/
except it doesn't mention that the outcome is good news - falling housing costs. wait, that's good news for who?
it's not really a generational fight, it's a class war. it's just that a large percentage of boomers own property, and many fewer of their kids don't.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/the-next-housing-crash/354689/
at
03:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
i've seen this a lot. i'm going to guess it's a twofold problem.
1) the people that the liberal parties and ad agencies hire to "represent young people" come from highly privileged backgrounds. the process, from start to finish, never leaves an upper class prism. the result is that the political system only understands wealthy young people, rather than young people.
2) the whole thing upholds the media bias, which goes to reinforce the advertising bias. a circular loop of self-fulfilling delusion, if you will.
it really serves to demonstrate how out of touch the system is. they think that paris hilton is the average young person in which to model their shit off of.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/what-the-brosurance-and-creepy-uncle-sam-ads-dont-get-about-millennials/281667/
1) the people that the liberal parties and ad agencies hire to "represent young people" come from highly privileged backgrounds. the process, from start to finish, never leaves an upper class prism. the result is that the political system only understands wealthy young people, rather than young people.
2) the whole thing upholds the media bias, which goes to reinforce the advertising bias. a circular loop of self-fulfilling delusion, if you will.
it really serves to demonstrate how out of touch the system is. they think that paris hilton is the average young person in which to model their shit off of.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/what-the-brosurance-and-creepy-uncle-sam-ads-dont-get-about-millennials/281667/
at
02:49
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
i'm nearly 33. that puts me on a cusp as far as these stats go. but they're arbitrary in how they cut generations in half. there are some characteristics that make me a "millennial", like the role of the internet in my life. but the internet was very different when i was 15 than it was five or ten years ago.
i get along better with people that are 43 than with people that are 23. that's not just a maturity issue. it has more to do with common interests. music. politics. outlook. perspective. hobbies. i'm both the first millennial and the last punk, but i'm more of a punk.
so, i'm often attacking the kids like a bitter old woman. most of what i say is true....
....but they're not to blame for the economic situation. this is systemic. and it wouldn't have happened if the real villains here - the boomers - hadn't let the world go to shit in a haze of 80s cocaine binges.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20145-blaming-the-victims-media-bias-against-struggling-millennials
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2011/10/generation_catalano_the_generation_stuck_between_gen_x_and_the_m.html
i get along better with people that are 43 than with people that are 23. that's not just a maturity issue. it has more to do with common interests. music. politics. outlook. perspective. hobbies. i'm both the first millennial and the last punk, but i'm more of a punk.
so, i'm often attacking the kids like a bitter old woman. most of what i say is true....
....but they're not to blame for the economic situation. this is systemic. and it wouldn't have happened if the real villains here - the boomers - hadn't let the world go to shit in a haze of 80s cocaine binges.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20145-blaming-the-victims-media-bias-against-struggling-millennials
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2011/10/generation_catalano_the_generation_stuck_between_gen_x_and_the_m.html
at
02:36
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
rent increases are arbitrary acts of random theft. if we acknowledge that rent should be 30% of income, at most, capping rent increases to 30% of average income is a perfectly reasonable way to prevent landowners from fucking people over.
i don't care if it eliminates profitability for rentiers. actually, i do - that would be a good thing because it would make it easier for a co-operative model to be normalized.
http://libcom.org/blog/wave-housing-occupations-bologna-19112013
i don't care if it eliminates profitability for rentiers. actually, i do - that would be a good thing because it would make it easier for a co-operative model to be normalized.
http://libcom.org/blog/wave-housing-occupations-bologna-19112013
at
02:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
this could really lead to a political backlash against the democrats. finally. i've been hoping for as much for a while...
the democrats, at best, are a party of the bourgeois "left". at worst, they're pawns of wall street. the idea that regular people can rely on this party is flawed.
the biggest mistake made in the history of the american left was merging the socialist party into the democrats. had that not happened, america would not be so far behind.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/obam-n18.html
the democrats, at best, are a party of the bourgeois "left". at worst, they're pawns of wall street. the idea that regular people can rely on this party is flawed.
the biggest mistake made in the history of the american left was merging the socialist party into the democrats. had that not happened, america would not be so far behind.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/obam-n18.html
at
01:49
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
yeah. nobody gets paid, therefore no growth.
people look back at the depression and laugh. but they didn't know better. today, we know better, and are still making the same mistake.
well, their buddy karl pointed out that history repeats itself as a farce.
we need to spend....lavishly...
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/pers-n18.html
people look back at the depression and laugh. but they didn't know better. today, we know better, and are still making the same mistake.
well, their buddy karl pointed out that history repeats itself as a farce.
we need to spend....lavishly...
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/18/pers-n18.html
at
01:37
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
facebook didn't exist when i was in high school, but newsgroups and email lists did. i noticed a difference, myself, going forwards from about grade 11.
there's a caveat. you'll notice i don't capitalize. i'm not very interested in conventional grammar; i'd actually argue it should be abolished in favour of a concept of interpretive grammar. there are certain rules that i systemically reverse on purpose. i probably wouldn't have developed these habits had i not spent so much time on the computer. on that level, the luddites have a point.
yet, the general idea that facebook makes people's writing worse is just flatly daft. writing isn't innate; we excel through practice. the more practice one gets, the better. is facebook somehow taking away that practice time?
the argument is maybe a bit better for twitter and it's business-focused character limit, but it's still hard to see how the silly and verbose could somehow reverse time spent actually writing.
unless one wishes to argue that kids are spending less time writing in their journals and more time on twitter? sorry, mom, but if your kid was going to do that then she'd be on livejournal, not twitter.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/facebook-has-transformed-my-students-writing-for-the-better/281563/
there's a caveat. you'll notice i don't capitalize. i'm not very interested in conventional grammar; i'd actually argue it should be abolished in favour of a concept of interpretive grammar. there are certain rules that i systemically reverse on purpose. i probably wouldn't have developed these habits had i not spent so much time on the computer. on that level, the luddites have a point.
yet, the general idea that facebook makes people's writing worse is just flatly daft. writing isn't innate; we excel through practice. the more practice one gets, the better. is facebook somehow taking away that practice time?
the argument is maybe a bit better for twitter and it's business-focused character limit, but it's still hard to see how the silly and verbose could somehow reverse time spent actually writing.
unless one wishes to argue that kids are spending less time writing in their journals and more time on twitter? sorry, mom, but if your kid was going to do that then she'd be on livejournal, not twitter.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/facebook-has-transformed-my-students-writing-for-the-better/281563/
at
01:22
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
what scares me about these people is not how racist they are but how stupid they are.
it makes law enforcement look brilliant, in comparison.
http://libcom.org/blog/bulgarian-fascists-run-nightly-patrols-targeting-immigrants-17112013
it makes law enforcement look brilliant, in comparison.
http://libcom.org/blog/bulgarian-fascists-run-nightly-patrols-targeting-immigrants-17112013
at
00:38
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
nobody should take care of them, and that fact should be explained to kids when they're about to sign up as a disincentive. the kinds of wars we're fighting right now wouldn't be fully possible outside the context of our existing war culture. disassembling war culture doesn't mean just going after the politicians and generals and corporations, it also means tearing down the soldiers.
fuck the soldiers! let them die of gangrene in the abandoned fields! i neither support the troops, nor the war.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20056-us-soldiers-become-victims-of-empire
fuck the soldiers! let them die of gangrene in the abandoned fields! i neither support the troops, nor the war.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20056-us-soldiers-become-victims-of-empire
at
00:15
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Sunday, November 24, 2013
the day inri messed the world up (remix/cover for inrimake)
alt.music.nin is a thing that existed, and you can imagine that the release of the fragile was a pretty big deal there. it was the first nin record released in the internet age - the first chance to discuss something new.
in fact, it hit the place like an explosion from friendly fire. giant arguments erupted, quickly giving way to a strange kind of silence. people that had been posting regularly for years couldn't even be bothered to post an opinion. i realized later that it was the first of what were several generational shifts in trent reznor's following. it actually seems to happen after every record. my shift out was "with teeth".
personally, i have a complex relationship with the disc, but this isn't a review of the fragile. it's an explanation of my remix of the track's first single, the day the world went away.
the single was released a few months before the record. people were posting remixes almost as soon as it was released. i actually didn't want to, but i had a few requests so i approached it on that level.
i wasn't entirely sure what to expect from the record, which it seemed like i had been waiting for my whole life. trent had been obfuscating and coy. it was hip-hop. it was orchestral music. it was prog. it was pop. i was just waiting with an open mind. the single didn't help form expectations: two versions of a mopey ambient thing, and a frighteningly awful tongue-in-cheek stadium rock dig at marilyn manson (who i gave zero fucks about, except in the context of him reducing reznor's songwriting quality). how does one approach this?
no. i didn't want to. "c'mon, i wanna hear your interpretation". fuck. fuck. no.
i listened a few more dozen times. i had aged five years, but the lyricist hadn't. i wasn't really connecting to it. but, the musician had aged fifty years and i was connecting to this. the production was.....actually really thin.
strangely.
musically, he had a good idea, but the execution struck me as completely botched. or, maybe, just minimized by record executives? either way, i decided i could make this thing bigger, more epic and more powerful.
that's the central idea in my reconstruction. i just wanted to take the idea in the original track and make it more dramatic.
i got a better response from this than i've ever gotten from anything else. randoms accused me of leaking a track, or even secretly being trent reznor (ok, those accusations were mostly not serious). many people admitted they liked my version better than the single version. i had such a huge spike at my mp3.com page (remember mp3.com?) that some of the tracks hit the top ranking in their categories. inri: mp3.com industrial rock superstar.
my plan was working! finally!
i can't tell what kind of feedback i got on the site. i had forgotten my password, and the site didn't have a mechanism to recover it. they got bought by some huge company soon after (i think it was vivendi) and all the indie artists got kicked to the curb.
drats. foiled....
recorded in the summer of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-day-inri-messed-the-world-up
in fact, it hit the place like an explosion from friendly fire. giant arguments erupted, quickly giving way to a strange kind of silence. people that had been posting regularly for years couldn't even be bothered to post an opinion. i realized later that it was the first of what were several generational shifts in trent reznor's following. it actually seems to happen after every record. my shift out was "with teeth".
personally, i have a complex relationship with the disc, but this isn't a review of the fragile. it's an explanation of my remix of the track's first single, the day the world went away.
the single was released a few months before the record. people were posting remixes almost as soon as it was released. i actually didn't want to, but i had a few requests so i approached it on that level.
i wasn't entirely sure what to expect from the record, which it seemed like i had been waiting for my whole life. trent had been obfuscating and coy. it was hip-hop. it was orchestral music. it was prog. it was pop. i was just waiting with an open mind. the single didn't help form expectations: two versions of a mopey ambient thing, and a frighteningly awful tongue-in-cheek stadium rock dig at marilyn manson (who i gave zero fucks about, except in the context of him reducing reznor's songwriting quality). how does one approach this?
no. i didn't want to. "c'mon, i wanna hear your interpretation". fuck. fuck. no.
i listened a few more dozen times. i had aged five years, but the lyricist hadn't. i wasn't really connecting to it. but, the musician had aged fifty years and i was connecting to this. the production was.....actually really thin.
strangely.
musically, he had a good idea, but the execution struck me as completely botched. or, maybe, just minimized by record executives? either way, i decided i could make this thing bigger, more epic and more powerful.
that's the central idea in my reconstruction. i just wanted to take the idea in the original track and make it more dramatic.
i got a better response from this than i've ever gotten from anything else. randoms accused me of leaking a track, or even secretly being trent reznor (ok, those accusations were mostly not serious). many people admitted they liked my version better than the single version. i had such a huge spike at my mp3.com page (remember mp3.com?) that some of the tracks hit the top ranking in their categories. inri: mp3.com industrial rock superstar.
my plan was working! finally!
i can't tell what kind of feedback i got on the site. i had forgotten my password, and the site didn't have a mechanism to recover it. they got bought by some huge company soon after (i think it was vivendi) and all the indie artists got kicked to the curb.
drats. foiled....
recorded in the summer of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-day-inri-messed-the-world-up
at
23:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
this just strikes me as insane.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/connecting-the-visible-universe-with-dark-matter
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=astronomers-surprised-by-large-space-rock-less-dense-than-water&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://phy.so/304015957
http://phy.so/304016779
this is not a step towards something environmentally friendly, it's an attempt to gouge ignorant consumers. worse, it's incredibly wasteful. boycott these assholes...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-hyundai-hydrogen-vehicle-year.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/16/gaia-milky-way-space-probe
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-virus-dna-neanderthal-genome-modern.html
right. so, maybe if they'd stop wasting their time on iran's civilian reactors...
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Durban-uranium-stash-sparks-nuclear-alert-20131119
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-holistic-cell-high-performance-cycle-life-lithium-sulfur.html
ok, but what about the thefted dna? more important to me. (btw, this doesn't disprove that the slugs are using the chloroplasts to photosynthesize, it just proves that they have some other survival mechanism)
http://www.nature.com/news/solar-powered-sea-slugs-can-survive-in-the-dark-1.14197
that's one way to solve the problem.
http://www.nature.com/news/budget-crunch-hits-keeling-s-curves-1.14206?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews
http://phy.so/304165008
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2013/pr-exciton-solar-cell-111913.html
http://phy.so/304165311
well, you can see where they're going with this. it's not local, so it's allowed. and i think the idea is what most sane people think is underlying entanglement, whether it turns out to be a mathematical convenience or not.
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211603
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2013/pr-gamma-ray-burst-112113.html
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/cosmic-explosion-calls-theory-into-question
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-genes-entire-chromosome-reproduction-mice.html
http://www.nature.com/news/hpv-sex-cancer-and-a-virus-1.14194
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/connecting-the-visible-universe-with-dark-matter
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=astronomers-surprised-by-large-space-rock-less-dense-than-water&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://phy.so/304015957
http://phy.so/304016779
this is not a step towards something environmentally friendly, it's an attempt to gouge ignorant consumers. worse, it's incredibly wasteful. boycott these assholes...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-hyundai-hydrogen-vehicle-year.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/16/gaia-milky-way-space-probe
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-virus-dna-neanderthal-genome-modern.html
right. so, maybe if they'd stop wasting their time on iran's civilian reactors...
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Durban-uranium-stash-sparks-nuclear-alert-20131119
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-holistic-cell-high-performance-cycle-life-lithium-sulfur.html
ok, but what about the thefted dna? more important to me. (btw, this doesn't disprove that the slugs are using the chloroplasts to photosynthesize, it just proves that they have some other survival mechanism)
http://www.nature.com/news/solar-powered-sea-slugs-can-survive-in-the-dark-1.14197
that's one way to solve the problem.
http://www.nature.com/news/budget-crunch-hits-keeling-s-curves-1.14206?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews
http://phy.so/304165008
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2013/pr-exciton-solar-cell-111913.html
http://phy.so/304165311
well, you can see where they're going with this. it's not local, so it's allowed. and i think the idea is what most sane people think is underlying entanglement, whether it turns out to be a mathematical convenience or not.
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211603
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2013/pr-gamma-ray-burst-112113.html
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/cosmic-explosion-calls-theory-into-question
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-genes-entire-chromosome-reproduction-mice.html
http://www.nature.com/news/hpv-sex-cancer-and-a-virus-1.14194
at
22:55
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Windsor, ON, Canada
ok.
the sort of wet blanket moment is in realizing that a lot of the existing native genome comes post-contact.
i believe that the modern siberian population that natives are related to would have been living south of the glaciers at this time.
but the gene flow is complex.
they need to date the components, rather than rely on proportional analysis. that's not enough to understand anything.
my migration hypothesis had northern ("european") and southern ("asian") populations merging before the glacier cross. this just makes basic sense. any post-racial analysis would see that it just makes sense. the study basically confirms that.
but we know the admixture is large because the r1 mutation that is prevalent in eastern indigenous populations is relatively recent.
so, we need to date this carefully on a case by case basis. some will be ancient, some will be recent.
messy project, good luck.
http://phy.so/304174874
==
nature doesn't get it, either.
*sigh*.
they were so close....making so many positive steps towards a greater understanding...
....and, then hierarchical racial systemics reared itself, again. natives and europeans mixing in canada would upset the racial purity dipshits. those dipshits are mainstream, though. of all races. so, to prevent the mixing they explain all the variation by an early split.
despite the reality that the evidence of late mutation is overwhelming.
this will sort itself out eventually. for right now, we can see that the field is still dominated by the mindset that wants to separate people into types.
very unscientifically.
http://www.nature.com/news/americas-natives-have-european-roots-1.14213
and, no, it doesn't really explain why X ended up flung out in two different places. it reminds us of one already existing hypothesis, but it provides no further evidence for it.
again, they'd have to date it. i don't see any reason to think the barbary/pirate explanation is worse than the hybrid explanation. which was mine, btw. again.
nor is the idea of a greek or phoenician exploration at all outlandish. i mean, the guy presents it like it's crazy talk. well, why is X centered around the mediterranean, then, and nowhere else? seems to require a greater explanation, if you ask me.
turkish pirates, probably. there were a lot of them up and down the coast, you know.
the sort of wet blanket moment is in realizing that a lot of the existing native genome comes post-contact.
i believe that the modern siberian population that natives are related to would have been living south of the glaciers at this time.
but the gene flow is complex.
they need to date the components, rather than rely on proportional analysis. that's not enough to understand anything.
my migration hypothesis had northern ("european") and southern ("asian") populations merging before the glacier cross. this just makes basic sense. any post-racial analysis would see that it just makes sense. the study basically confirms that.
but we know the admixture is large because the r1 mutation that is prevalent in eastern indigenous populations is relatively recent.
so, we need to date this carefully on a case by case basis. some will be ancient, some will be recent.
messy project, good luck.
http://phy.so/304174874
==
nature doesn't get it, either.
*sigh*.
they were so close....making so many positive steps towards a greater understanding...
....and, then hierarchical racial systemics reared itself, again. natives and europeans mixing in canada would upset the racial purity dipshits. those dipshits are mainstream, though. of all races. so, to prevent the mixing they explain all the variation by an early split.
despite the reality that the evidence of late mutation is overwhelming.
this will sort itself out eventually. for right now, we can see that the field is still dominated by the mindset that wants to separate people into types.
very unscientifically.
http://www.nature.com/news/americas-natives-have-european-roots-1.14213
and, no, it doesn't really explain why X ended up flung out in two different places. it reminds us of one already existing hypothesis, but it provides no further evidence for it.
again, they'd have to date it. i don't see any reason to think the barbary/pirate explanation is worse than the hybrid explanation. which was mine, btw. again.
nor is the idea of a greek or phoenician exploration at all outlandish. i mean, the guy presents it like it's crazy talk. well, why is X centered around the mediterranean, then, and nowhere else? seems to require a greater explanation, if you ask me.
turkish pirates, probably. there were a lot of them up and down the coast, you know.
at
19:03
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
it's going to be interesting to see how the world reacts if confucianism develops fusion first.
not to mention how china reacts. this would change the balance of everything....
we also need to be working on ways to convert atoms. well, i guess we know how to do it. trees can theoretically be converted to steel. but we need to be working on ways to minimize the amount of energy required.
of what value is trade when atoms are infinitely malleable? of what value is currency when alchemy is a corollary of fusion?
i'm ahead of myself.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/fusion-reactor-achieves-tenfold-increase-in-plasma-confinement-time/
not to mention how china reacts. this would change the balance of everything....
we also need to be working on ways to convert atoms. well, i guess we know how to do it. trees can theoretically be converted to steel. but we need to be working on ways to minimize the amount of energy required.
of what value is trade when atoms are infinitely malleable? of what value is currency when alchemy is a corollary of fusion?
i'm ahead of myself.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/fusion-reactor-achieves-tenfold-increase-in-plasma-confinement-time/
at
18:15
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
sleepy weekend. got stuck in the loop. don't know if other people are familiar with this.
it starts off by sleeping too little. 3 hours, let's say. but you're not tired for whatever reason, so you get up and check your email or whatever. within three or four hours you're sleepy, because you didn't get enough sleep. but you did get a little sleep so you only sleep for an hour or two. when you wake up you're still tired because you didn't get enough sleep, but you can't sleep because you're not tired. after about 36 hours of this nap/read cycle, it seems like you've had an exceedingly long day and need a long sleep - even though you've been barely able to stay awake. so you crash for like ten hours.
i think i just snapped it. annoying, though.
it starts off by sleeping too little. 3 hours, let's say. but you're not tired for whatever reason, so you get up and check your email or whatever. within three or four hours you're sleepy, because you didn't get enough sleep. but you did get a little sleep so you only sleep for an hour or two. when you wake up you're still tired because you didn't get enough sleep, but you can't sleep because you're not tired. after about 36 hours of this nap/read cycle, it seems like you've had an exceedingly long day and need a long sleep - even though you've been barely able to stay awake. so you crash for like ten hours.
i think i just snapped it. annoying, though.
at
15:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Saturday, November 23, 2013
liquify (original album mix)
this track was meant to be a new beginning, but, instead, exists in a sort of purgatory. musically, it's radically different than anything else labeled 'inri'; thematically, it's a logical extension of inri. i really wanted this to be a fresh start, but in the end i had to leave it in the inri pile. in places it's sort of evil, in other places it's just a little too precious.
my dad swapped houses in mid 99. again. this would be a frequent annoyance over the next few years. i can date this clearly to the summer of '99 as the first thing i did in my new basement. that change of surroundings contributed to the feeling of wanting to do something different...
while it is an original track, it ended up on the covers disc for two reasons. first, the lead guitar loop that cycles through the track came out of a stoner jam session in the basement of a friend of mine. it's sort of hilarious to realize it took three years for another human being to get an influence here, even if it was a throwaway jam session. that was really just an excuse though. the real reason it's here, rather than on inridiculous, is that it fits in better on the prog theme of this disc than the noise theme of that one.
the lyrics have been a problem since they were recorded. sex sells. shock sells. i had to psyche myself up to do it. it's all tied together, though. where was i going with this, anyways?
'99 was the summer between grades 12 and 13 ("oac"). yes, ontario had a grade 13. get your laughs in. it was actually a pre-university year. universities would take the grades from the "oac" year as the entrance requirements. we didn't do SATs or anything. most universities have something like this for "mature students"; the weirdness is in making high school kids do the extra year. a few places (like quebec) still have similar types of pre-university screening...
anyways, i'm going into the oac year and i haven't even really given the whole vocation thing a passing thought, other than to reject the idea of defining my life through the concept of labour. there were a few weeks in the summer where i had sort of decided not to go to oac at all. i was actually *excited* about escaping school, focusing on a minimum wage job and spending my free time smoking pot and writing music. i really didn't want anything more out of life than this. and, if i happened to get lucky and sell some records, even better. i was eventually talked down from this position through a process of bribery. that didn't magically construct vocational aspirations, though; i ended up overloading on oac credits for the simple reason that i didn't know what i wanted.
(i ended up grudgingly accepting entrance into a software engineering program, literally switched to cosmological physics within a few weeks, switched to math after that, then bounced around from music to english to women's studies and ...)
so, again, i'm stuck between grade 12 and 13 and really dreading what the future holds. finding a way to sell some music would be an escape from this. i concluded that, tactically, my best approach at the time would have been to focus on something sexually explicit that gains it's power from it's shock value. there's a bit of desperation underlying this.
so i wrote a sort of graphic depiction of sexual domination within a male homosexual context. see, the thing is that it isn't very convincing. it isn't very convincing because it's contrived for profit. i'm being bluntly honest about the logic that produced this track because seeing myself in the mirror like this actually had a large effect on me. once i realized what i'd created, i was completely disgusted with myself. in it's initial form, liquify was the first 3:36 of this track. it sat on my hard drive for several weeks, waiting for me to finish questioning myself - who i was, what i was doing, whether it was worth it.
i came to two conclusions.
the first was that contrived music sucks. i realized i wasn't going to get anywhere faking it, anyways. if i wanted to build an audience, the only serious approach i had was honesty.
the second was that, even if it works, being fake isn't worth it. i was rejecting the beaten path because i didn't feel i belonged on it. accepting some kind of Official Alternative Beaten Path wasn't solving anything.
so, i should just do what i want, and tell anybody that doesn't like it to fuck off.
the second part of this track flowed from that epiphany. it's a pure prog workout, discernible from 1972 solely in it's updated use of technology. probably for the first time, the notes really mean something to me, here. if you listen, you can tell.
the ending scene of the jim carrey masterpiece, the truman show, fades the track out. it's meant to document the importance of the film in helping me work through what i was working through. i've mildly modified the track to fade out the truman show ending, which was just a little too cheezy & precious.
so, yeah. there's a few more inri tracks. but this is really the point where inri dies.
recorded over the summer of 1999. edited on nov 23, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/liquify-inrimake
my dad swapped houses in mid 99. again. this would be a frequent annoyance over the next few years. i can date this clearly to the summer of '99 as the first thing i did in my new basement. that change of surroundings contributed to the feeling of wanting to do something different...
while it is an original track, it ended up on the covers disc for two reasons. first, the lead guitar loop that cycles through the track came out of a stoner jam session in the basement of a friend of mine. it's sort of hilarious to realize it took three years for another human being to get an influence here, even if it was a throwaway jam session. that was really just an excuse though. the real reason it's here, rather than on inridiculous, is that it fits in better on the prog theme of this disc than the noise theme of that one.
the lyrics have been a problem since they were recorded. sex sells. shock sells. i had to psyche myself up to do it. it's all tied together, though. where was i going with this, anyways?
'99 was the summer between grades 12 and 13 ("oac"). yes, ontario had a grade 13. get your laughs in. it was actually a pre-university year. universities would take the grades from the "oac" year as the entrance requirements. we didn't do SATs or anything. most universities have something like this for "mature students"; the weirdness is in making high school kids do the extra year. a few places (like quebec) still have similar types of pre-university screening...
anyways, i'm going into the oac year and i haven't even really given the whole vocation thing a passing thought, other than to reject the idea of defining my life through the concept of labour. there were a few weeks in the summer where i had sort of decided not to go to oac at all. i was actually *excited* about escaping school, focusing on a minimum wage job and spending my free time smoking pot and writing music. i really didn't want anything more out of life than this. and, if i happened to get lucky and sell some records, even better. i was eventually talked down from this position through a process of bribery. that didn't magically construct vocational aspirations, though; i ended up overloading on oac credits for the simple reason that i didn't know what i wanted.
(i ended up grudgingly accepting entrance into a software engineering program, literally switched to cosmological physics within a few weeks, switched to math after that, then bounced around from music to english to women's studies and ...)
so, again, i'm stuck between grade 12 and 13 and really dreading what the future holds. finding a way to sell some music would be an escape from this. i concluded that, tactically, my best approach at the time would have been to focus on something sexually explicit that gains it's power from it's shock value. there's a bit of desperation underlying this.
so i wrote a sort of graphic depiction of sexual domination within a male homosexual context. see, the thing is that it isn't very convincing. it isn't very convincing because it's contrived for profit. i'm being bluntly honest about the logic that produced this track because seeing myself in the mirror like this actually had a large effect on me. once i realized what i'd created, i was completely disgusted with myself. in it's initial form, liquify was the first 3:36 of this track. it sat on my hard drive for several weeks, waiting for me to finish questioning myself - who i was, what i was doing, whether it was worth it.
i came to two conclusions.
the first was that contrived music sucks. i realized i wasn't going to get anywhere faking it, anyways. if i wanted to build an audience, the only serious approach i had was honesty.
the second was that, even if it works, being fake isn't worth it. i was rejecting the beaten path because i didn't feel i belonged on it. accepting some kind of Official Alternative Beaten Path wasn't solving anything.
so, i should just do what i want, and tell anybody that doesn't like it to fuck off.
the second part of this track flowed from that epiphany. it's a pure prog workout, discernible from 1972 solely in it's updated use of technology. probably for the first time, the notes really mean something to me, here. if you listen, you can tell.
the ending scene of the jim carrey masterpiece, the truman show, fades the track out. it's meant to document the importance of the film in helping me work through what i was working through. i've mildly modified the track to fade out the truman show ending, which was just a little too cheezy & precious.
so, yeah. there's a few more inri tracks. but this is really the point where inri dies.
recorded over the summer of 1999. edited on nov 23, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/liquify-inrimake
at
23:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
the truth is that chomsky is right (as usual) and the myth is based on almost nothing substantive. he orchestrated an election fraud against nixon. when you put the two side by side, issue-to-issue, it's actually nixon that comes off as more left-wing. yet, jfk is thought of as some kind of liberal paragon, and his death as some kind of coup.
a coup in what sense? jfk was more aggressive than johnson. he fought civil rights reform. he either used mccarthy cynically or actually agreed with him. he would have never supported limited arms treaties or opening up to china; rather, he was a strong advocate of the idea of using extreme force to stamp out the threat of communism.
it was probably johnson that killed him. there's a number of people that died or disappeared in ways that were convenient to johnson's career. this is the most basic, crude explanation; it's probably correct because of it, rather than in spite of it. regardless, the blunt truth is that his death may be the only reason the world survived the 60s. no other president throughout the cold war would have been so foolish as to press the soviets as hard as he did, in retaliation for pointing turkish missiles at moscow.
http://chomsky.info/interviews/20131122.htm
a coup in what sense? jfk was more aggressive than johnson. he fought civil rights reform. he either used mccarthy cynically or actually agreed with him. he would have never supported limited arms treaties or opening up to china; rather, he was a strong advocate of the idea of using extreme force to stamp out the threat of communism.
it was probably johnson that killed him. there's a number of people that died or disappeared in ways that were convenient to johnson's career. this is the most basic, crude explanation; it's probably correct because of it, rather than in spite of it. regardless, the blunt truth is that his death may be the only reason the world survived the 60s. no other president throughout the cold war would have been so foolish as to press the soviets as hard as he did, in retaliation for pointing turkish missiles at moscow.
http://chomsky.info/interviews/20131122.htm
at
16:55
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
the whole violence / nonviolence thing keeps coming up. people want to slander those that reject violence as a bunch of idiot kantians, which is really rather consistent with a sort of nineteenth century marxist arrested development. they then continue that on with this sort of delusional conception of self defense as spinning in circles with arms flailing wildly, seemingly convinced, themselves, that the moral basis of their own violence is enough to overpower their foes. to hell with calculating relative strengths...
i've posted this a few times. it doesn't get into meaningless debates about morality, or teleological projections about the good guys beating the bad guys.
if the left is to rebuild itself in a "scientific" way, it ought to be as an extension of darwin rather than freud.
i've posted this a few times. it doesn't get into meaningless debates about morality, or teleological projections about the good guys beating the bad guys.
if the left is to rebuild itself in a "scientific" way, it ought to be as an extension of darwin rather than freud.
at
16:12
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
there's a kind of push to work through the regulatory agencies. they're holding meetings. you want democracy, right? get to it...
even people that know it's bullshit suspend their disbelief. what's the worst thing that can happen from trying? diversity of tactics...
reality: consultation meetings are used to collect intelligence on "dissidents".
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/environment/harper-government-under-fire-spying-environmental-groups
even people that know it's bullshit suspend their disbelief. what's the worst thing that can happen from trying? diversity of tactics...
reality: consultation meetings are used to collect intelligence on "dissidents".
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/environment/harper-government-under-fire-spying-environmental-groups
at
15:35
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
erectus. or something derived or interbred from it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/ancient-humans-sex-mystery-species-dna_n_4302031.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/ancient-humans-sex-mystery-species-dna_n_4302031.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
at
15:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Friday, November 22, 2013
intro to liquify (original album mix)
my time stamp on this is too late; i specifically remember working on
it before i moved in the summer of '99, but i don't know how much
before. this may have been more like spring, 1999.
either way, i put the track aside to be worked on and didn't get back to it for quite some time afterwards. when i was compiling this (and inridiculous) as the end of my inri phase, i had to make a tough choice as to whether or not i wanted to finish it as a post-inri project or leave it as it was and move forwards. i really prioritized that cut-off point...
half of me wants to finish it now, but it wouldn't sound the way i wanted it to, originally. and it works well as this introduction.
recorded in the spring of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/liquify-inrimake
either way, i put the track aside to be worked on and didn't get back to it for quite some time afterwards. when i was compiling this (and inridiculous) as the end of my inri phase, i had to make a tough choice as to whether or not i wanted to finish it as a post-inri project or leave it as it was and move forwards. i really prioritized that cut-off point...
half of me wants to finish it now, but it wouldn't sound the way i wanted it to, originally. and it works well as this introduction.
recorded in the spring of 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/liquify-inrimake
at
09:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
chemical warfare will burn off your nose hairs (original album mix)
recorded late into the evening in my high school's secret synthesizer room. it was some kind of basic 80s analog/fm thing.
recorded in june, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/chemical-warfare-will-burn-off-your-nose-hairs
recorded in june, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/chemical-warfare-will-burn-off-your-nose-hairs
at
08:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
great. heard it before, though. hope it's followed through on; hope it's not presented as a means to "offset" tar sands
http://www.citynews.ca/2013/11/22/ontario-vows-to-be-first-on-continent-to-ban-coal-fired-electricity-generation/
http://www.citynews.ca/2013/11/22/ontario-vows-to-be-first-on-continent-to-ban-coal-fired-electricity-generation/
at
06:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Disability justice complicates our understanding of violence against “mentally ill” IPOC by taking the conversation to the level where we address how queer trans liberation work is inseparable from disability justice work.
that statement demonstrates everything that is ridiculous about approaching social issues from an "intersectional" perspective.
first, something that complicates our understanding is presented as a positive. that might be true if your aim is to sell textbooks at multiple year levels, but people that actually care about social justice are concerned about simplifying issues into workable solutions, not complicating them into meaningless intellectual abstractions.
second, the sentence is actually incoherent. as much written on the topic is. disability justice demonstrates how queer issues are inseparable from disability justice? what?
third, it's existing in some kind of paradoxical phase. the intersectional analysis began by splitting people into atomized groups based on as many adjectives as they could find. then, through much careful thought and discussion, the situation has been "complicated" by the realization that the issues are, in fact, not separable at all. shocking? or completely fucking obvious?
if the end result of this idiotic delve into "intersectional analysis" is the conclusion that it's the wrong way to approach things, i suppose it will turn out that the whole thing wasn't a waste of time. it'd just be nice if we could hurry the process up a bit, and remove the phrase from it's existing status as "trendy hipster slacktivist buzz word".
that statement demonstrates everything that is ridiculous about approaching social issues from an "intersectional" perspective.
first, something that complicates our understanding is presented as a positive. that might be true if your aim is to sell textbooks at multiple year levels, but people that actually care about social justice are concerned about simplifying issues into workable solutions, not complicating them into meaningless intellectual abstractions.
second, the sentence is actually incoherent. as much written on the topic is. disability justice demonstrates how queer issues are inseparable from disability justice? what?
third, it's existing in some kind of paradoxical phase. the intersectional analysis began by splitting people into atomized groups based on as many adjectives as they could find. then, through much careful thought and discussion, the situation has been "complicated" by the realization that the issues are, in fact, not separable at all. shocking? or completely fucking obvious?
if the end result of this idiotic delve into "intersectional analysis" is the conclusion that it's the wrong way to approach things, i suppose it will turn out that the whole thing wasn't a waste of time. it'd just be nice if we could hurry the process up a bit, and remove the phrase from it's existing status as "trendy hipster slacktivist buzz word".
at
05:03
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Thursday, November 21, 2013
slow down (original album mix)
this is the last one of these sample collage things; my noise pieces after this are at a higher level of abstraction.
there's a bit of a shape of a trip in it's rise to a peak and slow fall.
created in february, 1998. remixed in dec, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/slow-down
there's a bit of a shape of a trip in it's rise to a peak and slow fall.
created in february, 1998. remixed in dec, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/slow-down
at
13:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
the wonderful noise (original album mix)
this is taken directly from my first demo tape:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-wonderful-noise
it's a cleaner recording, here, actually.
recorded in november, 1996. edited in dec, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-wonderful-noise-2
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-wonderful-noise
it's a cleaner recording, here, actually.
recorded in november, 1996. edited in dec, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-wonderful-noise-2
at
12:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
medicated to the one i love (remix/cover for inrimake)
this was for a project on the god lives underwater mailing list. it's a pretty abstract remix that has a few things of note:
1) this is the first thing i can recall recording directly into the computer, without using the 4-track as a temporary medium. well, i was still using it as a mixer for a little bit, but i wasn't recording directly to tape. it was just pragmatism: i had constructed the drum loops using a wave editor and didn't have the right cord to transfer it to tape without it getting all full of tape hiss. i also remember being a little sick of having to run everything through noise reduction (which adds these high pitched burbles and other weirdness).
here's the thing, though. it's 1999. i'm 18. i don't have cash to shell out on fancy software like cakewalk (now sonar) or logic (now garage band). warez existed, but internet connections were slow. dial-up slow. there was also restrictions regarding the speed of my pentium I, or whatever it was; i managed to find myself an 'evaluation copy' of logic, but the computer was only able to use it as a sequencer.
so, i had to improvise. i didn't realize the ramifications of the approach i took until years later when i took a math course in wavelet design, of all things. the approach i settled on wasn't merely a shift in technology, it had a *dramatic* effect on the composition process.
what i did was pretty crude - i recorded files in one at a time and pasted them on top of each other. what i didn't realize is that this is actually carrying out a type of *synthesis* rather than a type of *mixing*. this creates a blurry sound that produces an impressionist aesthetic that i would learn to take full advantage of.
2) this is my first conscious attempt at something trip-hop.
3) some time after i posted it to the list, i got a snotty email in my box from david reilly (singer of god lives underwater) that said something along the lines of "i am aware of what you did to my song", as though it was some kind of travesty. i laughed...
recorded in february, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/medicated-to-the-one-i-love
1) this is the first thing i can recall recording directly into the computer, without using the 4-track as a temporary medium. well, i was still using it as a mixer for a little bit, but i wasn't recording directly to tape. it was just pragmatism: i had constructed the drum loops using a wave editor and didn't have the right cord to transfer it to tape without it getting all full of tape hiss. i also remember being a little sick of having to run everything through noise reduction (which adds these high pitched burbles and other weirdness).
here's the thing, though. it's 1999. i'm 18. i don't have cash to shell out on fancy software like cakewalk (now sonar) or logic (now garage band). warez existed, but internet connections were slow. dial-up slow. there was also restrictions regarding the speed of my pentium I, or whatever it was; i managed to find myself an 'evaluation copy' of logic, but the computer was only able to use it as a sequencer.
so, i had to improvise. i didn't realize the ramifications of the approach i took until years later when i took a math course in wavelet design, of all things. the approach i settled on wasn't merely a shift in technology, it had a *dramatic* effect on the composition process.
what i did was pretty crude - i recorded files in one at a time and pasted them on top of each other. what i didn't realize is that this is actually carrying out a type of *synthesis* rather than a type of *mixing*. this creates a blurry sound that produces an impressionist aesthetic that i would learn to take full advantage of.
2) this is my first conscious attempt at something trip-hop.
3) some time after i posted it to the list, i got a snotty email in my box from david reilly (singer of god lives underwater) that said something along the lines of "i am aware of what you did to my song", as though it was some kind of travesty. i laughed...
recorded in february, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/medicated-to-the-one-i-love
at
12:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
jesus gets fucked on robitussin (original album mix)
robitussin was never a recreational drug of choice, but i was sick enough for a few days that spring that i had to stay home from school so i decided to experiment with some very high doses. this is kind of what i ended up feeling like...
recorded in mar, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/jesus-gets-fucked-on-robitussin
recorded in mar, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/jesus-gets-fucked-on-robitussin
at
11:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
publishing gene-o’s – a soundtrack for an italian breakfast cereal (inri027)
somebody asked me to do this for them for a school project. we're both italian. silly joke, no offense intended.
i never saw the final version, but the guy described it to me. it was an anti drinking and driving ad (think madd) for a marketing class. they sequenced it up with shots of one of them stumbling towards a car, getting in and driving off. very clownish, apparently.
recorded in the spring of 1999. released as a standalone single on nov 21, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
this track eventually appears on my 3rd record:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
credits
j - hammerhead (909 emulator), digital wave editing
released march 9, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/gene-os-a-soundtrack-for-an-italian-breakfast-cereal
i never saw the final version, but the guy described it to me. it was an anti drinking and driving ad (think madd) for a marketing class. they sequenced it up with shots of one of them stumbling towards a car, getting in and driving off. very clownish, apparently.
recorded in the spring of 1999. released as a standalone single on nov 21, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
this track eventually appears on my 3rd record:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
credits
j - hammerhead (909 emulator), digital wave editing
released march 9, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/gene-os-a-soundtrack-for-an-italian-breakfast-cereal
at
11:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
gene-o’s - a soundtrack for an italian breakfast cereal (original album mix)
somebody asked me to do this for them for a school project. we're both italian. silly joke, no offense intended.
i never saw the final version, but the guy described it to me. it was an anti drinking and driving ad (think madd) for a marketing class. they sequenced it up with shots of one of them stumbling towards a car, getting in and driving off. very clownish, apparently.
recorded in mar, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/gene-os-a-soundtrack-for-an-italian-breakfast-cereal-2
i never saw the final version, but the guy described it to me. it was an anti drinking and driving ad (think madd) for a marketing class. they sequenced it up with shots of one of them stumbling towards a car, getting in and driving off. very clownish, apparently.
recorded in mar, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/gene-os-a-soundtrack-for-an-italian-breakfast-cereal-2
at
10:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
publishing pop music (a tribute to carbon doxide) (inri028)
i can't date this exactly. i know it was the first half of the second semester of grade 12, which was spring of 1999. further, i'm taking it forward to about midway because the first part of the course was about voice-leading and i spent it orchestrating the beatles' something.
i was lucky: i went to a high school with a big music department. not an arts school, mind you. just a school that had enough funding to run a wide array of course options that are outside the basic core topics. there were three main assignments in the course, and while i don't remember the exact assignment questions, i do have two pieces to show for it.
this, here, is a conceptual piece about pop music. all of the sounds are created from pop cans. yes, puns are fun. the samples run from pouring water out of pop cans into the sink, to crushing and smashing pop cans, to opening them, to exploding them, etc.
i used the tab of a pop can as a pick as i played the ambient guitar parts. it's all thrown together, processed, warped and perfected in a wave editor.
recorded in the spring of 1999. released as a standalone single on nov 21, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
this track eventually appears on my 3rd record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
credits:
j - guitars, effects, samples, loops, digital wave editing
released april 15, 1999
i was lucky: i went to a high school with a big music department. not an arts school, mind you. just a school that had enough funding to run a wide array of course options that are outside the basic core topics. there were three main assignments in the course, and while i don't remember the exact assignment questions, i do have two pieces to show for it.
this, here, is a conceptual piece about pop music. all of the sounds are created from pop cans. yes, puns are fun. the samples run from pouring water out of pop cans into the sink, to crushing and smashing pop cans, to opening them, to exploding them, etc.
i used the tab of a pop can as a pick as i played the ambient guitar parts. it's all thrown together, processed, warped and perfected in a wave editor.
recorded in the spring of 1999. released as a standalone single on nov 21, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
this track eventually appears on my 3rd record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
credits:
j - guitars, effects, samples, loops, digital wave editing
released april 15, 1999
at
10:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
pop music (a tribute to carbon dioxide) (original album mix)
i can't date this exactly. i know it was the first half of the second semester of grade 12. further, i'm taking it forward to about midway because the first part of the course was about voice-leading and i spent it orchestrating the beatles' something.
i was lucky: i went to a high school with a big music department. not an arts school, mind you. just a school that had enough funding to run a wide array of course options that are outside the basic core topics. there were three main assignments in the course, and while i don't remember the exact assignment questions, i do have two pieces to show for it.
this, here, is a conceptual piece about pop music. all of the sounds are created from pop cans. yes, puns are fun. the samples run from pouring water out of pop cans into the sink, to crushing and smashing pop cans, to opening them, to exploding them, etc.
i used the tab of a pop can as a pick as i played the ambient guitar parts. it's all thrown together, processed, warped and perfected in a wave editor.
recorded in april, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/pop-music-a-tribute-to-carbon-dioxide
i was lucky: i went to a high school with a big music department. not an arts school, mind you. just a school that had enough funding to run a wide array of course options that are outside the basic core topics. there were three main assignments in the course, and while i don't remember the exact assignment questions, i do have two pieces to show for it.
this, here, is a conceptual piece about pop music. all of the sounds are created from pop cans. yes, puns are fun. the samples run from pouring water out of pop cans into the sink, to crushing and smashing pop cans, to opening them, to exploding them, etc.
i used the tab of a pop can as a pick as i played the ambient guitar parts. it's all thrown together, processed, warped and perfected in a wave editor.
recorded in april, 1999.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/pop-music-a-tribute-to-carbon-dioxide
at
09:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
inriverted (remix/cover for inrimake)
tricil and i were on some of the same lists in the late 90s. he put out a request for remixes, and i took it up.
dating this exactly is difficult. the mp3 i have is time stamped to early 2000. tricil suggests it may have been late '98. there's the possible window. yet, judging from the style, i think it has to be post-demo. i have a lull in the april-june period. judging from other tracks of the period, it also seems to coincide best with my 'shockingly crude samples' phase.
regarding those samples. well, they're from reservoir dogs. three levels. first, i was thinking, listening to it, that it would work well with reservoir dogs. i eventually rejected the idea as too restricting, but i was entertaining the idea of working in film scores at the time. what i'm saying is that the music reminded me of the scene rather than the other way around, so i tossed the scene in. second, once i actually got it together, i enjoyed how twisted it sounded, 'cause i was like that. third, i was thinking a lot about huge dicks at the time - coming off the rejected ruiner cover and in general. i should note, however, that i've removed roughly 45 seconds of the track due to the reservoir dogs samples (the john hughes / madonna scene) being pointlessly crude.
musically, what i've done here is take the chord progression in the track and build something entirely different out of it. there's but a single loop in the track. i'm basically just jamming with myself in building up the different tracks. yet, it's a radical departure that exists firmly in the pivot point i was taking.
this is so dramatically different from the original that it's reasonable to say something like that it's "inspired by" the original rather than a remix or a cover. it does contain creatively reinterpreted samples of the original.
here's something more recent from tricil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gITRmVkZp7A
recorded in may, 1999. edited on nov 21, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/inverted
dating this exactly is difficult. the mp3 i have is time stamped to early 2000. tricil suggests it may have been late '98. there's the possible window. yet, judging from the style, i think it has to be post-demo. i have a lull in the april-june period. judging from other tracks of the period, it also seems to coincide best with my 'shockingly crude samples' phase.
regarding those samples. well, they're from reservoir dogs. three levels. first, i was thinking, listening to it, that it would work well with reservoir dogs. i eventually rejected the idea as too restricting, but i was entertaining the idea of working in film scores at the time. what i'm saying is that the music reminded me of the scene rather than the other way around, so i tossed the scene in. second, once i actually got it together, i enjoyed how twisted it sounded, 'cause i was like that. third, i was thinking a lot about huge dicks at the time - coming off the rejected ruiner cover and in general. i should note, however, that i've removed roughly 45 seconds of the track due to the reservoir dogs samples (the john hughes / madonna scene) being pointlessly crude.
musically, what i've done here is take the chord progression in the track and build something entirely different out of it. there's but a single loop in the track. i'm basically just jamming with myself in building up the different tracks. yet, it's a radical departure that exists firmly in the pivot point i was taking.
this is so dramatically different from the original that it's reasonable to say something like that it's "inspired by" the original rather than a remix or a cover. it does contain creatively reinterpreted samples of the original.
here's something more recent from tricil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gITRmVkZp7A
recorded in may, 1999. edited on nov 21, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/inverted
at
09:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
berlin seems to be a real magnet for resistance against america. the money and meetings surround 9/11 trace to berlin, as do a number of "terrorist" drug laundering networks.
the germans nearly started a war over echelon in the 90s. they were livid. and they know what's going on.
...or maybe it's just the cheap russian gas? who knows...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/sarah-harrison-edward-snowden-berlin
the question of 9/11 is something that comes up all over the internet. anybody that spends a lot of time on the internet is necessarily going to have at least pondered it.
i have to accept that i think the idea of a false flag attack is a valid question. nor would i put it beyond the americans to do that. there are historical precedents - gulf of tonkin is the most blatant, but also the bombing that set off the spanish american war. lusitania and pearl harbour are similar, but not exact analogues. in the context of the project for a new american century? there's some logic to this. yet, if you follow those precedents, 9/11 seems too extreme. one would think they'd fake an attack on a ship outside of yemen or something.
i've never been comfortable with bin laden's complete rejection, and the media circus that tried to skew statements into a confession. nor has the state department ever released any evidence. where the truthers are right is in pointing out that the investigation was trying to cover something up.
but, if you accept that 9/11 is too extreme for a false flag, what might they have been trying to cover up? a lack of evidence, perhaps? maybe. maybe they were trying to shield an ally, or actually *prevent* a larger world war type scenario.
i think a real investigation of 9/11 would begin with the assumption that the sophistication of the attacks suggests involvement from a state. i've rejected a false flag offhand as too extreme. the question is, then, which states have that kind of sophistication.
let's note that israel has the sophistication, but reject the idea outright. too much power in washington. too much to lose. too careful and methodical for that kind of risk.
the saudis have stronger motives and are much less methodical, but i doubt they have the sophistication. likewise with cuba, venezuela, iraq, iran and all of the other smallish states with uneasy relationships with america.
the french could conceivably do this. it's well known that they have deep intelligence networks in the united states. yet, i don't see a motive.
nor do i see a motive from india, whether they had the sophistication at the time or not.
the russians and chinese seem far more interested in preventing conflict than creating it. especially in the 90s. they wanted into the wto, apec - integration. they've retreated from this position since then in favour of bilateral co-operation to build a power in opposition to washington. but this wasn't the case at the time. they would have been acting against their own interests; it doesn't make any sense.
that leaves the germans, through a process of elimination. a motive? there were talks of a trade war between germany and the united states throughout the 90s as a consequence of adopting the euro. one way to make the dollar crash would be to send the americans on a military adventure against an enemy they can't define.
this is a deductive argument, but i find it compelling.
when you add the circumstantial evidence that sets the entire process as being planned in berlin, my eyebrows raise.
regarding intelligence sharing, i obviously have no idea what actually exists. i do, however, know the following.
1) the americans do NOT want to let the germans into the world war two era intelligence sharing agreements that still define everything. the entire network was set up to spy on germany during the war. it's still functioning. the germans are massively spied on. they're not invited.
2) american intelligence eaves dropping is industrial in nature. that is to say that the nsa spies on german companies and sells the information to american companies. you have to understand that the nazi state was largely run by large industrial cartels like ig farben and thyssen steel. it made sense to spy on them. why dismantle a functioning network?
3) the germans hate everything about this. they hate the fact that they're spied on. they hate the fact that american business spies on them. they hate the fact that they're not invited. and they've threatened economic sanctions / tariffs to fight back.
so, again, we see a reason why the germans might want to do this sort of thing...
entirely deductive. entirely circumstantial. but, of all the cities in the world, why did they all end up in berlin?
there are currently free trade agreements being worked out between europe and canada, and europe and the us. national security motives aside, it would eliminate an economic weapon from germany's disposal. there may be a hope that it would lead to greater intelligence sharing, and maybe less spying.
but germany is also very interested in deep economic integration with the countries to it's east. it's a balancing act that has the potential to turn ugly.
we usually think of germany as one of the central pieces in the western alliance, but this is a racial perception rather than one based on reality, economics or history. they've been purposefully kept at an arm's length and treated as a client state, and it's never been clear that they won't up and bounce - because they don't like that treatment.
historically, europe has been broken into at least three spheres of influence, never two. germany has usually dominated it's own sphere, and has rarely been aligned with either france or england.
well, not since charlemagne, anyways.
so, yeah. this is kind of out there. all deduction; no evidence. i wouldn't suggest any action based on this analysis....
but i'm usually right about these sorts of things.
the germans nearly started a war over echelon in the 90s. they were livid. and they know what's going on.
...or maybe it's just the cheap russian gas? who knows...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/sarah-harrison-edward-snowden-berlin
the question of 9/11 is something that comes up all over the internet. anybody that spends a lot of time on the internet is necessarily going to have at least pondered it.
i have to accept that i think the idea of a false flag attack is a valid question. nor would i put it beyond the americans to do that. there are historical precedents - gulf of tonkin is the most blatant, but also the bombing that set off the spanish american war. lusitania and pearl harbour are similar, but not exact analogues. in the context of the project for a new american century? there's some logic to this. yet, if you follow those precedents, 9/11 seems too extreme. one would think they'd fake an attack on a ship outside of yemen or something.
i've never been comfortable with bin laden's complete rejection, and the media circus that tried to skew statements into a confession. nor has the state department ever released any evidence. where the truthers are right is in pointing out that the investigation was trying to cover something up.
but, if you accept that 9/11 is too extreme for a false flag, what might they have been trying to cover up? a lack of evidence, perhaps? maybe. maybe they were trying to shield an ally, or actually *prevent* a larger world war type scenario.
i think a real investigation of 9/11 would begin with the assumption that the sophistication of the attacks suggests involvement from a state. i've rejected a false flag offhand as too extreme. the question is, then, which states have that kind of sophistication.
let's note that israel has the sophistication, but reject the idea outright. too much power in washington. too much to lose. too careful and methodical for that kind of risk.
the saudis have stronger motives and are much less methodical, but i doubt they have the sophistication. likewise with cuba, venezuela, iraq, iran and all of the other smallish states with uneasy relationships with america.
the french could conceivably do this. it's well known that they have deep intelligence networks in the united states. yet, i don't see a motive.
nor do i see a motive from india, whether they had the sophistication at the time or not.
the russians and chinese seem far more interested in preventing conflict than creating it. especially in the 90s. they wanted into the wto, apec - integration. they've retreated from this position since then in favour of bilateral co-operation to build a power in opposition to washington. but this wasn't the case at the time. they would have been acting against their own interests; it doesn't make any sense.
that leaves the germans, through a process of elimination. a motive? there were talks of a trade war between germany and the united states throughout the 90s as a consequence of adopting the euro. one way to make the dollar crash would be to send the americans on a military adventure against an enemy they can't define.
this is a deductive argument, but i find it compelling.
when you add the circumstantial evidence that sets the entire process as being planned in berlin, my eyebrows raise.
regarding intelligence sharing, i obviously have no idea what actually exists. i do, however, know the following.
1) the americans do NOT want to let the germans into the world war two era intelligence sharing agreements that still define everything. the entire network was set up to spy on germany during the war. it's still functioning. the germans are massively spied on. they're not invited.
2) american intelligence eaves dropping is industrial in nature. that is to say that the nsa spies on german companies and sells the information to american companies. you have to understand that the nazi state was largely run by large industrial cartels like ig farben and thyssen steel. it made sense to spy on them. why dismantle a functioning network?
3) the germans hate everything about this. they hate the fact that they're spied on. they hate the fact that american business spies on them. they hate the fact that they're not invited. and they've threatened economic sanctions / tariffs to fight back.
so, again, we see a reason why the germans might want to do this sort of thing...
entirely deductive. entirely circumstantial. but, of all the cities in the world, why did they all end up in berlin?
there are currently free trade agreements being worked out between europe and canada, and europe and the us. national security motives aside, it would eliminate an economic weapon from germany's disposal. there may be a hope that it would lead to greater intelligence sharing, and maybe less spying.
but germany is also very interested in deep economic integration with the countries to it's east. it's a balancing act that has the potential to turn ugly.
we usually think of germany as one of the central pieces in the western alliance, but this is a racial perception rather than one based on reality, economics or history. they've been purposefully kept at an arm's length and treated as a client state, and it's never been clear that they won't up and bounce - because they don't like that treatment.
historically, europe has been broken into at least three spheres of influence, never two. germany has usually dominated it's own sphere, and has rarely been aligned with either france or england.
well, not since charlemagne, anyways.
so, yeah. this is kind of out there. all deduction; no evidence. i wouldn't suggest any action based on this analysis....
but i'm usually right about these sorts of things.
at
03:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
inrijected (first version) (inri022) now fully uploaded
this is a collection of rejected tracks from the inri/inriched period. it's just chronologically sequenced.
recorded over 1998. compiled and remastered in late 2013. please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synth, drum programming, lyrics, samples, loops, cool edit synthesis, digital wave editing
released feb 27, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrijected
recorded over 1998. compiled and remastered in late 2013. please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synth, drum programming, lyrics, samples, loops, cool edit synthesis, digital wave editing
released feb 27, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrijected
at
12:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
inriched (original album mix) (inri021) now fully uploaded
this is very much a follow-up to the previous demo (there's a pun, here) and in fact is largely constructed of "leftover tracks" from that period. this demo may be a bit glitchier/noisier than the last one, http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-lp.
some of these songs are reworked versions of tracks i had recorded previously. in almost all cases, i consider the versions here (and on the previous demo, inri) to be the authoritative versions of these tracks.
the demo is consciously constructed to alternate between "conventional songs" and "experimental pieces", although both definitions are stretched. it generally takes the form of connecting passages. it's meant to give the record the feel of a cohesive work rather than a collection of songs.
lyrically, i'm still a teenager, but i'm starting to grow into myself a little more. there are some points of significant embarrassment on this recording, but it's really only the sixth track that makes me cringe to the point of regret. i was also experimenting with an "ironic distance" type of spoken word style that, in hindsight, doesn't come off so well.
the guitar work is one of the things that separates the sound from a typical industrial aesthetic. i've never been a fan of heavy metal and largely shied away from creating that kind of thing. yet, i found myself connecting more with psychedelic guitar at this point than punk rock. industrial psych generally implies something like trance, but it need not to. industrial hendrix? well, maybe it ends up sounding more like synth pop, which has historical roots in psychedelic music and progressive rock. the point is that the music does manage to carve out a unique space between industrial music and synth pop that i don't know of any clear comparisons to. people have suggested mid-period swans, the legendary pink dots and nine inch nails - only the last of which was a significant influence, and none of which are really that close. a better comparison, although still not a significant influence at this time, would be joy division - who would become a significant influence after this phase. my actual influences at the time would have been more like brian eno (through his 70s and 90s work with david bowie, as well as his work with u2), early prog (genesis/floyd/crimson), peter gabriel, the beatles, radiohead, the smashing pumpkins, REM, sonic youth, the tea party and a bit of contemporary electronic music (prodigy, nin, coil, foetus, autechre, nitzer ebb, ministry, econoline crush, gravity kills, stabbing westward, skinny puppy and side projects). the sense of humour is coming from frank zappa and matt groening, if they are not actually the same person. i wasn't listening to much tears for fears, i don't think, but you can hear them lurking underneath everything.
this material was recorded throughout 1998 and the very beginning of 1999, but some of it was written as far back as 1994. unfortunately, i decided that the songs sounded better in mp3 and consequently compressed everything before burning. i understand now that i was hobbling together a crude mastering process, but it means (unfortunately) that the closest thing i have to the finished tracks are low quality mp3s and a cd-r. these tracks were taken off of a cd-r and edited mildly (mostly the removal of badly placed simpsons samples) over the middle of november, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, sequencing, sampling, digital wave editing, vocals, cool edit synthesis, production, found sounds, strategies
released feb 10, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched-lp
some of these songs are reworked versions of tracks i had recorded previously. in almost all cases, i consider the versions here (and on the previous demo, inri) to be the authoritative versions of these tracks.
the demo is consciously constructed to alternate between "conventional songs" and "experimental pieces", although both definitions are stretched. it generally takes the form of connecting passages. it's meant to give the record the feel of a cohesive work rather than a collection of songs.
lyrically, i'm still a teenager, but i'm starting to grow into myself a little more. there are some points of significant embarrassment on this recording, but it's really only the sixth track that makes me cringe to the point of regret. i was also experimenting with an "ironic distance" type of spoken word style that, in hindsight, doesn't come off so well.
the guitar work is one of the things that separates the sound from a typical industrial aesthetic. i've never been a fan of heavy metal and largely shied away from creating that kind of thing. yet, i found myself connecting more with psychedelic guitar at this point than punk rock. industrial psych generally implies something like trance, but it need not to. industrial hendrix? well, maybe it ends up sounding more like synth pop, which has historical roots in psychedelic music and progressive rock. the point is that the music does manage to carve out a unique space between industrial music and synth pop that i don't know of any clear comparisons to. people have suggested mid-period swans, the legendary pink dots and nine inch nails - only the last of which was a significant influence, and none of which are really that close. a better comparison, although still not a significant influence at this time, would be joy division - who would become a significant influence after this phase. my actual influences at the time would have been more like brian eno (through his 70s and 90s work with david bowie, as well as his work with u2), early prog (genesis/floyd/crimson), peter gabriel, the beatles, radiohead, the smashing pumpkins, REM, sonic youth, the tea party and a bit of contemporary electronic music (prodigy, nin, coil, foetus, autechre, nitzer ebb, ministry, econoline crush, gravity kills, stabbing westward, skinny puppy and side projects). the sense of humour is coming from frank zappa and matt groening, if they are not actually the same person. i wasn't listening to much tears for fears, i don't think, but you can hear them lurking underneath everything.
this material was recorded throughout 1998 and the very beginning of 1999, but some of it was written as far back as 1994. unfortunately, i decided that the songs sounded better in mp3 and consequently compressed everything before burning. i understand now that i was hobbling together a crude mastering process, but it means (unfortunately) that the closest thing i have to the finished tracks are low quality mp3s and a cd-r. these tracks were taken off of a cd-r and edited mildly (mostly the removal of badly placed simpsons samples) over the middle of november, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, sequencing, sampling, digital wave editing, vocals, cool edit synthesis, production, found sounds, strategies
released feb 10, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched-lp
at
11:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
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