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Hey everybody,
I didn't actually make it to VNV Nation last night.
I lay down for a mid afternoon nap at about half two or three and when I woke up it was Half Ten.
I guess I should have set an alarm. Or gone to bed earlier.
In any case, I wasn't too broke up that I missed VNV Nation, since I only wanted to see them on a 'What's All The Fuss About' level, as they seem to be lumped in with all that Darkwave and EBM stuff that never much impressed me, nor was I ever impressed by the pretentions dweebs who told me that I should dig it.
Who knows, the next time the are in my vicinity I might see them and have my face blown off. But for now I'm cheerfully insouciant.
In any case, tonight I go to see The Locust a band who definitely are one of my favourite bands on record and I have it on Authority that they kick arse live. Among others, Greg Puciato from the Dillinger Escape Plan told me that they are incredible on stage, and if you have ever seen the Dillinger Escape Plan you would know that these aren't just clueless hipsters talking.
Speaking of clueless hipsters, word has reached me from Australia that at one of the Every Time I Die shows in either Byron Bay, Brisabane or Sydney half the crowd was made up of NCHC knuckleheads who left after Parkway Drive played.
For those who don't care to follow these things, that's like going to The Louvre but leaving before you see the Mona Lisa. Or renting out The Shawshank Redemption and returning it before Dupre Escapes.
Lousy philistines.
In any case, after waking up at Half Ten I managed to fall asleep again, waking up at half five.
Probably the most productive thing I've done today has been messing around with my laptop all afternoon. (Most productive thing besides putting on my new Bootcut Blue Jeans - which actually fit pretty well, even if I'm not going to be doing any Trouser Endangering activities any time soon. The fit so well that I actually cruised around the flat pulling Stoner Rock poses... reaching for the imaginary SG, etc.)
First of all I decided to prove Sony wrong, ie prove that their camera wouldn't actually connect to my laptop and that they needed to write a driver that would allow it to do so. And you know what? They were actually telling the truth.
I have no idea why it worked today when it didn't work two weeks ago, but there you have it. It possibly has to do with Plug in the USB cable THEN turn on the Camera, but it came up alright and the photos I've taken look much better on my 14inch screen than they do on the 20mm screen on the camera. A big surprise to all reading, I'm sure.
As such, expect some photos to be linked to this some time in the next couple of days.
Something else you can expect is a few examples of some more visual noodling I've been doing in Freehand on the laptop.
About nine months ago I doodled a rough version of a logo for a project of mine called Hell or High Water. About two months ago I did a crude version of the logo in Freehand. And then I decided that it didn't quite look right and I'd fix it later.
Today I pulled it out (I have no idea why) and thought that since the Strength Through Joy Logo benefitted from my squeezing out as much negative space as I could, maybe the anaemic looking HoHW logo might benefit from a similar approach. So I converted the text to curves and started carbo-loading the serifs.
Just for fun, I might upload the results tomorrow.
Also, I did a halfway decent design of the business card that I've been telling everyone I was going to do for at least a year. Right now it looks a little cold and Modernist (or worse, Futurist!), but I'm sure that I'll be able to warm it up with some kind of Art Nouveau touches. Or maybe decide that I like the current version.
I'm only going to be doing short runs of the card in any case. Haiff told me that he knows where I can get a run of cards printed, proper offset, pretty damn cheap.
So there you have it.
My the contents of my digital camera have been dumped on my laptop so now there is room for more snapping.
The linking stuff works.
I'm designing stuff again.
And I'm starting to feel better again.
I have no idea if any of the plug-ins for Cubase I downloaded last Saturday Night at the Mac Shop actually work with my Version of Cubase (of course, I did download a couple of PC plugins before I realised my mistake), but that doesn't really matter.
Time for me to prepare to get Locusted.
Over and Out.
J
Hey everybody,
I didn't actually make it to VNV Nation last night.
I lay down for a mid afternoon nap at about half two or three and when I woke up it was Half Ten.
I guess I should have set an alarm. Or gone to bed earlier.
In any case, I wasn't too broke up that I missed VNV Nation, since I only wanted to see them on a 'What's All The Fuss About' level, as they seem to be lumped in with all that Darkwave and EBM stuff that never much impressed me, nor was I ever impressed by the pretentions dweebs who told me that I should dig it.
Who knows, the next time the are in my vicinity I might see them and have my face blown off. But for now I'm cheerfully insouciant.
In any case, tonight I go to see The Locust a band who definitely are one of my favourite bands on record and I have it on Authority that they kick arse live. Among others, Greg Puciato from the Dillinger Escape Plan told me that they are incredible on stage, and if you have ever seen the Dillinger Escape Plan you would know that these aren't just clueless hipsters talking.
Speaking of clueless hipsters, word has reached me from Australia that at one of the Every Time I Die shows in either Byron Bay, Brisabane or Sydney half the crowd was made up of NCHC knuckleheads who left after Parkway Drive played.
For those who don't care to follow these things, that's like going to The Louvre but leaving before you see the Mona Lisa. Or renting out The Shawshank Redemption and returning it before Dupre Escapes.
Lousy philistines.
In any case, after waking up at Half Ten I managed to fall asleep again, waking up at half five.
Probably the most productive thing I've done today has been messing around with my laptop all afternoon. (Most productive thing besides putting on my new Bootcut Blue Jeans - which actually fit pretty well, even if I'm not going to be doing any Trouser Endangering activities any time soon. The fit so well that I actually cruised around the flat pulling Stoner Rock poses... reaching for the imaginary SG, etc.)
First of all I decided to prove Sony wrong, ie prove that their camera wouldn't actually connect to my laptop and that they needed to write a driver that would allow it to do so. And you know what? They were actually telling the truth.
I have no idea why it worked today when it didn't work two weeks ago, but there you have it. It possibly has to do with Plug in the USB cable THEN turn on the Camera, but it came up alright and the photos I've taken look much better on my 14inch screen than they do on the 20mm screen on the camera. A big surprise to all reading, I'm sure.
As such, expect some photos to be linked to this some time in the next couple of days.
Something else you can expect is a few examples of some more visual noodling I've been doing in Freehand on the laptop.
About nine months ago I doodled a rough version of a logo for a project of mine called Hell or High Water. About two months ago I did a crude version of the logo in Freehand. And then I decided that it didn't quite look right and I'd fix it later.
Today I pulled it out (I have no idea why) and thought that since the Strength Through Joy Logo benefitted from my squeezing out as much negative space as I could, maybe the anaemic looking HoHW logo might benefit from a similar approach. So I converted the text to curves and started carbo-loading the serifs.
Just for fun, I might upload the results tomorrow.
Also, I did a halfway decent design of the business card that I've been telling everyone I was going to do for at least a year. Right now it looks a little cold and Modernist (or worse, Futurist!), but I'm sure that I'll be able to warm it up with some kind of Art Nouveau touches. Or maybe decide that I like the current version.
I'm only going to be doing short runs of the card in any case. Haiff told me that he knows where I can get a run of cards printed, proper offset, pretty damn cheap.
So there you have it.
My the contents of my digital camera have been dumped on my laptop so now there is room for more snapping.
The linking stuff works.
I'm designing stuff again.
And I'm starting to feel better again.
I have no idea if any of the plug-ins for Cubase I downloaded last Saturday Night at the Mac Shop actually work with my Version of Cubase (of course, I did download a couple of PC plugins before I realised my mistake), but that doesn't really matter.
Time for me to prepare to get Locusted.
Over and Out.
J
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