1. The Accidental Creative
   http://www.accidentalcreative.com

   It is the age of creativity and “cover bands” don’t change the world. You MUST find your unique voice if you are going to thrive in the create-on-demand world. At Accidental Creative, we are “freedom fighters for the creative class.” In these podcasts we address real-life issues for creative professionals.

   Besides this free podcast, the Accidental Creative also offers a premium service subscription with 3 or more podcasts per month and access to their entire back catalog of 100+ podcasts.

2. The Business Side of Music
   http://thebusinesssideofmusic.libsyn.com/              

   This is a monthly podcast series geared towards empowering all musicians to understand the music business from the ground up.

3. APM Film & TV Music
   http://pressroom.apmmusic.com/pr/apm/info/APM-Film-and-TV-Music-Podcast.asp

   All about composing and licensing library music for use in film, television, trailers, promos, video games, new media, radio and more. Sponsered by APM, a premier provider of production music services.

4. Pandora Presents… the Musicology Show
   http://blog.pandora.com/podcast/

   If you’ve never heard of Pandora, it’s a great service to expose you to new music. It plays simular material based on a band or artist you like, with the connections having been analyzed by real people. If you haven’t tried it out, you can now, at www.pandora.com. The Musicology Show is an excellent Podcast presented by Pandora.

   Musicology presents ten-minute insights into music writing, performance, and production. Pandora’s host Kevin Seal and his guests perform live in the studio to show how they write and record their songs.

   “Ever wonder how a band creates its unique ’sound’, or what makes a particular song so distinctive?”

   “As we spend our days dissecting tracks for the Music Genome Project, it occurs to us that most people don’t get to hear songs before they’re finished. We thought it might be interesting for folks to learn more about what goes into songwriting. This show is our attempt to give you an inside look at the techniques musicians use to put their signature on the music they write and perform.”

5. Music Business Radio
   http://www.musicbusinessradio.com/

   Music Business Radio is a syndicated, weekly, one-hour specialty program spotlighting the inside workings of the music business.

   The show is hosted by music marketing expert, consultant, and author, David Hooper, and features interviews with various industry professionals giving the listener their insight and expertise into the business. Our wide-ranging guest list include Grammy Award winning producers, artists, musicians, and songwriters…as well as, record executives, promoters and artist managers.

   Un-predictable and un-scripted, informative, and always entertaining! A “must listen to” for anyone interested in music. That’s how audiences are describing Music Business Radio.

What are some of your current favorite podcasts for informative content?
I’m interested, let me know. :)
Thanks.

Each step seems like it’s headed uphill,
but I can no longer stand to be still.
The days pass away like seconds to a year,
nothings left inside, but tears…
and
Lonely shadows, hidden in silence,
with nothing left in their defense.
I can’t lie in this river, drowning,
or wake up again, with my heart pounding.

I feel my cells depart,
waiting for this life to start. 

It’s been a thousand years
since music’s filled the atmosphere.
All my yearning is incomplete,
as days go by, they’re bittersweet.

Too many ideas, left in my head,
Too many words, left unsaid.
Destiny’s been leaving me behind,
with my sight fading, until I’m blind.

The life of people like me,
goes on, until it’s taken by insanity.
we’re just searching for truth.
Yearning for youth.

Everything I’m directed towards, sprawls out and upward like the branches of a tree. My path, too ubiquitous for my own good. It feels as though I’ll never be sated, until I can reach out across those branches and hold every single one them in a single grasp.

I’ve been writing code for almost four days straight for Octava. I feel like my brain should have grown 10-sizes larger in the last week. I also feel like just kicking back and watching some movies, to numb my mind and just relax for a bit.

I have iTunes open at the moment and I’m listening through my Top 25 Most Played. :) I’d highly suggest the album KiloWatts & Vanek - Focus & Flow, if you haven’t heard it. You can get it through their website. There should be more electronic music like this in the World.

Sorry I’ve been gone for so long. I promise to write.

New York, NY, April 17, 2008: To remind the public, members of the music industry and U.S. legislators of the central role and rights of those who conceive and create music, ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) today officially launched a ‘Bill of Rights for Songwriters and Composers.’

This awareness-building initiative centers around 10 core principles, including ” We have the right to be compensated for the use of our creative works, and share in the revenues that they generate” and “We have the right to license our works and control the ways in which they are used.”

For those of you who don’t know. ASCAP is one of the societies that collect performance royalties for us when our music is licensed and played on things like TV, video games, radio, or other public performances..

Make Your Voice Heard! Sign now.

Click here to read more.

www.octavarecords.com is now online, it’s just basically a splash page at the moment. I wrote newsletter subscription code for the front page today so everyone can be updated when the site officially launches. I’ve been doing tons of work behind the scenes on the administration panels and database structure mostly, but because of the work I’ve been getting done in the administration panel, I’ll soon be into the front-end user interface stuff.

I basically created an editor in php that I can use as a common editor for all the various database functions, much like how scaffolding works in Ruby on Rails. If you’re not familiar, there is a screencast called Creating a weblog in 15 minutes to demonstrate how much it can speed up and simplify things by not repeating a million lines of code. I basically lay down definitions in my php pages containing information about the database structure, such as:

• Database row names
• Database row type (e.g. Integer, Boolean, Text, or even things like File. — As an example, the code will make things like Boolean appear as a checkbox when editing or adding new entries.
• Friendly names, displayed as labels, such as ‘Name:’
• If the database is storing integers to refer to another database table, such as artist id #1. This section also includes data referring to the table ‘artist’. Giving definition to the id number that’s stored as an integer.
• And a few other options.

The common included file will then generate pages to Display, Add, Edit and Delete database entries based on that array of information about the MySql database. It’s been a lot of work creating the code to do all this, but it will be nice and simplify things in the long run, because I’ll be able to re-use the code in other projects of mine.

So, basically, I’ve just been über-geek lately… Perhaps it’s time I buy one of those illuminated wi-fi signal status detector shirts from ThinkGeek? Oh well… What the hell am I talking about? Take a look at yourself! You, too, are on this damn infernal cobweb of a net… You know you want one!

Anyways, Octava will be the new home for my various music projects and collaborations, past and present. Including: The Underground Bass Masters, Polaroid Kiss, and Audesi. I will also be producing and mastering new music from Xavier.

Audesi - Wave Profusion (Rough Draft)

There, just two feet below him, was the stream — alive, sparkling, thrilling. He had known about it all along, but at that moment he actually saw it flowing beneath him.

Audesi - The Infernal Machine

I decided I’m sick of the flow of slow computers and waiting for softsynths to load and of connecting tracks and everything… It just seems like the flow of everything is becoming SO SLOW!! I’m sick of it!

I hooked up all my hardware synths, at least with as many audio and midi cables that I could find. So now I’m surrounded in keyboards at the moment. I programmed a beat on my Electribe ES-1 and started playing my synths. :) It’s nice to record things quickly, although Cubase was crashing a ton for some reason when dealing with real MIDI and then my Korg controller KB quit working, so I couldn’t make better piano with one of the softsynths I was using… lol.

Audesi - Slow Birth

I used to own a record label. That label, Luaka Bop, still exists, though I’m no longer involved in running it. My last record came out through Nonesuch, a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group empire. I have also released music through indie labels like Thrill Jockey, and I have pressed up CDs and sold them on tour. I tour every few years, and I don’t see it as simply a loss leader for CD sales. So I have seen this business from both sides. I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will. It saved my life, and I bet I’m not the only one who can say that. -David Byrne

Read the full article: David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars

There was recently a post from Trent Reznor of NIN, with stats of Saul Williams latest record. I couldn’t find a direct link to it on www.nin.com, only an RSS or Atom feed link. So I cut and paste it. I hope nobody minds.

It’s a strange time to be an artist in the recording business. It’s pretty easy to see what NOT to do these days, but less obvious to know what’s right. As I find myself free from the bloated bureaucracy of major labels, finally able to do whatever I want… well, what is that? What is the “right” way to release records, treat your music and your audience with respect and attempt to make a living as well? I have a number of musician friends who are either in a similar situation or feel they soon will be, and it’s a real source of anxiety and uncertainty.I’d like to share my experience releasing Saul Williams’ “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust” and what I’ve learned from the process. Perhaps by revealing of all our data - our “dirty laundry” - we can contribute to a better solution.

“A quick history: Saul makes a great record that I produce. We can’t find the right home at a major label. We decide to release it ourselves, digitally. Saul does not have limitless financial resources so we shop around for a company that can fulfill our needs. We choose Musicane because they are competent and are willing to adapt to what we want. The results are here: niggytardust.comWe offer the entire record free (as in totally free to the visitor - we pay bandwidth costs) as 192 MP3s, or for $5 you can choose higher fidelity versions and feel good about supporting the artist directly. We offer all major CCs and PayPal as payment options.Here’s what I was thinking: Fans are interested in music as soon as it’s available (that’s a good thing, remember) and usually that’s a leak from the label’s manufacturing plants. Offering the record digitally as its first appearance in the marketplace eliminates that problem. I thought if you offered the whole record free at reasonable quality - no strings attached - and offered a hassle free way to show support that clearly goes straight to the artists who made it at an unquestionably low price people would “do the right thing”. I know, I know…Well, now I DO know and you will too.Saul’s previous record was released in 2004 and has sold 33,897 copies.As of 1/2/08,154,449 people chose to download Saul’s new record. 28,322 of those people chose to pay $5 for it, meaning: 18.3% chose to pay.Of those paying,3220 chose 192kbps MP3 19,764 chose 320kbps MP3 5338 chose FLACKeep in mind not one cent was spent on marketing this record. The only marketing was Saul and myself talking as loudly as we could to anybody that would listen.If 33,897 people went out and bought Saul’s last record 3 years ago (when more people bought CDs) and over 150K - five times as many - sought out this new record, that’s great - right?I have to assume the people knowing about this project must either be primarily Saul or NIN fans, as there was very little media coverage outside our direct influence. If that assumption is correct - that most of the people that chose to download Saul’s record came from his or my own fan-base - is it good news that less than one in five feel it was worth $5? I’m not sure what I was expecting but that percentage - primarily from fans - seems disheartening.Add to that: we spent too much (correction, I spent too much) making the record utilizing an A-list team and studio, Musicane fees, an old publishing deal, sample clearance fees, paying to give the record away (bandwidth costs), and nobody’s getting rich off this project.But…Saul’s music is in more peoples’ iPods than ever before and people are interested in him. He’ll be touring throughout the year and we will continue to get the word out however we can.So - if you’re an artist looking to utilize this method of distribution, make of these figures what you will and hopefully this info is enlightening.Best,TR”

Let me know what you think. Thanks. :)

Instead, I made a pencil drawing tonight to share. I wanted to be an artist when I was a little kid, but I haven’t drawn hardly anything at all since I was in school. I want to do small creative things like this from day to day…

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Frozen Remix CD [3CD Set]

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Three CD’s featuring the Audesi Remix of the Celldweller track ‘Frozen’ and 42 remixes by other artists is available to order now for $14.99. [Pre-Sale] Orders will ship the 1st week of December.

Click here to purchase.

Polaroid kiss’s first performance

The audio is hard for people to make out which song it is.
Click here to listen to a sample of Love in Transition.

Here’s another video of me and Tim setting up for a show at The Trapp Door.

Tim and Earl

I think I was putting a 9volt battery into a DI Box. lol.

All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold.

Read more about it on newscientist.com.

lvl - Home (Audesi Remix) Streaming Sample

Appears courtesy of FIXT Music.

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lvl - Home (Remix EP)

Audesi - Shallow Reminder

Kind of Phat (Beat)

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By Jenny Poplar
Posted 10/25/2007

In less than one year, Salt Lake City’s Polaroid Kiss has accomplished things that might cause musicians in more metropolitan cities to shake their fists in the air. How, they must be asking, does a band with no formal public-relations or marketing team and who’ve scarcely played out or even recorded a full-length album accumulate 26,000-plus MySpace friends? How do they receive international airplay and acclaim for their one single and receive requests to perform live with established European-based artists including Chris Corner, aka IAMX, formerly of Sneaker Pimps?

Polaroid Kiss guitarist Tim Burgess—the most recent addition to the quartet—shrugs and, with a slight smile, replies “I think people are getting sick of traditional guitar-driven bands. That’s been done so much in the past few years. They want something new.”

Or retro.

If the runaway success of Polaroid Kiss is any indication, synthesizer-driven bands are making a big comeback. Of course, that’s discounting those who never ever stopped loving electronic bands.

Producer, songwriter and jack-of-all-instruments Brandun Reed says that Polaroid Kiss has received a great deal of attention in Europe, especially in Manchester and Berlin.

“Germans love synth. The old joke is, when America had Lynyrd Skynyrd, Germany had Kraftwerk,” co-producer/multi-instrumentalist Earl Dixon says.

Reed and Georgia-born vocalist Tom Bennett founded Polaroid Kiss in December 2006 following a lively conversation about their divergent musical tastes at a local dance club. Reed and Bennett are both DJs who adore electronic music, but the bulk of Bennett’s vocal experience—true to his Southern roots—has been fronting folk, acoustic and indie acts including Salt Lake City trio O Discordia, a far cry from the abrasive post-punk music that Reed generally enjoys.

Reed and Bennett wanted to produce highly danceable music that begged for multiple rotations at the club. Intelligent, catchy lyrics were also a must. Reed eventually invited Dixon—who has been friends with Reed since the fifth grade—and Burgess to join Polaroid Kiss to ensure a fuller, more developed sound.

Reed and Bennett’s vision is finally starting to come together. Their first single, the moody-yet-infectious Faint, New Order and Nine Inch Nails-influenced “White Lines and White Lies,” has fared well online and in several local clubs where it’s often blasted on repeat. Reed notes that he has even witnessed several people singing along as they dance.

“We’ve really taken our time,” Reed says. “Although we had a lot of ideas from the beginning, we didn’t rush into the recording studio or start booking shows immediately. We made an effort to put a lot of thought into what we’re doing.”

Bennett says Polaroid Kiss is in the process of recording a full-length debut with (fingers crossed) Kelli Ali—another former member of Sneaker Pimps—as guest vocalist. “Her management contacted us because they liked our sound,” Reed says.

Word of mouth still hasn’t landed Polaroid Kiss a proper label, though, and they’re on the hunt for a home. “I’ve always been happy to work really hard and do things myself. I’ve always made my own merchandise, for instance,” says Bennett, who has fronted bands since age 15. “But it does get really exhausting, and it would be nice to eventually have someone to help us with that.”

Reed says Polaroid Kiss’ first major live performance will include a carefully choreographed light show and several other flourishes. “Even though our music is very danceable, I want to make sure we put on a really good performance. Sometimes electronic music isn’t the most exciting thing to see live. We want to make our shows very enjoyable for the audience.”

POLAROID KISS w/IAMX @ The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Saturday Oct. 27, 10 p.m. 24Tix.com

Courtesy of  Salt Lake City Weekly. View the article here.

I was headed out to see Mandy this morning and I had been on the freeway for a short time and my rear tire had a blowout. Suddenly there was this huge rumble and my car slightly slipped as if riding on a small patch of ice. I thought either my tire blew out or my engine exploded. haha. Something was wrong. So I pulled over and attempted to put on my 50mph miniature spare tire, but it turned out the wrench I had was the wrong size and it was slipping as I was trying to turn the bolts. I had to call my dad, as he was getting ready to head off to work to come out and help me out. He had the right tool and we got everything fixed and I got home.. Sort of scary, I always worried about having a blowout. I’m lucky that my car was very controllable and I didn’t lose control. Anyways, it looks like I’ll need to hitch a ride to practice for a few days, until I get my tire fixed.

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The screams are being muted and it’s becoming easier to turn a blind eye. I’m falling down into the mundane. No sentences have been written, even to rearrange. No one’s listening and I’m still afraid of what they might say.

I feel I must write, like a flood gate of lies can no longer be held in, because the accumulation of guilt had grown so large that the lies must eventually be let go. Letting go, drenches the fields and replenishes the land and adds flavour to the taste buds of the jaded and hungry souls.

I must, for my own sanity! I’m dieing inside, every second I’m afraid. I’m alive when I can admit to you that I can see the sporadic hope for desperate and weary souls. I hear, like whispers stirring silently up from my unconscious, things more powerful than I have been capable of comprehending, just waiting to be born. Every day of my life I’ve been preparing and soon, I’ll no longer have the choice to deny the right to passage.

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Tonight I have my rig over at Mandy’s and I’m preparing my patches and learning my parts for Stop Motion. For the last little while I’ve had a mobile studio I’ve been dragging around with me everywhere. We practice again tomorrow evening.

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Picture by Mandy

It was good to hear the music performed with us all together and it was also sort of exciting. We only had enough time to get through White Lines a few times. The other night and this morning I only had enough time to prepare my synth patches for White Lines, so I will have my patches ready for Love in Transition the next time and probably another song or two’s backing tracks prepared. I’ll practice a bit more by my self tomorrow and bring a hardware compressor and EQ to use with Tom’s vocals. Brandun will be recalling the original guitar and bass effects so that it sounds as close as we can get it to the original.

PK is in search of a drummer in the Salt Lake City, UT area for live shows. We have a show quickly approaching and may have to perform the first show without a drummer. If you have pretty tight timing, are into it, and have access to electronic triggers preferably with sampling capabilities so that we can give you the proper kit sounds, get in contact via MySpace. Thanks.

This is a demo track I created for Sample Logic’s new sample library called ‘The Elements’. I created it using only sounds from the library. It ships October 15th and is available to preorder now for $299.

The Elements is a 13.5GB/4 DVD library that contains over 1,700 instruments, tempo synced loops, and multis designed with you in mind. It operates on both Mac and PC platforms and is delivered in Audio Unit, VST, DXi, and RTAS formats. The library comes preloaded with Kontakt Player 2 software and is ready to go out of the box as both a standalone instrument and plugin. The library can also be loaded and customized in the full version of Kontakt 2.

The Elements is a collection that will transform your work, pushing the envelope beyond today’s standard music and sound design. Since the instruments are broken up into 6 intuitive elements, you won’t waste any time browsing through unneeded sounds. These cutting-edge instruments were crafted to excite, inspire, and electrify, practically begging you to create.

The library is packed with deadly, ear scraping ambiance to serene melodic choirs; glitched out distorted beats to funky harmonic guitar licks; woofed out basses to spine bending transition impacts; traditional brass ensembles to psychedelic spirals of exotic colors. with a bunch of extra sounds made from unicorns, hobbits, and dragons, this library is sure to be fun for the whole family!

More info at www.samplelogic.com

I’m over at Mandy’s right now. She’s asleep and I’m up working on putting this site together. I’ve moved all my old blogs and the sparse collection of newer ones since 2003 to this new site. It’s not public yet, but I’m working on it. Sorting through all the photos and entering the most accurate dates for the images that I can find. So I should have quite a huge collection of photos on here, once I start posting new photos. I don’t really take photos like I use to, but maybe I can get back into it again. I will go through and add past entries and sets of photos that I’ve never released in blogs previously.

Tomorrow (Actually today, since I’m not on normal people schedule), Polaroid Kiss starts practising for upcoming gigs. I’ll be playing synthesizers for them. I have to stop by my house and grab some equipment, load it up. I also should go through some files to help prepare my parts, so I can have the sounds I need loaded up and ready to play. I think most of the day will be preparation work rather than a full practice session. Preparing set lists and deciding on what parts who will perform, ect..

I am going to start a production blog soon, which will contain some engineer type tests I’ve been doing on various different plug-ins, ect.. I might possibly also add some information about the DSP stuff that I dabble in. Might be interesting.
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I bought a Rico Vegan Chili Verde burrito tonight from Smith’s, although I’m not Vegan, I like to try new things. Grabbing something to eat sounded like a good idea, but I was too tired by the time I got back home. I just threw it in the freezer.

I gave Matt the project files today for the song me and him had been working for as an artist track for FIXT. He’s going to try writing some lyrics on his own.. I haven’t been inclined to write much music lately. The dry spell hits again when you least expect it, that’s why you have to get things done when your feeling it, because it’s really easy to lose it..

I have however been putting a lot of work into my synth emulation, which could potentially prove profitable in the future, if it will be legal for me to sell it. I need to see if I can find information on the legalities or if it’s possible to get a license from Roland and if it’s worth it. Otherwise, I suppose, at least I’ll have a wonderful softsynth for myself and some friends . I’ll also have a bunch of algorithms and the experience to transform what I’ve been creating into other ideas, much more my own.

Polaroid Kiss is a band I’m producing, which has a gig near Halloween opening for IAMX. I talked to Brandun today about how the shows going to be arranged and to figure out all of what we need and a bit about how we’re going to prepare the show. I was hoping he would have picked a smaller venue first to play out, so that we can all be use to playing together and a bit use to the stage. Anyway, I hope everything goes well with it.. and that it’s not too stressful..

I think that the only thing I’ve ever proved to myself that I may be, is a cathartic accident that can’t rearrange his thoughts into anything complete. Unless it’s done the instant that I make it. That’s the only difference in how I use to do things in the past and how I do them in the present.. The fact that I’ve been trying for so many years to arrange my thoughts into something completely beautiful, I’ve only become void of being able to output anything roughly and raw, because I’m so afraid that I’ll rip it into tiny shreds that it’s starting to become impossible.. I’m forgetting how to make something rough around the edges and thinking it’s any good.

Well, I have a surprise. Blogs can be like notes to me, just a brief recording of time and I don’t have to read back on them. I just hope that I can express myself clear enough so that they’ll make some bit of sense to you. I write mostly stream of thought with no defined beginning, middle and end point, just an incomplete blurb of time that reflects my occurring thoughts, which at this point in time, have not stabilized into something concrete. For, to be stable, would mean to have a lack of life?

If I criticize you, just promise not to always listen to me. The criticisms I put on you are the thoughts I deal with inside my own head. Sometimes all I can see are flaws in everything I do. When your World tears things apart for so long, there comes a point when you apply to take up that position yourself. The sad thing is that most people can’t understand the significance of art, until they can see the finished picture, but creation comes from a million tiny pieces that have to be formed and concluded into sometime whole, but when you’re concentrated so deep on the details, you tend to forget there is a forest for the trees. You forget to complete the pieces into something whole.

I think of the instances I’ve wandered around in the dark of night, when I looked up in the skies and concluded the feeling I felt was reality, and then they made me feel like I was the dreamer, but then I realised that what I had seen was everyone else in the World running around clumsily, unable to fathom reality, because to them the stars still hang from strings and glisten on there bedroom ceilings..

The fact that we’re on this large rock with liquid on the surface and this gaseous cloud around it is insane. If you think about it? Our planet was hit by another planet.. Those things are very common in the formation of solar systems! Venus was hit so hard that it started spinning backwards and I believe it’s Venus’ days are longer than its years now. (That is the time it takes to rotate, vs. the time that it takes to circle around the sun.)

Maybe we shouldn’t always pay attention to the planets.. Saturn has a moon called Titan that has an atmosphere, mountains and lakes/rivers. It also has the right chemicals to form a reaction to start building organic compounds that life thrives off of. Although it’s rivers aren’t liquid water and they are also more like pudding.. Still, can you imagine gliding down through the atmosphere of another planet to see mountains and lakes and colours and features that are so like home?? I’ve just been thinking about shit like this lately and how crazy it is.

Saturn has this perfect hexagon shape right on the top of it! How the fuck does shit like that happen? Most people don’t even know about that.. Jupiter has a moon called Europa. It has way more water than the Earth. Although it’s closer to the size of our moon.. So, imagine how much water it’s made of? Also, you figure it would be insanely cold out there, so far away from our sun, but because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter on it, as it orbits around, it’s orbit goes long and short. When it’s closest to Jupiter, the gravitational pull of Jupiter warps the shape of it and makes cracks all over the icy surface, which also heats the moon up! So there can be this warm bed of water under the ice. Water is one very important factor in there being life in the Universe and we’ve been finding it all over the place.

It sucks to know that we wont be here forever.. Eventually our planet will no longer be able to sustain life and it will lose the atmosphere, also our sun will scorch our planet, then go off to implode itself and then explode.. Damn stars are getting suicidal on our asses! I don’t blame them, because also, at the centre of our galaxy is a huge black hole.. So… basically we are very slowly going down the toilet drain. Eventually all of our particles will get sucked in, compacted very densely and spewed across the universe, in a burst that might just destroy some innocent beings precious home planet in an instant..

Right now our galaxy is heading on a collision course with another galaxy and some day, way beyond the very instantly short blip of time that life has existed on earth, the night skies will change beyond recognition. Everything will be so much brighter.. The only chance of mankind to survive is to get out of here.. This reminds me of this group of people, whom I can’t remember their name, when I was reading about, (where the pentagram came from) and it’s relation to Phi (The Golden Ratio). Maybe they were right. Lol. They said that the Universe was an evil trap that they were put into and that they had to find a way to escape it.. You can’t run forever, because one day, just like your life will end, mankind will end and the universe will end.. But, it’s very unlikely we will consciously as humans will be around to witness the end of the Universe. The Universe is such a freaky and utterly dangerous place, we’re so insanely lucky to exist in such a serene blip of time. Time exists on such a grand scale we only perceive it as being stable, but look around you and you’ll see that it’s not.

Perhaps tomorrow I’ll write something a bit more normal and skip out on the crash course jackass physics lessons.. haha.

I’m back home again after packing up my stuff from Mandy’s and hauling it back in here. It sucks, having a table full of wires, multiple guitars and keyboards and a few computers to move around. I had my studio over there for the last few months. What sucks is now I’m realizing how bad the acoustics are in my studio and how much better they were in her basement. Haha. I’m going to have to remedy this somehow.. Anyway, I planned to only stay at Mandy’s for a bit and ended up sort of living over there, lol, but I really didn’t have any reason to come home, other than to see my parents and my cat, since I had all my of my music stuff there. Also, I came back because Mandy left to go down to Vegas to visit her mum. She also likes to get away every once in a while and get back to her home town. I already miss falling asleep in Mandy’s bed next to her, especially with the recently added 4inch memory foam that you just sink into. My bed is really sucking in comparison!
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I could have gone down to Vegas with Mandy and had some fun, but I chose to stay here to get some work done on music. I always seem to choose the bland and boring things to do.. I’m very good at doing that.. There are so many things that I’m doing, or at least trying to do and I guess that’s the point. I’ve set up a calendar and also have a list of what I need to do and then set up as a list of priorities. The last few days I’ve been slacking a bit, but I think that’s fine. I have to throw some weekends in there like a job. It was also the last day I would see Mandy until two weeks from now and then today was the day I had to pack up all that shit and move it.

Packing, loading, driving, unloading and setting everything up took up the majority of my day… Along with beating out my bruised damaged car that had been neglected by a potentially drunk, or rather very old blind person who likes to run into poor innocent parked cars on the side of the road in the middle of the night and not tell a soul about it and opt to scurry off into their very fulfilling karmic life… They’d rather leave their red paint scuff marks and the front of their cars Bra attached as gifts embedded into my bumper and fender.. Why, thank you…

The next day, I was standing outside of the house, waiting for the Sheriff to show up. I guess I was just standing around looking like I had no purpose in my life or something. Some Mormon missionaries were going for a walk and stopped to talk with me. They told me that Jesus right now wishes me to be happy. I told them that I was raised LDS and that I have spent my entire life searching for truth and that I continue to look for it each day. I tried not to mention all the hypocrisy that has surrounded me, or to mention how bad the religion has hurt undeserving people, by their teachings overlooking good moral teachings and values. They were nice people though, so there was no reason. They asked if there was anything they could do for me, I told them if they find a red car with the front smashed in, to let me know. Hah. Anyway, enough of my rant and back to schedule. I’m going to keep trying to do my Yoga here and keep my routines. Our health is something we should all care about.. but in the last few years I’ve been slacking on it.. Maybe in the next few days, I’ll post a few ideas I’ve been jotting down in my notebooks. I’m tired and I’m going to bed now. Love you Mandy. I miss you. Have fun down in Vegas. Bring me back an In-N-Out Burger!
:)

Polaroid Kiss - Stop Motion

Credits: Tom Bennett, Brandun Reed & Earl Dixon
Produced by: Brandun Reed & Earl Dixon
Mixed & Mastered by: Earl Dixon

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We can stop unnecessary and wasteful expenditures on an expensive administration system that simply doesn’t even need to exist! About 40% of health-care expenditure is wasted on paperwork that denies people care, when all paperwork and administration could otherwise be reduced to only 5%.

We need to fight for our rights to see any doctor that you choose at any hospital you choose, rather than the limited list supplied with your employers benefit plan! If your company is even offering you dental? Medical? lol. Politicians are telling us that we already have choices and that if we support a national health-care system that we won’t otherwise, or supposedly it would be sub-par service. This isn’t true. In other countries people have the choices to see any doctor at any location they choose.

Fight for a system of health-care that is NOT concerned with increasing its net profits by denying people care! You should understand that a company that is run by private individuals encourages the people under them to make the most money they can while spending the least amount that they can. It is after all, first and foremost a business and businesses run in make a profit. This is a conflict of interest to your health!

I would much rather be in a system that pays doctors depending on how many of their patients health improves. I would rather any disease that might come be prevented in the first place. I’d rather live longer than the average American does now. I want preventative care! I want my doctor to be paid better by making me better!

Our government has been telling us lies and somehow, most of us don’t know that other countries have successfully had free universal health-care for more than 60 years, the only one most of us had heard of is our closest neighbour, Canada. If that is the country you think I’m talking about, it isn’t at all near the best system. If this is all that comes to mind, I would suggest that you do some research. Most of the World believes health-care is a RIGHT rather than a privilege and so should we!

A bottle of pills does NOT cost even near $200 in other countries! Try $10. How much does it cost to manufacture these ‘magical’ drugs? What happened, is under our noses, congress passed a bill to allow pharmaceutical companies to charge whatever they want.. I remember noticing when prescription prices went through the roof. Most of us know that these prices are absurd!? But why don’t we do something about it? So, is our country footing the bill for the schooling that leads the R&D to develop these products? Yet another private enterprise. School is the most expensive in America than any other country and we’re some of the not so well educated.

America is supposed to be a democratic country! This means a country that is run by the people, for the people! At least that is what we’re told, but this is a federal constitutional republic. We’ll have to convince those who are in charge. This is not supposed to be a country that fears its government! From what we’re told, this is a country that our rulers should be thrown out if they’re not offering us what we want! Perhaps most of us are not being educated well enough to know what we want!? I could get into how general public education should be extended beyond 12th grade, but then I’m being a socialist?! We have to take things one step at a time, right? We are the people, who choose our politicians, so why do the majority of us keep picking the ones who are causing us harm?

There are a lot of rich CEOs who will tell you what a bad idea national health-care is. After all, they’re not to eager to lose their entire non-necessary industries. Other people will slap the name ’socialism’ on public health-care. You have to understand how many billions of dollars this would make people loose and how many people would be out of work, because there would no longer be a need to collect your money!

When these businesses will do when they start getting scared, is try to cover more people, while more frequently denying life-saving care for people. Perhaps they’ll make us all pay a bit more so that they can cover almost everyone. But they’ll have us all fooled into thinking that they have a plan and now everyone is covered.. You can’t trust a conflict of interest. It’s like trusting a leech who’s negotiating sucking less blood as long as you don’t rip him off your back. If private companies are to rule our health-care system, they should not be able to deny ANY treatment, whatsoever! They should not be able to deny you insurance because you have diabetes, cancer or heart trouble. They should not be able to deny anyone care.

If you don’t know what socialist means, here is a list of what our politicians call “evil” socialist things already in America: K-12 education, libraries, post office, fire department, and police. I don’t even really mind the police so much, because if something happens to me, they are there to protect me and all I have to pay them are part of my tax dollars for their services. I would rather us all pitch in with taxes than pay an arm and a leg for the police helping me out if I needed it. That doesn’t sound bad to me. It doesn’t sound like a bad idea for me to pay a bit more in tax dollars to insure 100% of the population of our country either. Besides that, with as long as we wait to see doctors, despite what our politicians and media says to us, the lines are no longer in counties with national health-care.

We may be the last people in the World to have universal health-care. Support the Legislation HR 676 and urge your politicians, friend and families to support it. Read through it yourself, it explains how everything could work. Thanks.

Gangsta Lead Extravaganza! lol.

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From the Take It & Break It Remix Competition.

Own Little World Remix CD

A double CD featuring the Audesi Remix of the Celldweller track ‘Own Little World’ and 25 remixes by other artists is available to order now for $12.99 by clicking here. Official release date is June 1st, 2007. You can leave comments here. Enjoy! :)

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Besides the remix for Celldweller, you’ve also produced a fair share of your own music. As Celldweller’s sound is somewhat different from yours, how difficult was it to adapt your style of making music to fit a Celldweller remix?

Dixon: This one was a bit challenging at first. It took me about a week to come up with an idea I wanted to run with, but I’m always up for the challenge to work on something different and to take the chance to expand my musical palette. I enjoy taking an idea and twisting it around to play against peoples expectations. For example, with our ‘Own Little World’ remix, I added an erhu to the chorus, which is this crazy bowed two-stringed Chinese instrument. I had a lot of fun creating the remix, and I already have something laid down for the Round Two track, ‘Frozen.’ Ideas have been flowing from my mind before I even got access to the tracks stems!

Creating this remix could potentially gain Audesi’s own music some exposure among Celldweller’s fans. What are your hopes for Audesi? What are you looking to accomplish musically?Dixon: We would like to share what we do with as many people as possible and in return, hope for the ability to sustain ourselves by doing what we love the most! I believe there are universal goals pertaining to both Celldweller and Audesi’s music. We both enjoy blending multiple genres of music together to create something unique, as well as spending countless hours in the studio perfecting those amalgamations. I’ve noticed Celldweller fans have a wide array of musical tastes, both industrial and entirely outside. They’re also into groups like NIN, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, New Order, Aphex Twin, The Cure, BT, and Imogen Heap. These are also just a few of the influences that we mix together to create our sound and also some similar tastes our fans share amongst each other.

What’s next for Audesi? In the past, the members of Audesi released CDs as Underground Bass Masters. What can people expect from your full-length debut in 2007?

Dixon: Our debut will encompass the gamut of electronic music while having a rock sensibility to it. I promise it won’t be another boring dance record, nor quite what you would have expected to hear from a member of the Underground Bass Masters, either. You’ll hear more vocals, guitars, bass guitar, breakbeats, straight beats, acoustic instruments, as well as some homemade synth concoctions of our own! We also hope to take the show on the road and to, in the future, venture into other avenues of music such as film scoring and producing other artists.

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From FIXT Music / Position Music Production Music Series - Volume 32 (Electronic)

Close your eyes for a second,
In the brightest of sunlight.
and, like a shapshot,
Memorize the quaint details
of the very best summer
of your lifetime.
Air that smells like honey,
I would pay money,
To keep the days sunny,
And have barbeques in the park.
As if there were no tomorrow.
Such a beautiful evening
When everything cools down.
Memories of my life
Flash before my eyes.

And I shed a tear when I look back
When everything has changed and I stand here alone,
Thinking back at moments good and bad,
Even the worst seem to have meant something.

In chaos we can find sanctity,
Deriving inspiration from our emotions,
Beauty defies logic and comes to us in waves
And flows from our hearts with mathematical precision.

Just as lightning strikes with powerful strength,
In a blink of an eye it can be measured in length.
As it’s laid out as it was, derived from divinity,
Leading to the path to infinity.

Earl [Audesi]

BT’s Message:

I wish I was addressing our community under different circumstances. Unfortunately an event has occurred that in my opinion warrants a unique approach that ends not only in a solution for the situation that I have found myself in, but also takes a fresh look at how we can help better serve our entire community as a whole. I have been robbed of much of my current gear, for both recording an