computer is broke again damn it

but don't worry, super-dad's on the case.
"uhh, I don't know what's wrong with it, so let me just upgrade it and we'll call it your birthday."

sounds good to me!
however, reguardless of how that turns out, it means that my album is going to be delayed even more....oh well.

I had a job interview today,(for a different position within the same company) and I kicked it's ass!
I'm almost 100% positive I got it. I should be able to go permanant if this is the case.
just incase some of you are not tuned in:
permanant status= morgage
morgage= backyard for judah/studio

booyah

nother dream....not so entertaining

ok so I had several dreams last night, one where my dad/family had moved into a shitty, but unusually large apt, that was right next to a busy highway. For some reason, my mom and sister was also pregnant, and dad had built this weird playhouse on the "backporch" of the apt. That one was batshit crazy.

The next one is a little fuzzy but involves me as a caddy for some important scientist. he wants to stop by the side of this lake (we were in a sports car driving somewhere) and drive some golf balls into the lake. as he's doing this, some woman walks out of the lake (and for some reason we come to this conclusion that she's an alien) but prior to this I'm hanging out at some facility and alot of straaange things are going on. (windows being bolted shut, people acting bizarre)
that's all I remember. the dream kinda feels like half-life, but BEFORE everything just goes to hell. oh and weather was sunny and windy, so a little creepy there as well.

there may have been a third dream but I can't remember it.

nother dream + haiku

I see no beauty
in vain senseless destruction
suck a nut, rock star.

yeah I wrote that about 5 seconds ago. thought it was pretty good.

anyways.

me and janette were in a huge parking garage. I don't think she was pregnant, because it was a non-linear dream. Like a Gi-joe cartoon, where the characters are just there, with no effect from previous stories. But yeah the parking garage/abandoned mall was really creepy. there was a vagrant about somewhere but he posed no serious threat, but it was dark and we wanted the hell out of there. creepy as hell. I think we were on the roof of said parking garage at one point. the sky was dark gray. very concrete. brown concrete. I find some kind of exit and the stairs suddenly get super steep and drop straight down into some bushes. the first thing I see to my left is a police station. like the one you might see in batman or dicktracy. We walk along and the buildings are so close together and so tall you can't see the sky. there may have been overhangs preventing this. eventually it turns into kind of shopping mall? there are all these stores, and among them are some bars. the bars are filty, but most surfaces seem to be covered in rinstones or mirrors. lots of smoke and red lights. one of the patrons has a old almost 50's looking suit, and it's dark green (what you can see of it is green, most of it is covered in rhinestones. He's a swarthy middle-aged black man. eventually the mood lightens and it just looks like a damn shopping mall. There is a glut of product. stacked 12 ft even. like kbs at christmas.

dystopian mostly. colors were dark/realistic.

I wonder

how many high-school marching band kids' screen name is

"tromboner"


think about that one.

look at me!

I feel like everyone wants something from me today, and I'm getting nothing in return.

fuck that shit.

it astounds me

how frequant the people that can afford these stupid phones, are both fairly incompitent and lazy.

dream log,morning of 1.17.08

vaguely remember. no real plot, but I was in some sort of fantasy south American Mayan semi-jungle place. the dream was conveyed through various P.OV.'S of old video games. some times a text adventure with vga pics, sometimes a pixel-ated commodore 64 adventure game, sometimes an early PC 3d adventure game; well, most of the time. I was hunting for treasure in various ruins. I found some big secret and then all the tribes people kept killing me over and over (it was a video game-thing I think) had a weird Mayan jungle vibe to the whole thing, but everything seemed to take place on a vast plain.
everything had traces of neon colors around all the edges.


a couple nights before, I was in a weird forign owned convieniance store. I was marinadeing some chicken in crappy r&b albums (which looked like metalic coffee bags filled with cola. then, I thought, "shit, I could have just used some cola insted of spending 17 dollars on shitty r&b albums."

so yeah, I need to try to remember my dreams better, so here goes

responsibility can suck a dick

for real though.

work sucks..

..a little more than usual today, prolly cause I'm missing sleep.

haven't touched the album material, but I been playing the hell outa my new toys:
ea-1, er-1 (mkII)
they are fuuuunnnn. and when I hookem up to my computer and seperate the pieces and slap a little "production jelly" on em, they sound pretty good too.

being able to track pitch changes on the er-1 (mkII feature) allows me to do a whooole lot with it one would not normally be able to do with a drum machine.

been fixed

FIXED! (like 2 weeks ago)

just in case you're reading this thing...

Now I'm only partially fucked.

So here's the current situation

"the lounge" (my studio/perpetual mess) is now defunct, due to "operation baby room" paving clean over it. No big deal. the synthrack/desk just got relocated to a corner of the bedroom. the con's of this being:
-can't make beats while janette sleeps,
-company not-so-invited to the bedroom. This makes it difficult to have music friends over
but this mild issue pales in comparison to this problem:

My computer won't work.
There's something wrong with my videocard; No picture on the monitor. Safe mode works fine, but when I start it up normally, I get the boot screen then darkness. and if I hit enter, I get my "welcome to windows" sound (which ironicly is "BEWARE, I LIVE" from sinistar)

if this were merely the case, I could just pop in a new one, install some drivers, and off I'd be, right? unfortunately, I have one of those "all in one" motherboards.

so yeah, no album for a little bit. I'm fairly bummed out.

and............yeah.

I've discovered that coke (in the can it seems) gives me a headache.....
I'm not sure why.

brief album update

Here is the tracklisting so far:

~~~All times are aprox~~~
Mega-mix 1 --6 min
Passy like Cruck-- 6 min
Don't take my Dude, Fergie-- 5 min
Lazor Powered Satan Worship, GO!-- 3 min
(Electro Rave Thing)-- 5 min
Rave#1 --3 min
Rave#2 --5 min
Gay Izbista V.S. NY Trends. --3 min
(westtechno) --6 min
(swingtechno) --5.15 min
(bassline) --8 min
Tuesday Night Techno --5.3 min
Drum Machine Music-- 4 min
(fucking techno)-- 6 min

total: 70.45 min!!!!

Good God, 70 min!! how long are most techno albums? I still have tracks leftover too! I'm probably gonna release them as a free EP for promo for the album....

I can safely say it took from dec of last year and It will take all of this year to complete.

it feels kinda weird to look at a years work for me.

I'm kinda worried because alot of these tracks are fairly different from each other.

goofy mash-up house, techno, hardcore, rave, electro... and a bunch in-between. maybe I can make the moods transition well.

dude, I have no idea....

Jason of (http://www.fantasyviolencerecords.com/) is going to pay for most of it, he says, but I wonder how he'll get the money....I'm capable of paying for most of it actually, but baby and stuff, ya know?

Is 10$ a pop too much? too little? I mean, it's fucking 70 min!! I worked over a YEAR on it.

I DON'T KNOW!!!!

I have no idea how I am going to beat the cover of my last album..don't even know where to start. but I better get a good idea....

1000 cdr's in a blank jewel case w/black thermal printing:

$520 ----(http://www.jkdprinting.com/)

inserts and tray papers for the 1000 CD cases:

148$ (http://www.whitetigerprinting.com/) (i got the HOOK UP N*GGA!)

(+countless hours of putting all that shit together!!!)

I have no idea for mastering... I think I'm gonna go with this local guy who owns a studio called "soundworks media" he really knows his shit. I dunno how much he'll charge me though.

who of you do da master'n? whatchu want?

I'd like suggestions on any of the things discussed today.

at work blog

I work at LG wireless.
It's pretty cool except for the fact that I'm not "permanant" yet. my wife is preggers and I need health ins for real though,

speaking of which, my last job makes this job look loke a cream dream. this job is pretty sweet though. Open work floor, I can have plants, my call times aren't jammed down my throat, and I don't have to tell anyone their health ins ain't gonna pay for shit.

don't get pacificare btw. total crooks.

aaaaanyways.
I'm supposed to be working on an album for jason's label: http://www.fantasyviolencerecords.com (check it out!)
I'm gonna be the first-make-or-break release and he's paying for most of it and he's my friend.
So I'm a littttle worried. Sadly, I don't believe I can sell 1000 cds, and Ironically enough the album is going to be called "Unrelenting Optimism in the Face of Adversity", but I think I'm gonna go with the title of my second demo "#1 DANCE HITS FOR YOUR FACE TO SIP ON!"
oh snap.

FREE EP FOR YOUR FACE TO SIP ON

(EP spam)
new release up on www.memoryformat.net

01 - Famous Quotes & Videoclips
02 - Dude Seriously WTF?
03 - The Scene Is Not Down With Me
04 - ADHD, ODB & The Devil
05 - Cops Never Shut Down My Raves Because They Know My Music Will Drive Everyone Off

oh word?

this is pretty cool, but I usually do my blogs here:http://www.em411.com/j_chot
I like to go here:http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/
and here:http://www.createdigitalmusic.com/
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/ and here
and this is my fav music label: www.cockrockdisco.com


I make music here: www.myspace.com/jshow
and soon I'll have a website here: www.jchot.com as soon as I figure this crap out.