Just a little bit longer

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. My new contract started yesterday (Monday) and it's been a whirlwind of trying to get in processed since. Hopefully things will have died down by the end of the week, and I can get back to the fun stuff.

I still haven't listened to the Acid Mothers Temple Family comp, the Japanese Independant Music comp, or the Ruins CD. I'm also still waiting on the Ami Yoshida CD, and Tashimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akirama CD. I'll try to get up a review of Sunburned Hand of the Man later in the week. I'm also getting ready to place another order with Eclipse, and may be another order with Tzadik.

So much music.

Needless to say, I am a happy camper. Though, I will be happeir once this contract is under way and I'm not so tired when I get home.

Going Experimental

I've decided to do a little experimenting with the blog. Since no one else seems to use the comments (with a few exceptions) I'm going to start using them. Just to post little notes and addmendums to various posts. For instance, that post clarifying my stand on Protestant faith, would have been a comment on that post, instead of a whole seperate post.

I'm going to include a "Recent Comments" section with in the next week to help keep track of these notes. Hopefully, this will push me to create more content, and less fluff.

And speaking of experimental. For those that might care, the albums I got today (and hence you can expect reviews of soon) are as follows:

Pardons - Charlie's Pardons
Acid Mothers Temple Family - Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want
V/A - Japanese independant Music
Sunburn Hand Of The Man - Magnetic Drugs
Scorces - Lor et Largent
Ruins - Vrresto
Acid Mother Temple - Live In Japan

Obviously, you got the last one already.

Changes

I guess I'm in a talkative mood tonight. I think I've posted more in the past few days then i have in the last few months. Probably the last year if you just look at posts where I acctually provided any kind of content. Hopefully, things will stay this way.

Anyways, I've been making some changes to the layout here, trying to get things set up with the new birth of the blog. I know I'm going to be making one more change to things (the name of the blog). But, I guess the rest will pretty much be in place for the time being.

The main changes that have happened (beyond finally getting the stylesheet to work right) are the links. I've included links to the labels that I'm ordering from and the magazines that I'm reading. I've got a feeling that music will be playing a big role in things now. And instead of having to create a link over and over again, it just makes sense to create perminant links on the side.

I've also decided to change the name of the blogs I list. I had given the names of the writers before, back when I was trying to be a good member of the blogging community, since that seemed to be the norm. I then looked at the list, and realized that with a few exceptions, none of the people listed are likely to be names that mean anything to most readers, and so I changed it around to the title of the blog.

I've also added a new blog to the list, The North Carolina Experiment. I came across this site, after poking around the blogger site near the end of last week. I've been going through the archives and waiting for new entries ever since. I'm not really sure why I feel so compelled to read this blog. With the exception of Boing Boing, Adventures of Accordian Guy, and Tokyo Tidbits, all the other blogs listed there are people that I have some kind of relationship to. Jesse over at The Three Dot Column is on a Moorish Othodoxy list that I'm on, the rest are friends.

I guess the reason that I'm so intruigued by the NC Experiment is a voyeristic nature. The same reason that I read Tokyo Tidbits and Accordian Guy. But, something is different. Tokyo Tidbits is set in a city that I've found myself facinated by. And Joey, over at Accordian Guy, is just full of funny stories. Beth at the NC Experiment though, is different. It's more low key then Joey's stuff.

I've been thinking about this off and on all weekend. The best I can come up with is that it's really well written. So much so that I'm feeling very self concious about my own abilites (I used to be able to write, somehow I lost the touch). She also has many of the same faults as I do, and views the world with a similiar outlook. I guess its an issue of taking satisfaction that you aren't alone and that others feel just as akward and celebratory about life as you do.

Its either that, or I'm falling in love with her. :)

Rebirth?

So, somethings have been going on in the background recently. There is a new blog in the tsuibhne.net circle. It's not quite ready to go prime time yet, but I'll throw up a link when it is.

The new blog will feature a new writer, my friend Ali. Ali and I have been chatting back and forth for a couple of months now, and he was the prime source for a lot of the Islam stuff that's been posted recently. Because of this, I'm going to hold off on posting things, and instead leave it up to him. I've got high hopes for Ali's blog. I'm not kidding when I say this guy's got material coming out his ears. Originally, I was going to just post his stuff here, but quickly found myself buried underneath a ton of material, and I made the call to just give him the tools to do it himself.

This space is also going over a little change. You'll notice the change in look. I've finally got the stylesheet working, and I decided to take things back to the default. There's still a little more work that needs to be done, but this will probably be the general idea for the near future.

Content wise, hopefully things will pick up a little bit around here. I'm starting a new contract on the 22nd, and things are going to depend on how much that kicks my ass, but I do have some things in mind that I want to post about. Mostly, music. I've been eating up the catalog over at Tzadik Records. And I've got a feeling that I'm going to be equally taken with the selection at Eclipse Records, Improvised Music of Japan, and Sonore. There's probably also a few other labels I need to check out.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have finally taken the plunge into out and out fucked up music, and I'm loving it. I still dig a good pop song, and acctually spent today listening to The Kingston Trio. And the Neil Diamond and Cat Stevens are still on my ipod. I'm just expanding things.

So, hopefully, in the near future, you'll see posts concerning Painkiller, Naked City, another Ruins album, a Ruins and Derek Bailey album, Improvised Music of Japan 2002-2003, and a few other things, that are still coming in the mail.

Oh, and tsuibhne.net is going to get a total over haul in the near future. Right down to it's purpose and function. I'll talk about that more though when it launches. I'm thinking about getting a new domain name for that project, we'll see though.

Making modifications

So, I've decided to do a little spring cleaning so to speak. Basically, over the next couple of days I'm going to recatorgize some entries so that they make a bit more sense.

I'm trying to fully integrate the idea of Scraps into this site. To do this I'm going to be posting various articles and essays to the site that I've come across, mostly from a Moorish Orthodox list that I'm on. I'm also trying to hack together an interface that alllows for easy access to these articles. Unfortunetly, it will probably be Aug. before I can really get into a serious redesign. To that end, I've "picked up" a copy of Dreamweaver and will hopefully be able to hack something together using that. Until then though I'll have to keep using this format and just messing around with categories untill I can get something that works.

Any suggestions or comments are encouraged. And that goes for the articles themselves. I'd love for people to use the comments to discuss the merits of individual articles or ideas sparked by them.

Welcome to the Land of Mu

Welcome one and all. Nope, you aren't in the wroung place, this is my new blog.

So why did I move to a new one? The main motivation factor was needs. When I set up the Radio blog I was working at a customer site, with no ability to post from work. So, Radio looked like a nice easy choice. Now that I'm working out of our office, I have much greater ability and want to post from work as well as home. I'm also hoping to get a laptop by year's end, which would throw a third system into the mix. Switching to Moveable Type just made a lot of sense. And since I was switching, I thought I might as well just start fresh with a new blog.

I will be keeping tSuibhne's thoughts around though. Unless I run into space limitations (not likely) I'll keep the link on the front page to the archives. They just won't be updated anymore. Look here for the new info.

So, what does the new blog mean for you? Well MT has some neat tools for you to play with, including a search function, which is deffinetly nice. As far as content, I've been talking to Shava about some things and we might be working together to supply each other with something to talk about. We'll have to see though.

Right now though, I need to go run some numbers and try to figure out how I can by my laptop in June, if my new raise doesn't take affect untill May 1.

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