January 2009

Don't Care What Matthews Has to Say

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The proclivity of left bloggers to embrace establishment figures when they say something agreeable annoys. For example, from the MyDD site (but I saw similar words elsewhere):

Only three years ago, Chris Matthews announced that the only Americans who didn't like the President were "real whack-jobs, maybe on the left."

But finally, on the eve of Bush's departure, Matthews finally summons the gumption to criticize our commander-in-chief.

Followed by a YouTube clip of Matthews spewing whatever hot air he spewed. Matthews is an asshole with a media megaphone that allows him to drown out the rest of us with his small opinions. He's not a menu with some good meals and some bad meals.

Also Bush isn't, and was never, our "commander in chief." Nor will Obama be. It's in the U.S. Constitution, duh.

thought

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A friend said he preferred ambient sorts of music and found drum and bass and so-called IDM too grating. Fair enough but those latter musics become fairly atmospheric at low volume.

"C64 Stabhop"

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"C64 Stabhop" [mp3 removed]

Am mostly interested here in the gravelly texture of the second synth voice that lags slightly behind the main voice. The lag is increased and decreased slightly throughout the song, or rather, demo. (C64 Stabs is a Sidstation patch.)

[Reuploaded and reposted--holy cow, how could I forget the dramatic minor key contrapuntal ending?]

screen captures cont'd

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wodzinski

From the Robert Wodzinski/pngmess flickr page.
Another screen capture example, with the brevity and clarity of a Paul Feeley '60s color field painting and the texture of tie-dyed fabric but you know it's a fragment of something: the red/green seam suggests a photoshoppy blurring.

This image needs a white space around it to work.

Update: Written in the style of Roger Fry, who described God, in a Renaissance painting he was lecturing about, as the "dominant central mass."

Update 2: The capture improves google's "arty" new favicon, which tries to be Miro but looks more like Sister Mary Corita, by giving it the Uta Barth treatment. That said, captures generally fare better as art when the references aren't topical or something to be "gotten" (or not gotten, in my case, before Paddy Johnson pointed out what it was).

"Minimal House Max"

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"Minimal House Max" [mp3 removed]

A very compressed "house" riff with overlaid tunes courtesy a Pro-53 preset called "Hot Bass" and some more dubby percussion bits.

Update, 2013: Replaced with a slightly louder version.