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[Aug. 9th, 2008|02:00 pm] |
I fucked up huge.
Huge doesn't even begin to describe it.
Dextra needs your support right now. |
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| July in Canada |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|01:51 pm] |
You know it's July in Canada when you see them unloading the snowmobiles from the truck.
Winter's almost here!
 (photo would be closer, but it was raining out and I'm made of sugar) |
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| Call if Spotted |
[Jul. 19th, 2008|07:04 pm] |
So, Thursday night we had a big thunderstorm. The spotted dog got terrified, broke through my parents' screen door, and hid in their house. Once the storm was over, they kicked him out. Then the second (much louder and scarier) storm hit. Friday morning, there was no sign of the spotted one.
Friday night when I got home from work, the word was out, the dog was gone. Time to make posters and go looking for him (last time this happened was about 7 years ago when we had fireworks on the farm - he moved onto someone's porch about 10 km from here).
Today, my parents found him. Hiding in their basement. He had torn open another screen and jumped into the basement. Because there was water there (sump pump) he was ok for a day or so. When my dad called him from the top of the basement stairs, he didn't come because he had already crapped down there and knew he was in trouble.
Dex already made posters for the little shit. What I found funny was the last line - "Call if spotted". Stupid dog is spotted from head to tail. |
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| The Dorky Gun Nut |
[Jul. 19th, 2008|12:56 pm] |
So, I only half-maintain my gunporn website from time to time, but today I finally found something that merges my tech-geekism and gun-geekism.
It's a bluetooth headset. And you hang up by pulling the trigger.
"Good bye honey, I love you" CLICK.
I want it almost as much as I want a good handgun mouse. |
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| Cyberpunk DJing Memetastic ENnies |
[Jul. 6th, 2008|12:49 pm] |
New Guillotine mix is up at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) guillotine_101 - I mixed this one well over a month ago, and have no idea why I haven't posted it yet. Anyways, it's up finally, and I'm looking forward to DJing twice this coming week - the first gig is particularly exciting, I'm guest DJ for Jairus' Ad-ver-sary CD release party at Zaphod's on Tuesday. The second gig is my first Saturday night at Re-Vamp, which switched from Sundays to Saturdays as of this weekend. This is pretty huge - I believe the last time we had a weekend slot in the scene was when Gina was DJing at Thunderdome in Hull (I used to fill in for her and help her out a couple times a month). That was somewhere around 13-15 years ago now. Wow.
Last night was a CyberPunk 2020 game - haven't played in a couple of months and I do miss the setting, although it's nearly time to kill this campaign as I'm having a hard time holding it together so we can go back to sandbox-style games with the new rules set that I've got 90% done. Highlight of the game? Sooch is back.
And right now I'm *supposed* to be entering product data in for the ENnie nominations, which I'm about 1/3 done.
Here's that "Bold things you have done meme" |
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| One - Two |
[Jun. 9th, 2008|08:37 pm] |
Dex got the internet working today.
Granny died circa noon. |
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| Interwebz |
[Jun. 9th, 2008|09:15 am] |
No internet at the pharm. We transitioned from Storm (our provider for the past X years) to Explornet on Friday (not by choice - Explore bought Storm's rural wireless network in our area), and by Saturday night the hardware had died.
Posting from work.
So if you need to get ahold of Dex or myself, tag us by phone. |
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| Pop Mentos |
[May. 27th, 2008|02:57 pm] |
Somewhere after watching the roller-derby girls skate by on the beach, I remember clearly pulling out a big orange roll of candies (like an orange mentos package). Except it said "Crisk. - Beute" on it, and it was a pop music compilation of top 40 hits... including that track:
Don't ask me why that track in particular - it's not like I've been listening to it a lot lately (although it does appear on one of my recent mixes - guillotine 213 - but I've been listening to guillotine 214 and 215 this week.
But yeah, "industrial" pop music mentos man. |
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| The "relaxing" long weekend is on it's way! |
[May. 16th, 2008|09:16 am] |
As soon as work is done today I haul ass 2 hours to Montreal, with a 10 minute stopover at home to drop off my laptop and pick up a change of clothes.
Tonight is the Kinetik Festival in Montreal. I'll be missing the first act (Cenotype) and getting there just in time for Synnack.
Then at 08:00pm it's Distorted Memory, 08:50pm Headscan, 09:45pm Memmaker (awesome local act), 10:45pm Rabia Sorda, 11:50pm Funker Vogt (a lot of people are going for the FV show, but I think of FV as one of the three bands that destroyed what I love about industrial music), 01:00am Kiew (AWESOME!) and finally 02:00am Noisuf-X (more kick-ass). The night ends at 3:00 am, and I drive back to Tyg's place in Montreal and crash.
Tomorrow at 3pm the doors open again for the noise night... PerfectionPlastic, Sorehead, Tonikom, Displacer, Iszoloscope, Empusae, Mono No Aware, Xotox (I fucking LOVE this band), Terrorfakt (awesome), Feindflug (also awesome), This Morn' Omina (worth the ticket price alone) and finally Sonar (no clue).
At around 3:30 am, I grab Drippy who is here from Alberta for the festival, and we drive back the 2 hours to Ottawa, arriving circa 5:30 - 6:00 am. I'll drop off Drippy at a friend's place (Nick and Tara, how do you feel about a Drippy on your doorstep at 6 am?), and drive to the Hotel.
The Hotel?
Yeah, tonight the Gelflings are dancing at a show in Ottawa. Tomorrow they are competing at an Irish Dance Competition in Montreal (same city I'll be in, but they compete when I'll be trying to catch up on sleep). And then tomorrow night they drive to Ottawa and Dex sets up the late registration table at the Hotel in Ottawa for the Irish Dance competition there on Sunday that Dex is the registrar for. Dex has been incredible at this job, putting in mega-long hours every night (last night was the first time this week that I went to bed after she did). Super impressed with how well she's handling it. And can't wait for it to be over to be honest.
So I arrive at the hotel at 6:30-ish, and we head out to set up the feis at 7:30... I'm noticing a distinct lack of sleep in here. Oh well. I help set up the feis and then once things are underway stick around to see G1 dance at least once before I crawl away and find somewhere to sleep for a few hours.
Because I'm DJing Sunday night, the last part of the night - 1:00 to 2:30 am.
It's going to be a fucking RIOT I tell you!
(And I've had to skip a gaming convention happening in Ottawa to fit this in...) |
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| Lesson Learned |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|07:50 pm] |
DJd last night at Katacombes and the Sunday before at Re-Vamp.
What I learned is that I really can't expect to just take over the board when I set up. At Re-Vamp there was no board, we were loading our laptops directly into the sound system so we had to fake the board with software. This meant working from a single source, effectively, so no way to preview music or a mix before playing it.
At Katacombes, I spliced in one laptop where the turntable is normally hooked up and then spliced in the second one once the previous DJ was done. This was a better setup, but about 1/3 of the way through my set the board I was wired into made a nice 'pop' and the soundcard on the main laptop crashed, and I discovered that my backup laptop's wiring was only feeding onto one channel. Yeah... that gave me a couple of minutes of dead air... it sucked.
End result - I'm spinning with CDs and laptop again, instead of two laptops. I'll bring both, spin from the black one, and prep tracks on the Dell (the one with the sensitive sound card) that I can burn to CD as needed.
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Oh yeah, OTTAWA!
I'll be DJing at Re-Vamp again this Sunday, May 4th. Come on out! |
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| Spring huh? |
[Apr. 26th, 2008|01:25 pm] |
Spring is in the air... and on my bathroom floor apparently...
Just stepped on a fucking bumble-bee.
I am Jack's throbbing poisoned foot. |
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| Left Spine Dilema |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|06:03 pm] |
Left Spine Down is performing in Ottawa on June 3rd (Tuesday, Zaphods) and in Montreal June 6th (Friday, Saphir).
Now, Ottawa is more people I know, but if I want to break into the Montreal DJ scene, I'm going to need to meet more people in town. I guess the reality is that Montreal is where I should go, but Ottawa is where I'm comfortable (and I like supporting Leslie & Jai).
So, yeah, Montrealers, I think I'm coming for LSD in your city - so help me out and aim me at the people I should be rubbing shoulders with if I want to start DJing regularly in town. |
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| Word & Thought of the Day |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|09:19 pm] |
Om-Nominous (n)- Food that looks scary... Like being attacked by a spider roll, or eating zombie jell-o heads
And, from my conversation with Gelfling #1 on the drive home tonight...
"Imagine... what if Ketchup... had a theme song!" |
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| Last Night's Dinosaur Hunt |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|07:20 am] |
I don't know if we were originally hunting dinos, but whatever we were doing, we had set up camp in the snow with a small fire. It was an early snow - the wet kind that sticks to everything. Hagrid starts barking and then SOMETHING comes rushing out of the night, barrels straight through the camp and keeps going, following the trail that we had made walking here. Hagrid chases off after it, so we do also.
We're following down the trail, now in broad daylight, through the snow. Our footprints aren't all that clear, but the huge prints of the dinosaur we are following certainly are. We're talking a pretty damn large T.Rex here. And Hagrid's trail follows it's prints. Every hundred feet or so we come across one of the previous camps we had made on the way here, smashes and stepped on by the dinosaur.
Every hundred feet.
Seems we were camping a lot more than traveling. |
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| Ottawans |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|09:41 am] |
I'm DJing at ReVamp tonight - that's at dekcuF, upstairs from Mavericks, on Rideau Street.
I'll be spinning from 9:00 to 11:00, and then MegaAlex and I are going to have a "DJ Battle" type event promoting Kinetik (taking turns spinning Kinetik acts) and then Alex takes over for the rest of the night.
Cover is $2 before 10:30, so come on down. |
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| Stoner Girl, Post 2 |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|10:33 am] |
From the mouth of babes:
(pout)
I didn't get a buzz today. I think I'm building up a tolerance.
(pout)
I had a wicked headache today too. OMG! Withdrawal! |
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| Guillotine Live - Strike 2 |
[Apr. 15th, 2008|03:42 am] |
My first live Guillotine event in nearly 10 years is this coming Sunday, April 20th, at ReVamp in Ottawa.
As of tonight, my second live Guillotine event will be the next week, Monday, April 28th, at Katacombes in Montreal (11pm to 1am roughly).
I'm back! |
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| Noize |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|06:29 pm] |
When Jason C. introduced me to "power noise" via Converter, I wasn't really sold on the music.
It wasn't really until around . . . January or February that I was finally sold on Power Noise and Rhythmic Noise.
 by Xotox.
Purely out of a recommendation on last.fm, I checked out some Xotox material - primarily the recent mostly live recording "Documentation 1 Ton" - which is packed with awesome. I don't have a lot of older material, but totally recommend the Uruhue EP as an awesome collection of powerful tracks including some great remixes of Nasse Wände.
The most recent release by Xotox, "In Den Zehn Morgen", is awesome. It's a double CD with a collection of older material on the second CD (which is nice - because the first CD is somewhat of a departure from the established style of the prior releases). The album shows a lot of growth from the artist, with more vocals, more melody, and still retains a lot of the driving noise that brought me to Xotox in the first place. Definitely worth a listen - I'll be playing at least one track next week at ReVamp. |
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| Saturday Night's All Right |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|10:54 am] |
Yesterday was the Pysanky party - we cooked and prepped food (well, by me I mean mostly Dex - I was helpful, but not key). We made egg bread, Dex made about 20 egg dyes, and we launched for the church hall where we held the party. It was successful, we were swarmed by teens and tweens all decorating eggs in the traditional methods (if not the traditional styles). Gelfling #2's boyfriend was there too, and we ended up keeping him for a bit extra... (more to follow).
I made a voodoo egg, quel surprise.
We then dragged everything home, dropped off the party goods, I grabbed a 30 minute nap, and we hauled ass to the Montreal Ceili. I love the Montreal Ceilis (Irish group dance events) - we bring up the average age of the crowd, unlike the Ottawa Ceilis where we bring the age down significantly. Its a great crowd. Danced, drank beer, took over bouncer duties on the side door of the venue, and got paid in beer (beer is good, free beer is way better). Had a great time and rolled home at 11:45 to a variety of text messages about the server backup failing and potential DJ gigs. (Potential DJ Gigs!)
And then I crashed hard when I got home.
This morning, Gelfling #2's boyfriend is still here. I'm still not a fan. |
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