Monday, December 25, 2006

My mom got an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner for Christmas and it vibrates in such a way that, through the air, it cleans my brain too. Yay (ouch)!

Last night, I visited my Dad and got some gifts and gave some gifts and then I worked on my theremin deep into the night. The front panel is complete! And it looks really cool! And all I need to do now is connect it to the main circuit board and then buy/attach the antennae to the box! Yay!

Saturday, December 23, 2006

I forgot to post something about the most recent detroit night: The Train Station. It's insane. And by insane I mean haunted, yet seductive. Like a ghost candybar.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

That's not him! Nor is that the guy! <---worst obscure reference ever.

Ben and I went to zeitgeist last night to see (L)oretta and the Larkspurs. It ended up not being the Larkspurs, but instead, a combination the Larkspurs and some solo performers--a really hip group on a really cool looking stage complete with dolls and a scarvèd, moving bass drum. They played “Hello, my baby!” amongst other covers and originals, all sort of creepy and old timey which worked with the atmosphere. 'The Winged Lady' was the closer…I probably won’t forget the song or the lady.

Later, we ate the local Château de Blanc and then took a tour of Milford. As part of it, we stopped at the new hookah bar where we ran into Skody and couldn’t figure out the house flavor-mix. I think there's strawberry in it. And watermelon?

The theremin is going to be harder to make than I thought—I found a good casing for it, but I just found out that the instructions assume that you've ordered the optional (and lame) casing, so there’s nothing about what size to cut holes etc. But, I’ll figure it out and I’ll finish before break’s over.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

More than 1/2 done with theremin--I need to work out a casing for all the circuits. Also, I'm still alive with minimal brain damage.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Theremin making is...tedious. Here's a record of my thoughts while trying to find a resistor:

"Brown black red, where's that brown black red...no, that's red brown black, that's brown black orange, there's another brown black orange. I should put all the resistors together, diodes look too similar. Nope. Ah, there it is! brown black red. Is that too much solder? Naw. I feel dizzy. Is it the fumes? I should use a fan. But how bad could lead be really, the Greeks used it for plumbing, the Romans for plates--never mind. I should use a fan…the next resistor is purple red orange. I just saw that one...!"

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Yeah, how 'bout that. Anyway, I'm in Milford and it is great. I watched Tuj- play some FF12, which is not better than 7 (yet) and I played some banj- (thanks Heid-'s).

I picked up my Wakoski-poetry final paper today--it had the long division done right on the first page. And, the grade was a relief because I'm never sure how my revisions are going to be taken in that class. My other classes, IAH 208 in particular, are more precarious. But, I'm looking forward to the Detroit concert Saturday.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Is it the chrismas glow swarming or the christmas glow's warming?

Is everyone looking forward to christmas? Do we all still get good presents? Mary M., Matt's Mom, has doozie of a present planned for him, she told me. Ben P's present from his roommate is something grand too, (in an inside joke sort of way), a Kenny Loggins concert.

uhhhhh, Serge Gainsbourg?:

Sunday, December 10, 2006

The show at (scene) metrospace was pretty good I think. Everyone played awful well and many a zach-friend came.

Friday, December 08, 2006

This morning, at 6:45, I was up to see the ROTC running around campus and screaming there little heads off. Ugh, a rush of poems and papers for class has me in a funk--Everything social and academic gets concentrated in these last few days.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Just got out of a good poetry class--our second to last session this semester. Randall felt spewy and had to leave. Tune in tomorrow for the Ann Arbor Radio thing (see previous post) and come to the show Saturday if you can. It's right on abbott street at the place with the TV's in the windows: (Scene) Metrospace. Also, April 13th is a Friday--already looking forward to it.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Friends, if you live in Ann Arbor you should, on wednesday, 9ish, tune in to WBCN, 88.3, to listen to FFFFFFrontier Ruckusususus play a little from radioland. Better yet, come to the studio and give me a hug and wish me luck and listen with your portoradio in the cold outside the studio.

If you don't live in ann arbor or have a radio you should tune in from www.WCBN.org

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Did anyone else read about Tom Tancredo's visit to MSU? He's great...I happened to read the best blog ever about him today. And because of its compelling arguments on the subject of immigration reform, I just can't not support Tom Tancredo for president, 2008! *shudder*


Tancredo on Miami: "It has become a Third World country....You would never know you're in America."

Interestingly, the blog cites MSU as being "one of the most conservative strong holds [sic] in the Midwest." Disgusting—I was hoping that however loud the College Republicans, Kyle "freedom fighter" Bristol, and his followers (YAF) were getting, they wouldn’t be confused with the rest of the populous at MSU, which is either apathetic or diametrically opposed to conservative causes. In spite of a minority of scary people, East Lansing is a college town, and certainly not a conservative stronghold.

Friday, December 01, 2006

La Remodea did a near impromtu concert at some co-op tonight--and it rocked! Natey Bliton took the drums for a song called J.S.M. and it was beautiful; t'was La Remodea's first time they played that song live too.

Anyway, afterwords we went to Ben's and it was pretty fun--beers and buds, but I headed home due to tiredness, spaciness, happiness and homework.
The concert went well--I really liked segernomics (magnus organ) and camerata (xylo and 2 glocks).

Also, the word wasn't popular until Edison recommended it for telephone usage. Good-bye.