uploading rabit is wolf to youtube

so, i've decided to stick with the original 2002 mixes for youtube uploads, and i'm going to put them all up at once. this is keeping in mind that youtube is a front-end for bandcamp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POzq3nMWQyA&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYwajc7-Xo&feature=youtu.be

i'm shocked. i sold something. woo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roRQ2mNwMMQ

it felt good building up that cover art. first time i've done that in years. inri029 now has a sleeve.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/to-spin-inside-dull-aberrations



next thing is to try and find some lightscribe discs around here. windsor is kind of notorious for being low in stock on...everything. it's one of the tomato producing capitals in the world, and half the time the stores are out or full of mouldy stock from mexico (drives me nuts). it's detroit, canada, basically. hey, that's why i moved down here...

i'm sure i'll find them somewhere and be able to print it off on tuesday (monday, here, is canadian thanksgiving. bullshit holiday, but it means everything is closed.). it's going to take far too long to order something...

apparently, 40% of the population of windsor doesn't live within walking distance of a grocery store.

compute that.

major retailers (rona, for one) have recently left the city because they can't police the stores. i went into the rona about a year ago to get some exacto knives, and i had to be escorted by security past an armed guard because people were using them to rob the place.

there's still a semblance of peace on the surface, but it's really a pretty crazy place.

but i can integrate the walk to drop off compost with a lightscribe run, which will take me to one of the less crazy areas where there's a radio shack and a staples and stuff...gotta be some in one of those stores...

thanks

jessica
hi,

i gotta say you're the first person that's bought something since i put the site back up last september. selling cds isn't easy nowadays, so it's breaking through a bit of a glass ceiling for me. thanks for your support.

as this is the first thing i'm shipping, 3 days might be more like 5 days. i need to get the proper supplies. i have done this before, it's just been a few years; rest assured that it will be shipping shortly.

primatemaster
Hello,

I'm simultaneously delighted (if I had business cards I'd be writing 'Patron of the Arts' on them right now) and a little disappointed to be first. It's the first CD I've purchased in quite a while, so some sort of reflected symmetry there.

From listening to a randomly selected range of your work on bandcamp and youtube, I've probably picked one of the easier-to-listen-to ones to buy. But I found a lot that I like and just as much that will need more time before I know what I think about it. Often in the same track. The first thing I stumbled across was 'evil is a human construction' which immediately sounded frantic and fantastic (my first, probably unoriginal, thought: music for Cylons). A couple of weeks and multiple plays later and it is still a favourite.

Anyway, that's enough of my rambling.

Looking forward to hearing your future releases,

jessica
the cylons thing is interesting.

that track, 'evil is a human construction', was mostly composed in my head while i was stumbling through ottawa night clubs. i was going through a periodic dancing phase. something i've often found myself doing when i'm dancing is imagining guitar solos over the house or trance beats. i probably look like a crazy person, lost dwindling off into the twilight realm of my own secret thoughts, even blurting the notes out loud sometimes (memories  may be fuzzy, but i'd like to think i've avoided air guitars on the dance floor). i plan to create an entire record based more or less around that idea, so there will be more in the style coming, it's just that i have a list of stuff to get through first.

primatemaster
To try and explain that: There's a relentless and restless feeling throughout: at first oppressive, then panicky with associated disorientation, followed by acceptance/liberation/relief and wondering what comes next. (Yes, I wrote that during another listen.) Combine with a guitar sound that reminded me of music from BattlestarGalactica (Heeding Call going into a cover of All Along The Watchtower) and my mind said: music for freshly-self-discovered cylons.

In retrospect, cylons are not the important detail.

So, if 'interesting' is a polite way of saying 'nonsense', I can't argue. In my defense I was mildly concussed after a bike crash. Still like the track.

Dance / reaction from nearby people
Air guitar / 'She's on the good stuff, I want that'
Air drums / 'whatever she's on should be banned'

Listening to 'interplanetary isomorphism' a lot now. It's beautiful.

so, the next milestone is this track hitting 300 hits. it's been climbing slowly, but hits are up enough this month that it should be in the next day or two.

speaking of hits being up, i'm sort of afraid to mention it, because the last time i mentioned hits were down, they went way up. if i mention that hits are way up, will they come down? what exactly is going on here?

a few months ago, i pointed out that i was expecting the curve to start rising again in october. but my goal this month was 3000 hits, and i'm currently on track for something closer to 4500. every time it looks like it's going to fall a bit, it rises way higher. my average last month was 98. this month, so far, it's 142. if it keeps at this pace, i don't know what to expect for november - another flat line, an increasing curve or even a peak....?

but, right now, they're up very high leading into the demo switch over. i can only hope they stay that high as i switch gears and i didn't peak in 1996....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbNeNaff53Y&list=PL3JSjmqp0cbt7bpF1Br2dC4QlJzoOC6rF

ugh. fine.

blonding and maybe also redding tomorrow. it's been a while since i dyed....two years almost...it makes a big difference, though. my natural hair colour is kind of ratty looking, and there's not really any way to style it away.

i guess i've just been sitting in my room by myself. i've been to some shows, but they're the kind where i'd rather not get hit on by smelly indie boys. few incentives to care. i'm really not that vain.

it's been a while since i updated my profile pic, too. bloody patriarchy. but i'll play along for a few weeks...

i have the dye already, i've been meaning to, just never really got around to it.

it should be nice enough on monday, even, to go out in shorts and a tanktop.