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September 01, 2006
making of the band 8/31
Last night, I practiced with a band we'll call AmberBud for the 2nd time.
It's really refreshing to write things as you're going along as opposed to stepping
into fleshed out arrangements. 3 hours of practicing, discussing, and playing
a major role in the creative process lends itself to a feeling of importance on
some greater scale. Travis and I ate our words as the most complicated parts
became suddenly simple, vital, and interesting. Strange ideas gave birth to
fully-formed rationale.
Tonight, I meet back up with The Good Players. It's been months since we've
played together, but it should be interesting. I've been informed I'm working
out electronic beats from Four Score tonight.
Monday, I take off to St. Augustine for a little relaxation. Thank God.
Oh, and I leave Fresh Market 2 weeks from today. Thas right. New job.
I'm stoked.
Despite the great week I'm having, my music hard drive is dead...meaning I lost
my entire MP3 collection. That bums me out, but I think I'll be able to recover
a lot of it without transferring CDs again. See. File-Sharing does have a time and
a place. Though, not as detrimental, I will let this be a stab at anyone who
argues that hard disk recording is a viable option for permanent storage.
Geek rant ending in 5...4...3...2...
local music | By davidm | 06:53 PM
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congrats on the new job. dont worry bout music file loss, you will probably build it back 3 fold.
Posted by: mike at September 1, 2006 11:55 PM
what kind of dead are we talking, I met many people (even those who are computer experts) who think their drive is dead but actually the drive is just not accessable
if the drive still spins then it may be savable.
Posted by: James at September 3, 2006 01:54 PM
As in a lot of whirring and beeping while spinning (or trying to).
It will not mount even as an IDE. It's in a FW enclosure right
now. Maybe the data could be recovered by a professional,
but I'm not willing to spend that kind of cash right now.
Anytime System Profiler recognizes the device (as FW), it will
crash Disk Utility. The one time it actually mounted, the Finder
went into eternal spinning pinwheel.
Posted by: davidm at September 3, 2006 07:31 PM
oh so this is a mac formatted (HFS) drive eh?
OS X seems to want to corrupt drives alot (its happened to me quite often) I have a (third party) disk repair utility that works great for fixing this, if you want to download it and try it I have a full version copy you can download (its normally $80) its done the trick for me a few times. e-mail me at jimmyjazz@bellsouth.net if you want it.
Posted by: James at September 5, 2006 04:47 PM