For the past few days I have been fading to black, sleeping to the double digit hours and listening to the same song, “December 4th” by Jay Z’s black album with the excellent original beat by Just Blaze. Unfortunately this means that I have had very little time to do anything else except work. Friday in the two hours of free time that I did have I managed to jump into the white whip, sped over to Dunkin’ Donuts and then continued to the grocery store and bought all the goods I needed to maintain without a single slip up. Meanwhile my laundry spun silently in a forest of fallen trees and no one heard the washing machine.
Not even me. I still have to fold up the clean clothes. The other song I have been listening to is “Sun vs Moon” by Sage Francis, where the two planetary bodies have a DJ Battle that takes place over the entire universe. Eventually it comes down to a draw because of messed up judging. Because the Moon clearly came to win. “The Sun was like, no no no… the Moon was like, Go go go!” Which is appropriate for me right now because this entire week I have been staying awake way too long into the night to be productive during the day.
I’m talking about getting out of work at 1Am at the latest and not closing my eyes for good until 5 in the morning. That sucks. Even the three nuclear alarms I have to ringing me up in the morning haven’t shook me enough to break that cycle. In that song “Sun Vs Moon” Sage Francis has the deep rough devil’s voice playing backwards while children are chanting. Now I have seen the devil before while staying up late in the night and I don’t want to repeat that story (it was way back in high school on those questionable substances of youth) but I did have something similar happen this week.
I was trying to combine a gaggle of Audacity backup files (1 MB each) into a Project file, in order to recover the full data from the bizamp live internet broadcast last weekend. Using a freeware compiler made to recover data in exactly this kind of situation, I thought I had made the whole file. The size was confirmed at almost a full gig so I figured I must have the two plus hours of music on that file… But when I played the file it was only twenty seven seconds long and sounded exactly like what people imagine the devil’s voice must sound like…. So obviously I had to give up that night….. Still planning to have the new bizamp sessions up by the end of the week, post-exorcism style.
Before I go back to work, let me hit you up with some of those Sage lyrics, the ones that keep this rabbit running:::::
“Run rabbit when they fight to kill your baddest poem,
The white man (the white man).
(Th-th-the devil)..”