very belated

It would seem that I've been away from this blog for a lot longer than I had originally planned.

A lot's happened mostly just being caught up in the married life, but also I got work on a website, it's an online support community for people with mental illness. I'm waiting on the very final version of my CD and planning the next one. I started and then neglected a blog for wedding and honeymoon photos and I got a patronage as a musician, I get money enough for my wife and I to live on and a work space provided that I am making and recording music. It's pretty exciting and a real morale boost to know that someone out there believes enough in my music that they'd pony up that kind of cash.

I went looking at a studio space yesterday in East Van and it looked good it was already sound proofed and seemed a reasonable rent. I'm still looking but nothing else has really come up in the past couple of days It would be nice to set up in a place with more direct light but anywhere else would need to be soundproofed and well lets just wait and see how things turn out.

Right now I've got to go and get some work done hopefully I'll have more to say soon... as in sooner than the last time I said anything like that.

Hey Guess What...

I'm still here

I just thought I'd post here to re-affirm that I'm not going to let this blog lay fallow. I was going to write a different post but a public blog is not the right place for it. maybe I should start keeping a journal again?

I said it and now I did it!

So you know how a couple of posts ago I said I might move to a new location with more specifically musical intentions...

well I just started that new blog here I plan on keeping this one up but I'm not certain if or how often I'll be updating it. I'll probably keep posting here occasionally since there's advantage to having a personal blog but only time will tell.

ok so go to http://wiresource.blogspot.com/ and tell everyone you know to go there too. Also if you have electronic musical instruments that you want reviewed send them to me and I'll review them.

Also, give me all your money.

Shut That Fucking Music Off!

Honestly I'm surprised that it's taken so long for anyone to complain. I was having a great old time with the MS20 and Sr. Vikki knocked on my door and asked if I had heard a shout I told her I hadn't and she said that she had heard someone shout "shut that fucking music off!" from somewhere outside.

Again, I'm surprised that it's taken so long, sometimes when I'm programming I get tranced out and then it's dawn and I can't keep going any longer because my body's given out I can't tell you how often that's happened but I know it's not irregular or abnormal for me especially when I've had too much coffee or red bull. Anyway the shout happened at midnight so I'm going to just take the message to heart and be grateful that I had so many good months of late night analog jams.

Also I've just discovered another music blog which has been very interesting to read go here and tell everyone else you know to go here too.

Also I have been discovering the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and playing with Garageband. I heart Radiophonic music. Also Hugh LeCaine. And Don Buchla

Delia Derbyshire is really awsome

steam punk modular synth??!?!

I can feel a change in the air

I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and I've decided to put an end to "The Journal of the One Man Revolution" at least in it's current incarnation. I haven't done anything with this blog that I had intended when I moved off of Live Journal. That's not to say I've done nothing I set out to. Since starting this blog I've gone on to do wonderful stuff at The Christian Radical Blog and my spiritual life is far from being at a stand still.

I guess that the thing is that I'm not much of a personal blogger. I don't use this as an actual journal and I rarely keep one on paper I have hangups about recording long pieces of my life in that way which I'll spare you. Also as you know I've gone from occasionally ranting about my life to constantly ranting about synth gear, electronic music and wanting more synth gear.

I'm nearing a personal goal of having the money to buy something modular for my rig and what I hope will begin a long but exciting process not only of accumulating new modules to create a truly portable and extremly versatile synth of my own but also to compliment the mini studio I've started in my room.

I've also become aware of how little time I've been devoting to other things in my life, specifically my guitar. When I began to learn subtractive synthesis and the MS20 I hoped to integrate the two disciplines but in the past few months synthesis has overtaken my guitar to the point where I need to devote a lot of time to get back what I've started to loose both in calluses and in practice.

Also Sumer is here and that means busking is possible and I want to do it.

This I suppose is tangential but it has a point and the point is that with the Christian Radical in both blog and zine form taking on average an hour and a half every day and a webcomic which needs updating every day and a hankering to make musical noise and write about it I'm changing the nature, name and look of this blog very soon. I've got a name and I've got some ideas for what I hope to do with it but you can be assured that it's going to be music oriented and casualy updated, essentially when I have things to write about and things to post.

I need a couple of days to figure out how to make the requisite changes here and whether or not to change the URL as well as the title and look of the blog. We'll see soon enough. For now I'm just writing to express my intentions, I'm not sure if anyone other than my mom and occasionally a hand full of my friends read this site to begin with but in case you are a regular reader and come here one day to discover that it's no longer the same place I hope you won't be disappointed, and I hope you stick around.

The nature of every revolution is change, like a fire which takes out all the dead wood in the forest and creates nurse logs for the seedlings to be born out of. In the all consuming spirit of this one man revolution I'll be burning this old blog out with the hope of birthing something new from its ashes.

And now for some robots playing rock music