just noticed the lj spelling checker suggestions for phasmatodea
are:

smarted, fasted, farmstead, feasted, smutted, formated, fascinated, formatted, decimated, fisted, summited

hmmm…

hmm, what have I been up to..

bought an mp3 jukebox, an iriver h140. Had
a couple requirements… first being useable as usb mass storage and
workable from linux. second was ability to record at a high quality (44kz/16bit/stereo wavs).
The other not quite as important was ogg support. This thing does
all three, so I bought it.

Been slowly ripping my cd collection. About 25% of the way though at the moment.

Bought some mics to go with it, but I think I made a mistake and bought
stuff geared for concert recording. It works, but the mics seem to have
way too much headroom for miking a single bass amp or so (aka, phasmatodea
practices). Direct line in seems to work nicely.

Phasmatodea practice sunday. Went okay, but I was kind of out of it.
Filling up on burgers at Chargrill seemed to help though.

Saw Shadow Of a Great Name at Kings. Very good as usual. The Frequency
was the headliner. The Frequency is Sebastian from Trans Am, and one
of the drummers from Squatweiller. Not really what I expected, but
surprisingly enjoyed it anyway. Very mid 80’s slightly post new wave
stuff (albeit, with the occasional dual harmonized guitar solo). Very
danceable. I don’t dance, but a couple drinks in me and I would of thought
about it.

Trivia monday night. Won. Had someone gripe at us for winning two much
(though, they were sitting in the team who wins almost as much…).

Last night went out to kings to see The Thrones. The Thrones is a
solo project by one of the former bassist for The Melvins. The combo
of the visuals and sonic aspects kept making me think of “Mike Watt
joins Godflesh”. aka, a middle aged guy with a 27 o’clock shadow,
a grungy plaid shirt, playing heavily distorted and effected bass
over prerecorded subsonic plodding industrial drum beats. Very
heavy. A bit of looping, and lots of volumes. Very cool.

mp3/oggs from yesterday

Some oggs/mp3’s of two of the pieces from yesterdays practice. Far from
the best recording (actually, aside from the enviromental noises getting
picked up, not horrible for a live recording…).

Give a listen if your bored.

We’re open for suggestions of titles as well.

I didn’t really do much over the weekend.

Went over to badger‘s place Sunday for
Phasmatodea practice.

Went pretty well overall. First piece was with clean sounds,
no effects. Kind of an interlocking, 80’s crimson kind of deal.

Second piece was an abuse of loopers in a vaguely granular
synthesis kind of way. I think perhaps my favorite, since
it morphed through a lot of weird and interesting sounds.

Third was me fiddling around with the “choir” sounds
on the guitar synth, mostly though a fuzz which is
kind of an interesting sound.

Fourth was a quite piece, kind of spacey and open, but with some
nice melodic bits.

I took over my minidv camera to see if it would do a decent
job with the sound. Levels were a bit low for 1&4, but 2&3
werent bad, though since it was just a stereo mike in the
room, it picked up a lot of “environmental” sounds (aka, the
clicking of footpedals can be clearly heard…)

I ripped wavs out the audio and encoded them, might post
them later for kicks.