modification of an animation by Jeffrey Henderson
August 2013
"Field Dwellers"
"Field Dwellers" [remixed version appears on Bandcamp]
Was fishing around samples from 8 years ago that Native Instruments does not include in its current Battery library.
Some orchestral sounds, scratching and glitching combined with basic drums. Each kit has its own definite atmosphere and I tried to work within those parameters.
i hated that part of the interview
Earlier we complained when Salon staff writer Daniel D'Addario, as the saying goes, "made shit up" about Harvey Weinstein and P.T. Anderson.
Now let's slap a Salon headline writer for fact-mangling.
From Jon Weiner's 2000 interview with the late, great Elmore Leonard:
JW: Three terrific movies have been made based on your work: Get Shorty in 1995, which I read made 200 million dollars; Jackie Brown in 1996 and Out of Sight with George Clooney in 1998. What was your role — did you write the screenplays?
EL: No. They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they’d say “Oh that’s interesting.” And that would be the end of it. Writing screenplays is not my business. I’ve written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You’re an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.
JW: And you didn’t like this? They were just trying to help.
EL: Those movies were terrible. They put in the obvious things you had thrown out right away when you were writing.
It's pretty clear Leonard is saying he didn't like the movies made from his three or so screenplays.*
Salon's headline, of course, is Elmore Leonard: I hated the film adaptations of my books.
Sure grabs the attention, though.
When the interview first appeared in the LA Review of Books the headline was "Elmore Leonard’s Secret: 'Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield.'"
*Per IMDb: 52 Pickup, Cat Chaser, Stick, Mr. Majestyk and The Moonshine War had Leonard-written scripts. Plus a made-for-TV movie or two. Mr. Majestyk is majestic despite what Leonard might have thought. Charles Bronson really, really wants to get in that melon crop.
report from the web wilderness 2
Am making these reports for the benefit of social media users who wonder what it's like out here, without the loving arms of Mark Zuckerberg protecting you from bots and gently handing you to the government.
I have the cheap hosting plan from Dreamhost. They claim it's unlimited bandwidth and are good on minor support issues.
But if you attract spammers or lowlifes trying to gain access to your login (the "hack du jour" for Word Press software users), Dreamhost gives you general-interest Wiki links on how to lower bandwidth.
Lately their "Process Watcher" script has been shutting off my site when, say, 24,000 login attempts come in and my plugin is strugging to bounce them.
This is called blaming the victim.
I could move to a plan that's designed for small businesses with multiple accounts. (Pair hosting looks like the better alternative to Dreamhost at the moment.)
But I'm not that active; it seems stupid to do that just to accommodate extra spam.
The price may be that I'm not reachable for a few hours a week while I'm being invaded by bots.
Haven't decided whether to make a move but in the meantime, if I'm down, sorry, it's my host's fault. (And Google's, for their scheme of monetizing links.) I should be back in a couple of hours at the most.
Update: Thanks to TB for a suggestion: I'm trying out another plugin that hopefully won't trigger the dreaded Process Watcher.
and not our next pres, we hope
Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, from a Salon interview:
She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts.