This first year of the new millennium has been one of sweeping contrasts and creating a little checklist of 2001's eventful moments should help make my case clearer.
Job-No Job
January, May-September, late December vs February-April, October-mid December
Health-Sickness
My health has varied over the year and the massive health scare has been my father's battle with acute leukemia since late September
Hi-Fi vs Lo-Fi
I've willfully embraced both low and high fidelity equipment and recordings this year. From using portable tape decks, the lowest fidelity setting of my dr. sampler and kid instruments to my high-tech conversion of a third of the zidsic masters to cdr format. Include my first-time use of fancy pc audio composition tools versus my willful use of portable decks that give particularly brash recordings
New Peaks
In the beginning of the year I did a massive overhaul of my covers including printing lots of color covers, scanning old black and white ones, and making new files for all covers (made possible with the generous help of leigh and bob). While in DC this summer I digitized a third of my zidsic releases to cdr and a quarter of them to mp3 format at Contorted and Land of Ladno Studios. Then I reached various productivity landmarks such as:
+ Zanoisect and Bodycoctail battled it out for the title of second most productive zidsic project, each with over 60 releases available
+ Zanstones completed the 100th release blasting up to 111 by years end
+ the 107th Zanstones work was the 700th zidsic release
+ by year's end I had completed a tape a week on average for 2001
+ this boosted my overall productivity rate so that since my labels inception in fall 1984 I've averaged releasing a tape every 8 days
Here-There
Splitting my time between DC and Louisville was a first for me and I think I took to the strange situation in a robust and positive manner. It was a high being in DC on July 4th and a sobering reality-check to be there on September 11th and the aftermath.
Say It!
Not one to shy away from saying what I mean this year has brought forth perhaps a record number of APB's pouring over my feelings and thoughts throughout the year
New Born-Back From the Dead
I was able to start some exciting new projects this year including but not limited to second violin, VZL and patina. And I was able to continue various projects from previous years such as buddy if you like our music go to the vet, your life has been... for you, mechanic demonic azrael, masters of the ungentlemanly art, here be monsters, creamy porn stars plus the mainstays of bodycocktail, zanoisect and zanstones.
Read All About It
I have not had as much time as I wish to read the Economist and Louisville's local Business First publications to keep abreast of current affairs, but I've been reading books quite a bit to keep the brain humming.
With-Without Women
My lovelife sparked early in the year and then my lands laid fallow through the rest of the year. This summer I saw tragically little of my precious daughter Mariana, but this fall I was her daycare for a few months which was blissful.
Friends Near-Far
I've sparked new relationships by internet and post this year with marvelous outcome such as my new collaborations with Crypt from Madrid and Milkies from France. And I've lucked out hooking up with old friends in person like Lampshade and Zurich in DC and Rinus who came from Europe for a timely usa visit. And I met lots of interesting new people in DC and Chicago.
Job-No Job
January, May-September, late December vs February-April, October-mid December
Health-Sickness
My health has varied over the year and the massive health scare has been my father's battle with acute leukemia since late September
Hi-Fi vs Lo-Fi
I've willfully embraced both low and high fidelity equipment and recordings this year. From using portable tape decks, the lowest fidelity setting of my dr. sampler and kid instruments to my high-tech conversion of a third of the zidsic masters to cdr format. Include my first-time use of fancy pc audio composition tools versus my willful use of portable decks that give particularly brash recordings
New Peaks
In the beginning of the year I did a massive overhaul of my covers including printing lots of color covers, scanning old black and white ones, and making new files for all covers (made possible with the generous help of leigh and bob). While in DC this summer I digitized a third of my zidsic releases to cdr and a quarter of them to mp3 format at Contorted and Land of Ladno Studios. Then I reached various productivity landmarks such as:
+ Zanoisect and Bodycoctail battled it out for the title of second most productive zidsic project, each with over 60 releases available
+ Zanstones completed the 100th release blasting up to 111 by years end
+ the 107th Zanstones work was the 700th zidsic release
+ by year's end I had completed a tape a week on average for 2001
+ this boosted my overall productivity rate so that since my labels inception in fall 1984 I've averaged releasing a tape every 8 days
Here-There
Splitting my time between DC and Louisville was a first for me and I think I took to the strange situation in a robust and positive manner. It was a high being in DC on July 4th and a sobering reality-check to be there on September 11th and the aftermath.
Say It!
Not one to shy away from saying what I mean this year has brought forth perhaps a record number of APB's pouring over my feelings and thoughts throughout the year
New Born-Back From the Dead
I was able to start some exciting new projects this year including but not limited to second violin, VZL and patina. And I was able to continue various projects from previous years such as buddy if you like our music go to the vet, your life has been... for you, mechanic demonic azrael, masters of the ungentlemanly art, here be monsters, creamy porn stars plus the mainstays of bodycocktail, zanoisect and zanstones.
Read All About It
I have not had as much time as I wish to read the Economist and Louisville's local Business First publications to keep abreast of current affairs, but I've been reading books quite a bit to keep the brain humming.
With-Without Women
My lovelife sparked early in the year and then my lands laid fallow through the rest of the year. This summer I saw tragically little of my precious daughter Mariana, but this fall I was her daycare for a few months which was blissful.
Friends Near-Far
I've sparked new relationships by internet and post this year with marvelous outcome such as my new collaborations with Crypt from Madrid and Milkies from France. And I've lucked out hooking up with old friends in person like Lampshade and Zurich in DC and Rinus who came from Europe for a timely usa visit. And I met lots of interesting new people in DC and Chicago.
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