Success Status: Ambiguous
Weeeeelllll…..the show went OK. We were called dead last to choose a time slot, and ended up #6 on the waiting list. But Eli squeezed us in sometime after 9:00, and we did one of the two songs we planned to play, “Beautiful Eyes.” Unfortunately, there is NO monitor setup at that place, so we couldn’t hear anything but muffled bass. No guitars, no vocals, hardly any beats. We pulled it off, though. Joey had a harder time than I did, it seems, but I think we did OK, especially considering what we had to work with. Ah well, we’ll figure something out for next week.
I got the laptop back! I’m still getting it all set up and back to an improved version of it’s previous state though. The thing I’m dreading most is making sure that Buzz is working and stable and usable still. Everything else is easy, comparatively. I’m also searching for a new Cd ripping program. I’ve been using Sonic Foundry Siren for a while, which is OK, but the cddb support is screwed up, and it uses Sonic Foundry’s inferior MP3 codec. I Like Audiograbber, but I’m having some minor problems with my registration. All the features are great, and it does exactly what I need, quickly and efficiently. Hopefully I can get that figured out right quick.
I picked up the Director’s Label DVD for Michel Gondry the other day. I knew he did some amazing videos, especially for Bjork, but I had no idea how fucking cool some of his work was. especially the videos for the Chemical Brothers’ “Let Forever Be” and “Star Guitar,” and my new all-time favorite video, Cibo Matto’s “”Sugar Water.” If M.C. Escher made videos, this is what they’d look like. I really want to check out the Spike Jonze and Chris Cunningham disc now too. Although I hear the Chris Cunningham disc is missing a lot of videos. He’s supposedly working on a compilation with Warp that should fill in the gaps though.
More later….
