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just about 11 months since my last blog, which wasn't even music related anyway.
i've been coming here more often over the last month or so and saying a little more which makes me think that maybe i might be getting more interested in making music again.
with the exception a new track that i almost sort of got finished (but not recorded) for a live set i played this past sunday, i have not completed a track nor really worked on music for about 2 years.
also, i've been living back in toronto for just about 5 years now, give or take a month or two, so it seems like some kind of milestone worth blogging about.
what the hell have i been doing?
as pictured, i've recently become obsessed with bicycles after moving about 6 km (3.7282272 miles) from my place of employment and finding that year round bicycling was a much better alternative to taking the streetcar. that one is of my restored 1975 motobecane (repainted by someone even more obsessive than me), which i haven't had the chance to ride yet because of the nasty, long winter we've had here.
i've also been cooking up a storm almost every night and drinking lots of tasty wine and hanging with my lady, which has taken a big chunk out of studio time.
despite being full of synthesizers and drum machines that i love, my studio of the last 18 months seems to be the last place i want to spend time. maybe it's because it's in the basement and after 2 and a half years of living in a basement apartment, my desire to spend any time in a basement for any purpose has significantly waned.
my first toronto show in just over a year (the previous one being my release party for madingley), has given me some hope that i might get back into music making. i just upgraded to live 7 and seem to have midi drum maps sorted out, so maybe this will now getting me using live for production rather than just arranging tracks for 'live' shows.
said show was pretty cool. a photographer even took some pictures and my friend even took a distorted [url=]video[/url]. she also took some of me and prhizzm (anybody remember that dude?) last year at the release party. excellent watching if you want to see dorks bob and rock in front of laptops and keyboards.
that's all for now. thanks for getting this far.
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03/26/08
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minisystem
yep, i'm a retro bike nerd now.
i've been seriously debating about taking a 3-6 month leave of absence from work to take time to work on music. still waiting for that gravy train to leave the station.
prhizzm is a busy boy with a fancy job. he's also a smelly dickhole, but y'all already knew that.
we played a show back in december in london (ontario) that was 1.5 times a party.
we get drunk together approximately 0.6 times a week.
03/26/08
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tylth
why not put a pet in the basement, something that would make you want to get down there, a snake or turtle for example
03/26/08
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RogerRoger
I would be wanting to come and visit to play in your studio, especially the Modcan, if I could. Like you and Ignatius, I too come home (from jacking with E-Commerce Gateway work on AIX systems) and have no energy to focus on music. Mostly just the weekends to get anything done, but I'm encouraged you think everything could be done in Live 7. Here's to piles of gear!
03/26/08
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frnortnr
yay make more music!! i  madingley. i like how your live show pose is all like "hey ladies" with one arm while knob twiddling with the other. 
i think music making goes in waves, i took more or less 1.5 years off an have just started making new tracks, and it's fun to have the passion back. sometimes i think if you feel like you should be making music all the time cause you've declared it your hobby, it almost feels like work.
your bike is awesome. i love bikes- mine is not too retro (probably mid nineties) but it's fast and tough. and pretty light. which is good, cause it's hilly here.
03/26/08
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tantan
hot.
I love yr moog.
03/26/08
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minisystem
good attitude frn. i fretted for a while about not getting enough done, but i've given that up, which is maybe why i'm not so anxious about it now.
yep, toronto is nice and flat, making it tres bien for single speeds. i never (almost) need to go north (uphill). just east west. no hills.
04/14/08
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oxymoron
Great hearing from you, minisystem! I miss all of you Toronto em-ers from last year.
p.s. Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider are also cycling nerds, though not retro cycling.
04/15/08
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jkn
Long time no see... yes music for me goes in ups and downs... I'm just coming off my 2nd "4 year break" from music (first one was '92 to '96, this one was '04 to '08). Sometimes other stuff comes before music - no matter how deeply embedded music is in your veins. I never stopped playing piano or dabbling on other instruments now and then throughout both 4 year breaks - just never hit record.
Hopefully you'll get back on track and get the urge to record again... if you do, pm me about releasing through my label.
Cheers on the bike! My wife and I bought bikes last year and got a bike rack for the car this year. I'm grounded due to a hernia temporarily (surgery soon... yippeeee..) but can't wait to start riding again.
09/18/08
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firingbullet
i just cashed up for your cd. nice sounds, make some more !
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