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Apparently my bones have little machines....
I don't know?! That's the Pixies told me, and who am I to question them?
Oh my, it's 90's music night in my studio - I think I'm loosing it for a second....
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
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| Mood: |  annoyed. | | Music: | Titan - Overdrive VIP. |
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Mother in a Venture Minivan ran into the MX-6 yesterday. Passenger side door and front fender need to be replaced (so far I cant tell any other damage but you just never can tell). I was parked when it happened to - of all the luck right? I looked to my right saw this wall of blue metal rushing toward me. She just put her over sized metal block on wheels into reverse and jammed the gas right into me. Blam.
Insurance claim adjuster person from her progressive company comes to look at the car tomorrow before approving drop off for repairs because they worry they will have to Total Loss my MX-6 because the coast of rapairs on a discontinued exotic import (EXOTIC IMPORT?! Who the fuck are these people) will likely be worth more than the 3200 the car is worth - something about it being sheet steel instead of aluminum and so few of the MX-6's made...Blah Blah blah - I've heard it all before - just fix my ride assholes.
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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This year's company party is really back to the good times. I hope to see many people I know there :)
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
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I've likely mentioned this previously during some year or another.... But;
It has to be said that 4-Hero's "Parallel Universe" album from 1995 is a work of such extreme excellence that it boggles the mind. It can change the direction of ANY mood, convince even the most jaded music listener that there is musical life beyond what we normally hear and ultimately solidifies it's self on all who do hear it as a thing of pure perfection.
Tracks which I personally believe you must pay special attention to are:
2. No Imitation
4. Talk Around Town
6. Wrinkles In Time
7. Terraforming (a particular standout above and beyond all others to me personally)
9. Follow Your Heart (Part Two)
10. Shadow Run
12. Sounds From The Black Hole
14. Solar Emissions
Mark Mac and Dego must have sold their souls for this one.
If you don’t have it - F%@KING GET IT!
I can’t stress this enough.
Reinforced Records R.I.P.
The "R" will always be in my heart.
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
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I was right - we did end up getting a new car. Not new-new but new to us. I snagged a 1994 Mazda MX-6 LS V-6 Coupe, Hunter Green, Full leather (tan), Alloys, Moonroof, Power everything (seats, windows, mirrors, radio, cruise, moonroof...ect), aftermarket corners and signals, aftermarket exhaust from block back, another Injen WAI like I have on the cav (the person who owned the MX-6 before us and did a little bit of work to it) and all with only 118 miles on it... The crazy car is older than my cav yet has less miles, more power and better features all around! Only downside was that it had to be an Auto-trans so my love could drive it too... Small price to pay over all though.
Speaking of price - 3400 total (included tax, tag, title) out the door. I paid it in cash in full so its 100% mine all mine. I can’t STAND car payments... so financing even such a small amount as that was really not a choice for me.
Anyway, for those who might be able to place what the MX-6 is:
Yeah, I like it too :)
Hidden Matrix that I mentioned last post is mostly complete but I've been caught up with some other tunes and a project mix I've had to put together for THREE while he gallivants around the nation :) Not quite ready to show that one yet.... but soon I promise :)
Oh - and to anyone who uses force mail that might read this in case I don’t get to you first. I'm resetting the mail service and will be setting up new email accounts upon request only. So, this means that you need to tell me you want a force mail account or it will be deleted. The site... well for that matter - the idea of what FORCE is in general and how it's represented is changing, and this is part of that process.
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Monday, August 15th, 2005
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I thought I'd make a very quick little entry here to give up the recent, past and near future just for the hell of it.
The past 3 months since moving into the main house have been great. It's been a well needed expansion of living space and in my case in particular studio space. When Dave split for L.A. he left me with the remains of the latest RITM studio to pick through and work with. The result combined with my own new additions is nearly perfect and Pattern Recognition has moved onward and upward in production quality accordingly.
The love of my life Cherine continues to amaze me with her unending amounts of love and support since we made it back from WMC 2005 in March. I'm fairly certain if we don’t reach common-law first we'll find the right time and resources to make things permanent - this is good. Then again, in it's own way it just makes sense considering our age and level headedness in just about every area of day to day living.
DJ gigs recently have mostly centered on Jaybee and me pushing the Pattern Recognition name and each one large or small turns out the heads with resounding success. Tracks of note I've noticed that people really vibe on are "Outspoken" and "Dying" with close follow ups by "Koto" and our Pattern Recognition remix of aFlame's "Please Believe". I expect the "Please Believe" 12" to develop into a single release possibly over @ test flight and would very much like to see outspoken and dying do the same somewhere else but only time will tell on all of that.
Force Recordings is nearing a new chapter beginning somewhere around the holiday season I think if financial endeavors work out how I've planned them for the next quarter - which I'm sure will be both a shock and a party for anyone sill wondering about what we were all up to with Force since 2002/2003.
We look ready to finally get rid of the 91 Stanza to be replaced by something much newer and thankfully much nicer in the next month. This little portion of the day-2-day will have its additional positive effects on the in state movement of both me and Cherine. I'm thoroughly looking forward to little development :)
Outside of these updates really things are just moving along - hopefully time will continue to grant me the benefit of a medium pace so that each of the things I've been working on can be completed on schedule and the 2006 year can start as needed in my own head. January of 2007 is what I would like to see be the start of our time in L.A. but even this relaxed schedule requires an enormous amount of work, networking and PURE GOOD LUCK to come to fruition.
Oh, I'll post up the latest CLRH2O track "Hidden Matrix" within the next 2 weeks along with it's B-side which again all things aligning as needed will meet the DnB-Nation "Beat Port" release deadline. More on that little tid-bit soon.
Cheers for now.
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I've read and seen so very little in the past day about of this tat it may already have been touched on... But,
Is anyone talking of the possibility that this was the work of the PLO and Irish militants under the cover of what s current global "Arab" terrorist times.
Just seems like there has been too much history between Brittan and Ireland in terms of death and city bombs to rule it out to me. And what better timing and cover for them to use. In fact if it is the PLO I'd be surprised they hadn’t used the global cover Al Qaeda has offered them as a militant group sooner.
Just a thought.
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The month of March has been an interesting one. The living space I've been in for the past 5 years plus has been rapidly shrinking in size with both myself and Cherine living here. Add to that the fact that my mate John H. has been partially living and working here as well and the need to move up front into the main house is even greater. Dave has been in LA for the majority of January and February looking for his new house out there in order to make the final move. Week by week the news updates from Dave got sparser and sparser until FINALLY just yesterday the phone call came in that Dave had paid for his new place out there (with a triple threat amazing view of 1) the Hollywood sign through the living room window 2) the mountains through the studio window and 3) the WHOLE of LA sprawling out beneath him from the kitchen window. Not a bad fucking find in anyone's eyes. Living in the same neighbor hood with Dave is Beck, and a few others who I cant remember the names of off hand. Not that I'm actually jealous to be honest - just the thought of moving up front in to the proper house here is a dream for Cherine and I.
All around it's a good thing that by April we'll all be sorted out and the next stages of things can comfortably move onward.
On the design tip I've been feverishly pumping out flyers and websites and CD covers and Vinyl Jackets like it's going out of fucking style. Neurodisc is back in the driver's seat again and that spells about half of 2005's annual income right there once these 6 to 8 new CD's are completed for them. Then the DJ gigs are picking back up again with the next three being WMC dates. Speaking of Winter Music Conference, John D. and I have been putting the finishing touches on Outspoken, we Were Wrong, The Perfect Break, Please Belive Rmx, Like a Feather, Summer is Coming, All Strung Out (Mushrooms), and Koto - all of which will be included on our PATTERN RECOGNITION WMX Y5K Promo CD. Along with our own originals is a disgusting round up of other exclusives from Swarm, Koncrete Synphony, Psycle, Numonics, Mumbles DJ and a few others. This year and last have already shown a massive increase in attention for us and everyone else listed here with just about everyone fielding 1 or more 12" releases. Although my own personal stint in Miami will be only 3 days as Cherine and I must get back to Tampa for other engagements I'm certain the time there will be just what the doctor ordered. And personally I CAN NOT WAIT to see what everyone hands of to me this year while I'm throwing out the Pattern Recognition CD's. I remember starting to hear some really cool things from everyone stateside around WMC 2000 and it's just gotten better each year....but this year - man, I know it's going to be idiotic how good everyone's shit will be.
I’ve been REALLY wrapped up in my own little world here since Cherine moved in - but hey, can you blame me? This is the woman of my dreams! But to anyone reading my journal and wondering where the hell I've been the past few months never fear ok - Cherine and I will be out in force very soon. :D
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
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Cherine and I are settling in quite nicely here - even given the cramped living situation until march 1st and the CONSTANT visitations by John and Flea. But what can we do - their mates right? Being fair John and Flea both really are welcome here always and at any hour but I'm SOOOOO looking forward to finally moving into the front of the house here. For the past three weeks I hav'nt wanted to say anything (really for about 5 weeks, but 3 in earnest) for fear of jinxing the whole thing. Now however things look like their getting concrete and my current roommate of 4 years is set to move out by March 1st. Dave is off to LA like everyone else I know. In his absence, an until Cherine and I can get situated to move there as well in a few years we will move into the main *house* portion of the estate here. (estate, LOL - anyone who's been here might see the humor in that)
With Cherine and I moving into the front of the house, John Hansen will move into (we are hoping at least) the area I've inhabited for the last 4 years. And even though I'm moving my own two JAMMA arcade machines out of here into the front, John looks set to move in an old Nintendo original Playchoice 1 (yes, 1, not 10) Super Mario Bros' Machine to fill the gaming void left behind.
Other happening as of recently? Cherine wired down her new job here and things seem to gelling there. I've been offered YET AGAIN another office position at a graphics an d prepress company. Depending on how much longer (months?) Neurodisc takes to sort our their new distribution partner I may actually take that offer for a little while - of course under the same unthinkable and insane requests I always give out when agreeing to work in an office...LOL. Honestly, People must really want my services because I'll be the first to admit that I have weird needs when it comes to making myself comfortable in someone else's company office. I don't talk to clients, I don't meet people in person, I must have my own office, I have to be paid as a contractor in direct deposit, I cant be made to work on corporate projects with no means to work in the styles I'm comfortable with...
It really is amazing I keep getting these offers once I've told how I have to be able to work - but hey, maybe that just means what I do is worth it to them.
mmmm, Any other news? Cherine's car needs some serious TLC - which looks like will come in the form of a new ball joint replacement (the pickle forks are already here woohoo) on the driver's side, four corner brake job and tune up. The first two John and I will handle here at the house, simple enough stuff - the Tune up though on a Nissan motor... yeah, I'll leave that to the dealership thanks.
Um, my poor car needs a wash too :D
Outside of that, here's the latest in the long string of CD designs I've completed - always making that cheddar right?
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
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| Time: | 3:57 am. |
| Mood: |  loved. | | Music: | RITM - FloorI.D.A. (Handled without care mix). |
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3:51am Wednesday Morning January 12th 2005. Our lives change here.
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Sunday, January 9th, 2005
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| Mood: |  bouncy. | | Music: | Push Button Objects - Shut Down ft. Aesop Rock. |
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I just read over last night's post and realized how utterly sappy it is.
I still feel the same though, so fuck it :D I was a sappy foo for a night, it happens - what can I say? :)
(oh, btw, I beat Half Life 2 last night... Ill is all I can say. cant wait for more in this universe of entertainment.... In the meantime I plan on playing through it again from start sometime soon)
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Saturday, January 8th, 2005
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It's been a dream of mine for 14 years - FOUTEEN YEARS!
Sure, I'd given up hope in 1994 and did what any sane person does - lives. Carries on, goes to college, buys cars, finds new love and grows into a deeper stronger person through the hard and the soft of it all.
I've spent the past 4 days in Ohio. I spent these days with Cherine. Cherine is one of my closest friends from those all important years of high school and just after. We were closer as a man and a woman then most people could understand. Neither of us have any illusions of the fact that yes, we should have dated then, yes we did make the too fucking perfect couple, yes we were compatible and it would have worked......for a while. The both of us also have no illusions that just like any other relationship people have at that age (not belittling the ones that actually do make it from high school sweetheart to 50 year marriages - which who knows, could have been us....) that they often simply end because the two of you are growing up through some INTENSE years - teen years to 30 is a HUGE change. One for the better as well I honestly believe but that can stress lovers to break.
I knew 14 years ago that Cherine was the girl I was meant to be with, although I was incapable of making it happen then in that way, and then again - maybe we had it even better without the boyfriend girlfriend thing, with a very deep and intensely emotional friendship that also encompassed (now that I look at it) the harmless physical ends of things as well: 30 minute hugs, hands clasped for whatever reason here and there. It was for us.
God - I just cant stop thinking about her - 10 years ago I told her that she would find perspective as she grew up and would determine for herself who was important to her and in what ways. Yeah, sure, I was being a young in-love boy who just wanted to be with more than I could contain, but the fact is that I knew what I said was truth. Not only for her but for myself as well. Heck anyone really - it's "captain obvious" stuff. What's not always so obvious is how a simple comment can really stick and make a difference over the long term for a person. On Saturday night the week past I received a phone message from a her, she had found me on her own from 1200 miles away and 10 years in between. The phone message stated quite simply;
"Hello, I'm looking for Clearwater or, David. This is Cherine.....If this is the right number and I've found you......call me back.....I've found my perspective"
and the number.
Sure, even me - or any other sane person would (and I was) at once blow away, elated, stunned, giddy and cautious. How can you not be? So what does any sane person do? Heh. . . probably not what I did, but that's immaterial - I went and bought a plane Ticket to Ohio. On Wednesday morning @ 10:37am with address in hand craftily garnered from her mother and grandmother on the telephone - Unannounced, I knock on a door. I heard a yelping squeal on the other side before being wrapped up in the same tiny childhood arms of the person I've always wanted.
Was I insane to go there? No, thankfully I was not.... If this happened to you, would you sit in your same chair for a week wishing you did something or would you just remember you’re an adult and to a degree EVERYTHING and ANYTHING is possible - and just go and buy that ticket? I don’t know about you, but that's what I did - and it wasn’t a mistake.
For 79 hours we talked, we walked, we drank, we ate, we held, we stared silently into one another's eyes, we took those massive deep breaths you just have to take to draw as much of the scent of the person your holding into yourself........we kissed, we.... we were together - over and over again.... She told me things you can only dream about being true and they were, but your never told at the time - about her jealousies toward the string of other girls in my life that were both friends of us the two of us and not - because they had me in whatever way and she was unable to for some reason let herself open to me how she wanted to at that time.
God, you have no idea the power of our tension and the real love only found in deep friendship. The happiness and the pain, the fright, the excitement, the... the everything that we shared for so long.
Can you imagine what it’s been like growing up having had all of that end so abruptly by our loss of contact in late 1994? It’s been a sinkhole in my soul ever since. And now, having her come back to me not just to make sure I’m alive and well, but to fill in the space that’s been empty for so long (which I’ve desperately tried to fill ever since) is just,.. it’s just amazing.
Only a scant few will understand this when I say it, but Cherine is my Charity.
I'm certain of it. I always have been.
There is so much more I could put here, some of it really isn’t for public consumption, some of it just cant be translated to text in any sort of way that will portray the true depth of itself - but know that I'm in a place you can normally only dream about - and to be certain, that I have dreamt of for a very, very long time.
What now?
Hahhaha, well we did talk about where the wedding would be... Mountains or Beach, it's a hard choice I know :D
LOLOLOLOLOL
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
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I'm watching a live webcast of Putin's press conference about the currently proposed democratic system for Russia's future right now.
I've always been deeply interested in Russian people and government. While growing up in Virginia just off of the beltway in Fairfax during my 8 to 12 years old days the feeling of Russia's influence on America was immediate. Every day of life there brought new news of what was happening over there and as a result of that I developed a great (albeit fearful at the time) interest in the soviet union (which it was at the time). I have become increasingly awed by the fact two amazingly powerful and mostly Caucasian controlled nations have had such tension with one another.
Ever since this time I've become more and more interested in the regular population of Russia and what they are like....
So, watching their current president Putin talk about such a MASSIVE and important subject on Russia's new "Democratic" system of government and knowing that a nation SO LARGE has left it's many communist forms of national government which lasted so long to experiment with a type of democracy is very VERY interesting to me. How does it effect it's people, how do the people react and work with this new form of life and how in short order will those effects (which many are already in process) the general view of Russian citizens of us, Americans, in turn.
I often wonder if a Russian man my age has the same wonderment with me, as an American citizen that I do with he or her.
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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(well not really)
I know this is stretching here but, I'm looking for anyone who might know a girl named Heather Richards.
She is my age (29/28) and lived in Tampa around 1992 / 93. She has a Gap in her teeth like mine, had a friend at the time named Paisley Sheets (no, really) and was very important to me s a close friend for a number of years. We fell out of touch around 1998 or so which at the time had her living in Atlanta. I don’t know where she went from there. She also had a pair of friends, two gay guys who moved from Tampa to St. Augustine around 94/95 - we went and visited them for a 4ht of July around that time. Friends in Common were John Azmuth, Omar, Donny Hatcher....
I was hit with an overwhelming feeling of need to find her some weeks back - spoke about it to an old friend of mine this evening and decided to just put out a little word here for the sake of it. Usually when things like this happen it’s because that other person needs you, somehow, in some way – at least that’s what I believe.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless was a distinct thing for us.
Anyway, searching.
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Btw, I listed to a new mix recently from a semi new face in Tampa named SICC:16
It's the 10//2004 mix by SICC:16 (Will is his name)
And it's REALLY good - starts off on the harder steppy styles of things going around right now but about halfway through gets quite heady and by the end leaves with a feeling that you've just heard something realy good.
Watch this man, trust!
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Just wanted to direct any of you who do read this to some of our Audio:
Were currently pulling the #6 slot this week with our Pattern Recognition Rmx of Make Some Noise (we'll see where it goes from there) on DOA which is pretty tits to me.
As well, area few other things we have up on the Audio pages (so glad to have FINALLY invited in on these pages over @ DOA)
We Were Wrong
Outspoken
Make Some Noise Rmx
Enjoy :)
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Monday, December 20th, 2004
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It was about a week ago. Something like 2am on a Tuesday, it was exactly 2am on Tuesday morning - I'm sitting right here within the same 50 Cubic foot space trying desperately to think of someone I can really connect with. Cherine Taber, hell I was 16 and 17 when she I could, Theresa Bean, I think it was just a fluke, Brock Brewer was the closest thing I ever had to a flesh and blood brother...He's passed on. New people? Old people? Who people?!
And so as sad as it seems in less than 30 minutes time I'd evaluated an entire lifetime's possibilities and discovered that no, there really was no one I could actually connect with. I've had moment of real deep connection with people my whole life - to be certain in short spurts and of course never by direct design - those moments just happened.
But then, @ that exact moment all I wanted was just to be able to call someone and drive to them. Talk, or not talk. Go for a drive in the middle of the night to nowhere just music and wind the dark highway stretched out before me and my passenger. To sit silently in the same room but know that the two of us were on the same page. Tanya? Liza? Whitney? Joanna? Hope? Theresa? Katie? Anita? Heather? Jade? Kim? Cherine? Melessia? Anna? Charlote?...... Monk? Flea? John? Brian? John? Andrew? Berkely? Chris? Dave? Steve? Bill? Brock? Justin?.....
No, there really was no one I was certain that would truly be right for that moment. I was sad. So I called a new friend hopes high that I was just thinking too hard about the whole situation - drunkenness on the other end, reservation on mine - what the hell, it's only until 3am when the club closes, maybe it's just a stiff drink I really needed to break the funk - and at worst ease me into sleep to start the next day fresh without all these feelings clouding my mind. But no, not really. Walk in, hi...hi. Drink please? yab yab yab, too loud cant hear, hug, smile, drink, smile, smoke, drink, hug, smile.... "So, am I coming with you back to your place? Or....."
Home alone, sleep, the next day came and, well.... I haven’t actually thought about it again until now.
I'm seriously deficient on close friends - People that I can open up to in deep ways that wouldn’t actually make either person uncomfortable. This is a problem. I don’t like problems very much. I have so very few of them though I suppose that the few which do keep my company should be so, well - big. Ha.
My light depression this week along with 4 parties both in and out of gig form have seriously taken away from music time – def need to pick it back up again, too many things going right in that department at the moment.
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
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Went and watched "Sideways" today. I liked it, slightly different than my idea of what it would be was - but that's not a bad thing. If nothing else it gave me hope that even while going on 30 years old there is still more to life in all things relationship that I've yet to see. Made me feel good about still being as *young* as I am overall.
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