10.06.2008
10.05.2008
It was another "lost weekend" for me. Very little of it will be remembered other than what is chonicled in the Acid project I got lost in. It wasn't even a "new" project...I just decided to do some things with the last one, "Snow White 8 Ball". What I've come up with is an elaborate 15 minute piece that earns it's title, "Snow White Suite". Yesterday when I posted the link for "8 Ball" I said that I thought it was the best thing I've down with the program so far. But now that I've caused it to evolve into a sprawling head trip of mammoth proportions I must update that opinion and let it be known that I am more impressed with the Suite.
I haven't uploaded it to garageband yet...there are still a few tweaks I want to get done before calling it "good". I'm tempted to enter it into the review process...maybe I should. So what it if it's twice as long as "Stairway to Heaven"? There's hardly a dull moment to be found, so everyone who is gonna say "Well, it's a little longish" can kiss my ass, because when you get as deep into the sonic mind as I have in the first two minutes of the song you can afford to extend the journey.
I haven't uploaded it to garageband yet...there are still a few tweaks I want to get done before calling it "good". I'm tempted to enter it into the review process...maybe I should. So what it if it's twice as long as "Stairway to Heaven"? There's hardly a dull moment to be found, so everyone who is gonna say "Well, it's a little longish" can kiss my ass, because when you get as deep into the sonic mind as I have in the first two minutes of the song you can afford to extend the journey.
10.04.2008
With every new Acid project I do I try to improve over the last one. I think this new one that I've just finished is the best one I've done so far.
I got a chance, in this song, to use the Joni "Festival" loop that I made a while back. They make their appearance about 2 & 1/2 minutes into the song.
Enjoy, and few crying out loud send me some feedback.
I got a chance, in this song, to use the Joni "Festival" loop that I made a while back. They make their appearance about 2 & 1/2 minutes into the song.
Enjoy, and few crying out loud send me some feedback.
10.03.2008
10.02.2008
Last night I decided to eat at Pizza Hut for dinner on the way to Wal-Mart. I was by myself. When I got there I placed my order for a Sausage Italiano pasta and a one trip salad bar. The waitress asked me if I wanted the family size or the personal size. I WAS ALONE. I'd already told her, when I was first seated, that I was dining alone. Did she really think I could eat the big size pasta all by myself? She took my order and I got my salad. The main reason I like Pizza Hut so much is because they have the best ranch dressing I've ever had. I don't usually even eat ranch dressing, but I can't get enough of theirs.
It was a pretty big salad, and it took me some while to eat it. I ate slowly in hopes that my main dish would arrive as I was finishing up. I have found that if you wait too long between appetizer and main course you will lose your appetite. Which, I suppose, would be a good way to lose some weight if you could be satisfied with just the salad every single time.
I wanted more last night. So it was with a great deal of annoyance that I found myself still waiting for my Sausage Italiano pasta 15-20 minutes after the salad was long gone. The waitress came and took my plate, which I took as a good sign that my meal was soon to come.
It was not. I waited another 20-25 minutes and I was long past the point where I felt like a dolt for hanging around for so long. I seriously considered just getting up and walking out. Most likely I would have gone to the register and informed them of the situation, that they could just forget the whole thing.
It must have been at least 45 minutes after I walked in the doors and still I had no food on the table. Next thing I know the waitress is coming back to the table. She was NOT carrying a plate of pasta. This did not look good.
"I'm sorry, sir. The kitchen staff has been backed up and they've just now got your pasta in the oven, so it will be just a little while longer."
I watched the kitchen area for a good portion of the long time I was there. From all appearances they were anything BUT "backed up".
I began to scoot out of the booth and I told her, "No, I'm not going to wait any longer. Just tell me how much I owe you for the salad and I'll take care of it before I leave."
She said she would take the salad off of the ticket, and I went my merry way, belly only half-full.
I don't know who was at fault. The waitress? Had she not written the order out correctly? Was it the kitchen staff? If it was, I guarantee it wasn't because they were too busy. Not from the number of people there in the restaurant and it didn't look like they were sending out too many pizza deliveries. So who knows. Who cares?
There are two Pizza Huts in Shawnee and I have had problems with both of them now. I won't patronize either of them for quite some time, per my established policy of temporarily banning eateries that provide dismal service. Now if I want that delicious ranch dressing I guess I'll just have to go to the one in Seminole. I haven't had any trouble there, although there is a waitress with a bad attitude.
On another, unrelated note...the check-out lines at Wal-Mart, when I first arrived, were ridiculously long. I have never seen them so long, not even during the Christmas season. I could only assume that it was due to people panicking in the wake of the dire financial situation the country is faced with right now. The assumption seemed to be confirmed by the sheer amount of food items that were out of stock. The check-out lines had dwindled significantly by the time I was ready to leave, but, man, it's scary.
It was a pretty big salad, and it took me some while to eat it. I ate slowly in hopes that my main dish would arrive as I was finishing up. I have found that if you wait too long between appetizer and main course you will lose your appetite. Which, I suppose, would be a good way to lose some weight if you could be satisfied with just the salad every single time.
I wanted more last night. So it was with a great deal of annoyance that I found myself still waiting for my Sausage Italiano pasta 15-20 minutes after the salad was long gone. The waitress came and took my plate, which I took as a good sign that my meal was soon to come.
It was not. I waited another 20-25 minutes and I was long past the point where I felt like a dolt for hanging around for so long. I seriously considered just getting up and walking out. Most likely I would have gone to the register and informed them of the situation, that they could just forget the whole thing.
It must have been at least 45 minutes after I walked in the doors and still I had no food on the table. Next thing I know the waitress is coming back to the table. She was NOT carrying a plate of pasta. This did not look good.
"I'm sorry, sir. The kitchen staff has been backed up and they've just now got your pasta in the oven, so it will be just a little while longer."
I watched the kitchen area for a good portion of the long time I was there. From all appearances they were anything BUT "backed up".
I began to scoot out of the booth and I told her, "No, I'm not going to wait any longer. Just tell me how much I owe you for the salad and I'll take care of it before I leave."
She said she would take the salad off of the ticket, and I went my merry way, belly only half-full.
I don't know who was at fault. The waitress? Had she not written the order out correctly? Was it the kitchen staff? If it was, I guarantee it wasn't because they were too busy. Not from the number of people there in the restaurant and it didn't look like they were sending out too many pizza deliveries. So who knows. Who cares?
There are two Pizza Huts in Shawnee and I have had problems with both of them now. I won't patronize either of them for quite some time, per my established policy of temporarily banning eateries that provide dismal service. Now if I want that delicious ranch dressing I guess I'll just have to go to the one in Seminole. I haven't had any trouble there, although there is a waitress with a bad attitude.
On another, unrelated note...the check-out lines at Wal-Mart, when I first arrived, were ridiculously long. I have never seen them so long, not even during the Christmas season. I could only assume that it was due to people panicking in the wake of the dire financial situation the country is faced with right now. The assumption seemed to be confirmed by the sheer amount of food items that were out of stock. The check-out lines had dwindled significantly by the time I was ready to leave, but, man, it's scary.
10.01.2008
Music Video of the Week: Joni Lamb & the Daystar Singers
Okay, okay...I promise this will be the last Joni related post for a long, long time. Pause the Sigur Ros jukebox before "getting your praise on".
"Gonna Lift You Up"
Joni Lamb & the Daystar Singers
Joni Lamb & the Daystar Singers
If my Stat Counter is to be trusted it would appear that the anonymous hater who made the comment I've been dissecting is from Pensacola Florida. Someone else from Ft. Smith, Arkansas spent 15 minutes on the page today. Whoopee! Maybe my "Joni" posts will get more exposure. I hope so, they are pretty funny. IMHO, of course. :)
I think all the offending material is on the June 2007 archive page. Here's a direct link, so you can go there and have a laugh at the sheer unforgiveable cruelty of my sarcasm.
I think all the offending material is on the June 2007 archive page. Here's a direct link, so you can go there and have a laugh at the sheer unforgiveable cruelty of my sarcasm.
Okay, I didn't have time to say anything about the comment I received yesterday, but now I'd like to respond.
The comment (which was made on THIS POST):
"this is not of god...what are you doing on daystars space /////unbelieveable cruelty..."---Anonymous
First of all, WHAT is not "of God"? The post? The whole blog? What do you mean by "of God"? Not saying that it is, but if it's not, then why not? What are the qualifications of being "of God"? What God? Whose God? Am I to be chastised for writing a blog that is "not of God"? Have I failed in my commission from the Almighty? It's a PERSONAL BLOG, for Christ's sake. It's meant to be a reflection of ME, what I am, what I enjoy, what I'm doing...it's certainly not a public relations vehicle for the Lord. How many blogs out there in cyberspace do you consider to actually be "of God"? Why should they be?
Perhaps you got the wrong impression from my "About Me" blurb. I'll be changing it today so that zealots like yourself will not get a false impression of what I am doing here. But before I do, let me try to explain what I mean with it:
~~~God experiences ALL through ALL that He is and ALL that He has created. This blog is my journal of the microscopic portion of ALL that He experiences through me.~~~
I think that it should be obvious here that I am not speaking of the God that the Daystar crew promotes (since you name-dropped them I will assume that your point-of-view is somewhat aligned with theirs). The "God" I believe in is both creator and created, and as such he experiences himself through his creation. That's why he created us. He is ONE. ONE cannot experience itself because there is no point of reference for which it can do so. God's will was/is to experience himself/herself. He is in everything because he IS everything. When I say that this blog is just a little bit of what he experiences through me that's exactly what I mean. Anyone who writes a personal blog is doing the exact same thing: sharing their little slice of what he experiences through them. For some reason we have a desire to publish our thoughts/opinions on the Internet where there is a chance that many people will read them.
Okay...now I want to know what is "daystars space"? How did I get here? Trust me, I'd rather not be in "daystars space" and if that's where I am then I hope someone will come along to get me the hell out of here.
Perhaps you are thinking of the "stories" I've posted using certain Daystar celebrities in fictional situations. Or maybe even the posts where I criticize the religious snake charmers who pander their crack pot doctrines on networks like theirs and TBN, etc. Regardless, I am completely in the dark as to how I've written anything that might be considered as "unbelievable cruelty". Yeah, I've been sarcastic. I've been negative about some things. But CRUEL??? I'm sure I'll never hear from you again, but it would be nice to know where I've been cruel. Just like I'd like to know why my blog should be "of God"...not to mention how the fuck I wound up on daystar's space. Trust me, if I was on daystar's space Joni would not be with the Daystar Singers this afternoon. She'd be in her snazzy dressing room with me, locked in a passionate embrace, laughing at her effeminate husband and groovin' to Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing".
The comment (which was made on THIS POST):
"this is not of god...what are you doing on daystars space /////unbelieveable cruelty..."---Anonymous
First of all, WHAT is not "of God"? The post? The whole blog? What do you mean by "of God"? Not saying that it is, but if it's not, then why not? What are the qualifications of being "of God"? What God? Whose God? Am I to be chastised for writing a blog that is "not of God"? Have I failed in my commission from the Almighty? It's a PERSONAL BLOG, for Christ's sake. It's meant to be a reflection of ME, what I am, what I enjoy, what I'm doing...it's certainly not a public relations vehicle for the Lord. How many blogs out there in cyberspace do you consider to actually be "of God"? Why should they be?
Perhaps you got the wrong impression from my "About Me" blurb. I'll be changing it today so that zealots like yourself will not get a false impression of what I am doing here. But before I do, let me try to explain what I mean with it:
~~~God experiences ALL through ALL that He is and ALL that He has created. This blog is my journal of the microscopic portion of ALL that He experiences through me.~~~
I think that it should be obvious here that I am not speaking of the God that the Daystar crew promotes (since you name-dropped them I will assume that your point-of-view is somewhat aligned with theirs). The "God" I believe in is both creator and created, and as such he experiences himself through his creation. That's why he created us. He is ONE. ONE cannot experience itself because there is no point of reference for which it can do so. God's will was/is to experience himself/herself. He is in everything because he IS everything. When I say that this blog is just a little bit of what he experiences through me that's exactly what I mean. Anyone who writes a personal blog is doing the exact same thing: sharing their little slice of what he experiences through them. For some reason we have a desire to publish our thoughts/opinions on the Internet where there is a chance that many people will read them.
Okay...now I want to know what is "daystars space"? How did I get here? Trust me, I'd rather not be in "daystars space" and if that's where I am then I hope someone will come along to get me the hell out of here.
Perhaps you are thinking of the "stories" I've posted using certain Daystar celebrities in fictional situations. Or maybe even the posts where I criticize the religious snake charmers who pander their crack pot doctrines on networks like theirs and TBN, etc. Regardless, I am completely in the dark as to how I've written anything that might be considered as "unbelievable cruelty". Yeah, I've been sarcastic. I've been negative about some things. But CRUEL??? I'm sure I'll never hear from you again, but it would be nice to know where I've been cruel. Just like I'd like to know why my blog should be "of God"...not to mention how the fuck I wound up on daystar's space. Trust me, if I was on daystar's space Joni would not be with the Daystar Singers this afternoon. She'd be in her snazzy dressing room with me, locked in a passionate embrace, laughing at her effeminate husband and groovin' to Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing".
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