Sorry to geek out - not sure if it's been posted but here is something that's got me sprung.
A 99$ pretty open tech and wicked way to use your old turntables to scratch and play video/audio files and more...
you see mspinky is a module that analyzes the audio signal coming from a mspinky vinyl (some kind of sawtooth waveform) depending on the signal, it can tell the speed of the record and the direction. What you do with that information is up to you - you can use it in your own programs (check out Torq ) so - You can also connect it with Max/msp and use it to control loops etc , or with Jitter to control video files...
This month was the New York City Asian Film Festival - This month is the Japanses Film Festival.
I saw Dasepo Naugthy Girls (KR), The Banquet(CH) and Death Note(JP).
Dasepo Naughty Girl is a brilliant movie - It's a clever presentation of taboos in Korea, entirely based around a group of young people of different economic levels. It comes complete with cycloptic misfits, transvestite businessmen gangsters, trangenders, dancing sexual engergy cult leaders, principals possesed by dragon wanabees, rich Swiss raised Korean exchange students yodeling, Nintendo playing Johns and dancing pink clad pixies!!!! Go see it rent it download it get it.
The Banquet - wow. You have to see this movie.
Death Note - Desu Noto - Based on the mega selling manga series. This was the fist showing in new york city - complete with an introduction by the director. I didn't know what to expect, but I liked the movie, I have to get my hands on the real deal , the movie was good but it had to condense what amounts to about 7 series worth of the story into the movie...
"L" I thought was a great character, but Light is something else, even going as far as planning his girlfriends death for his own gains...
I decided to learn Korean formally so that I can stop sounding retarded.
Hangul is a brilliant phonetic writing system that was invented to replace the 15,000 or more chinese characters that were in use only by the academic and the nobles. It's so easy I learned it in a weekend.
Something clicked. I am learning fast now. I have to make space for it - The French, Moroccan Arabic, Italian, German and English have to move over !
Korean is pretty easy to type since syllables are so distinct.
Here is a preview of the great films that were shown during the NYAFF
If i remember from the pentagon days Michelle had a friend called Jennifer Schum** something... she now works for the N.O childrens museum??
I'm walking into the engineering school and there she is on CNN talking about the N.O.C.M. Xmas tree...
Well, spring is here. NYC is alive again. I thought it was never going to end. This winter was not as bad as the last one although my face did peel and my hands cracked and bled for the entire season.
I have to say. I am feeling the spring more than ever this year which is odd since it's my 29th...is it a coincidence that I now live on Spring Street? Weird.
Anyway Soho is like the vortex of beautiful people and tourists, especially where it crosses Broadway.
Enough of my spring ramblings ! -
Anyone who is on Killoggs who is in NYC it's time for the 1st annual get together. I am working 4 jobs and I barely have time to see the sun, but damnit I will see my friends!!! (sorry I have been like a rat, going from job to job, and emerging from the subway or basement studios only to eat and sleep). Yeah still doing the Columbia Uni thing, working at the founder of VH1's studio and my own studio in Sohizzle + launching my retail store, shit is insane - still spring is here, so lets meet up peeps!
So lets get together at Max in the east village and eat some bangin Italian for a decent price.
hit me up via Killoggs -
I'm getting bored of life.
I'm getting bored of NYC.
Music doesn't move me that much and people don't inspire me at all.
I guess I was named Jad, because I was destined to be a JADed ass fuck.
So where to now.
I've taken to many trips in my head to go back there,
The world is so fucked up, who wants to travel anywhere now anyway.
Sometimes I thik I should sell all my gear get rid of my apt and go nomad for about a year or two. That has always sounded cleansing to me, yet for some reason, that just makes me think of being broke and stinky. I lived like that at LSU for way too long to go back to that, besides, broke and stinky in the third world means you're fucked.
So travelling out there is not an option either.
Do I go back to academia and research or some kind of recording school?
Maybe, but then I'm stuck againhere and stagnant.
So where to now...
Sometimes I wake up and think; "man I'm lucky, I'm young, I'm cultured, I have a job and I'm in New York Shity - what else could I want?"
I could want to slide a probe in my brain and erase about 5-6 years of the past...oh and while I am at it, I'll go ahead and destroy the part of my brain that controls my desire - material or otherwise...
No, no... that's hard to do...I might damage something else.
So, do I travel within the U.S? ... Maybe, but that's like more of the same.
Maybe to Europe.
Do I go back to baton rouge or my home of Canada? No...I left for a reason, I am not going back...
My only escape is now just a bitter set of broken dreamscapes and memories. I can't even make music without falling asleep... Djing is like...pulling the teeth from the rotten corpse whos festering tissue has oozed and stuck to my memories...
so much for doing music - fuck music - I hate that bitch - Im breaking up with her too.
So where the fuck to now...
No matter where I go, I'm still stuck with me...I guess in 20 years this wont mean much, this ... this feeling of desperation, but in 20 years, if i am still alive, will I just have build more layers of catastrophy onto the hiddeous and deformed foundations of my inner self?? Will I then watch this edifice of human misery come crashing down once more?
so where am i going with this? i dont know....I guess im not
Spring is here. New Yorkers are emerging from their burrows. I love the city however, I hate winter.
I hate most things these days.
There has to be more to life than concrete and prada...
Well, I am pretty happy. I can stop strugglin'. I am still moving to Brooklyn though. My friend has a huge loft, where I can be super LOUD and bang the f'in walls. I like the Upper East Side, but the place I'm moving is just as far into 14th street as I am now. My commute to W 120th is about an 1.5 hr from Brooklyn to work. However I will be saving $ living in Brooklyn.
Well I hope everyone is having a good new year too. I think 2004 will be cool.
Good luck and stay strong - oh yeah, take risks.
daje
Happy holiday season friends...It's been a while. Sorry I missed Ben and Josh's visit to the NY. I would have loved to see you two. Josh, thank you for bringing me to NYC my very first time, I am forever in your debt!
So after 3.5 months in New York I am working at Virgin...yeay! -riiiight...on a brighter note I am going to be working at a studio in soho after the new year.
www.grasshutproductions.com
I will be doing sound engineering and part of the production team. This will be project based so I will have to keep another job - damn!
Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed in Baton Rouge at my nice high paying corporate job, then I get flashbacks of my xboss on one of his tyrades about cultures he has never experienced and the hordes of homogeneous abercrombie &feltch fodder. Needless to say it is refreshing to be in a diverse population.
In the sphere of music, NYC is more than I ever imagined. Working at virgin, I see all the heads come in for plastic crack. I must add that this crack generates 1 store $230K per day on average. Virgin sees more than $1.5M through the registers weekly. In dance music, I am seeing the trends, the commercial cheese of course is selling like crazy. Outkast is truly cross cultural now, everyone buys their album, old, young, purple, orange... they did it and thats the key to selling records...
I hope every one has a good and safe xmas.
So its like 2.x years over due but tomorrow I'm driving to NYC to start the Noiz.
After much saving and planning I have rented a little apt on E96th and 2nd Ave.
I don't got a job - yeahhh - but I will find one pretty fast _ I hope
If you are in NYC hit me up and let me know where you are and we can meet up and grill pigeons or feed on the homeless in Manhattan.
I will definitely see Kiche there, I'd like to meet up with Michele, Craig and Victor.
Peace!
I have it....the Roland tr-909 the true Analog drum synth...evil grin..
It sounds so crisp and meaty.
Work suX
Baton Rouge so, so
Music is kicking ass,
I have a 12" coming soon on a german label called Rampe-d dirty underground hard banging shite, and Im working on my own label, Arzamas-16 Recordings focusing on noizecore, experimental and sonic terrorism...in reaction to all the Britney Spears fluffy techno out there...
To all the peeps on here I know, a big Oi! and all the people I dont know, Oi! too.
peace.. let me know whats been happening..
Ok, I know some of you here,
Gen, Josh, Ben, Mary? from the pentagon daze? Craig the artist?
Kiche, Jeff, Kaycee, Mr Koenig, and Heather (Nelson's sister I presume?). But Id like to get to know a little about others...so please let me know who you are ... where you are and what you are - Im Jad im from nowhere in particular although ive lived in many places...Baton Rouge for a while, im about to leave for France? Singapore? China? Canada? depending on what my corporate superiors want... I work and make traxx, I want a pet lamprey gate light detecting robot pet that I can bring with me to parties and watch freek out over the lasers and strobes... I used to steal cheese from the minimart and spend my loan check on records, electronics and dog car sickness medecine...whats up w/you?
Yo,
about 3 years ago I was involved with this girl, who I must say I was starting to like. Yet we broke up and she started seeing this guy who I was like " naw fuck dat". So needless to say she lied to me and was still coming etc...about three months ago I see this guy, and people told me he wants to kick my as this and that...im at Highland coffees with kelly and kim. This guy starts staring at me from the gates while just chilling just ignored the fux out of him and when I left I just walked straight passed him got in kims car and we were out...about half a minute later this crazy dude is following us on his motor cycle thinking hes all bad ass, making all this noiz. So im like man what the F*&k this shit is some old shit...the girls get scared, and p[ull into the LSU cop station, he gets off his bike and is like "nothing with you ladies" points to me and says "i'm going to kill you". I get out of the car smiling is so surreal and funny. And he says "don't fing come near me" so I walk up to him. He backs up. I tell him " man, look this is ridiculous...I have not even called your girl for 3 years I've had 2 serious girlfriends since then - get over it" he starts saying how I disrespect women this and that and how Im going to die. I just walked to him and said "why does it have to be like that?" This moron says "cause" ...if he would have given me a good reason then I would have understood but that was some dumb shit...the whole thing was stupid. I was about to break his little ego and let him know how twisted shit really got, but I realized the mental image I would paint would probably throw him off the edge he was already on. So i just stayed calm and asked him again...what do you want from me? I did what I did, I got the shitty end of the deal and you got the girl, why are you now 3-4 years later going to do something about it?...at this time the cops came out since the girls ran in the station. They made him get on the ground and shit...asked him for ID he didn't have his lisence, dumb ass...anyway this week I was chilling and I ran into a friend of this girl who told me that that night he also got charged with
concealed weapon --this fucker was going to stab me? Over some old shit. What the fuck? I swear Im not violent, but this type of thing makes me wonder how twisted some people get and how actions can lead to serious consequences. He must have thought "perfect, I have a knife" Im a big bad motorcycle ridin' hair stylist Im gonna finally stab this Moroccan fu*ker.
I mean to want to stab someone 3 years after some shit. I have to say i was shook that night but Ui was even more shocked to know that he could have stabbed me. Next time will he have a gun?
