the life and times of a rhythm bandito

Dirk Deppey, author of the comics news roundup ¡Journalista! on TCJ's website, has ended the Scans_Daily Link of the Day feature. Not a big deal, really, but it made me wonder how much S_D has changed over the years. I wasn't that involved with the LJ version of S_D... I wonder who started it, if any of the original team is still on S_D, and if not, what do they think of the current community?

I think I found S_D through Journalista, actually... maybe. Who knows. I was subscribed to TCJ long before I found S_D, I know that. I joined LJ in April 2006, probably found S_D around that time. I never posted, mostly lurked, sometimes commented.

I just started a blog to share music I'm making with the Korg DS-10, which is a Korg synth program/game for the Nintendo DS. It's pretty sweet. I didn't know anything about synths before, but it's really fun designing sounds.

Musical Doodles on Tumblr

I started on Wordpress, which is great, but not suited for what I'm doing.

Tumblr is a new discovery, and I wasn't sold on the "less is more" concept at first, but after finding some great blogs that make good use of the design, I'm growing to like it. The "liking", "reblogging" and "following" functions are great, and make for a great community. I can't explain it, but it makes the blogs much more accessible to newbs, and I don't feel like a creeper/stalker for following other blogs and "liking" posts. It's simple, and I like it. Like.

Plus, you can upload one mp3 per day for free, which is better than uploading my files to a Google Site. The only problems I have with Tumblr are: I'm not sure if Google Analytics is actually working, and I can't log in to disqus.com.

In case someone comes to this page, I guess I should have something to occupy time.

http://drop.io/rhythmbandit

Oh look, there's a mixtape!

Wintry Mix

1. Broken Social Scene . Capture the Flag
2. Ingram Marshall . Partial Requiem
3. Yoko Kanno . Pilgrim Snow
4. Sigur Ros . Saeglopur
5. Lanterna . Sands
6. Boards of Canada . Over the Horizon Radar/Corsair
7. Christopher O’Riley . Knives out
8. California Guitar Trio . Above the Clouds
9. Vince Guaraldi Trio . Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Hopefully it'll get warmer now, but in case it snows again you'll have some mood music. It's pretty much all instrumental music that reminds me of winter. 

And if you don't like music, you can always go to ZomboCom, where the possibilities are endless.