Round and Round and Round...

So, what to do, what to do.

This song keeps on going around my head. It simply will not go away. (Actually - Wish (Komm Zu Mir) keeps going around, but this mix of it mostly).

Gotta sell advertising. Gotta do STUFF.

Bought a book on music theory from eBay because the seller I was bidding on an expression pedal from had it. I now need a second Korg expression pedal and a sustain pedal to have my T1 fully equipped with controllers, but it's the sustain I need most of all, since the old one I had has just died basically.

Wonder if my sampler will arrive today. I'll need to dig up a 13-pin DIN cable for it.

Annoying

Okay. Who crept onto my computer and deleted the song I made using Speak & Spell Samples?

Oh well.

I should start from scratch with all these things anyway.

Owwww, ow ow owww!

Okay.

I get some bodymodification stuff. I understand some of the psychology behind it and so forth. Occasionally I'm vaguely envious of people who manage to do something that looks good, though having known a few BME people it all gets a bit samey and boring after a while - no matter what they change on the outside, inside they're quite frequently Barry from Norwich who likes football and a beer and would quite like a 3 bedroom semi and a steady income. Or already have that, the process of modification being expensive if done 'safely'.

However, mofette just had a suspension. This would appear to consist of having meathooks threaded through your shoulders and being dangled by them.

Don't take my confusion as condemnation, I don't feel it's a wrong or right thing to do, I just don't get it. If it's a pain threshold thing? A floating thing? Something else?

Whilst I am quite sure that physically and emotionally, if someone stuck me on meathooks and dangled me in the air as an unprepared and random thing I'd survive it quite happily, the actual desire to go through it is surprisingly small. If anything the idea of the preparation and so forth would be more intimidating - my dislike of needles isn't what it once was, but it's not entirely vanished. I already know that I can handle almost anything that life throws at me, so I rarely feel the need to prove it.

(Edit: It occurred to me that the post was locked, which at the very least meant if you weren't a mutual friend you wouldn't see it, and at most, might mean the user may not want people to know - if that was the case, whoops and sorry!).

(edit the second - heh, mofette replied just as I was posting this edit. Phew!)

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Sexcrimes against literature.

1984 is on TV. It's a film I have seen once before, and I was surprised by my recollection.

One, I own the soundtrack. I really consider it to be one of the stinkers of my collection in many ways, especially the primary track "Sexcrime". I didn't recall the fact that there is an instrumental version of this playing behind the scene where Winston recalls stealing his sister's chocolate (one of the few parts of the book to have actually resulted in an emotional response from me), ruining the ambience.

I feel that the whole soundtrack, at least that performed by the Eurhythmics, is utterly at odds with the film. It's too clean, processed and vocally advanced. The vocoder in Sexcrime is seriously naff and belongs in a 1970s Disco track, not a sparse war-torn Britain.

Anyway, it got me thinking about War of the Worlds (the musical) and wondering why more work along these lines hasn't surfaced.

What classical/sci-fi novel would you like to see as a 2 LP epic prog-rock musical?

I love these Kittin animations...

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Logic is not well named

Dammit.

I had a good bassline I wanted to play with. I record it. In time.

I record drums. In time.

I try to loop them.

I keep getting stupid gaps. It has introduced a rest I cannot delete from the score. I don't know how to make a score 'look right'. I cannot make this skip in the loop go away. I can play the drums entirely by hand, but then I make mistakes across the course of the song.

Why is this so hard :(