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18 DEC, 2000-- SEEING AS HOW A SEMI-REGULAR, VERBAL WINDOW INTO MY MIND WOULD SPEAK KEGS MORE ABOUT "ME" THAN A SIMPLE FACT SHEET EVER COULD, I PLAN ON TREATING THIS COZY COLUMN AS A JOURNAL OF SORTS. SEMI-REGULAR IN THAT I WILL UPDATE IT WHENEVER I FEEL INCLINED TO DO SO, AND VERBAL IN THAT IT -- GUESSES? -- UTILIZES WORBS... AHEM, WORDS. SO TELL ME, BUCKAROO... WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW? I AM JUST A GUY. AM I? PERHAPS. PERHAPS NOT. WHAT DO I THINK... WHAT DO I FEEL... ADMITTEDLY, I COULD WRITE VOLUMES ON SUCH ISSUES, AND IN TIME, METHINKS I WILL. BUT AS FOR NOW, YOU HAVE NOTHING BUT MY SURFACE TO EXPLORE. AGE ONE AND TWENTY, AND OF THE MALE GENDER. A STUDENT. A FRUSTRATED CHILD TRAPPED IN THE BODY OF A BORED ADULT. SOUND FAMILIAR? ALL TOO MUCH SO, I'M GUESSING. JUST ANOTHER ANGRY DUDE GROWING DEATHLY ILL AT THE SIGHT OF OF HIS FELLOW GLORIFIED APES, RIGHT? ALMOST PAINFUL... FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS I HAVE STRUGGLED TO MAKE THE BEST OF THIS FARSE WE CALL "REAL LIFE" HERE UPON OUR PEBBLE NAMED EARTH, AND THIS [NOT SO] HUMBLE LITTLE SITE IS MY ATTEMPT TO SLUFF OFF DUAL-DECADES+ OF THE, "THINK THIS, DO THIS, THIS IS WRONG & THIS IS RIGHT" MENTALITY RELENTLESSLY RIPPING ITS WAY THROUGH MY HEAD SINCE DAY ONE OF COGNISCIENCE. AND THAT WILL BE ALL FOR NOW...

INFO ON THE BAND ACTUALLY, THERE IS NO BAND. ALL MUSIC PRODUCED BY THE "GROUP" WATCH HER, WATCHER IS IN FACT THE BRAIN CHILD OF ME AND ME ALONE. HOW? I UTILIZE THE LATEST -- IT IS REMARKABLE JUST HOW TONGUE-IN-CHEEK THAT STATEMENT IS... SEEING AS HOW MY SOUND RIG IS LAUGHABLY OUT OF DATE -- IN SYNTHESIZER AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY. I PLAY THE KEYBOARD AND RECORD IT FOR ANY SOUND NOT A VOCAL OR GUITAR LICK, LAYER IT OVER ITSELF, SAVE IT AS A SOUND FILE ON MY SUPER FAST, STATE-OF-THE-ART --HAR HAR-- PC, AND THEN JAM OVER IT WITH THE OLD SIX STRING AND VOCAL TRACT. WHAT KIND OF GEAR? FOR ANYBODY OUT THERE CURIOUS AS TO WHAT I FIGHT WITH, MY SYNTH IS AN OLD ALESIS QS-6, AND I PLAY A GIBSON SG THROUGH A TUBEWORKS AMP. EFFECTS ARE A STANDARD "RAT" PEDAL FOR DISTORTION, A DOD "ICE BOX" CHORUS, AND A DUNLOP CRYBABY WAH. WHAT ABOUT THE GAME MUSIC? I USE FINALE TO COMPOSE, USING MY QS-6 AS A MIDI CONTROLLER AND ALSO AS A BANK FOR SOUNDS, GIVING ME AN ARSENAL OF OVER 635 BEEPS AND SQUAKS, SOME ALREADY MADE AND SOME CREATED BY YOURS TRULY. AS FAR AS SEQUENCING, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A GOOD PROGRAM TO DO IT, SO I'LL JUST LOOP THE MIDI DATA FROM THE COMPUTER'S OUT TO THE SYNTH'S IN AND THEN BACK TO THE COMP TO RECORD IT DIRECTLY. LESS LINE NOISE AND INTERFERENCE YADA YADA.

SO WHY THE PAGE? MY FRIENDS, FORGIVE ME FOR BEING A TAD REDUNDANT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY AGAIN THAT REALITY IS A FAR TOUGHER ADVERSARY THAN I COULD HAVE EVER FATHOMED. I AM A DREAMER WHO WANTS TO DREAM... A LITTLE BOY WHO WANTS NOTHING ELSE BUT TO BE A LITTLE BOY. AND SO I PLAY. AND I DREAM. AND I LIVE IN A WORLD OF FANTASY. THIS IS MY WORLD. THESE ARE MY DREAMS. THESE ARE MY TOYS.