scrabbled by james at 5:15 PM
sky is dark blue-grey brown and yellow from clouds.
I'd like to do something about it. maybe paint a picture, take a photograph, something. I'm writing about it. colour through window.
I'd kind of like to take a photograph, if I had colour film in my camera. roll of black and white as it is. but the problem there; the problem that's always there in pictures is that the certain something, just something, which I'm trying to capture, is the most difficult part of a picture to retain. I think it's periphial vision.
I'm sure people have probably done this before, but I want to get a fish-eye lens for my camera, and then print the pictures on a concave surface stretched to their proper places in the view. get two fish eyes on opposite sides, combine them like this, and you've got virtual reality.
scrabbled by james at 3:35 PM
I'm moving about my room shirtless hollering out joy division lyrics sipping ginger ale.
not wearing my glasses or contacts; everything's out of focus. but that's right for right now.
the blinds to my window are mostly closed; my room is fairly dark. this also feels right for now.
choice selections, 'unknown pleasures'.
just headed into shadowplay.
I remember hearing how martin hannett got the specific sound on these recordings: band played direct to the board, and after everything was recorded the master was played into a room and that was recorded as the new master copy. that's the specific reverb on a joy division recording.
you also have to respect a band which had no singles off of either of their albums. the albums were complete unto themselves; to take a single off of one would be to defile it. the singles were separate, and all the better for it.
one album song was re-recorded as a single; 'she's lost control', but that was a special case. the song was re-recorded to add an epilogue on to the end, after ian curtis found out some more information about the girl in question.
great band.