tmct

Sooner or later, preferrably later.

tmct — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:02:00 +0000

I wash dishes for a living. Well, not so much a living than a doing-more-than-just-living as I still live at home and dont need to pay rent or bills or for food or board (and I get more than sufficient pocket money for clothes and stationary and such; I think my mum’s passively trying to keep her offspring in the nest. I imagine she’ll miss motherhood when we all move on).

Regardless, my job is washing dishes and I like to think I take pride in it. Everything comes in dirty and I make sure it leaves clean. If it comes out of the washer dirty I clean it again. I have a system that is efficient, reasonably fast and allows me to be pretty thorough.

I sound content right? Not really. It’s soul destroying work most days. The reason is that there is no progress to be made. Not the lack of opportunities for promotion; I’m just doing this while I’m at uni and sure as hell don’t want a career in hospitality anyway. It’s the way there are no goals past “clean this place up so I can go home”. No matter how well I clean something it will come back dirty again in an hour or two and the job will be exactly the same again tomorrow.

Service industries will kill me. I need something much further off to work towards

Two tracks

tmct — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:57:55 +0000

There are two piece’s styles that I would like to borrow for a while, crack open the case of and poke around and see what makes them tick. And drone, and grate, and come inches from making a coherent feeling and keep you just on the edge of anticipating how incredible your ears and hear and mind would feel when if they just stepped slightly over the line that you’re really not sure you can know it’s nature or it’s position. Then I want to cut some wires and short bits out and add in more switches and dials and re-do some of the wiring in a horribly messy tangled way and put it back together, start it up with jumper cables and see what I can do with it.

The two pieces I’m thinking of are part two of Merzbow’s Sphere and the first track from Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid’s The Exchange Session Volume 2, Hold Down The Rythmns, Hold Down The Machines. I’m also thinking a little of the tracks and discography surrounding each of these, as well as what I know of the artists’ other projects and all sorts of unrelated stuff that permeates through all the wall of important/unimportant bits and colours what I’m actually thinking of.

Hold Down The Rythmns, Hold Down The Machines is essentially, as I hear it: Steve Reid playing a sort of canvas of varying textures and Kieran Hebden painting on it with a collection on electronics and laptop sounds to make a focus and a feeling through the track. Almost a feeling, it’s more like he’s painting a feeling in colour and detail and line but holding back the shape of the thing so you’re never really what you’re looking at. He’s teasing you. He crosses the line in his back catalogue though with some of his work as Four Tet (see the album ‘Rounds’).

Sphere goes the other way. It’s canvas is a short, slow, repeating bassline full of darkness and brooding. The paint is the insistant, grating, rythmnless static that is what you come to expect from Merzbow. Find some evil radio and tune it just off a station that uses a crappy broken transmitter, listen to it in the dodgiest car you can find with duct-taped wiring in the radio and a coathangar for an arial. Listen to it in the middle of one of those cloverleaf freeway intersections that runs between the industrial area and that dodgy part of town. Not quite what it sounds like, but that’s the sound I’d aim for.

I was gonna upload some mp3s of these tracks so ya'll could have a clue what I'm on about, but they're both over fifteen minutes long.

Couple of Pictures

tmct — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:17:03 +0000

Two pictures, taken at Perth Zoo:

Two more pictures, taken in my old/from my new bedroom:

Title so there’s something to click on

tmct — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:42:21 +0000

I’ve never done a “Hi I’m new here, this is my first post” post before. Ever. You can go through every forum or community or game I’ve ever been involved with and search for every alias I’ve ever gone by (there are four that I can think of, if you count the contractions and combinations of them maybe six) and you wont find one. I hate them, like I hate “Hi I’m new” sections of forums and “Introduce yourself” threads. Your post there really says (to me) “I’m not a part of the community.” You put yourself in the newbie category, instead of the part of something category; regardless of what you know of the subject. But I don’t judge others on that; I just don’t read those posts.

A better way to introduce yourself is to just barge in and start posting as though you were always there.

I’ve never filled in a member profile with anything more than name, location, age or an email address. Interests is always left blank, as are those paragraph or so long fields that ask “A little about yourself”. Want to know about me? Read my posts. Talk to me on msn or ingame. See what I’m like, not what I say I’m like.