i have more subscribers in the last ten hours than i have views on the video i just uploaded.

youtube, you're fired.

no, seriously. whoever's pushing this model needs the boot. i've been through this. it doesn't require much thought to deconstruct it as nonsensical, and all i'm getting is empirical confirmation of that very basic analysis.

and, i know - i'm the product, right? it's how they sell it to advertisers, and they just expect everybody to conform to the system they're selling. but it defies reason, and the advertisers are going to figure this out, eventually.

that's the business world, right: fools selling nonsense to fools, who buy the nonsense because they're fools.

i should really just relax and enjoy my artist subsidy and not concern myself with it.

there is an upside to the subscriber count, i'll admit - the more subscribers you have, the higher your posts rank in the comment section. i have some ethical opposition to this, but so long as it's there, i can't complain about it. so, yeah, maybe i have 215 subscribers and apparently something like 20 of them are actually interested and it's annoying. but, they're helping me reach a larger potential audience and i should be grateful for that.

"subscribers! what's up with these weirdos? they say they want to get your videos in their feed, then they don't watch them. what's with that?"

regarding the three tracks shuffled out of tetris...

tetris wasn't ever really a real record, it was a collection of a bunch of half-finished ideas centered around the concept of being "techno guitar" music. they can't all end up together; they're located too far away in time from each other and there wouldn't even be enough space on a single disc for me to finish them all properly. these ideas will end up on records, but not all on the same record.

if i'm left with a collection of finished techy guitar tracks to release as a disc, i will name that disc tetris. otherwise, i will likely produce a new compilation that is strictly indebted to the actual idea and that will pay no attention to the chronology.

i also had the idea around the same time of taking my favourite club music and orchestrating it with guitar solos. i don't mean writing new songs, i mean taking pieces by idm artists and going to town with them. i've spent large amounts of my time jamming over techno records, so i'd like to capture it somehow.

it's a tricky thing to do right, as there's a careful line between using the beats as inspiration for guitar music and just sounding like "guitar karaoke". i will be careful to find the line when i get there. it may turn out that this concept is actually what becomes of the tetris record.

you can be certain that there will be tetris release, and it will be techy guitar music. it's just not clear what material will be on it, yet.

i'm going to introduce a 9:46 single as inri036.

the clarity single will be set up like this:

1) nov mix
2) zen
3) 2002 instrumental mix
4) 2002 vocal mix
*5) remixed vocal mix
**6) final instrumental mix

* will replace the existing rabit version. the vocals will be mixed a little quieter in some places, and the dynamics should be better. it will otherwise be the same mix.

** will end up on jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj^2 and will include some flourishes.

the 9:46 single will be arranged similarly.

lol. actually, no.

there's construction on the main street about a block from my place. normally, the bus would go right through there, but it's detoured quite a ways around due to the construction.

i'm going to be carrying a significant amount of wood home. i could handle a block or two, but it's simply too far to walk.

so, i guess i'll have to wait until the construction is done. it should only be a week or two.

guess i'll do laundry.

i mean, this shelf is going to hold nearly 2000 cds. i don't have that many anymore, but i'm thinking ahead. there's five lengthy pieces of wood and 22 shelves involved. i can't be walking over a kilometre back with it.