when i did this years ago, i ran up against a problem with a guitar part and a keyboard part. they were occupying the same space in the spectrum. it would be most correct to say that they were melodically interweaving with each other, but they were both so heavily distorted that i essentially had to choose one or the other. otherwise, i'd just get a distorted mess.

at the time, i picked the synth part and every version since has had the synth part. but the guitar part is worth bringing back in.

so, i'm going to try and take the synth part up and down a few octaves. playing with it.

this is the last major thing i have to do with this. after that, i'm just setting levels for the last few parts.

i may also try and compress the distortion out of the synth part so i can get that interweaving effect. the problem is that they're both at disaster-zone levels of distortion. i play with harmonic overlays fairly regularly, but you simply can't do close harmonies through such a damaged sound spectrum....you get one or the other. must choose.

yeah. here's the thing. as far as existing capitalism is concerned, academics are a step down the ladder of uselessness from artists. at least artists make a product. academics are basically just collecting bloated welfare checks from the government.

so, you ivory tower types might want to be careful about those arguments. when it comes down to it, you're ahead of me in line for the market guillotine.

there's actually even been talk of the student loan bubble bursting....

it's really a matter of time before the lending institutions clue into the reality that they're giving out loans to people that can't pay them back. and, when that happens, and they pull the plug, the whole sector is going down.

the reality is that education isn't a way to anywhere, it's just a state sector economy. and it's not profitable. that's not sustainable in the economic system we live in.

so, let's be careful about what kind of ideas you're throwing around, alright?

no. no. stop. logic...

if people can't pay their loans back, it means there's not enough jobs. and, if there's not enough jobs, there's not a value in sending people to school. it becomes an unprofitable investment.

so, the logic of student loan forgiveness or reduced tuition does not exist. the logic that does exist is one of pushing people into service sector jobs, and returning higher education back to the upper classes.

with that, comes massive layoffs in the education sector.

trepanation nation (quiet isolation mix) (initial upload)

this is a bonus mix for the digital download that draws closer attention to some of the quieter aspects of the mix by removing the rhythmic components, leaving an ambient soundscape. track constructed on dec 5, 2014.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/11-trepanation-nation-quiet-isolation-mix

i got the school board to double check the files, and they sent me a document claiming i was angry about being adopted when i was in the second grade.

the problem is i wasn't adopted...

i guess it's predictable. it's a bureaucracy. my files are no doubt in there somewhere, filed under the wrong name or date of birth or something. finding them is probably not going to happen...

..and more than half of the files that do exist in my file seem to be for the wrong person.

hey, if my PERMANENT RECORD is fucked, yours very well may be, too. i just hope nobody's basing any decisions on this...