It doesn't take much

I mean it. One person writes to say they read Future Art Factory and enjoyed it and I'm made up. It's so much harder to get feedback about writing, well Kindle books anyway because we all know they aren't proper books.

I have almost got the rewrite of 'From Beer To Eternity' into a fit state to read through and fine-tune. Lack of time meant I didn't throw it all out. In fact, deleting a load of stuff has really helped it and the changes I made help everything click into place. Basically the plot works for the first time and I ditched all the stupid loops and reality glitches that seemed so clever when I was writing them but not so when I tried to make sense of it later. Hey ho.

My old mate Dave who died perished not from any disease of the liver but that old favourite lung cancer. He went very quickly, in a week basically and they only knew what it was 2 days before he died. How depressing. Sorry, this blog is really for the stuff I don't write anywhere and only for myself, I've probably said that before.

Pat made a wonderful meal tonight but she's gone to bed tired. I'm watching Coldplay's performance at Glastonbury. Everyone hates them, everyone cool anyway. I don't dislike them so I guess that makes me uncool. If he could curb that strained falsetto I could even like them. Well, ish. There is that catchy one I like, bound to be more.

I recorded a new track the other day with just one mono synth and a looper. I did add some Microgranny samples that Tim reckons spoils it. He's probably right, he usually is. It's like 6-7 instances of this synth, no spoilers but it's new, stand-alone and doesn't have a filter.

https://soundcloud.com/smokyfrog/bollockaroo

The RC-505 is almost able to work with polyrhythms now too should have mentioned that. Still seems a bit iffy but the combination of making blank tracks and Sync=Off does seem to let you prepare tracks of any length. Will soak-test it when time. Time, yeah.

A busy week ahead. Started review of the above synth, will progress that and with luck start a 'Rio' track or two. Must up my workload. Binar gig to think about, was informed it'll be a 90 min slot with encores on top. Hmm, seems a bit long to me especially as I intend to wing it almost entirely. Think Airsculpture playing soon, must go along.

Oh, and I joined the Labour party. I know, amazed myself. I just really hate bullying which seems to be the culture we adopted, whether it's to those who come here to sell us their skills and effort or those who try to change politics from the grimy, self-serving game it's become.