Posted April 2nd, 2009 by Mistabishi
When Do We Want It?
I wonder how many of those protesters yesterday had credit cards, student loans, storecards, x-boxes bought on H.P. agreements and mortgages they knew they probably couldn't really afford?
Been asking myself the following recently, and trying to work out who is more to blame in this scenario:
A crack dealer who ticks rocks he knows his addicts can't afford?
Or
A crack addict who gets rocks on tick he knows he can't afford?
I guess the upshot is, crack is gonna be available one way or another. If you're partial to a spot of crack of an evening, then no one is really going to able to stop you from getting it. BUT, it's up to the addict to manage his habit and prevent it from spiraling out of control. If you honestly want your dealer to be responsible for your addiction, I think you probably need to *just say no* instead of just saying *NOW*
Posted March 17th, 2009 by Mistabishi
COST OF *DROP* CD LP (before cost of pressing)
Apple Macintosh G5 with CUBASE 4 (second hand from an enginerr at PWL)
£950
Motu Ultralite interface (second hand from ebay)
£246
Aria Pro 2 guitar (second hand cash convertors shepherds bush)
£150
Korg emx1 (second hand ebay)
£280
Roland mc303 (ebay)
£70
Juno 106
£-DONATED
Mackie Onyx 12 channel mixer
£-DONATED
TC Powercore fx card new from turnkey
£399
duel tube mic kit (self assembly) from ebay
£110
Beyer Dynamic dt990 headphones
£90
total:
£2295
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or i could've bought:
Sony Bravia 42-Inch HD Capable Plasma TV Screen in Silver
£2299.99
Posted March 14th, 2009 by Mistabishi
let them eat lithium
people have sometimes remarked that our socio-economic model reacts over-time like a person suffering from manic depression, but you can't really blame an abstract model for the flaws it throws up. it's really the people working within this model. it's the users of the model, and the general accepted psychological state of these people that creates the boom/bust phenomenon.
traders and consumers are manic depressives. when it becomes acceptable to be indulgent to extremes it can only really lead to a depressive state somewhere along the line. when practically everyone in an industry is of this mentality, the industry will respond in kind. if they really want to regulate the financial industry properly in future, doses of lithium should be mandatory for every front-office worker.
we do it to ourselves we do, and that's what really hurts.
Posted March 11th, 2009 by Mistabishi
not inna darkmood no more
feel great. thanks danni. (again soon plz).
time for tea and a splee oi reckon...
Posted March 2nd, 2009 by Mistabishi
Harmeneutics
01 - HEAVEN'S SAKE
this one is about taking my ex girlfriend to one of the hospitality nights at heaven in 2008. soon afterwards we split up.
02 - NO MATTER WHAT
a rave tune. nothing more. just a tune that describes me being dragged back in - unwillingly at first - to the unspeakable joys of british rave culture.
03 - PRINTER JAM
me taking the piss out of super-serious office life and the flimsy functionality it's built on.
04 - LEAN
just a wonky memory of smoking in the park during the occasionally sunny summer of 2008
05 - VIEW FROM NOWHERE
a song about falling in love on ecstasy.
06 - WHITE COLLAR GRIME
my own little backstab at the buck-passing blame culture of a financial house's front office. bullshiiit management speak, synthetic fart noises and dog-barks, a lyrical description of trader paranoia (Triarch was an unreliable information platform), the thrill of success, the terror of failure, finishing up with a sampled segment from our training video describing the dangers of over-selling/buying credit insurgence products
07 - DAMAGE
possibly about a 20th century rock star strangle-barclaysing himself to death in his girlfriend's hotel room. (i read his biography last year!)
08 - GREED
the riff is greedily stolen from the score of Eric Satie's Gymnopedie... (a Gymnopedie being a dancefloor).
09 - WIPE YOUR TEARS
a recording of a west-indian alcoholic, found singing in a Caribbean cafe in west-london, during the summer of 2008
10 - THE LIGHT'S REALLY BAD
a song for driving back from a party late at night and under the influence of emotionally influential stimuli.
11 - FROM MEMORY
a song about wanting to return to a time where the only thing i wanted to do was play in the sun with my mates.
CD bonus 12 - HIDDEN
field recordings from my daily commute in early 2008 backed with rave-influenced audio