February 6ths

2/6/1997

A Pollyanna projection: "By the year 2021, we'll colonize Mars and we'll be able to download all our entertainment from government servers..." Earth-Mars communications will be problematic as it takes four minutes for transmission. How long would it take to download our "entertainment"? Which begs the question: Do we want to spend our lives downloading Earth on Mars?

"StarTrek-y" shows need to use more anachronisms, e.g. 78 records, Victorian-era clothing to offset the assumption that "in the future, the world will look like THIS." It would be more convincing if they used bits and pieces from different eras, which is what the real world is anyway

2/6/2010

Idea for performance: reverse the stage setup so the drummer is center-stage and the vocalist in the back or even off-stage sometimes, but put a camera there as well.

[2/6/2026: Great treatment for Rush's Limelight on the 2026 tour with the new drummer replacing Peart, but would he want that limelight?]

2/6/2011

Anachronistic Time Inversion 'officially' finished as of six minutes to 11 this morning. Interesting context collision: Reagan's 100th birthday is today. Reagan hit his stride because history was on his side. 

2/6/2022

My first sequencer was a Yamaha QX7, a black brick thing I used with my Roland Juno 106. The first thing I did with it was to step-input the first movement Ravel’s Sonatine in F# Major. Step entry is where you select the note value and play it on the keyboard. (That’s what sequencers do—sequence) It took me quite a while. There was no hard drive on so you’d save your data onto a cassette tape. 
            
People might say, “why did you do that?”, but that’s what we all did with new gear. I wonder the same thing about people about the same age I was who are making elaborate videos. We’re just doing it for the pleasure of it. We like to be involved in making something even if it’s tedious. #riff
            
[2/6/2025: Simple repetitive actions in an artistic context don’t always have to be tedious. We marvel at things that are the culmination of thousands of little actions, huge panels composed only of small elements like drinking straws or knotted gum wrappers, color-coded into representational mosaics. There’s actually a joy in tedium because you know there’s going to be a little dopamine hit when it’s finished]. 

2/6/2025

AI music is a variation on the old Pottery Barn rule: “You break (make) it, you own it”. Even if I generate a song that works, and is country, and my name is on it, I own the fact that I’ve become country, even though the part I really made was the words, which weren’t country to begin with. 

Song idea: Lyrics are all anagrams. Title: Mr. Anagram