Long weekends are good. I need more of them, more and more. Friday was hell at work, but after I got home, things got better. Saturday was the boyfriend's birthday, so I took him to the city and picked up the Warp records DVD, videos from the likes of Aphex Twin, Autechre, Luke Vibert, Prefuse 73, whoop! I'm embarassed to say we've not watched it yet, though we did listen to the mix CD that came with it. Good stuff, micro mixed... as soon as I'd recognize something, it'd change. Ha! Got some gardening done, weeding mainly. The bulbs are coming up, so I'll have crocus, daffodils and narcissus pretty soon here. It's not spring! Bah.
Over the weekend I got to go out hiking a bit and looking for quartz crystals. Really, we barely had any time, but it was a nice walk, and I found a few teeny little points. I've been slighty addicted to a Playstation game called Katamari Damacii. It's nonsnesical and fun as heck. You get to roll a sticky ball around, with the goal of growing it to enormous sizes, gathering up everything from flowers to fish to cats, people, cars and buildings! Yarrrrrrrr! I find it surreal and soothing, and I need more of both of those things in my life.
Last night was a great show, out in the middle of nowhere off of 3rd street at the Recombinant Labs place. I've not been there before, what a nice little spot. It was well organized, speakers hanging above and stacked on all four sides of the room, the room was well-tuned, damn! There wre projections going on on two walls, and the performers set up in the middle of the room so you didn't have to just stare at laptops and cords. Though there was that, you could see all the knob twiddling too! I guess I'm easily amused. Nah, not that easily. The music was top-notch. Best show I've seen in a long while, it just all jelled. All the local technoheads were there, pretty funny. Monolake was the headliner, along with a fellow from Canada named Deadbeat, DJ Olive, and Once-11. I've heard of Olive all over the place lately, but never heard him before, very kewl stuff. Deadbeat had it well in hand as well, nice and minimal and skittery, powerful construction. Monolake though, yow. Restraint while he rocks the house, it was like deconstructed Swedish dub techno. Yeah, right. But yeah. He took good advantage of the room as well, swimming the balance from speaker to speaker. I was happy as a dancing clam. Or something like that. Sublime. Til the cops showed up. And we all had to go home... at 10:45! Cripes. It was sposed to be an early show, and would have been over shortly... ugh. Welcome to America, where art is suspect at all times.
So I'm energized again, looks like I'm going to be able to get my hands on a much better computer for cheap, which helps the music efforts. Momentum, I need some. I have to get this work thing in perspective. My job tends to consume all my productivity, and that's just not good. Small goals, the order of the day at home, keeps my goals in my conciousness.
Over the weekend I got to go out hiking a bit and looking for quartz crystals. Really, we barely had any time, but it was a nice walk, and I found a few teeny little points. I've been slighty addicted to a Playstation game called Katamari Damacii. It's nonsnesical and fun as heck. You get to roll a sticky ball around, with the goal of growing it to enormous sizes, gathering up everything from flowers to fish to cats, people, cars and buildings! Yarrrrrrrr! I find it surreal and soothing, and I need more of both of those things in my life.
Last night was a great show, out in the middle of nowhere off of 3rd street at the Recombinant Labs place. I've not been there before, what a nice little spot. It was well organized, speakers hanging above and stacked on all four sides of the room, the room was well-tuned, damn! There wre projections going on on two walls, and the performers set up in the middle of the room so you didn't have to just stare at laptops and cords. Though there was that, you could see all the knob twiddling too! I guess I'm easily amused. Nah, not that easily. The music was top-notch. Best show I've seen in a long while, it just all jelled. All the local technoheads were there, pretty funny. Monolake was the headliner, along with a fellow from Canada named Deadbeat, DJ Olive, and Once-11. I've heard of Olive all over the place lately, but never heard him before, very kewl stuff. Deadbeat had it well in hand as well, nice and minimal and skittery, powerful construction. Monolake though, yow. Restraint while he rocks the house, it was like deconstructed Swedish dub techno. Yeah, right. But yeah. He took good advantage of the room as well, swimming the balance from speaker to speaker. I was happy as a dancing clam. Or something like that. Sublime. Til the cops showed up. And we all had to go home... at 10:45! Cripes. It was sposed to be an early show, and would have been over shortly... ugh. Welcome to America, where art is suspect at all times.
So I'm energized again, looks like I'm going to be able to get my hands on a much better computer for cheap, which helps the music efforts. Momentum, I need some. I have to get this work thing in perspective. My job tends to consume all my productivity, and that's just not good. Small goals, the order of the day at home, keeps my goals in my conciousness.
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uberllama:
I think a little mindfulness would do me good. It truly is amazing how insane you can drive yourself once you start over-analyzing all of the little bits we perceive as reality.
uberllama:
Oh, and I'll second the "damn" on monolake. It would be great to live in a city where electronic artists actually frequent. You are very fortunate. The monolake stuff I have is pretty mellow though. Is his new material more aggressive then?