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I read through Ed Wood’s Sourdoughs International site again and got to wondering if my standard wild yeast culture was perhaps substandard because I’d “seeded” it with organic raisins. So I mixed up a batch of whole wheat and spelt flour and some spring water and set it out to ferment for a few days. We’ll see what happens.

This sample is more complete than most, with an intro and outro, because I put it together for my answering machine. The basic rhythm features a ride pattern split over 3 sources, played in an even time, so that the ride pattern takes three bars to resolve. This is one of my favorite things to do to add life to a straight-time groove because the cymbal pulse comes at odd-feeling times, e.g. 1, and of 2, 4, and of 1, 3, and of 4, etc.

The snare is totally straight, 2 and 4 with no ghosting.

The kick is somewhat interesting but not so much that I’m going to write anything about it.

Patronize these links, man:

• Virtual Drummer loop
• MIDI
• MP3

This was one of the first grooves in 7 that I created after not playing for a year or two. The ride pattern alternates between cymbals and takes two bars to resolve — that is, if you start with 1 on the bell, the following 1 will be on the china because there are 7 beats to the bar.

The kick/snare rhythm resurfaces in the Looks Dumb in Sunglasses groove, unintentionally, although that version is in straight time.

Patronize these links, man:

• Virtual Drummer loop
• MIDI
• MP3

This site relies on Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL. You should be using these tools. Until you do, you’ll never be as cool as me. Heh, maybe not even then.

The design and intent of this site were inspired by CamWorld, memepool, miester.org, and a fever-wracked weekend I spent curled around my toilet during a bout with Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome.

I received a catalog in the mail today from EyeWire — a glossy fonts-and-clip-art production I’ve been trying to opt out of for about a year. The people in charge are incompetent, or worse, willfully dishonest. The back of the catalog reads:
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If you receive duplicates of this catalog, or if you do not want to receive future EyeWire mailings, please fax us your mailing labels at 800 824 7783

However, they ignore the faxes. My fax log shows all my recent unsub attempts:
June 11, 2000
July 3, 2000
August 9, 2000
October 4, 2000

I spoke with one of their clerks a few weeks ago. She mumbled something about having accidentally wiped out a few months’ worth of unsubscription requests in a computer mishap. Then she went on to utter the sentence that gets my vote for Great Lie #4, “It can take up to 6 weeks to be removed from our mailing list.” She’s off by an order of magnitude, at least.

Send feedback to the people at EyeSore directly.