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Monday, June 27, 2005

Now, if I were inclined to steal the drum machine riff from “Zen,” I’d use a program called Recycle from Propellerheads. It allows you to easily to slice a sample into its component parts, but I’m using it here just to show clearly where the beats are in this two measure pattern. The measures are nearly identical except for the side stick on the third beat, which is heavily accented in the first measure, more lightly in the second. You can’t see it well here because of the slice markers, but it’s on the 4th slice marker from the left (the first measure is shown on top of the first here to demonstrate the similarity). The “bell” sound lasts precisely the same length of time as the two-measure pattern and you can hear it in the background. This pattern repeats 4 times. Listen for the difference in the side stick accent.   BTW, I am going to steal this pattern, but in a more devious way than sampling. I’m going to copy it using General MIDI drums, but that’s for later…     6:48:32 PM    comment []

If I understand the Supreme Court’s rulings today, it’s okay to display the Ten Commandments on taxpayer-subsidized property as long as no file-sharing is involved. Odd numbered commandments can be displayed on even-numbered days providing the local police are not sued. Even-numbered can be displayed on any day as long as they are surrounded by a sufficient number of objects of idolatry. Commandments can be freely shared on iTunes, but not on Grokster or cable TV lines. You shouldn’t covet your neighboring states 10 Commandment display placed there by The Eagles to promote their “Hell Freezes Over” tour and CD, but if you write anything about it without revealing your source you're going to jail unless your local government uses eminent domain to convert it into a shopping center against the will of the inmates.    I know medical marijuana can be illegal by the commerce clause, but I wonder about judicial marijuana. Rather than make our courts a battleground between the activist and pacifist judges, maybe we should just eliminate the Supreme Court altogether and just flip a coin every time something legal gets that far out of control. Keep around a few Frankfurter and beanie wannabes to write the opinions and dissents just to explain, but let everybody know from the outset that when it goes into arbitration the outcome is gonna be arbitrary.       5:41:07 PM    comment []