Been thinking about hauntology for a while, well this morning, well this last hour or so. I reckon a lot of my stuff and Headshock stuff is a good fit - but who do we tell and are we welcome into the club? If not, I propose we start an offshoot, ontology. Then, instead of doing music about the nature of being miserable, wistful and backwards-looking, ontology will cover the nature of being. This means we can cover multiple moods and style and, well, do what we always do. Genius eh? I expect someone more dynamic will beat us to or possibly already has and, again, we won't be welcome.
Makes you think eh? Nah, me neither.
Still struggling to know what to say to Dave's widow, if indeed I should say anything. Feels lame of me but really has knocked the wind out of my sails and I'm dealing with it by not thinking about it. I know I'll dig out our poetry and music collab Earth & Sky Sequence quite soon and then maybe I'll start to know what I feel. I told Andy G as CDS/Lotus will have known Dave well over the years. Andy wrote a lovely review of the new album, makes me think I should probably send it to other reviewers but I've rather lost track of all that.
Realised all my MIDI/TRS adapters are type B, except the Korg I haven't been able to find for ages. Guess what - the 404 needs type A. Why they fecking well didn't include one to make it a genuinely MIDI compatible device I don't know but, shit, there's room for full-sized real MIDI jacks too and they penny-pinched that. Bastards. Anyway, ordered one off eBay as Amazon wanted over £16 for the same thing.
My emergency 2-week referral is actually an expected 6-week stretch due to stress on the system. Let's hope this little thing on my face doesn't eat me away before it's even looked at. Goodness knows when the scan on my foot is gonna happen but hard to be optimistic. All part of the great tory plan to grow the private sector and screw the NHS.
Well now, back from Scotland so I guess I should post a few pix - even though I've put a ton on facebook and google and even flickr. It was great although the last few days were rather damp. Long drive means that a week doesn't feel long enough. While there I noticed the bank A button on the 404 doesn't work and it's just over the month limit for returning the thing, which I had been tempted to do. Will stick with it though, just not totally sure why. The MIDI adapter arrived and proved that the 404 is pretty shit when it comes to sync - only the pattern sequencer syncs up, not the BPM-synced effects or audio loops.
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