Gordasm http://gordasm.org Weblog and Playground of Gord Fynes Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:02:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 2006-2007 gordasm@gmail.com (Gordasm) gordasm@gmail.com (Gordasm) http://gordasm.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Gordasm http://gordasm.org 144 144 Weblog and Playground of Gord Fynes Gordasm Gordasm gordasm@gmail.com no no Stuff and Things http://gordasm.org/2013/04/10/stuff-and-things-2/ http://gordasm.org/2013/04/10/stuff-and-things-2/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:57:40 +0000 gord http://gordasm.org/?p=825 Friday, 1:22pm

Just to say: Hi.

And that I do hope to post more soon.

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Is a test.

Nothing to see.

Move along.

]]> http://gordasm.org/2012/09/15/mobeel/feed/ 0 Dream Gig http://gordasm.org/2012/09/13/dream-gig/ http://gordasm.org/2012/09/13/dream-gig/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:47:48 +0000 gord http://gordasm.org/?p=817 I am playing a jazz gig with a rock band that I used to be in. The stage is in a covering slightly bigger than a pup tent. A somewhat large crowd, that includes some grade school children, watch us through the mesh flaps and translucent nylon. The gig takes place in the parking lot of a strip mall which I can say is the median of my two childhood neighbourhoods. When the gig ends, I hear one of the kids holler that he wants to meet me. He then hands me a homework assignment of his for me to autograph, which I can barely make out as it is scrawled in pencil on black construction paper. He then says he’s going to buy a book written by a musician that I wish to lionize. This book happens to be on sale at the gig. It is a collection of abstract expressionist paintings made with the materials you’d find at a classroom art centre table. This musician is also in attendance, though keeping a low profile. He walks past me and gives a sideways glance. The musician looks nothing as I remember him, and is younger than when I had first met him. In fact, this person is not the musician at all.

]]> http://gordasm.org/2012/09/13/dream-gig/feed/ 0 Once Upon a Time. Or Maybe Twice. http://gordasm.org/2012/04/10/once-upon-a-time-or-maybe-twice-2/ http://gordasm.org/2012/04/10/once-upon-a-time-or-maybe-twice-2/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:22:27 +0000 gord http://gordasm.org/?p=812 ]]> http://gordasm.org/2012/04/10/once-upon-a-time-or-maybe-twice-2/feed/ 0 “Ya gotta have a bald drummer!” http://gordasm.org/2011/11/26/ya-gotta-have-a-bald-drummer/ http://gordasm.org/2011/11/26/ya-gotta-have-a-bald-drummer/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:44:10 +0000 gord http://gordasm.org/?p=801 ]]> http://gordasm.org/2011/11/26/ya-gotta-have-a-bald-drummer/feed/ 0 Some Things http://gordasm.org/2011/11/12/some-things/ http://gordasm.org/2011/11/12/some-things/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:04:45 +0000 gord http://gordasm.org/?p=799 Gentleman Adam

After umpteen hundred false stop/starts, Ableton Live will most likely win out over Max/MSP as my tooling-around-with-sound program.

David Gilmour’s latest book is quite good.

I could live forever in pages 5 -7 of Stick Control.

I’m finally “getting” the seventh chord.

Viewed: Death Bed; Colour Me Kubrick

Reading: Tommy Douglas by Vincent Lam

Listening: Touch Radio podcasts

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Well, having several times attempted to try first year university courses in the slow, meandering path towards a possible degree one day, I now see why my mother waited until the kids had grown up to start hers: there’s no fucking time!

I recently dropped the only half-credit, one-night-a-week course in sociology. Perhaps, after having paid the requisite attention to work, family, hygiene, etc., I’ll now finally be able to start catching up on reading, music theory and guitar, HTML/CSS’ing, and, maybe (just maybe): Max/MSP tutorials!

Oh, yeah, and pecking out some thoughts a little less sporadically.

Let’s see how this goes.

Viewed: REC
Reading: 33.3: Wire Pink Flag
Listening: Fennesz/Daniell/Buck Knoxville

(Hat-tip/apologies to RR for the idea/reminder to post my recent media consumption again)

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So little time to sit down and write (no excuses).

Will get it together one of these days.

Perhaps the recent acquisition of BBEdit 10 will light a fire under my butt.

Watch this space.

]]> http://gordasm.org/2011/10/08/lazy-bones/feed/ 0 I Am Made of Media http://gordasm.org/2011/10/02/i-am-made-of-media/ http://gordasm.org/2011/10/02/i-am-made-of-media/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:43:19 +0000 gord http://gordasm.org/?p=771 ]]> http://gordasm.org/2011/10/02/i-am-made-of-media/feed/ 0 I’m Irish, dammit! http://gordasm.org/2011/08/11/im-irish-dammit/ http://gordasm.org/2011/08/11/im-irish-dammit/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:18:54 +0000 gord http://gordasm.org/?p=767 Why I'm not built for the beach

As a friend of mine pointed out: I’m built for dark taverns and Guinness, not sunshine and spritzers. (Note: alcohol was not involved)

Clearly, my application of sunscreen was too late.

Day five: the peeling begins…

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