{"id":4835,"date":"2013-09-12T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2013-09-12T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:00:48","slug":"up-late-in-up-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/up-late-in-up-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"up late in up lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up late comping fiddle and listening to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JuegwAI4IQY\">J-Pop of the 1980s<\/a>, in a two-hour compilation <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freedrull\">tw:freedrull<\/a> found on YouTube. (&#8220;Category: Science &#038; Technology&#8221; Awesome.)<\/p>\n<p>The fiddle is for the Bone Walker\/Free Court of Seattle soundtrack album &#8211; I played a bit of it in <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/podcast\">the latest episode of the podcast<\/a> &#8211; and I&#8217;m trying to get reasonable comps ready for Friday&#8217;s recording session with Ellen Eades on hammer dulcimer.<\/p>\n<p>I made kind of an ad hoc standing configuration for my digital audio workstation. I hate sitting for long periods of time &#8211; I&#8217;m too antsy for that! But it turns out a music stand makes a fine keyboard shelf:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BTrN1qLCMAExodD.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Turns out I&#8217;m more likely to start working if I don&#8217;t have to sit down, and can wander away and back to it. So I&#8217;ll keep this kind of thing as an option. I&#8217;m building a better keyboard shelf that&#8217;ll have room for the trackball and also attach to a mic stand, because if you&#8217;re going to engineer something, you should <em>totally<\/em> over-engineer it. (I tried just putting a board on the music stand&#8230; it was too wibbly.)<\/p>\n<p>Did I take pictures? lolno. I&#8217;ll post about it later anyway, though. It&#8217;s an easy build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up late comping fiddle and listening to J-Pop of the 1980s, in a two-hour compilation tw:freedrull found on YouTube. (&#8220;Category: Science &#038; Technology&#8221; Awesome.) The fiddle is for the Bone Walker\/Free Court of Seattle soundtrack album &#8211; I played a bit of it in the latest episode of the podcast &#8211; and I&#8217;m trying to [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-notes","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}