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Back to the Grind

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Virtual DJ 5 Mix Session-- this isn't one of mine though. I mean God that's a crappy playlist!

Virtual DJ 5 Mix Session-- this isn't one of mine though. I mean God that's a crappy playlist!

All my audio production applications are back in order as are my art and web production applications. The short version is I’m 100% back in business and fully recovered from my computer’s main hard drive failure. With that, production will resume on digitalflood Pirate Radio starting tomorrow. Release for “Volume 5 Episode 4” will be this Saturday (12/19/09). I’m also going to try to crank out “Volume 5 Episode 5” by 12/21/09. That will put us back on schedule episode wise. Like most people who’ve run Microsoft Windows XP on the same computer for five plus years and then were forced to format– I’m enjoying my new found speed and system stability. I guess either way it was about time for me to reload Windows. I’ve been running on a patched together operating system for like two years and a bad hard drive for about four months. So all in all it could be worse.

While I was at it, I loaded a whole bunch of new effects into Virtual DJ. So you can expect some fresh new tricks to be rolled out over the next few Pirate Radio mix tape sessions. My latest trick is what I call the flanger solo. You’ll hear it in Episode 4 pretty pronounced, but those of you who listed to Episode 3 from this season will be able to kind of figure out where I’m going. If you have a good subwoofer you’ll also notice my new experiments in what is called sub-bass. My goal is to set off the air bag in your car. I’m almost there.

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Test Drives

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2010 Ford Taurs SHOIt’s been a rather interesting weekend. Went out with a few friends last night to GW’s in Chester, NY and got to drink a few nice cold pints of Guinness. It’s been 250 years since Sir Arthur Guinness founded the brewery in St. James Gate; which is in the city of Dublin in Ireland and brewed his first stout that would eventually evolve into the drink we consume today. To mark the anniversary of this momentous occasion we drank a few pints, told a few stories, and debated about music. Due to health reasons, I have restrict my alcohol drinking amount and that added a bit of extra air to the event. I feel that you always enjoy a good beer more when you consume it in moderation. This being a good example of why I feel that way. We ended the night appropriately enough with the infamous Chickenette sandwich at the Monroe Diner in Monroe, NY. A good time was had by all needless to say.

Skow and I managed to skip over to Washingtonville, NY and catch the Casket Architects as well during the course of the night. They were playing as the opening act for another band’s record release party. As usual, they were absolutely amazing live. We made sure to pick up their new album “Future Wounds”.

Today the local Ford dealer, Leo Kaytes, participated in the Ford Education Donation program call “Drive 4UR School” where you get a chance to test drive a Ford vehicle. Every test drive netted a $20 donation to the local school system in Warwick, NY from Ford and helps support the sports program. It’s a worthy cause (have to support the youth and help keep those kids fit) and how you can you go wrong with getting a chance to drive a Ford of your choice? I choose the brand new 2010 Ford Taurus SHO. Over 350bhp flows from a 3.5 liter direct injection dual turbo v6 engine to 19″ tires driven with AWD. The power delivery is smooth (I easily nailed 50 mph in about 4 seconds) though a six speed automatic. The roar of the engine is meaty and reminded me of my 2006 v6 Mustang on steroids in engine note. I was overall very impressed. So five minutes of incredible driving fun in a car that isn’t even available for sale yet, $20 to the school, and a win-win for everybody.

I also stopped by to watch my oldest daughter’s soccer game this afternoon along with my wife and youngest daughter, as well as, M’Weezy. She got to play goalie for the first time and made two nice saves. Her team lost 3-0, but overall they did pretty good (they won last week 2-0). The other team was a bit older and more seasoned. This is my daughter’s first year playing soccer and only her second game so she’s still a bit green, but she is learning fast. I noticed her defense skills were getting better and she actually played the whole game end to end without any rest (God knows I wouldn’t last 60 minutes). We’re all really proud of her in my family and I think it’s great she’s trying something new. She seems to really enjoy the game and is having a good time (which is the most important thing of all).

My youngest daughter has randomly (and seemingly out of nowhere) started saying the phrase “I’m nuts”. She must have picked it up on Noggin (she really watches nothing else). Nevertheless it was slightly funny to randomly hear her blurt it out without warning.

My wife, youngest daughter, and myself joined Skow, DJ SlipK, Aeryn Heather, and another friend at Cheryl’s Fried Fish and Soul Food in Middletown, NY. This was my first time up there, but Skow and SlipK have been raving about it for months. We were not disappointed. I had smothered pork chops, beans & rice, and potato salad. My wife had fried pork chops, mac & cheese, and beans & rice. My youngest daughter had the mac & cheese. The side orders filled a whole plate. Our pork chops were both huge. The food overall was amazing. The mac & cheese is the best I’ve had since my Mom’s homemade take on it. Outstanding. Definitely recommend it if you’re ever in the area.

M’Weezy stopped in today. We briefly talked about Pirate Radio. We’ll be lining up recording soon and starting to hash out a guest list. What’s holding us up is my orthopedist visit tomorrow. I want to know roughly how my schedule is going to look for surgery before I line a bunch of things up. Once I understand that time line I can start working on staging production around my downtime.

And that was my mundane, but very satisfying weekend in a nut shell.

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DF Pirate Radio – “March of The Death Metal Army”

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Title: Vol. 2 Episode 5 (Click Link to Play) Rel: 01/30/06
Description: DF Pirate Radio is taken over by the Death Metal Army (Skow, DJ SlipK, Aeryn, Andrew, Melissa, the Spirit of Wesley Willis and God knows who else). It’s an all out Metal attack filled with some Glam, Nordic Death Metal, and some Goth Black Metal. We also learn that eating smoked oysters at 1 am along with salsa results in colon cleansing and what rhymes with Otep. DJ Digitalflood and MC Mary @ The Disco! end up dying their hair black, moving to Sweden, summon orbs, and bringing the riffs.
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DF Pirate Radio – “Loud Noises”

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Title: Vol. 1 Episode 9 (Click Link to Play) Rel: 12/12/05
Description: Everybody shows up for Digitalflood Pirate radio including Skow, DJ SlipK, Georgette @ The Disco, and God knows how many other random people in the background. DJ Digitalflood barely maintains any sort of order and things quickly fall into complete chaos. Line the episode with metal, shake, and hope it doesn’t blow up (which it does). If you can follow the show we’ll give you $5– there’s no way you can follow it. Need I remind you? COMPLETE CHAOS!
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Classic DF – 11/14/03

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November 14, 2003: [•] A lot has gone on in the past month. Too much to recall in one post and most of it is of no interest to you the web viewer. Just mundane everyday stuff that I dare call my life. Work is insane. The workload is near the point of break, but that is my industry and it is something I love. I’ve been fixing a lot of issues lately and resolving many long standing situations that needed addressing. It feels good to know that the network is healthier today than when I found it and that new products are on their way because of some personal effort on my part. I cannot deny that we are a team at work and I have become a team leader of sorts. Once again I assume the role of the trench Sergeant and try to lead those I’m placed in charge of to victory. The road will be bumpy. Our competition is also launching new projects. It is go time on the battlefield that is IT communications and I am smack dab in the middle. I’ve been spending a lot of time with Gette. We have truly bonded on a new level just by spending so much time together. She’s so bright and beautiful. I took off this past week and dedicated it to her. 24/7 of nothing, but giving her my personal attention, which is what she deserves. With work sometimes I feel she gets lost in the background. This is my way of making those lost minutes up to her. I appreciate the understanding of not only my employer, but my ex-wife too. Both have been patient in my rather unique living situation that is single fatherhood and both deserve kudos for their continued efforts to work with me. I thank you all. This week has been of one of quietness. The last couple of weeks someone was following me. I’m not even kidding. It was a PI of sorts clearly tracking me for whatever reason. They have since stopped. I don’t do anything wrong and my life is rather boring. I have nothing to hide. I proud of my pure normality. In a world gone mad I am one of the few exceptions of sanity because I refuse to succumb to the sickness that is our society. Weeks ago in a post below I talked about rebirth and the new me. I haven’t lost any of that. I am different. Some like it. Others don’t. What is reality is real and we cannot go back from it. We must keep moving forward and inevitably some will be lost in the confusion. I’m sorry. There is no stopping now. Evolution is revolution and this is it. I slid off the road two weeks back. Ended up all of five feet from somebody’s house. I hit some leaves with my car on a bad rural turn and was launch into a tailspin. Damn near almost bit it I reckon. Reflections abound from that experience. I thank God for good reflexes and driving skill. I could have not been allowed to post this post had I actually found that house with my domicile seeking missile that is the ZX3. Someone out there obviously is either looking out for me or knows I have more work here to do. Either way I’m grateful to God above for allowing me to type this to you all. Like I said there is many other misadventures to talk about, but those are minuscule compared to the rest. The new music is literally beyond all belief. No one gets it that I’ve showed so far. I don’t care. The next wave will even be more out there. I’m looking at a break through in musical creativity. Like I said, evolution is revolution. And the time to revolt is now. Rise up and be counted.

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