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I've been distributing recorded mixes for almost three years now. It's way past time I wrote something like the old Blogariddims decksclaimer: http://www.weareie.com/2006/05/decksclaimer.html

The trouble is, I'm a terrible writer. And I feel like if I address the subject at all it will invite negative attention.

Still writing the post, though, because it feels like the right thing to do.

Happy New Year from the west coast of the USA. (Three hours late).

I slept through midnight so I missed all the ball drops and fireworks and hijinks.

And now I realize that sounds like an advertisement. I guess it is, in a way. Unpaid advertising, I swear.

CPU Records has a 40% off sale on their bandcamp page now thru January 10th. Use discount code "getsorted".

I just picked up 10 releases from them. Nearly wiped out my bank account in the process. I've wanted to get into their catalog for a while, but I couldn't afford it. 96 Back, Microlith, Mikron, Silicon scally, so much good music. #electro

I've discovered that I can't listen to podcasts, and people talking in general, while trying to write.

I can listen to people talk while working with music. But not while writing words.

Hmm. Now that I've typed that out, it seems obvious.

I trashed my X server with ffplay.

Then I found out my VCR still works.

Nice.

Yaay a new episode of the Backlisted #podcast is out. #108, on the topic of "Remembrance Of Things Past" by Marcel Proust.

I'm 15 minutes in and already I feel happier.

I should have threaded the last three posts. I've been watching the 1994 movie Nadja, written & directed by Michael Almereyda.

Somebody uploaded Nadja to youtube if you care to watch it. It's probably been zoomed in or panned or cropped or whatever to fool the copyright algorithms, but here it is:

Lucy: "Monday I ate half a bagel, hot tea, and a can of coke. Tuesday I ate two diet cokes and a piece of pizza. Today I had a bag of M&M's. But I didn't eat the yellow ones."

Van Helsing: "Face it, Jim. She's a zombie."

Peter Fonda is great (and funny) as Van Helsing.

Renfield: "Do you mind if I sit in that chair? That's the chair I always sit in."

Cassandra: "Yes I do mind. I'm having a nervous breakdown."

Renfield: "I don't think you've been taking your medicine".

Cassandra: "I don't take medicine. I'm the nurse." ...

Renfield: "Well, maybe you should start taking it, because you don't look very well. And you're still sitting in my chair."

"We have come for the body of Count Voivoida Armenios Ceauşescu Dracula. I believe there is a wooden stake in the heart. You will take us to him."

"Note: the picture should be an expression of your brand identity, whether you're an individual or a brand/collective"

I hate it