Blogging.

blogging is the reality tv of the world wide web.

Enabled.

Several days ago...
in fact the very next day after complaining about not having the right version of the music software i needed, i was successfully installed in time for the HatHead Late Show and then i spent the next couple of days up north really working through the manual - almost done. truly awesome software! i especially like that you can add recursion with an element of randomness to musical structures. the super portable midi controller/sound card i got is also very cool and makes me think i can electro-busk. just need to figure out powering things (laptop, vocoder) and portable amplification (easy).


Several nights ago...
upon returning to the future via cryogenic sleep, i caught up with old friends i haven't yet met and then did the largest ever performance for the world's Y3K celebrations. i rocked the globe hard together with The Mighty Nanobot Swarm and Trou Noir. man i love that gig. the largest dance floor in the history of the planet. the rebirth of music. sub-woofers bluebeamed directly into your hips. the leaders of the world shaking their butts. shaking the world. so much so that i missed coming back to the present and landed a couple of years from now. so then i had to go back into cryogenic freezing to get to the future where time travel exists so i could then get back to the present again. looser.

Future Leaders of The World

Y3K - Can You Spot Me?

Defeated.

Today...
i am back and can no longer defeat the date lock on my expired beta version of the music software I am using and so must return to the older version - thus am stalling a bit as the new version, at least from my test drives, does everything i need music creation and performance software to do so why would i want to start something only to change/redo it again? (i ordered my new version over a week & half ago - where is it?) i almost also have all of the gear i need to fully rock in the present but have to get a couple of things serviced - which means my vocoder is out of commission at the moment. gonna have to do some old fashioned throwin' at this next HatHead Late Show


Yesterday...
yesterday before my regular wednesday evening gig at Centro's, i had a fierce battle with Dr. Mantra, the evil yoga master whose plot to take over the world has dire consequences for the future. it did not go well.

Dr Mantra - Evil Yoga Master

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i burst in on a room full of people all tied up in knots while their heart rates were lowering but was able to quickly reverse the process by slamming down some blockbusting beats! Dr. Mantra countered with the Dance of Shiva and it was not a pretty sight - there were pieces of yoga mat everywhere. i had to split but was able to get some yoga chick's email after helping get her out of the knot she was in.

Yoga Chick

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Tonight...
tonight i will go back into cryogenic freezing, awake in the future and return to the present in the morning. then brunch with the yoga chick, so not a total defeat.

Origins.

Hello - this is my first blog.

this blog will chronicle my return to the present from 1000 years in the future on my mission to save the future of music from the machines. this blog will also report back from the future about things that are happening and have happened there. please feel free to ask me any questions about the future as i am always happy to answer them!

An introduction...
though travelling back from the future, i am originally from this time and underwent cryogenic freezing, with my hat on, but when i was awakened, discovered that i was the only living living musician and so have returned to the present to change the course of the future. it won't be easy but together, united, we can save music and the world!


A lil' bout cryogenic freezing...
there's nothing like falling asleep and waking up just when you get there! when you wake up after a 1000 years, you really have to take a pee but you don't want to get out from under the duvet. then you get some brunch. you can get brunch everyday of the week in the future (but still only until 3pm). sometimes, instead of going to bed, i go back into cryogenic freezing, awake in the future, then in the morning i travel back in time to the present again.

Cryogenic Freezing

A lil' bout time travel...
time travel is nothing like it is portrayed in the movies and books of our time. there are no flashing lights, there is no pain, no discombobulation. it is instantaneous. all of a sudden you are there. time travel is based upon both old fashioned relativity and quantum mechanics such that all of your sub-atomic particles are accelerated until they are moved backwards (and forwards!) in time via the uncertainty principle, then the quantum wave is collapsed. easy as that!

Time Travel Formula

A lil' bout the future...
in the future, the world is like one giant tropical resort...people get up early to get the best chairs, line up at the buffet, sit around the pool all day, go back to the buffet, get another drink at the margurita bar...they are bored out of their minds and absolutely hate it but it's better than working (which is why no one comes back in time from the future)

The Dark Future That Awaits Us

Save the future!
HatHead will be helping to save the future this Saturday Night at the Music Bunka in toronto. come to the show and do your part to help save the future!

peace & music!