7598. Chris (c-76-99-55-118.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) –
13 Sep 2008 12:10:17
[ Drink and Draw ]
Oh, I just checked and I guess amarok is linux-only. I guess my excellent advice is useless to you. |
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7597. Chris (c-76-99-55-118.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) –
13 Sep 2008 12:07:59
[ Drink and Draw ]
Now I feel bad because I'm going to ignore the art stuff which I do not understand and am vaguely intimidated by and comment only on the music stuff which is more in line with things I know about.
Anyway, you should check out amarok - it is way better than itunes. It has lots of nifty features in this thing called the "context tab" where it will automatically fetch lyrics, information about related songs/artists, the band's wikipedia page, etc, for convenient looking at while you are listening to music.
But, most importantly, it has a "dynamic playlist" called suggested songs where you populate a playlist with some stuff and then it automatically fetches other stuff from your collection that last.fm says is related, which sounds like approximately what you want. I have found it to be good but not great. Definitely convenient for when you are lazy. |
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I dunno. I feel some kind of acceleration in anticipation of talking or some other kind of performance but I wouldn't call it nervousness. It's one of the reasons I tend to go fast at the beginning of a talk, until I catch the right pace. |
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i'm envious of your ease in front of an audience. i'm a blathering nervous wreck when i do it. when i was a kid i liked it though--funny how things change! you don't get nerves at all? |
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7593. Scott/Graue (ip70-179-119-114.dc.dc.cox.net) –
11 Sep 2008 09:27:18
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
I agree with all three of those two reasons, especially #2. Also, this reminds me of a poem I wrote about my poem-writing process. Hopefully line breaks work on here...
Some people edit;
I simply write a new poem
from scratch in a different way
and repeat until I get something
I like.
There's probably more
to be said about this
but I'll have to try again later.
Also, I want to hear your procedural noise. Seriously. |
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I really appreciate the positive comments everyone! And thanks for watching.
MK: Yeah, the kicking is funny, isn't it? I think when I'm standing and playing I have a tendency to jump and move a bit, but I was trying to make sure I stayed in front of the mic. The dance was subconscious. Like I said I do enjoy being in front of an audience generally speaking (I think that's pretty much always been true); I'm glad that comes across as stage presence!
C (&A): Hah. Those are moderately compressed with XVID, too; the originals are nicer still. I got a Canon Vixia HF100. I have been planning on getting a nice ENG-style HD camera like the XH-A1, so I can put a depth-of-field converter on it and shoot some really nice shit, but that thing is so old tech and I have been waiting for the next model to come out for all summer now, so I decided it would also be nice to have a tiny cheap handheld camera too anyway, and that makes me less annoyed and anxious waiting for this camera I believe will come out any month now. The HF100 is a great deal just this moment because it's only 8 months old, but Canon released an update to it a few months ago, and now just announced another update, but these updates are essentially only utterly pointless upgrades to the internal flash memory. A 16GB flash card is only like $40, but to get that internally it costs several hundred dollars. Why would you want to do that? Recommended.
S: Thanks! I'm sure I'll do it again (this is like a project for me now) and if I get a chance to record it I'll post them. If an obsessed fan (really you internet guys are the only fans, sorry) spills beans, I will censor it!
A: Lots of my songs these days are partial-capoed, or even double partial-capoed like Theme from Loss. The only special skill really is playing on or beneath the capo, the difficulty of which doesn't really increase with the number of capos. But I'm glad it looks notable because I want to not just be a regular ol' singer-songwriter. All three songs were pretty sped-up; IMO "Based On Your Mario Kart..." actually the least of all, or at least relative to how I usually play it these days. Your impression may vary. The secret project is indeed audio-related and is a many-month (or maybe even many-year, depending on how you look at it) ordeal, but it's not totally done so don't start holding your breath!
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7589. Tom 7 (h-67-100-47-111.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
10 Sep 2008 19:42:12
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that I'm an idea/concept sort of guy. I hardly ever refine and refine something. I think the two reasons are: (1) I feel sort of stymied without working inside some kind of conceptual boundaries. The paralysis of a wide open canvas. (2) If I keep working on something after I get sick of it, I think that sickness or tiredness manifests itself in the work and it's a major cost to bear, a cost that often does not outstrip the benefits of continued work. (3) Lots of stuff sucks from the get-go and there's no point in wasting more time on it, but something that's pretty good from the get-go is, well, pretty good even without polish. |
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That was pretty awesome, especially Theme from Loss (wow, those capos make it look hard to play, heh...), although Mario Kart Skills... was a bit on the "doubled tempo" side.
Could that secret project mean a Tom 7 audio-related thing that took more than a day to make?! Inconceivable... I don't know if I can possibly contain my anticipation, you know.
Also, what kind of camera did you get? |
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Cool, you actually did it! That's awesome. Post-Glacial Identity is the only one of those songs I'm really familiar with (read: have listened to over a dozen times) but they're all fabulous live.
Thank you for sharing the performance with those of us who couldn't make it to the open mic in question.
Also, yay for secret project. Can't believe an obsessed fan hasn't spilled the beans already... |
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I, too, enjoyed the cool poses and faces you made while playing your cool songs. |
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Those were fun, thanks for posting them. I also liked the leg kick, particularly where you almost knock over the guitar behind you.
Although, I hate to say the thing I was most struck by was the quality of your camera, but holy crap those avis I downloaded look nice. |
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that was great! bravo!
did you notice you tend to kick one of your feet backwards--it's as if part of your brain is saying 'we're running now?' or something like that perhaps--how interesting! :)
you have a great natural stage presence. has that always been the case--it sounds it from your blog post. |
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I like the "Elite Runners & Walkers" bit. No middle ground! |
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I mean, you had to do well with those nos.
You made mom and I very proud. |
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Well, first you have to save it somewhere, like in My Documents. Right click and "Save As...". Then you gotta get it in iTunes. You can do that by dragging the file from the folder into the iTunes window, as long as "Music" is selected in iTunes at that time. Ugh. Or, from the File menu, "Add File To Library..." and then find the file. Once it's in iTunes you add it to the ipod the same way you always do. I don't really know that step because the phone works differently from a regular ipod, I think. |
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7576. Mike Kenny (pool-70-19-243-36.bos.east.verizon.net) –
05 Sep 2008 20:03:47
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
as a deaf ear was a neat concept though. do you tend to find an idea stirs your creativity? i find manifestos neat, because i think 'what the heck will my art look like i if i use these rules?' the manifesto stimulates creativity. once i move too far down the curve of diminishing returns i suppose i start to look for a new concept.
i read somewhere an art theorist talking about how he felt there were two types of artists--one who sort of continually works out a piece of art, incrementally improving it, taking a long time--and the work can evolve from one thing to another, and then another kind of artist, who basically gets an interesting idea and cranks out the art work. the typology seems a little crude, but i found it fascinating nonetheless--AAD seems to have the concept-and-crank-it-out quality. Picasso was also put in the latter group by this author too. |
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7575. Tom 7 (h-69-3-248-133.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
05 Sep 2008 08:14:54
[ SIGBOVIK'd ]
I finally did post the Super Mario Bros. video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGI-GqAK9c |
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I would like to load Theme from msiegler on my IPod, How would a low tech person do that? |
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7573. Tom 7 (h-67-100-47-248.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
03 Sep 2008 22:09:09
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
If I'm gonna drive someone all the way to the airport then I am definitely picking the tunes!
Playing all the other albums at the same time would definitely make it hard to pay attention to the music I'm trying to perform, especially since that stuff is so familiar to me (and by now, if I'm playing all 27 or whatever albums simultaneously, there's almost certainly going to be a song playing that I actually like and want to listen to at any given moment). It would certainly work! But the idea is not to make it impossible to think about music, but just impossible to hear the music that I'm performing. Given how barely listenable AAD-14 came out, I don't think any additional handicaps are well-advised. ;) |
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Dammit..
That is an iTunes bug, in my opinion, that if you replace a file it won't necessarily update the ID3 tags, even if you modify (some) of them. I'll fix it tonight. |
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is theme from mseigler's build-your-own-id3-tag flavor part of your artistic vision? |
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Custom ringtone! And now I'm famous. |
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44th place out of 1183. Not bad. |
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Heh. Well I agree on the first few, though, they have a special place in my heart (and an occasional gem). I'm glad you stuck it through to this one! And thank you for the kind words about the album and the plugins! |
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