chris’ blog

i had breakfast this morning with bel and rod at max brenner in chatswood. and now i can proudly say i’ve tried chocolate babka. unfortunately i have a chocolate headache now.

about 4 years ago i started becoming a geek so i could make music on free software. i’ve tried periodically in that time, mostly without much success, but now, finally all that geekdom has paid off. and without going into a nerdy rant, it is simply incredible. in all honesty, this system would rival even the best protools setup in terms of mixing and mastering.

which is good, because joel and i are going to make an album, and i didn’t want to do it on dodgy software.

Victory One

i don’t know when the appropriate time really is for hot cross buns, but seeing them marked down to $1.50, i couldn’t resist.

if you still needed to buy a copy of how to dismantle an atomic bomb, now would be the time. i noticed in JB hi-fi the other day they had a stack of them that all were titled “vertigo 2006 // australian tour edition” or something to that effect, with the march dates printed on the back.

sigh.

meanwhile, sorting 30GB of various audio takes is a tad tedious.

this is a quasi-geek style post. i haven’t made one of those in a while. but having nothing to do with linux for just over a year, with current goings-on, i think it might be a good time to dip my toe in the water again.

tomorrow, the latest fedora and gnome are released. which wouldn’t normally sway me, but there’s alot more cool stuff happening on the linux desktop; suffice it to say, linux is starting to look uber-sexy, mac style.

the main reason i’m actually wanting to change, is there’s a fair bit of professional audio software available now on linux too. joel and i are in the development phase of a top-secret musical project, and i want all our stuff to be legitimate, so rather than pay thousands for commercial music software, i hazard to assume as good a job can be done on free, open software. at least i hope it can.

i’ve just stored away my tv. it’d probably be the first time in about 5 or 6 years i haven’t had a tv in my bedroom. not that i’ve ever really watched it that much. but it wastes 100% of what little time i do spend watching it, so i figured that time would be better spent elsewhere, playing guitar mainly.

today i went and help with the launch for our church’s chaplaincy called connect. we were giving away good free coffee. people will line up for an age for anything free. and i’ve noticed how international students are much more open to talking to crazy christians.

i went to the hillsong live recording yesterday. i don’t know what to make of it. i really loved the songs they did that were from laster octobers hillsong united recording, which comes out later this week. the rest of them seemed lackluster. perhaps it will grow on me.