I guess after setting up shop on Facebook, it's been hard for me to find the urge to post on here. Which is kind of a shame, actually, because while the 'ol book has it's uses (which are numerous), it seems that most people don't really use/read the "Notes" section, which would be the local equivalent of a blog or livejournal or what have you. ( Read more... )

A short composition I've been tinkering with in SuperCollider. Some light post-processing (reverb) added in Ableton Live.

xoxo,

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http://danm.ucsc.edu/~omnivore/Flower%20Pulse.mp3

Urban legend has it that the Pacific Northwest is largely devoid of good Mexican food, though I believe that this is gross hyperbole. A more accurate way of putting it would be that the relative density of taquerias (and for that matter, Mexicans) is lower here, compared with a more "alpha chicano" city such as Los Angeles or San Diego, and ( Read more... )

The real beat battle went down tonight. The house was packed, probably twice as many people as last time, which is pretty awesome. Didn't win this time either, but I actually did win, in a way, because several random strangers told me it was awesome (at one point during voting, a dude approached the stage and asked me what my producer name was ( Read more... )

I regret not being able to see so many people in Santa Cruz and San Francisco - we were there so briefly, pretty much just to crash on the way back up Cali. I do intend to make a more meaningful visit as soon as would be sane. I miss you guys.

I'm sitting here in the air room at KBOO Radio in Portland, about to do a live beat battle on the air with Will, Eric - the man behind the beatoff - and one of his buddies. The first hour is going to be a retrospective of beats put forth by people who have contributed in the past (including Will and me). Then at the second hour, we'll play our ( Read more... )

San Dimas?

It is about 60 degrees right now, with occasional light rain. In other words -- gorgeousWhitney and I spent yesterday afternoon shopping and nostalgizing around Mira Mesa Blvd, which is around where we both grew up. I was surprised to see that the Edwards Cinema across from the Mira Mesa Mall, where I had seen such classic films as ( Read more... )

The last week has been snowy and icy, as I mentioned previously. What we didn't expect was to be literally buried in snow, in the manner commonly practiced via sand at warm, temperate beaches. Things started to melt a few days ago, and for a night we were actually able to drive around, but then a new and fully upgraded Arctic storm arrived the ( Read more... )

I was chatting with slyviolet this evening about Neovictorianism/steampunk, and for one reason or another we ended up discovering the eternal majesty (and hilarity) of Victorian-era erotic literature. Of course, as you would expect from two linguists, we honed in on word-usage. Apparently, the word "frig" (as in "this is frigging awesome!") originally had ( Read more... )

I just got dropped by Google. Not sure if it was performance related or that they're simply overstaffed (not like they'd ever tell you), but either way, it's probably just as well because I hated doing it anyway. I guess it's time to start hocking stuff.