I seemed to have spent the weekend either buying stuff
or reading websites.

Bought a bunch of cookware and what not Saturday. I
don’t really need it, but what the heck. I’ll use
it at some point.

Read up on javascript/dhtml and related areas to
see if a vague idea I had was possible. Looks like
no.

Experimented with the idea of creating sample
sets of my own playing. Some mild success, but
it seems to be a lot of work. Is there a good
tool for creating samples for os-x? I ended up
using Audacity and Kompakt, and eventually
AudioFinder (which seems quite handy)

Headed over to badger‘s place Sunday.
Just brought over a guitar, and the mostly normal
rig. Played alot of very dreary and depressing
sounding bits. Badger was using the upright bass,
and I was using a lot of string patches which tended
to contribute to the despair. Overall, sounded quite
good.

Phrase of the day “As known to those skilled in the art.”

So, heres an idea. If you have a del.icio.us account,
add urls for other social networking sites, with
the format “domain-url”. aka “frienster-url”, etc.

Aka, see http://del.icio.us/blippyfoo.

Maybe tag it with the del.icio.us username
or common net pseudonyms as well.

The idea being able to easily aggregate different
networking type sites. And to abuse that new fangled
tagging thing.

Just a thought.

I should of mentioned this earlier, but alas…

A bunch of friends of mine from Winston-Salem, NC went
on a tour across the country in a vegetable fuel powered
bus last summer playing rock shows as they went. And someone
filmed it.

Tonight, in Winston-Salem, is a screening.

original announcement here

anyone else seeing problems using heavy javascript stuff
in firefox? I can’t seem to get maps.google.com or alot
of the js stuff on amazon.com to work in firefox. These
seems to be on x86-linux, x86_64-linux and mac os x.

Other mozilla based browsers on the same platforms
seem to be fine.

flickr tends to be flaky for me as well.

Update: Looks like disabling “change images”
under the advanced javascript settings is the culprit.

For some reason I just had to register automaticcautiondoor.com

I’m not sure why.

I’m looking for suggestions from a DAW to use for recording
Phasmatodea shows/practice and other stuff. This will
be for a osx laptop.

I’m currently using Cubase SE. It seems to work fine
most of the time (I record most practices with it).
But it’s crashed or otherwise bugged out on me while
trying to record live stuff 4 times now. So it’s on
the chopping block.

One of the annoying things about Cubase aside from
above, is that it doesn’t support AU’s. Logic
looks interesting, but doesn’t support VST’s. I’ve
read some reports that Logic 7 is not that stable
as well.

I mostly just need simple recording and editing
support. The Phasmatodea stuff is mostly just two
mono tracks. In all honesty, I could probably make do
with GarageBand or Audacity, but figured it might
be useful to learn how to operate a more powerful
DAW. I’d also like the ability to add to do basic
midi sequencing as well.

Pro Tools LE might be interesting, but the hardware
requirement is a bit offputting.

grimepoch and idontreadlj both
suggested Digital Performer. Any other suggestions
or recomendations?

The show Friday seemed to go pretty well. badger has a
good a good
write up. Even a link to a couple of pics.

Started off a bit shaky, but picked up steam. Started off a bit
sonic and textural. Next couple pieces were more melodic and
rhythmic (at least, for us ;->). Ended with a nice piece
that started off kind of drony, went kind of mathy and
angular for a bit, then ended in a nice pretty drone.

I was in the mood for some reverse delay, so used that
a few times, especially on the second to last piece
that was fairly melodic. Also abused the x911 (
analog monophonic guitar synth…) a lot.

I was using the laptop to record, but alas, yet
again, it failed to work. So far I’m 0-4 on recording
live shows with the laptop. I’m looking for something
better than cubase se to use. But more on that later.

Phasmatodea is playing tonight Friday (Feb 4th)
at Glitter Gallery in Raleigh, NC. Glitter Gallery is located upstairs from
Father And Sons in downtown Raleigh. It will be First Friday, so come out,
stare at us making weird music, then wander around starting at art. Music
is supposed to start 9pm ish.

While were doing musical meme’s, heres the
“first 15 random songs” one…

“Exhibit 13” by Blue Man Group from The Complex
“You Will Be Shot” by Naked City from Naked City Live
“Freedom of Speech” by Liquid Tension Experiment from Liquid Tension Experiment
“Mission” by Rush from A Show Of Hands
“Backward” by Quicksand from Manic Compression
“Poison Fingers” by Into Another from Ignaurus
“Copy Cat Dub” by King Tubby Meets Lee Perry from Megawatt Dub
“Valley of the Kings” by Karp from Mustaches Wild
“Weekend Sex Change” by The Dillinger Escape Plan from Calculating Infinity
“Melody of Certain Three” by Blonde Redhead from Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
“Issic” by Adam’s Castle from Adam’s Castle
“This Heart” by Nanci Griffith from Flyer
“The Loops – A1 – Ben Sims” by Richie Hawtin from decks, efx, & 909
“Give Me The Cure” by Fugazi from 13 songs
“Can’t help but wonder where I’m bound” by Nanci Griffith from Others Voices, Other Rooms