Sitting in a Hallway

Here I am once again sitting in the hallway next to the A1A Ale House restaurant using their free wifi to download music.  I've grown quite accustom to this bench.

Lets seee, between last night and this afternoon I've downloaded A Belphegor album, two Venetian Snares albums, a Burial album, Cradle of Filth's new album, and TraktorDJStudio3.

TraktorDJStudio3 is the shiiit.  It's DJ software that basically emulates two turntables and a mixer.  I've been messing around with it a ton since I've got it.. it's way too much fun.  And it makes me want to buy turntables even more now.. I've been deadset on buying a pair of Staton tables for awhile.  Somebody give me $600 please.

Aside from all that, I've become even more addicted to dubstep than I previously was.  It seems like hardly anybody ever knows what I'm talking about when I mention dubstep.  It's a genre of music that has evolved from UK garage, and is mainly known in the London underground music scene.  However it's becoming a little more popular now, I'm pretty excited about that.

Dubstep is heavily bass driven, with a really distinct wobbly sound.  It has some roots in drum'n'bass and jungle, but a much slower tempo with a less chaotic sound, it's really very chill.  

This is quite possibly my current favourite dubstep track at the moment. 

It's a great track, Nero is pretty damn incredible. 

If you can dig on that, I'd advise you to check out a few dubstep mixes

Here's one of my favourite mixes right now

Download it right here- http://barefiles.com/?id=3295

Alright. I guess that's all for now. 

Since we're on the topic of dubstep

keep it bare safe, ez, big ups, etc.

-J

Home

Back home for the first time in 2 months

Fuck driving for 11 hours.

Goodnight children

-J

A little music discussion

It's about 1:15am, quite a nice night.  Sitting outside with my computer and the chilly air.

Here at the college they block torrent usage and most P2P activity.  This has been the bain of my existence the past couple months, as I rely on torrents to get most of my music.  I basically need a constant stream of new and interesting music to live, mind you.  So recently I've been trying to find other places with internet access to obtain my music.  I've tried walking over to the Casa Monica hotel across the street a few times, but I seem to get locked out of the internet there after about a minute of my torrent program being open.  I guess they block IPs that are using up a ton of bandwidth.  

So last night I went on a free wi-fi hunt, walking around downtown St. Augustine.  I found myself propping my computer up on garbage cans, postage boxes and all sorts of things while out there.  Finally I got down to the corner of A1A and King street and found out that the A1A Ale House has a free internet service.

And I must say, A1A Ale House, you are my savior.  Thank you.

Although their internet blocked websites like Megaupload, Rapidshare, and all torrent file sites the simple use of a proxy fixed that problem.  And it turned out they had no actual block on torrent downloading activity, just the websites.

Anyway, I downloaded 7 albums last night, and have listened to each of them about twice since I got them.

So I figured I'd post up a few good albums that I've been enjoying recently

These three albums are linked from http://strictlybeats.blogspot.com/  so all credit goes to them, I didn't upload them myself.

Suhov - Sympathy Modul

It's a nice hip-hop/downtempo/breakbeat instrumental album with a strong jazz/funk/soul influence

Check it out here! 

K u r i s o u l - Autumn Colors

This is straight down-tempo trip-hop, it's smooth and relaxing with lots of melody.

Download it here

Guts - Le Bienheureux

Great album from Guts, hip-hop/down-tempo/experimental with a ton of great sampling.  Definitely a strong funk/soul feeling to it.

Right click here - Save As 

So yea, there are 3 great albums on the trip-hop instrumental tip that I've been bumping.  Definitely get my top recommendations. Especially the Suhov and Guts.

Music has always been one of the largest driving factors in my life, if not the single most influential thing to me.  It's really a battle between that and visual art. 

Visual art has always been incredibly important to me, but it can't always put me in the emotional state that hearing certain music can.  

Despite all this I've never been able to really focus on making my own music, as much as it influences me to think and express myself the ways I do.  I've always been much better at drawing or painting or anything else in that zone.  I'm completely sure if I had the chance I would immediately give up all my artistic skill for music talent.

But I'm pretty sure chances like that don't actually happen. Though I could try selling my soul to the devil Robert Johnson style.

Anyway. I'll keep giving my best shot at it I guess. I think I'll pick up the guitar again and keep trying to play.  Get my mandolin back out and drop some melodies. 

We'll see how it comes along.

But now that we've got all that out of the way, it's time to talk about tonight's real topic of importance. Spousal abuse.

Just kidding.

Goodnight children.

-J

Scraps

My internet went out this morning, and having nothing else to do I started sorting through the random files on my computer.  I came across a few different things that have been written to me over the past year or so that have held some sort of meaning, so I figured why not share some of them, maybe anybody reading can pull some interest or significance from them as well.

To start off we have an excerpt of something my graffiti writer friend Moze2 once wrote me.  Moze is a pretty abstract guy and always has something interesting to say.  This was written to me shortly before I had to intervene in his attempted suicide.  Moze is doing better these days and lives in Atlanta. 

"Nirvana can be a beautiful place even if it is in the room of a 17 year old law breaking loser. it mmade me think. i dont want to be herre. i want to live in the woods far away from everyone. my dream day changed at the moment. i no longer wanted to be in the city for that one pperfect day. i wanted to be, on the outside of a tent. in october while its raining. the water hitting the tent like little angry fists shunning its existance. then falling off the tent and landing in a puddle next to my head. im laying on my back staring straight up but no water hits my eyes and i'm... happy. ha. i havent a care in the world on that one day... not my wet clothes. not the temperature. nothing. am i that close to insanity."

Haven't spoken to him in awhile. I think I'll write him later today.

Next we have a poem written to me by Sarah.  It's sweet :]

We live in a world of robots. 

Mechanized, well oiled machines.

Inside, gears turn, perpetuated in metal aesthetics--

yes, we live in a world of clones.

Each face baring the same plastic smile, each laugh empty, and every breath, the same.

And then, there is you. 

Made of flesh, and bone, and sinew.

Warm, and full of life.

You, with a mind like the ocean.

And a heart as warm as the sun.

You, in your skin. In your smile.

And even your flaws. Making you...

More perfect than robotically possible.

This next one is written by Joshua Neil Geissler.  A little background is required for this.  Joshua Geissler is a musician, under the name Worrytrain.  When I first heard his music I enjoyed it quite a lot, and after listening to it for a few weeks I decided to write him.  So I sent him quite a long message via Myspace telling him I appreciated the music and so on.  He replied with a message asking me for my address.  A few weeks later I received a package in the mail with a few albums, and a handwritten letter.  Me and Joshua have kept in touch since them, he's a very deep and introspective person.  Check him out at these places-

http://www.worrytrain.com

http://www.myspace.com/worrytrain

Here is the letter he wrote me, I tried to type it out exactly how it's written, copying the capitalization and punctuation as he wrote it.

Jackson, sorry I could not fit more inside This package.

Thank you again for writing me. Because I wouldn't know.

There is no way for me to know even if I Really wanted To If people

listen to it on a Regular Basis or if it affects anyones Life. I Just do it.

Because I cannot stop doing it

Just like we did not chose to be born. but we were.

Collecting things I know to be true

or atleast probable i should say.

I shouldn't use Truth lightly.

anywheres Here we are.

trying to know things. to understand our own Life experience.

Man in A chair at the bottom of

the ocean

Sorting drugs from Natural Feelings

Goodnight children.

-J

Here we are.

Well.  I did it, I've created my own blog.  

I've never necessarily had the intent or drive to start writing in any creative or public fashion. 

But after some prodding by a certain individual (you know who you are) I've decided to give it a shot none-the-less.  So hopefully I'll try to ramble about things that are semi-interesting for anybody that will be viewing.  

Basically at the moment this is just for me to try to get some free-writing practice in.  I think I'll occasionally post up links to music from some of my favourite Blogspot sites like StrictlyBeats, and anything else that interests me.  Or I'll just talk about the senseless things that come to my mind.. in any case we'll see how far I get on this endeavor. Wish me luck.