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weekend review -- long long entry!
Feb. 8th, 2004 03:22 pmIt's been a tremendously interesting weekend :)
So Friday night, because Eyedrum is really cool, we (Mel![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
delamancha, Marty samarin and myself) headed over there under the impression that the show was going to start around 9... well, we ended up driving around Downtown for about an hour (it was slightly frustrating, but mostly just amusing, because we had the address and everything) before, just randomly, we happened upon the chunk of MLK where Eyedrum happens to be -- the addresses don't go in linear order on that street, or the street's disjointed, or something. Marty went out and did reconnaissance over there this afternoon, so we probably won't get lost again, but...
... but eventually, we got there, just as the show was starting. The first two acts were guys makin' funky IDM-ish sounds with laptops: the first of which was called Solace, and he was pretty cool... but I Very Much Enjoyed the second guy, called Dharmatronix. He had sort of Aphex-Twin-ish clicky noises overlaid with more dancey drum 'n' bass, and it was Just Cool. He was really nice, too -- I'd asked him if he was selling CDs, and he said, "Well, I don't have any to sell, but let me check in my car and see if I've got one I can give you..." and he popped back, after a while, with a burnt CD that had nothing but the date he'd burnt it markered on the front. "I'm not quite sure what's on it; I just burnt if for myself. But here you go!" He's so underground, he doesn't even have a webpage, and barely shows up on Google. Which, I suppose, means that he's just a guy with a laptop who makes music occasionally. But I told him I'd sing his praises on my blog, so here I go: he's pretty cool. Perheps I'll ogg up the CD he gave me and if you're interested (Brett? I think you would like this...), then I'll send it your way.
Ah, but the third group was actually a group -- Intergalactic Faerie Funk. The first member of the group walked in, said "Okay, now I'm going to play some music..." and proceeded to start working a sequencer and a drum box and a few other things, all hooked into a little iBook... eventually the rest of his band showed up, and they were playing a bass and another guitar, just improvising on top of the beats the other guy was putting down. It was... well, really cool, and you can download a lot of their music from their site. It sounded more or less like what you can download, 'cept the guitarist normally isn't there -- they just happened to pick him up in Knoxville, apparently.
By the time they were done, most of the people at Eyedrum had already filtered out (save the photographer, Beth, whom we didn't know was also travelling with them at first), and when they were done, we chatted for a while, and we ended up going out for a late-night snack with IFF... they didn't know where to find 2am food in Atlanta, so our first attempt was The Majestic, but this was quite crowded, so we popped over to The Disco Diner, which everybody found quite amusing. While we were there, we chatted about all sorts of stuff and talked with this young lady Whitney, who just randomly came by and sat at our table.
It's really interesting, getting a chance to talk with people who feel so... unbound. They're just driving around the country, apparently with a schedule of places they're trying to get... but they don't mind sleeping at rest stops, or at random friend's houses (they were staying with Solace, apparently). And just recently, they moved from Philadelphia to San Diego, because they felt like it... and Beth was particularly unbound -- she was planning on driving to Sante Fe, NM, from Atlanta -- but she'd just arbitrarily picked up from wherever she was and went travelling with these guys...
I've been working on the AI project. At first, it was frustratingly undirected and I had no idea how to begin... but now I've got some ideas and some code (but I'm still not entirely clear how to work with this dad-blammed "quadtree" thing), but it's due Wednesday, but I suspect that a lot of the class doesn't know what to do, either...
Last night, there was a party at Psi U. I popped over there for a bit, chatted with Strick (who gets modded up to +5, Informative) and Aaronmagead7 and other folks... and the Psi U-ites were drinking Dead Nazis and generally being Psi U-like, and it was fun for a while, but I opted to skate back and do more AI, so it was a fairly good thing that I didn't take anybody up on offers of alcohol...
*sighs* ... and a particular young lady that both Tim and myself find rather fetching (she's in our kung fu class) was quite drunk (and a happy, gregarious drunk at that), and she and Corey were trying to keep me from leaving, so obviously (obviously), Corey says to her, "you'll probably have to tackle him..." ... and she looked like she was about to (but didn't), and they ended up snagging one of my skates, and Corey proceeded to hide it in his pants, which was, actually, pretty well amusing. But the whole situation was just weird. Never quite got the partying thing down.
But I should, at some point today: go running (because it's lovely out), do laundry (because I'm almost out), and work a lot more on AI (because I'm almost out of time). And I finished reading Richardfalun's copy of Neil Gaiman's Stardust, which is endlessly lovely and a generally uplifting fairy-tale sort of story. Yah. Richard, thank you :)
Zot! Thanks for reading all of this, if you did, indeed, read all of it :)
So Friday night, because Eyedrum is really cool, we (Mel
delamancha, Marty samarin and myself) headed over there under the impression that the show was going to start around 9... well, we ended up driving around Downtown for about an hour (it was slightly frustrating, but mostly just amusing, because we had the address and everything) before, just randomly, we happened upon the chunk of MLK where Eyedrum happens to be -- the addresses don't go in linear order on that street, or the street's disjointed, or something. Marty went out and did reconnaissance over there this afternoon, so we probably won't get lost again, but...... but eventually, we got there, just as the show was starting. The first two acts were guys makin' funky IDM-ish sounds with laptops: the first of which was called Solace, and he was pretty cool... but I Very Much Enjoyed the second guy, called Dharmatronix. He had sort of Aphex-Twin-ish clicky noises overlaid with more dancey drum 'n' bass, and it was Just Cool. He was really nice, too -- I'd asked him if he was selling CDs, and he said, "Well, I don't have any to sell, but let me check in my car and see if I've got one I can give you..." and he popped back, after a while, with a burnt CD that had nothing but the date he'd burnt it markered on the front. "I'm not quite sure what's on it; I just burnt if for myself. But here you go!" He's so underground, he doesn't even have a webpage, and barely shows up on Google. Which, I suppose, means that he's just a guy with a laptop who makes music occasionally. But I told him I'd sing his praises on my blog, so here I go: he's pretty cool. Perheps I'll ogg up the CD he gave me and if you're interested (Brett? I think you would like this...), then I'll send it your way.
Ah, but the third group was actually a group -- Intergalactic Faerie Funk. The first member of the group walked in, said "Okay, now I'm going to play some music..." and proceeded to start working a sequencer and a drum box and a few other things, all hooked into a little iBook... eventually the rest of his band showed up, and they were playing a bass and another guitar, just improvising on top of the beats the other guy was putting down. It was... well, really cool, and you can download a lot of their music from their site. It sounded more or less like what you can download, 'cept the guitarist normally isn't there -- they just happened to pick him up in Knoxville, apparently.
By the time they were done, most of the people at Eyedrum had already filtered out (save the photographer, Beth, whom we didn't know was also travelling with them at first), and when they were done, we chatted for a while, and we ended up going out for a late-night snack with IFF... they didn't know where to find 2am food in Atlanta, so our first attempt was The Majestic, but this was quite crowded, so we popped over to The Disco Diner, which everybody found quite amusing. While we were there, we chatted about all sorts of stuff and talked with this young lady Whitney, who just randomly came by and sat at our table.
It's really interesting, getting a chance to talk with people who feel so... unbound. They're just driving around the country, apparently with a schedule of places they're trying to get... but they don't mind sleeping at rest stops, or at random friend's houses (they were staying with Solace, apparently). And just recently, they moved from Philadelphia to San Diego, because they felt like it... and Beth was particularly unbound -- she was planning on driving to Sante Fe, NM, from Atlanta -- but she'd just arbitrarily picked up from wherever she was and went travelling with these guys...
I've been working on the AI project. At first, it was frustratingly undirected and I had no idea how to begin... but now I've got some ideas and some code (but I'm still not entirely clear how to work with this dad-blammed "quadtree" thing), but it's due Wednesday, but I suspect that a lot of the class doesn't know what to do, either...
Last night, there was a party at Psi U. I popped over there for a bit, chatted with Strick (who gets modded up to +5, Informative) and Aaron
magead7 and other folks... and the Psi U-ites were drinking Dead Nazis and generally being Psi U-like, and it was fun for a while, but I opted to skate back and do more AI, so it was a fairly good thing that I didn't take anybody up on offers of alcohol...*sighs* ... and a particular young lady that both Tim and myself find rather fetching (she's in our kung fu class) was quite drunk (and a happy, gregarious drunk at that), and she and Corey were trying to keep me from leaving, so obviously (obviously), Corey says to her, "you'll probably have to tackle him..." ... and she looked like she was about to (but didn't), and they ended up snagging one of my skates, and Corey proceeded to hide it in his pants, which was, actually, pretty well amusing. But the whole situation was just weird. Never quite got the partying thing down.
But I should, at some point today: go running (because it's lovely out), do laundry (because I'm almost out), and work a lot more on AI (because I'm almost out of time). And I finished reading Richard
falun's copy of Neil Gaiman's Stardust, which is endlessly lovely and a generally uplifting fairy-tale sort of story. Yah. Richard, thank you :)Zot! Thanks for reading all of this, if you did, indeed, read all of it :)
