Archive for May, 2004
Nigritude Ultramarine

Nigritude UltramarineFresh back from a little schooling in The Woodlands, Texas; and it’s good to be home. I think that’s the first time I’ve been to a school all alone. I had to rely on only three alarm clocks and a wakeup call to get myself going in the morning. It wasn’t easy, but I made it to class on time everyday.

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warm, creamy goodness

Tone
Played at the Nutty Brown Cafe with the UC guys last night. It was a really nice time; lots of friends and relatives showed up, a nice waitress brought me a big coffee dispenser right up on stage, and I was really pleased with my tone. A saxophone player who was near the stage went out of his way to compliment my tone, so I’m pretty sure I wasn’t just imagining the warm, creamy goodness of my rig.
The rest of the story, though, is that I was hearing from people that I wasn’t coming through very well in the mix. Even my dad said that I needed to be a little louder, and in all the years he’s had the opportunity to say that to me I think that’s the first time. I was, as is my habit, miking from off-center. That’s probably the first thing I’ll try changing; my sound was set on full-butter and maybe a little off-center was all that was needed to wash it out. Maybe I’m just looking for the wrong sound for such a large band -lots of sonic action in my tone-space up there.
Anyway, not subjecting others to the full barrage of atonal sputum I’m putting out may be the best thing that can happen. And I enjoyed the show…

Web of Trust

[Web of Trust Notary Seal] I finally put up a little Web of Trust page. It’s content poor at the moment, but at least I have something. So get yourself a certificate and join the cool kids! It doesn’t seem as elegant as the OpenPGP decentralized web of trust model, but it’s probably more likely to actually work. *shrug*

Fence Update: Sorry for the delay, I’ve been busy. The City decided to just end the fence where they thought it looked nice, and we had to finish it out. We did have a visit from Councilman Liz and then some sort of late-night summit meeting across the street wherein the major players in the Liberty Hill Cabal furrowed their brows and called The Man to try to talk him into doing something, but I can hardly imagine what. Anyway, we haven’t heard a thing about it since the cement dried, except that Councilman Janet and her husband came over to look at it. They said that the city should have abided by the agreement. I guess that’s why no one mentioned it to her.