Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Hey! Don't forget to listen to my DJ sets tonight.
One entry down from this one has the details!
WOODY ALLEN: Whenever I go to a party, I always drift off into one corner — you know, like Montgomery Clift — and I try and look pensive and I thumb the backs of leatherbound volumes that I've never read, in the hopes that some really fantastic woman — flowing black hair and diaphanous gown and black eye-patch — would come up and ask me what I'm brooding about. But so far no one ever has.
PAUL KRASSNER: What would you say if one did?
WOODY ALLEN: I would probably stammer and stutter and drop things.
That's from an old interview in The Realist (1965)… Reading it I really felt like it was echoing my own story, although I think I can say that I have met some really fantastic women by just being me and hiding in the corner. You wouldn't think it would work but sometimes it does — that said, I certainly have done my share of stammering, stuttering, and dropping of things. I'm a relatively confident person in general terms and feel like I've been quite successful in most endeavors, and usually have no problem meeting new people, but while I love the thought of meeting another fantastic woman (one day), I won't deny that it terrifies me as well.
I feel like I'm in a funny position, because not only am I a pretty weird person which limits the amount of people who are interested in being around me (and that's OK), but because of my work with BME and the visibility that my life has, it makes it hard to meet people in any normal or private way. Not that I'm looking to go out and meet anyone right now, but maybe if I get started on the stress now it will be gone when the time comes — or it will have snowballed, I don't know… It's not like I even know where to begin!
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
I was pulling data off old hard drives this afternoon and stumbled across a website documenting Rachel and my first date (in Jamaica). It's both very suitable and utterly unsuitable for a Valentine's day post? But it was a nice week (note: both Rachel and I are much thinner these days, so excuse the chubby pictures, and the writing is upsettingly pretentious and amateur).
Tonight I'm
co-hosting Saira's radio show, doing two forty five minute sets. The first set is a pretty cool mix of late sixties and early seventies psyche-rock and teen beat stuff from Mexico, Peru, Cambodia, Turkey, and Southern Africa, with a bit of Italian soundtrack music thrown in for good measure. If you're the sort that gets high, turn up your speakers and light up for this set. Seriously.
The second set is a “lovesongs for the loveless” mix (I'm all about the daily theme I guess)… It's pretty much what I used to play on my show and on BME/Radio, with some Neil Halstead, Kings of Convenience, Julee Cruise, Mercury Rev, Spiritualized, Papa M, Sodastream, and then a little kick of Phoenix, Pansy Division, and Mika Hase at the end to keep you from staying depressed.
Listen Live via Streaming Radio (Free)
Time: 11 PM to 2 AM EST, Tuesday Night
Broadcast on: CHRY 105.5FM (Toronto)
Internet Streaming Link: https://130.63.20.59:8000/listen.pls
Enjoy! Send me a message and let me know what you think of the show!
Monday, February 13, 2006
I don't really have an entry for today… My car pickup got bumped to tomorrow, but I did redesign some of the BMEvideo software to make updating much faster. And for some strange reason my insurance payments have dropped from $800+ a month to $100 even. I think it might be because I told the older lady that was dealing with my account about how I'm back in Canada with my daughter because of a breakup and she got all sad… I seriously thought she might cry.
Anyway, I wanted to point out the massive speed increase you're seeing. As well as the routing problems in the Toronto area, it was some incompatibility with our switch and an upstream provider. It was Rachel who figured out what the problem was and got it fixed. So full credit and thanks to her!
BE MY VALENTINE?
Sunday, February 12, 2006
I'm really sorry about all the problems accessing the various sites over the past two days. According to our usage charts it appears to be a 30% – 45% drop in access, and I suspect those that get through are not getting through with good speed or consistency. The problem appears to be Toronto-wide, because both the cable networks and the DSL networks are experiencing major problems… I don't know exactly what the issue is (routing presumably), but while we have trouble reports in, it's beyond our control and is not due to our servers. I am operating on the assumption that it will be resolved shortly.
On Tuesday night I'm co-hosting Saira's radio show (in Toronto you can listen on the radio, and I'll post a streaming internet link as well for those who want to check it out)… I've been putting together a good set of music to play that night, which will be split between a psychedelic set and a Valentine's day set of love songs… In the first set, I've got a lot of great old psyche rock from Cambodia, Turkey, Mexico, Peru, Africa, Italy, and elsewhere — El Tarro De Mostaza, Pan Ron, Ros Sereysothea, Selda, Mazhar Ve Faut, Voa Saroun, Sinn Sisamouth, Pax, Silvetler, Baris Manco and Kaygisizlar,Cem Karaca and Apaslar, The Ventures, Rikki Llionga, Ofege, Los Hitters, Instro, Piero Piccioni, and lots more.
I haven't decided on the second set yet but I can do that one in my sleep…
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Here is mostly what I spend my mornings doing as I do the single dad thing (ok, that's not really true because Jon is here and it's more of a “my two dads” type situation — am I Paul Reiser or Greg Evigan?). I've always loved blocks, Lego; anything that involves building. I actually play with them at night after Nefarious goes to bed as well:
In a little while we're going to go for a walk and have dub brunch at the
diner down the street. It's a nice walk that includes the three-story old
iron bridge over the railroad tracks that run through the Junction. Even though we do have a car right now, I've walked more in Toronto than I have anywhere in years.
Other than that, it's been rumored that sometimes companies use subliminal sexual references when marketting a product. I can't imagine such a thing is true?
Maybe it's the guarana, maybe it's the sildenafil citrate, I'm not sure…
but I do know that I really feel a craving.
