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working, reading, living
OK, so I've had no time yet to put up the vacation photos; they're still on the slate of Things To Do.
A lot of my time lately has been going into honing (with Chris) the Number None live act. Did I mention that we're going to be touring the UK in August? See, these are the things you miss when you don't read the Rebis news-blog.
(I should also point out here that the Time and Relative Dimensions In Space compilation we put out has been getting some nice reviews, including this one at Foxy Digitalis.)
So, anyway, with the tour coming up we're stripping down our instrumental palette to the bare minimum so that it can be easily portable, and for me this means that I won't be using a computer in the live set, which is a pretty profound departure for me. I'm gaining confidence with the small circle of drone-technologies that I'll be using, though, which is looking like: two portable CD players pre-loaded with noise-textures, an AM radio, a flute, a small Yamaha keyboard, and (!) voice. We'll see how it goes.
Reading-wise, I've been taking on Gershom Scholem's Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism, which is great, and more magazines than normal. I'm still looking for the magazine that is perfectly tailored to my interests, and I'm still unable to find it, which may mean that I need to create it. That said, Cabinet Magazine is really superb, everything that The Believer would be in a more ideal world.
I had an intention to put a rant about New Age magazines here, but that may turn into a rant about New Age culture in general, so I'll have to save it for another time. I'm trying to figure out why so much New Age stuff is so bad in execution when it is (maybe?) not fundamentally bad in concept. More on this later.
Also: just noticed that the headings on these blog-posts look different than they once did, and I can't say that I feel the change was for the better. The fault lies with Blogger, who have inserted new code into their templates this week which forces a line-break and overrides my own stylesheet; this affects the look of the headings. I've tried a few workarounds that other people out there have suggested but no luck so far. Hopefully this will be a temporary state of affairs but I can't lose more time on it today. Labels: personal |
Monday, June 27, 2005
11:03 AM
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