so, i just finished my first normal monthly cleaning in several years.

let's get to the alter-reality for the day...

...and there's every reason to think things can be back on track for monday.

so, it's already friday, once again.

i'm going to finish the cleaning first because i'm now inside for probably the next two weeks, straight. but, we're back to the alter-reality tonight - and potentially into the schedule for monday.

if i really want to replace the 440-IIs, it's going to cost me $750. minimum. i'll probably never have that.

i was hoping the 449s could replace the 440-IIs, but they never will. it's not even close.

they're alright through a big amp, but they need to be driven rather substantively, or you get that underpowered bass-heaviness. i can barely even tone them down from the alesis. so, they're just shelved...

that said, it's been a few years now, and the magnets might have dulled a bit. it's worth another try. soon.

if that's the case, and i can make sense of them, i may want to get a pair of 559s as backup, while i can. i can replace the cord in the 559s; i can't in the 449s.

yes - the 449s will sound better through a stereo amplifier.

but, that fact doesn't help when i'm walking around town looking for strawberries. 

well, i found a pair for $30 on wish.

let's hope that's fine for another 5 years.

i bought 449s and 201s at about the same time a few years ago, and i put the 449s on the shelf because the bass response was way too high. the 201s sounded way better - like, it wasn't even close.

so, i'm looking at a 559 and i'm concluding i'm going to have the same problem as the 449s.

i still have the 440-IIs and will use them for mixing. but, i want a flat pair for walking, too.

this is frustrating.

i've got some cash, so i'd like to buy some new phones to replace my beat up 201s, which i like precisely because they don't have an exaggerated bass response. i don't listen to bass-heavy music and don't want bass-heavy phones. it just ruins the mids, mostly - which is where most of the detail in the music i like is.

maybe i can try to find some 201s for now, but i understand what the problem is - people listen to everything on mp3, so the phones are designed to compensate. and, that's the market, now. if you want to listen to a flat signal, you need to pay for it.

https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/sennheiser-hd-206-review

so, i'm finally stopping here until next week.

i've worked backwards on the main bandcamp page to the 12/2013 journal, meaning the next thing in the list is the warning ep.

i've also filled in a skeleton of all of the inri numbers, from inri000-inri081 + expected completed releases until the end of 2005.

so, there is a very real shape here now, even though i still have thousand of posts to fill in. that means i can put it aside for now.

https://jessicamurrayreleasestimeline.blogspot.com/

so, i'm up to 500 entries here now and it's definitely taking on more of a shape, although i still have thousands of more posts to get through.

https://jessicamurrayreleasestimeline.blogspot.com/

i got over the hump i wanted to get over, but now i'm sleepy...

so, i'm enough of the way through this now that what i'm doing should be more obvious:

https://jessicamurrayreleasestimeline.blogspot.com/

that's what i did all night last night and have done all night tonight, too.

if the detail surprises you, it should go to show why i'm irritated at facebook - i had a very granular, detailed site that just got washed away underneath ui changes i had no control over. that should never happen at the blog, so i should never have to do it again.

and, i can back it up and upload it, hardcoded, if it does.

nah. 

that would just be obsessive compulsive, in the end. i'd be adding 8 versions of the same track on to the end of a download-only outtakes ep, so i could post a link to a blog.

on second thought, i'm going to just leave it the way it is, and i just won't have a direct link to this particular version, which has been deleted. that's fine.

so, i'm going to have to tack on a little mini permission single to the end of inrijected.

it's just something that got overlooked, and needs to be addressed. it won't take long...i'm just uploading it...

so, i woke up today to an almost clean apartment for the first time in years and i'm excited to make july the most productive month of all time.

the last thing to do is remove a fair amount of material and get it to the recycling depot - broken appliances, lightbulbs, batteries, etc.

tonight, it's back to work on transferring the facebook page to this blog:

https://jessicamurrayreleasestimeline.blogspot.com/

and, i went and bought all of that ram i was talking about.

- the 90s laptop only has 256 mb of ram in it, and that's not enough to run an html5 aware browser (which is required for youtube, nowadays). it can take 1 gb. so, i got 4x512 gb (to max it + a backup) for $10 a piece. and, then i'll have my tv back, along with a phone.

- i got 4x128 gb of sd ram as backup for the windows 98 pc. $10 each.

- 1 got 4x1gb of ddr2-800 as backup for the windows xp pc. $10 each.

so, that ended up being $120 + $20 for shipping. i had to pay the $20 shipping regardless, so it made sense to get it all at the same time.

and, hopefully, that's enough old ram to last me for the next 20 years...

it's a one-off thing and i've got the cash now so let's do it.

so, i'm finally done the meta-cleaning in here...

the big bookshelf will come in on friday (hopefully) and i need to do some running around before i settle in for july and do normal monthly cleaning. but, the headache of spring cleaning is finally done with and i can focus strictly on working, now.

so, the next thing is getting back to filing my drive. i think. let me double check that. i think i put it aside about a week ago to do the sealing.

see, i wanted to finish filing first and then do the sealing after, but i was running out of time to do it, so i had to do the sealing first, and now it's taken about a week to finish cleaning. the last music post was june 23rd.

so, yeah, that's right - now i need to get back to filing. but, i actually want to take a good run through the facebook page first and see if i can build the alternate releases blog up. so, i'm going to fast forward the alter-reality to today and then we'll do the running around on friday and saturday.

so, i should just focus on finishing the clean for right now and get to doing things on friday.

i mentioned before that it's just a handful of papers left. really. then i can get back to a normal once a month cleaning routine...

so, i spent friday sitting down and posting to the releases timeline blog (https://jessicamurrayreleasestimeline.blogspot.com/), and in the process rewound back to late 2017. i'm going to do a little more of this before i put it aside for next week.

what i spent saturday doing was finishing the cleaning i started on wednesday night. i've now got most of my books out of boxes and on to shelves for the first time since 2011, and the same is true of most of the cds. the last step is to cut some wood for the shelves, and i should be able to do that as soon as this annoying month-long rain storm passes. i have enough wood in the space for two shelves, and i'm going to need 6. that should be cheap.

getting the books and cds out is a step towards resuming the alter-reality (i know.), and a step towards the place being clean and normalized again. so, it's huge progress, even if it seems silly.

the rearranging and reordering in this place should be more or less done by the afternoon, which will let me sit back down and refocus.

so, i've got two fixed mixes from the art show demo ep up on the isomorphism ep. these mixes were normalized when burned in 2004, and i'm going to leave them that way. but, these are the original mixes:

1) file actually from 2003 (nulls with art show demo rips, after volume adjustment):

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/into-oblivion-art-show-mix

2) this was built yesterday morning from 2003/04 source to null with volume-adjusted cd rips, except for clipping in the initial track (from the normalization):

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/planetary-isomorphism-art-show-mix

that will probably be inri084, but i'll be sorting through that over the next few days.

so, what having a rebuilt version of the isomorphism from late 2003 means is that i can salvage a demo version for the single when it comes up. it's the same version as on the art show demo, but it's not normalized (which makes combining the three tracks i cut it into back into a single track very difficult).

mid 2004 was my first re-release phase, so i've now come to the first point in the discography where i started to look backwards and consolidate. while i didn't realize it then, i had made it through the second period of my discography and was starting the third period in earnest. to an extent, i was processing the process that sent me across the country on an absurd trip with no purpose; in that sense, period 3 doesn't really start until june of 2004, but it leaves that year (may of 2003 to may of 2004) as a lost space, where i was both finishing period 2 and starting period 3. the ftaa material that closes in june, 2004 is really period 2; the trivial group material started in late 2002 is really period 3. so, this was a transition period...

the re-releases will appear in the grid as stubs, and i'll try to be as comprehensive as i can be. i'm also going to want to put together some kind of compilation that collects the edits i created in that first moment of looking back, as there are enough for an ep, at least.

further, there were a number of mix cds created at this time that i tried to pass around in novel ways, such as exchanging for cigarettes (i got you to take my cd, didn't i?). i'm shooting darts in the dark with this stuff, and i've known it for years. they could have releases, as well.

but, the next serious release will be the isomorpshism single as inri084ish, so lining this up (which is what i did tonight) will set me up for any potential remixes that are coming.