{"id":99,"date":"2008-12-27T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2008\/12\/27\/christmas_swag_addendum\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T18:30:17","slug":"christmas_swag_addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2008\/12\/27\/christmas_swag_addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas swag, addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a gift exchange with Double-A at Musashino. I also got my sister&#039;s Christmas card in the mail. So these items need to be added to the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philip Glass, <em>Mishima<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A vampire-themed calendar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Double-A saw <em>Mishima<\/em> listed as part of my Kronos Re-Acquisition Project, an effort to reacquire CDs of Kronos Quartet albums I never upgraded to CD or had sold for cash in the past. That pretty much leaves Osvaldo Golijov&#039;s <em>The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind<\/em> and Tan Dun&#039;s <em>Ghost Opera<\/em>. I&#039;m saving <em>Ghost Opera<\/em> for last because it&#039;s not really a great piece.<\/p>\n<p>The calendar makes mention of a &quot;Day Walker&quot;, an idea I once described to her for a novel I&#039;ve been trying to write since the early &#039;90s. If I haven&#039;t gotten it done by now, there&#039;s little chance of it happening. (I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/2779514\">novel on Lulu.com<\/a>, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>My sister sent cash, serendipitously in the amount I withdrew from the bank yesterday to pay for tonight&#039;s dinner. I like how that balances itself out.<\/p>\n<p>Should I bother mentioning the $310 pair of monitor speakers I bought on Friday? By its proximity to Christmas &#8212; the day after, specifically &#8212; the purchase date would indicate yet another exorbiant gift to myself. No, I think at this point, I&#039;m considering it a business expenditure. They will certainly be considered as such at tax time.<\/p>\n<p>I went with the KRK Rokit Power 5, which gets pretty good reviews despite its relative cheap price. I tried to mix one of my original song on them, but I didn&#039;t get results that really satisfied me. I think it&#039;s more a problem with the song&#039;s arrangements than the speakers themselves. So I worked on a SUPERCAR cover instead, and when I got through it, I was encouraged how well the mix sounded when I switch to my computer speakers.<\/p>\n<p>But all that working put a pinch in my elbow &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Pac-Man+Elbow\">Pac Man elbow<\/a> of lore &#8212; so working today took a bit more effort. Maybe tomorrow I should work on vocals. That&#039;s what I&#039;m supposed to be doing with my vacation time anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here&#039;s the SUPERCAR cover:<\/p>\n<div class=\"enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-auto embed-enclosure\">\n<div class=\"enclosure-inner\" style=\"width: 400px\">\n<div class=\"enclosure-list\">\n<div class=\"enclosure-item embed-asset last\">\n<div class=\"enclosure-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"enclosure-meta\">\n<div class=\"enclosure-asset-name\">Eponymous 4 &#8211; FAIRWAY<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a gift exchange with Double-A at Musashino. I also got my sister&#039;s Christmas card in the mail. 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