Right, so I bought it, and it hasn’t changed my life. It is very nice to look at. But what’s funny is all the labels for type books at Borders read “Topography”, and I couldn’t guess if they were tired of hearing about it or nobody had ever noticed.
I chanced upon a curious chord progression two or three Sundays ago and have been trying to form something coherent around it. The first time I played that Cm that lead into the A♭7 on a synth organ I was just trying to emulate various spooky organ themes. Then I hit the Cm to F and I could only think of one thing and it was Batman. I decided to try a more delicate synth and added a second progression (E♭ F Gsus4 G) and well here it is. With a generic entrance by the drum and bass tacked on the end. I need to take all these bits and pieces and loops and phrases and put them together one day, but GarageBand really isn’t designed for multiple time signatures.
On Saturday we finally got around to celebrating me and C’s birthdays and the Earl Grey ice cream at Canele is delicious and I don’t even like Earl Grey much.
Hi my name is Justin.
School started (again) today. It was good but I had to get up at five-thirty so that’s like a B minus, tops. How do you like that, school?
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I am now twenty years and eight days old, assuming I was born before six in the evening. Not much has changed since the big two-oh. I bought four gigs of RAM with some ang pao money and my early-model MacBook has a limit of two. Way to go, Justin. I could have bought Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style. The The Elements of Typographic Style. Instead I have to settle, in the meantime, for this excellent guide to the application of the Style to the web.
Over a very short four Sundays (or was it three, or five) I’ve taught a small class everything I think I know about music theory under the guise of “guitar lessons”. Which was depressingly little when I put it down on paper. There were so many things I couldn’t explain and I can only hope they discover everything themselves and internalise them and then go out and kick ass, because so many people don’t. People who are awarded eighth grade by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Freakin’ Music and couldn’t tell you which accidentals go in the key of A♭ while tapping their right knee with their left pinky. CAN YOU??
But anyway if there’s one thing I’ve enjoyed teaching in my life it’s theory, because math + music = good times. This is something T-Rex might say, in the event that he hasn’t said it yet.
This is an apple I found in the gents at block 56 in school today. I mean it was just sitting there expectantly, as if someone might’ve temporarily forgotten it and would come back for it later, so that it could fulfil its lifelong ambition of being eaten.