This will be of interest only to those who heard me griping on the IRC last Sunday -- I got my CD burner working again. Everything is working fine now. It only took me about a week of fucking with the monsters. In the end, the source of the problem remains... a mystery. (Although an unterminated other cd drive is the top suspect). The whole ordeal was actually Involuntary Slack in disguise, because my final solution was to COMPLETELY re-arrange my rather intricate chain of angry SCSI devices from top to bottom as if starting from scratch, and Praise "Bob" and the Yacatismic God of all Machines, now everything is much improved, all speedy, normal and antifrightlike. Just to celebrate, I copied a whole bunch of stolen MP3 files of surf guitar music to audio CD JUST LIKE THE YOUNGUNS DO!!
Now I can get back to catching up on email and such, and eventually to actual "work." I have managed to keep the HOUR OF SLACK regular and ultra-groovy-fied in its new TIME CONSUMING digital production, even though I cain't hardly keep up with the text logs of it. But by GOBBS it sure sounds GREAT in RealAudio and MP3 now... thanks to Bachner... I cain't get over it. It's just such a tom-Dobbsful THRILL to finally be rid of HISS, BUFFERING LAGS, MUFFLEDNESS, and GENERAL BEFUCKEDNESS.
And I'm getting some INCREDIBLE bizarro music from previously unknown arteests whichs blows even my well blown mind. "The Great Groovy Neptune" has been my latest shordurpersav.
The DEVOtional convention here in Cleveland netted me a wonderful CD collection of DEVO covers by various bands, and that's shared on Hour of Slack 753.
I have been copying the old reel to reel masters of the Media Barrages to disc and will very soon release the somewhat shortened, much better sounding versions of Media barrages 10, 11 and 12, plus probably another Bobsong collection. I even located the master tape of THE JANOR DEVICE which I'm copying over for Phineas Narco to distribute. Let the Curse of the Head fall on somebody else!
We are also gonna start selling the CDs of the recent XXX-Day HOURS OF SLACK, which have NO clips from Conspiracy-owned logo bands. We'll have a big "CD special sale" and drop the prices temporarily. I might also make a "boxed set" that covers Amsterdam devival, XXX-Day and Starwood.
I did a Burning Man show, #752, but it's better propaganda for the Burning Man org than for "Bob," so I don't think we'll sell that. It's more fun for Burners than for many Subs probably. One of those "you had to have been there" things. I made tons of notes for an essay about how FUCKING GREAT Burning Man is, and what a dumbass I WASN'T, and how Philo DIDN'T fuck up THIS time, but I said it all on that show, and Time will probably leave that report there (where it at least has cool sounding documentary wind-and-rave-music in the background constantly, just like Burning Man itself does).
Wei and the visiting Rev. Craig Mitchell and I spent yesterday ferrying the band GONG around town. They did a wonderful concert on Monday night, but their tour bus was broken down and they needed a place to sleep. We split them between Wei's Pleasure Dome and the ACE/SubGenius Mystery Storefront building. I gave them a copy of BoSG and I'm sure that by now they're feeling pretty SAVED by "BOB." Only their singer Gilli Smyth knew of Dobbs previously, 'cause I had met her (and Craig) at an early Starwood.
Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth, and I guess Mike the bass player, are in their SIXTIES and they display a FUCK of a lot more energy on and off stage than most 20 somethings I see nowadays. And the only drugs they're on is pot, beer, coffee and probably Geritol. SHAME ON YOU DESPIRITED SEDENTARY YOUTHS!!
This weekend there's a small ACE event at Brushwood called "THE THING IN THE WOODS" (seriously) and we're gonna go out there to watch ESO play on Friday night, camp, frap, frop, frup and floop. Between now and then I am gonna make a FITFUL ATTEMPT to update SubSITE and MEANWHILE ALSO do the new Hour of Slack AND ALSO deal with a couple of really fun mystery projects which I shouldn't brag up now or I'll RUIN THE SPELL or some such shit (as I have done before, i.e., our ill fated "AMERICA ONLINE "SHOW"" of 1996, which I will admit I knew was doomed from the git-go). AND ALSO the day jobs. And FUCK I have to take that hi 8 camera back in for repairs ONE MORE TIME!!!
So anyway that's what's going on at the Cleveland Branch Office. Churchly situation is normal and my personal situation is like A HONEYMOON THAT SEEMS NEVER TO END!!!!! Everybody says Wei and I make "just the cutest couple" and I guess we probably do.
It's a bummer I can't make Pope Black's Amsterdam show, but the Tampa devival is building up to some sort of frenzy, it appears, so I'm really looking forward to that. I should probably call the Euclid Tavern about another devival in Cleveland but I sure don't want to "burn out" the local "scene". Plus I'm TIRED of all this ramblin' man stuff, I just want to sit and geek out with my HTML and my MP3s and AIF files and all my new "proggies" (as the "warez doods" call programs). I went "fishing" recently in the Ocean of Hotline and netted not only fan mail from some flounder, but several whales of deals that I can't wait to apply on pictures and sounds. God damn it, I could sit here making cool pictures and sounds ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT if only the world wasn't so... sigh... so much WITH us... oh, weary hangs the ballsack that leads the one nutted king... sigh... bleat... Dobbs, where's that back pycheck DUDE???
Original file name: GOT MY SHIT WORKING - converted on Sunday, 11 March 2001, 14:27
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