Maqlu
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So last night as I was leaving the synth cave at about 3am, I had a wad of Kleenex with some orange peels in it to toss in the garbage in the common kitchenette for the jam spaces. No one’s around so I lobbed it into the can from about […]
This week Futureghosts was #6 on the electronic top 10 at CHUO in Ottawa and #6 on the electronic top 10 at at CFBX in Kamloops, BC.
Structure of “Constrictor”: intro-verse-turn-verse-turn-chorus-tag-turn-verse-turn-chorus-tag-tag-tag-fade out I liked the song overall, but thought it was missing a little something. First, the chorus felt too abrupt, so I doubled the length. That was a bit better, but still something was missing. Then I came up with a different bit that could have […]
It started with a drive to revamp the synth cave a bit. I had a couple IKEA chairs in the corner that were really too big for the space [yeah, who knew IKEA could make anything too big?], took those apart and took them home and replaced them with a […]
Or at least issues with getting a mannequin shipped to Canada from companies who insist they ship worldwide until you try to order something and then it’s “We don’t ship to Canada, sorry.” I’ve had this happen twice in the lat month, once was a company who said on EBay […]
Jesus… so a couple days ago in the midst of the hysteria I made a post on my personal Facebook about ignore the media hype, the sky’s not falling and you’re more likely to get hit by a bus than shot in a movie theatre by a Bad Man With […]
So in the last month or so, Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” has been following me around. Of course I’d heard it on the radio when it came out, and other singles from that album floated around for the last 15 years or so, but when Jagged Little Pill came […]
This week Futureghosts was: #10 on the electronic top 10 at CHUO in Ottawa. #26 on the top 30 at CFBU in St. Catherine’s, ON. And I found another national chart from June that I missed before: Futureghosts was #18 on the top 20 electronic albums of June on !earshot. […]
Had to chuckle last night as I saw someone on Twitter insist that in 50 years tattoos won’t be cool and no one will be getting them anymore. I happen to know he hasn’t got any, and it seems to me perhaps there’s a bit of projection on his part. […]
Futureghosts was #98 on !earshot‘s Top 200 chart for June Pretty sure this is the first time I made the national end-of-the-month chart for !earshot, surprised and pleased to see that come across my Google alerts today.