Here is a new song. It’s not quite done.

MP3: “Rock Song” by fastPOLICE

The other night we tried to get out of the house to go see a show. I checked lots of noise and it turned out there was this band, Mirror Mirror, that was going to be playing in Olneyville.  Well, we went to the show–it was in this old junky loft/factory space that we had actually been to a few years before (to go see DMBQ)–but when we got there the place was totally empty. There were a few people there — people who lived there and then one or two people who were I guess going to be performing. We took pictures of eachother in the pitch black and cavernous space that had been used for the DMBQ show and then went downstairs. This show was set to start at 10pm; we stood around, ambling from one disastrous room to another until finally, at like eleven, we just left.  Which is kind of a pity. I’ve been listening to this band, Mirror Mirror, for the last two days (since our failed attempt to see them live) and I’ve really liked it. Apparently, they have a full-length coming out in September, too…which I will be purchasing. O.K. That’s all. Later, R.K.

So it’s Monday morning and here in my cluttered, remote office I’m battling back a tidal wave of infrastructure catastrophies, customer support requests, and a backlog of unfinished work and unresponded to emails from last week. There are files that need parsing; parsers that need fixing. But things are not so bad. I have Atlas Sound to listen to. I have my coffee from Blue State. And I just discovered this awesome, awesome skate video.

I’m not so much into this skate porn genre necessarily but I am a sometime camera fetishist. This video was shot with a “Red” which is apparently some sort of high frame rate video beast. I don’t know exactly how they intend to depict a 120fps movie on a computer screen which can only hope to refresh 60fps max and I think the top actual frame rate for Flash is 30fps.

Okay, more later.

Excerpt from an interview with Dustin Long, author of Icelanders:

What tips would you give to aspiring writers?

This has been true for me, at least: If you want to write novels, write novels. By this I mean two things.

1. Don’t concentrate on writing short stories, thinking you’ll build up to a novel. They’re completely different animals. I still can’t write short stories very well, and I don’t feel that writing one has ever taught me much about the craft of writing a novel.
2. Actually write a whole novel. Don’t begin a novel, decide it’s bad, and then begin another one. Finishing a novel, however bad, taught me much more about novel-writing than beginning a novel ever did.

Taken from an 8/31/06 interview at Notes of a Defeatist.