i’m still standing, back to the basics
Originally written 05.05.2002.
erin will be glad to know that despite the bump on my head, i did not slip into a coma in my sleep.
these past months have really been about getting back to the basics – love of hacking, love of sport, and love of music. today had a little of all three. spent the morning watching the hollyoaks omnibus and touching up some perl code that was part of my honeynet setup script. wrote a class that takes a filename and a bunch of regexes mapped to replacement strings. the class goes through the file and replaces all strings that match the regex and replaces them with the specified string. i’m using it to modify generic config files. went for a little walk around the meadows with rob and we kicked the football around a bit. the weather was beautiful and there were tons of people out enjoying the weather. the walk was short lived as rob had to go meet his mom. so i went back to the flat where marco and i sat around and wrote stupid mtv songs. playing with other people makes me realize how little natural musical ability i have. i forget what i’m playing, lose the beat, mess up the lyrics, but i still have a good time, and have some sense of the elements of songwriting. marco and i wrote a radio-friendly pop song in the vein of imbruglia’s “torn” called “got it so bad” about unrequited love, and a drop-d nu-metal masterpiece with a drowning pool-style chorus called “feeling like a whore”. we also started working on a cover version of kylie minogue’s* “in your eyes”. awesome. later, rob, marco and i ventured out to the meadows and found some kids and played a bit of pickup soccer. we pretty much trounced them, though i didn’t play great. had some trouble trying to remember how to make runs to the right places.
* noticed that her latest video, much like the video for “in your eyes” reminds me a lot of old daft punk videos and other artsy stuff. hell, it even has guys in work suits like in the beastie’s “intergalactic” video. it’s cool to see a pop video that is visually interesting since so many seem to be so formulaic. i think that this willingness to experiment like this (and by doing things like doing vocals on nick cave’s “murder ballads” album) is what seperates kylie from the average pop star. she has the same iconic statis that madonna does. i would argue that both define themselves as icons rather than just being a reinterpretation of an existing icon.