Do You Speeket My Langwich?

(The lyrics that I wrote through the day at work today. Will be sung in a hillbilly type accent, hopefully with appropriate sounding hillbilly type music. Lol.)

(A)
I talk good
least myself I unnerstan'
I gots an idea an' I 'splain it up
if there's any answer, they're jus' goin' "Whuh?"

(B)
how I talk
puts the peoples in a daze
always thinking that I make sense
no walls to bounce ideas, just frustrates.

(7.4)
Do you speeket my langwich?
Ah think ya know they call it Anglitch
Thought I spoke the way you do
But no-one unnerstans, sum-bitch!

(C)
new ideas come
faster than  a computer sums
but no-one around unnerstans my words
seemingly avoided like a pile o' turds.

(D)
so whaddo I do?
coninually babbling away?
or shut myself down
in 'Slow Motion', 'Fade To Grey'.

(repeat 7.4)

The lyrics for "Do You Speaket My Langwich" were written on November 0311 and are Copyright 2011 by Ryk John Miller Thekreator

Heh.  If I keep pumping out lyrics this quickly ( as I had through the later 70's, 80's and most of the 90's ) I'll have an album's worth in a few days. :O LOL.  With all of the lyrical ideas in my head, I probably have a few albums worth.  Let's see what happens. ;)

De-evolution (lyrics for the sequel to my 1988 tune - Evolution

De-evolution

(A)    Look from whence we came
    In the days of eighty eight
    Violence and gore
    On television you were
    Forced to appreciate.

(B)    To populace came the Internet
    New people who'd never met
    Friendships crossed the globe
    From bedrooms would elope
    Illusion (istic or fed) dreams as pedophiles do grope.

(7.41)    De-evolution
    As the sheep's mind fades to grey
    De-evolution
    Pulling their own wool down over their eyes.

(C)    The overseers do prey
    As the suckers hear them say
    "We'll take care of your tasks!
    Just let your brain relax!" - heh
    The Illuminati shall lighten your day.

(D)    2 plus 2 equals - who cares??
    As the sheep's flock, stands still and stares
    Faith'n'trust'n'greed'n'lust
    Appetite, hunger and just
    The cupboards of the mind laid bare.

(7.42)    De-evolution
    The resurrection of the Dark Ages
    De-evolution
    Burn the witches who raise our wages
    De-evolution
    As the sheep's mind fades to grey
    De-evolution
    Pulling their own wool down over their eyes.

(E)    they take away our need to think
    give us buttons to operate
    trans-thought free, we eat and drink
    the cellphones cheat, to graduate.

(F)    but we've got the time
    to end the destruction of our minds
    must think for ourselves
    exit the circular hells
    forged by the kings of mountains
    trying to control the mental fountains
    dictating what'n'where we say
    so they may have their way
    stand so steady on your beliefs
    boycott them - feed their griefs
    and the human race may prosper
    instead of only the companies.

(7.43)    De-evolution
    Continue to change and grow
    Re-evolution
    Not only companies may know
    Revolution
    The human race must set the pace
    Evolution
    The customers always right and the companies are OURS!
   
lyrics by Ryk John Miller Thekreator July 2207
The lyrics are Copyright 2007 by Ryk John Miller Thekreator
Music for De-evolution is Copyright 2011 by Ryk John Miller Thekreator

My first new song lyrics I've writ in quite a while ...

Temporary name idea so far: Dead End Road

(A)
I'm the centre of my world
where conflicts do persist
with the big red button in my hand
how do I resist?


(B)
As this 'Visage' keeps my soul inside
away from heart on sleeve
ears surround but hear no words
(coming) from the square root of me.

(7.4)
Knocking on doors
Of ladys or whores
Friends just wont exist.
My dead end road
I haven't yet strode
And soonly wont have missed.

(C)
I'm stuck in existance
being my only best friend
it's tough when I disagree
(and) nothing bounces off my walls.

(D)

Where Googling finds nothing
with nowhere left to turn
gimmie some voices inside of my head
(maybe) that'll fool me I've found friends again.

(Repeat 7.4)

End

The lyrics for Dead End Road were written by and are Copyright 2011 by:
Ryk John Miller Thekreator.

New names for bands that I don't like ... lol

Nickleback - Pickle Sack
Theory of a Dead Man - Slurry From My Bedpan
U2 - Yoohoo!
John Cougar Melloncamp - John Who Can't Poo His Hants
Tragically Hip - Tragically Shit




Tom Petty - Tom Pity
Tom Cochrane - Tom Cockring






More coming in due time, whenst I rem'ber them. ;)

Outside of that ...

(Local radio station I downright hate) Cool FM "Today's hits, yesterday's classics" - Cruel FM "Today's shit, yesterday's crap"

Bryan Adams - changed his last name spelling after he was kicked out of The Addams Family

Whilst I think of it - on the opposite side of the scale - those who are in my own personal 'Music Hall of Fame' include:

Killing Joke (one of the best / most innovative and influential bands that I have experienced, in my life.)

Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor's lyrical, compositional and sound construction brilliance are beyond many other's imaginations.)

Parliament Funkadelic (they INVENTED Funk, in the 1960s. Still together, touring.)

UK (late 70's supergroup with former Frank Zappa, Roxy Music and future Asia and Missing Persons members - Eddie Jobson (now heading UKZ) on keyboards/violin; Terry Bozzio (one of the best acknowledged drummers in the world) and John Wetton on bass guitar and lead vocals.)

An invention modification idea today at work ...

Very few of you reading this will know what my invention so far entitled 'The Judge' is, but earlier today at work, after having had the idea yesterday of moving it from analog circuitry to a programmable computer chip, I came up with the idea today of doing a version of it in Visual Basic.Net and then comverting THAT code to the PIC (programmable chip).

Have started and see where it goes. :)

I'm leaving this vague intentionally in this public blog as I don't wish anyone else who may join someday, running off with the invention idea and making bazillions of $! ;) Lol

My new studio / workshop tables building spree this weekend ...

This was a quick build of the two tables.  Through it all I found that my Canadian Tire cheap brand of tools, chop saw 'Job Mate' isn't very well lined up on the Z axis.  When you cut angles, they're off by a degree or 2. :(  This helped to make fitting things together which I'd hoped to do as precisely as possible, impossible.  Ah well.

In this pic is table #1's top, with a couple of it's underneath supports cut, laid out on it to test their sizings.

 Here's another viewing of it from top down.

 I believe this pic is after I had screwed all 4 of the support bars to the bottom of the table top.  (They're 2" x 3" wood that I recovered from my 2nd 5 foot tall 2"x3" 19" rack that my modular used to reside in.  The 1st 5 foot tall, was used to give me 2"x3" 's for my 2 cabinets that the modular has been moved into.

 Here, I've added the 2 front 3' legs with 1 of the 2 supports for each of them.

 Setting table #1 up to have a look at it, 1 of the almost 6' legs has been installed through a hole that I made in the table top.  It's leaning on the plastic table that I was using to build things on.

 And here, is table #1 with both of it's almost 6' tall legs installed.  I still had to add the remaineder of the leg supports.

 Here, with table #1 being almost completed - I've FINALLY remembered to grab my camera (today), to shoot pics of how far I'd gotten with table #2.  All of it's legs are on and I'm adding the final supports to it, here.

 Another pic of the 2 tables.

 Yet another pic of the 2 tables, with more leg supports added.

 And here is the first of the 2 pics of both tables completed (except for their almost 6' tall leg's top supports.  I ran out of wood that I'd rescued from the trashed 5' tall 2"x3" rack.  Except for the cutoff bits, ALL of the wood was used. :)  Happy about that.

And the final pic of the 2 tables standing well in front of my 1994 Ford Thunderbird.  (8 cylinder!  Woohoo! :D )

Now - has anyone noticed all of the measurement errors especially in the supports for the legs, all through the pics?  Lol.

The tables don't wobble.  I was extremely careful in my measurements for everything there.  Sturdy as heck with their supports.  When they were both out on the grass, I sat myself down on one of them (I'm 230+ pounds at 6'4" in height.) and I didn't even hear a creak.  Very happy with that. :)

During the last few minutes of adding the final supports - I realized that the table that I'll use for the modular cabinets does not NEED the almost 6' tall legs in the back as it'll be seated in FRONT of them.  Umm - duh.  Lol.

Anyhoo ... as I said on the forum, I need at least 5 tables.  3+ more to build. :)  Shall see about either next weekend or the weekend after. 

Yesterday's not nice saying coinage ...

Another way to call someone 'stupid' could be:

"Their wit is so low!"

"How low is it?"  (Had to. ;) Lol.)

"They would have trouble thinking their way,
out of a box that's made of butter!"

:P Lol

A new label for myself ...

9:18am this morning, I combined two individual words and came up with the lable/label of:

Innoventionator for myself. ;) :P Lol.  See if you can figure out what the 2 words originally were. ;)

(My previous self-coined label/lable is Progressive Industrial Philosophical Analyst ... but, it's a little too long.  Lol.)

A long brewing contemplation's current realization ...

Now - I've been realizing for quite a few months now, that for the past few years mainly, I've not been composing music from any emotion at all.  Only, from that which to me 'sounds cool' to my own ears. :O  Ummm - ooops?  Is an understatement. :(

I've been pondering music composed emotionally for at least a couple of years now, from what I've been hearing on the popular radio stations that I haven't any choice to ignore at places of work.  I've been noticing what appears to be the amount of tunes on them, without emotion in their creation, becoming more and more popular.  ???  Media pushing to make artists popular is a guess of mine.  But anyhoo ...

At a rough guesstimate, in all of my compositions that I've kept a recording of in some way since 1982, when I first started recording them, I may very well be able to count on my fingers and toes together, the TOTAL # of those tunes that I DID compose from emotions.  Out of a rough estimate of 150 tunes, that's not one heck of a lot. :o

This is definitatively something I'll be keeping in mind when I set myself down to begin any new compositions.  A key for me here will be: to ensure that I'm composing the music for lyrics, if it's not an 'ambient' / etc. type of genre.  If it is the latter, then I should make sure that I have a mood that I'm looking to appeal to emotionally (or logically (or a combo. there of)) and follow that, rather than going only with sounds and / or rhythms that appeal to my mind.

:)

One of my comic strip's comics, for a chuckle ...

This is 1 of my 500+ comics from my Look On The Bright Side comic strip.  Inspired heavily by Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' back in 1982, I've had it published for a 1 year period only in a bi-monthy poetry magazine, back in the early 2000's.

More coming.  I hope you like. :)

Ooops - more Cuba honeymoon pics

Duh. I only posted 1 in the previous message.  Here're a few more. ;)

The sign inside of the main entrace of the Havana Club (The Rum of Cuba) rum museum.

Liz and I in our private Royal bar. :)

In a tour of Havana itself, a pic of Liz walking down one of the streets with major reconstruction / updating going on.

I had to grab a picture of this pigeon in the centre of the window above a door opening to this ancient church in town square inside of Havana.  There's a picture of the church from outside, below.

Another picture inside the Havana Club Rum museum.  This is a demonstration of manually extracting sugar from a stick of sugar cane, from which their Rums are made.

And church.  Ominous! :O  Whoa.  Had to have a pic of it, from far away in the square. :)

More pics later.  I'm still waking up.  ;)

Honeymoon in Cuba pics ...

Me in our private bar at the Junior Royal section of the Riu Varadero resort, sporting my 1st purchased cigar and a glass of warmed brandy.  :)  I'm still wearing that limegreen wrist tag as well. Lol.  I want to see how long it'll stay on. :D

My Philosophies ...

"I,
have the ability,
to read between the lines,
that haven't as yet,
been written!"-Rich (early 2011)

Who wants the funk?

You know what's really cool to me? When for the first time in my life, I start trying to learn the bass guitar part for a 'funk' tune and I find that I DO have the 'funk' within me.  That 'feel'; that inner feeling that you can't ever learn. :)  Just like 'natural rhythm' that you either have or you don't.  It's not something that can be learned; you either have it, or you don't.  Period.

This memory just came back to me after seeing my friend Mel from World of Warcraft posting the video for "Play That Funky Music White Boy" from Wild Cherry on her daily blog, in response to mentioning of my having helped to brink her out of her bad funk, yesterday.  I'd begun learning the tune about a week before our (with Liz) wedding, in order to play the tune live, for the wedding.  During the learning of the bass guitar part, once I had most of it down, I felt the realization 'switch on' as I was playing ... I had the 'feel'; the groove; I was, the tune. :)  That was SO cool!  That I - a white guy, could 'feel' the soul; the 'funk' as I was playing it.
An amazing, eye opening experience that was, to me. :)

So in return - I have to post a vid. from the absolutely amazing masters OF funk - that created it in the 1st place, back in the 1960s!  Parliament / Parliament Funkadelic / P-Funk All Stars ... (and they're playing live in Buffalo, New York for FREE on July 28th and later that weekend in Cleveland, Ohio - they are INCREDIBLE, LIVE! :o )

Thanks Mel!  Now - who wants the funk?

If you're a musician, today's idea could possibly make sense ;)

However, if you're not a musician, you may not have any interest in today's idea that I had. :o

Just before my 1st coffee break at work today, for some reason my ol' noggin' remembered Frank Zappa being absolutely brilliant at doing different things with strings of notes (I'm trying to keep this as understandable as possible for the every day Joe / Janet, whether they be a musician or not. :) ) ... in non-standard ways, that we usually hear on popular radio every day.

Ol' Frank (RIP ... missing you greatly) became well known for slapping together 7 notes in a row, in a timing structure that's more commonly found used for strings of 4, 8, 3 or 6 notes.  7 notes? 
Come on!  I dare yah! ;)  Just try counting from 1 to 7, in the exact time period of 4 solid and steady drum beats.  It ain't natural, Harry! :o  What the heck were Frank doin'? Lol.

Not yet at that time being completely awake, (about 9:am) even though I'd been up since 4:20am ... my ol' bowl of jello on top of my shoulders started pondering what Mr. Zappa had worked on, perfectly, back in them thar good ol' daze. :)

See ... to try and explain a little background: 90% or so of the tunes that we hear on whatever common radio stations (underground and CBC radio stations after midnight are excluded from this - SOMEwhat) we listen to, are playing music in what is known as:

4/4

That means that a melody or chord progression that are playing, the length of the 'bar' (as we call it), contains 4 x quarter notes. As well, the drummer is sometimes alternating a:

1) Bass drum kick
2) Snare drum hit
3) Bass drum kick
4) Snare drum hit


At the same time, he might be doing something with his hihat, that's as simple as 1/8th notes, in that same time period of 4 x 1/4 note beats.

1) Hihat hit
1 and) Hihat hit
2) Hihat hit
2 and) Hihat hit
3) Hihat hit
3 and) Hihat hit
4) Hihat hit
4 and) Hihat hit

Notice when you're tapping your foot along to the music that you can count repeatedly:
"One, two, three, four" over and over and ...

(And a twist from a big big big Pink Floyd hit from the earlier 70's entitled 'Money' - MOST of it, is in 7/4!  You count from 1 to 7, before you repeat, for about 80% of the tune.  The break with solo in it later, is in 4/4.)

Now - 4/4, 3/4 (used for waltzes, blues (so is 6/8 and 12/8) and 2/4 have been used in the vast majority since the dawn of time basically.  Same-o, same-o. 

"What?  Why don't you musicians work with 5, or 9 or 11 1/4 notes?  Wait a minute ... why does everything have to be 1/2 (half), 1/4 (quarter) or 1/8 (eighth) note based?  Can't you divide up the # of notes in one bar by an ODD number?"

Exactly.  Mr. Zappa, being one of the few musical geniuses in the last 100 years or so, would do really strange things such as mixing DIFFERENT time signatures TOGETHER! :O  He and many others named those 'poly rhythms'.

Anyhoo ... that's not the angle I'm going for at the mo'.

MY idea was to go with what I mentioned further above ... dividing the 'bar' not into an EVEN # of notes, but an ODD number!

Yes yes yes ... this has been done many times before as in music that's in 5/4, 7/8, 13/8 yada yada yada ...

But that's still not completely what I'm speaking about.  (Hoping not to confuse anyone, as I'm quite famous for - lol. :D )

What I'm typing about, is the bottom # in the time signature!  What I'm going to start experimenting with, sooner than later is:

7 / 7 time signature.

"Hahn?"

;)

You betchya, Bill!  1 bar = 7 x 1/7th notes.  :)  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 2 3 ... etc.

What this means is:  every single instrument that is playing within a tune, will be playing in that time signature, with that set of note timing divisions.  There wont be any of this 1/4 note crap!  Lol.  The smallest note possible will be a 7th note! :D

Or will it?  Going to an odd # like this for the divisor, the smallest # for timing that can exist IS the divisor.  But in music, we can make things shorter, by taking a division OF the smallest divisor!  And what's smaller than a 1/7th note?  Why, a 1/49th note!  After all, across 7 x 1/7th notes in a bar, you can still divide your time up finer.  Each of those 1/7th notes can have 7 MORE divisions evenly within it!  Thereby, with 7 x 1/7th notes, times 7 for each of them, (or dividing each of them by 7), you come to a total of 49 notes! :)

Now - it's impossible to get much further with any description of this hear, without audio examples.  I don't yet KNOW though of any sequencer software that's out there, that ALLOWS you to change the divisor to an odd #.  I'm going to investigate my sequencer software that I bought last year as well as continuing my searching online that I did earlier today, for anyone else that may have explored this avenue.

Now - to get more technical for any DIY musicians that may be reading this:

I can do it right now (as soon as I hook up my modular again, and get my bread board out.)

All that I have to do is take a master clock and send it into a CD4017 (10 step counter) that's set up to repeat at 7 steps.  Every 7 clock counts, the 4017 will give me 1 count.
Now, I take the 1st 4017's output and feed it into a 2nd 4017 set up the same way.  At every 49 counts, the 2nd 4017 will spit out the 49th count!  Repeat again with a 3rd 4017 / etc. :)
(Note - the 4024 / 4040 / etc. dividers will NOT work for this, as they divide everything by 2.  2 doesn't evenly divide into 7.  So that's ruled out.)

The final results that I have form each of the 4017 'dividers' can then be used to run my sequencers which are set up to multiples of 7 counts, for playing back melodies / etc. :)

Can anyone out there in any way, imagine the almost innumerable amounts of 'feels' that could be created, just for 7th notes?  The possibilties with this man, are absutively STAGGERING! :O

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Hi to all of my newly joined readers!  (Wave wave to Mel, Droffset, Rosch and InLifeInDeath) :)  It's absolutely wunnerful to have you here! :D  I hope I haven't sent off anyone off to nutland or anything with my random babblings so far. :O

See what I have to live with in block at the top of my body?  It keeps coming up with more ideas, than I actually have time to play with!  Grrrrr.  Oh well. :D Lol.

K.  Off to read for awhile and play some World of Warcraft, before Liz get's home. :)
Knighty nite all! (Handshakes and pats on the back, all around. :) )

Playing with the English language ...

Now, many have been doing that since shortly after 'the dawning of spoken word'.  It's something that I've had fun doing, since at least the mid 1980's when I were just a wee squirt, flapping all about in my early 20's. 
(When I was walking to my local 7-Eleven to get a Slurpee one evening in the earliest 1990's, doing the letter flipping thing with the beginning letters in words, was how I had come up with the name for my recording noise band Deathlehem.)

When I had seen the listing of the band members on the 2nd album from one of my most favouritist punk bands ever, The Dickies (Dawn of The Dickies - playing on one of the greatest to me ever horror movies, Dawn of The Dead) - I had already been coming up with names for people, based on common words.  Seeing The Dickies doing it as well, with Billy Club and Chuck Wagon (RIP) - confirmed my interests in continuing to do it, as well. :D Lol.

Yesterday at work (being 1/2 awake and all that) I realized that this coming Monday is going to be Liz`s and I`s 1 month anniversary of marriage.  By my own nature much of the time now, I started playing with the word anniversary, immediately coming up with the woman's name: Annie Versary (pronounce it with a heavy Italian accent. ;) )  I thought it sounded funny! :D
I just finished searching for it (quoted) in Google a few minutes ago.  Much to the bummeredness of myself, I found that MANY people have been using it in play for quite some time now.  "It's not original! Wahhhhh.  It's not something I've coined myself, for the first time ... " hahahahaha. Oh well.


Other's that I've wondered about over the years, as to whether they exist anywhere as real person's names, include:

• Gail Tator (it has been found as a real person's name in a Google, quite a few times. I came up with this name sometime last year, when I were bitching about some wanker that was tail gating me, when we were driving somewhere.)
• Pete Sakes (Oh, for Pete`s Sakes! - I haven't searched for yet. I keep forgetting to. Lol.)
• Haha!  Damn!  I'm not completely awake yet and I`ve forgotten others that I`ve come up with!  Right then.  I`ll have to come back here later, to update this list as there IS quite a few of them. :)

And this itself has sparked another thought line as to things that I`ve played with over the years:  word play.

In 1987, I asked some other online (from one of those things that all you younger folks may not know about, called a 'Bulletin Board System') friends of mine, if they wanted to form a band with me, to play around gatherings that we were usually having.  (I'd already been playing in local bands since my 1st one at the age of 12 in 1975 when I was playing guitar.  This would be my first band in which I were playing keyboards, instead.)
We formed 'Line Noyz' (play on words about the line noise that you'd get over your telephone line, that would anywhere from rarely to quite often, log you off of your online connection.)  We played a couple of the parties at my place, having a great time and - changing band members.
In either late 1987 or early 1988 with 2 completely different online friends, we formed a new band with all 3 of us playing keyboards.  Throwing around words the one night whilst hangin' out, we came up with the impossible to work function name: Uneven Balance.  (Ooop.  We also added a guitar player, through a female friend of mine from that time period, who'd been in the Line Noyz band.)
Originally doing popular cover tunes from the radio as well as some play arounds like a 'jazz / beatnik / lounge version of the Dead Kennedys 'Too drunk To Fuck' and "Let's Lynch The Landlord", we started writing as well.  And through THAT change, we became the first 'Industrial' band, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada! :O  That became quite popular for us.  Tho we were short lived into about the 1st 1/2 of 1989, we opened many an ear in the city, to that kind of music.  (We also did an industrial cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's tune Relax.  The tune itself, filled the dance floor. :) )

Anyhoo ... I'm running out of time before I have to get to work and I'd like to log in to my World of Warcraft account to battle for awhile.

More later boys and girl.  ;)  Have fun.

(For those out there who would like to see more of my using the 'boys and girl' expression, why not twist your noggin' around some of my videos at my youtube site?  They're mostly demos of modular synthesizer modules that I've designed and built or simply built but ... I've a few followers and every now and then receive commentary on the enjoyment of that expression. ;)  (Which were referencing there being at one point, one female member of my private forum, devoted to the interest of building circuits around CMOS ICs.)

/end rambling away, half awakedly LOL

A long day, though somewhat creative

Oooog.  Our nephew and his girlfriend got home last night from 3 days short of 3 weeks in Prague, Czechoslovakia.  D'you think they'd let me go to bed so that I could get up early in the morn'?  Nahhhh. Lol.  Tired day.  But that's ok.  Here I be, creating my first blog in a few years.
A few days ago in continuing my thoughts on how to rearrange / rebuild my combination workshop / music composition-sound design low cost recording studio, I came up with the idea of building a set of 4 feet wide by 2 feet deep by 3 feet high tables.  Going with the smaller size, I'll then be able to arrange them as per requirements, far easier in the room than the 8 foot x 2 foot x 3 foot that I'd previously planned on building.  (Must keep in mind, my wife would like to have her 6'x4' pool table set up in the room's centre again.)


Though tired whilst at work, I did come up with some interesting twists for the tables, including using the purple and lime green colours that we sported and had around us in the yard, for our wedding on June 1111.  I'm going to see about obtaining stains in the same colours for staining all of the tables in various ways.  Colour is fun. :)
So - once I have some time, I'll get the first table built.  That'll give me room to mount my current modular synthesizer and some support gear on to.  With the audio gear in a rack, it can sit beside the table on the floor for the moment.  That'll at least allow me to begin doing some sound design for the moment as well.
More tables to be built after, to allow me to get back to building again, as I've more things on my building backlog than I'm able to keep track of. Lol.  Especially whilst 1/2 awake.

Anyhoo ... :)