I bought myself a new DVD Recorder: a pretty bad ass Sony one with a built in VHS deck to help make dubbing all these stupid old tapes E-Z.
I spent the first 1/4th of the year making DVDs on my PC, tricking them out with menus and stuff. Doing it this way should be like making Pop Tarts instead of slaving over Thanksgiving dinner.
Unfortunately, after much experimentation, it seems like the finished discs look better if I use a seperate VCR and send the signal through my *really geeky* TBC-1000 Time Base Corrector. Otherwise, the shit on this DVD/VCR combo comes out a little too sharp for my taste.
Making DVDs brings out the nagging, uptight perfectionist in me. Somewhere out there is the perfect wave, the perfectly rolled joint. Let the surfers and stoners have them. I want to make the perfect disc, even if that means spending the next couple of days trying different settings, cables, equiptment, and generally just being a hermit.
Almost forgot I have to write something fast for Figure Oh, before Jan. 1st, but I’m just not feeling it …maybe because it’s impossible to generate any sort of psychic energy now. Japan is shut down already because of New Years, and the US is just warming up for it. And besides, I’m fighting a cold, manifest right now as a really inconclusive sore throat. Tempted to get some beers, but then I’ll never get this ding-dong article done.
Maybe if it all falls through, I could start over as a video engineer. I think I'd like that a lot.
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