There’s one thing I’ve learnt in the last hour and that is this: even when you have all the ingedients you still need the right tools. The tool I was missing in this case was bun trays. If you were wondering what happens to fairy cakes when you bake them they don’t just rise, they expand. They push out on all edges and fill whatever space you’ve left for them. In my case this ment expanding in to each other until you’ve got a whole tray of very oddly trasted cakes.
If there’s two things I’ve learn in the last hour the other thing is that cakes are made using equal parts fat, carbs and sugar. I mean I knew it before but when you’ve finished blending these things together and realise there’s to be no more ingredients
Spent a few hours today looking for a cheap way to get the KritzKast logo onto my new backdrop. Didn’t acheive that but did come across some nifty wall decals from Blik.
It’s taken me a while to define what I like in music. I never really liked pop; I distrust music that has not inherent complication. I don’t wish to be spoon fed entertainment, like a calf guzzling at the musical nipples of its mother. I want music to be harder and much more rewarding. As if figuring out the puzzle of enjoyment and understanding drops me right in the heart of the musicians, allowing me to pump through their veins as the piece reveals itself then swings back round the beginning to be cleansed.
This dark dissection has pushed and pulled me between genres but it has also led me to amazing discoveries. Most recent of which was the Jonsi concert. This being the morning after the night that was and my mind is still swelling with stories he brought to life. A giant cacophony of sound and film. His boyish, almost shrill voice calling out to us over the elaborate percussion and thundering bellows of bass guitar, the drumming that fired through us with the vigour of lightening, a near unending crescendo accompanied by an animated visual spectacular that only added to the music rather than distracting from it.
Only go to see one live musical performance this year: Jonsi. Anything or anyone else will be a huge disappointment.
A sneak preview of the live stage show 59 Productions is creating for Jónsi’s 2010 tour – a cross between film, art installation, theatre performance and live gig.
Live show: Designed by 59 and Phil Eddolls
http://www.fiftynineproductions.co.uk/jonsi
I’ve spent most of today spraying roofing panels to use them as a backdrop for recording Kritzkast. Only time will tell if it was a good use of my time, approximately 12 hours of time, until they are dry. Though I won’t be here then as, first thing tomorrow I’m off to pick up Zadkiel, Zen and FlameCut for the Manevolent Monkies’ LAN party, in Rugby.
Exciting times.
Oh, and incase you missed it, there’s been a soft ballad remix of the Coder Girl song by Dale Chase.
Just to get this straight, “as usual” is the working title of the next epiosde of KritzKast. I defered this week’s edit to him having realised I was on another of my 12hour shifts Monday – Wednesday. Just being in the office from 7am till 7pm is a git for knocking you sideways. If you have jobs to do inside that time frame, it gets worse. If you stack the shift days back to back, by the end you’re the walking dead. Zombies, with keys.
So there’s no chance I could do the edit this week. I’ll most likely do the next three though, as compensation.
For now, I’m sat here in the office on a slow day. I’ve already rebuilt the two workstations beside me, rearranged the desks and done what little admin I had to do in preparation for tonight’s job. I’ve written in various forums and commented in blogs. Anything to get the KritzKast name spread wide and thick all over the gaming internet.
I really wish I could help Tempest out. I’ve prepped the blog entry ready for KK66′s release. We can use that for the links and the lyrics. Sadly the machines here are useless audio so I can’t contribute there. Ah well, back to revisit old posts from this morning. See if I can’t get a few more victims to click on the website linked to my profile.
There’s little point in deleting the classic “Hello World” post since this is exactly what I want to say right now. I’ve owned the domain schmooth.com for a large handful of years with nothing of any note on it. Now I’m at a stage in my life and career when the internet is starting to become my life. As such it’s important to me to document my progress through it.
I’ve made websites before, but that was back when you could get away with knowing a little HTML. I’ve even sat in a meeting with someone who was asking me to create for them the sort of site that I’d struggle to know how to do now. I know my limitations and on that meeting, I politely backed away. Thinking back, I could have taken the job and outsourced the work. I guess I’m more savvy of the world now. More reluctant to say “no” outright, not when there’s a chance that money could be made.
