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BRB, upgrading WordPress. Hopefully none of my customized shizz will break, because I doubt I’ll have time to do any major fixin’…

NOTE, FROM THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE: Success!

NOTE, FROM THE LATER FUTURE: Posts like these are basically useless. If the upgrade hadn’t been successful, you wouldn’t even see anything!

I discovered my new delay/looping pedal can do continuous notes. No gaps! My old pedal (which admittedly wasn’t so hot) couldn’t do this. I didn’t think my new one could do it either, until I accidentally did the following:

1. Start a loop, but don’t actually play anything
2. Play a note with the guitar’s volume all the way down
3. Slowly fade the volume back up
4. Repeat steps 2–3 as necessary
5. ????
6. SPACE ROCK!

At some point I should really make a video of this process, so I can put it on youtube and have everyone say that it’s FAKE. Yeah, about that: see below!

Examples

1. almost three minutes of building a chord
2. about one minute of a different chord (already in progress)

Needs work

• So far my output has been really quiet for some reason
• And I have really bad line noise coming from somewhere (shitty cables?)
• Distortion makes the bad line noise even worse, so no bowel-shaking drone metal just yet

NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: Here is a totally FAKE video I made:

ANOTHER NOTE, ALSO FROM THE FUTURE: The line noise/quiet output only seems to be a problem with headphone rockin’ (which is a problem in many other ways). I’ve been playing through an amp, really loudly, and the output’s been fine. The line noise is about what you’d expect when you also have a billion other pedals, so no complaints here.

When I was a kid (and the world was sepia-colored), this was a huge asian grocery. Later they were a flower shop. Now, empty.

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NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: This building now has historical landmark status! It’s also going to have apartments that I will never be able to afford. Yay?

Dear Photoshoop,

Stop showing me this dialog!

From experience and googling, I have noted the following possible actions that bring up this dialog:

1. opening a picture
2. closing a picture
3. saving a picture
4. looking at Photoshop
5. not looking at Photoshop
6. having an old version of OS X
7. having a new version of OS X
8. installing a brand new copy on a brand new computer and trying 1–5 for the first time ever
9. existing

I have not yet begun to complain! »

Uhh.

What about on the other end?

Oh.

I only had the 50mm on me, otherwise I would have tried to get a wide-angle shot, for the full effect (even more parking lots).

NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: It turns out the first pic IS of a pot of gold. Star Bar & Grill is actually a karaoke place, with private rooms, delicious Korean BBQ, and delicious (non-Korean) pizza. And soju. That shit will mess you up good (and make your singing sound awesome)!

Tagging is:

• Handy
• A pain in the ass to do after the fact

I’m working on it. Not really, but kind of.

NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: I’m probably about as caught up on tags as I’m going to be. That still amounts to “not very”, but that’s all you get.

Remember how excited I was to add geotagging? Hella short-lived, yo!

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NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: I completely rewrote this, to account for new developments in the realm of me-being-less-stupid.

Go here for that stuff, now and forever: Geotagging, for real this time

I just realized the pics I’m uploading are kind of huge in the file-size dept. I’ll try to keep the full-size ones under 200K. I am also constantly having problems with WordPress’s flash uploader, all with the firefox crashing and the rage and such.

In good news, I can (sort of) geotag now. It only took about six hours of bashing my head on the keyboard.

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NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: I completely rewrote the geotagging stuff, to account for new developments in the realm of me-being-less-stupid.

Go here for that stuff, now and forever: Geotagging, for real this time

NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: And then people on the internet got hell of pedantic about fucking everything.

December, 2003: My pal Ted says to me that I have ONE YEAR to produce physical evidence of my musical creations. This is because I had nothing new to show since he witnessed me and Dan jamming in December, 2002. Thus was the gauntlet thrown, and sure enough by December, 2004, I had one musical CD of brotherly compositions.

December, 2008: I’ve been sitting on a 2/3 finished follow-up. I started writing/recording new stuff as soon as I finished the first CD, so this is a lot of sitting. Sure, 2005 was off to a good start, but from 2006 on, it’s been either work, or recovering from work (i.e., sleeping all my free time away). It’s probably also a bit to do with not having a set deadline, because I wanted to “take my time” and all that bullcrap.

SO, I got an idea the other day: I need a deadline, and the threat of shame. I decided that if I wasn’t finished by December, 2009, I would have to put out whatever I had done, and I would have to call the album “Unfinished Bizznatch”. And to show myself I was serious, I told myself this would be the art:

Dan, we got some work to do!

UPDATE FROM THE DISTANT FUTURE (11/2009): Yeah, so I’m chickening out a little. Going back and listening to some of these songs has filled me with self-doubt and dread. They need to go back to the drawing board, or the toilet, or something. So I’ll just be leaving certain of these turkeys off “Unfinished Bizznatch”, thankyewverymuch.

UPDATE FROM THE EVEN MORE DISTANT FUTURE (1/2010): OK, you can now listen to the fruits of my labors by clicking the words “fruits of my labors”. You can also purchase these fruits. Act now, before I raise the price to $1000!