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| Yasunari 2004-10-26, 7:06 pm |
| hi.
i want to start talking. i know you dont know me. but i want to stay.
i may get a job. someone offered me a job in a back room of an
electronics store to make computers. i lost my job a year and a half
ago because i was suicidcal and i wanted to quit so no one would know
but i didnt do it. some offered my a job and im surprised. as much as
i d like to do it i have this pit in my stomach.
i live at home and i take care of my dad though he doesnt ened much
help anymore. he lost his leg a couple of years ago. i was taking a
japanese class but i recieved a phone call that disturbed me. and i
couldnt get out of bed and leave my room, and i forfeited the class.
the cycle makes me more paranoid month after month. my friends are
gone because they seem to be able to handle things. i cant. i have
one friend who lives far away and then another who is farther.
i have not been diagnosed schixophrenic. but the posts here are nice.
and i feel comfortable reading and i want a place to feel alright.
i just want to stay here for a while.
'I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
and the speech which cannot be grasped.'
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| Art Monk 2004-10-26, 10:06 pm |
| Welcome. Make yourself comfortable, ignore the trolls, and taste the
nectar of camaraderie.
Regards,
Art Monk
Yasunari wrote:
> hi.
> i want to start talking. i know you dont know me. but i want to stay.
> i may get a job. someone offered me a job in a back room of an
> electronics store to make computers. i lost my job a year and a half
> ago because i was suicidcal and i wanted to quit so no one would know
> but i didnt do it. some offered my a job and im surprised. as much as
> i d like to do it i have this pit in my stomach.
> i live at home and i take care of my dad though he doesnt ened much
> help anymore. he lost his leg a couple of years ago. i was taking a
> japanese class but i recieved a phone call that disturbed me. and i
> couldnt get out of bed and leave my room, and i forfeited the class.
> the cycle makes me more paranoid month after month. my friends are
> gone because they seem to be able to handle things. i cant. i have
> one friend who lives far away and then another who is farther.
> i have not been diagnosed schixophrenic. but the posts here are nice.
> and i feel comfortable reading and i want a place to feel alright.
> i just want to stay here for a while.
>
> 'I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
> and the speech which cannot be grasped.'
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"Yasunari" <daryl@geeklife.com> wrote in message
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> hi.
> i want to start talking. i know you dont know me. but i want to stay.
> i may get a job. someone offered me a job in a back room of an
> electronics store to make computers. i lost my job a year and a half
> ago because i was suicidcal and i wanted to quit so no one would know
> but i didnt do it. some offered my a job and im surprised. as much as
> i d like to do it i have this pit in my stomach.
> i live at home and i take care of my dad though he doesnt ened much
> help anymore. he lost his leg a couple of years ago. i was taking a
> japanese class but i recieved a phone call that disturbed me. and i
> couldnt get out of bed and leave my room, and i forfeited the class.
> the cycle makes me more paranoid month after month. my friends are
> gone because they seem to be able to handle things. i cant. i have
> one friend who lives far away and then another who is farther.
> i have not been diagnosed schixophrenic. but the posts here are nice.
> and i feel comfortable reading and i want a place to feel alright.
> i just want to stay here for a while.
>
> 'I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
> and the speech which cannot be grasped.'
Welcome - pull up a comfy sofa and relax.
Michelle
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| shaolin punk 2004-10-26, 10:06 pm |
| Yasunari wrote:
> i have not been diagnosed schixophrenic. but the posts here are nice.
> and i feel comfortable reading and i want a place to feel alright.
> i just want to stay here for a while.
Hello. Welcome. Make yourself comfortable.
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| Yasunari 2004-10-27, 2:06 am |
| Remember that time, on Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:21:28 -0400,
damodara@webtv.net had prophecied:
>cool.
>
>
>http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
hi ,
i saw your webpage. wher is the link to your cd? i make music as
much as i can, too.
'I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
and the speech which cannot be grasped.'
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| Art Monk 2004-10-27, 2:06 am |
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Hood wrote:
> Welcome - pull up a comfy sofa and relax.
Michelle, trying to pull up a sofa can lead a man to pull other things.
Hernias ain't fun.
Yet more bad advice offered to newcomers. <g> I'm of course joking.
Regards,
Art Monk
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| damodara@webtv.net 2004-10-27, 11:06 am |
| Yasunari,
I'm having trouble with my keyboard which means I can't copy and paste
and I am unable to edit dur to a peculiarity with the cursor.
Music?
Hiya,
Well...at my site is a click space that shows you my insert writing from
"Disinherited". However the music is not on line.
Someone here has offered to help me put some into a MP3 format so I can
stash it at a web site.
However at the current moment great events are happening. I'm working on
a new CD and because I have improved significantly since my last one,
which was finished about thirteen months ago, and because of significant
improvemnents in my recording technique I am most impressed with the
present then my history.
Already waiting for this one to happen I realized that I was partially
embarrased at most all of older work. From the perspective I have now I
can't help but see it as flawed, or insufficent.
Except "Americana".
Americana is my best recording technically. And being as its the most
recent it is still a significant work.
However, one has to consider the totality, its not all just "play the
guitar" and thats all there is to it. I had never really worked with a
guitar amplifier before. So my learning of the control knobs has
improved. Just yesterday I plugged in a new microphone. There have been
lots of small but cumulative advances.
All together it makes me feel as if something important is happening.
The brass tacks go like this: Its been maybe four days as I sit here in
the early morn. I have just four songs recorded to date. My hands are
sore from playing.
It is progressing agonizingly slow.
I have over thirty attempts recorded.
I'm saving them incase I need to choose the best one.
Wanna buy "Americana"?
Cheap 12 dollars mail order.
I get chased down and disected by mad scientists quite often. They ask
me what kind of music do you play. I have no freaken idea what kind of
music I play. They call me playing NXXXR Music (the "N" word) because I
do some country blues tunes, Folk music, cowboy music and it makes me
shriek being put in a box like that. Disection, who wants to be
disected?
Somertime, that song, is from the Broadway show "Pordgy and Bess" , Over
There" is from a Broadway play by Georg Cohen, Somewhere over the
Rainbow might have been writen for the movie "The Wizard of Oz".
Why don't they say I do show tunes???
I think I've found the answer recently. Its guitar music. Thats what I
play. I play guitar music. My logo on "Americana" has a pen and ink
silouette of me with a guitar case and "Guitar Music" writen beneath it.
Its also the answer toMy business cards. I'll just write "Guitar Music"
on em along with my phone.
A friend was speaki8ng with me a little while ago and she said that she
didn't see a reason to seperate my "Bounce" music from the more emotive
tunes. She said they all sound like you anyway, she said, in so many
words. My plan was to a two CD set, maybe stash em inside one of those
two CD jewelcases.
My personal belief that unless they hear me we don't know what we are
discussing has really gotten to me concerning my efforts to find gigs.
The bottom line is that I have to get "them" to hear me with my
equipment. I had one sold gig crumble on me because the guy thought my
CD wasn't amplified and the thought of an amp-lifier (Can't hear myself
think) was enough to cancel the arrangement.
It is completely beyond my level of understanding how a simple guitar
can be played in a room of people and not be drowned out by the soft
cloths and ambient background noise. Impossible.
Unless of course you just bang chords out and sing loud.
Insulting to think he believes I hurt people's ears and etc......
Couldn't even get him to hear me in person. Same thing happened again
this month, couldn't even get the merchandise on the table. Never heard
the stuff.
Gotta go Bye bye.
Damo
http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
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| Yasunari 2004-10-27, 7:06 pm |
| Remember that time, on Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:15:57 -0400,
damodara@webtv.net had prophecied:
>Yasunari,
>I'm having trouble with my keyboard which means I can't copy and paste
>and I am unable to edit dur to a peculiarity with the cursor.
>
>Music?
>
>Hiya,
>
>Well...at my site is a click space that shows you my insert writing from
>"Disinherited". However the music is not on line.
>Someone here has offered to help me put some into a MP3 format so I can
>stash it at a web site.
>
>However at the current moment great events are happening. I'm working on
>a new CD and because I have improved significantly since my last one,
>which was finished about thirteen months ago, and because of significant
>improvemnents in my recording technique I am most impressed with the
>present then my history.
>
well hey. if you need any kind of help, id be happy. im a recording
engineer at studio, and i also write/record my own music at home.
>Already waiting for this one to happen I realized that I was partially
>embarrased at most all of older work. From the perspective I have now I
>can't help but see it as flawed, or insufficent.
>Except "Americana".
>
>Americana is my best recording technically. And being as its the most
>recent it is still a significant work.
>
>However, one has to consider the totality, its not all just "play the
>guitar" and thats all there is to it. I had never really worked with a
>guitar amplifier before. So my learning of the control knobs has
>improved. Just yesterday I plugged in a new microphone. There have been
>lots of small but cumulative advances.
>
>All together it makes me feel as if something important is happening.
>The brass tacks go like this: Its been maybe four days as I sit here in
>the early morn. I have just four songs recorded to date. My hands are
>sore from playing.
>It is progressing agonizingly slow.
>I have over thirty attempts recorded.
>I'm saving them incase I need to choose the best one.
>
>Wanna buy "Americana"?
>
>Cheap 12 dollars mail order.
>
i do! let me find some money as im vrey low.
>I get chased down and disected by mad scientists quite often. They ask
>me what kind of music do you play. I have no freaken idea what kind of
>music I play. They call me playing NXXXR Music (the "N" word) because I
>do some country blues tunes, Folk music, cowboy music and it makes me
>shriek being put in a box like that. Disection, who wants to be
>disected?
>Somertime, that song, is from the Broadway show "Pordgy and Bess" , Over
>There" is from a Broadway play by Georg Cohen, Somewhere over the
>Rainbow might have been writen for the movie "The Wizard of Oz".
>
>Why don't they say I do show tunes???
>
<snip>
yes categorizing is stifling. if theres anything positive in it, its
that once something is coined, its a matter of time before it ends and
something new occurs. but that happens anyway, outside of categories.
when i talk to people about my music, i jsut say noise. yeh i make
some noise. or i made noise. but no matter what it sounds like, i
consider it folk. even though it sounds nothing like folk anyone is
accustomed to, i think its comign from the same place.
that woudl be great if you had some mp3s up, let me know hwne that
happens.
>
>Gotta go Bye bye.
>Damo
>
>
>http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
"I am the sign of the letter
and the designation of the division."
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| damodara@webtv.net 2004-10-27, 7:06 pm |
| WoW, Yasunari?
You're a working recording engineer?
So few people have any kind of "real" ear.
You must of course, have an ear.
Sound men in clubs are baically turn up the base and it sounds good kind
of people and I HATE to over resonate.
So if I was playing an open Mike night I'd set up my amp my way and just
swing down their boom and that basically masked much of the damage the
sound men were able to achieve.
Oh yeah sure...I gotta try to remember who offered to MP3 me now.
If you respect my work, I know that you can litterally work with each
vibration on the screen cleaning up the sounds in an incredibly
fineseful way.
Oh yeah then....."Americana" is on the plate as we speak. My new one I'm
working on might be slow in coming.
I'm realizing just now that its going to be a longer walk then I
thought.
I don't really know what I do. Intellectually , calling yourself "folk"
works and is accurate. I find labels as absolutely frightening and
dangerous.
I did a few bars for happy hours a while back and I knew if someone
described me as "Folk Music" I'd be as good as dead, musically speaking.
I did play a lot of folk during my early years.
I did a lot more then folk too.
But all this sort of talk is just drival.
I get onto an MP3 maybe you can see my "posture".
And ah yeah I have "Americana" here for 12.
Americana is a musical genre? You aware of this?
Bye for now Yasonari.
Damodara.
P.S.
Funny, you studied Japan and choose a Japanese screen name, I studied
India and choose a Hindu screen name.
http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
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| Yasunari 2004-10-28, 2:06 am |
| Remember that time, on Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:22:55 -0400,
damodara@webtv.net had prophecied:
>WoW, Yasunari?
>You're a working recording engineer?
>So few people have any kind of "real" ear.
>You must of course, have an ear.
>Sound men in clubs are baically turn up the base and it sounds good kind
>of people and I HATE to over resonate.
>
the studio i work as pretty nice. recently [like two years ago] it
went all digital. previously it was 2inch tape [which i miss]. work
is very slow, though. its either too much money to record, or they
dont have their 'act' together. i spend more time now making my own
cd's, and im [hoping] to do computer repair part time in an
electronics shop.
as far as "an ear", yeh its something i have developed and still am
developing. comparing my recordings from 6, 7 years ago to the
present time, ive improved.
>So if I was playing an open Mike night I'd set up my amp my way and just
>swing down their boom and that basically masked much of the damage the
>sound men were able to achieve.
generally the folks ive seen doing sound in a bar or club, dont seem
to know what they are doing. youve got to love sound its got to stir
you in a way like no other. but "yeh, lets bring up the
bass."...kindy empty.
>Oh yeah sure...I gotta try to remember who offered to MP3 me now.
>
how is your music recorded, computer, tape, etc? if you have .wav
files i could help you encode them. are you familiar with Ogg Vorbis?
its patent free an encoding algorithm much superior to MP3. really
nice quality. http://www.vorbis.com/
>If you respect my work, I know that you can litterally work with each
>vibration on the screen cleaning up the sounds in an incredibly
>fineseful way.
>
actually, editing is the thing i love the most. the last big project
i had worked on, i was editing each strum of this guys guitar, the
bass, the drums, vocals. personally, it didnt sound natural, but
thats what people seeme to love nowadays, and thats what the producer
wanted.
i like mistakes.
>Oh yeah then....."Americana" is on the plate as we speak. My new one I'm
>working on might be slow in coming.
>I'm realizing just now that its going to be a longer walk then I
>thought.
>
what are you thinking about for this new song?
>I don't really know what I do. Intellectually , calling yourself "folk"
>works and is accurate. I find labels as absolutely frightening and
>dangerous.
>
right. its only in my personal space that is say that.
>I did a few bars for happy hours a while back and I knew if someone
>described me as "Folk Music" I'd be as good as dead, musically speaking.
>
>I did play a lot of folk during my early years.
>
>I did a lot more then folk too.
>
>But all this sort of talk is just drival.
>I get onto an MP3 maybe you can see my "posture".
>And ah yeah I have "Americana" here for 12.
>
>Americana is a musical genre? You aware of this?
>
yes, though im not completely immersed in it. my sounds tend to be
some kind of strained relationship between acoustic or natural sounds
and the technology i use to record it. a friend or two said it
sounded like soundtrack stuff, like a strange dream soundtrack.
>Bye for now Yasonari.
>Damodara.
>P.S.
>Funny, you studied Japan and choose a Japanese screen name, I studied
>India and choose a Hindu screen name.
>
Yasunari Kawabata is favourite author of mine. have you read?
take care
>
>http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
"I am the sign of the letter
and the designation of the division."
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| damodara@webtv.net 2004-10-29, 11:06 am |
| Yasonari,
I'm having a keyboard problem.
The bottom line is that I am unable to view or copy your response to my
response while I make this response.
So.........
Also, I have miserable editing capability at present.
What I'm working on is a CD. I figure at least 14 songs. Is that too
many? Not enough?
My last couple had 18 and sixteen and were close to an hour long. What
is your perspective on number of tracks and CD length?
My burners are two stand alone copy burners. The kind they make bootlegs
with. I wanted to actually make personal recordings with them and had to
go through extreme trouble to find out where I could buy a digital audio
CDRW so that I had record and erase capability.
Imagine? They had no idea what the machine represented except as a black
market theft device. I was embarrased to explain to them that I wasn't
planning on making copies. My friends brother in law in fact, working
for the feds, chases people who make bootleg recordings.
Anyway..what ever. My point is that its not attached to a computer. Both
burners are basically identical, same engineering. I thought one broke
but it didn't. So I wound up with two burners. Identical. One cost me
two hundred and thrity approx. at discount Sam's Club prices and the
other cost me eighty bucks through the web.
Its the end of the world Yasonari? Absolutely. Only a money squandering
fool would spend his money for ANYTHING unless it was through the web.
Say good buy to all the stores and the Malls except as browsing places.
I'm trying to put a CD together yeah. I was trying to find a place to
play but after five failures I gave up. I prefer positive reinforcement
to my efforts instead of experiancing futility. I had just purchased a
portable amp (Crate TX15) thinking it would be easy to turn a dollar
with it before the cold days arrived.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
ha.
ha ha.
When I started out I just walk down the street and talk to a bar owner
and bingo bango I'm flashing my wares there the next day for happy hour.
Those were experimental gigs. I had no idea how I would be received.
I basically was in "remission" until 2000 when I returned to my guitar.
I played, oh yeah sure, but mostly the same old songs from the old days
and all my old friends at the same old parties would appreciate it all.
Know?
I have truely rediscovered my instrument. I'm 57, be 58 next month. I
feel and act like a seventeen year old on his way to the top however. I
have never practiced as intently, not even in my high growth period
passing through my early teens and twenties. I'm constantly thrilling my
self with my comtinued improvement.
I hope you know the feeling.
My amp, my real one, not the portable, is a true piece of glory. Its one
of those Crates made to amplify acoustic guitar, fifty watts. Fifty
watts is plenty.
I have no way to send music through the web as I am on a webtv unit. Its
basically a terminal. Browser and e-mail is what it does.
I have so much to do. Yes it would be good if I plugged in the computer
I have here and learned all about it. It would be good if I dug up a
copy of "Disinherited" and redid it.
It would be a good idea to go volunteer for the democrats but I am not
able to safely afford the bus fare. If I go, and they say come back
tomorrow at four? I go without basic necessities. My toilet paper is
running out. Cooking oil. Ciggies, brandy, etc.
I bvet that the portable would be able to provide me a return on my
money.
I was tragically wrong. By the day after election day I will be back on
my feet again. Unfortunately....the democrat ward workers will not be
able to receive my mucsical encouragement and rewards.
I overspent. I had complete belief in the investment. It must be some
kind of curse or spell. So I dropped it and have turned to producing a
new CD. All I need is the same thing from the democrats, who don't have
phones, come back later, what kind of music do you do? blah blah, then
come back tomorrow and I'm as good as dead. And I can not risk losing
the price of a bus ride.
I'm sitting still waiting for my check.
AND working on a new CD.
I really wanted to work for the democrats, to play music.
Really........the crowds might rise up and burn me at the stake if I
kept trying to play. I'm considering migrating to North/South Carolina
and playing the resorts. Keep my place here, just dash off to someplace
that doesn't provide the vibes my little town has.
Work a couple weeks with my CDs in front of me and a tip jar. Thats all.
I'm plenty good enough.
Long post.
Bye fr now,
Hope I addressed enough of your comments.
Dambo
http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
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| damodara@webtv.net 2004-10-29, 11:06 am |
| Oh yeah and having two burners instead of just one really really helps
my labors.
Finalizing and making copies takes a long time. I mean, a buddy made a
copy of one my CDs in five minutes, finalized and all.
Well....finalizing takes five minutes.
And for me to copy an hour CD takes thrity minutes, not five minutes.
Recording besides has a lot of song shuffling involved, at least for me,
and the two burners are extremely helpful.
http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
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| damodara@webtv.net 2004-10-29, 11:06 am |
| Never heard of that author.
I'll be more discreet in my "investments" in the future. The portable is
smart tool for me to have. Thats a certainty.
Even though I wound up in financial straits this month long term it will
be an asset, especially as the warm weather returns.
Bye,
Dambo
http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
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| gravity's rainbow 2004-10-29, 7:06 pm |
| > My burners are two stand alone copy burners. The kind they make bootlegs
> with. I wanted to actually make personal recordings with them and had to
> go through extreme trouble to find out where I could buy a digital audio
> CDRW so that I had record and erase capability.
>
i love my burner. i bought one from Pacific Digital.
my newer one is an Iomega. it doesn't work well
in windows cause Nero software tries to burn too fast. so
i use it mainly in linux. i burn perfect copies in linux.
i mainly use the machine to download new operating systems
then burn them to disc. i can burn at 24 to 52x. i'm
normally limited by the media which is 24 or 48x.
i love trying new operating systems.
michael
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| Yasunari 2004-10-31, 4:06 am |
| Remember that time, on Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:46:24 -0400,
damodara@webtv.net had prophecied:
>Yasonari,
>I'm having a keyboard problem.
>The bottom line is that I am unable to view or copy your response to my
>response while I make this response.
>
>So.........
>
>Also, I have miserable editing capability at present.
>
>What I'm working on is a CD. I figure at least 14 songs. Is that too
>many? Not enough?
>My last couple had 18 and sixteen and were close to an hour long. What
>is your perspective on number of tracks and CD length?
>
>My burners are two stand alone copy burners. The kind they make bootlegs
>with. I wanted to actually make personal recordings with them and had to
>go through extreme trouble to find out where I could buy a digital audio
>CDRW so that I had record and erase capability.
>
>Imagine? They had no idea what the machine represented except as a black
>market theft device. I was embarrased to explain to them that I wasn't
>planning on making copies. My friends brother in law in fact, working
>for the feds, chases people who make bootleg recordings.
>
>Anyway..what ever. My point is that its not attached to a computer. Both
>burners are basically identical, same engineering. I thought one broke
>but it didn't. So I wound up with two burners. Identical. One cost me
>two hundred and thrity approx. at discount Sam's Club prices and the
>other cost me eighty bucks through the web.
>
>Its the end of the world Yasonari? Absolutely. Only a money squandering
>fool would spend his money for ANYTHING unless it was through the web.
>Say good buy to all the stores and the Malls except as browsing places.
>
>I'm trying to put a CD together yeah. I was trying to find a place to
>play but after five failures I gave up. I prefer positive reinforcement
>to my efforts instead of experiancing futility. I had just purchased a
>portable amp (Crate TX15) thinking it would be easy to turn a dollar
>with it before the cold days arrived.
>HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
>ha.
>ha ha.
>
>When I started out I just walk down the street and talk to a bar owner
>and bingo bango I'm flashing my wares there the next day for happy hour.
>Those were experimental gigs. I had no idea how I would be received.
>
>I basically was in "remission" until 2000 when I returned to my guitar.
>I played, oh yeah sure, but mostly the same old songs from the old days
>and all my old friends at the same old parties would appreciate it all.
>Know?
>
>I have truely rediscovered my instrument. I'm 57, be 58 next month. I
>feel and act like a seventeen year old on his way to the top however. I
>have never practiced as intently, not even in my high growth period
>passing through my early teens and twenties. I'm constantly thrilling my
>self with my comtinued improvement.
>I hope you know the feeling.
>
>My amp, my real one, not the portable, is a true piece of glory. Its one
>of those Crates made to amplify acoustic guitar, fifty watts. Fifty
>watts is plenty.
>
>I have no way to send music through the web as I am on a webtv unit. Its
>basically a terminal. Browser and e-mail is what it does.
>
>I have so much to do. Yes it would be good if I plugged in the computer
>I have here and learned all about it. It would be good if I dug up a
>copy of "Disinherited" and redid it.
>It would be a good idea to go volunteer for the democrats but I am not
>able to safely afford the bus fare. If I go, and they say come back
>tomorrow at four? I go without basic necessities. My toilet paper is
>running out. Cooking oil. Ciggies, brandy, etc.
>
>I bvet that the portable would be able to provide me a return on my
>money.
>I was tragically wrong. By the day after election day I will be back on
>my feet again. Unfortunately....the democrat ward workers will not be
>able to receive my mucsical encouragement and rewards.
>
>I overspent. I had complete belief in the investment. It must be some
>kind of curse or spell. So I dropped it and have turned to producing a
>new CD. All I need is the same thing from the democrats, who don't have
>phones, come back later, what kind of music do you do? blah blah, then
>come back tomorrow and I'm as good as dead. And I can not risk losing
>the price of a bus ride.
>
>I'm sitting still waiting for my check.
>
>AND working on a new CD.
>
>I really wanted to work for the democrats, to play music.
>Really........the crowds might rise up and burn me at the stake if I
>kept trying to play. I'm considering migrating to North/South Carolina
>and playing the resorts. Keep my place here, just dash off to someplace
>that doesn't provide the vibes my little town has.
>Work a couple weeks with my CDs in front of me and a tip jar. Thats all.
>I'm plenty good enough.
>
>Long post.
>Bye fr now,
>Hope I addressed enough of your comments.
>Dambo
>
>
>http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
hi Damo,
a perfect cd is wonderful. perfect length songs, perfect space
between songs, perfect overall feel. ive made cds that had only three
tracks and ive made some that have 26 or over.
so, my suggestion would be to put the ones that are absolutely great,
for whatever reason that amy be. even if it sounds bad techincally,
if it stirs you, then go for it. sometimes it can be hard to take out
songs in sacrifice to overall vision, but thats also a cool power.
thats really neat that you record to two standalone cd burners.
i can understand your frustration when trying to get the right takes
in that situation.
i can agree, and its one aspect of this darkness called light called
the internet that i tend to enjoy evry much.
for example, i love to buy books thourhg it. at the same time, i love
book stores. now that barnes and noble and borders have smothered all
the little book stores, im sad about that but am wholeheartedly for
online buying.
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> I had just purchased a
absolutely rad, damo. a pal of mine recently bought an old crate bass
amp, to go wiht his old crate uitar amp. its the old ones, where it
actually looks like a crate.
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>I have so much to do. Yes it would be good if I plugged in the computer
>I have here and learned all about it. It would be good if I dug up a
>copy of "Disinherited" and redid it.
a big reason why theres not much ahppening at hte studio, is ebcause
people can now record their own stuff fairly cheaply, and with descent
results. at the same time, i love recording at home.
if you needed any help at all with recoridng on your computer, by all
means do not hesitate to ask!
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> I'm considering migrating to North/South Carolina
sounds great. how can i get your cd? where to send an M.O?
take care, Yasunari
"I am the sign of the letter
and the designation of the division."
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| damodara@webtv.net 2004-10-31, 7:06 am |
| Hi Yasunari,
If you are interested in my last CD, "Americana" e-mail me.
The address on the post works fine.
"Americana" was a Johnny Cheapo special.
Basically it just means that all the frills have been removed. No jewel
case, thus no real need for a padded envelope, thus reduction in
postage, no inserts.
I put a label on it.
I slip it into a CD sleeve envelope and mail it off in a greeting card
sized envelope.
The good thing about it is that Americana is the best, significantly the
best, technical recording I've done, and likely the best Guitr wise as
well.
Today, sunday, I'm eating my heart out as I reflect of how the past five
years have been reduced to a giant zero by my failure to play for the
democratic workers. Suffered through major lethergy, inactivity this
past year of so and basicaly let my story line lap.
Five years and at one of the biggest culminating events I come to a
screeching stop unable to get the bus feaken fare.
If not that, then if they say yes and come back? I couldn't possibly
rally two round trip bus ride trips.
I wasted time when I paused at that one place where the guy, after a
visit, and then the audition, wanted me to write something up for a
flyer. That took days.
Wasting my time.
I knew I had to recover something financially from the amps costs before
the end of the month. Too bad. Didn't happen.
I went to Atlantic City and was delayed setting up on the boardwalk
because of the strike. Four dollars was put in my hat.
Then I was told where the best places are and when to be there.
Next good day coming I bought another ticket. The charter was cancelled
at the last minute.
Then another guy wants me to come in and play. Etc etc, he wouldn't even
let me take the instrument out of the case. That do nothing cost me
another two days.
So soon as the elections are over I expect, and it is likely, that I
will receive an extra sixty dollars on my disability.
With three months arearage payment included. Isn't that funny?
Clearly I had the wrong focus and was entirely too optomistic about the
cash flow from my portable. Which would have been a real asset to the
campaign workers if they judged my work appropriate to the politics.
All to naught. Preparing for this event for almost five years too....
Dang.
And its simply too late now.
If the guy next door has the four dollars he owes me I might bus down to
the headquarters just to say hello.
So what then..Johnny Cheapos are 12 dollars. Put em in a jewelcase with
padded envelope and postage rate increase and the price of photocopied
inserts and, boom, I'd need twenty.
http://community.webtv.net/damodara/MystoryasIseeit
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