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Wow, a rare lock-up in FreeBSD. The video player I had open froze and the system stopped responding to keyboard and mouse input. Keyboard didn't even toggle the numlock or capslock lights in response to the appropriate keys.

Ended up having to reboot.

CW: Horror movie talk, Eko Eko Azarak 3

Watched Eko Eko Azarak III just now. Different director than the first two, different actress playing Kuroi Misa, has a different vibe. I suspect this one is closer to the comics, it goes much harder.

They don't take away Misa's powers this time so there's a lot more fun witch magic. Liked that part. Didn't care for some of the casual gore (the movie opens with an unconvincing but still gross autopsy scene). Was not expecting where the story went at all.

Kind of loved it? I don't know. Maybe I'm in a weird mood.

MTT 259 / Glide (2) https://djcev.com/2022/02/mtt-259-glide-2/

130 BPM IDM and techno, maybe even a little house. Friendly stuff. Mostly old tracks. This mix features music by B12, John Shima, Legowelt, Permutation, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, Trackman, and more.

CW: MH-

Having a bad day. On take 3 of this week's mix. Really fighting myself. Anxious, can't relax.

Expect delays.

Talking drumfunk with Megaphysics tonight, was reminded of this classic:

Big tune.

Watched the second Eko Eko Azarak movie tonight. Something about this, the first one, and Shimako Sato's previous movie Tale Of A Vampire feel weirdly burdened, heavy, and sad to me. Melodramatic too.

Will probably watch the next one, #3 Misa The Dark Angel, but I think I'm done after that. (#4 doesn't look good).

I just spent like a week thinking about Lil Jon and I'm not completely sure why.

I have a weirdly difficult time handwriting hyphens and dashes, and so years ago I stopped using them as separators. I find it much easier to write forward slashes; I prefer "Artist / Title" instead of "Artist - Title" for example.

That's why you see slashes all over my website, my notes, etc. . It sometimes gets me into trouble with automated systems expecting dashes.

MTT 258 / Appropriate Steps https://djcev.com/2022/02/mtt-258-appropriate-steps/

140 BPM electro & techno. This mix features a couple new tracks (2021) by MachineFunk and My Boyfriend as well as a new (2020) track by CYWU. Plus a bunch of old favorites, of course, including tracks by Aux 88, Drexciya, Ectomorph, Silicon Scally, and more.

Cleaning up my bookmarks and moving them over to my website. Lotta old stuff to remove, lotta questionable stuff to remove too. :shrug:

I had hoped to do more writing this month but that didn't happen. Didn't quite work out.

Got some fun web stuff done though. That was nice.

The volume levels in this one are all over the place, sadly. That's what I get for A. not touching the gain and B. trying to mix together some wildly different stuff. Different decades, mastering techniques, production methods...

MTT 257 / A Peculiar Strategy https://djcev.com/2022/01/mtt-257-a-peculiar-strategy/

IDM, a couple of tracker mods, and some twitchy drum & bass to close. This #djmix features long tracks by Brothomstates, Metamatics, Plaid, and Scape One.

Took the train into Portland today for the first time in six months or more.

Downtown felt quiet. That could've been due to the time of day, and I was only there for a few minutes, but still felt a little odd.

Saw a lot of changes. Shops closed, buildings that were in progress are now finished. World keeps moving I guess.

The python cryptography module requires rust to build. This makes me sad.

Upgraded to FreeBSD 12.3 yesterday & spent some time wrestling with third-party software.

I got tired enough of waiting for ports to compile that I switched back to using binary packages.