An *irritant* is quivering about within the sheepblog code. When a new entry is created, the time of the entry is always one minute past the hour. I searched for the error earlier, but came up with nothing. The culprit code must be in here somewhere: (Elegant elk?) post '/new' do if !get_user redirect_with_message '/login', 'You are not loged in, vole.' else m = %r{^\s*(\d\d\d\d)[-/]?(\d{1,2})[-/]?(\d{1,2})\s*$}.match(params[:arbitrary_date]) timestamp = if m ...
As I was attempting to fall asleep at approximately 1.00 in the morning, I was musing over the last piece of the album. It's name is **Reductive**, since there is a many to one mapping from each of the other pieces to it. I have also decided to title the other *Untitled* piece **Injective** since all of its themes can be mapped exactly to one theme of the following piece, **Fold**. Well, actually, we'll see about that name later. ##### So back to the purpose of this entry. I was musing also during the mor...
I must name the album. I must do it now. So what shall the album's name be? Hm. Well, what is the theme, exactly? We have which titles so far? * Intersection * Filter * Cycle * She Ain't My Girl * Union * Untitled * Fold * Untitled The obvious conclusion is to title the album something regarding sets. So, what does *set theory* come up with when typed into the mighty **Google**, **Wikipedia** and **Thinkexist**. The results are, respectively: Hm. Well, actually, that did not work very well, so let's atte...
As I said in one dream I had as a child: > I have happily created a portion of a piece > of art and can bask in this realization until > it comes to pass that the itch must again be > scratched and a following piece of art be > produced. I've successfully stuck with the minimalistic character of the piece that was evident in its inception as *AcyBob* and has carried itself through the parts and transformations therein. *Part V* contains a bastardization of the bastardization in *Part III* of the melody in...
The backing of the part will be purely mellotron playing the chords two notes at a time, but not constantly! No no no! That would not be appropriate. ### The spice of this part will be **space** And since I have been listening to quite a bit of **Space Music** the last few days, I'll make sure there are plenty of sweeps and gurgles accompanying the composed music. *Layered on top*, yes sir ee. The chord progression, as I wrote, will be the same as in *Part III*, but it will be only run through **once** a...
The collusion of contrasting ideas concerning the fifth part of Cycle are now in concert. The result, in my mind, anyhow, will debauch the easy and hypnotic feeling established during the final ostinato of part four. ##### So the first concern is the transition. I know that before I wrote that I would not write proper transitions but instead let the music suddenly stumble from one frame to another with no harmonic *warning* or set up. I feel this must be an exception to this so-called *rule* I created for...
> Expert staff members working in the trenches > aren't always recognized as experts or paid > accordingly! This brings me back to 12 Snap. I may not have been an expert by the definition that many people have, but I was towering over most at that company in knowledge of the workings of the system. This is very much true of the so called managers, who, though some came from a technical background, were dollops of oozing slime beneath the iron of mine and Jenicek's prowess. I recall one event where the bal...
The Hawkwind binge has begun. I'm four albums in if you count Hawklords. Specifically, I am listening to the live double I got at the oft frequented cd shop near Marienplatz in Munich. It is a live document of the tour supporting Choose Your Masques and reminds me greatly of April and May of 2000, especially living at the first hotel near Silberhornstrasse. I can still smell the oil I used for cooking in the tiny kitchen provided in my room in my mind. It was a scent which did not leave me or my clothing un...
I am struck by intense lethargy. The first through is that the reason is because of an excess of food. It weighs. My digestive properties as an organism have taken over and excused my brain from anything but involuntary functionality. How shall I banish this feeling? My first thought is to pick up the book Pragmatic Thinking and begin it again. I had read about one third of it by the time I had left Austin a month ago. The time was spent in Barnes and Noble and Borders. Therefore, I was not given the luxury...
Much has transpired since I last wrote. First of all, there is Cycle. Parts I, II and IV are pretty much compositionally complete and tonight I shall focus on part III. One must consider that part V is a reflection of part II, part VI is a reflection of part II, and part VII is a reflection of part I, so they may, in the possibly best (or possibly worst - details to follow) case, write themselves, in a sense. #### But how could that be a bad thing? In the worst case, the reflective parts writing themselve...
Soon I shall order a [M-Audio Oxygen 49][2] for a few different reasons: * I have no tangible instrument in Seminole. * I am tired of figuring out melodies on the virtual keyboard, though it is, I admit, a useful tool. * I don't want to program every keyboard part of the songs I am working on. I'd like to actually play some of them, despite occasional (or even frequent) timing inaccuracies. Ok. I have decided to work on *Cycle* after this entry has been done. Which part, you ask? Well, the second of the ...
