Well, it took them about a week to come to their senses. Yesterday I got called into the Principal's Office for the good news: I'm getting laid off at the end of the month. So, it's back to the grindstone. I suppose I should clean up the page here a bit in case some potential employer decides to check up on my personal habits (Hi there!).
Then again, perhaps it doesn't matter. After all, if one is not allowed to have a public persona outside of one's work, then one's work becomes their public persona. I'd like to think that someday someone will find better ways to eulogize my life.
Is very bad.
So, my friend Chris is closing down his video rental store and liquidating stock. I spent a few hours hanging out there tonight and scored, for a pittance, some of the DVDs that were still on the shelf:
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Unrated
Equilibrium
Futurama - Bender's Game
Willard
The Matador
Another round of layoffs at work today. Somehow, despite the fact that my job is obviously utterly unnecessary, my team managed to remain unaffected. I'm not holding my breath, though. If history is any lesson, this will not be the only round of layoffs this month. My company seems to have March Madness (aka End of Fiscal Year, time to make that bottom line by reducing staff).
Some people freak anywhere.
Two things to report tonight:
Flighty as ever, I'm flitting about from one half-conceived project to the next. This time I've decided to gut one of my previously completed circuit bent Arion octave pedals and repurpose the project in some way that makes it more productive to live performances. My goal is to streamline the bends, focusing on only those effects which would be useful, and rehousing it in some way that is conducive to performance. I'll likely focus on eliminating the need for an external sound source and try to turn it into a standalone noise generator.
Based on the strength of a track or two from the recent Splitting The Atom EP, I decided that the new Massive Attack endeavor would be worth exploring. I'm slightly less than half way through the release and have to say that so far I'm enjoying it. It doesn't come close to matching the sheer genius of Mezzanine, but it also doesn't dwell on it in the half-assed way that 100th Window did.
As can be expected, I hit a snag with my guerilla marketing plan and never followed through on the resolution. The good news is that I have 15 discs burned and labeled, so I'll have to do something with them eventually. My initial reaction is to take the collage that I have, find a better way to reproduce it on card stock, and proceed with the original plan. Perhaps I'll get this done this week.
As I predicted yesterday, I didn't manage to get anything put together last night. I printed off copies of the collage, but the copy machine bent the card stock so badly that I'm having to press out the curl before I can use them. I'm also reconsidering some of the design elements of the collage. I may rework it, but I haven't made up my mind yet.
Stay a while, cos something's always cookin'
CDs - burned.
Inserts - printed and cropped.
Collage - finished.
I finalized the tracklist last night and worked a little on compiling imagery for the collage art packaging. The final tracklist follows:
1. When All Your Virtues Are Vices (previously released on no-R-mal CD4)
2. Unknown Title
3. A Dim, Pale Clattering (previously released on Thoughts Made of Sound; Sounds Made of Hell)
4. My Clanking, Screaming, Swelling Brain (previously released on Uncertainty)
5. Bass Guitar (previously released on Rotary)
6. In A World Of My Own
7. Whiskey, Water, Wombats
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