Saturday 10th of March, 2001
Not much to report, really. I get up at the normal time, do my sitting and have breakfast and then start playing with the keyboard. I'm writing strange formless little post-rock/techno things, adding plugins until Cubase crashes and I can't open the file again. This takes me all the way to lunch.
After lunch I just sit around like a zombie. I listen to disc one of Heavy ConstrucKtion - some of the versions have a sort of directness that the album version doesn't. It's all very dark though, particularly knowning that they aren't very dark people. It's probably very good to have a record of this experimental digital rock band - after the European tour on which it was recorded, the strict use of digital drums was slackened somewhat (also, the band expanded the repertoire to include Red and tracks from Discipline). The sound we hear on this album is, effectively, what came through the PA and monitors - it's been tweaked and edited, but not recorded over microphones. So - one set of signals, into the mixer and distributed equally to the PA, monitors and the ADATS the were used to record the live sound. I'm surprised more has not been made of this.
You can hear more of Mastellotto's electronica stylings. I hope they go further in that direction for the new material.
I check out websites that explain Zen Sitting Meditation, to try to improve my morning Sitting. First, I need a cushion. Second I need to find better diagrams - I stare at these for a very long time, but they don't tell me anything new. I can't see what the people in the pictures are doing that I'm not (or nt doing that I am). If I sit cross-legged, after a relatively short time - five or ten minutes - one of my legs goes to sleep. I was hoping that zen could help me in this. But apparantly not.
People ringing my buzzer - my buzzer has always been (by some mysterious selection process that I wasn't party to) the "generic" buzzer for the flats. If there is any doubt, people hassle me. So I've taken to ignoring it. So they either buzz more or go away. Today was a "buzzing more" day. I checked - it was a "wrong number".
Pah.
I debate whether to put the television on, watch the DVD of Gladiator with Ridley Scott Explaining Everything (like how much Historical Accuracy they had to make up) or not. Not wins out.