Saturday, May 28, 2016

27-05-2016: the final preparation steps for the final build of the aleph-0 disc.

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

unpublishing the bandcamp page

i've cleared this down to almost nothing (those three eps are second period eps and have prior downloads, so i can't set them to private.)

don't worry. it's just so i can organize the finalization process more cleanly. they will come up one by one. and, in fact, i'll post here when they do.

expect an average of one release/day until i catch up around the end of the summer, starting tomorrow. i'll lose a few days due to shows or groceries or whatever. that will push me through, one last time, from 1996 back to 2003, where i stopped last year. it will also let me generate the tree of the content for the alter-reality for the next eight years.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/
i've finally managed to circle myself back around to where i was about this time last year, which was finishing the aleph-0 disc. but i'm feeling that i need to throw myself back to the ground and carefully start from the beginning. that means i'm going to be posting absolutely final updates to the discography as they are completed. that should probably start tomorrow and continue forward for the next two-three months. when it's done, i'll finally be able to start working on the third period material (2003-2007).

starts rock band. cancels tour because he has to work.

so, i went to the trouble of ensuring i had both sufficient intoxicants and a colourful babydoll, and then the band i went to see decided not to show up.

"apparently, the drummer had to work."
"hey, it's a thing that happens."

(pause)

"he had to work?"
"yeah."

(pause)

ahahahahahaha....

ahahahahahahahaha....

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i had already paid customs, so what would be the use of going home without getting drunk? the reviews will be terse, though.

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this was the second time i've seen river spirit. last time, i suggested the rhythm section was kind of funky, but the singer wasn't really paying attention and the result was disjointed and discombobulated, but not in a good way. the suggestion was that maybe there's some divergence, there. on this night,  however, the band was actually pretty tight. she often took a step back from the mic to just rock out on the bass, instead. i don't know what changed between november and now, but it's just a more coherent and unified presentation.

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nokomis were a pleasant, but generic, indie/post-rock thing. they were having fun. it wasn't bad, either. it was just entirely forgettable.

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i didn't stay for much of the sax & violence set - the first fifteen minutes, or so. there was an electronic violin looking thing and a saxamophone of some variety. they took turns jamming aimlessly over some pre-programmed loops; they were really literally just fucking around. in theory, you could do something with that idea. but, see, you have to write some music first. by playing at the same time. i know. life is complicated.

here is the day's vlog:


http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2016/05/23.html