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May 03, 2005

Is this all that I get in return?

Ok, hi.

We made it. After a protracted (and borderline pathological) battle with Movable Type, we're here. I've had more than my fill of CSS tags and HTML code, let me tell you. A pain in the brain, but well worth it. Celebratory victory blog action, right here, right now.

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My name is Dana and, uh, you probably know me in in some way, so this introduction is kinda irrelevant. We have a FRAMEWORK, dudes. But hello anyway and thanks for reading. I've been looking forward to having an outlet for writing and have been inspired by the radical blog styley of Urban Honking and our own attempt at documenting the making of Deathray LP#2.

So here we are.
We made it.

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Incredible.

The title of this entry is a lyric from a song by the Goodmornings, a very nice Sacramento band I'm recording right now. I can't get that song out of my head. Good one, fellas.

When not laboring obsessively over this here laptop, I've been quite busy with recording (or "producing/engineering", if you put your fancypants on one leg at a time). And of course, making music, sweet music. I'm sure I'll blather on about those processes from time to time, but primarily I wanted this to be a somewhat personal, and hopefully not too EMO, space.

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So I'll more than likely represent with scattered thoughts, gauzy digi-pix, fiercely insular politics, gentle words of encouragement, curse words of cursing, gushing words of mush, and all of the various twists and turns you've come to expect from quality b-logs. Yeah. Alright. Yo.




I have no idea if anyone is actually reading this.




And because sleep is overrated and I have so much time thanks to inexpensive and easy-to-use Meth©, I've also been getting into Podcasting, and hope to turn that interest into a monthly (or maybe even weekly) Song Of The Month (or Week?) Podcast. Podcasting = internet radio to go. Audio content you can download via RSS/XML feeds to yr comp/iTunes/iPod/iWhatever. Truthfully, I don't even really know what an XML feed is. I have a vague grip on RSS and I think they are similar? Anyway, I like the idea of what is essentially a free, auto-updated subscription to creative content. It's nice. More on that later.

I'm serious about the Meth©, man. This is a cry for help.

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So this feels like it's about the right pitch. Like it could be something cool. I like starting something, even a something that needs to find what it is, or where it's starting. Does that make any sense?

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I think you know what I'm trying to say.


CHEERS,
DANA

posted by dana at May 3, 2005 10:53 AM

comments

i know.

posted by: ski at May 3, 2005 01:51 PM

and also, red hot is right.

posted by: ski at May 3, 2005 05:49 PM

This is cool. That pic of the kitchen looks a lot like a house I used to live in in Land Park.

What sort of bauble and/or trinket do I need to partake of the podcasting mojo?

posted by: J at May 4, 2005 11:57 PM

J - there's lots of free podcast receivers for you to use. The app I've been using is called iPodder and you can get it at http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php - it's available for both Mac and Windows. Once that's installed, you copy my podcast link into your subscriptions within iPodder, then every time you launch the app, it will check for new podcasts from this site.

posted by: Dana at May 5, 2005 02:00 PM

OK, the podcast page is complete! It's at http://deathraymusic.com/blog/podcast.html - there's also a link in the right column above.

posted by: Dana at May 6, 2005 03:37 PM

dude,
yer a psycho.
i think this thing is neat.
i have no idea what this thing is.
ok?

posted by: john at May 6, 2005 04:11 PM

Wow, you are a fancy-pants, what with the designer brand-name stimulant use and all. Don't you know you can make your own meth in the bathtub? Or was that black-market Mexican cheese?

posted by: Katie at May 6, 2005 06:54 PM


am presently enjoying the night night bizness..
can't wait to hear the new deathray.

from one part-time ambient podcaster to another... keep on rockin'. or moogin', as the case may be.

posted by: ansiform at May 6, 2005 09:34 PM

It is a dark and stormy night.

I have just pulled into home from a magical week-end on the central coast, dreading the monotony of "real life".

Oh my joy to find this gem quietly waitin' in my inbox.

I love a nice bloggin after a week end away.

I feel happy.

t

posted by: Tee at May 8, 2005 09:14 PM


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