Well, the last time I tried to embed a tune here, I kept getting anti-script alarms from one player and the other would only play like 30 seconds in my LJ - so screw it.

Go here, then:

Platzangst - Cut the Black Wire

Remember when I said I was recording an album of instrumental electronica? Weeeeellll, I'm still doing that, only I've put it on hold so ( Read more... )

I don't know if it was the last parting shot of 2009, or an overture for disaster from 2010, but I sit here having just recovered from a computer failure that looked pretty nasty for a while. "Supercollider" is the name of my computer - originally custom-ordered from a shop that makes systems for gamers, when I fired it up for the first time, an ( Read more... )

Yes, the concert they just had in Moline at the "iwireless center", yes, you.

I recognize that Mannheim Steamroller appeals to a fairly gray-haired demographic (and their kids and grandkids) these days; I saw only a few scattered twenty-somethings in the audience, but plenty of bald heads.

Granted, the elderly in general often carry an attitude that ( Read more... )

When I was younger, I dreamed all the time, and it was usually pretty weird stuff. Lately, though, I rarely remember dreams and when I do they're often mirrors of average ordinary life. Like, I get up and go to work just as usual but I'm living in Minnesota instead of Iowa.

Just had one, though, that stayed with me. If I could have just transferred ( Read more... )

Platzangst - Road Gator



First completed track from my latest album-in-progress, None O'Clock.

EDIT: The above player is a bit wonky with my own anti-script plug-ins, so here's another one if the above doesn't work for you:

One of the things that has prevented me from releasing more music is that I get bogged down in the planning of albums. I say to myself, "hey, why not crank out an album in a month for the RPM project in February, break some logjams, get this train moving again?" And I start putting together some ideas, jotting down notes, fiddling with the software ( Read more... )

Here, here's my one-sentence review of AnimeIowa, which I pre-registered for months ago since they said they weren't going to do single-day passes, anymore:

Apparently, I am not really all that much of an anime fan.

Nothing happened at Wizard World Chicago that didn't happen before. I found some interesting stuff to buy and read, met up with the attending Shocktraumanauts for dinner at Maria's, hung around at the Hyatt after hours.

I had neither table for hawking goods nor pitches to toss at editors, so I got no job offers, and wasn't expecting anything along ( Read more... )

Tomorrow - well, Thursday, today - is the start of a week vacation, with a chewy Wizard World Chicago at its center. Rumors about the con's dwindling attendance for both fans and pros makes it unlikely this one's going to affect my threadbare "comics career" in any way, but I am looking forward to seeing the Shocktraumanauts that will be there. Not ( Read more... )