there, that's starting to look a little more like something that's fit to call my own....
there's a first-five-minutes temp mix going up to the scratchpad. that first five minutes (no death involved, here) is essentially done. what's left to do is imagine the drum parts and then find a way to create them.
i went with a glitchy post-rock idm approach with this - the drums are live, but they sound cut up. i've always liked that. i've mentioned a few times that what ended up writing this track was some digital corruption that happened in the demo, and caused the guitar to stutter. i glitched up the bass and organ parts (bass especially) to react to it, and now i've glitched up the drums.
it's a strange combination, as it's sort of a "nice" track, but all weird and glitchy. that's something i always wished glitch would have approached with a bit more zeal. i mean, the broken equipment thing was fun and all, but why not break an entire song? few people really did.
i'm leaving myself open to criticism from the dimwits on this, but fuck 'em.
ok, the drumless mix is fixed for now - maybe minor tweaks coming but it sounds good. i got practiced up on the drums...
it's not like i can't play the kit. for an intuitive player, i think i'm actually pretty talented at it. but i have no training so it's just sort of flailing around in these abstract breakbeats. i actually want to take advantage of that for this track....
i want to stop at 7:00 for the neighbours, so let's see what i can get done in two hours.
it's not that loud, really, i'm just being overly sensitive about it.
high school records are apparently shredded, but junior high school records apparently aren't? i think one of them is wrong. they always told me the file was permanent. hrmmn. i've got stuff being forwarded, will see how that plays out before i start calling to find out...
this is going to go in your PERMANENT RECORD.
well, listen, i'm not really one for the surveillance state and shit, but when you're dealing with information that suggests a pathological condition, i think it really should be permanent. if it's shredded, that doesn't help me - and if it was worse than it is (mild vandal-type pranks, mostly), it wouldn't be in the interests of society, either.
i mean, i was always very careful and very cognizant of the well being of people around me. there were circumstances where i stood in between things happening in order to prevent harm, but nothing where i ever put anybody's safety at risk. the overriding driving force was mostly that i found the vandalism comical. what the behaviour demonstrates is more a conscious desire to flaunt rules - and some political activism, actually.
i enjoyed defacing student council propaganda, for example.
unfortunately, the really nasty pranks were mostly never uncovered. the master prank was probably the time i blew up the school mascot (with military grade dynamite) and placed it back where it was, and nobody ever caught me for that. they installed cameras in the school afterwards, but they never busted me for the best of them.
i think probably the worst situation i got caught for was the time i took the screws out of the exercise equipment in the gym, so that when buddy six-pack football dude got on the exercise bike it fell apart underneath him. that's the kind of thing that characterizes the file, if i can find it. was it funny? that's up to interpretation. the dude that sat on the bike thought it was funny. it's certainly anti-social.
the reality is that it got to the point that the school stopped providing evidence. it didn't feel the need to require it. when a prank happened, it was understood i was responsible. nobody else would have done these things. i suppose i could have been badly framed, but never was.
so, it's less that i "got caught" and more that i was obviously responsible...
....kind of a "j strikes again" type of thing...
it's a huge file, if it's out there, probably with all kinds of things i've completely forgotten about.
and, in my defence, i often caught the principal suppressing laughter. most of it legitimately WAS comical.
it's actually the same school dan aykroyd went to, and that was brought up to me more than once.
