Yesterday’s mail brought some heightened excitement to the week. I finally heard Unwed Sailor’s The Marionette and the Music Box on my stereo in its entirety. It will go off to be mastered to cd and vinyl today. I also came closer to completed my collection of Microphones releases, getting Window on Yoyo/Know-Your-Own, along with a new LP release from the Mountain Goats and an older LP release from Mirah, both on Yoyo. I met up with my friends Michael and Andre last night for a bit to shoot the breeze and reminisce about old times at work since we all used to work together, but now don’t. Thanks to J. Edward, the technology for Friday’s cellphone performance is underway. If all goes well, Andy will be playing with Reels of White from his apartment in Los Angeles. Maybe a future show will involve us all staying home while we play at a club remotely. Of course, maybe everyone in attendance could dial in to some central phone number and just listen to the show over the phone. I changed the splash page last night, so hopefully that shakes things up a little. I have Dreamweaver for my Mac now,…
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I upgraded my mac to OS 9.2.2 last night, in preparation for going to Jaguar once the cd arrives. I was a bit behind on updates, so it took a few jumps, but everything seemed to work out. I probably haven’t ranted too much publicly about my love for macs, but it’s true. Every btv release and ad has had its final graphics generated on a mac. I had a beta version of OS X, but never upgraded since the graphics programs I use weren’t ready at the time. Not much newsworthy happening in btv land. Denison was in Phoenix this weekend, staying with Greg Markov (Fine China), and I talked to him and Markov on the phone. He was on his way to LA to rock and stay with our good friend Andy Bruntel (who designed this website and a few btv cds). Andy is also a member of Reels of White Softly Flow and we’ve been trying to figure out how to have him play live via cellphone. This could be a project for tonight or tomorrow night. :::scott:::
I made it to the Scientific/Seldom/Pedro the Lion show on Friday at the Trocadero in Philadelphia. The sound was a little more big and rock than I was used to experiencing, not often going to the Troc to see shows. It was great to see Scientific live for the first time in more than a year. Christian and Janie added the guys from Seldom (KC, Casey, and Yuuki) and Dave Bazaan to fill out the new songs. The recordings I’d heard have been very technical and angular, but live, the sounds had a warmer, more floating feel, recalling their debut s/t cd at times, but also continuing to progress in a new direction. Seldom was as good as I’d seen in the past, but didn’t seem to play any new songs, really. It’s always fun to see Pedro and with Christian playing some super noisy guitar, the songs sounded quite a bit different than previous shows. It was great being able to see everyone again, especially Christian and Janie. After the show, a few of us went to our friend Courtney’s house for a Halloween party. Courtney was dressed up as a dead Laura Palmer and Ethan was Joey Ramone.…