I'm looking for suggestions for a playlist I'm calling the "Positive Improvement Playlist".

I usually just leave the iPod on shuffle during workouts, but the frequent juxtaposition of italo-disco, drone-era Coil, Tuvan throat-singing, and obscure rave tracks get kind of weird when I'm trying to concentrate on the stationary bike.

What I'm looking for is stuff that reeks of positive attitude without also sucking. I figure people reading this know the sorts of things I listen to, so let's hear some ideas.

Why not? It's been about six months.

1. Weight - I'm currently down over ten pounds from my highest weigh-in this year, and almost ten pounds below my post-sprain baseline. Still a long way to go. though.

2. Building stuff - No major completions, but I'm working on stuff.

3. Recording - Did the RPM Challenge. Working on some other stuff. In theory the cassette I recorded last year will be out as soon as I get the art to the label.

4. Performing - Haven't been asked yet, but have done volunteer stuff. I guess I was asked to bring records to a party I DJ'd at (and it was an epic set full of cuddliness. Klein & M.B.O. will always be on the playlist now.) Maybe that counts as 1/4?

5. Summits - A recent change of diet seems to have kicked me out of that. I may just bring veggie burgers and fake it ;-)

6. Travel - I did go see Throbbing Gristle in Chicago. That counts.

Other - I did kind of have an unstated goal. It shall remain unstated, but I'm starting to think it's blown up in my face in the last week. I hope I hear otherwise, though.

Current Mood: anxious

Bureau of Communication - okay, they're pretty much Mad Libs, but I find them interesting.

Current Mood: blah

I had the weirdest dream last night (no, not that one. Not this time, anyway.)

Rather, I was hanging out with Skinny Puppy circa 1985. But they weren't using a typical drum machine. Rather they had this homebrewed monstrosity shaped roughly like the TARDIS console and played with electrically connecting pads (much like the ones in this clip).

Current Mood: confused

A silent film about the making of Christmas crackers from 1910.

Current Mood: amused

RELEVATOR (the RR fundraiser in my previous post) is now cancelled. All I know is "circumstances beyond our control".

No gig for me. But I will probably be doing crap at the RR Primer the next weekend, some of which might be related to the now cancelled DJ/PA thing. So here, have a flyer for that!

Current Mood: annoyed

In theory I'm doing something behind the decks for roughly an hour. Not sure which hour yet.

Any questions?Update: Event is cancelled. I'm leaving the flyer up, since I think it's cool looking.

So, hypothetically, if I were doing some sort of performance, say, next month, what do you think I should play/do?

a) Electro
b) Belgian New Beat Roots and Branches (i.e. some minimal wave/EBM predecessors and acid house/rave followers would be included). This would be somewhat similar to the RFRR netcast that occurred recently.
c) Live PA of some sort. Probably techno (though how I could do better than Jose's set last night, I don't know...)
d) Something else (explain)

memed from android23

Think of 15 or so albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it.

They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world.


In no particular order...

1. Depeche Mode - Violator
2. The Cure - Wish
3. Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich
4. Curve - Pubic Fruit
5. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
6. Duran Duran - Seven And The Ragged Tiger
7. Falco - Falco3
8. Information Society - Hack
9. The Human League - Dare
10. Ten Speed Guillotine - Laptop Appetizers
11. Skinny Puppy - Back and Forth Series Two
12. New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies
13. Section 25 - From The Hip
14. Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition
15. The KLF - The White Room

Current Mood: tired

The first thing that I noted from reading this wasn't about the sign hacking, which is apparently stupid easy (but don't do it). It's that running for colder climates won't save you from Nazi Zombies.

Current Mood: amused

Feeling a bit better today. I'm able to put a little weight on the ankle, but I'm not pushing it too hard. I do get to work from home every day for the next two weeks.

In other news, a Pittsburgh Street becomes an art project in Google Street View. Case people should pay close attention to the Scenes page, especially about halfway down.