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15 or so years ago I happened across an upload of the album "I, Individual" by the band Gloria Mundi. I loved it at the time & still love it now. Existentialist punk, sarcastic and wry, cutting. I won't pretend and say that I understand it, I'll say instead that I love what it means to me, the message of dread & angst.

I've only heard their first album, "I, Individual", from 1978. It's incredible. An album out of time.

The title track: "I, Individual" by Gloria Mundi:

I forgot how much more work it is to beatmatch by ear. Been doing it the easy way too long.

I mixed today's set with xwax DVS running on a Raspberry Pi 400. (One 1200 and one old Denon CDJ as timecode sources). No tempo information on screen, waveforms too small to be useful for beatmatching, so all done by ear. (Expect some slop).

Fooling around with OBS & streaming on twitch. I'm surprised my 10 year old computer can handle realtime audio + video encoding. This Athlon II X4 setup was a good choice, I guess.

Putting together an ambient mix for tomorrow. I remember now why I don't do these often, they're a different way of working and thinking, one I don't have much experience with.

The second game of horror block just started over on the #SGDQ2022 twitch stream. Aneternalenigma playing SIlent Hill 4. For anyone interested in GDQ.

CW: Internet, Politics, US POL

Apparently "Q" (as-in "Q Anon") posted again on the 24th, the day of the Dobbs decision, after a year-and-a-half absence. Heard about it while catching up on podcasts today. (The Q Anon Anonymous podcast has an episode up on the topic already).

I truly hope Q will not have the same impact it did in the past. I want to believe that most of the followers have moved on. But, regardless, just fuck all of this.

Playing with OBS a bit today, learning how to use it. Very glad it's available on FreeBSD.

It's probably not a good idea but I might try streaming video games on twitch soon. I'll need to figure out a stand or mount for my microphone first. And later on pick up a webcam.

I needed to see something positive last night, something beautiful and redeeming, so I put on & rewatched Orson Welles's movie "F For Fake". Art, fraud, and lies. Reality and fiction blended. I always walk away from it feeling hopeful, inspired.

Criterion has it in NA (and you can find it on archive.org if like me you don't have Criterion money).

"Our songs will all be silenced. But what of it? Go on singing."

Tired today & so I went digging for movies on archive.org. Found Hitchcock's adaptation of Rebecca from 1940. Watching it now. I know I've seen it once before but I don't remember that viewing well. Olivier is wonderful (and I really hate Max de Winter).

Been meaning to read the book forever, even started it a couple times.

Today's mix is going to be properly late, I'm thinking Friday 4 or 6 AM pacific time.

My non-24-hour sleep cycle and generally bad sleep hygiene has caught up with me once again. I woke up at 6 PM and my brain thinks this whole "day" or period awake is Thursday, despite it being mostly Friday.

Didn't get enough sleep yesterday and then tried to do too much. Wore myself out. Oof.

It's time once again to lean on some old tracks & sequences that I know work for this week's mix.

new Blind Test video:

We used to do this down at the arcade while listening to DJs, try to guess the equipment used in whatever song was playing. Great fun even though I was never particularly good at it.