I’ve spent some time and finished my work history page– take a look. Eventually I’ll have dedicated pages for each project.

The point of the page is, I think, an exercise in reminding myself of the hundreds of long forgotten, logged hours. I need to remember past successes, failures, and progress. Recently I’ve began to think that keeping a verbose log like this is one of the best ways for me to become more motivated during my time off.

I’m currently working on Elan’s website for his music, and the task is getting more exciting as the trivial tasks start to go away. He’ll be touring with Modeselektor this fall in Europe. Geez. I cannot think of someone who “made it” with music as Elan has, and it’s well deserved! He’s been making beats the age of 16 and I can relate because I’ve been programming since the age of 16. I guess if you put in the time, good things do come.

Don’t you hate it when your asshole friends tell you the truth about shit like your misdirected attempts designing a website? Well after fielding some biz with the Syntheshredder Project, I got feedback from j.chorng about my previous design… it was too clean, too corporate… looked like a template. He was right.

Now I’m not saying this one right here is complete or amazing or anything, but I think it’s a step in the right direction. I’m calling it a night well spent. There’s a shitload of personality in that bouncing orb, oh yes there is.

I got around to giving Watch the Throne enough honest plays through (I think its like 7 now) and I definitely love the album. Kanye is really getting good at making cross-genre influenced beats… he’s no longer somewhat “stealing inspiration” from the EDM overload of the past few years. I’ll definitely have this record on repeat for a while and pick up a physical copy.

It’s nice to be able to switch back to rap & hip-hop  until Tycho drops his massive new album Dive this November and we get our ambient summer groove on. Check out the first track below.

Goodnight, internet.

Tycho – Hours [Dive LP - Nov. 2011] by Tycho

Deciding to fly into LA for 24 hours to attend HARD Summer LA with Kane, Bhan, Megan,  and Simon was one of the more ridiculous impulses I’ve ever done. The reward came in the form of incredible sets by Duck Sauce and Boys Noize. I really thought I’d have enough stamina to come back into San Francisco on Sunday and see Rx Bandits at the Regency Ballroom… shit was I wrong. I passed out cold at 8:30pm and missed the show.

Sorry Matt, Steve, Joe, Chris… I failed you.

The fourth has come and gone. This past weekend, and week rather, has been fairly intense with my parents crashing at my place for a few nights and then Sun & cousin Elliott visited for the remainder into the holiday. We decided to do KBBQ on my roof.

We could’ve headed over to North Beach for fireworks at Ashwin’s, but I figured since I’m only gonna be at this loft for (at most) 9 more months, there wouldn’t be another 4th of July to experience from my place. We got to see probably a half dozen “shows”… legit ones going down around the pier, as well as some pseudo-official ones around the Mission Dolores area. What was cool about being at my place though was that you got to see tons of illegal fireworks being shot off all over the neighborhood for hours before and after the official shows.