few and far
In between, these updates have been lately. What's up with the flooz? Hmmm last night I watched the Cubs kick ass on the small smokey screen of Fitzgerald's. Erinn, a nice gal I know at Starbucks dragged me out and into the bars last night. She's a political student at OSU, kinda interesting really the whole polticial career progression. Sometimes I think about that as a career choice. I could see her at parties with powerful folks. She's a straight arrow though, a kind of butt kickin Lois Lane girl. She'd be the one in the back of the room observering, heck studying her competitors and then blowin that story wide open! I'm not much of a baseball fan myself but the game was good, cubs were kickin butt last night.
Before I headed off to cubville I went to the second Mini meeting in town. Only six of us there, all with our shiny mini's very cool really. I'm not that die hard about the mini though. I mean i love the car but im not a car guy really. I love the image the mini gives me and the way the car drives is one heck of a bonus. I'm not used to good cars mabye. I've always had semi-par well, just cars. The mini is the first car that makes me think about weather. Its nice out, lets go west.. or it makes me think about the shine of it, the smile of it, aspects of it that id never consider really. I feel free, I feel fun, I feel possible in the Mini. Like taking tight curves and zipping around town, just feels fun.
I'm hard at work on my next two CD's for the Vann Swa'nn collection. My sister needs one stat, I can sense her thinking "dang i need another cd" while she makes Michael's lunch in the morning for school.
The next two cds in my Vann Swa'nn series will be Mondo Cocktail and Freaky Tiki. Progressivily as the series continues we round out the edge of the lounge vibe. I explore some new tracks from the Verve2 Mixed, some great stuff there, and get closer to the house beats of lounge. The Vann Swa'nn series came about as a result of one of my inner character voices, this time Vann Swa'nn, an swedish/austrian massage master who travels by boat and is accompanied by his wine beeetch. Confusing? Had to be there. Anyways, this is his series. He's all about the sound of lounge and drinking wine. He drives a mini and makes no excuses for his behevior. Hes free in ways i cant be, hes an outlet for me.
Mondo Cocktail will go with the groove of the fall time we're in right now and Freaky Tiki is more like my halloween album but stepped up a bit in sound. Its more groove and less vocal. Should be good either way.
Right now Ripcast is grabbing 8 streams of music, random choices i made this morning before i left for work. Four trance/dance stations, and four electic grooves. Should be interesting... you can look at the play list there, the flooz amp section of this site.
But I dont just rip music. Ripping tracks via the net is all random it just exposing you to sounds you want to hear more of. Speaking of which I got four new cd's just yesterday. Verve2, MiguelMigs, Alex Cortiz 4th album, and Back to Mine an Underworld remix cd. Verve2 is classic jazz tunes remixed but todays big deal house and fusion kids, track one is incredible stuff. Miguel Migs is a house pioneer, a solid deep house groove sound. I love deep house. I could listen to it all day, the fatter the sound, the fatter the vibe, the better. Alex Cortiz is my favorite lounge artist, anything he makes is golden, just buy dont ask. Underworld came out with their own mix cd of stuff they'd play after hours, its interesting mix. Groovy, and unexpected, thats been the general theme in music lately.
Generally seems like everyone is off trying to reinvent themselves. VH1's new logo indentiy package is all trippy bizarre and interesting. G4 tv gets just more and more frickin strange. I saw an add piece for Cherry City last night.. wtf is going on there, im a duck no im a lego, no im a duck.. interesting.
I got home after the cubs game with a bit of wendys and found myself watching Robot Wars, english accents and "destroy them muthers" can be heard all over. Robot Wars taken off? Faded off more like it. Just seems like a funny show concept, i like destruction derby like anyone else but all the loud annoucer stuff in it turns me off. "a smashing debut of mr nasty takes the stage and ooooooh look at that spike.. golly nasty is gonna be the bugger in the end.." just kinda kills it for me.
Work continues. Going to big sky country soon here.. sometime. Not sure. Need foodo! Lets see... what else. Ive done some changes to the mini video and told the local mini folks about it, they dig. Gonna see if that pans out.