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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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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.

I figure I’ve baked about 460 loaves of bread in the past three years — three each week, on average. I’ve made white breads, wheat breads, baguettes, focaccia, ciabatta, rye, sourdoughs, pretzels, breadsticks, batards, rolls, Brötchen, pizzas, calzone, and a number of embarrassing messes. I once had to cancel a pizza party, and call the plumber, after flushing an enormous glob of not-quite-pizza-dough down the decades-old plumbing in our apartment building in San Francisco. (This was an unsettling episode all around — I sat at home bored that night, and my downstairs neighbor couldn’t shower for three days.)

I’ve experimented with flours, salts, yeasts, and waters. I own thirteen types of grain and four types of malt. I have a collection of odd-smelling bubbling concoctions in the back of my refrigerator.

I purchase flour in 50-lb bags. Regularly.

Linear Two resulted from a continuation of the experiment I began in Linear One: I created 4 separate 4-beat rhythms for kick and snare and played them under a steady cymbal figure. In this case, the ride pattern is a simple offbeat on the china.

Patronize these links, man:

• Virtual Drummer loop
• MIDI
• MP3