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Step Buddy would be proud

Don — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:09:29 +0000

I once met a guy, named ‘Step’ Buddy Anderson. A retired jazz man, he’d made a book that explained what he called “The Digital Clock Game”, a book filled with a beat poetic vision of life as a game, where anytime you looked at a digital clock, you ‘got’ something. I can’t remember any of the phrases he assigned for different times, so this example is just my own made up one, “10:10 it’s that time again, 20:20 you know it’s dark honey, 12:34 see who’s at the door”. They were cute, and he talked about how you should always just be ready to make up your own phrase for any time that you caught, nor limit yourself to his suggestions for times he had covered. But key in the book was the point that you weren’t supposed to cheat at the game; you had to catch a time purely by accident, not by sitting at a clock waiting for it to occur.

And so it is with pride that I can say I managed to ‘catch’ 11:11 on 11/11/2011, in my kitchen, on the microwave.

this one’s for you Step Buddy.

You Don’t Get Sucked In At All!

Don — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:52:49 +0000

Last week, I show my friend the facebook episode of south park. As someone who abandoned facebook out of frustration at how much of a time-suck and drama-generator it was, I thought he’d find the parallels amusing. He did.

Then I see this morning, he broke his phone, and due to lack of contact backup, has had to restart his facebook profile to regather everyone’s contact info. LoL.

Archive Synchronicity

Don — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:05:23 +0000

So I’m looking around online for signs of a friend that has disappeared from our social circle recently, half worried that he’s gone and got himself into some sort of trouble that would explain his absence from the usual haunt. I find no recent news articles, so that’s good, but I do find an old nwtekno thread, where someone with a handle that matches his name posts something. It’s probably not him, then again, who knows. What’s funny is that a few posts up, I spot an old raving buddy, who says “Pardon me, but I’m rather new to this whole ‘electronic’ ‘music’ thing. I only listen to Paul Oakenfold. So… what’s IDM?”

Oh how times have changed. I’m sure he knows all the colors of the ishkur rainbow by now.

Bittersweet Syncrhonicity

Don — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:24:06 +0000

What an oddly bittersweet synchronicity, that Michael Jackson would die just days before his full catalog became available on Emusic. And thanks to the new 12-credit-max-cost-per-album change, it’s working out to be an extra sweet deal.