...was the name of an episode of ER 4-5 years ago, but it's absolutely the best description I have for 2006. It isn't so much that nothing has happened this year in my life and the lives of people around me. Indeed, probably more has happened, which has caused time to seemingly move faster.
In a nutshell, all that really happened to me this year:
- Regular band practice.
- Band recorded some demo tracks
- Weekend drinking
- Hard and frustrating work at work after a sideways move.
The band has been great. We've made slow progress for a variety of reasons but I think this is about to change. We are now in a position where we have almost all the equipment we need (i'm now a proud Marshall 100 watt valvestate amp owner) and we have some gigs in the pipeline. I'm trying to work out why i'm not yet feeling all that nervous. I think I may be about to discover something i've long suspected about myself. Not going to say what. I need to keep working hard to improve technically on the guitar and improve my understanding of sound in general to improve production.
Recording has also been excellent, not necessarily because I think everything we've produced is as good as it could be, but because it does all sound fairly good, and we're getting a lot of positive feedback. I'm glad for the band that this is the case, but i'm also quite proud when we get compliments on the production, as I handled most of that myself on bargain basement equipment.
Weekend drinking continues to waste a lot of my time, but its good to unwind and talk shit with everyone. It may get a bit dull sometimes but i'm going to miss it when inevitably it stops happening as we all get older, move away, shack up and so forth.
Work.. Work is a tough one. My job is something I find myself enjoying on occasion, but enduring most of the time. I've moved away from something I thought I didn't want to do, man management, and realised that in fact perhaps I prefer it to a more technical role. I'm personally successful in what i'm doing at the moment, but it isn't clear how that is going to lead to anything more lucrative, which sad as it may seem is what I need right now.
Some thoughts forming in my mind - i'd like to by enterprising. It would be good to be trying to make a living away from a large company. I certainly have skills applicable in several areas, but I suppose I need more time to figure out exactly which ones I want to focus on, and where to apply them.
Final thoughts - I really don't think I like blogging. I sit here wishing I was writing a better post, getting very angry inside every time something distracts me even though most of the people distracting me right now are trying to assist me in one way or another. I'm going to try this again next year with more frequent but more concise posts. I think thats the answer. As time goes on maybe i'll find something specific to blog about which would make the blog i'm writing worth reading. At the moment I suspect nobody except me is viewing this, and given the quality of the posts, this doesn't upset me much.
A belated Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or whatever else you'd take as a greeting at this point in the calender. Have a great new years eve, and then a happy new year!
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Google Reader vs Thunderbird and Why Does Thunderbird seem so mediocre?
Not having experienced the original Google RSS reader, I can't offer that comparison. All I will say is, when I fed all my blogs and news sites feeds into Thunderbird (more on that next) earlier this year, I was bored to death of the experience within three days. Something about this Google product tells me i'll stick with it for quite a bit longer. Excellent interface. One question though: In amongst this excellent interface, why have non-clickable shortened stories on the "Home" front page summary?
Thunderbird. Its fine. Nothing really wrong with it. Certainly at least as good as *shudder* Outlook Express - That was a bleak five years. However, compare it to the at-work Exchange connected experience with Outlook 2003, and its very flat.
Little things really. No underscored keyboard shortcuts on the toolbar icons. This is something me and i'm sure most tech-savvy will have come to swear by in both Lotus and Microsoft products, albeit implemented in slightly different ways. In Thunderbird, I need to look up and learn the shortcut to actually send my messsage. As at this second in history, I don't know it, and next time I write an email, I will be clicking Send with the mouse pointer. Say what you want about me being lazy, but I won't hear a word against the lazy masses. They simply expect more than this. The bar is higher. In auto terms, Thunderbird is a 1996 Ford Escort, and Outlook is the 2006 Ford Focus. Reclaim my inbox? Reclaim my interest.
This underwhelming experience carries over to other Mozilla products that aren't Firefox. The Calender quite simply has no discernible features over say, a cardboard calender. The same feeling arose when I last tried whatever they're calling the integrated browser/mail/news Netscape inspired suite that nobody uses but just won't die.
Looking around the current offerings, is there really no way the Mozilla kids couldn't find a way to create a modular system centered on Firefox, the only product they have with name recognition. Nobody knew Firebird, nobody knew Pheonix. People know Firefox. Don't waste that, Mozilla.
Anyway, bottom line. If it isn't possible from a tab in Firefox, I don't think I want to know.
Firefox developers please note - View Source should NOT be restricted to a separate window after all this time. Get Gecko to mark up the source (it probably already does, i'm guessing) and throw it in a tab. If you can do it with the config page you can do it with the source viewer.
Thunderbird. Its fine. Nothing really wrong with it. Certainly at least as good as *shudder* Outlook Express - That was a bleak five years. However, compare it to the at-work Exchange connected experience with Outlook 2003, and its very flat.
Little things really. No underscored keyboard shortcuts on the toolbar icons. This is something me and i'm sure most tech-savvy will have come to swear by in both Lotus and Microsoft products, albeit implemented in slightly different ways. In Thunderbird, I need to look up and learn the shortcut to actually send my messsage. As at this second in history, I don't know it, and next time I write an email, I will be clicking Send with the mouse pointer. Say what you want about me being lazy, but I won't hear a word against the lazy masses. They simply expect more than this. The bar is higher. In auto terms, Thunderbird is a 1996 Ford Escort, and Outlook is the 2006 Ford Focus. Reclaim my inbox? Reclaim my interest.
This underwhelming experience carries over to other Mozilla products that aren't Firefox. The Calender quite simply has no discernible features over say, a cardboard calender. The same feeling arose when I last tried whatever they're calling the integrated browser/mail/news Netscape inspired suite that nobody uses but just won't die.
Looking around the current offerings, is there really no way the Mozilla kids couldn't find a way to create a modular system centered on Firefox, the only product they have with name recognition. Nobody knew Firebird, nobody knew Pheonix. People know Firefox. Don't waste that, Mozilla.
Anyway, bottom line. If it isn't possible from a tab in Firefox, I don't think I want to know.
Firefox developers please note - View Source should NOT be restricted to a separate window after all this time. Get Gecko to mark up the source (it probably already does, i'm guessing) and throw it in a tab. If you can do it with the config page you can do it with the source viewer.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Semi-drunken Bloggin'
Friday night. Expected something to be happening but apparently nothing is happening.
Instead have drank a few cans of Carling, watched an ep of Seinfeld and listened to a very long Red Bar Radio. Nothing wrong with all of that, just not how Friday's are supposed to go. Having had the last three days off work to waste as I pleased I had hoped for a bit of company tonight. Instead i'm blogging, which is pretty much the polar opposite of company.
Filmspotting have been raving about "Brick" for months and suddenly comedians on Red Bar are talking about it too. Think I need to see this film.
I also sit here in disbelief that somebody or some group of people have a well organised no-frills site containing YouTube style versions of all episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama and South Park, right up to the minute with the US. Disbelief mainly because I first heard of this well over a week ago but ignored it, and yet it's not yet been taken down.
Is it possible that the US Networks are changing their take on the new media? Not likely.. Not yet. Chances are Fox (and of course Comedy Central) are well aware of this and are working tooth and nail to get the site removed. I give it 3 more days, but we shall see..
Instead have drank a few cans of Carling, watched an ep of Seinfeld and listened to a very long Red Bar Radio. Nothing wrong with all of that, just not how Friday's are supposed to go. Having had the last three days off work to waste as I pleased I had hoped for a bit of company tonight. Instead i'm blogging, which is pretty much the polar opposite of company.
Filmspotting have been raving about "Brick" for months and suddenly comedians on Red Bar are talking about it too. Think I need to see this film.
I also sit here in disbelief that somebody or some group of people have a well organised no-frills site containing YouTube style versions of all episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama and South Park, right up to the minute with the US. Disbelief mainly because I first heard of this well over a week ago but ignored it, and yet it's not yet been taken down.
Is it possible that the US Networks are changing their take on the new media? Not likely.. Not yet. Chances are Fox (and of course Comedy Central) are well aware of this and are working tooth and nail to get the site removed. I give it 3 more days, but we shall see..
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Fading Summer
Nothing much to say about the sudden disappearence of the great summer of 2006, but suffice to say, things are pretty much back to normal. It's late August (very late - about 2 hours left) and i'm a Brit complaining about the weather.
This is nothing new, nor surprising. No doubt essays have been written for decades on our insistence to converse regarding how the natural world around us is behaving on any given day, but I suspect in fact this is more a human trait than a British one.
Pushing past weather, tonight we discuss the new great British passtime of "alternative" young - being in a band. No longer something with the high entry barriers it once held, which is of course a double edged sword. Four years ago I would never have expected to be a guitarist in a band, and that I love. The other edge is, of course, that the amount of competition is now far greater, and although the signal to noise ratio may have shifted towards noise, there is still a lot more good to compete with now.
This presents something of a problem for the talentless, or those of minimal technical ability ,allowing them to play a small part but essentially leave the creativity (musically at least) to others. Whilst i'm not an arrogant person by any means, I now find myself of the opinion that I can stand on stage and play to an audience. A thought of this nature several years ago would have been laughable, but now I cannot seem to fully form a response in my head.
For you see, in the past when watching friends perform, i've always felt I was as nervous for them as I would be if I was joining them. The pit of my stomach felt cold as I watched people I knew attempting to entice their audience.
...scratch this, wherever I was originally going with this i've lost it completely, but I refuse to edit. No time this time.
Another topic - Nope, not tonight.
Next time something coherant. If anyone wishes to finish my thought for me please feel free, leave me a comment.
EDIT:
Just realised that what i'm rambling about above is a continuation of something I said in my last post in June, which fills in the blanks i'm leaving here quite well.
Since then i've purchased some entry level recording equipment and produced the crap out of one full song for the band and a few covers myself, just to test out the equipment. Results have been encouraging. This field interests me more than most at the moment, though given how hard it is to get into production of any type in the current (old) media climate I doubt it would be a good career move. Lets call it a hobby for now.
This is nothing new, nor surprising. No doubt essays have been written for decades on our insistence to converse regarding how the natural world around us is behaving on any given day, but I suspect in fact this is more a human trait than a British one.
Pushing past weather, tonight we discuss the new great British passtime of "alternative" young - being in a band. No longer something with the high entry barriers it once held, which is of course a double edged sword. Four years ago I would never have expected to be a guitarist in a band, and that I love. The other edge is, of course, that the amount of competition is now far greater, and although the signal to noise ratio may have shifted towards noise, there is still a lot more good to compete with now.
This presents something of a problem for the talentless, or those of minimal technical ability ,allowing them to play a small part but essentially leave the creativity (musically at least) to others. Whilst i'm not an arrogant person by any means, I now find myself of the opinion that I can stand on stage and play to an audience. A thought of this nature several years ago would have been laughable, but now I cannot seem to fully form a response in my head.
For you see, in the past when watching friends perform, i've always felt I was as nervous for them as I would be if I was joining them. The pit of my stomach felt cold as I watched people I knew attempting to entice their audience.
...scratch this, wherever I was originally going with this i've lost it completely, but I refuse to edit. No time this time.
Another topic - Nope, not tonight.
Next time something coherant. If anyone wishes to finish my thought for me please feel free, leave me a comment.
EDIT:
Just realised that what i'm rambling about above is a continuation of something I said in my last post in June, which fills in the blanks i'm leaving here quite well.
Since then i've purchased some entry level recording equipment and produced the crap out of one full song for the band and a few covers myself, just to test out the equipment. Results have been encouraging. This field interests me more than most at the moment, though given how hard it is to get into production of any type in the current (old) media climate I doubt it would be a good career move. Lets call it a hobby for now.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Ineptitude
What the FUCK is wrong with the service sector in 2006?
In the last month i've undergone my 5th house move in 5 years but never before have I experienced so much poor service and error from almost every company i've had the unfortunate necessity to deal with.
NTL, to nobodies suprise, remains far and away the worst. Nobody expects NTL to get things right. They never have, and I doubt they will when they rebrand themselves Virgin in the near future. In short - failed to book appointment with engineer, failed to retain phone number despite offering service, failed to restore broadband at correct speed, failed to honour retention offers (naturally I threatened them with cancellation) with actual services. Awful.
British Gas - Last year they sent me bills for no fewer than three previous occupants. How they don't realise that if a new account holder is setting up in a house the old account holders will no longer be present is beyond me. This year, they managed to mess up my final bills, sending them not just to the wrong forwarding address, but to entirely the wrong person. My name is not Colin.
Perhaps more upsetting than mistakes made by individual companies such as those above is one defining issue, and it applies equally to the above as it does to anybody else. I could understand if a company wanted to implement a policy stating that they will not call customers back personally. As strange as it sounds, I could live with this. What I cannot stand is that in the past month i've been promised a call back by no less than five different companies, and each and every one has failed, in most cases repeatedly, to live up to this.
Everybody believes they have their own special way of dealing with the poor bastards in the call centres, but really, no one way, for me at least is proving any more effective than another. You can be assured that if you're rude, particularly if you make it personal, that the person you are speaking to will do whatever they can to hold back whatever it is you want them to do for you without actually revealing to anybody that might be watching that they are in fact proving anti-customer service, however, being pleasant, even complimentary doesn't seem to hold any weight anymore. Perhaps it's no longer taken as sincere, given how frequently people try it.
The modern service sector certainly isn't customer focussed. Trace the root causes of this far enough back and I can't help but wonder if any company can hope to compete with good customer relations any more. The largest companies retain customers through apathy and convinience (read: fear of inconvinience - how long do you want to go without a broadband connection if you cancel your current provider).
Maybe I have a blinkered view. I bemoan the apathy and convinience but am speaking mainly from personal and very much present experience. I am seriously considering finally severing my ties with NTL, but I probably won't. After all, its working.. at the moment. It'll be fine until I have to move again, and by the time I have to move again, i'll have forgotten just how bad the experience was this time around.
If anybody can give me the name of a broadband provider, a landline provider, and a dual-fuel energy provider that will give me genuine customer service, it would be much appreciated.
And with a glance back to the subject I realise 2 things. First, way too much distance from there to here, again. Concice I cannot be on this issue. Second, completely drifted from my original intention. I intended to explore the mindset of the people on the other end of the phone, but maybe its really not complicated enough to explore. They're heavily monitored on the length of calls, not much else. If anybody is recording their calls its probably only to select a few at random for the trainees.
In the last month i've undergone my 5th house move in 5 years but never before have I experienced so much poor service and error from almost every company i've had the unfortunate necessity to deal with.
NTL, to nobodies suprise, remains far and away the worst. Nobody expects NTL to get things right. They never have, and I doubt they will when they rebrand themselves Virgin in the near future. In short - failed to book appointment with engineer, failed to retain phone number despite offering service, failed to restore broadband at correct speed, failed to honour retention offers (naturally I threatened them with cancellation) with actual services. Awful.
British Gas - Last year they sent me bills for no fewer than three previous occupants. How they don't realise that if a new account holder is setting up in a house the old account holders will no longer be present is beyond me. This year, they managed to mess up my final bills, sending them not just to the wrong forwarding address, but to entirely the wrong person. My name is not Colin.
Perhaps more upsetting than mistakes made by individual companies such as those above is one defining issue, and it applies equally to the above as it does to anybody else. I could understand if a company wanted to implement a policy stating that they will not call customers back personally. As strange as it sounds, I could live with this. What I cannot stand is that in the past month i've been promised a call back by no less than five different companies, and each and every one has failed, in most cases repeatedly, to live up to this.
Everybody believes they have their own special way of dealing with the poor bastards in the call centres, but really, no one way, for me at least is proving any more effective than another. You can be assured that if you're rude, particularly if you make it personal, that the person you are speaking to will do whatever they can to hold back whatever it is you want them to do for you without actually revealing to anybody that might be watching that they are in fact proving anti-customer service, however, being pleasant, even complimentary doesn't seem to hold any weight anymore. Perhaps it's no longer taken as sincere, given how frequently people try it.
The modern service sector certainly isn't customer focussed. Trace the root causes of this far enough back and I can't help but wonder if any company can hope to compete with good customer relations any more. The largest companies retain customers through apathy and convinience (read: fear of inconvinience - how long do you want to go without a broadband connection if you cancel your current provider).
Maybe I have a blinkered view. I bemoan the apathy and convinience but am speaking mainly from personal and very much present experience. I am seriously considering finally severing my ties with NTL, but I probably won't. After all, its working.. at the moment. It'll be fine until I have to move again, and by the time I have to move again, i'll have forgotten just how bad the experience was this time around.
If anybody can give me the name of a broadband provider, a landline provider, and a dual-fuel energy provider that will give me genuine customer service, it would be much appreciated.
And with a glance back to the subject I realise 2 things. First, way too much distance from there to here, again. Concice I cannot be on this issue. Second, completely drifted from my original intention. I intended to explore the mindset of the people on the other end of the phone, but maybe its really not complicated enough to explore. They're heavily monitored on the length of calls, not much else. If anybody is recording their calls its probably only to select a few at random for the trainees.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
If I don't start writing things down...
...i'm never going to remember anything.
I'm sure when I was in my teens I could remember copious amounts of useless information. Now i'm lucky to remember where I put my battery charger 3 days ago.
Anyway, never mind.
Having taken it upon myself to move into a one-bedroom flat I thought it was time I looked into doing some blogging about 3 years after everybody else.
I've been saying for years that I seem to be 3 years behind everybody else on everything. I'm come to despise certain types of blog, and most myspace pages (though so few of those actually bother to use their blogs).
Listening to Podcasts is taking over my life. This isn't a bad thing - for once i'm not 3 years behind. 3 years behind the early podcasts perhaps but now is the point at which they are becoming popular. I seem to be sticking mostly to the Podshow family, having started off with Cinecast, now Filmspotting (how I found that? no idea anymore) one listener comment mentioned a podcast named the Daily Source Code. Being a sort-of coder and pining for Podcasts that would entertain me for more than an hour or two a week I went and had a look only to find one of the earliest shows around. I've been keeping up to date with the DSC since February(ish) and listening through as many old shows as I can, and..
I can't deny, its beginning to wear thin. I do seem to like to overexpose myself to things, whilst being well aware of the likely effect this will eventually have on my personal enjoyment.
Nonetheless, my Juice (ipodder) is loaded up with my current favorites
Pacific Coast Hellway - The kind of thing you almost feel you could introduce your friends to, but don't because you feel slightly uneasy at some of the pretty harmless but slightly jarring racial slurs. This is, make no mistake, a well produced show with the kind of hooks that I don't think I ever experienced on the radio.
Steve Gilmor - I'm enjoying his daily shows more than the gang shows, although they're altogether varied. Its absolutely amazing to finally be able to hear what amounts to a radio show about something I find interesting. In truth though, Gilmor and co. tend to talk a little above my level of understanding at time, using language I wonder if they may have invented themselves.
Daily Source Code - I can't deny, I am a big fan of the shows Adam Curry does with his wife Patricia. Whether this means i'm pining for some kind of podcast verison of daytime television I don't know. When she first appeared to me on his show she annoyed the crap out of me - I misjudged her to be not particularly intelligent. Her voice did, and still does put me in mind of Alan Partridges girlfriend Sonia in his second run, which may have also contributed to my negative opinion, as Sonia certainly wasn't that bright. Once you get used to Patricia Paay she comes across as a very down to earth celeb (of course, again, I wasn't aware of her celebrity when I first heard her) and an excellent foil to Adam, keeping him firmly in touch with the real world that you sense he might forget to spend any time in if given the opportunity. All in all, i'll be listening to the DSC for some time to come yet.
Thats enough about podcasts for now; I just wanted to sum up that i'm consuming a lot of time listening to these things. Thankfully a lot of this occurs during my daily commute. I will save the shows I know i'll enjoy the most for the car, as I know i'll listen properly. The 'man' can tell you all he wants that radio is a distraction from good driving - I don't buy into it. Anybody who needs 100% concentration on the road driving down an essentially straight motorway for 30 minutes each day is probably so worked up that they're the more likely to have an accident. No, in my car I can concentrate on a podcast. I have real trouble concentrating on one when trying to do anything else on my computer besides play little flash games, which is fine, as they provide light entertainment in the background of the main entertainment.
What else. I'm in a band. How I came to be in a band I can barely understand. I am a reluctantly quiet individual that craves a spotlight i'm not comfortable being in. As I have no intention of paying for the psychology to find out why that is, I live with it, relatively happy, but I am concerned that my role in this band, essentially a minimum talent role, could still come unstuck when transported to a raised platform in front of.. probably about 10 people, but thats not really the point. I'm extremely interested in getting some half decent recording kit and trying to produce something myself. What i'm not quite sure. Complicated it certainly cannot be. Thankfully, complicated isn't what matters in music. The recipe for good music itself is complex. The music need not be. My goal is to better understand the recipe. Production is a great interest of mine, particularly audio.
No i'm not going to start a podcast. I don't have a voice for it, and if you can imagine what I can't quite believe you're still reading in a spoken word format, you have arrived at what a personal podcast from me would be. A podcast about something - maybe someday. As Adam Curry constantly (and I do mean constantly) reminds us, theres a lot of shit happening..
Out!
I'm sure when I was in my teens I could remember copious amounts of useless information. Now i'm lucky to remember where I put my battery charger 3 days ago.
Anyway, never mind.
Having taken it upon myself to move into a one-bedroom flat I thought it was time I looked into doing some blogging about 3 years after everybody else.
I've been saying for years that I seem to be 3 years behind everybody else on everything. I'm come to despise certain types of blog, and most myspace pages (though so few of those actually bother to use their blogs).
Listening to Podcasts is taking over my life. This isn't a bad thing - for once i'm not 3 years behind. 3 years behind the early podcasts perhaps but now is the point at which they are becoming popular. I seem to be sticking mostly to the Podshow family, having started off with Cinecast, now Filmspotting (how I found that? no idea anymore) one listener comment mentioned a podcast named the Daily Source Code. Being a sort-of coder and pining for Podcasts that would entertain me for more than an hour or two a week I went and had a look only to find one of the earliest shows around. I've been keeping up to date with the DSC since February(ish) and listening through as many old shows as I can, and..
I can't deny, its beginning to wear thin. I do seem to like to overexpose myself to things, whilst being well aware of the likely effect this will eventually have on my personal enjoyment.
Nonetheless, my Juice (ipodder) is loaded up with my current favorites
Pacific Coast Hellway - The kind of thing you almost feel you could introduce your friends to, but don't because you feel slightly uneasy at some of the pretty harmless but slightly jarring racial slurs. This is, make no mistake, a well produced show with the kind of hooks that I don't think I ever experienced on the radio.
Steve Gilmor - I'm enjoying his daily shows more than the gang shows, although they're altogether varied. Its absolutely amazing to finally be able to hear what amounts to a radio show about something I find interesting. In truth though, Gilmor and co. tend to talk a little above my level of understanding at time, using language I wonder if they may have invented themselves.
Daily Source Code - I can't deny, I am a big fan of the shows Adam Curry does with his wife Patricia. Whether this means i'm pining for some kind of podcast verison of daytime television I don't know. When she first appeared to me on his show she annoyed the crap out of me - I misjudged her to be not particularly intelligent. Her voice did, and still does put me in mind of Alan Partridges girlfriend Sonia in his second run, which may have also contributed to my negative opinion, as Sonia certainly wasn't that bright. Once you get used to Patricia Paay she comes across as a very down to earth celeb (of course, again, I wasn't aware of her celebrity when I first heard her) and an excellent foil to Adam, keeping him firmly in touch with the real world that you sense he might forget to spend any time in if given the opportunity. All in all, i'll be listening to the DSC for some time to come yet.
Thats enough about podcasts for now; I just wanted to sum up that i'm consuming a lot of time listening to these things. Thankfully a lot of this occurs during my daily commute. I will save the shows I know i'll enjoy the most for the car, as I know i'll listen properly. The 'man' can tell you all he wants that radio is a distraction from good driving - I don't buy into it. Anybody who needs 100% concentration on the road driving down an essentially straight motorway for 30 minutes each day is probably so worked up that they're the more likely to have an accident. No, in my car I can concentrate on a podcast. I have real trouble concentrating on one when trying to do anything else on my computer besides play little flash games, which is fine, as they provide light entertainment in the background of the main entertainment.
What else. I'm in a band. How I came to be in a band I can barely understand. I am a reluctantly quiet individual that craves a spotlight i'm not comfortable being in. As I have no intention of paying for the psychology to find out why that is, I live with it, relatively happy, but I am concerned that my role in this band, essentially a minimum talent role, could still come unstuck when transported to a raised platform in front of.. probably about 10 people, but thats not really the point. I'm extremely interested in getting some half decent recording kit and trying to produce something myself. What i'm not quite sure. Complicated it certainly cannot be. Thankfully, complicated isn't what matters in music. The recipe for good music itself is complex. The music need not be. My goal is to better understand the recipe. Production is a great interest of mine, particularly audio.
No i'm not going to start a podcast. I don't have a voice for it, and if you can imagine what I can't quite believe you're still reading in a spoken word format, you have arrived at what a personal podcast from me would be. A podcast about something - maybe someday. As Adam Curry constantly (and I do mean constantly) reminds us, theres a lot of shit happening..
Out!
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