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Is that what you're talking about when you say Sicilian pizza? That's 100% different from what it meant where I grew up. The one I posted is party pizza, which is a square pizza with sauce only.

Not the Sicilian I'm familiar with, which is also largely gone but I grew up in a heavily Sicilian area and until I was into my 20s the vast majority of pizza I had was made by first generation sicilian immigrants. It was thick and bready but not particularly foccacia-like IMO, more like Greek pizza but with the toppings under the cheese. But maybe we're talking about the same thing in different ways. Anyway, nowdays I live in the land of party pizza so even getting cheese and toppings isn't a given.

I feel like I post the Fartclops soundcloud on this board way too often but it just keeps being relevant.

Again, there were a good few years in college where I'd fall asleep listening to old granular synthesis stuff (mostly Xenakis) so that just sounds relaxing to me. I went through a phase in middle school where I fell asleep listening to grindcore, so same deal there.

TBH I don't really pay too much attention to Neil's stuff (or American pop culture) other than the really early flash cartoons, which were great at the time. He's kind of like Weird Paul Petrosky, I'm glad he still does stuff but for me it woked a lot better when he was like 14 and didn't feel like it was being made for anyone but himself (whether it was or not).

That looks a bit like Sicilian style, which I haven't seen in a while. Do they put the toppings UNDER the cheese?

Oh man, I used to eat a Little Steve's all the time (we all called it "Little Stevie's" for some reason). One time I went there after they had cleaned out the dough buckets recently and the crust tasted a little like bleach but even then it was still good if you wanted that kind of pizza. I've noticed lately that the classic New England style of pizza (see: Boston House of Pizza, Hi-Fi Pizza, R.I.P. both) is dying, it's all being replaced by shitty yuppie pizza that's paper thin, has no flavor and costs like $30. Yuppie pizza is proof that this country is on the way out. Never trust a pizza place that doesn't have all the spices chained to a pipe so you can't steal the hot pepper.

I used to fall asleep to stuff like that. However, I agree it's already been done:

That's my kind of plan.

It's been hard for me to resist this path.

Yeah. I'm building a Kijimi in a couple months (have the PCBs, case, ICs, OLED, knobs and a couple of the switches, and should have the rest by the end of December) and I'll be lucky if I can finish that by February. The last thing I need is another big project and when I do I have enough PCBs lying around from a few years back when I was just buying PCBs cheap when I could, so I should get in to those if anything.

Yeah, that one looks great too. I don't think the PCB files for the NGF are available, though, I can find everything else but no PCB files, and building something with that many panel mounted parts on perfboard would be awful. The MFOS one is a lot more approachable but if I was going to build a vocoder I wouldn't want to cut any corners at all. Which is why I probably won't build one.

Ahh, a nice analog vocoder is the last thing that really gives me the GAS bad, and there are so many redundant circuits and connectors in it that it would be a tedious thing to build and wouldn't really save much money. Maybe in a year or two. OTOH, building an NGF Modular Vocoder would be a pretty amazing thing.

Also worht checking out is Godard's "Sympathy For the Devil," both as a sort of time capsule piece of late 60s arthouse cinema and because watching 90 minutes of (mostly) the Rolling Stones trying to record the same song is pretty educational, whether you like them or not. I'm kind of lukewarm on both Godard and the Stones but I liked it a lot. Even though I do mostly purely electronic solo music these days I still try to approach it like I was a band recording a decade or two before I was born, so 60s adn 70s production i s definitely relevant to my interests.

To be honest, the singer in an old band of mine was really into Harry Partch but I never got deep in to him, I'm more in to his ideas than his actual music (it's good but I rarely feel like listening to it). Delusion of the Fury is the one I know the best, but if you can find the bonus disc that came with the vinyl edition, "The Instruents of Harry Parts" (or something to that effect) that's really worth a listen. It's him demonstrating all of his different instruments but it also includes a 5 or 6 mintue rant that basically amounts to tempered tunings being a multi-generational conspiracy that has ruined music and it's pretty entertaining. Anyhow, he's one of those people like John Cage whose music I like more in theory than in practice, but his APPROACH to msuic and the instruments he built are fascinating.

It's not about production exactly, but this documentary about Harry Partch is pretty much mandatory viewing:

Get a PC problem solved.

I decided at the last minute this morning that I was going to go to work in costume, but I only had about 15 minutes to come up with something so I ended up dressing as a generic supporting cast member from Shocking Dark (since I already had the 80s green jumpsuit from when I was planning to play some Shocking Dark themed solo shows - ended up ditching the gimmick because the jumpsuit rides up in a way that you can't see but it makes it uncomfortable to stand up for more than 10 or 15 minutes). Since that's basically a green jumpsuit and headset mic, everyone thinks I'm an air traffic controller, so I spent a decent chunk of my afternoon explaining Shocking Dark to people who have no idea movies like that even exist.

I was pretty surprised too, I'd given up on finding any older consoles years ago. That said, back in 2017 I was on my way to work and I saw half an N64 just lying in a neighbor's yard. Like, literally half as if somebody had sawed it in two on a table saw. In retrospect I should have checked to see if it had a POWER PAK I could salvage but I never really got into n64 much so my knowledge of it doesn't go much deeper than my girlfriend and I throwing weekly Mario Party parties for 6 or 7 friends for most of a summer after I found an n64, four controllers and about 15 games with a carrying case for around $20 total at a thrift shop back in the mid 2000s.

This Genesis is the best thing I've pulled out of the trash in quite a while. I never had a Genesis as a kid and it never really clicked with me (probably because my friend who had an SNES was into JRPGs and those are long but still pretty accessible, whereas my friend who had a Genesis played a lot of Strider and that takes some practice and my roommate who was in to emulating Genesis a few years back mostly played Toki for some reason) but I'm loving it now. I actually got an XBox 360 out of the trash recently, too, and it's also more fun than I expected but it's no Genesis. At some point I'm going to install a modchip so I can run MAME on it or something. I mean sure, anything I could do on the 360 I could do easier and better on a PC but sometimes I kind of like how compartmentalized consoles are.

It's a Linnstrument, took me most of 2018 to put aside enough to get it. I've been using it for just about everything since I'm not so great at keyboard but I'm decent at guitar so it feels pretty natural. I wish the step sequencer had more pattern locations and some kind of simple song mode because it's actually really fun to work with, but Linn hates step sequencers so having one at all. The playability is great, it's like playing a cross between a lap steel and a violin kind of, but it's really its own thing. I don't have any MPE compatible instruments but even sending standard MIDI or loading the same patch on 16 different channels in a multitimbral module works really well. Since mid February, I've been getting the parts to build a Kijimi to pair with it. I'm hoping I can get the last of the parts by the end of December and have it built by February, and at that point I'm done getting stuff for quite a long time, and will just focus on recording stuff and getting better at the Linnstrument (which is basically what I've been doing for the last year anyhow). If anything I'll be selling some stuff off. It was absolutely worth the money I don't really have most of the time (most of the stuff in that photo was cheap finds, trades or literally found in the trash - there's only one thing in the rack on the right that was more than $25 and it's not the reel to reel).

Starting a new track off right with some PHAT SK-1 BEATS.

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