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OH the point is, you should be myspace friends with me.

How do you do the thing where you make your profile look all crazy, like with different colors and whatnot?

I think this afternoon I'm going to go to the practice space and record some junk.

Will there be hot beats?

I also need to mix down the song I recorded on garageband a few weeks ago, which is called "Weirdo in the Yard."

It is pretty warm in our practice space.

xposts CSS and/or one of those custom "PIMP MY PAGE!" things.

where do you find page pimps?

I want my page to be all bright yellow.

I am thrilled that in CS3, you can create a Flash photo gallery with Photoshop. Automated! It exports the html, the images, thumbnails, javascript, and xml in a matter of seconds. People are going to shit when they see this. It looks like I did so much work!

http://www.pimp-my-profile.com/

Ok.
I started a St0ne F0x page a while ago, but couldn't figure out how to make my garageband/itunes aif files into mp3s. SO SAD.

Stuff like this http://www.newmyspace.com/

xpost exxxxxactly

I haven't gotten to play with any of the fun new CS3 features except for in Illustrator. And even then I really haven't done much. I do have a password for a 90-day free trial use of Lynd@.com related to all things Adobe, though... perhaps I should brush up.

MySpace suxxxx.

Get with it, grandpa.

I haven't worked on an original music for months. :( Mostly frustrated by not having the space/gear to record drums, because I'm kind of sick of cutting them up on the computer. Also sick of thin synth sounds and limited compositional skills.

But on the plus side, my partner in crime is moving back here from Chicago to work at a studio, so that might solve all of the above problems.

I haven't gotten to play with any of the fun new CS3 features except for in Illustrator.

The photoshop/flash/dreamweaver integration is v v impressive. It's a fantastic tool for web development.

I haven't worked on an original music for months. :(

Still making me sad, for the sixth straight year.

I haven't done much at all recently, been too busy with FF and wedding stuff plus no practice space for a while.

Now would be a good time for a National Solo Album Month type thing, where just doing a bunch of stuff (and fast) is more important than lasting quality.

Yeah, I have been playing a lot of gigs and practicing a lot, and historically I only start fucking around with recording when I'm not doing those things.

I just don't really have much time by myself, like ever. I write singles reviews and read books/magazines while I'm on the train, and I write blog posts at work (haven't been able to do that much lately since I've been busy).

Now would be a good time for a National Solo Album Month type thing, where just doing a bunch of stuff (and fast) is more important than lasting quality.

Ha ha, this is pretty much how I do any kind of musical project.

That's how I used to operate, and I kind of miss that mentality. I think it was easier when I was younger because I didn't know anyone else who was writing or making music and I was routinely amazed at the fact that I was actually creating a song that I'd just whip out the tape recorder as soon as I came up with a set of chords that sounded kind of cool.

My dream house would have a piano.

oh man, john. our apartment has a piano & we loathe it b/c it's taking up precious space. i wish i could give it to you!

I want a large, open room with bay windows and a baby grand with a fluffy white rug underneath. Like Randy Newman or some shit.

And rent you a grand piano and put some flowers 'round the room.

I only now just got that.

I never did.

Joni must've come into some money:

Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam,
Or maybe I'll go to Rome,
And rent me a grand piano
And put some flowers round my room.

Renting a room with a grand piano, in Amsterdam! That's the life.

Huh, Bruce Hornsbyberg's jazz album sounds pretty good. Weird.

christian mcbride and jack dejohnette? That sounds pretty darn good, yeah? There was never anything wrong with Bruce Hornsby's piano playing.

It was the mandolin rain that dragged him down.

In those clips there's some pretty cool use of a drum machine (+ Jack deJohnette) in the beginnings of some of the tracks (Solar, Camp Meeting).

(confession: I've never heard an actual Hornsby record)

We had a bbq for all employees outside this afternoon. It was catered! V nice!

ooh What kind of food?

They had hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken, and vegetable kebabs on the grills, toppings and sauces galore, potato salad, fruit, many different desserty things like cobbler, cheesecake, etc, lemonade, pepsi, no beer (which is weird because they always have had booze at these things before)... I think that's all I saw. There was a lot. I am very full and not too interested in working the rest of the afternoon :\

Me too. My coworkers and I all had Breyers AGAIN because we don't want it to go bad in the freezer (had it early this week for coworker's bday).

ed, did toby email you with drinking tips? i know he meant to...

temp testing is kinda hard. they actually had me do a typing test on a typewriter. which was weird.

That is weird! Maybe you will end up working for James Spader.

http://www.8by5.com/images/Westtown.jpg
http://www.8by5.com/images/bridgeport.jpg

OMG AWESOME

haha
waiting for north side

Smells like bread/chocolate is the best.

i don't think there exists a north/NNW side map yet. will post when it happens.

Word quiz: Identify a word that has the letters *STST* in the middle.