[personal] - The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
It's been a while since my last post, for good reason. My iBook, my faithful electronic companion since 2003, finally died. It still boots up, but there is a short somewhere in the logic board (motherboard) which causes it to freeze if the laptop is picked up or moved.
So, I am typing this entry from my shiny new MacBook. Roughly four times as fast as the old laptop, and with four times the RAM. This thing is even faster than my PowerBook, which I use to run ProTools and Serato Scratch Live.
The universe is, of course, a place of infinite complexity and extraordinary simplicity -- so on the very same day I had committed to plunking down $1500 for a new laptop, I received a call from an old co-worker informing me that I had $1500 coming to me in the form of a Visa gift card... prize money from a past contest that they had just NOW gotten around to paying. Hooray for perfect timing!
Also: last week I got the opportunity to work a show as Peter Murphy's lighting designer. Peter fucking Murphy! It was gorgeous. You really had to have been there, and many of you weren't (which surprised me). His voice was amazing, the band was tight, and they played a ton of beloved songs: Cuts You Up, Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem, Deep Ocean Vast Sea, The Line Between The Devil's Teeth, A Strange Kind Of Love (which segued into Bela Lugosi's Dead, no less), She's In Parties, and a cover of Joy Division's "Transmission". It was magical, and I am glad to have had the opportunity to work with him.
So, I am typing this entry from my shiny new MacBook. Roughly four times as fast as the old laptop, and with four times the RAM. This thing is even faster than my PowerBook, which I use to run ProTools and Serato Scratch Live.
The universe is, of course, a place of infinite complexity and extraordinary simplicity -- so on the very same day I had committed to plunking down $1500 for a new laptop, I received a call from an old co-worker informing me that I had $1500 coming to me in the form of a Visa gift card... prize money from a past contest that they had just NOW gotten around to paying. Hooray for perfect timing!
Also: last week I got the opportunity to work a show as Peter Murphy's lighting designer. Peter fucking Murphy! It was gorgeous. You really had to have been there, and many of you weren't (which surprised me). His voice was amazing, the band was tight, and they played a ton of beloved songs: Cuts You Up, Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem, Deep Ocean Vast Sea, The Line Between The Devil's Teeth, A Strange Kind Of Love (which segued into Bela Lugosi's Dead, no less), She's In Parties, and a cover of Joy Division's "Transmission". It was magical, and I am glad to have had the opportunity to work with him.