Aaah!
I'm definitely turning into Tweek. Ahhh!
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Wow, caffeine messes you up! I feel like Tweak. Ahhh!
Works actually been going decently lately and I'm feeling more on the ball about some stuff there. I should probably let it go at that as there are more interesting doings.
I made a call to good ol' C. College and I think they liked me. Hurrah!
Work has begun on turning my trusty PowerMac 8100/100. I got that free in 1999 through a friend and I've gotten way more millage out of it then can ever be considered fair. I “sold” it to my Mom when she helped me pay for the computer I took to college and then gave it to Amber when I gave my Mom the machine I had bought for college two years later. It then rotated back to the family briefly and did a stint as an email terminal in my pod for a few months my senior year. Since then it has been sitting in my folks' attic not doing a whole lot of anything. Hopefully that will all change soon thanks to this lil' project. I tried installing Debian Woody last night, but it seems I need to use the built-in ethernet vs. the card I installed a while back. This unfortunately necessitates finding an AAUI dongle, but I should be able to find one somewhere and get back on track. Finally I can get a little experience with Linux and hopefully give my old PowerMac a new lease on life.
found it
And it's even what I was going for when I used it. Oh I'm feeling fucking clever right now!
From Dict.org:
2 definitions found for bombastic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Bombastic \Bom*bas”tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s”t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s”t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas”tic*al\, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. –
Bom*bas”tic*al*ly, adv.
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. –Burke.
Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
bombastic
adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”;
“tumid political prose” [syn: declamatory, large, orotund,
tumid, turgid]
new coke: lesson of the day
If you want something done, you have to do it yourself. Ain't no-one to rely on but you! Other people most definitely can come through, but if you count on that and they don't… Well for one thing you're asking other people to take care of your life goals and that ain't right. For another… well you just have to accept they might have more pressing needs or else don't want you along for the ride and if you aren't at least prepared that could conceivably happen, you're left sitting on your ass wondering where things went wrong and how you went from 2 to 5 to 2 to 1 in a little under 3 years. What's really sad is that while my obsessive and demanding personality probably set me back to 2 it was pure dumb ass luck that leaves me looking once again at 1. I've always liked to play, and I love taking some lick and turning it into a tune, but I've never been much on my skills as a lyricist. On that front, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of other peoples skills in that area either so… what you gonna do. Most rock lyrics are trite anyhow. I'll just have to become trite as I throws out my bombastic rhymes yo! I still need to look up bombastic…
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Parsnip Pie
I got my order in for drums on demand and they should've shipped it via yesterday morning. Hopefully he'll deliver it to me safe, sound and soon! Meanwhile, I'm trying to get fired up about assembling some demos and sending a bass-less version out to Pete in DC. There's a possibility now that he'd only be back for a few weeks in late August and that means we'd have to be ready to get down to business regarding recording etc. On the plus side Ben called me about getting together and jamming with him and his brother and that beats the musical masturbation that is me alone with my guitar. I guess Dan (aka ) has been a busy beaver crisscrossing the Dakotas and getting things done regarding work and school. Good for Dan… I'm still waiting to start in for real on this studio thing, but I'm told they actually have something for me to do, and that's progress over earlier. Overall, I'm feeling really good about the future now, and not even that bad about the present. Here's a virtual toast to ever-present possibilities and being able to see them.
Bumpabum
Amused am I , oh yes says I. I'm not really listening to Drums on Demand, but I am going to buy their wacky CD's of live drum loops and get back to work on the music thing. I've let that set entirely too long. I need to focus and get shit done on some demos this summer before Pete gets back (assuming Pete gets back) and we get down to business writing new tunes etc. Someday I'm going to owe a lot to the people who see some genuinely good core underneath the rough edges on music I've been making up to this point, and I'm probably going to be a little disappointed with those who really haven't given me a chance who will say they were there the whole time.
I should qualify that twice: no one who reads this falls into the second category, and who can say if there will ever be a point where I'll be in band successful enough to make people who could give two shits about my music now lie and say they were there all along. In any event I'm already feeling a little pretentious calling it my music. The best music I've ever made has always been a collaborative effort. I'm unfortunately short on collaborators right now, but hopefully these rough demos will be a good starting point when Pete gets back in the fall. I'm also hopeful we can find someone to fill the gaps in our own writing abilities. Luke used to do this really well, and we probably didn't take advantage of that the way we should have the last year BCB kicked around. Bastard has a way with words. Ahh, but that's OK, my own discontent just comes out too much in prose. Prose, beautiful prose. Still if I keep working my J O B long enough, maybe I'll have something more poetic and depressed to say.
Apple kicked out some interesting new shit this week. They've revised their PowerMacs (zip zip m.f.) and introduced a new portable wireless router the size of the A/C adapter on my powerbook. I can maybe afford the second, but need to get over the first. My laptop here is plenty fast, although it's portable HD is a little slow when it comes to processing audio, but that's what the external FW one is for.
I really need to buckle down this weekend and demo an F-in song. I'm tired of being nobody doing nothing. I need some purpose. Real purpose. And they say lucky people make their own luck, so I'm going to bust out the ol' rabbit's foot and get to work.
Meanwhile it being somewhere between the hours of 8am and 5pm on a weekday, I better get back to “work” know what I mean?