Absente minded

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The other day, I saw an article about absinthe being legalized in several states including Florida. Last Friday, I dropped by the local package store to see what was available. When I asked the woman at the counter if they had any absinthe, she pointed me to gift-set from a brand called Absente that was complete with glass and an absinthe spoon. She assured me it was the real thing but waited until after she had rung up my purchase to ask what the heck it was. It turns out that this brand uses a relative of wormwood to get around the thujone ban, and a lesser advertised fact would be the presence of food coloring to get the trademark green hue. It’s still pretty high proof and a lot less bitter than La Fée.

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 6-22-08

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Eleventh Hour playlist for 6-22-08

Vanden Plas – “Shadow I Am”
Fish – “Dark Star”
Rush – “Beneath, Between & Behind”
Scale The Summit – “Penguins In Flight”
Amaseffer – “Slaves for Life”
Asgaut – “Miles of Rain”
Kansas – “Child Of Innocence”
Anti-Depressive Delivery – “Path of Sorrow”
Genesis – “…In That Quiet Earth”
Ozric Tentacles – “O-I”
Simon Says – “Tardigrade”
Green Carnation – “Purple Door, Pitch Black”

Currently listening :
Raise
By Karelia
Release date: By 2005-04-11

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 6-15-08

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Canvas Solaris – “Chromatic Dusk”
The Watch – “Goddess”
Marillion – “Warm Wet Circles”
Pain of Salvation – “Oblivion Ocean”
Airbag – “Safetree”
Opeth – “Hex Omega”
Enchant – “In the Dark”
Taal – “Yellow Garden”
Kingfisher Sky – “Hallway of Dreams”
Little Atlas – “Paranoiac”

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 6-08-08

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Fish – “Square Go”
The Rebel Wheel – “Arachnophobia”
Gentle Giant – “The Power And The Glory (live)”
Sieges Even – “The Waking Hours (Live)”
Van der Graaf Generator – “Nutter Alert (Live)”
Tinyfish – “God Eat God”
To-Mera – “The Lie”
Porcupine Tree – “The Sleep of No Dreaming”
Genesis – “Cul-De-Sac”
Nevermore – “The Heart Collector”

Currently listening :
II = I
By Andromeda
Release date: By 2003-03-11

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 6-01-08

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Demians – “Temple”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “The Endless Enigma Part One”
3 – “My Divided Falling”
Dream Theater – “One Last Time”
Magenta – “Blind Faith”
Badger – “The Preacher”
Eluveitie – “Elembivos”
IQ – “Speak My Name”
Lord Divine – “No Words”
Perder Pie – “Dogs Next Door”
Subterranean Masquerade – “Kind of a Blur”
Devin Townsend – “The Fluke”

Triangulation

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Here is the “finished” entry for the Ixil Triangle contest. I’ve retooled the intro and outro and have tried to unclutter the percussion in parts, though I felt it was needing some sort of shaker action near the end. I made some micro-shakers by taping some silica gel capsules together. They’re exceptionally quiet so I had to do some serious close miking.

Eleventh Hour Playlists for 5-18 and 5-25

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5-18
Moongarden – “My Darkside”
Anathema – “Leave No Trace”
Conception – “Flow”
Kamelot – “The Human Stain (Live From Belgrade)”
King’s X – “Repeating Myself”
Fish – “The Company”
After Forever – “Evoke”
Airbag – “Speed Of Light”
Muse – “Butterflies and Hurricanes (Live at Wembley Stadium)”
Jethro Tull – “Songs From The Wood (Live)”
Zero Hour – “Dark Deceiver”
Amorphis – “Black River”
Gentle Giant – “Cogs In Cogs”

5-25
Zappa Plays Zappa – “Cosmic Debris”
The Future Kings of England – “Mustard Men”
Rocket Scientists – “Copernicus”
Port Mahadia – “Distant Shores”
3 – “Alien Angel”
Opeth – “Porcelain Heart (edit)”
Dream Theater – “The Mirror”
Pure Reason Revolution – “Nimos & Tambos”
Genesis – “Counting Out Time (Live at the Shrine)”
Star One – “Spaced Out”
Starofash – “Blood Bones & A Skull”
Nightingale – “Hideaway”

5-27-08 update

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I’m still waiting on the replacement hard drive to get here, so my computer building has screeched to a halt.

On the music front, I’m working on two songs. The first one was based on a little keyboard etude I was working on to try and get myself back playing piano. It started to take a turn towards the chiptune so we’ll see how that comes out. In the midst of that track, a SA forums contest came up to write an original song based on a random Wikipedia entry. Quizzically enough, the theme ended up being the Ixil Triangle region of Guatemala. I’m mostly done with this track but there are a couple of rough transitions and I’d like to find some South-American flute sounds that would fit with the track.