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gurdonarkI am not at my most careful at 2 in the morning. Last night, I was on some adrenalin and caffeine high, assiduously finishing the mix down from 4 track to 2 track of the cool music which Scott M and I did last month. I carefully recorded, and then listened, recorded and then listened. When I was done, I thought that I had two "mixed" tapes ready to be burned on CD. This morning, I opened presents that my wife had gotten me for my birthday last week, and then we settled in to "premiere" for her the album.
The first few songs were so fun! They were spontaneous, unedited, odd, and weird in the very best way. Then, after a half dozen songs or so, I had clearly made mixing errors. Songs repeated. One song, called "Gladiator Song", was all rhythm track (if a triangle, a slide whistle and an electric football field may loosely be called 'rhythm'), and no melody track (assuming two kazoos can be 'melody'). Some songs were lost altogether in the mix.
In short, this whole 4 to 2 track mixing is so simple, yet I must entirely do it over. This reminds me of why I do not do crafts things as often as others do. I get very frustrated when I work hard yet make simple, stupid mistakes. But I'm going to remix again, this time all at one sitting, and this time checking my work more carefully as I go on.
I was going to take the weekend off work, but now I find I have too much to do. So it's off to a shower and then to the office. I've work to revise and documents to generate.
I see I've pontificated a time or so here on LJ already this morning, so perhaps this setback is an appropriate chastening. For every moment of grace, perhaps a moment of trivial damnation is in order. I almost even commented to a joke I found offensive today how offensive I found it. That's getting carried away a bit.
I do have the gift of redemptive music, though. I am grateful today that I have new music to listen to! Good music. That helps.
But for those of you whom I know here on LJ, here is my latest "poll" question....
GURDONARK'S LOW TECH POLL:
Assume that your birthday was last week. Assume that you got a cool 25 dollar gift certificate from a cool sibling, to purchase whatever your heart desires on Amazon. What would you pick? Why? Documentation to all, prizes to none.
The first few songs were so fun! They were spontaneous, unedited, odd, and weird in the very best way. Then, after a half dozen songs or so, I had clearly made mixing errors. Songs repeated. One song, called "Gladiator Song", was all rhythm track (if a triangle, a slide whistle and an electric football field may loosely be called 'rhythm'), and no melody track (assuming two kazoos can be 'melody'). Some songs were lost altogether in the mix.
In short, this whole 4 to 2 track mixing is so simple, yet I must entirely do it over. This reminds me of why I do not do crafts things as often as others do. I get very frustrated when I work hard yet make simple, stupid mistakes. But I'm going to remix again, this time all at one sitting, and this time checking my work more carefully as I go on.
I was going to take the weekend off work, but now I find I have too much to do. So it's off to a shower and then to the office. I've work to revise and documents to generate.
I see I've pontificated a time or so here on LJ already this morning, so perhaps this setback is an appropriate chastening. For every moment of grace, perhaps a moment of trivial damnation is in order. I almost even commented to a joke I found offensive today how offensive I found it. That's getting carried away a bit.
I do have the gift of redemptive music, though. I am grateful today that I have new music to listen to! Good music. That helps.
But for those of you whom I know here on LJ, here is my latest "poll" question....
GURDONARK'S LOW TECH POLL:
Assume that your birthday was last week. Assume that you got a cool 25 dollar gift certificate from a cool sibling, to purchase whatever your heart desires on Amazon. What would you pick? Why? Documentation to all, prizes to none.
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oy choices!
Date: 2002-08-17 09:27 am (UTC)However I've been reading an excellent book by Ron Hansen "A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction." that just came out in paperback. Of course if you bought the paperback, you would have money for something else :)
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Date: 2002-08-17 01:26 pm (UTC)Here's some non-fiction, I can provide authors to interested people:
Death: The Trip of a Lifetime
Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature
Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
Women in the Middle Ages
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
Some fiction recommendations:
Callahan's Chronicles
Any short story anthology edited by Mike Ashley (and from there come several authors whose longer works are worth pursuing)
The Last Unicorn
Shoeless Joe
Isle of Women (the first in the Geodyssey series)
The Cadfael Mysteries
To name a very, very few. *grin* And leaving out classics as much as possible. ;)
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Date: 2002-08-17 11:10 am (UTC)I'd buy THIS (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JKF6/qid=1029607681/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4864531-1010424). :)
Why? Because it's a classic, because I don't have it, and because Frank is so cooool in it. :)
Or maybe this (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000063UQN/qid=1029607764/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/002-4864531-1010424) -- and dye my hair hot pink, cut it, spike it, and embrace the angst of my teenage, puhnk rawk years. :)
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Date: 2002-08-17 01:12 pm (UTC)I guess, though, that in some ways we are all punk, from here to eternity.
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Adios to the Brushland (Wardlaw Book), Arturio Longoria $19.95
Texas Trees: A Friendly Guide, Patty Leslie, Paul Cox, etc. $14.95
Roadside Geology of Texas (Roadside Geology Series), Darwin Spearing $14.00
Field Guide to the Birds of Texas and Adjacent States, Robert Tory Peterson
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Have fun whatever you decide to get!
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Date: 2002-08-17 12:07 pm (UTC)Or did you take a strong and accurate shot in the dark?
Ummm....
Date: 2002-08-17 02:27 pm (UTC)ooooooooo!
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Date: 2002-08-17 12:08 pm (UTC)Other than that, Reneesarah's suggestions seem apropos. The Roadside Geology books are great fun.
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Date: 2002-08-17 01:15 pm (UTC)I'd recommend...
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Date: 2002-08-17 06:11 pm (UTC)Passage was impossible to put down... and quite possibly the most unique novel I've read this year.
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Date: 2002-08-17 04:31 pm (UTC)OR I'd spend more than my gift certificate & get them all!
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Date: 2002-08-17 05:19 pm (UTC)A list...
Date: 2002-08-17 06:54 pm (UTC)The tape for Into the Woods.
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