08:04 <@ejp> fagbot: doot the various and sundry tits in Angel
08:04 <+fagbot> Repent and trade, cheapsters, or God will arrive in a cab to kick some ASS!
08:04 <@solios> god's in an alcove, not a cab.
08:05 <@ejp> yeah, it's *jerbus* who's the cabbie.
08:05 <@solios> :o
08:05 <@solios> fagbot: jerbus is also The Cabbie Of Gid
08:05 <+fagbot> okay, solios.
08:06 <@ejp> he drives the Yellow Chariot of The Almighty.
08:06 <@ejp> which has an IHOP ad on top.
08:06 <@solios> XD
08:07 <@solios> ejp++
08:10 <@ejp> (we're both going to hell)
08:11 <@solios> hell++
08:11 <@solios> fagbot: hell?
08:11 <+fagbot> L'enfer, c'est les autres.
08:11 <@ejp> with any luck we'll get sent to the Eternal Topless Bar.
08:12 <@solios> there to suffer the Eternal Friction Burn.
08:13 <@ejp> no, they have happy endings in hell.
08:13 <@solios> :o
08:13 <@solios> oh yeah, chastity is the heaven thing.
08:13 <@solios> explains why all the christians look constipated.
08:14 <@ejp> fuckin' prudes.

Yeah, it's been around awhile. Not caring.

09:49 <@bda> john: I don't know if I'll be able to make it. I'm pretty sick. :\
09:50 < solios> you're always sick.
09:50 < solios> you need more midichlorians.
09:54 <@ejp> bda: seriously. you need...something.
09:54 < solios> maybe he has aids.
09:54 <@ejp> weakass constitution.
09:54 < solios> CON 3
09:54 < drusilla> it's the freckles
09:54 <@ejp> solios: you forget the -
09:54 <@bda> :\
09:54 < drusilla> each freckles weakens the consitution by 0.03%
09:55 <@ejp> but they're so *cute*
09:55 <@bda> >_>
09:55 * drusilla has a few scattered freckles, and the CON to match
09:55 <@ejp> except on bda. where they just look like a pox.
09:55 < drusilla> see? SEE! i'm right.
09:55 < solios> one of his 2d6+1 pox.
09:55 <@ejp> poxii?
09:55 < mdxi> NO
09:55 <@ejp> poxses?
09:56 < solios> poxix
09:56 <@ejp> Poxix Linux.
09:56 < solios> Poxux
09:56 < drusilla> see? SEE! i'm right.

Project crunch time.

Five minute motion graphics CG and slideshow at HD 720p - pretty much done but the plasma display developed an electrical fault. Pause on compression testing, replacement part supposedly showing up at some point today.

Eleven minute multimedia (slideshow/video mix at HD 720p) narrative reconstructed - moved from After Effects to Final Cut Pro for rapid video development. This thing has to be subtitled, and the entire project is audio sensitive. Doesn't work well with the "crowded office" thing, especially when a couple of knuckledragers just informed me that they'll be drilling holes through the ceiling today.

Fucking good thing I'm third shift this week.

Well, sorta third shift. More like 8pm-10am, with the 630-10 thing being coworker interface and the rest of it being about the only time the building (construction) and office (people) is quiet enough to get anything done in the way of audio work. :P

Funny thing about noise isolating headphones and a screenfull of video is people think they can still interrupt you for whatever.

Overtime kicked in at 00:15. I'll be chugging on this thing until it's done, which is looking like a nice chunk of extra cash. Fingers crossed, and thank gid They made the mistake of taking me off of salary and putting me on hourly.

Wake schedule is usually 11am-3am. Last week and most of the weeks before it was more like 3pm-5am. Right now it's roughly 7pm-12pm.

Definitely digging this "no people" thing.

The 13th PPAC release, featuring several remixes, some beats, and some ambience. Album artwork is vastly better than Canned, using photographs taken around Xeno's old place. As usual, it's the best PPAC album ever.

01. Hymenoptera : A drum and bass cover of Flight Of The Bumblebee, built with samples, loops, and a FotB MIDI dug up on the interwebs. FUN.

02. Anal Bouys : Remix of the Crust Requiem track Channel Bouys. Stripped down, with more emphasis on the drums and the bass.

03. Glork (Wombat) : Clunky, beat-heavy remix of Glork, the second track from CROONER.

04. PSSPWR [V1.5 Xopher.tm D-Con.Struction mix] : A nice bit of dark ambience between glorkings.

05. Glork (Wolverine) : Sounds slightly more like the original Glork at the start. More varied than (Wombat).

06. Abrasion : The first track cut for the album, Abrasion features _Lasar on telephone and an extensive, abrasive, stereoriffic rework of parts of Beef Knuckleback Has A Posse.

07. Migraine : Grey industrial ambience transitioning into beats, transitioning into grey industrial ambience. One of the better instances of PPAC grind.

08. This Knife (Lacerated) : Destruction and reconstruction of This Knife, a late-90s track from PPAC's resident South African, Vai. Sounds vaguely Godfleshy.

09. Brainreef : Loop elements from This Knife interact with Bouys drum loops and police radio to form the danciest track on the album.

10. Blockage : Scrch-scrch-screech-crunchcrunchcrunchcrunch-HONK.

11. Pisspower [V2.5 Xopher.tm Duncemix] : Noisy goodness from Xopher.tm. I had to crank up the body of the track to bring the decibels in tune with the rest of the album, which is a good thing - this mix kicks.

12. Hypnagogia : Drone-grade industrial ambience.

13. Pissmissile : The sound of a urinary tract infection. Actually, the sound of pissing with distortion, stereo delays, sample delays, tape loops, etc. slathered on top. From what I've heard about UTIs, this is pretty accurate.

14. Subnuclear Bevelator : PPAC attempts to channel SPK again. Mostly RRRRRRRRRURURURURRUR, though the second half has some nice variety, and a great exit to the album.

Email for mp3s, etc.

Image edited by _Lasar. I loled.

Saturday : Forget when I got up. Work, then Goth Night. Ride home from Tara around one, grab Jen and go to Cat On A Stick, then walkentalk until around three. Nap until 5am Sunday.

Sunday : Up at 5am. Zombie out at the rig until around ten, when I realize I'm not getting any sleep in this heat. Go to work. Get some work-work done, field a couple of photoshop calls from Jen. Pass out under my desk around four, and by "pass out" I mean "drop like a ton of bricks." Thud sound effect and all. Vaguely recall the phone ringing a couple of times - apologies to Jen for missing the calls, hope she got her Photoshop homework in on time.

Monday : Wake up under my desk at 1am. Sore shoulder but otherwise fine. Work on some work stuff, followed by PPAC* and other things until 9am. Bust out a work day. Sustain until around 5, when I start getting punchy. Punched out somewhere between 5:30 and 7 - 7 by IRC logs but I remember none of it. Pass out under the desk again.

Tuesday : Wake up under my desk at 3am. Realize I'm out of provisions, filthy-sticky, and generally bleah. Kick the internets a few times, raid the vending machines. Bus home at 0548. Today's high is supposed to be in the mid 90s. I'm out of shampoo and food, so I need to do a supply run but nothing is open yet. Dunno if I'm going to call off work, or what yet.

Appeneded, Tuesday : Watched half a season of Buffy, showered, provisioned, got back to work around three. Did some work-work. Napped from around seven to around eleven.

Wednesday : Worked on CG processing until around one or two. Back under the desk until six. There's a meeting around 0930, and it's one I need to be at... so it's probably a good thing I'm here to not miss it. The bank website reveals that the landlord hasn't cashed the July rent check yet. Oof.

Summer as usual.

* Finished the remix of Crust Requiem's "Channel Bouys," transforming it into Anal Bouys. Took some of the drum bits and built Brainreef. Found a midi file [midi downloaded from Safari or the Quicktime Plugin in Firefox won't drag-and-drop into Garageband, but midi downloaded using the Firefox contextual menu does - go figure] of Flight Of The Bumblebee and mutilated it into Hymenoptera. Remastered This Knife (Lacerated). Ripped my brains out with Pissmissile- too Merzbow for the current album, but it did the job of keeping me awake. Wombat mix of Glork (from Crooner). A big day for PPAC, all things considered.