Sunday, October 30, 2005

Happy Birthday to Me

Hey blogarians,

I'm tapping away before Six PM (which should be 7 PM but Daylight Saving time just ended in the UK... Being from Brisbane these things confuse me).

In any case, at six I'm jumping on the next tube to Kings Cross where I am going to see German/American industrial legends KMFDM. Yay!

I did go to Strength Through Joy last night. I would have been there by about 10PM but I started watching a TV show about the evolution of horror movies that distracted me for about two hours. I think it was still going when I left.

As such, I didn't make it to Highbury Corner until just after midnight.

When I got to STJ I was initially disappointed to see that the new flyers didn't actually have my artwork.

Chris (one of the organisers, Lydia being in Austria DJing at some Goth/Industrial Enormo-Club) explained that to economise they print all the flyers for a three month period. Ergo my Logo (which he still insists that he loves) will be featured in the run of flyers made available in January.

Which is good, even if I did want a hard copy to send home with my Dad.

Nevermind.

I'm 29 today, and I keep forgetting that it is my Birthday.

Could be related to there not really being anyone around to remind me of said fact, but what can you do. Clyo was nice enough to send a note (thanks Clyo). Both my parents called up at different times of the day (thanks Parents).

Other than that, I'm feeling a little adrift. But I guess that you could call it Post Late Night Lethargy.

It's dead on six, but I think I'll blog a little more.

There's a few things that I meant to write in yesterday that I forgot to.

First of all, yesterday I actually pulled out the cheap USB Midi Controller that I bought something like two months back. Plugged it into the Laptop and hey presto, it worked.

I fired up Cubase and had a play with the sounds and samples on my harddrive. I didn't actually record anything of note, but it was fun.

And just to satify a curiousity, I fired up Garageband next. For those who aren't music tech nerds (even lousy ones like me) Garageband is a sequencer/recorder thing that comes bundled with OS X something or other.

Here's where it gets bizarre: the sounds and instruments that come bundled with Garageband are actually superior to those that come bundled with Cubase. True, I did buy the entry level version of Cubase, and true, Steinberg might have a vested interest in making sure that the creators of Third Party Plugins don't feel muscled out of their racket by their symbiotic partners.

But still, it is kind of weird to find that the Bundleware programme has much better synths, strings and whatnot than something that people actually have to pay for.

Nevermind, sometime I'm thinking of buying an Arturia emulation of a Mini-Moog anyway. Something that can produce what my friend Lorena called the Full Cream Bass Sound, that surly, snarly analogue sound that makes people sit up and listen.

Other thing: I had a look at the fasterlouder.com.au website to see if my review was up yet (it wasn't, making me feel a little nervous - I didn't have time/presence of mind to keep a copy for myself), but I wound up reading reviews for a band called Flamingo Crash, that my old friend Marcel is in.

Doing that I actually found that the attributes system is useful when you are trying to find all the reviews etc about a particular band.

Which is great. But I still find the system hard to navigate under the gun.

In any case, I've got to hustle if I'm going to make it to King's Cross in time for the supports.

Over and out.

J

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