Four on the Floor

Thoughts, Rantings, Etc. house music nobody. Occasional posts about health and Obstacle course racing. 9/8/12: GRR: 260lbs: 1:43:22.5 3/9/13: SpSp: 264lbs: 2:26:20 Now I shoot for 165lbs.

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meh

September 15, 2016: This is why I could never be professional blogger. I have not updated this in almost a year. Needless to say, the music has not been going well. For one, I have spent most of my free time for the better year working on a different project that, as each day passes, will not pay off. This is par for the course for me. People make me promises they don’t intend to keep, only for me to throw myself into projects for no money. That will stop today. Second reason, I am on the move again. My day job is moving me to New Hampshire. On the upside, I stay employed. On the downside, New England winters. Upside, if I get the apartment I want, no waking up at 5am. Downside, another small town. Upside, it is not very far from Concord and Manchester. Downside, I miss my kitty. Needless to say I am not sure how to feel about the move.  

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Interesting.

I follow some fitness blogs and suddenly I have ads for Jack in the Box. 

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Day whatever, Month ?

October 26, 2015: #Ableton for the twitter bots. Finally got in touch with the guy who was supposed to send me my laptop last year. Thankfully I pulled everything off the old laptop and onto an external drive months ago. Hopefully it arrives soon. Downloading ableton and what not onto it are not a worry because I have legal versions that I purchased. I still plan to put something out this December. Once I get set up, I will simply master what I have and burn it in December. I will also look for way to sell everything online. Perhaps make some money from this?

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Month 10 Day 12

October 13, 2015: One day the #ableton bots will catch on. Bah. Always broke. The battle cry of the millennial. Not enough money to get a laptop that I need or get my equipment to Washington. I could buy new gear online, but I like the setup I have. People often make fun of the RMX, but with so many controllers being plastic, I like the ruggedness. Plus it has it’s own sound card. Many new controllers are plastic and no onboard sound card. I have two external soundcards, but I like the all in one nature of the RMX. Oh, well. enough commiserating. I promise these will get more upbeat. Just not today.

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Current setup. Nothing fancy, but gets the job done.   

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Gig in an old court house. Early 2013. 

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First gig for the Atlanta Ballet. October 2011. I was using my real name at the time. Rooftop patio in October. Lovely day. Great set. Wielding dual laptops. Only gig where I used this setup.  

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Super old setup picture. I think this is Summer of 2011. Patio of a restaurant in midtown Atlanta. My computer kept overheating and crashing at this gig. Things you do for money. 

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Day 11, Month 10

All for now. Keep grooving.

October 11, 2015: #Ableton for the twitter bots. Holy hotfire I fail at this. No posts since July. What has happened? A crap-ton. I turned 33 in August, moved to Seattle in September, and my computer died and I cannot replace it at the moment. I shall elaborate.

My birthday is August 13 and I turned 3 this past summer. For what I hope to accomplish in life, I am getting rather old. Sad to say. 33 being too old for certain industries, but in entertainment that is the truth. Thankfully I have had other successes, so I don’t consider myself a failure in that regards. Just thought my life would be elsewhere at 33. Enough commiserating.

The  day job moved me from Seaside, Oregon to Auburn, Washington back in September. Yep, at my almost 1 year mark in Seaside,OR. the company told me they needed me to move to Auburn, WA to take over a new store. Talk about an artificially overpriced area. I did a quick comparison of living the Metro Seattle to Metro Atlanta and, while income and demographics are similar, cost of living in Seattle and Metro Seattle are outlandish. For what I am paying in rent for a room here in Auburn, my sister is paying for a two bedroom, two bath apartment in Atlanta. I wish I knew I why it was, but people here seem content to let it happen. I fear what will happen to rent once the $15 minimum wage is fully in effect in a few years. I hope to not be here. (oh, and the house I am in, has no phone jacks. I need to rig one up to get internet at the house.)

Finally, only a few days before my move, my computer dies. Just kaput. The good news is that everything is backed up on external drives. Any programs like Traktor and Ableton, I can just go to the website and download, since I am a good producer/dj and pay for my programs. However, money is tight and I cannot afford the type that I need. So, for the moment, music is on hold. Summer EP was cancelled, I will still get it out, I hope. Winter release of Thirty-Days Dreams: Hemlock is still due out in December.

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Month 7 Day 30

July 30, 2015: #Ableton. Holy wow. Have I not updated in over a month. Well, July has been a loss. I have been dealing with some health stuff. Had to change up my diet and get on some meds to keep myself alive. Anywho,  few weeks ago I started July 20145 A.  Playing with time signatures and finding odd and unique sounds in my library was the goal. I will make some final tweaks and post tomorrow night. I thought I would be spending part of August on the road, but I shan’t. Now that the medical stuff is under control, I will do better with the work. Also, check out my other project www.bookcase.club.   

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June 2015 B

New music. For you. To listen to. https://soundcloud.com/skyhvnter902/june-2015-b

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Thoughts

#Ableton. Anyone want to donate to the “get john’s gear to Oregon” fund? Getting the car has eaten into my finances. The car is great, and was definitely needed. Walking everywhere, especially late at night as I was, was dangerous. But I would like to get my gear out to Oregon and start practicing again. I have thought about a #podcast, but #Soundcloud and #YouTube are taking everything down that even remotely sounds like any other work. I recently had one of my original songs flagged by YouTube. I would look to #Indiegogo, but I did that two years ago when my van was stolen. And I have nothing really to offer. 

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Trick or treat.

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I still want to spin at least on gig as #DJRetchidKat.

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Month 6 Day 15

June 15 2015: #Ableton for the bots. Holy wow. It has been over a month since I posted. Not a month since I worked, but a month since I posted. In that time I traveled to Atlanta and back. On paper it was a vacation, but things were crazy. I got booked for a gig, only to have them cancel at the last minute. Spent lots of money I didn’t really have, but I got to see my nieces and nephews. I have started and trashed a few projects since then. A great deal of my free time has been spent on marketing for my other project BookCase.Club. I think I have posted about it before, but BookCase.Club is a monthly book subscription program. We kicked marketing into high gear the other day, so life has been hectic.

I finally got up the gumption to get something laid down tonight. Started what will be June 2015 A. Starting to form some sort of rock track,we will see where it goes.

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#dreamvenue #pachaibiza @the902group

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