What happened?
Twelve years!
You hit me with a cricket bat!
Ha! Twelve years!

Daily News Playlist

Updated my records, because I had a playlist all planned out a couple of months in advance and then life happened. more...

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Bohemian Rapsody

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Meanwhile, On Earth 7, The Weird One...

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Musical Interlude II

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Nearly There

Just a leetle more tweaking - my cucumber marmalade won't jell.

Update: Got it!  Just needed a little C salt.

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You Don't Appreciate What You Have Until You Go Poking Around The Filesystem Trying Things Out

I wanted to get Crimson, Blue and Fabulous - a compilation of blues brass loops - in the previous Sony Creative sale* but missed out.  Fortunately it popped up in their New Year's sale, and I snagged it this time.**  And it is good.

Since they had a selection of loop packs at $20 each, I got a few others as well, more-or-less on spec.  Browsing around now, I find I have dulcimer loops.  Over 150 dulcimer loops.  And zither loops.  I mean, mandolin, sure, got plenty of mandolin, but dulcimer?

And they actually sound really good.***

I also picked up Poser 7 on sale.  I have Daz Studio, which is free but not as powerful as Poser, and Carrara Pro, which is a lot more powerful than Poser but not as friendly.  Of course, I've hardly used either one.

And I grabbed a copy of Manga Studio too.  Now I have everything I need to produce terrible 3D CGI comics!

Update: Ijits.  All the missile sound effects are labeled "missle".  18 of them.  Perfectly consistent.

* That was a buy-one-premium-pack, get-two-standard-packs-free sale.  This was a selected-packs-at-half-price sale.  Worked out about the same, I think.

** List price $59.95, online price $39.95, download price $29.95, sale price $19.95.

*** I have 60 CDs and 1 DVD of Acid Loops that I've assembled since 2000.  There are now 115 "Standard Collection" disks (from $29.95 each), 23 "Classic Collection" disks (from $19.95 each), 17 Premium Collection packs (2 disks each, from $59.95), and a bunch of other stuff like a 10 CD $425 sound effects set.  I want them all.

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One Hit (Album) Wonders

Headless Chickens were a 90's New Zealand grunge band that somehow broke the mold and released something brilliant in their second album, Body Blow.

And then retired back into obscurity with the release of their third album, Greedy, which simply sucked.

Actually, listening to Body Blow yet again today, I realised that of the thirteen tracks, two are indifferent remixes, three are outright bad - including the title track - and one has a strong rhythm and an intriguing sound mix but lame* vocals.

With nearly half of the tracks positively missable, how does this album manage to shine?

Well, it starts out with these:

Choppers


Donde esta la Pollo


Mr Moon


Gaskrankinstation


The sound quality of those clips isn't great, but it gives you an idea of what they achieved.

The common theme that distinguishes all (but one) of the songs I like and the songs I don't turns out to be Fiona McDonald, who joined the Headless Chickens for that one album.  The exception is Gaskrankinstation, which is perfectly suited to the grunge style, and perfectly executed as such.**

* The word has become trite, but it's entirely appropriate here.  I refer to Railway Surfing.  If you've heard it, you'll agree.

** Even if the music video is a bit naff.  And it really does benefit from a good quality recording and a good set of speakers.

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Less Broken Every Day

Sigh.

My Music is now back on line for your listening pleasure.

If you find anything else that isn't there, please let me know, okay?

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The Return of the Return of the Electric Ant



The Electric Ant is the one in the blue hat.

track	title	time	mp3	ogg	story
	The Electric Ant
1	Ant Hill Princess	5:04	6.0mb	5.4mb
2	Lazy Caterpillar	3:12	3.8mb	3.9mb
3	The Orchestral Ant
3	The Day the Bees and the Wasps Went to War	5:31	6.6mb	6.5mb
4	End of the Electric Ant	4:18	5.1mb	4.9mb
all	zip	18:05	21.6mb	20.7mb

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Rough Cuts


This is a selection of tracks that are more or less complete but haven't made their way into the world - prior to this. Some because they need a bit of tweaking, some because they are a bit... odd... and don't fit on any of my compilations.

track	title	time	mp3	ogg	story
1	Babes in Thailand	2:16	2.6mb	2.2mb
2	Bat Cave	2:28	2.8mb	2.8mb
3	March of the Clockwork Soldiers	4:00	4.6mb	2.8mb
4	Film at Eleven	2:03	2.4mb	2.7mb
5	Kitten Kaboodle	4:08	4.8mb	4.3mb
6	Scorpion Sunday	2:40	3.1mb	3.1mb

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