Haven't posted anything in a while.  Haven't really had much material to be honest.  Other than working I suppose I've been spending most of my time youtube surfing.  There's a lot of good video to be found but a lot of time to be wasted as well.

I need to get out of Denver... 

From the artist who brought us "Clubbed To Death", which most of you will know from The Matrix soundtrack.  This song is my favorite from the two-disc album, Furious Angels. 

     

Funny and musically impressive.  Check out his website too! - http://lesclipsdeed.com/

Such a win

Just watched The Butterfly Effect for the first time.  Yea, yea, I'm about 6 years late, I know.  But it brought on a long-needed mindfuck. 

It's also led me closer to the belief that indeed, what many of us think of as insanity is in reality, pure insight.  Each day I feel closer to insanity myself is a day in which I feel I'm finding a truer form of myself and even the reality which surrounds us all. 

Thinking about this and how it applies to me makes me think about what I'm doing this very moment.  Immersing myself in technology and what is becoming ever closer to "cyberspace".  The place I can see myself most easily losing my mind is trying to completely "plug-in", as in The Matrix or Neuromancer.

Singularity is most definitely upon us.  I think it's happening quicker than people are realizing and quicker than we may like it.

I'll be honest; it's both exciting and scaring to me. 

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Watching these types of videos brings a very bittersweet sensation to me.  As a musician, I was naturally drawn to find out more about the hang drum.  Further interest in purchasing or even playing one has driven me to dig through a lot of video comments, blog posts, etc, which ultimately brought me here. 

Basically, it's not impossible, but very unlikely.  And expensive.  Which leads to it being more unlikely.  Either way I think I'm still going to try.  

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On my way home from work tonight, I realized that there's something strangely sexual about bicycling.  It's something about the steady back and forth, back and fourth, muscles pumping, breathing becomes labored... 

And then when I get home I'm tired and ready to pass out.

Outside leaves are turning gold
Outside the air is turning cold

Inside I'm burning

 


I really like what he's saying about music being more of a platform for creativity than just a genre.

Thanks to my friend Cameron for the link!

Just a few pics I put on my facebook page -  Guitar Porn

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A little light reading for y'all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety

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My friends reply to a post on 10/13/10-


"When I talk to friends who also have 9 to 5 type dead-end jobs they say to me that I made the right choice fighting it out at UNM. I realized that am not any happier than they are. It turns out I hate Academea. If you only knew about the weird bullshit that goes in the chemical engineering department, its unbelieveable. I like working on the cancer research project at my job, because its where I want to be!, but I have to wade through the shit infested undergrad maze to get there. More and more I think that it will take much longer than I think it will.

Anyway, I don't want to rant, but the point I am trying to make is that we have the same problem...we all want to have "arrived." Working at a job that we believe in or are happy doing. The reality is that we are idealistic and the world that we live in deems that people with the right papers are "more qualified/educated are allowed to do the work they want.


If you think that I am painting the world in too dark please let me know, I'd want to be swayed into believing otherwise. In general, I think the world works well and its not "corrupt" or whatever, but the other 40 or 50 percent of the time society is abrasive and you think you have been somehow conned or feel cheated.

My greatest fear when I was just a very little kid was to end up with a job I hated, and I heard a great question that I thought solved this delema. Its the ol' what would you be doing if you were a billionare? The problem with that question is that is disreguards money! haha, but seriously I think the REAL version of that question is more like: What do you like doing that you do on a regular basis that you can make a living on?"


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Reactions:

Well, firstly, it's good to know I'm not alone.  I suppose I always knew that but it's good to get some affirmation. 

As far as the whole college thing goes; I agree that it influences us to think that once you have the right papers, it's going to make things better and you're going to be automatically more qualified to whatever you want to do.  I think that has some truth.  I'm sure you learn a lot in college and it definitely gives many people the drive to succeed, but it's not some magical device which will place you where you will succeed in your life dream/goal. 

I definitely don't think you're "painting the world in dark".  I think we share many of the main feelings about society and much of the government/systems that we go through in life.  Most of the time you feel as though it's a struggle to get where you want to be and do what you want to do, no matter how good you are at it.

I think that the billionaire question is rooted in a positive thought process.  It encourages you to put priority on what you enjoy doing instead of thinking about things that will make you money.  I think that the rut that many people (myself included) have gotten themselves in is this idea that you work hard and make money until you have enough to stop and do what you actually want to do, instead of just making money doing what you're passionate about in the first place. 


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The youtube symphony - a little something for everyone. 

I found this particularly interesting because I kind of relate to what he's saying about being musically "schizophrenic" by being involved in such vastly different music scenes/genres. 


 

Another day wasted.

I am useless. 

Woe is me.


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Check out this video - Courtesy of Schmitty (read her blog!)


Mumford & Sons - The Banjolin Song / Awake my soul - A Take Away Show #105 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.



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This guy is awesome.  You can just ask about 22 million people.





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See also Super Mario Bros theme (actually, I prefer that one)

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Why is it most of us spend our lives doing things we don't want to do to achieve some unattainable goal? 

I kind of feel like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (except for the awesome cougar sex).  I'm kind of just floating around doing nothing with no particular purpose or meaning.  Except I haven't even graduated college...


I really wonder why more people in the world don't take control of their lives and decide to stop working at the dead-job that they hate.  I'm just about at the end of the line myself.  I need to get out.  The 9-5 workday is suffocating me.

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Song:  I Believe - Stevie Wonder

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Old song - new recording.

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Hittin' The Sauce by Nigel B

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That MUST have been one bitchin' party...

  

A friend of mine just pointed me towards this.  We were talking about and sharing some examples of unique sampling technique.  This is pretty amazing stuff.  If I could ask him one question about this it would most likely be "how did you keep it all in time?" 

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PACO DE LUCIA , John McLaughlin , AL DI MEOLA

Another long day at work. Sorry I don't have much to post for y'all so I'll leave you with this one.

Too much stress today. 

Too much hate in the world. 

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Song: The 5th Exotic - Quantic

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Honestly, I didn't laugh until the part where he knocks the gun out of her hand.

But overall, my thoughts are: good parenting. 

Okay, so seriously, after looking at this picture can you really, in all honesty, sit there and tell me that Todd Helton doesn't look like Chuck Norris??

Comments please.

Here is a comment I added to a friend's status on Facebook.  It was one of those "How did we meet?  Put it in the comments and then post to your status" things.  I thought this was mediocre at best, but it's the first of it's kind that I've written in a long time. 

Originally I was going to write her in as a savage beast, eating the raw remains of a wildebeest, but I figured it might be nicer to have her doing something not so graphic.  If it was someone else, I may not have held back as much and it might have developed a little better.  Maybe next time...

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"It was the second day of my safari through Malawi. Me and my mates had stopped the Jeep beside a tree for a minute as James seemed to be falling victim to a heat stroke. I was having trouble seeing through the cloud of LSD that was lingering in my brain.

One of the others in our group heard something in the distance, and when we took a look through the binoculars, we saw you chasing a pack of wildebeests in your '89 Volvo station wagon. We packed up and jumped in the Jeep again to in turn chase you down, when you suddenly rolled over taking a turn to hard. As we approached the fiery wreckage, you crawled out virtually unscathed.

Upon seeing our unfortunate situation, you got on your radio and called in the helicopter for us and our friend, and in turn we gave you our Jeep to go on your way. We didn't ask questions and neither did you.

Days later, James having seen a full recovery, was cleared to leave the hospital, but on our way out you were being wheeled in. It was hard to see through the crowd of doctors but you appeared to have several major lacerations and most likely a severe concussion. Who knows what you had been up to. In lieu of the strange series of events, we wrote our info down and gave it to one of the doctors. Evidently it found it's way into your hands because a month later you called us from the airport and told us you were coming our way once again"

 

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Ouch.

I thought this was Mike Relm at first, but Pogo is a truly refreshing and unique response to this style of VJing/sampling.  Musically it also sounds heavily influenced by Quantic and possibly some of the lighter Amon Tobin stuff. 

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See also Scrumdiddlyumptious and Bangarang

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I've been finding it hard to make the best use of my time when I have so little of it, outside of work.  One of my chefs actually asked me to come in today (my day off, of course) and I'm trying to decide which I need more, money or sanity.

I'm thinking I'll most likely decide in favor of sanity.

I uploaded just a little sketch of this new song I'm writing, so I have at least something to show for my time.

Sleep (instrumental)

This is why you don't leave your bike locked to a parking meter for weeks on end. 

Had one of the most amazing lucid dreams last night.  Not amazing in content at all, simply in how lucid it was.  I was walking down a very plain small-town sort of road, and all I could think about was how vivid the dream was.  It felt like my eyes were wide open, seeing the real world in vivid reality.  Very cool. 

Then I woke up.  Earlier than I would of liked, honestly, for my day off, but I generally need to write events such as these down before they slip my mind.

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Homesick - The Kings of Convenience

Another long day at work.  Almost 12 hours.  Simply cannot get the song Lola out of my head.

I sometimes feel as though listening to other music interferes with my own creativity; it becomes hard for me to write anything that feels/sounds original.  I'm wondering if a brief hiatus from outside music sources would be a good idea for me... 


Maybe I'll just cover Lola...


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Song of the day: Lola by The Kinks

Setting up blog is turning out to take a little more time than I expected.  But here it is.  Ugh. 
 


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Song of the day: Brick House