tom moody
"BS Cascade (Suite)"
These one minute songs are coming fast and heavy so I'm just going to combine the last four in a single post and use the word "including" like King Crimson used to do.
"BS Cascade (Suite)"
including
i. Trance (Generator Powered Groovebox) [mp3 removed]
ii. BS Cascade I [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
iii. BS Cascade II [mp3 removed]
iv. Trance (Generator Power) [mp3 removed]
All were done with various combinations of modular synths and sampled sounds, using both the computer and hardware. The lumbering rhythm of the BS Cascades is made using the Doepfer Quad ADSR module as a pseudo-delay triggering the start times of four VCOs.
The groovebox version of "Trance" takes the same raw material as the non-groovebox and homogenizes it somewhat. I accidently saved one riff at the wrong rate and it made some interesting sounds.
creepy to the end
Mitt Romney’s Campaign Cancels Staffers’ Credit Cards In The Middle Of The Night
(via Naked Capitalism)
The relevant excerpt from the NBC News story:
From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.
Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked.
betrayus
DC Establishment types got very huffy and offended when Moveon.org took out an ad calling Gen. Petraeus "Gen. Betray-Us" for "cooking the books" on the so-called Iraq surge strategy. Now he's out of his current job as intelligence meister for the high crime of getting some on the side. The man's greatest accomplishments were prolonging two wars that shouldn't have been fought in the first place, woo, what a hero.
(Moveon scrubbed the ad from its website after Pres. Obama put Betrayus in charge of the Afghanistan "surge" [i.e., escalation of violence]. The message seemed to be "yeah he was a book cooker but now he's our book cooker.")