still unreleased inri093 updated to include track two

this is my incomplete 8th record. 

tracks 1-4 are essentially done, up to final touches. track 5 remains incomplete.

writeup to follow.

these tracks were written over 2002-2004 and reapproached in many phases from 2005-2022 before they were finally completed. as always, please use headphones.

disc one:

1. reflections 

2. all you need

3. interplanetary isomorphism

disc two:

4. xenophanes 

5. needlessly neurotic

released october 31, 2004

j - electric & acoustic & classical guitars, digital & analog effects & processing, ebow, electric bass guitar, electric mandolin, synthesizers, digital piano, electric air reed organ, flute, orchestral & other sequencing, drum & other programming, live drums, bowls, claps, tables, percussion, washing machine, sound design, cool edit synthesis, generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, soundscaping, loops, sampling, digital wave editing, voice, composition, production. more instrumentation is certain to follow as the recording completes.

"reflections" was written on megan's grand piano, but played into my computer using her old digital piano as a controller, which was, at the time, in my bedroom. i also borrowed megan's bass to record the middle part of "xenophanes". i played sarah's drum kit and sampled the result for "interplanetary isomorphism" and "xenophanes" because it was just sitting around, unused, in the living room. melissa's mini classical guitar, which was left in the apartment, was used for "interplanetary isomorphism".

sean does not appear on this recording, either as a performer or as a writer, but two of the sections of "reflections" were built on top of ideas that were inspired by suggestions he made regarding ideas for rabit is wolf songs.

i wanted to get out very early this morning to get some groceries, but i just crashed exceedingly hard not long before i wanted to go, and slept until around 20:00. i dunno. i'm awake now.

as mentioned, i want to give my sound card a try, given that the production machine seems mostly stable. so, i'm going to close a few thoughts with the asimov and get to that overnight.

i don't generally go anywhere on the 31st, and i don't care much for the holiday. it's basically a calendar error - the celebration is the solstice, and they got the day wrong. it's empty, meaningless, pomp. but, be extra careful about drunks on the road tonight... 

i spent last night mostly double checking items, making sure everything was stable and updating the indices.

this morning, i've got it updated to the end of section III.

this is super slow, because i'm rewriting a lot of it, and whatever the cause, it's required.

i'm missing a post from august, so i've rewritten it into the one that's still there. i vaguely recall rewriting it, but i feel like something was removed.

i've tried to reconstruct as many of the ideas from the missing post as i can.

the preface is appropriately updated:

https://thejournalofj.blogspot.com/p/preface-just-note-on-asimov-reviews.html

i've got more done that it seems, because i got those indices started. they're not posted.

this now has fairly stable versions of the first two and a half sections of the complete robot, as well as an added five page preface. i'll be double checking that tonight, and hope to get a new version with the rest of the third section of the complete robot up soon.

so, i've collected a few extra asimov posts and pulled them into a preface. i didn't realize what i was doing, at the time...

https://thejournalofj.blogspot.com/p/preface-just-note-on-asimov-reviews.html

it's probably better to get kids to reach in their reading than to keep them juvenile, and give them books below their reading level.

but, i'm not the first person to point out that i didn't understand much of what i read at that age, be it asimov or whatever else. and, i could hardly have been honestly expected to.

everybody's gotta learn, somehow. right? a lot of kids learn to read with asimov, only to realize they didn't actually understand what they were reading, after all. at all.

asimov was, first and foremost, a satirical author. i know that's not well understood, and it may be understood the least by his audience, or at least the part of it that's not dead yet. he was the last of the old guard, in that sense; wells and verne were also both, primarily, satirists. his writing is pretty much always more political than technical and almost never has exaggerated action scenes, making it very different than most of what is nowadays imagined as science fiction.

they're political satires set in outer space.

so, if it's there, it's going to be snarky - as everything he wrote was snarky.

i remember the broad outline of the foundation series, but it wasn't as heavy-handed as the robot series (which i realized even at the time was a marxist allegory, even if i couldn't articulate it) and i don't expect i got the tone right.

i mean, it's going to be similar to the eugenics slant, if it's there - i don't expect asimov to align with bernays.

but, i've already pointed out that asimov's concept of psychohistory is largely a sardonic joke about the usefulness of applied psychology, and there is some possibility that he may end up elaborating it into a satire of gramscianism, or a criticism of the approaches taken by bernays.

asimov was an elitist in a vague sense, but he was a liberal. he believed in democracy, and there's a very clear criticism of aristocracy and bureaucracy throughout his work. i'm not certain that this slant is going to be there at all, but if it is, i would expect it to be critical.

like marx, asimov might find himself frustrated with the inability of workers to understand what is in their best interests, but he is ultimately concerned about their interests, and not about the interests of the elite.

we'll see what comes up.

and, just tersely: is there some potential influence from edward bernays on asimov? is there a gramscian slant to this?

i'll be honest: it was a long time ago.

i'll look for it. it might be there. but, i'm not committing to it.

just a reminder.

inri075 is a live acoustic album that i want to mostly redo entirely. i want to fix the takeharu guitar first, and i need access to the alesis, at least, even if i don't use cubase - and i suppose i wouldn't need to, as it's one track. i bought a marantz condenser mic for this purpose.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/akousmatic-performances-live-compilation-lp

inri076 is almost done, but i want to add an experimental noise piece to the front of it:

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/all-you-need-ep

inr077 was recently digitized. i need to rebuild it in cubase.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-cassette-demos-ep

inri078 needs to be rebuilt from scratch, in cubase:

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-symphony-ep-single

inri079 is musically complete:

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/art-show-demo-alternate-lp

inri080 is musically complete:

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/like-divine-amoebas-ep-single

inri081 is musically complete:

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ftaa-lp

i wanted all of the data on my drive properly organized before i started on this, and i'll have to do that eventually, but i only have so much time...

so, as always happens with me and writing projects, what i wanted to be a short process has turned into a time consuming mess.

i have to finish what i've started. that's not optional.

but, there's an upside to it - i've been using the usb ports on the recording pc to transfer files back and forth (it's the production machine. it's where i'm typesetting.) and i haven't had any problems, yet. i've noticed some chokes that seem to be related to the video card, but i don't have drivers installed, and it's hard to tell if it's:

a) just what happens when you use generic xp video drivers. i guess this is probably an old problem now, but the generic xp video drivers were awful - you had to install a driver package or you'd get choppiness in scrolling and difficulties refreshing. but, the thing is that it seems to almost freeze at the same kind of points it was freezing at before, without the drivers installed. it's curious, but i think the balance of probabilities is that this is coincidental.

b) actually suggestive that the drivers are the problem, or

c) suggestive of an underlying hardware problem, either with the video card or with the slot on the board. i did swap slots a while back.

so, i'm changing this up a little.

it's the end of tuesday. i'm going to get as much of this done as i can before the weekend, and see if i can just do some music on saturday. i didn't want to do that, but i just keep falling into these time-wasting, cyclical traps that i can't get out of. i have to just do it.

if i can get audiomulch - which is the tool i'll be using to finish inri076 - to run on the m-audio card, that's some clues as to the stability of the underlying system.

i may have to remaster it later, but at least it's a step forwards. and, i have to do this very, very slowly because every time i think i've got it - ram, big drives, os, etc. - it reverts back to the underlying problem, that i can't figure out.

i haven't been outside since the 17th and right now don't expect to be out again until the first week of january. i'm taking d pills to counteract the lack of sunlight. and, i just want to get done what i'm doing and move on to the next thing.

i'm going to post this to archive it. it doesn't make sense to print it until the end, but i'll try to keep up.

posting the other is pointless.

index 2: concepts

30s culture  60s counterculture  allegory  arabs  automation  bezos, jeff  bohr, niels  callisto  canals on mars  china  climate change  corporatism  covid-19  democracy  descartes, rene  division of labour  dna  einstein, albert  elitism  europe  evolution  exponential growth  federation  floating point error  free market  freud, sigmund  gates, bill  genome  greeks  hamming codes  ibm  icke, david  imperialism  india  industrial revolution  irony  japan  jefferson, thomas  jung, carl  killer whales  king, stephen  kramer, cosmos  lacan, jacques  luddites, luddism, ludditism  magnetism  mars  marx, karl  mathematical psychology  maxwell, james  mechanization  misanthropy  moon  moore's law (moore, gordon)  multivac  musk, elon  nationalism  neo-liberalism  nuclear war  nuremberg trials  obsolescence  peer review  persians  pink floyd  probability  psychohistory  quantum computers  quantum physics  racism  religion  robots  russia  satire  sentience  slavery  smartphones  socialism  statistics  steinbeck, john  sun  surveillance state  theodosian walls  theory of art  time travel  turks  united states  venus  victorian england  world war two  yellowstone park (yogi bear)  zionism

1, 2  1  2  6  3, 8  1  2  2  3  1  1, 3-4  2  3-4  3  1, 6, 9  2-3, 5  2  2  3  1, 6-7  2, 5-6  1  2, 4-5  9  1  5  9  2  3, 6-7  9  9  3  3, 6-7  1, 3-4  6-7  5-6, 8-9  1  2  5  8  8  7  5  1, 3  2  2, 3  3  4-5  2  3, 8  2, 7  1  1  9  1  3-4  1  3, 5-7  5  8  3, 6-7  3, 6-7  1  4-5  4-5  9  4-5  2, 5, 8-9  1, 3-7  3, 5, 7-30 1, 3-7  3-5  8-9  1, 2  2, 8-9  3-6  4-5  3  2  3-4  6-7  2  6-7  6  1, 2, 5-7  1, 2  6-7  2, 3  6  2

ok, so i'm working on two indices. it doesn't make sense to add either until the end.

the first is just a list of stories:

that will fill out. it will be comprehensive,including the novels.

the second is an indice of concepts, to keep track of all the things i'm rambling about in the reviews:

i should be back to updating the document soon...

i thought i quickly updated the first two sections of the complete robot and tried to upload it last night, only to have to retrace my steps for the first section, yet again.

so, i've had to rewrite a few reviews, and change a number of words.

i can't prove they're changing, but i feel like they're changing. it's very strange, but i'll keep updating the posts, so long as i feel they can be improved by doing so. as stated, the logic is the same, either way.

ok, this finally seems relatively stable.

again - i don't know if it keeps changing, or i keep changing my mind, or perhaps even both. i've got examples of things i'm sure aren't what i typed, and examples where i caught myself and said "no, i wasn't clear.".

i have about a hundred more pages that are already written to update in this document. i was hoping it would be fast (the story of my fucking life...), but this is going to be painful if it takes me a week to get through five pages.

nonetheless, i'm going to try to move to the next section.

i'm just retracing my steps, it seems.

does it really keep changing or do i keep finding points to edit? every time i check my notes, it suggests that i'm editing and re-editing, and it's not changing, but it's not sitting well with me.

i gotta fix it. this is a shitty use of my time, but whatever.

it's now updated here, and i have to be clear: the reviews posted here are not final until they're updated to this pdf document and, even so, i might change them.

i have some ideas regarding what's going on. i wonder if somebody else wants to pretend they're me, which is just utterly pathetic, but i think it's happening, nonetheless. i wonder if the book publisher wants to edit the material, and i have to interject - this is not a wikipedia article. you have no grounds to edit a review, that's ridiculous. this is my intellectual property, not yours. and, i wonder even if whoever is spying on me isn't obsessed enough with their conspiracy theories that they think they're countering propaganda.

i'm writing a fucking book, you inbred retards. and, almost nobody is going to read it. ugh.

it's a very frustrating feeling to be convinced that your writing keeps changing, and not be able to prove it. it's disorienting. but, it's also incredibly upsetting.

it's for that reason that i have to just keep plugging at it, because i have to make the same decision, in the case of either possibility. if i just keep missing edits, i have to fix it because it needs editing, clearly; if the writing keeps getting edited by somebody else, i feel a moral responsibility to push against it as hard as i can. 

but, i get the impression that this could go on for a while.

this is a recent update, with many minor punctuation changes (punctuation i don't use keeps appearing), some replaced words (words i never use keep appearing) and a re-ordering of the two pre-foundation pieces, as the context is clearer if i place the imaginary before the hazing (even though the order of publication is reversed).

so, this has been a very painful process, that has required me to read and re-read and correct and sometimes recorrect these posts, but i have a short version to post here:

this has turned out to be time consuming, and i wish i was further ahead, but this is clearly required. what i can say is this: either my initial notes required me to edit them rather substantively (which is not usually the case.) or whomever the fucking idiot is that is editing this requires an editor, themselves.

i don't know if that will stay stable.

if it doesn't, i'll have to fix it again.

for now, note that i'm uploading the specific file, rather than the appendix. i'll upload the appendix eventually as one file when the journal fills in more.

so, that was a wasted week, but it's necessary. so be it.

i'm going to keep at it until i get through it.

if you're curious, the actual major influence in terms of how i've ordered my discography is dwayne goettel, and his endless alter-egos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Goettel

ok, i got that done.

i actually hope that it's useful.

i'm going to mirror it here, but i won't update this post further.

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this is a shorthand text discography.

inri #	human title	project name	type	dated to / written / material from	actual first release date	re-releases	date of last musical alteration
inri000	cassette demo #1	inri	demo	1996	1996	2013/2019	2013
inri001	cassette demo #2	inri	demo	1997	1997	2013/2019	2013
inri002  lp000	inricycled	inri	mix tape	1997	2013	2020	2013
inri003	inrisampled	inri	ep	1997	2013	2014/2019	1997
inri004	fuck the dead	inri	single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri005	skaters	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri006	useless	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri007	confused	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri008	hey, god	inri	single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri009	i did your mom	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri010	why	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri011	nope	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri012	i think i feel much better now	inri	single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri013 symph001	on sexual confusion in adolescence	inri	hybrid double ep	1998	2016	-	2016
inri014	schizoid terrorist	inri	hybrid double ep single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri015  lp001	inri	inri	lp	1998	1998	2013/2016/ 2020	2016
inri016	eat my fuck	inri	ep	1998	2013	2019	1998
inri017	the harsh truth is that only  stupid people wish for happiness	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
-----	the souls that create	various	compilation lp	1998	-	-	-
inri018	circus	inri	ep-single	1998	2016	-	2016
inri019 symph002	teenage jesus	inri	hybrid double ep	1999	2016	-	2016
inri020	boogeyman	inri	ep-single	1999	2016	-	2016
inri021  lp002	inriched	inri	lp	1999	1999	2013/2016/ 2020	2016
inri022	inrijected	inri	ep download	1999	2013	2014/2016/ 2020	2016
inri023 lp003	inrimixed	inri	remix lp	1999	2013	2014/2016/ 2020	1999
inri024 lp004	inriclaimed	inri	compilation lp	1999	2016	-	2016
inri025 lp005	inricited	inri	compilation lp	1999	2016	-	2016
inri026	too cold	inri	ep single	1999	2017	-	2017
inri027	gene-o's - a soundtrack for an italian brakfast cereal	inri	single	1999	2013	2019	1999
inri028	pop music (a tribute to carbon dioxide)	inri	single	1999	2013	2019	1999
inri029 symph003	warning	inri	ep	1999	1999	2013/2017/ 2019	1999
inri030	war	inri	ep-single	1999	2017	-	2017
inri031	liquify	inri	ep-single	1999	2014	2017	2017
inri032 lp006	inrimake	inri	covers lp	1999	1999	2014	2014
inri033 lp007	inridiculous	inri	lp	1999	1999	2014	1999
inri034	book it!	inri	single	1999	2014	2017	2017
inri035 lp008	ambient works vol 0	inri	mix tape	1999	2015	-	2015
inri036	let freedom ring	deny everything	ep-single	2000	2014	2017	2000
inri037	the curious george suite	deny everything	ep	2000	2014	-	2000
inri038	ignorance is bliss	deny everything	ep-single	2000	2014	2017	2017
inri039 symph004	acidosis	deny eveyrthing	ep	2000	2014	-	2000
inri040	curious george	deny everything	single	2000	2014	2017	2000
inri041 lp009	deny everything	deny everything	lp	2000	2000	2004/2006/ 2010/2014	2014
inri042 lp010	inrimoved	deny everything	outtakes lp	2000	2017	n/a	2017
inri043	stuck in the middle of an alley closing in on all sides	jjjjjjjjj	double ep single	2001	2014	2015/2017	2017
inri044	the time machine	jjjjjjjjj	ep-single	2001	2014	2015/2017	2017
inri045	j's adventures in guitarland	jjjjjjjjj	ep	2001	2010	2014	2001
inri046 symph005	the symphony of psilocybin induced madness	jjjjjjjjj	ep-single	2001	2006	2014/2015	2015
inri047	the intersection of two identical particles moving in completely opposite directions	jjjjjjjjj	double ep single	2001	2014	2015/2017	2017
inri048	to spin inside dull aberrations	the cynicide collaboration	ep-single	2001	2014	2017	2017
inri049	me, myself and the time i thought this was a good idea	rabit is wolf (w/ sean)	ep-single	2001	2014	2017	2015
inri050	existence	jjjjjjjjj	ep-single	2001	2014	2015/2017	2014
inri051	give em hell harry / strung out	ftaa	ep	2001	2014	-	2001
inri052 lp011	jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj	lp	2001	2014	-	2014
inri053 lp012 symph006	the wave	rabit is wolf (w/ sean)	lp	2002	2014	2017	2002
inri054	clarity	rabit is wolf (w/ sean)	ep-single	2002	2014	-	2014
inri055	9:46 outside the magenta box	rabit is wolf (w/ sean)	ep-single	2002	2014	2017	2017
inri056	time	rabit is wolf  (w/ sean)	ep-single	2002	2014	2017	2017
inri057 lp013	rabit is wolf	rabit is wolf (w/ sean)	demo lp	2002	2002	2004/2006/ 2010/2014	2002
inri058 symph007	trepanation nation	ftaa	quadruple ep single	2002	2014	2017/2018	2018
inri059	the imaginary tour demo	rabit is wolf (w/ sean)	demo ep	2002	2014	-	2014
inri060	atom's / taught to twist the affected so low	ftaa	ep	2002	2014	-	2014
inri061	untitled	jjjjjjjjj	triple ep single	2002	2015	2017	2017
inri062	la la la la	rabit is wolf (w/ sean)	ep-single	2002	2015	-	2015
inri063 lp014	jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj^2	jjjjjjjjj	lp	2002	2015	-	2015
inri064	flying	the trivial group	ep	2003	2015	-	2003
inri065	refractions	the trivial group	ep-single	2003	2015	2017	2015
inri066 lp015	electronic pieces in a primitive style	inri	compilation lp	2003	2017	-	2015
inri067 lp016	spoke	ftaa	outtakes lp	2003	2017	-	2002
inri068 lp017	period 2 update disc	jjjjjjjjj	compilation lp	2003	2017	-	2017
inri069 lp018	tetris	jjjjjjjjj	quadruple lp compilation	2003	2018	-	2018
inri070 lp019	thru	jjjjjjjjj	double lp compilation	2003	2015	-	2015
inri071 lp020	ambient works, vol 1-2	jjjjjjjjj	double lp compilation	2003	2015	2017	2017
inri072 lp021	orchestral works, vol 1	jjjjjjjjj	compilation lp	2003	2015	2017/2018	2018
inri073 lp022	chamber works	jjjjjjjjj	compilation lp	2003	2018	-	2018
inri074 symph008	reflections	the trivial group	ep	2003	2003	2004/2015/ 2017	2017
inri075 lp023	akousmatic performance	the trivial group	live lp	2003	2022	-	?
inri076	all you need	the trivial group	ep	2003	2022	-	-
inri077	bedroom cassette demos ep	the trivial group	demo ep	2003	2021	-	?
inri078 symph009	the lost symphony	the trivial group	ep-single	2003	2022	-	?
inri079 lp024	art show demo	the trivial group	alternate lp	2004	2004	2019	2019
inri080	like divine amoebas	ftaa	ep-single	2004	2021	-	2006
inri081 lp025	fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	lp	2004	2004	2021	2021
inri082 lp026	2004 summer sampler lp	the trivial group	mix tape	2004	2004
inri083	sandy hill updates lp	various	ep	2004
inri084 symph010	the interplanetary isomorphism	the trivial group	ep	2004
inri085	pre impressionist jazz punk	the trivial group	ep	2004
inri086	the spontaneous combustion of leonardo pisano	cycles/ second	ep	2004	2004	2019	2004
inri087 symph011	xenophanes	the trivial group	ep single	2004
inri088	{e}	the trivial group	2xlp	2004
inri089	cycles per second	cycles/ second	lp	2005
inri090	fragment to be completed	the trivial group	ep	2005
inri091	impressionist jazz punk	the trivial group	lp	2005	2005	2019	2005
inri092	stranded noise guitar demos	the trivial group	ep	2005
inri093	scholastic pieces	jjjjjjjjj	ep	2006
inri094	demos	proverbs	ep	2006
inri095	the crash	tetris	lp	2006
inrixxx	genesis			2007
inrixxx	percussive works			2007
inrixxx	shitzy guitar jam			2008
inrixxx	proverbs			2009
inrixxx	evil is a human construction			2010
inrixxx	grunge song #31415			2010
inrixxx	orb symphony			2011
	marion street demos			2014