Hammer Mill Days

I think it's CMD-O or CMD-SHIFT-O, something like that. No? Okay, try CMD-ALT-5. Do it again. Okay, now divide 87 into 214 and multiply the dividend by the square-root of fuck-all. Jesus! That was a bit of a tantrum, I admit it. It's just that I'm living in the wrong freaking century, that's all. I'm from that period in history when people did different things for a living and those things all looked different - the doctor had a stethoscope and a mirror on her forehead, the accountant an adding machine and a legal pad, and the musician a freaking guitar. Now everybody's sitting in front of a computer, pecking at keys randomly and hoping for some elusive result. Smarty alec kids! Get off my lawn! Matt and I are in production on another tranche of songs, and it's taking a while because we're transitioning between recording systems. Now we're using a computer-based DAW instead of a proprietary hard disk system, and well ... I miss the simplicity o...

I listen to a few podcasts, mostly in my car. By the time I hear them, they're usually about a week or two old - I download a raft of them and dump them on to my ancient iPod. One of the ones I listen to is Jeremy Scahill's Intercepted , and it took me this long to hear his June 7 interview with Jill Stein , former Green Party candidate for president. This was billed under the headline "The Woman Democrats Love to Hate". I have a lot of respect for Scahill, but I think this interview demonstrates another type of delusion; namely, Stein's over-inflated sense of her own importance. I have no doubt some Democrats blame her for Clinton's loss last year, but I doubt it's all that many - most of the Hillary-bots focus on Bernie Sanders when they look left. At least I hope Democrats don't spend a lot of energy hating Stein, because she really wasn't much of a factor at all. If Hillary Clinton was depending on Stein voters to carry her over the finish li...