Zach

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—Z. D. Smith

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Hello, everyone. If you happen to be reading this and have no idea why, because I haven’t updated this journal in 2 years and you’ve forgotten that I’m alive, it’s because in another corner of the internet I happen to be participating in a certain livejournal-based game, and have therefore been browbeaten into posting this on my livejournal in addition to my proper blog. Enjoy.

My buddy Ed has been soliciting requests to be interviewed. Unfortunately, concomitant with the ego boost of having someone ask you to talk about yourself is the obligation to actually furnish them with a proper answer, and moreover to put it up on the internet, for all to see.

The second part of the interview game is: if anybody would like me to come up with 5 piercing, trenchant and sympathetic questions perfectly tailored for them, that they might go on about themselves for this long, they need merely post a comment below and I will be obliged to give satisfaction.

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Ok, so I know that just a couple days ago I said I was switching to one blog until jbo got his shit together.

Long story short, I decided that I might as well not wait any longer and so talked to our good friend Panamaus, and he set me up right.

There is now a single website which is completely mine, and to which I will be posting exclusively. Along with that website there is, once again, a livejournal feed, set up by fweez.

The website is: http://apodion.net
The livejournal feed from that is cruxomatic.

And that's it. I promise. I apologize for telling you all to keep switching like this, but I swear this'll be the last time.

Bacardi 151 Congratulations! You're 148 proof, with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (133), and liquor (113).

All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high that you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure, you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips to the bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which is most efficient.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 85% on proof You scored higher than 90% on beer index You scored higher than 99% on wine index You scored higher than 98% on liquor index

Link: The Alcohol Knowledge Test written by hoppersplit on Ok Cupid

Currently playing in iTunes: Pores by Z. D. Smith

Just whipped up some quick album art, finally. It's actually kind of neat looking, in that you-obviously-have-no-idea-how-to-use-photoshop way.

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Spent much of tonight modifying a theme for Shapeshifter in OS X. It was pretty satisfying; I really like tricking out my GUI, and modifying a theme with relative ease was a good time.

I'm pretty wired; I need to stop drinking coffee at night (or in the early evening, apparently).

Also did some work on a remix of a previous Z. D. Smith composition; enough work, anyway, to eventually annoy Seamus in the next room. I'm pleased with what's come out, though it doesn't feel finished. I'm glad I'm pleased, since composition is the kind of the thing where I might put 3 or 4 hours work into a song and only discover at the end that the whole thing is absolute junk. It's at that point that my simple desire to not want all my work to have been for naught kicks in, and I go ahead and chop up and filter the stuff beyond recognition. Whatever works, I guess.

Side note: I really hate those folks who insist that discreet compositions or recordings are not, in certain contexts, songs, but in fact 'pieces' maybe, whereas they are in other cases. Everything I write is a song, be it a 4 minute rock song with drums and vocals or 9 minutes of ambient noise. What rubbish.

" ADOM for the Macintosh a little more real now... (03/14/2005, 11:42)

Hi all! At the weekend I got a first beta version from Jochen of ADOM for Macintosh. I'm testing it right now but it seems that ADOM for Macintosh will be available before the next ADOM release :-) I'll keep you updated... "


GAH

Currently playing in iTunes: Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky

So I decided today that I should start an honest-to-god journal. You know, writing down and articulating all the maddening trains of thought that bounce constantly around my head and that I sometimes inflict on those around me, when I can't help myself any longer, to their utter lack of interest. I did a good bit of writing today; it's remarkably helpful. I've always been a staunch and resolute materialist about this sort of thing, and never could see any use to writing something down that no one but myself would ever read, but I'm finally learning what most people find out around 5th or 6th grade, I guess.

I figure if I can keep myself on the articulation wagon it will probably develop a public component, too (ie, actual livejournal entries), so you all will probably end up finding yourselves either annoyed or gratified in the weeks to come.

On a completely different note: Where in this town can a fellow obtain for himself a lampshade?

This is a test.

Of my blogging client.

> iTunes Survey
>
> How many total songs?
> 31216
>
> Sort by song title - first and last?
> First: - "-! /d+mt. sn6.1. ai 1346" by Mikael Stavostrand
> Last in the real alphabet: "Zzz" by Motohiro Nakashima
> Last one in library: (when arranged by artist name) - "Tiddler" by Nobukazu Takemura (In Japanese)
First one in library: (when arranged by artist name) - ((((invisible wavez)))) by [[[[vvrssnn]]]]


> Sort by time - first and last?
> Longest: "100 Minutes 1:39:59 Sami Koivikko
> Shortest: "Circles Of Mania" 0:02 Coil
>
> Sort by Album - first and last?
> First: ...And Justice For All - Metallica (duh!)
> Last: Zwei Photonen - Justus Koehncke

Sort by genre - first and last?
First: A Capella
Last: Yeye

Top five played songs?
My play counts are all skewed because of songs I've put on mixes.

Next one in the party shuffle?
"Rise" - Today Is The Day - Supernova

First playlist name?
"A-D wknst"

Find 'sex', how many songs show up?
48

Find 'death', how many songs show up?
238

Find 'love', how many songs show up?
277

Find 'drug', how many songs show up?
8

'girl'?
95

'boy'?
75

Well, what does that tell us? I don't have a lot of music about drugs.

Boure is a trick-taking game from Louisiana. We should definitely play. Rules:

( Bouré Rules )

Except for two variations: "In or Out" round shall be handled with the ol' chip-in-hand maneuver,

and

barring persuasive argumentation, the trump card shall be determined by taking off the top card after the deal.

NetNewsWire gets 2 points. I decided to bite the bullet and subscribe to the 43folders rss feed, but didn't feel like tracking down the little "rss" button on the webpage and copying the URL. So I typed 'http://43folders.com" in the subscribe box, saying to myself, 'dammit, there's absolutely no reason that this program shouldn't be smart enough to figure it out.'

And it worked! That's smart design, folks.

So, I finally broke down and bought two moleskine pocket notebooks from powell's. not only that, but i even have some fancy japanese pens coming, too.

i am another inductee to the cult of writer-geek.

now i just need a job; WILL WRITE FOR FOOD.

Hunter S. Thomspon shot himself!

Fuck!

I'M IN PORTLAND NOW

'Mother North' is the best black metal song ever.


No, seriously.


Well, top five, definitely. But jesus. This song is so fucking good.

so, like everybody else on gmail apparently, i now have 50 gmail invites

even though i couldn't even give them all away when i had 4 - if you want a gmail account, ask me.

gmail is google's 1GB-sized free webmail service with nifty javascript interface and free pop/rss support, if you were wondering.

man, i have like 8 Withering Surface records, and they're ALL terrible.

I am full of questions.

Why do these people keep putting out records?

Why don't they ever improve?

Why do I have like, all of them?

Why is Denmark incapable of producing good music?




Note: I did not actually confirm that Withering Surface is from Denmark before I wrote this.

I suspect they are.

So, for those of you who don't know, which is maybe a lot of you, I'm not coming back to Bard Spring '05. Instead, I'm moving out to Portland, OR.

I'll be up at Bard at some point to gather my belongings, and to you bid all y'all a fond and hearty farewell.

well gosh, what an eventful month it's been so far.

i got a tattoo; you saw that.

i also just joined the writing staff of tartarean desire, a not at all disreputable metal webzine. Expect even more critical brilliance from yours truly.

also, i am currently listening to the new strapping young lad album, due to be released in march. i honestly cannot say whether or not I like it yet.

it certainly is different. at least I THINK it is.