Autechre USA Tour May 2005
Fri 06 Washington DC Black Cat
Sat 07 Philadelphia PA Trocadero
Sun 08 NYC Webster Hall
Mon 09 Boston Paradise
Tue 10 Montreal Usine C
Wed 11 Toronto Opera House
Fri 13 Chicago Metro
Sat 14 Minneapolis Ascot Room
Tue 17 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom
Wed 18 Seattle Neumos
Thu 19 Portland Berbatis Pan
Fri 20 San Francisco Mezzanine
Sat 21 Los Angeles El Rey
Sun 22 Tempe AZ Freedom
Tue 24 Dallas TX Trees
Wed 25 Austin TX The Parish
Thu 26 New Orleans Twiropa
Fri 27 Atlanta Variety Playhouse
Sat 28 Asheville NC Orange Peel

:DDDDDDDDD

R.I.P. O.D.B.



1969 - 2004

Everyone, smoke a rock tonight for ODB.

Hello Internet Friend(s)
So last week I got paid to make a dead guy run around with his head and arms cut off, spraying blood all over the place.

I love my job.

Second interview = success!
Next step, on-site in Seattle...


Oh man.

Oh man oh man oh man...!

Current Mood: hoopy frood

Don't get me wrong, I love Nine Inch Nails as much as the next 20-something who raged against the machine before Rage Against the Machine, and all this talk about a new album is getting me slightly hot and bothered. But it's becoming increasingly apparent that Trent Reznor is completely insane.

"One of the rules of this record has been to orchestrate using monophonic voices. No chords. Anywhere."

This is why keyboards need a button that automatically types out "I AM ROLLING MY EYES SO HARD THAT BLOOD IS SHOOTING OUT OF THEM AND ONTO MY NEW LOGITECH ELITE KEYBOARD WITH AUTOMATIC ROLLEYE TECHNOLOGY WHY NOT PURCHASE ONE NOW FOR $49.95 AT YOUR LOCAL BEST BUY."

Of course, I thought, maybe this just means he's making his music simpler, which would imply a return to the raw days of Broken, or the first half of The Downward Spiral.

"Most of the synthesis has been done with a rather elaborate (and ever growing) modular rig and recorded live. It is mainly comprised of doepfer, analogue solutions, analogue systems and metasonix modules. Reaktor is also extensively used. Guitars are guitars — who cares."

Christ.

It's also really funny to look at the new pictures he's been posting to his website. They are, almost without exception, pictures of him waving his musical penis around for everyone to see, and to say "My, that man has a large synthesizer." Now I know what you're thinking. "Oh Internet stranger who decided to rant about something which ranks somewhere below 'Equine Mating' on things which I wish to read a rant about, you are obviously just jealous of his gigantic electronic music producing penis." And you're right. Sweet Christ are you right. I would never know what to do with all that shit, and I doubt he does either. I mean look at these:

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I imagine Trent sitting there like a camwhore, taking a good half an hour to set this shot up, adjust the lighting, plug in all of his most expensive equipment, apply eyeliner and set the contrast to 100% on his webcam. "Alright, alright, let's see... I'll put this thingy here with the knobs next to this sampler doo-dad... and I'll put all of it in front of this here keyboard... Oh, and I'll put a Kaoss pad next to it! Those are expensive! Okay, everything looks in order here, let's just pretend to actually use this stuff... and take the shot... and... Oh fuck, my cleavage wasn't showing!"


Anyway I've wasted enough of LiveJournal's precious disk space with this pointless rant. If you decided to skip to the end looking for some sort of summary, I was talking about Tom Selleck and my desires to go on a cross-country wife-swapping adventure with him.

edit: I just googled "tom selleck" "wife swapping" and got 41 hits. fyi.

Current Mood: long-winded

So for the second time in a row, I've won the grand prize of a bar raffle. This time it was a SWEET BIKE!

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I'm a fucking walking lucky charm.

ONLY MORE MAGICALLY DELICIOUS!

ARGH

Current Mood: BIKE

So I figured out what to do with my domain...
http://www.jvsola.com

:D

This has been bugging me for quite some time
What the hell does the DJ in Linkin Park do?

Current Mood: confused

HARK!
THE INTERVIEW MEME WHICH YOU WILL ALL PROBABLY BE VERY SICK OF VERY SHORTLY BUT BEFORE THAT HAPPENS HERE IS AN INTERVIEW BY ninjer!

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If you would like me to interview you, please respond thusly:
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

Current Mood: predatory

Alright, now THIS is the weirdest spam I've ever gotten.
Subject: Your Blue Pill
From: "Allied Marketing Promotions, LLC"
To: jsola@uiuc.edu

You were pretty back in the old days. This is the end result of a life lived
without consequences. I am a lepton. It's always up in the air.
I see your point. But it can't go on forever. I'd rather go outside and play.

Don't worry about it. I'd rather go outside and play. We all have to make some
kind of plans for ourselves. This is ultimately no worse than television.
This isn't really sustainable, but it's better than the alternative. Creativity
combines the soul of the selector. Nothing more than that. I can't help you there.

Don't worry about it.Be creative. Do what you can with what you have when you
have it.


Tell me what you think about this. This will end well. Your signal/noise ratio
is degrading. And at some point, as they say, the map comes to resemble the
territory.

It's all just so much white noise; nothing more than that. But that's OK--lots
of people feel that way. And I respect that.

It was my favorite thing about her. It's all just a big joke. I'd really like to
discuss this in greater detail. I can't help you there.

I telepathically channel the unknown. This is merely a stepping stone to better
things.Are you making up for something? Probably. We are clearly tending in a
particular direction. I don't know the answer to your question. It's a question
that can't really be answered.

Then again: I had fun when we talked on Tuesday.Tell me what you think about
this. You were pretty back in the old days.

Current Mood: worried

I went to see some bands play last night at a local coffeehouse, it was neat.

I beg of you, if you ever have a chance to see Explosions in the Sky, do it. They had a short set (less than an hour), but it was still one of the most incredible performances I've seen live.

Also got to see a new local post-rock band play, called At Knifepoint. They were very good, probably the first local band I've seen that I really like, so it's going to be interesting to see how their sound changes as they mature as a band.

And that's the story of the time I went to see some bands play at a local coffeehouse.

Current Mood: rejuvenated

Damnit.
Hi Joseph

I wanted to get back to you as soon as I could with the results of your interviews with Microsoft. You indicated to me that you would prefer the results in email. I want to thank you for taking the time to come out to Microsoft to meet with us. I enjoyed our conversation! I have had the chance to speak with the interviewers and hiring managers for the groups that you met with. Our interviews are highly competitive, and unfortunately at this time we will not be moving forward with an offer. For legal reasons, I am unable to provide you with specific feedback from the interviews.

I hope that you continue to consider Microsoft in your future plans. Good luck to you!

Alison Gere

College Recruiting

Microsoft Corp.



:/

Current Mood: disappointed

!!!
First season of UCB was just released on DVD!

15 bucks! That's only 1500 ass pennies! That's less than a new brain!

Go! Now! Purchase! Consume, consumer!

The best part about the recent CNN 'Rock the Vote' special with all the democratic candidates was when they showed a little clip for General Wesley Clark where he was sitting in a coffee house with a bunch of hipsters, talking about some issue, and when he was done with his speech some long hair comes up to him and presents a fist for pounding, and Clark gladly returns the pound.

He's so fresh and hip!

The second best part was Lieberman apologizing for having never smoked pot.

Current Mood: giggly

hahaha

I just won a $100 cooler which I will never use ever.

There was a raffle at a bar, you buy a heineken and get a ticket. I had 3 tickets and I won this sweet cooler.

Apparently this pissed many people off, as I was walking up to get it some dude was like "Go home!" to which I replied "Yeah, I'll go home... with my sweet cooler!"

So... uh... anyone wanna buy a cooler?

Current Mood: lol

Part of our apartment building's roof caught on fire tonight. It was craziness, I was chilling here and firemen start running up the stairs outside my room all like "You should probably get out, there's a fire in your building."

:what:

So we chilled outside and reveled in the schadenfreude (the fire was on the roof of apartments 18 and 19, we live in 21). Actually conversed with other people who live in our building for the first time in a year and a half, they are a cool set of chicks and dudes from a few doors down that we're gonna go drinking with sometime. Tight.

Right now Eric's posting a sign that says "WE SURVIVED THE GREAT APARTMENT FIRE OF 2003" on our door, lolol.

Crazy.


Also, get Primus' new CD/DVD release, 'Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People.' 5 new studio tracks and every music video they've ever made along with 2 hours of live stuff, all for like $15 at Best Buy. Primus sucks!

Current Mood: hot

I have an interview with Microsoft on Friday.

:~~~~~~~O

Current Mood: anxious

So I was at dwu's kickin-rad party on Saturday, and I'm talkin to some hipster-lookin' dude, and the topic of Johnny Cash comes up.

<hipster> Johnny Cash must get a lot of ass
<me> Uhh, Johnny Cash is like 85, ill, near-death, and just lost his wife
<hipster> Yeah, but I wouldn't mind being 85 if I got that much ass
<me> lol what

Crazy kids.

Current Mood: working

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Current Mood: giggly

Ever hear an album and just been completely floored?


Yeah.

I've only listened to this Spiritualized album twice 4x, and I'm already digging it an unhealthy amount.

So... Beautiful...

Should have... Sent... A poet...

Current Mood: grooving 8-#