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{ Friday :  16.04.10  :  12:14pm }

Atoms for Peace

[info]telemosquito and I saw the new(ish) Thom Yorke band Atoms for Peace and Flying Lotus play last night at the Fox Theater in Oakland. An amazing show to be sure.

Flying Lotus was excellent; got to meet him after the show as well and he was a gentleman indeed. Very nice and down to earth.

Atoms for Peace were amazing. Thom Yorke + Flea performing together is just a fan of 90's music's wet dream. Highlights include their treatment of "The Eraser" and "Cymbol Rush." Thom even played some new Radiohead material like "Skidting on the Surface" and "The Daily Mail," both of which are very nice songs (I especialy like "Skirting on the Suface"). Of course the ultimate moment was after they finished and the house lights came up the crowd just wanted more and refused to leave, not suprising considering the performance was top knotch. And after a good 10 min the whole band came back out and played the classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division! I don't think I need to say it but Flea playing the bass part and Thom doing his best Ian Curtis vocal was one of the coolest thing I've ever seen at a concert (and I've been to a lot).

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{ Wednesday :  14.04.10  :  03:45pm }

New Headphones

Replaced my old Sony headphones for a pair of Sennheisers.
Got these. So far I like them a lot. The main benefit from them over my old Sonys is that they aren't as loud in the lower frequencies so when I mix songs I don't have to play a guesing game of over or undercompensating for the bass of a song.

They came at a good time as I have a lot of ideas for new songs, so I'll be putting them through their paces as I try out these new ideas.

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{ Tuesday :  06.04.10  :  01:02pm }

Wondercon 2010
Went to Wondercon last weekend with [info]telemosquito and had a lot of fun.


Highlight was the Star Wars The Clone Wars pannel. They had the supervising director and the voices of a couple of the characters there (including the kid who played and now will voice Boba Fett). Also saw a cool painting of Jan in the Pan from The Brain That Wouldn't Die!



Here's the haul from the con. On our nice light blue Shonen Jump bag we have an evil Master Shake (is that redundant?) postcard obtained from the RadicalAxis pannel (the animation studio for ATHF, Archer, etc.), a Street Fighter 4 gamepad (needed a good d-pad for my new Xbox360 and this will fit the bill nicely), a Resident Evil: Afterlife 3d t-shirt (obtained for free with purchase of aformentioned gamepad) and a plush Kitsunerius / Teto from Laputa / Nausicaa.



It was my first Wondercon, but it has certainly convinced me to go again next year. It reminded me of the behemoth con (a.k.a. Comic-con) circa 1999/2000; just as the movie and TV studios were begining to invade but hadn't taken over yet. It was very nostalgic in that way. The convention season begins!

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{ Friday :  02.04.10  :  08:54pm }

My cat
Chicken (my cat) is breaking my heart. She has health issues (heart murmur, low white/red/platelet cell count, chronic diahrea and she has lost about 3lbs in as many months) that lead our vet to believe she has cancer. In attempts to diagnose it we've spent several hundreds of dollars and have not got a clear result. We know it's not lymphoma, which when you look at the symptoms points at leukemia. She is only 10 years old and way to cute to be this ill. I'm trying to stay positive as she isn't showing any outward signs of illness besides the wet poops.

With this, my recently lost 'job' (web development for a client, not really employment, but it was paid), my ability to make music being crippled and the state of my folks/brother it feels like the whole world is against me. Then you factor in the recent issues facing everyone in the form of the health care bill that passed (no universal coverage = bad bill as far as I'm concerned)and the total lack of any meaningful action toward climate change and/or environmental concerns in general (the Copenhagen fiasco and the more recent off shore drilling bullshit specifically) it's all creates an overwhelming sense of being powerless.

Not to say everything is horrible: [info]telemosquito and I celebrated our 11th anniversary yesterday (I fucked up what could have been a great dinner by burning everything, but that's a different tale of woe), the absolutely amazing new Autechre record and the begining of what is known in our house as "con season" (Wondercon, Fanime, Anime Expo, and Comic Con). Later in the month I'm seeing Thom Yorke's new band play in Oakland which should be fun. Hopefully these distraction can lift my spirits a bit, but I doubt it.

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{ Sunday :  07.02.10  :  03:51am }

Headphone death
My good headphones died tonight. I've had them for a long time, but I'm still really bummed about it.
They were what I listened on while I made my music. Now that they're gone I don't think I can really make any more songs. Not that it matters, no one liked my music anyway.
Just annother in a now long and ongoing series of shit happenings.

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{ Thursday :  04.02.10  :  03:51am }

Pause
I think this is a cliche, but I am wishing life had a pause button right now. It seems like everything is rushing up to meet me like the ground to a bungie jumping enthusiast. I keep trying to calm down and take a measured and thoughtfull aproach to things, but panic and stupidity seem to get the better of me.

Life has rarely felt this hopeless, and never as powerless. Sometimes I feel like the only thing keeping me alive is my intense cowardice.

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{ Tuesday :  26.01.10  :  01:57am }

Bad Start
2010 seems to have started on the wrong foot.

Haiti gets pwned and Conan gets canned (Team Coco forever!).

I was hired to fix and update this local accupuncturist's website; I really hope I get paid and not screwed by it (there are *things* which lead me to believe I might get screwed, here's to hoping I'm just pessimistic/paranoid).

Recently read Things the Grandchildren Should Know. I've been a huge fan of Eels since his solo records and the book was good (if not mostly stuff I already knew due to my usual fandom turning into obsession). Most of it seemed genuine and I enjoyed reading it (it's a very fast read, can easily read it in a few hours).

Seen some great films over the last few months. Notably Antichrist, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasus. I haven't seen Avatar and I don't intend to; there's just nothing about it that seems interesting to me.

Going to see Cinematic Titanic on 2/2 at the Castro which will be a fun diversion.

Maybe I can cram enough distaction into my life where I don't think about my own failings and utter lack of worth. Maybe that's what everyone does.

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