i didn't get as much as i wanted done yesterday, but the situation remains the same: i need to ship either tonight or tomorrow morning, probably tomorrow morning, and absolutely still can finish before then.
if not, i guess i'll have a few items to ship next week.
the only other thing i need to do before i move is a compost run. and, worst case, i could always do it after i move. i don't want to do that, though; i want the compost out tomorrow.
it's not year clear what inri068 is going to be. but, i've just pushed the percussive works forward. i feel like the material i've compiled for this is very strong, but there's only a half hour of it. this can and should be an epic release, but it just needs more material in order to bring it there. the beginning of the ninth symphony, as well as an unreleased track from early 2007 called 'the crash', should effectively add to this release. so, i'm planning to release this at the end of period 3, instead. period 3 will run from summer, 2003 to spring, 2007.
if there weren't existing ideas in the discography to flesh this out, i'd consider releasing it as an ep. but, there actually are good ideas to explore for this, and the end result will be better if i wait it out.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard
Monday, November 27, 2017
Sunday, November 26, 2017
publishing inri067
the ftaa project, much like it's namesake, was never an idea that was carefully developed, which is very much an anomaly in this discography, where almost everything is developed at such a microscopic level of detail. the idea initially developed as a means to protest the government's response to the 9/11 attacks, from what most people would identify as a libertarian perspective. however, rabit is wolf ended up becoming my main focus in that period, instead, and by the time i got back to the idea, the initial impetus had largely stalled. all activism was necessarily diverted to stopping the war....
....but, i also found myself in a much different reality, starting in late 2002. for the first (and only) time in my life, i had a partner, and it took away most of the time that i would have otherwise spent on music production. on top of that, i found myself working long hours in order both to maintain a dating lifestyle and to deal with real world expenses that the relationship created, and i hadn't ever had to deal with before. i did create some music over 2003, but my head was almost entirely inside of this relationship.
the ftaa project initially completed in may of 2004 and was composed of some of the parts of this recording plus an anti-war song. it will re-release in that space as my 7th record, but as an instrumental recording like the rest of them, thereby jettisoning both these sample collages to their respective singles and the idea of a record of sample collages altogether.
i considered re-releasing the ftaa project as a double with the samples on the other side, but there's something asynchronous about this that i don't like. further, in hindsight, i ended up putting the deny everything recording through more or less the same process, so it makes more sense to combine the jettisoned tracks together into an outtakes disc, and release it at the end of the second period.
another way to look at this recording is to interpret it as a reaction to the presidency of george w. bush, and i've left the tracks in chronological order for that reason. the first two tracks were initially on deny everything (inri041) and have the thematic unity of being a warning regarding the bush presidency, even if the trudeau character sounds more like trump, in the year 2017. the next two tracks were an explicit reaction to the 9/11 attacks. the fifth track takes those ideas to their conclusion, in exploring the thesis that the attacks were the catalyst to end the period of liberal democracy in the united states, and potentially also in it's satellites, and usher in a period of totalitarian rule. as of 2017, that process appears to be nearing it's completion.
so, this is really the actualization of the intent behind the ftaa project, even if it isn't quite in the form that it was initially released in. as such, it should be viewed as almost an official record - despite the overlap and the historical revisionism.
written and recorded between dec, 1999 and july, 2002, except the hidden track (which was created in the summer of 1998). none of these tracks were remastered or otherwise modified after 2002. this compilation is dated to nov 26, 2017; disc simultaneously created and finalized as lp016 on nov 26, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2017).
....but, i also found myself in a much different reality, starting in late 2002. for the first (and only) time in my life, i had a partner, and it took away most of the time that i would have otherwise spent on music production. on top of that, i found myself working long hours in order both to maintain a dating lifestyle and to deal with real world expenses that the relationship created, and i hadn't ever had to deal with before. i did create some music over 2003, but my head was almost entirely inside of this relationship.
the ftaa project initially completed in may of 2004 and was composed of some of the parts of this recording plus an anti-war song. it will re-release in that space as my 7th record, but as an instrumental recording like the rest of them, thereby jettisoning both these sample collages to their respective singles and the idea of a record of sample collages altogether.
i considered re-releasing the ftaa project as a double with the samples on the other side, but there's something asynchronous about this that i don't like. further, in hindsight, i ended up putting the deny everything recording through more or less the same process, so it makes more sense to combine the jettisoned tracks together into an outtakes disc, and release it at the end of the second period.
another way to look at this recording is to interpret it as a reaction to the presidency of george w. bush, and i've left the tracks in chronological order for that reason. the first two tracks were initially on deny everything (inri041) and have the thematic unity of being a warning regarding the bush presidency, even if the trudeau character sounds more like trump, in the year 2017. the next two tracks were an explicit reaction to the 9/11 attacks. the fifth track takes those ideas to their conclusion, in exploring the thesis that the attacks were the catalyst to end the period of liberal democracy in the united states, and potentially also in it's satellites, and usher in a period of totalitarian rule. as of 2017, that process appears to be nearing it's completion.
so, this is really the actualization of the intent behind the ftaa project, even if it isn't quite in the form that it was initially released in. as such, it should be viewed as almost an official record - despite the overlap and the historical revisionism.
written and recorded between dec, 1999 and july, 2002, except the hidden track (which was created in the summer of 1998). none of these tracks were remastered or otherwise modified after 2002. this compilation is dated to nov 26, 2017; disc simultaneously created and finalized as lp016 on nov 26, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2017).
credits
released April 23, 2003
j - guitars (electric, nylon, acoustic), mandolin, electric bass, digital & analog effects processing, synths, sampling, pythagorean sequencing (sounder), drum and other programming, drum manipulations, drum kit, voice, flute, sound design, sound raider, noise generators, cool edit sequencing, digital wave editing, composition, production
sean - ring modulator (5)
greg - drum performance sample source (5)
j - guitars (electric, nylon, acoustic), mandolin, electric bass, digital & analog effects processing, synths, sampling, pythagorean sequencing (sounder), drum and other programming, drum manipulations, drum kit, voice, flute, sound design, sound raider, noise generators, cool edit sequencing, digital wave editing, composition, production
sean - ring modulator (5)
greg - drum performance sample source (5)
at
19:12
publishing inri066
when i sat
down to complete my discography in 2013, one of the ideas that
immediately jumped out was to try and reinterpret some of the inri
tracks from the late 1990s as modern pieces. as i believed that my
source tapes were unusable at the time (which i eventually realized was
not the case - see inri024), the conditions for this being a workable
project would need to be the existence of the original drum tracks,
along with the existence of some midi files.
i was gifted my ry30 in the summer of 1997 to compensate for the loss of my drum kit and studio space, but i did not have any recording gear again until christmas. so, i spent the fall programming the drum machine and teaching myself the basics of sequencing and sound design, using the primitive tools i had available to me. by the time i got my four track, as well as my jx-8p, the ry30 was full, and re-recording my first songs was just a matter of transferring the completed material from the electronic equipment to tape. so, i initially considered making a companion ep to inrisampled that would document my time spent programming the ry30 along with my time sent learning how to manipulate sound. the difference between the drum tracks at this stage and the initial collage experiments, however, is that the drum tracks were not complete songs. so, this was abandoned due to the product being a little dry. but, i still wanted to make an ep around the ry30, perhaps by orchestrating the existing companion midi tracks.
this idea then quickly merged with what would become thru (inri069) and eventually discarded itself within itself when it was realized that the existing midi files for the 90s material were too sparse to really utilize, especially in comparison to the midi files from the early 00s. thru was deleted and then resuscitated over the course of 2014 and 2015, eventually releasing in mid 2015 as a 2001-2003 project, leaving the 90s material in the dustbin of my own history.
it was in june, 2015 that i realized that the source tapes were usable after all, and cycled back around to the beginning of the reconstruction in order to complete the relevant tracks as instrumental pieces. this idea kind of recreated itself in the nature of the source tapes, as i had bounced all of the electronics together into the same channel as a mixing step, back in the 90s. so, i found myself with these ready-to-publish electronic tracks right off the tape that incorporated a combination of the ry30 tracks, jx-8p parts, soundblaster programs, zoom 1010 noises and cool edit experiments. all they really needed was a little attention on the mastering.
i flipped this over, in the end: what each of these tracks are is their final album mixes, with the guitar and bass parts deleted (unless the bass was done on a synthesizer). so, there was some post-production added over 2015 in the form of updated soundfonts, digital mastering and digital effects processing. but, these are really flourishes on the existing tracks.
it was at the end of dec, 2015 that further similar electronics-only ry30-centric remixes were creating for some later songs, as well, thereby filling out the disc and closing the project.
i sold my ry30 in may, 2003 to raise money to go to british columbia. my logic was that i'd really maximized what i was going to get out of it, and that i'd already discarded it, anyways: by that time, i'd been writing drum parts in the scorewriter for a few years already, and had barely touched the ry30 in a long time. but, i regret that decision, in hindsight. and, i expect to pick up another one, one day.
originally written, programmed and recorded from 1996-2002. reclaimed & remixed from june to december of 2015. initial completion date was december 31, 2015. disc finally released on physical media, closed and finalized on nov 26, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
i was gifted my ry30 in the summer of 1997 to compensate for the loss of my drum kit and studio space, but i did not have any recording gear again until christmas. so, i spent the fall programming the drum machine and teaching myself the basics of sequencing and sound design, using the primitive tools i had available to me. by the time i got my four track, as well as my jx-8p, the ry30 was full, and re-recording my first songs was just a matter of transferring the completed material from the electronic equipment to tape. so, i initially considered making a companion ep to inrisampled that would document my time spent programming the ry30 along with my time sent learning how to manipulate sound. the difference between the drum tracks at this stage and the initial collage experiments, however, is that the drum tracks were not complete songs. so, this was abandoned due to the product being a little dry. but, i still wanted to make an ep around the ry30, perhaps by orchestrating the existing companion midi tracks.
this idea then quickly merged with what would become thru (inri069) and eventually discarded itself within itself when it was realized that the existing midi files for the 90s material were too sparse to really utilize, especially in comparison to the midi files from the early 00s. thru was deleted and then resuscitated over the course of 2014 and 2015, eventually releasing in mid 2015 as a 2001-2003 project, leaving the 90s material in the dustbin of my own history.
it was in june, 2015 that i realized that the source tapes were usable after all, and cycled back around to the beginning of the reconstruction in order to complete the relevant tracks as instrumental pieces. this idea kind of recreated itself in the nature of the source tapes, as i had bounced all of the electronics together into the same channel as a mixing step, back in the 90s. so, i found myself with these ready-to-publish electronic tracks right off the tape that incorporated a combination of the ry30 tracks, jx-8p parts, soundblaster programs, zoom 1010 noises and cool edit experiments. all they really needed was a little attention on the mastering.
i flipped this over, in the end: what each of these tracks are is their final album mixes, with the guitar and bass parts deleted (unless the bass was done on a synthesizer). so, there was some post-production added over 2015 in the form of updated soundfonts, digital mastering and digital effects processing. but, these are really flourishes on the existing tracks.
it was at the end of dec, 2015 that further similar electronics-only ry30-centric remixes were creating for some later songs, as well, thereby filling out the disc and closing the project.
i sold my ry30 in may, 2003 to raise money to go to british columbia. my logic was that i'd really maximized what i was going to get out of it, and that i'd already discarded it, anyways: by that time, i'd been writing drum parts in the scorewriter for a few years already, and had barely touched the ry30 in a long time. but, i regret that decision, in hindsight. and, i expect to pick up another one, one day.
originally written, programmed and recorded from 1996-2002. reclaimed & remixed from june to december of 2015. initial completion date was december 31, 2015. disc finally released on physical media, closed and finalized on nov 26, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
credits
released April 26, 2003
j - drum & other programming, orchestral & other sequencing, guitar effects, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, synthesizers, loops, vocal noises & relics, sampling, sound design, production
the various rendered electronic orchestras include organ, sitar, bells, synthesizer effects, tuba, saxophone, flute, clarinet, orchestra hit, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections.
j - drum & other programming, orchestral & other sequencing, guitar effects, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, synthesizers, loops, vocal noises & relics, sampling, sound design, production
the various rendered electronic orchestras include organ, sitar, bells, synthesizer effects, tuba, saxophone, flute, clarinet, orchestra hit, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
10:22
so, i printed inri065 yesterday, which permanently closes (subject to
the eventual completion of the liner notes in the alter-reality) the
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj phase, even as it opens the trivial group phase.
what's left is the string of compilations, and i need to get the bulk of this done by tomorrow so i can ship on monday. i have to ship on monday, dammit.
this is the remaining sequence, for april, 2003.
april 22nd : 66 is the ry30 disc, which just needs liner notes.
april 23rd: 67 will probably be a sample collage disc, and will take the place of the ftaa disc (although the ftaa disc will still release, instrumental, in may, 2004)
april 24th: 68 will be a guitar works of some sort, but the parameters are unclear.
april 25th: i will finish the blu-ray disc one of these days. 25 gb of flac files. around $750. not entirely comprehensive of periods 1&2 but close.
april 26th: there will also be another flac disc closing around here, too.
april 27th: inri069 is thru, the midi disc.
april 28th: inri070 is the ambient works.
april 29th: inri071 is the orchestral works.
april 30th: inri072 is the chamber works
may 1st: inri073 is reflections.
the drone disc will almost certainly push forwards to the end of period 3. i might still make room for a percussion disc, but it will probably push forward. the piano works will push forward. as will the next vocal disc. and, i'm going to need some shape for 'genesis', as well.
this all has to be worked out in the next 24 hours.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
what's left is the string of compilations, and i need to get the bulk of this done by tomorrow so i can ship on monday. i have to ship on monday, dammit.
this is the remaining sequence, for april, 2003.
april 22nd : 66 is the ry30 disc, which just needs liner notes.
april 23rd: 67 will probably be a sample collage disc, and will take the place of the ftaa disc (although the ftaa disc will still release, instrumental, in may, 2004)
april 24th: 68 will be a guitar works of some sort, but the parameters are unclear.
april 25th: i will finish the blu-ray disc one of these days. 25 gb of flac files. around $750. not entirely comprehensive of periods 1&2 but close.
april 26th: there will also be another flac disc closing around here, too.
april 27th: inri069 is thru, the midi disc.
april 28th: inri070 is the ambient works.
april 29th: inri071 is the orchestral works.
april 30th: inri072 is the chamber works
may 1st: inri073 is reflections.
the drone disc will almost certainly push forwards to the end of period 3. i might still make room for a percussion disc, but it will probably push forward. the piano works will push forward. as will the next vocal disc. and, i'm going to need some shape for 'genesis', as well.
this all has to be worked out in the next 24 hours.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
06:11
Saturday, November 25, 2017
purchasing
this release comes with the immediate download of the release that you
linked to it off of. be sure you make the right choice.
inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri049: written and recorded in the fall of 2001. compiled on sept 6, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 20-21, 2017.
inri053: written late 2001 and early 2002. this file is ripped from a cd-r that was burnt around 2002, as that was the option that would produce the most accurate reproduction of the original composition. republished without modification in 2014. on oct 23, 2017, the poem was added to the disc as an introduction to the track and the disc was subsequently closed and finalized as symph006 and lp012.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing on november 8, 2014. except to sequence the record, these files have not been altered since 2002. disc finalized as lp013 on nov 3, 2017.
inri058: written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes (from 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and an expansion from two cds to four cds. disc finalized as symph007 on nov 12, 2017.
inri059: written and recorded in late 2001 and the first half of 2002. mildly remixed in november, 2014 to make the tracks more presentable; nothing substantial was altered, and no new sound was recorded. final mixes were on november 19, 2014. disc released on physical media and finalized as inri059 on nov 14, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017.
inri063: these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
inri065: written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2003. this compilation is dated to april 21, 2003. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri049: written and recorded in the fall of 2001. compiled on sept 6, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 20-21, 2017.
inri053: written late 2001 and early 2002. this file is ripped from a cd-r that was burnt around 2002, as that was the option that would produce the most accurate reproduction of the original composition. republished without modification in 2014. on oct 23, 2017, the poem was added to the disc as an introduction to the track and the disc was subsequently closed and finalized as symph006 and lp012.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing on november 8, 2014. except to sequence the record, these files have not been altered since 2002. disc finalized as lp013 on nov 3, 2017.
inri058: written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes (from 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and an expansion from two cds to four cds. disc finalized as symph007 on nov 12, 2017.
inri059: written and recorded in late 2001 and the first half of 2002. mildly remixed in november, 2014 to make the tracks more presentable; nothing substantial was altered, and no new sound was recorded. final mixes were on november 19, 2014. disc released on physical media and finalized as inri059 on nov 14, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017.
inri063: these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
inri065: written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2003. this compilation is dated to april 21, 2003. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
credits
released April 21, 2003
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, bowls, claps, tables, e-bow, production
sean - vocals (inri048-inri049, inri053-inri059, inri061), harmonica (inri054, inri057), ring modulator (inri057-inri058), vocal concept (inri062) .
jon - guitar performance (inri048-inri049, inri057)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056-inri058)
bob - hammering (inri058)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, fingered bass guitar, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, brass section, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean, bowed & picked), acoustic guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), synthesizer, synthesizer effects, synth pad, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, mallet, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, celesta, xylophone, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, bowls, claps, tables, e-bow, production
sean - vocals (inri048-inri049, inri053-inri059, inri061), harmonica (inri054, inri057), ring modulator (inri057-inri058), vocal concept (inri062) .
jon - guitar performance (inri048-inri049, inri057)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056-inri058)
bob - hammering (inri058)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, fingered bass guitar, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, brass section, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean, bowed & picked), acoustic guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), synthesizer, synthesizer effects, synth pad, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, mallet, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, celesta, xylophone, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
21:26
some time
in late 2002, sean sent me a message over msn or icq requesting that we
begin a song based on looped birds chirping. i thought his idea was kind
of cliched, but i took to working around his suggestions by converting
them into something more musically expressive. i didn't want to write a
song that literally climaxes around birds chirping, but i was willing to
write something tonal that evoked the feeling of birds chirping.
at the time, i had my sister's electronic piano downstairs. she had a miniature grand upstairs. it was initially written on the keyboard with a very strange timing, which the scorewriter had difficulties capturing - partly because i was inconsistent in performing it. the piece was greatly simplified as it was arranged.
however, i believe the piece sat for a long time before the second section was added to it.
sean and i didn't talk much over the next few months, and the truth is that i just never brought this piece up to him. by the time it was finished, i had firmly placed it in my successor project, the trivial group. it was initially dedicated to sean as a part of the going away disc (reflections), but that's really as close as this ever got to being a rabit tune.
i don't have clear memories around composing it, although circumstantial evidence makes it very likely that this happened in the late winter and early spring of 2003. i vaguely recall playing it on the grand upstairs, which could have only happened after sarah moved home to the outer suburbs to get ready for the trip. this was around march. i do remember recording the guitar parts and percussion parts, and am convinced this was in the spring due to memories of the spring sun hitting the bowls. the april 20th date may be a little late, but i have every reason to believe that this was not finished until after exams that year.
the percussion sections in the track are notable. the metallic sounds were created by smashing cutlery into a metal bowl, whereas the woody sounds were created by "playing" a pen on a desk. the track also includes hand claps.
these percussion parts were not notated until 2015. this was a careful, lengthy process that required a lot of careful listening, and a bit of napkin math. notating the percussion allowed for a more comprehensive exploration of the track over midi.
i've included the midi files of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.
written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the title track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2003, 2015, 2017).
*download only
at the time, i had my sister's electronic piano downstairs. she had a miniature grand upstairs. it was initially written on the keyboard with a very strange timing, which the scorewriter had difficulties capturing - partly because i was inconsistent in performing it. the piece was greatly simplified as it was arranged.
however, i believe the piece sat for a long time before the second section was added to it.
sean and i didn't talk much over the next few months, and the truth is that i just never brought this piece up to him. by the time it was finished, i had firmly placed it in my successor project, the trivial group. it was initially dedicated to sean as a part of the going away disc (reflections), but that's really as close as this ever got to being a rabit tune.
i don't have clear memories around composing it, although circumstantial evidence makes it very likely that this happened in the late winter and early spring of 2003. i vaguely recall playing it on the grand upstairs, which could have only happened after sarah moved home to the outer suburbs to get ready for the trip. this was around march. i do remember recording the guitar parts and percussion parts, and am convinced this was in the spring due to memories of the spring sun hitting the bowls. the april 20th date may be a little late, but i have every reason to believe that this was not finished until after exams that year.
the percussion sections in the track are notable. the metallic sounds were created by smashing cutlery into a metal bowl, whereas the woody sounds were created by "playing" a pen on a desk. the track also includes hand claps.
these percussion parts were not notated until 2015. this was a careful, lengthy process that required a lot of careful listening, and a bit of napkin math. notating the percussion allowed for a more comprehensive exploration of the track over midi.
i've included the midi files of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.
written and recorded in early 2003. transcribed, slightly rearranged, remixed repeatedly and re-rendered repeatedly over may, 2015. all renders finalized on may 16, 2015. the download-only orchestral mix was completed on may 23, 2015 and added to this release on nov 25, 2017. disc finalized on nov 25, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the title track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2003, 2015, 2017).
*download only
credits
released April 20, 2003
j - guitars, effects, bass, synth, voice, bowls, claps, tables, ebow, orchestral sequencing, drum & other programming, loops, digital wave editing, composition, production.
the various rendered electronic orchestras include synth pad, synth bass, synthesizer, mellotron, fingered bass guitar, picked electric guitar, bowed electric guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), violin, viola, contrabass, cello, string section, brass section, piano, celesta, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tubular bells, woodblock, mallet, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum kit and choir.
j - guitars, effects, bass, synth, voice, bowls, claps, tables, ebow, orchestral sequencing, drum & other programming, loops, digital wave editing, composition, production.
the various rendered electronic orchestras include synth pad, synth bass, synthesizer, mellotron, fingered bass guitar, picked electric guitar, bowed electric guitar, guitar noises (fret noises, knocks, pick scrapes), violin, viola, contrabass, cello, string section, brass section, piano, celesta, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tubular bells, woodblock, mallet, electronic drum kit, jazz drum kit, orchestral drum kit and choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
16:27
see, what's wrong with this piece is that the author is making it seem like the racist undertones in indigenous norse religion are different than exist in other religions. it's absolutely correct to point out that this religion is racist. but, an astute reader should see the parallels with other religions, rather than attempt to draw a set of false contrasts.
so, what the indigenous european religion was about was ancestor worship. as one of the people interviewed points out, it wouldn't make sense for an african or a japanese person to sit around and worship dead vikings. nor would it make any sense for a german to worship dead japanese people - despite the fact that the indigenous japanese religion is, in fact, also about ancestor worship, as are many of the indigenous african religions.
the muslims don't worship their ancestors. but, a non-muslim in a muslim society is to be treated as a second-class citizen - this is almost verbatim, from their religious texts. it's a totally racist religion. judaism attaches itself to an ethnicity and claims that ethnicity is god's chosen ethnicity, then casts out the rest of the world as gentiles. the greeks saw the rest of the world as barbarians. the caste system in india is mostly ethnic-based. buddhists aren't any better, either.
the only religion that i can think of that isn't inherently racist is christianity, and it was probably a lot more racist to start with, before it was co-opted by the roman authorities and used as a means of counter-acting racism. but, the roman empire was a confederacy of disparate peoples, put together only partly through conquest and partly through the peaceful transfer of property; when you inherit a territory as an advanced and civilized culture, that is different than conquering it while still in a phase of barbarism. so, christians are weird, all around.
and, christians, themselves, can certainly be racist, despite the strangeness of their religion, in comparison to others, on the topic.
so, yeah - norse religion is racist. like all the other religions. because that's what religion is really all about.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qbxpp5/how-a-thor-worshipping-religion-turned-racist-456
so, what the indigenous european religion was about was ancestor worship. as one of the people interviewed points out, it wouldn't make sense for an african or a japanese person to sit around and worship dead vikings. nor would it make any sense for a german to worship dead japanese people - despite the fact that the indigenous japanese religion is, in fact, also about ancestor worship, as are many of the indigenous african religions.
the muslims don't worship their ancestors. but, a non-muslim in a muslim society is to be treated as a second-class citizen - this is almost verbatim, from their religious texts. it's a totally racist religion. judaism attaches itself to an ethnicity and claims that ethnicity is god's chosen ethnicity, then casts out the rest of the world as gentiles. the greeks saw the rest of the world as barbarians. the caste system in india is mostly ethnic-based. buddhists aren't any better, either.
the only religion that i can think of that isn't inherently racist is christianity, and it was probably a lot more racist to start with, before it was co-opted by the roman authorities and used as a means of counter-acting racism. but, the roman empire was a confederacy of disparate peoples, put together only partly through conquest and partly through the peaceful transfer of property; when you inherit a territory as an advanced and civilized culture, that is different than conquering it while still in a phase of barbarism. so, christians are weird, all around.
and, christians, themselves, can certainly be racist, despite the strangeness of their religion, in comparison to others, on the topic.
so, yeah - norse religion is racist. like all the other religions. because that's what religion is really all about.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qbxpp5/how-a-thor-worshipping-religion-turned-racist-456
at
08:33
again: people that push back against religion because it's oppressive aren't racists. they are liberals. generally, liberals are critical of religion.
and, people that stand up for religion on grounds of constitutional rights aren't liberals. they are conservatives. generally, conservatives are deferential to religion.
further, people that use race to divide for political purposes aren't conservatives. they're fascists. generally, fascists pick one religion over the others, and pit the adherents of that religion against everybody else.
any questions?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
and, people that stand up for religion on grounds of constitutional rights aren't liberals. they are conservatives. generally, conservatives are deferential to religion.
further, people that use race to divide for political purposes aren't conservatives. they're fascists. generally, fascists pick one religion over the others, and pit the adherents of that religion against everybody else.
any questions?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
07:47
ok, let's revisit.
1) the democratic party is the party of conservatives and progressives, which are more or less the same thing. they have never been a liberal party.
2) the republican party is a party of absolute nihilists that advocate some kind of soft fascism. they are not conservatives, but they are historically a liberal party.
3) there are, today, liberals scattered across both parties, in extreme minorities.
4) socialism is dead.
the existing choice in the united states is between conservatism and fascism.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
1) the democratic party is the party of conservatives and progressives, which are more or less the same thing. they have never been a liberal party.
2) the republican party is a party of absolute nihilists that advocate some kind of soft fascism. they are not conservatives, but they are historically a liberal party.
3) there are, today, liberals scattered across both parties, in extreme minorities.
4) socialism is dead.
the existing choice in the united states is between conservatism and fascism.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
03:58
Friday, November 24, 2017
i'll point something else out, though: the ontario government is doing gai trials, and i'd get something like a doubling in income if that were to go through. it probably wouldn't create much inflation. the energy rebates won't matter much, if that goes live...
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
15:45
so, i called the worker at 8:31 and she told me everything is going through.
i called the landlord after noon, and she told me everything will be fine.....but i have to wait until the 29th.
i can't tell my existing landlord that i'm moving until i get the keys.
i have until the 4th to file the appeal, if this collapses. but, i can technically afford first & last month's rent on the 30th, regardless, so it's hard to see what's going to happen besides my new landlord bailing on the deal.
i put my fridge up on kijiji, but i'm wondering if it might be more efficient than what's there. i didn't really check. it's a very big fridge, but it's decently efficient for it's size - it's 700 kwh/year, which is about 60 kwh/month. if the fridge in the unit is very old, i might be better off bringing this one.
with the discount i'm getting, my energy budget is about 250 kwh/month - if i go over that, i start having to actually pay. given that i don't use the stove or the air conditioning, and i'm not paying for heat or hot water, i actually don't think i'll have much to worry about in at least keeping it under 300 kwh/month, which would be about a $10/month charge.
i've never had to pay electricity before, but there's so much hysteria around it that i wasn't going to find anything all inclusive. and, like i say, with the rebate, i'm almost better off with it separated from the rent. the rebate was really the key point, though. if that rebate collapses i might even have to move. but, i'm going to come down on this really conservatively to start: i'm going to keep everything off between 7 am and 7 pm for the first cycle, and try to keep my usage to the absolute bare minimum, to start, just to get a kind of background noise. i'm even going to disconnect my cable modem when i'm not using it. it's just to help me figure out what the bare minimum cost is, so i can slowly bring in more and more things.
i'm going to presume, for example, that my pod xt is probably a pig. if my background noise - fridge, stove top, microwave, lights, one computer at a time, battery charger - is closer to 100 kwh than 200 kwh, i shouldn't worry much about plugging in. but, if i end up pushing the 250 right off the bat, i'm going to need to be more careful.
i only have a few more discs left to close. i'm going to focus entirely on that this weekend, and hope to ship the balance of the remaining order on monday, so i can get ready for the move on tuesday and actually move on wednesday, thursday & friday.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i called the landlord after noon, and she told me everything will be fine.....but i have to wait until the 29th.
i can't tell my existing landlord that i'm moving until i get the keys.
i have until the 4th to file the appeal, if this collapses. but, i can technically afford first & last month's rent on the 30th, regardless, so it's hard to see what's going to happen besides my new landlord bailing on the deal.
i put my fridge up on kijiji, but i'm wondering if it might be more efficient than what's there. i didn't really check. it's a very big fridge, but it's decently efficient for it's size - it's 700 kwh/year, which is about 60 kwh/month. if the fridge in the unit is very old, i might be better off bringing this one.
with the discount i'm getting, my energy budget is about 250 kwh/month - if i go over that, i start having to actually pay. given that i don't use the stove or the air conditioning, and i'm not paying for heat or hot water, i actually don't think i'll have much to worry about in at least keeping it under 300 kwh/month, which would be about a $10/month charge.
i've never had to pay electricity before, but there's so much hysteria around it that i wasn't going to find anything all inclusive. and, like i say, with the rebate, i'm almost better off with it separated from the rent. the rebate was really the key point, though. if that rebate collapses i might even have to move. but, i'm going to come down on this really conservatively to start: i'm going to keep everything off between 7 am and 7 pm for the first cycle, and try to keep my usage to the absolute bare minimum, to start, just to get a kind of background noise. i'm even going to disconnect my cable modem when i'm not using it. it's just to help me figure out what the bare minimum cost is, so i can slowly bring in more and more things.
i'm going to presume, for example, that my pod xt is probably a pig. if my background noise - fridge, stove top, microwave, lights, one computer at a time, battery charger - is closer to 100 kwh than 200 kwh, i shouldn't worry much about plugging in. but, if i end up pushing the 250 right off the bat, i'm going to need to be more careful.
i only have a few more discs left to close. i'm going to focus entirely on that this weekend, and hope to ship the balance of the remaining order on monday, so i can get ready for the move on tuesday and actually move on wednesday, thursday & friday.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
15:35
history is written by the victors.
you know that, don't you?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
you know that, don't you?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
09:51
republishing inri064
this was
constructed as a christmas present for my partner, while in a rather
absurd state of entirely preposterous euphoria. only a musician can be
so absurdly invested in something so thoroughly delusional - or manage
to create something so entirely self-reflective out of a theme
surrounding somebody else.
the first part of this was shelved before it was ever released. i was over-exaggerating a sense of self-consciousness, but it still strikes me as unworkable. however, i think it's conceptually important in the idea of this as a christmas present and has consequently been uploaded here without modification. the second part was actually presented to sarah as a present, albeit a little after christmas - hence the jan 1 release date. it eventually found it's way to the center of my eighth symphony, reflections.
these tracks were written and recorded over november and december of 2002 and uploaded, unmodified, in may of 2015. this was initially a download only release, but was expanded to a full release and finalized as such on nov 24, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the second track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2002, 2003, 2015, 2017).
the first part of this was shelved before it was ever released. i was over-exaggerating a sense of self-consciousness, but it still strikes me as unworkable. however, i think it's conceptually important in the idea of this as a christmas present and has consequently been uploaded here without modification. the second part was actually presented to sarah as a present, albeit a little after christmas - hence the jan 1 release date. it eventually found it's way to the center of my eighth symphony, reflections.
these tracks were written and recorded over november and december of 2002 and uploaded, unmodified, in may of 2015. this was initially a download only release, but was expanded to a full release and finalized as such on nov 24, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the second track appears as a component on my eighth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/e
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2002, 2003, 2015, 2017).
credits
released January 1, 2003
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, piano, drum programming, light-sound synthesis (coagula), generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, sound design, digital wave editing, production, composition
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, piano, drum programming, light-sound synthesis (coagula), generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, sound design, digital wave editing, production, composition
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
05:44
that's the second day in a row that i passed out waiting for a call.
so, what got accomplished yesterday?
1) i got the moving estimate to odsp, who in turn got it to the city. so, that's in process.
2) i got the oesp consent mailed. so, hydro is set up.
3) i got the internet transferred.
i don't have phone or cable services. & the building will cover heat & water. so, my only utilities are hydro & internet. that's done.
4) i got the issue with the direct deposit worked out - i should get a full check on november 30th, and i'll have to make sure everything is good after that. the worker is still being weird about it, but i'll have to wait until i move to push back on it.
5) i talked to the city about covering the moving costs and last month's rent, and got to the point where the city just needed to call the landlord and call me back.
the ciy never called me back.
so, i'll be on the phone, haranguing them, first thing in the morning.
they never asked me for my landlord's phone number, leaving me to conclude that they'd need to find the information on their own. unless they already have it in some database, they're not going to find it. and, that might be a big problem.
again: i wish they would have left me a message last night so i at least knew what was going on. but, i'm not going to be shy about calling them repeatedly until i at least get an answer.
my takeaway from this situation is that the city is taking far too great an initiative in micro-managing this, and it might in the end work against both myself and my existing landlord, who may have to deal with an appeal that i thought i had avoided. there's no reason to do any of the things that they're doing. i brought them a lease, with a request for last month's rent and an estimate for moving costs. there is no evidence that i have substance abuse issues, gambling problems or any other concerns that would lead to me having difficulty getting the funds from a to b; if such evidence did exist, they may be justified in micro-managing, but the benefit of the doubt should be with the applicant, and these steps that they're taking should be extraneous rather than automatic. they should have just taken the lease and the receipts and written me a check for the difference.
but, i'll be as annoying as i have to be for as long as i have to be. once again: there was an easy answer, but this ubiquity of human stupidity is necessitating this byzantine nonsense.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, what got accomplished yesterday?
1) i got the moving estimate to odsp, who in turn got it to the city. so, that's in process.
2) i got the oesp consent mailed. so, hydro is set up.
3) i got the internet transferred.
i don't have phone or cable services. & the building will cover heat & water. so, my only utilities are hydro & internet. that's done.
4) i got the issue with the direct deposit worked out - i should get a full check on november 30th, and i'll have to make sure everything is good after that. the worker is still being weird about it, but i'll have to wait until i move to push back on it.
5) i talked to the city about covering the moving costs and last month's rent, and got to the point where the city just needed to call the landlord and call me back.
the ciy never called me back.
so, i'll be on the phone, haranguing them, first thing in the morning.
they never asked me for my landlord's phone number, leaving me to conclude that they'd need to find the information on their own. unless they already have it in some database, they're not going to find it. and, that might be a big problem.
again: i wish they would have left me a message last night so i at least knew what was going on. but, i'm not going to be shy about calling them repeatedly until i at least get an answer.
my takeaway from this situation is that the city is taking far too great an initiative in micro-managing this, and it might in the end work against both myself and my existing landlord, who may have to deal with an appeal that i thought i had avoided. there's no reason to do any of the things that they're doing. i brought them a lease, with a request for last month's rent and an estimate for moving costs. there is no evidence that i have substance abuse issues, gambling problems or any other concerns that would lead to me having difficulty getting the funds from a to b; if such evidence did exist, they may be justified in micro-managing, but the benefit of the doubt should be with the applicant, and these steps that they're taking should be extraneous rather than automatic. they should have just taken the lease and the receipts and written me a check for the difference.
but, i'll be as annoying as i have to be for as long as i have to be. once again: there was an easy answer, but this ubiquity of human stupidity is necessitating this byzantine nonsense.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
01:04
Thursday, November 23, 2017
if the nazis end up back in power in germany due to proportional representation, can we stop arguing in favour of proportional representation?
i mean, we told you this was going to happen. and you said it can't. and it is about to happen. maybe, those opposed to pr were actually right?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i mean, we told you this was going to happen. and you said it can't. and it is about to happen. maybe, those opposed to pr were actually right?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
15:20
actually, in my experience, i agree with him.
indigenous sovereignty has been a theme on the left for a while. but, few people seem to realize just how conservative traditional indigenous culture really is in regards to things like gender roles. see, they might have a few extra roles, but erecting this "trans" role and then enforcing it on people isn't really a lot better than erasing it. i'm more into how the greeks did this (with caveats).
i'm consequently led to believe that if we ever had an actualization of indigenous sovereignty, the people i would really have solidarity with would be the people transcending the norms that keep it in place, and trying to overturn it.
i grasp that there are groups that want more control over their lives. and, i don't want to take away their agency. but, i think we're all better off looking past this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/rob-clarke-sask-party-leadership-candidate-says-indigenous-people-dont-believe-in-abortion_a_23285943/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
indigenous sovereignty has been a theme on the left for a while. but, few people seem to realize just how conservative traditional indigenous culture really is in regards to things like gender roles. see, they might have a few extra roles, but erecting this "trans" role and then enforcing it on people isn't really a lot better than erasing it. i'm more into how the greeks did this (with caveats).
i'm consequently led to believe that if we ever had an actualization of indigenous sovereignty, the people i would really have solidarity with would be the people transcending the norms that keep it in place, and trying to overturn it.
i grasp that there are groups that want more control over their lives. and, i don't want to take away their agency. but, i think we're all better off looking past this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/rob-clarke-sask-party-leadership-candidate-says-indigenous-people-dont-believe-in-abortion_a_23285943/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
07:00
but, the reason we import all the oil is that we don't have the pipelines! if we had the pipelines, we wouldn't import the oil!
wrong.
to begin with, i'd rather import the oil from cleaner sources, anyways, so long as we need it. i don't want to use dirty tar sands oil. i don't want to use fracked oil, either. but, i don't want to use oil at all. and, i mostly don't. if we could get a better electric rail system in place for imports, or better greenhouse systems for local production, i'd have almost no carbon footprint; my biggest sin is buying fruit from california, and i'd actually simply rather not have to do that at all.
there is, in fact, a pipeline from western canada to eastern canada.
this pipeline is run by enbridge. it goes from the oil producing regions to lake superior, and then from there to sarnia, where it can be refined and distributed to toronto, and then from there across the country. it is actually the longest pipeline in the world.
you can read about this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge_Pipeline_System#Mainline_system
so, why doesn't the government use this system for "energy security"?
this is a quote from wikipedia:
"The Canadian government assumed that eastern Canada could always import enough oil to meet its needs, and that imported oil would always be cheaper than domestic oil."
i believe that this statement is absolutely true. but, how? if we have the infrastructure to ship oil to sarnia, and refine it there, why is it cheaper to import it? and, surely we could build refineries in edmonton, if we had to?
because it's so expensive to refine it. that's the easy answer. but, it's partly a question of having too many hands in between; there's a lot of inefficiencies in not having a centralized network, and parasites taking money off of the top.
so, in the 1970s, the elder trudeau set up a system to increase efficiency in distribution, partly by decreasing profits to western capital. a lot of western capitalists did suffer from this, but the question of whether this was a type of justice or not has been under-analyzed; i don't have a lot of sympathy for corrupt oil barons crying in their caviar, myself. what the system did was make the process of importing oil from the west to the east economical, for the first time, by shaving down the profits. and, the sound of westen whining notwithstanding, it did actually work fairly well - until the oil from the middle east became available, again.
all the saudis have to do is put a pipe in the ground and pump the oil into barrels. their costs are a fraction of ours. it's really not even close.
in 1985, the mulroney government - under the western accord - abolished the controls that trudeau had put in place, allowing the oil industry to set the prices it wanted and to export oil freely, as well. this had the effect of pricing the west out of the market in the east, as these controls were required to refine the oil at a competitive cost. as arab oil was now plentiful and cheap, the western producers just simply got beat in the market; they wouldn't sell it at a competitive price, and they got driven out by consumers looking for cheapest prices.
there's really nothing stopping western producers from taking advantage of the existing lines except for a lack of demand for expensive oil in a region that has easy access to cheap oil.
but, while there are lines to sarnia and to toronto, there are no lines to shipping ports. that's what the new lines are needed for. and, the oil companies don't seem to want to spin these lines off of existing networks, either - probably because it would be too easy for a future politician to stop exports.
it is true that canada exports almost all of it's oil to the united states. the reasoning underlying this is actually not economic, it was a poke in the eye to eastern canada. the choice that they had was to sell to america or sell to ontario, and alberta picked america. alberta does not get a very good price from the united states, either - although it is better than what ottawa legislated. and, most of the united states would be better off buying oil from the middle east, too. the entire industry is really built on a chain of absurdity - you take an uneconomical process, and then you play it up on grounds of nationalism and it works with enough people that there's an industry. if this was purely about economics, this oil would stay in the ground.
the industry will tell you stories to confuse you. it's usuallly quite easily debunked with a google search. just make sure you do those searches.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
wrong.
to begin with, i'd rather import the oil from cleaner sources, anyways, so long as we need it. i don't want to use dirty tar sands oil. i don't want to use fracked oil, either. but, i don't want to use oil at all. and, i mostly don't. if we could get a better electric rail system in place for imports, or better greenhouse systems for local production, i'd have almost no carbon footprint; my biggest sin is buying fruit from california, and i'd actually simply rather not have to do that at all.
there is, in fact, a pipeline from western canada to eastern canada.
this pipeline is run by enbridge. it goes from the oil producing regions to lake superior, and then from there to sarnia, where it can be refined and distributed to toronto, and then from there across the country. it is actually the longest pipeline in the world.
you can read about this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge_Pipeline_System#Mainline_system
so, why doesn't the government use this system for "energy security"?
this is a quote from wikipedia:
"The Canadian government assumed that eastern Canada could always import enough oil to meet its needs, and that imported oil would always be cheaper than domestic oil."
i believe that this statement is absolutely true. but, how? if we have the infrastructure to ship oil to sarnia, and refine it there, why is it cheaper to import it? and, surely we could build refineries in edmonton, if we had to?
because it's so expensive to refine it. that's the easy answer. but, it's partly a question of having too many hands in between; there's a lot of inefficiencies in not having a centralized network, and parasites taking money off of the top.
so, in the 1970s, the elder trudeau set up a system to increase efficiency in distribution, partly by decreasing profits to western capital. a lot of western capitalists did suffer from this, but the question of whether this was a type of justice or not has been under-analyzed; i don't have a lot of sympathy for corrupt oil barons crying in their caviar, myself. what the system did was make the process of importing oil from the west to the east economical, for the first time, by shaving down the profits. and, the sound of westen whining notwithstanding, it did actually work fairly well - until the oil from the middle east became available, again.
all the saudis have to do is put a pipe in the ground and pump the oil into barrels. their costs are a fraction of ours. it's really not even close.
in 1985, the mulroney government - under the western accord - abolished the controls that trudeau had put in place, allowing the oil industry to set the prices it wanted and to export oil freely, as well. this had the effect of pricing the west out of the market in the east, as these controls were required to refine the oil at a competitive cost. as arab oil was now plentiful and cheap, the western producers just simply got beat in the market; they wouldn't sell it at a competitive price, and they got driven out by consumers looking for cheapest prices.
there's really nothing stopping western producers from taking advantage of the existing lines except for a lack of demand for expensive oil in a region that has easy access to cheap oil.
but, while there are lines to sarnia and to toronto, there are no lines to shipping ports. that's what the new lines are needed for. and, the oil companies don't seem to want to spin these lines off of existing networks, either - probably because it would be too easy for a future politician to stop exports.
it is true that canada exports almost all of it's oil to the united states. the reasoning underlying this is actually not economic, it was a poke in the eye to eastern canada. the choice that they had was to sell to america or sell to ontario, and alberta picked america. alberta does not get a very good price from the united states, either - although it is better than what ottawa legislated. and, most of the united states would be better off buying oil from the middle east, too. the entire industry is really built on a chain of absurdity - you take an uneconomical process, and then you play it up on grounds of nationalism and it works with enough people that there's an industry. if this was purely about economics, this oil would stay in the ground.
the industry will tell you stories to confuse you. it's usuallly quite easily debunked with a google search. just make sure you do those searches.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
05:12
so, i actually fell asleep around 3:30 without making any calls.
i dunno; my eyes are really strained. it might be this big monitor. but, my diet's been a little off the last few days, too. and, the smoke from upstairs is noticeable, now that the weather has changed. whatever it is, it knocked me out. but, it wasn't a really short day, either - i was up about 18-19 hours, in total.
it means i need to call the city in the morning to check up on the worker, first, and then call the moving place to see what's going on with the estimate, second. it's almost 3:00. i need to eat. it'll be time to call before i know it.
what do i do if my worker didn't do what she told me she was going to do? well, i'm going to have to see if i can bypass her, first. my primary concern is access to these funds. and, i might have to file a complaint against her and/or ask for a new worker.
i may be misinterpreting a mild push back for an attempt at sabotage. we'll find out in a few hours...
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i dunno; my eyes are really strained. it might be this big monitor. but, my diet's been a little off the last few days, too. and, the smoke from upstairs is noticeable, now that the weather has changed. whatever it is, it knocked me out. but, it wasn't a really short day, either - i was up about 18-19 hours, in total.
it means i need to call the city in the morning to check up on the worker, first, and then call the moving place to see what's going on with the estimate, second. it's almost 3:00. i need to eat. it'll be time to call before i know it.
what do i do if my worker didn't do what she told me she was going to do? well, i'm going to have to see if i can bypass her, first. my primary concern is access to these funds. and, i might have to file a complaint against her and/or ask for a new worker.
i may be misinterpreting a mild push back for an attempt at sabotage. we'll find out in a few hours...
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
02:53
this is really necessary.
is it going to happen? well, this is the kind of thing that the conservatives will quash if they win in 2019 - or, at least, they have quashed this kind of thing in the past. but, are the liberals credible on this?
mmmmmmaybe.
federal housing initiatives were something his father spent a lot of time on, and actually had some success on. it wasn't just the initial trudeau, this went back to the post-war period, when the anglosphere took a sharp turn left under the ultimate guidance of roosevelt. but, the elder trudeau spent a lot of time on this.
it's kind of the same story everywhere about everything: the progress of the post-war period was largely unravelled in the 80s and the 90s, by conservatives and liberals almost equally, and at all levels of government.
the provincial government in ontario - which is quite a bit to the left of most liberal parties in canada - has recently made a few tenant-friendly legal changes, but they're not the right level of government to really deal with this - it's either the city or the feds that usually deals with this.
i'd be more likely to suggest the liberals have some credibility on this if trudeau hadn't taken so many u-turns. and, this is something that might harm them for decades to come. they have more credibility on a national housing strategy than they do on most other things. but, right now, they don't really have any credibility at all - and it may be difficult to get some.
again: this is necessary. but, rather than make shiny new promises and make it seem like they're trying to fool us twice, maybe they might want to focus on keeping some of the ones they've already made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/liberals-national-housing-strategy-calls-for-billions-in-spending-new-benefit-for-low-income-tenants_a_23285817/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
is it going to happen? well, this is the kind of thing that the conservatives will quash if they win in 2019 - or, at least, they have quashed this kind of thing in the past. but, are the liberals credible on this?
mmmmmmaybe.
federal housing initiatives were something his father spent a lot of time on, and actually had some success on. it wasn't just the initial trudeau, this went back to the post-war period, when the anglosphere took a sharp turn left under the ultimate guidance of roosevelt. but, the elder trudeau spent a lot of time on this.
it's kind of the same story everywhere about everything: the progress of the post-war period was largely unravelled in the 80s and the 90s, by conservatives and liberals almost equally, and at all levels of government.
the provincial government in ontario - which is quite a bit to the left of most liberal parties in canada - has recently made a few tenant-friendly legal changes, but they're not the right level of government to really deal with this - it's either the city or the feds that usually deals with this.
i'd be more likely to suggest the liberals have some credibility on this if trudeau hadn't taken so many u-turns. and, this is something that might harm them for decades to come. they have more credibility on a national housing strategy than they do on most other things. but, right now, they don't really have any credibility at all - and it may be difficult to get some.
again: this is necessary. but, rather than make shiny new promises and make it seem like they're trying to fool us twice, maybe they might want to focus on keeping some of the ones they've already made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/22/liberals-national-housing-strategy-calls-for-billions-in-spending-new-benefit-for-low-income-tenants_a_23285817/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
02:31
this story is beyond sketchy, and rather than reinforce the claims against him it's reinforcing the claims of a conspiracy to take him down - as well as the seriousness of the intent behind it.
this could be a rogue journalist at the huffington post looking to make some quick cash, but i think the more obvious reading is that whomever wants him gone is really not likely to take no for an answer, unfortunately. look at the lengths they're going to. they want him out. they're going to make things up until he's gone.
to begin with, it is a fundamental principle of justice that we be allowed to face our accusers. anonymous sources are perhaps useful to kickstart investigations, but they cannot be the investigations themselves. we cannot lower our legal standards to the point where we're willing to take anonymous accusations like this on face value.
but, what's most obvious about this story, to me, is the lengths that the reporter goes to try and make the story seem more credible. supposedly, this anonymous accuser told the very same reporter that this incident happened years ago, but nobody addressed it. suuuuuuuuure.
with all of the fake media stories around russiagate, it should be a red flag that this one follows the same formula.
but, al appears to have stepped on the wrong toes, here. and, at this point, it's becoming clear that he's just prolonging the inevitable.
the good guys usually lose, actually.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/al-franken-two-more-women-groping_us_5a15a455e4b09650540ec295
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this could be a rogue journalist at the huffington post looking to make some quick cash, but i think the more obvious reading is that whomever wants him gone is really not likely to take no for an answer, unfortunately. look at the lengths they're going to. they want him out. they're going to make things up until he's gone.
to begin with, it is a fundamental principle of justice that we be allowed to face our accusers. anonymous sources are perhaps useful to kickstart investigations, but they cannot be the investigations themselves. we cannot lower our legal standards to the point where we're willing to take anonymous accusations like this on face value.
but, what's most obvious about this story, to me, is the lengths that the reporter goes to try and make the story seem more credible. supposedly, this anonymous accuser told the very same reporter that this incident happened years ago, but nobody addressed it. suuuuuuuuure.
with all of the fake media stories around russiagate, it should be a red flag that this one follows the same formula.
but, al appears to have stepped on the wrong toes, here. and, at this point, it's becoming clear that he's just prolonging the inevitable.
the good guys usually lose, actually.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/al-franken-two-more-women-groping_us_5a15a455e4b09650540ec295
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
02:07
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
so, the check cleared today.
i guess it took her a few days to cash it.
that's ok.
i called the odsp worker around 10:00; she claims she didn't get an estimate from the mover. i talked her into submitting the applications without the direct payment, but she was very weird about it, and i'm not sure she actually did; i'll have to call around 3:30 to see.
so, i called a different mover, and he said he'd send me a quote over email before 2:00. no quote, yet. ugh.
i want to wait before i call teksavvy...
so, i wanted this dealt with by the end of the day. it looks like today was just a big waste of time, instead. *sigh*.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i guess it took her a few days to cash it.
that's ok.
i called the odsp worker around 10:00; she claims she didn't get an estimate from the mover. i talked her into submitting the applications without the direct payment, but she was very weird about it, and i'm not sure she actually did; i'll have to call around 3:30 to see.
so, i called a different mover, and he said he'd send me a quote over email before 2:00. no quote, yet. ugh.
i want to wait before i call teksavvy...
so, i wanted this dealt with by the end of the day. it looks like today was just a big waste of time, instead. *sigh*.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
14:48
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inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
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inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017.
inri063: these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2002. this compilation is dated to dec 2, 2002. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 22, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
inri048: written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 16, 2017.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017.
inri063: these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017.
originally created from 2001-2002. this compilation is dated to dec 2, 2002. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 22, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
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j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, production
sean - vocals (inri048, inri054-inri056, inri061-inri062), harmonica (inri054)
jon - guitar (inri048)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056)
the rendered electronic orchestra includes orchestra hit, piano,
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean), acoustic guitar, synthesizer, synthesizer effects, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, orchestral & other sequencing, synthesizers, drum & melodic programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, digital wave editing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, equalization, vocals, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, production
sean - vocals (inri048, inri054-inri056, inri061-inri062), harmonica (inri054)
jon - guitar (inri048)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056)
the rendered electronic orchestra includes orchestra hit, piano,
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, piccolo, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean), acoustic guitar, synthesizer, synthesizer effects, music box, harp, koto, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, bells, tubular bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
14:18
right, so this is the poll i was waiting for, predictable establishment media hit job notwithstanding: 80% of democrats in minnesota want him to stay, and only 14% want him to step down.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/361490-poll-22-percent-of-minnesotans-say-franken-should-remain-in-office
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/361490-poll-22-percent-of-minnesotans-say-franken-should-remain-in-office
at
13:18
online surveys are dubious at best, and in this particular circumstance, where the media is clearly out to force franken to resign for obvious political reasons, i wouldn't even acknowledge the results of an online politico poll at all.
at all.
that said, the results of their dubious polling are that 51% of democrats and 56% of independents don't want franken to resign, while a slim majority of republicans do. and, i don't know how that becomes a majority, unless they're oversampling republicans.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at all.
that said, the results of their dubious polling are that 51% of democrats and 56% of independents don't want franken to resign, while a slim majority of republicans do. and, i don't know how that becomes a majority, unless they're oversampling republicans.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
12:00
to her benefit (of the doubt), this number seems to have a history as a landlord going back a few years.
so, this is either a repeat scam artist, or an agent in a cult, or legit.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
so, this is either a repeat scam artist, or an agent in a cult, or legit.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
08:52
if this is not legit, this person is going to have to deal with the following:
1) i signed a lease.
2) i put down a balance.
3) i'm going to get the city of windsor to write her a check for $700.
4) i've got the local electrical company hooking me up.
5) i'll need to get the internet transferred in the morning, too.
that's a lot of people to help me in figuring out who owns the building, who this person is and what the fuck is going on.
again: this is not what i want to be doing. but, this is life. and i can;t change it.
i'm going to lose most of the day today, but i should get the whole day tomorrow to get through most of inri065, and get started on the comps.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
1) i signed a lease.
2) i put down a balance.
3) i'm going to get the city of windsor to write her a check for $700.
4) i've got the local electrical company hooking me up.
5) i'll need to get the internet transferred in the morning, too.
that's a lot of people to help me in figuring out who owns the building, who this person is and what the fuck is going on.
again: this is not what i want to be doing. but, this is life. and i can;t change it.
i'm going to lose most of the day today, but i should get the whole day tomorrow to get through most of inri065, and get started on the comps.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
06:51
so, i found a facebook page linking to a company that bought this building in 2009, but that company no longer exists. it appears to have been shut down by the ontario government in 2013 for a securities violation. the building appears to have been managed by the management company with the human rights violations around 2011, when there was a fire in the basement. i have no further relevant information.
i'd be willing to accept the idea that it's just a holding company for a local person, but she said that the company is in british columbia, indicating they own multiple properties. you would expect a website...
the address on the form is occupied by somebody with the same name as the person that signed the check. but, some further sleuthing from local obituaries suggests that this person is quite a bit older than the person i met.
i could always call that number and see if it rings to the same person. but, this cell # is consistent and should be sufficient in identifying the person i signed the lease with, if i have to do that.
there is also a new unit for rent at that address with the same number - which could just as easily mean that the two buildings are owned by the same company and they have a common landlord as it could mean anything else.
i need to have this check cleared by friday. if it's not, i have to file on monday. and, i could very well call the number from a pay phone.
ugh.
well, this is life, for me. it's always been life, for me. it's just one absurd tragedy after another. but, this really seems strangely orchestrated.
i'm fully expecting to have to cause problems at odsp in the morning.
i also have to mail the oesp form...
but, i'm going to get something to eat and at least finish the last aleph, first. i'll give the office a call around 9:00 and go from there.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i'd be willing to accept the idea that it's just a holding company for a local person, but she said that the company is in british columbia, indicating they own multiple properties. you would expect a website...
the address on the form is occupied by somebody with the same name as the person that signed the check. but, some further sleuthing from local obituaries suggests that this person is quite a bit older than the person i met.
i could always call that number and see if it rings to the same person. but, this cell # is consistent and should be sufficient in identifying the person i signed the lease with, if i have to do that.
there is also a new unit for rent at that address with the same number - which could just as easily mean that the two buildings are owned by the same company and they have a common landlord as it could mean anything else.
i need to have this check cleared by friday. if it's not, i have to file on monday. and, i could very well call the number from a pay phone.
ugh.
well, this is life, for me. it's always been life, for me. it's just one absurd tragedy after another. but, this really seems strangely orchestrated.
i'm fully expecting to have to cause problems at odsp in the morning.
i also have to mail the oesp form...
but, i'm going to get something to eat and at least finish the last aleph, first. i'll give the office a call around 9:00 and go from there.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
06:44
so, i don't even know what the hell is going on, but i'm starting to get alarmed, and concerned that i may have to file this appeal, after all.
i got my respondent's letter respecting evidence in the mail, today. i suspect the lawyer didn't look into the situation very closely, as he's trying to rule out evidence that was used in court under the argument that it wasn't served on the landlord. i actually have until the 4th to file, but i should know what's going on by the 29th.
i thought i was just being overly cautious in waiting the situation out before i informed by landlord of an intention to leave. see, if i tell them i'm leaving, and something doesn't pan out, i'm in a lot of trouble. so, it's better for me to be quiet until i actually get the keys. my due diligence is in getting the keys as quickly as possible.
however, my down payment hasn't gone through yet. i called my bank, and they're telling me there's no evidence it was cashed. i called the landlord yesterday and she told me she cashed it. i have a receipt, and a lease, right?
the company on the lease does not exist on the internet, which basically means they don't exist at all. what the fuck? i need to figure out who owns this building...
i went to odsp yesterday; my worker was gone last week, so i had to wait until she came back. she tried to get me to sign a direct deposit form, which i thought was a little odd, and that she'd fax the information afterwards. so, i called the city directly and they told me that she actually can't do that, and she's supposed to call them. so, i'm going to have to go in tomorrow and demand that we call the city together, and i'm listening in on the process. and, if she won't, i'm going to have to go over her head, somehow.
i also called some moving people that were referred to me by the city, and they said they'd call the worker directly, which is odd. i'll find out tomorrow if they called the worker or not.
it feels like i'm dealing with some kind of local cult that's out to get me, or something. it's very strange, to say the least.
maybe it all aligns properly in the next 48 hours.
but, if that check doesn't clear soon, i'm going to have to get the documents ready.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i got my respondent's letter respecting evidence in the mail, today. i suspect the lawyer didn't look into the situation very closely, as he's trying to rule out evidence that was used in court under the argument that it wasn't served on the landlord. i actually have until the 4th to file, but i should know what's going on by the 29th.
i thought i was just being overly cautious in waiting the situation out before i informed by landlord of an intention to leave. see, if i tell them i'm leaving, and something doesn't pan out, i'm in a lot of trouble. so, it's better for me to be quiet until i actually get the keys. my due diligence is in getting the keys as quickly as possible.
however, my down payment hasn't gone through yet. i called my bank, and they're telling me there's no evidence it was cashed. i called the landlord yesterday and she told me she cashed it. i have a receipt, and a lease, right?
the company on the lease does not exist on the internet, which basically means they don't exist at all. what the fuck? i need to figure out who owns this building...
i went to odsp yesterday; my worker was gone last week, so i had to wait until she came back. she tried to get me to sign a direct deposit form, which i thought was a little odd, and that she'd fax the information afterwards. so, i called the city directly and they told me that she actually can't do that, and she's supposed to call them. so, i'm going to have to go in tomorrow and demand that we call the city together, and i'm listening in on the process. and, if she won't, i'm going to have to go over her head, somehow.
i also called some moving people that were referred to me by the city, and they said they'd call the worker directly, which is odd. i'll find out tomorrow if they called the worker or not.
it feels like i'm dealing with some kind of local cult that's out to get me, or something. it's very strange, to say the least.
maybe it all aligns properly in the next 48 hours.
but, if that check doesn't clear soon, i'm going to have to get the documents ready.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
05:03
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
i've said before that i think that bill clinton should have just admitted it. but, that had to do with the consensual aspects of his accusations.
my understanding of the lewinsky situation is that it wasn't just consensual, but she actually thought she was in a serious relationship with him - that she was stealing him from hillary. and, i have a hard time believing that he in any way broadcast that. i don't think there's any question that there was a power imbalance at work. but, you can only take the situation so far before you run into a set of fantasies on the other side. if the truth is that what lewinsky actually wanted was more than what bill was willing to offer, it's hard to consider that harassment, even if the power imbalance was at the crux of it. you can have eager consent in a relationship with a lopsided power imbalance, too. and, what bill is consequently really guilty of, here, is leading her on - hardly an actual crime.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't recall any accusations of actual assault surfacing while bill clinton was in office, or any correctional bodies dealing with anything of the sort. it was just about the question of whether extramarital sex is immoral. and, on that point, you have to defend the president against the moral zealots, if you want any claim to being a liberal at all.
that's a separate issue to any claims of rape or assault. and, i've kind of heard of them, but haven't really looked into it much, and so don't have a real opinion on it. i'll remind you that i was a teenager at the time.
the one thing i have looked into is the lewinsky thing, and i'll double down that he should have just admitted it.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
my understanding of the lewinsky situation is that it wasn't just consensual, but she actually thought she was in a serious relationship with him - that she was stealing him from hillary. and, i have a hard time believing that he in any way broadcast that. i don't think there's any question that there was a power imbalance at work. but, you can only take the situation so far before you run into a set of fantasies on the other side. if the truth is that what lewinsky actually wanted was more than what bill was willing to offer, it's hard to consider that harassment, even if the power imbalance was at the crux of it. you can have eager consent in a relationship with a lopsided power imbalance, too. and, what bill is consequently really guilty of, here, is leading her on - hardly an actual crime.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't recall any accusations of actual assault surfacing while bill clinton was in office, or any correctional bodies dealing with anything of the sort. it was just about the question of whether extramarital sex is immoral. and, on that point, you have to defend the president against the moral zealots, if you want any claim to being a liberal at all.
that's a separate issue to any claims of rape or assault. and, i've kind of heard of them, but haven't really looked into it much, and so don't have a real opinion on it. i'll remind you that i was a teenager at the time.
the one thing i have looked into is the lewinsky thing, and i'll double down that he should have just admitted it.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
23:42
the idea
of a second jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj record was
not something that remotely crossed my mind until i started seriously
analysing my work from 2002. that was a separate idea; rabit is wolf
separated it from the trivial group. however, remixed instrumental
tracks over the rabit is wolf period slowly collected to the point that
there was enough to justify a whole record. that wasn't a conscious
choice at the outset, but it seems to be the conceptual framework
collected on the record. i toyed with the idea of releasing it as a
rabit remix record, but my influence over it is far too lopsided.
the thematic linkage with the first jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj record is a tendency to lean towards more "serious" ideas. there are strong influences from a few different types of classical music, including jazz, as well as some more modern electronic and noise influences. however, these songs lean more towards more palatable rock or techno based song structures and are less dependent on existing scores.
the stories for these songs are diverse and explained in more detail on the track pages.
these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2017).
the thematic linkage with the first jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj record is a tendency to lean towards more "serious" ideas. there are strong influences from a few different types of classical music, including jazz, as well as some more modern electronic and noise influences. however, these songs lean more towards more palatable rock or techno based song structures and are less dependent on existing scores.
the stories for these songs are diverse and explained in more detail on the track pages.
these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2017).
credits
released December 1, 2002
j - electric & acoustic guitars, electric bass guitar, effects, synths, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, voice, electronic drum kit, drum programming, drum manipulations, drum sampling, orchestral sequencing, sampling, loops, equalization, digital wave editing, sound design, production, composition.
sean - harmonica (2), melody (6)
greg - drum performance sample source (4)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, flute, orchestra hit, melodic toms, timpani, orchestral drum set, piano, agogo, tubular bells, glockenspiel, koto, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. it also includes choir.
j - electric & acoustic guitars, electric bass guitar, effects, synths, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, voice, electronic drum kit, drum programming, drum manipulations, drum sampling, orchestral sequencing, sampling, loops, equalization, digital wave editing, sound design, production, composition.
sean - harmonica (2), melody (6)
greg - drum performance sample source (4)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, flute, orchestra hit, melodic toms, timpani, orchestral drum set, piano, agogo, tubular bells, glockenspiel, koto, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. it also includes choir.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
06:01
actually, i think there's a decent possibility that this "interstellar asteroid" is a starship.
well, look at the evidence carefully.
you don't expect a rock to be able to do this.
certainly, if a large spaceship were to move into our solar system from outside of it, it would act roughly like this asteroid is acting.
but, we'll see whether it boomerangs out or not, eh?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
well, look at the evidence carefully.
you don't expect a rock to be able to do this.
certainly, if a large spaceship were to move into our solar system from outside of it, it would act roughly like this asteroid is acting.
but, we'll see whether it boomerangs out or not, eh?
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
05:32
i may not have gone over this in this space.
it's a kind of synthesis. i'm not into false dichotomies.
so, here's how this works: up until 1980, for as far back as we could measure it, the global mean temperatures on earth moved in a very close correlation with the sun. so, when the sun got warmer, the temperatures went up. and, when the sun got cooler, the temperatures went down. it really wasn't complicated at all, in fact.
the sun is, after all, the source of virtually all natural heat on this planet. the atmosphere may trap some heat, but it has to come from somewhere. and, the sun is where essentially all of it comes from. this is really as obvious as it should be, intuitively.
but, starting in 1980 - and this is what the ipcc report is actually about - this correlation broke. what happened is that, for the first time on record, the sun got cooler - but temperatures went up. so, we would need to seek an alternate cause for that increase in temperatures, and that alternate cause appears to be - as best as we can tell - the increase in atmospheric carbon.
but, the sun has not stopped getting cooler since 1980. rather, the cooling has actually accelerated, to the point where it's created some alarm amongst certain solar scientists.
i've pointed out repeatedly that my background is in mathematics, and i'm just dabbling when it comes to climate change. but, a background in math means you can read just about anything - what it does is cut the learning curves down. and, i don't have difficulties understanding published papers in climate science, because of that. so, i've read a few.
it's not that decreasing the total amount of energy from the sun has any effect on the amount that is absorbed, exactly. this is measured in w/m^2, and it's not a big difference, relatively, even if you account for the large number of metres squared over the area that the sun hits, which is in the northern hemisphere, because the earth is tilted. in theory, if the sun turned off, sure - but these are small fluctuations. so, if you live in australia, total solar irradiance will not have much of an effect on the weather you experience. but, the weather we experience here in southern canada is driven almost entirely by the jet stream, and the dominant factor that controls how the jet stream behaves is, in fact, how much energy you're getting from the sun.
as we are in an interglacial, the earth is in fact in constant threat of snowballing. how would the earth snowball, if it were to do so? what would happen is that the arctic air masses would reach out from the poles until they reached each other, enveloping the earth in total frozenness. and, the sun would need some extra help in unfreezing the earth at that point. sunlight wouldn't be enough. it would need the warm air masses, some how, like maybe via an increase in atmospheric carbon, to help trap in heat from an internal source, like a volcano.
what keeps this cold air bottled up is sunlight. well, again, not exactly - the sunlight triggers a reaction in the atmosphere, and it's then the jetstream that keeps it bottled up. but, you can think of this like you think of photosynthesis: it is essentially a function of the sunlight. in the summer, the arctic air mass shrinks to directly around the pole, as a consequence of the increase in sunlight. and, in the winter, the air mass expands as a consequence of a decrease in sunlight.
every year at the bottom of the winter, we get dangerously close to the trigger point. and, what global warming is doing is exaggerating the shrinkage involved in bottling the air masses up.
but, these are the two extremes - it works in degrees, too.
so, when the northern hemisphere gets less sunlight, the arctic air masses that the sunlight bottles up are more able to escape, which they are constantly seeking to do. then, you get colder winters - and blicky summers - in the areas dominated by the northern jetstream, which often runs close to the us-canada border in north america.
we're entering a solar minimum in one of the weakest cycles we've ever seen. that is going to make it that much easier for the arctic air to escape downwards. and, that is the crux of your forecast of a winter dominated by polar air masses - vortexes, if you will - moving into the inhabited areas of north america.
but, i'm skeptical that this dominates the winter, because we still have so much warm air in the oceans, as a result of the global warming. look at the hurricanes we had this year. there's a lot of heat, there, and it's not able to dissipate like it used to.
so, what you get is a tug of war between the cold arctic masses pushing down and the warm ocean air pushing up - which is technically tautological. that's every winter. except the extremes are both intense, right now.
if emissions continue as they are, and the sun comes back, we're going to get really, really hot all at once. but, if the sun stays weak for the next several decades, this particular area of the planet is probably going to avoid a lot of the warming effects in the short run, as these cold air masses are allowed to run rampant.
no trend in reality is monolithic. or, to take some poetic license with newton: there's always a counterforce.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
it's a kind of synthesis. i'm not into false dichotomies.
so, here's how this works: up until 1980, for as far back as we could measure it, the global mean temperatures on earth moved in a very close correlation with the sun. so, when the sun got warmer, the temperatures went up. and, when the sun got cooler, the temperatures went down. it really wasn't complicated at all, in fact.
the sun is, after all, the source of virtually all natural heat on this planet. the atmosphere may trap some heat, but it has to come from somewhere. and, the sun is where essentially all of it comes from. this is really as obvious as it should be, intuitively.
but, starting in 1980 - and this is what the ipcc report is actually about - this correlation broke. what happened is that, for the first time on record, the sun got cooler - but temperatures went up. so, we would need to seek an alternate cause for that increase in temperatures, and that alternate cause appears to be - as best as we can tell - the increase in atmospheric carbon.
but, the sun has not stopped getting cooler since 1980. rather, the cooling has actually accelerated, to the point where it's created some alarm amongst certain solar scientists.
i've pointed out repeatedly that my background is in mathematics, and i'm just dabbling when it comes to climate change. but, a background in math means you can read just about anything - what it does is cut the learning curves down. and, i don't have difficulties understanding published papers in climate science, because of that. so, i've read a few.
it's not that decreasing the total amount of energy from the sun has any effect on the amount that is absorbed, exactly. this is measured in w/m^2, and it's not a big difference, relatively, even if you account for the large number of metres squared over the area that the sun hits, which is in the northern hemisphere, because the earth is tilted. in theory, if the sun turned off, sure - but these are small fluctuations. so, if you live in australia, total solar irradiance will not have much of an effect on the weather you experience. but, the weather we experience here in southern canada is driven almost entirely by the jet stream, and the dominant factor that controls how the jet stream behaves is, in fact, how much energy you're getting from the sun.
as we are in an interglacial, the earth is in fact in constant threat of snowballing. how would the earth snowball, if it were to do so? what would happen is that the arctic air masses would reach out from the poles until they reached each other, enveloping the earth in total frozenness. and, the sun would need some extra help in unfreezing the earth at that point. sunlight wouldn't be enough. it would need the warm air masses, some how, like maybe via an increase in atmospheric carbon, to help trap in heat from an internal source, like a volcano.
what keeps this cold air bottled up is sunlight. well, again, not exactly - the sunlight triggers a reaction in the atmosphere, and it's then the jetstream that keeps it bottled up. but, you can think of this like you think of photosynthesis: it is essentially a function of the sunlight. in the summer, the arctic air mass shrinks to directly around the pole, as a consequence of the increase in sunlight. and, in the winter, the air mass expands as a consequence of a decrease in sunlight.
every year at the bottom of the winter, we get dangerously close to the trigger point. and, what global warming is doing is exaggerating the shrinkage involved in bottling the air masses up.
but, these are the two extremes - it works in degrees, too.
so, when the northern hemisphere gets less sunlight, the arctic air masses that the sunlight bottles up are more able to escape, which they are constantly seeking to do. then, you get colder winters - and blicky summers - in the areas dominated by the northern jetstream, which often runs close to the us-canada border in north america.
we're entering a solar minimum in one of the weakest cycles we've ever seen. that is going to make it that much easier for the arctic air to escape downwards. and, that is the crux of your forecast of a winter dominated by polar air masses - vortexes, if you will - moving into the inhabited areas of north america.
but, i'm skeptical that this dominates the winter, because we still have so much warm air in the oceans, as a result of the global warming. look at the hurricanes we had this year. there's a lot of heat, there, and it's not able to dissipate like it used to.
so, what you get is a tug of war between the cold arctic masses pushing down and the warm ocean air pushing up - which is technically tautological. that's every winter. except the extremes are both intense, right now.
if emissions continue as they are, and the sun comes back, we're going to get really, really hot all at once. but, if the sun stays weak for the next several decades, this particular area of the planet is probably going to avoid a lot of the warming effects in the short run, as these cold air masses are allowed to run rampant.
no trend in reality is monolithic. or, to take some poetic license with newton: there's always a counterforce.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
05:16
i'm not at all excited about the possibility of a "classic winter".
thankfully, i think this is mostly just oil industry propaganda, although the next couple of winters are going to be a kind of tug of war in canada, as the strengthening greenhouse effect fights against a decrease in total solar irradiance for influence over the jet stream.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
thankfully, i think this is mostly just oil industry propaganda, although the next couple of winters are going to be a kind of tug of war in canada, as the strengthening greenhouse effect fights against a decrease in total solar irradiance for influence over the jet stream.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
04:39
i'm considering doing a pop record, and calling it "music for children".
jagmeet singh must his beard.
jagmeet singh must his beard.
at
04:08
so, where am i on this?
i printed inri061 & inri062 yesterday, and the ink still seems fine, although the printer seems to be wasting more & more of it by the day.
61 was a big item, and needed a lot of cyan, and i screwed up 62 on the first print. so, i've already printed around 30 pages and 8 discs, and i'm only a third down. if i get 100 pages out of it, that's $0.20/page. and that's more like something i can budget around, long term.
i need to go in the other room to finish the back for aleph-14, which is the 5th flac dvd disc. 63 is the record, and it's done. then, there's the box set, which is more typing. 64 is the flying single, which is done - but is also the first 2003 release, and the first trivial group release. it's a definite shift. but, the period doesn't end until may, when i leave for bc. 65 is refractions, which is the last one of these that will require any serious input into expansion, and may end up as a 2xcd set.
after that, there's a string of several compilation records that will need to be finalized all at once. that really closes period 2.
but, the last release in this string of items is my eighth symphony, the reflections ep, which i need to expand to be comprehensive. that is dated to may 1, 2003 and represents the absolute end of my second period.
period 3 will pick back up again in september, 2003, after i've come back home and had some time to lose my mind a little bit more. i don't know if i'll get to this before the 1st or not. but, the material coming after this has not been recently published, and in some cases hasn't ever been published.
i need to prioritize the alter-reality. and, the move is going to mean reconstructing all of the electronics in my life. so, this material may sit for a while.
but, i'm turning a corner on this. soon. very soon.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i printed inri061 & inri062 yesterday, and the ink still seems fine, although the printer seems to be wasting more & more of it by the day.
61 was a big item, and needed a lot of cyan, and i screwed up 62 on the first print. so, i've already printed around 30 pages and 8 discs, and i'm only a third down. if i get 100 pages out of it, that's $0.20/page. and that's more like something i can budget around, long term.
i need to go in the other room to finish the back for aleph-14, which is the 5th flac dvd disc. 63 is the record, and it's done. then, there's the box set, which is more typing. 64 is the flying single, which is done - but is also the first 2003 release, and the first trivial group release. it's a definite shift. but, the period doesn't end until may, when i leave for bc. 65 is refractions, which is the last one of these that will require any serious input into expansion, and may end up as a 2xcd set.
after that, there's a string of several compilation records that will need to be finalized all at once. that really closes period 2.
but, the last release in this string of items is my eighth symphony, the reflections ep, which i need to expand to be comprehensive. that is dated to may 1, 2003 and represents the absolute end of my second period.
period 3 will pick back up again in september, 2003, after i've come back home and had some time to lose my mind a little bit more. i don't know if i'll get to this before the 1st or not. but, the material coming after this has not been recently published, and in some cases hasn't ever been published.
i need to prioritize the alter-reality. and, the move is going to mean reconstructing all of the electronics in my life. so, this material may sit for a while.
but, i'm turning a corner on this. soon. very soon.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
02:56
purchasing this release does not come with a download.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing on november 8, 2014. except to sequence the record, these files have not been altered since 2002. disc finalized as lp013 on nov 3, 2017.
inri058: written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes (from 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and an expansion from two cds to four cds. disc finalized as symph007 on nov 12, 2017.
inri059: written and recorded in late 2001 and the first half of 2002. mildly remixed in november, 2014 to make the tracks more presentable; nothing substantial was altered, and no new sound was recorded. final mixes were on november 19, 2014. disc released on physical media and finalized as inri059 on nov 14, 2017.
inri060: written in august, 2002. track one was mildly remixed on dec 12, 2014; two and three were uploaded unmodified. final completion date is dec 12, 2014. disc finalized on nov 14, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017.
originally created over the course of 2002, with some files dating to late 2001. this compilation is dated to nov 30, 2002. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.
inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.
inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.
inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing on november 8, 2014. except to sequence the record, these files have not been altered since 2002. disc finalized as lp013 on nov 3, 2017.
inri058: written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes (from 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and an expansion from two cds to four cds. disc finalized as symph007 on nov 12, 2017.
inri059: written and recorded in late 2001 and the first half of 2002. mildly remixed in november, 2014 to make the tracks more presentable; nothing substantial was altered, and no new sound was recorded. final mixes were on november 19, 2014. disc released on physical media and finalized as inri059 on nov 14, 2017.
inri060: written in august, 2002. track one was mildly remixed on dec 12, 2014; two and three were uploaded unmodified. final completion date is dec 12, 2014. disc finalized on nov 14, 2017.
inri061 :written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017.
inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017.
originally created over the course of 2002, with some files dating to late 2001. this compilation is dated to nov 30, 2002. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
credits
released November 30, 2002
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, sequencers, synthesizers, drum & melodic & orchestral programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, voice, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, digital wave editing, equalizers, production, composition.
sean - vocals/lyrics (inri054-inri059, inri061), harmonica (inri054, inri057), ring modulator (inri057-inri058), vocal concept (inri062)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056-inri058)
jon - guitar performance (inri057)
bob - hammering (inri058)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean), acoustic guitar, synthesizers, synthesizer effects, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, music box, tubular bells, bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set, harp, koto, piano, bells, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, sequencers, synthesizers, drum & melodic & orchestral programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, voice, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, digital wave editing, equalizers, production, composition.
sean - vocals/lyrics (inri054-inri059, inri061), harmonica (inri054, inri057), ring modulator (inri057-inri058), vocal concept (inri062)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056-inri058)
jon - guitar performance (inri057)
bob - hammering (inri058)
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean), acoustic guitar, synthesizers, synthesizer effects, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, music box, tubular bells, bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set, harp, koto, piano, bells, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir.
jagmeet singh must his beard.
at
02:39
the premise of categorizing shawn mendes as "adult contemporary" speaks volumes towards the juvenilization of our culture.
this is something that ought to appeal strictly to eight year-olds.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
this is something that ought to appeal strictly to eight year-olds.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
01:23
Monday, November 20, 2017
wait a second - are we supposed to uncritically believe women without any attempt to fact check, or not?
it seems like that principle is really only as good as it is useful as it is to run a good story. and, the ladies here should realize that they're really being taken of advantage of by a media that doesn't actually care about what they have to say, but sees exploiting them as a good way to make a lot of money.
in the end, if what they say gets in the way of the story, it gets jettisoned. and, that was predictable.
so, when ariana huffington says the photos weren't harassment in any way, that should be enough, based on the logic of this lacking movement, itself. instead, we're invited by the same media that pushed these ideas of female purity to question her motives, as the media tries to figure out what she was thinking from her body language [her lips said yes, but her body said no. she clearly wasn't asking for this.] and questions her allegiance to women's advocacy for the sin of refusing to take part in an obvious smear campaign.
are you starting to understand what's going on, yet?
https://pagesix.com/2017/11/20/new-pics-show-al-franken-grabbing-arianna-huffingtons-breasts-and-butt/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
it seems like that principle is really only as good as it is useful as it is to run a good story. and, the ladies here should realize that they're really being taken of advantage of by a media that doesn't actually care about what they have to say, but sees exploiting them as a good way to make a lot of money.
in the end, if what they say gets in the way of the story, it gets jettisoned. and, that was predictable.
so, when ariana huffington says the photos weren't harassment in any way, that should be enough, based on the logic of this lacking movement, itself. instead, we're invited by the same media that pushed these ideas of female purity to question her motives, as the media tries to figure out what she was thinking from her body language [her lips said yes, but her body said no. she clearly wasn't asking for this.] and questions her allegiance to women's advocacy for the sin of refusing to take part in an obvious smear campaign.
are you starting to understand what's going on, yet?
https://pagesix.com/2017/11/20/new-pics-show-al-franken-grabbing-arianna-huffingtons-breasts-and-butt/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
22:58
that's almost as bad as the time he called somebody on the phone.
i especially like the clinical term, "buttocks", in the article.
the narrative that they're pushing here is that franken is too unattractive to run for president and that any kind of casual touching is just enough to leave any halfways attractive woman grossed out. the democrats would be better off with a sexier guy that can grab woman at state fairs for selfies without them complaining about it, or even have them line up for it. whatever kind of bullying this is, and however much it's designed to cover up the reality that he's being a problem in the senate, it might be reasonably true.
but, that's the kind of logic that got us stuck with a right-wing neo-liberal pawn like justin trudeau, who has revealed a set of truly awful political positions on the gamut of traditional left-wing voting issues, even relative to historical liberal party standards. at least barack obama passed a couple of meaningful pieces of legislation on climate change. he's useless to anybody but identity voters. and, that might be all he has left in the next election.
democrats should focus on building a political coalition. this strategy of just running a model on neo-liberal platitudes is going to leave them with the bottom fallen out.
this "accusation" is probably more likely to convince people that he's being targeted than that he's actually guilty of anything. it seems like this is all they've got.
the article really reads off like some kind of joke at the expense of the puritanical morass of middle america.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/al-franken-inappropriate-touch-2010/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i especially like the clinical term, "buttocks", in the article.
the narrative that they're pushing here is that franken is too unattractive to run for president and that any kind of casual touching is just enough to leave any halfways attractive woman grossed out. the democrats would be better off with a sexier guy that can grab woman at state fairs for selfies without them complaining about it, or even have them line up for it. whatever kind of bullying this is, and however much it's designed to cover up the reality that he's being a problem in the senate, it might be reasonably true.
but, that's the kind of logic that got us stuck with a right-wing neo-liberal pawn like justin trudeau, who has revealed a set of truly awful political positions on the gamut of traditional left-wing voting issues, even relative to historical liberal party standards. at least barack obama passed a couple of meaningful pieces of legislation on climate change. he's useless to anybody but identity voters. and, that might be all he has left in the next election.
democrats should focus on building a political coalition. this strategy of just running a model on neo-liberal platitudes is going to leave them with the bottom fallen out.
this "accusation" is probably more likely to convince people that he's being targeted than that he's actually guilty of anything. it seems like this is all they've got.
the article really reads off like some kind of joke at the expense of the puritanical morass of middle america.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/al-franken-inappropriate-touch-2010/
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
17:00
see, again: i've never heard of this show and i don't know who any of the actors are.
but, reading this very brief write-up, i'm able to come up with a clear motive from the supporting actress, who seems to want to take over the show.
and, he appears to have quit.
what do you do if you're amazon and you run your careful investigation and you figure out that that's true? it says in the article that this guy has won two emmys. he's old. but, you'd think you'd want to write a character like that out, not get them turfed like this. and, it's going to hurt the show.
even if it's completely true, it's going to hurt the show.
it could be that every single one of these accusations this month is legit. but, out of all of the accusations i've seen, the only one that seems void of an ulterior motive (excluding the ones that don't really even strike me as problematic) is the weinstein case. case after case has a really plausible take down scenario.
it's insane to take this line that you can or should make accusations without proof, in context, when every single one of these cases require a serious cross-examination to rule out obvious ulterior designs.
this is all just insanity.
at least the show, here, is doing an investigation. nobody else seems to be.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/11/19/jeffrey-tambor-wont-return-to-transparent-amid-sexual-harassment-allegations.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
but, reading this very brief write-up, i'm able to come up with a clear motive from the supporting actress, who seems to want to take over the show.
and, he appears to have quit.
what do you do if you're amazon and you run your careful investigation and you figure out that that's true? it says in the article that this guy has won two emmys. he's old. but, you'd think you'd want to write a character like that out, not get them turfed like this. and, it's going to hurt the show.
even if it's completely true, it's going to hurt the show.
it could be that every single one of these accusations this month is legit. but, out of all of the accusations i've seen, the only one that seems void of an ulterior motive (excluding the ones that don't really even strike me as problematic) is the weinstein case. case after case has a really plausible take down scenario.
it's insane to take this line that you can or should make accusations without proof, in context, when every single one of these cases require a serious cross-examination to rule out obvious ulterior designs.
this is all just insanity.
at least the show, here, is doing an investigation. nobody else seems to be.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/11/19/jeffrey-tambor-wont-return-to-transparent-amid-sexual-harassment-allegations.html
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
08:39
so, it's supposed to be about some kind of power differential as though somebody is actually taking foucault seriously.
never take foucault seriously.
when i was a kid, the left didn't argue that people with power should use it responsibly, it argued that these power imbalances produce concepts of struggle and that if somebody has power over you, you need to fight them to take that power from them, and then deal with all of the people trying to take it from you. does a lion use it's power over a gazelle responsibly? it's absurdity.
and, if somebody asks you to do something, and you don't want to do it, you don't do it. you don't pretend that they have some kind of magic power over you, and you don't have a choice. this is not reality, it's twilight zone bullshit. what the actual fuck.
but, i should have known that this is what was going on, because this always happens with the foucauldians, they just end up back where burke was at. so, these so-called progressives start waving their foucault around and they just sound like conservatives - because that's what they actually are. and, they just piss me off as badly as any other conservative does, because they're not actually any different than any other conservative is.
this is exactly what my thesis about the christian right and the puritan left coming together is all about. and, foucault himself put the model in place: the iranian revolution, which came together via the same forces. you need to be very careful with burkeanism/foucauldianism. it is not socialism. it is not liberalism. it is a type of hierarchical monarchism that doesn't have any use for individual liberty.
again: i don't know anything about louis ck. but, i don't buy into these conservative theories of power: i think masturbating in front of somebody with their consent is actually perfectly ok. weird, but ok. and, i might suspect that most people are probably reacting not to any kind of harassment, but to the gross factor. and, they should probably just be honest about it.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
never take foucault seriously.
when i was a kid, the left didn't argue that people with power should use it responsibly, it argued that these power imbalances produce concepts of struggle and that if somebody has power over you, you need to fight them to take that power from them, and then deal with all of the people trying to take it from you. does a lion use it's power over a gazelle responsibly? it's absurdity.
and, if somebody asks you to do something, and you don't want to do it, you don't do it. you don't pretend that they have some kind of magic power over you, and you don't have a choice. this is not reality, it's twilight zone bullshit. what the actual fuck.
but, i should have known that this is what was going on, because this always happens with the foucauldians, they just end up back where burke was at. so, these so-called progressives start waving their foucault around and they just sound like conservatives - because that's what they actually are. and, they just piss me off as badly as any other conservative does, because they're not actually any different than any other conservative is.
this is exactly what my thesis about the christian right and the puritan left coming together is all about. and, foucault himself put the model in place: the iranian revolution, which came together via the same forces. you need to be very careful with burkeanism/foucauldianism. it is not socialism. it is not liberalism. it is a type of hierarchical monarchism that doesn't have any use for individual liberty.
again: i don't know anything about louis ck. but, i don't buy into these conservative theories of power: i think masturbating in front of somebody with their consent is actually perfectly ok. weird, but ok. and, i might suspect that most people are probably reacting not to any kind of harassment, but to the gross factor. and, they should probably just be honest about it.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
07:45
ok, one more.
i don't actually know who louis ck is. he seems to be an acquaintance of some comedians i know better. but, i don't actually know anything about him.
as far as i understand it, he's admitted to asking women if he can masturbate in front of them, then doing it.
see, i actually don't understand what's wrong with that. like, really. there's consent. what's the problem, here?
it's weird, maybe. but it doesn't strike me as wrong in any conceivable way. i mean, who is coming down on him for this, the fucking pope? what is this actually even about?
i don't get it.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i don't actually know who louis ck is. he seems to be an acquaintance of some comedians i know better. but, i don't actually know anything about him.
as far as i understand it, he's admitted to asking women if he can masturbate in front of them, then doing it.
see, i actually don't understand what's wrong with that. like, really. there's consent. what's the problem, here?
it's weird, maybe. but it doesn't strike me as wrong in any conceivable way. i mean, who is coming down on him for this, the fucking pope? what is this actually even about?
i don't get it.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
07:22
i need to forget about this; there are few things that push my buttons like puritanical christians, and i have better things to do than obsess over this, right now.
jameet singh must cut his beard.
jameet singh must cut his beard.
at
07:01
this was
meant to be the last rabit is wolf track, but instead morphed into the
first trivial group song. this single explores the track from various
angles.
sean wanted a song that just went "lalalala". i think his intent was to try and simplify my thought process, because what i'd been doing sounded more like FTIeikdTY7isdD7E5dk!. he was just kind of like "how about.....lalalala.".
it got a bit of an eye roll from me, as you could imagine, but i played with it. he wasn't really that excited about what i did, and it just didn't move forward. there were no further sessions, as he became interested in working with a more conventional early 00s "emotional hardcore" (think at the drive in) style guitarist and i got very involved in a relationship.
despite his initial suggestion, i'd consider the result to clearly be of my own doing. so, i took the core of what i did and warped it into the first track on the reflections symphony. this track has lain dormant since, comfortably completed.
it's now 2015, and i'm completing my discography. that puts this track in a blurry space: it was completed, but not as initially intended. while there may have been a vocal part recorded, i don't have it any more. yet, the intention is clear enough - and the manipulation would have been thick enough - that i do not consider it to be invasive to complete it on my own.
i'm releasing it as rabit because it's collaborative in the abstract, despite sean not actually existing in the track. this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the album version of the track (track 3) also appears on my sixth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj-2
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2002, 2015, 2017).
sean wanted a song that just went "lalalala". i think his intent was to try and simplify my thought process, because what i'd been doing sounded more like FTIeikdTY7isdD7E5dk!. he was just kind of like "how about.....lalalala.".
it got a bit of an eye roll from me, as you could imagine, but i played with it. he wasn't really that excited about what i did, and it just didn't move forward. there were no further sessions, as he became interested in working with a more conventional early 00s "emotional hardcore" (think at the drive in) style guitarist and i got very involved in a relationship.
despite his initial suggestion, i'd consider the result to clearly be of my own doing. so, i took the core of what i did and warped it into the first track on the reflections symphony. this track has lain dormant since, comfortably completed.
it's now 2015, and i'm completing my discography. that puts this track in a blurry space: it was completed, but not as initially intended. while there may have been a vocal part recorded, i don't have it any more. yet, the intention is clear enough - and the manipulation would have been thick enough - that i do not consider it to be invasive to complete it on my own.
i'm releasing it as rabit because it's collaborative in the abstract, despite sean not actually existing in the track. this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the album version of the track (track 3) also appears on my sixth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj-2
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2002, 2015, 2017).
credits
released November 15, 2002
j - guitar, effects, bass, drum programming, soundscaping, sound design, sampling, vocals, vocoders, digital wave editing
sean - lyrical concept
j - guitar, effects, bass, drum programming, soundscaping, sound design, sampling, vocals, vocoders, digital wave editing
sean - lyrical concept
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
06:49
no.
i need to be absolutely, unambiguously clear: we cannot create a climate where anybody is free to make unchallenged accusations against anybody else.
that is not "progress". that is backwardsness. that is totalitarian. that is dystopic.
and, it is imperative that this be resisted, before it is too late.
i will never support any movement that seeks to dispense with the presumption of innocence or due process of law. and i would hope that any group of people that is championing such a thing would be roundly defeated in the court of public opinion.
remember: the mainstream media is not an echo chamber of public opinion, but a tool that the elite uses to bludgeon delusions into us. it rarely reflects what anybody is actually thinking. rather, it seeks to manufacture viewpoints for us. and, the truth is that it usually fails in it's tasks.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i need to be absolutely, unambiguously clear: we cannot create a climate where anybody is free to make unchallenged accusations against anybody else.
that is not "progress". that is backwardsness. that is totalitarian. that is dystopic.
and, it is imperative that this be resisted, before it is too late.
i will never support any movement that seeks to dispense with the presumption of innocence or due process of law. and i would hope that any group of people that is championing such a thing would be roundly defeated in the court of public opinion.
remember: the mainstream media is not an echo chamber of public opinion, but a tool that the elite uses to bludgeon delusions into us. it rarely reflects what anybody is actually thinking. rather, it seeks to manufacture viewpoints for us. and, the truth is that it usually fails in it's tasks.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
06:17
what is my experience with assault and/or harassment?
i've never been raped.
i've been hollered at. i've been followed. i've been groped. i've had people expose themselves to me. i've been kissed without consent, albeit not with a tongue.
the truth is that the only time it's bothered me is when it's been an issue of safety - being followed, mostly. generally, i'm going to laugh at you if you try to act indecently around me.
i remember one night a few years ago, when i ended up in a park with a stranger in downtown ottawa that is known for two things at the wee hours - marijuana and public sex. i was there for the marijuana. it seemed like this dude also wanted sex. but, he was too drunk to get his pants off, and his attempt to expose himself just ended up cracking me up. rather than accuse him of assault or exposure, i ended up helping him to a different and safer park bench, with his pants around his ankles, and left him with instructions not to lay on his back.
a lot of women would have put this guy away for that. i just thought it was funny.
and, there is a difference in mindset here, and it is a result of a difference in conditioning. i simply wasn't raised in a conservative environment, or with conservative values. and, i usually have this conversation when i'm attempting to explain that i haven't had to unlearn anything, but in this context it's more like i have to try and figure out what people are even so indignant about, because these are legitimately values - and a value system - that is simply foreign to me. these aren't things that anybody ever told me to get angry about.
i was raised to laugh at the absurd, not to get angry or feel victimized. and, i was raised to give as much deference to the free will of others - as absurd as it may be - as i give to myself.
so, when somebody gropes me, i push them off of me. and, then i forget about it. and, i don't quite understand what the purpose of acting further might be. when somebody hollers at me or slows down in their car to check me out, i make sure i'm in a lit area and keep walking. and, i tell them to fuck off if i have to. and, when somebody exposes themselves to me, i just laugh it off - because it is usually comical, if viewed from enough distance.
i don't think i'm oppressed. i don't think i'm carrying around some systemic burden of being at the bottom of some hierarchy. if anything, maybe my indifference is a sign of liberation, or at least a lack of repression. i just think i'm a human being navigating it's way through an unending sequence of complex social interactions, and trying to make the best of it.
there's lines to be drawn, of course. as mentioned, i've never been raped. but, i don't think i'd shrug it off, if i had been.
but, as a liberal anarchist, i'm going to draw these lines very differently than a conservative - or, as it seems, a progressive - might. and, i'm going to insist that people see the relativism in this, and the necessity of being careful about where the law puts these lines down, as a result of it.
not everybody shares your values.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i've never been raped.
i've been hollered at. i've been followed. i've been groped. i've had people expose themselves to me. i've been kissed without consent, albeit not with a tongue.
the truth is that the only time it's bothered me is when it's been an issue of safety - being followed, mostly. generally, i'm going to laugh at you if you try to act indecently around me.
i remember one night a few years ago, when i ended up in a park with a stranger in downtown ottawa that is known for two things at the wee hours - marijuana and public sex. i was there for the marijuana. it seemed like this dude also wanted sex. but, he was too drunk to get his pants off, and his attempt to expose himself just ended up cracking me up. rather than accuse him of assault or exposure, i ended up helping him to a different and safer park bench, with his pants around his ankles, and left him with instructions not to lay on his back.
a lot of women would have put this guy away for that. i just thought it was funny.
and, there is a difference in mindset here, and it is a result of a difference in conditioning. i simply wasn't raised in a conservative environment, or with conservative values. and, i usually have this conversation when i'm attempting to explain that i haven't had to unlearn anything, but in this context it's more like i have to try and figure out what people are even so indignant about, because these are legitimately values - and a value system - that is simply foreign to me. these aren't things that anybody ever told me to get angry about.
i was raised to laugh at the absurd, not to get angry or feel victimized. and, i was raised to give as much deference to the free will of others - as absurd as it may be - as i give to myself.
so, when somebody gropes me, i push them off of me. and, then i forget about it. and, i don't quite understand what the purpose of acting further might be. when somebody hollers at me or slows down in their car to check me out, i make sure i'm in a lit area and keep walking. and, i tell them to fuck off if i have to. and, when somebody exposes themselves to me, i just laugh it off - because it is usually comical, if viewed from enough distance.
i don't think i'm oppressed. i don't think i'm carrying around some systemic burden of being at the bottom of some hierarchy. if anything, maybe my indifference is a sign of liberation, or at least a lack of repression. i just think i'm a human being navigating it's way through an unending sequence of complex social interactions, and trying to make the best of it.
there's lines to be drawn, of course. as mentioned, i've never been raped. but, i don't think i'd shrug it off, if i had been.
but, as a liberal anarchist, i'm going to draw these lines very differently than a conservative - or, as it seems, a progressive - might. and, i'm going to insist that people see the relativism in this, and the necessity of being careful about where the law puts these lines down, as a result of it.
not everybody shares your values.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
01:24
and, let us not be naive.
for, the abolition of due process will not make it easier to bring the evasive and wealthy corporate criminal to justice. this person will preservere as always.
but, it will make it so much easier for that evasive and wealthy corporate criminal to put troublesome activists and those who would otherwise challenge power away for good, as they will lose their primary means of defence. it will make it easier for all kinds of rich to oppress all kinds of poor, based on whatever it is that defines such things. and, that is all.
maybe you're speaking from the other side of the class war, and understand what you're doing. but, i suspect you're not - i suspect you're just not thinking this through.
and, that's what i'm here for.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
for, the abolition of due process will not make it easier to bring the evasive and wealthy corporate criminal to justice. this person will preservere as always.
but, it will make it so much easier for that evasive and wealthy corporate criminal to put troublesome activists and those who would otherwise challenge power away for good, as they will lose their primary means of defence. it will make it easier for all kinds of rich to oppress all kinds of poor, based on whatever it is that defines such things. and, that is all.
maybe you're speaking from the other side of the class war, and understand what you're doing. but, i suspect you're not - i suspect you're just not thinking this through.
and, that's what i'm here for.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
00:56
listen, al, man, i know you're trying to avoid a faux feminist backlash, and i get it, there's good reason to choose your words carefully in defending yourself, but i actually think we really need a "have you no decency?" moment regarding the presumption of innocence, because this is just going to get worse if nobody steps up.
there are some things that we can let the pendulum swing too far on out of a sense of retribution. maybe, some dude somewhere needs to suck it up when he doesn't get the promotion that he really does legitimately deserve - because his father got a promotion he didn't deserve, and that put him through pre-school and on the track to outcompeting his peers for his whole life. these are pendulum overshoots that we can all adjust to, under the expectation that an equilibrium is in reach.
but, due process is not one of those things. when you lose due process, you lose democracy. and, nobody can be smug about that. that's existential. and, it requires a really serious response.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
there are some things that we can let the pendulum swing too far on out of a sense of retribution. maybe, some dude somewhere needs to suck it up when he doesn't get the promotion that he really does legitimately deserve - because his father got a promotion he didn't deserve, and that put him through pre-school and on the track to outcompeting his peers for his whole life. these are pendulum overshoots that we can all adjust to, under the expectation that an equilibrium is in reach.
but, due process is not one of those things. when you lose due process, you lose democracy. and, nobody can be smug about that. that's existential. and, it requires a really serious response.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
00:00
Sunday, November 19, 2017
yes, i would trust al franken before i trusted leann tweedon.
and, you should give your head a shake if you would say otherwise, and don't think barack obama was born in kenya.
if you do think barack obama was born in kenya, i can't fault you for it, though.
'cause that's something else she's gone on the news and said is true. and, no, i don't think she believes it actually is.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
and, you should give your head a shake if you would say otherwise, and don't think barack obama was born in kenya.
if you do think barack obama was born in kenya, i can't fault you for it, though.
'cause that's something else she's gone on the news and said is true. and, no, i don't think she believes it actually is.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
at
22:49
republishing inri061
this is
the second of two lengthy singles to come out of tracks that were begun
in 2002 and not completed to my liking. the mixes in this single chart
this song's rather elaborate development over fifteen years, with the
first disc consisting of historical versions and the next two discs
consisting of finished mixes.
it became clear through the course of july, 2002 that rabit is wolf wasn't really going anywhere and i was better off cutting my losses. we jammed a few times, but it wasn't really serious.
this track was initially written as a folk punk song, but i jumped to the scorewriter with it almost immediately. the expanded guitar demo was written in a scorewriter and then performed, rather than vice versa. it was initially less about explicitly creating a techno song and more about ordering the parts in a way that could be deconstructed more effectively. i wanted a more flexible approach to production that would allow me to take tracks in and out based on sean's input.
i may have gone over this in this space before, but my mixing process up to that point was considerably unconventional. i would record tracks in one by one using a wave editor and then paste them on top of each other. i worked this way because i just didn't have more advanced tools. while there are benefits to this approach (it's additive synthesis, which blurs the mix for soundscaping), it meant that each additional track was destructive. i could not remove tracks once they were added. this meant sean was unable to provide much input into demos i sent to him.
i also picked up a copy of cakewalk to help with this, but i quickly learned that my system couldn't really handle it. at around eight tracks, it just became unresponsive. with less than eight tracks, it didn't matter if the mix was destructive because it was easily reconstructed. so, i went back to the wave editor approach until 2007, when i upgraded to a modern pc.
the taiko drum part was initially just to keep time; it wasn't supposed to be a part of the song. but, as i built it up i began to realize how interesting it sounded as a techno tune and sort of ran with it. once i'd notated it, i had to convert the drums into a soundscape because the midi render just wasn't good enough. this was done using a mix of software drum machines, midi snippets and isolated jimmy chamberlain samples. i then performed the score i had notated, with the exception of a few synths which were sequenced back. unfortunately, the midi file for the synth build up at the beginning of the track has been lost.
the mix never came out well, partly due to ram issues with cakewalk and partly because i got a little pretentious with some of the parts. i was also extremely distracted over this period. despite this all being done to make sean's input more easily integrated into the material, he had no interest in the direction i took it and basically put his nose up at it again. i attempted a few different things over late 2002 and early 2003 to try and salvage it for my own purposes, but in the end i shelved it as unworkable.
when i first set up the bandcamp site around 2010, i realized i had a collection of tracks that fit a sort of techno-guitar description and compiled them together under the name "tetris". i uploaded an incomplete mix for that project, but it was never really done and i never really felt good about it.
it wasn't until late 2014 that i came back to the track, to authoritatively finish my discography. first, a mix was reconstructed from source to include all of the existing sound files. next, three separate sequencer mixes were sculpted out of the score - a jazz fusion mix, an overture mix and an ambient mix. pieces of these sequencer mixes were then isolated and mixed into the reconstructed original mix. finally, a series of extra lead guitar parts were recorded and mixed separately into a final mix and the orchestral mix, creating the end result and an accompanying guitar concerto. the recording process for this was very lengthy, which was ironically partly due to consistent distractions.
this release was revisited in november, 2017 as a part of the process of finalizing period 2 and was expanded from two to three discs through the addition of multiple supplementary mixes.
i've included the midi file of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.
written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the album version of the track (track 7) also appears on my sixth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj-2
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2002, 2014, 2015, 2017).
it became clear through the course of july, 2002 that rabit is wolf wasn't really going anywhere and i was better off cutting my losses. we jammed a few times, but it wasn't really serious.
this track was initially written as a folk punk song, but i jumped to the scorewriter with it almost immediately. the expanded guitar demo was written in a scorewriter and then performed, rather than vice versa. it was initially less about explicitly creating a techno song and more about ordering the parts in a way that could be deconstructed more effectively. i wanted a more flexible approach to production that would allow me to take tracks in and out based on sean's input.
i may have gone over this in this space before, but my mixing process up to that point was considerably unconventional. i would record tracks in one by one using a wave editor and then paste them on top of each other. i worked this way because i just didn't have more advanced tools. while there are benefits to this approach (it's additive synthesis, which blurs the mix for soundscaping), it meant that each additional track was destructive. i could not remove tracks once they were added. this meant sean was unable to provide much input into demos i sent to him.
i also picked up a copy of cakewalk to help with this, but i quickly learned that my system couldn't really handle it. at around eight tracks, it just became unresponsive. with less than eight tracks, it didn't matter if the mix was destructive because it was easily reconstructed. so, i went back to the wave editor approach until 2007, when i upgraded to a modern pc.
the taiko drum part was initially just to keep time; it wasn't supposed to be a part of the song. but, as i built it up i began to realize how interesting it sounded as a techno tune and sort of ran with it. once i'd notated it, i had to convert the drums into a soundscape because the midi render just wasn't good enough. this was done using a mix of software drum machines, midi snippets and isolated jimmy chamberlain samples. i then performed the score i had notated, with the exception of a few synths which were sequenced back. unfortunately, the midi file for the synth build up at the beginning of the track has been lost.
the mix never came out well, partly due to ram issues with cakewalk and partly because i got a little pretentious with some of the parts. i was also extremely distracted over this period. despite this all being done to make sean's input more easily integrated into the material, he had no interest in the direction i took it and basically put his nose up at it again. i attempted a few different things over late 2002 and early 2003 to try and salvage it for my own purposes, but in the end i shelved it as unworkable.
when i first set up the bandcamp site around 2010, i realized i had a collection of tracks that fit a sort of techno-guitar description and compiled them together under the name "tetris". i uploaded an incomplete mix for that project, but it was never really done and i never really felt good about it.
it wasn't until late 2014 that i came back to the track, to authoritatively finish my discography. first, a mix was reconstructed from source to include all of the existing sound files. next, three separate sequencer mixes were sculpted out of the score - a jazz fusion mix, an overture mix and an ambient mix. pieces of these sequencer mixes were then isolated and mixed into the reconstructed original mix. finally, a series of extra lead guitar parts were recorded and mixed separately into a final mix and the orchestral mix, creating the end result and an accompanying guitar concerto. the recording process for this was very lengthy, which was ironically partly due to consistent distractions.
this release was revisited in november, 2017 as a part of the process of finalizing period 2 and was expanded from two to three discs through the addition of multiple supplementary mixes.
i've included the midi file of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.
written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
the album version of the track (track 7) also appears on my sixth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj-2
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2002, 2014, 2015, 2017).
credits
released September 15, 2002
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum sampling, drum programming, sequencing, sound design, soundscaping, digital wave editing
the various rendered electronic orchestras include electric bass, synth bass, distorted electric guitar, clean electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, harp, koto, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, synthesizers, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, music box, tubular bells, bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set and choir.
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum sampling, drum programming, sequencing, sound design, soundscaping, digital wave editing
the various rendered electronic orchestras include electric bass, synth bass, distorted electric guitar, clean electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, harp, koto, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, synthesizers, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, music box, tubular bells, bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set and choir.
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