Let's all just move to SanFrancisco

hideeho there neighbors and neigborettes....

I'm at work still trying desparately to avoid accomplishing anything. Not very samurai of me, but, well, whatever. I've got to figure out a time in my life when I'm ready to switch over to samurai mode so I can make a clean cut. But I don't think I'm ready yet in all facets of my life.

I just got back from my 3 smoke break in as many hours. (I get the feeling this is one of those areas I shouldn't be honest in because of what if my boss was reading this. aww heck, he probably wouldn't care).

Everyone confides in me stuff they shouldn't. I don't know why. There's this girl that sits in the cube next to me who is breaking up with her boyfreind here pretty soon and I think she's trying to size me up for her next boyfriend. If she had asked me before I met my current one it might be a different story, but I've already got a perfectly acceptable girlfriend now. This girl makes me uncomfortable.

ooh, i love it when people hang up on me. saves me the trouble of hanging up on them.

I'm playing Xenogears again at home, one of the best damn RPGS for a console based gaming system ever made.

I'm bored. I think I'm going to go break something.

At any rate, I hope someone emails me that reads this. I want to be famous. I want to be a big star, like Mr. Jones or something (nod to Counting Crows)

There shouldn't be anything behind this link. Just move along people.

Well well well, after way too long, rizzn desides to go back online. today was fun. fun fun fun.

I've been online, just not with an online presense in a while.

I'm undecided whether or not this diary will be public. My last one was, and no one ever went to that one either, so I doubt its a big deal if this one is or not.

Well, invisible audience, this is me, Master Rizzn. I am an ardent Christian, I live with my best friend, Crackbaby, an atheist, Phitt, an agnostic, and Solo Exceptional, a Jehova's Witness. Oh, and my girlfriend is an ex-pagan catholic agnostic. So I've got my religious bases covered there.

I work at the corporate offices of a major retail chain, in the IS department. I'm underpaid, underappreciated, and one of the leaders of our department, known as Team Wank.

Gahh, I just realized that by entering my well known nickname on this page, I'm not going to be able to be very honest in all things, due to my nature of not wanting to offend people.

Well, anyways, keep that in mind.

My girlfriend is really cool. I met her on September 16th. This is going to rank as one of my longer relationships, I can tell. The only time we ever argue is when we want to. It's fun, sometimes. We clash philosophically by nature, she's got incredibly liberal points of view, and I have very conservative ones. But that doesn't bother me. I sometimes wish she could be Christian, but I can only hope that my lifestyle can serve as an example, and she won't be able to 'figure me out,' so to speak without having God as part of the equation.

I'm training myself to become a Samurai. My roomate phitt got me a book called Code of the Samurai, transladed from the Japanese original written by Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke. Samurai's are always crazy. And very dedicated. But no one ever messes with a Samurai. And Samurai's have stories written about them. Plus they carry ~two~ swords, not just one. My role-model in the samurai world is Rouroni Kenshin.

"On the warrior's path, only three things are considered essential: loyalty, duty, and valor."

Various Stories

These are the various nuggets collected from my blog.

Gallery Page

Galleries on the site:

[people]
Alana Gray
Charlene Johnston-Lassiter
Courtney Patterson
Derrick Vann
groupRandom
Laura Colaner
Louis Hebb
Matthew Johnston
miscBriefExs
Peter Hitt
Stacy Wilson
Traci Davis

[events]
2005 Funkshion Tuesday
2005 Funkshion Wednesday and Thursday
2005 VMA Pre-party picture preview

Music

Howdy Rizznites. This is the place where I publish my CDs. That's right! Free downloads for you leaches out there.

Right now, I'm trying a new distribution method called Hamachi. You can read more about it right here, but here's the directions on how to download the stuff quick and dirty:

Download Instructions
1) Go to www.hamachi.cc and download the latest version here.
2) Next (once it's completely installed and set up), click on the following URL: file:////5.4.205.233/djRizznSTTMC for the latest CD, or right-click and save the files from the detailed track listing below.
1 & 2) Hamachi Sucks. Download the zip file here for the full cd.
3) Listen to the MP3s
4) Comment and/or email me and tell me what you think.

New Single as of 10.09.05 : Basket Case (Kool Kannon Remix)

Soundtrack To My Car : DJ Rizzn (download full album here)
Contains tracks by DJ Rizzn, Meigh, Laurent Strickland, Louis Hebb & Peter Hitt.
1. My Fury: A remix I did for a contest that ended up coming out quite original. The vocals were uncredit public domain, all instrumentation is my own.
2. Southeast: A mix I made back in 1999 or 2000, with some assistance from Peter Hitt and Louis Hebb. My first foray into acoustic djing.
3. End Takes Care: Another song that was acoustically inspired by Southeast. I get accused of mocking a lot of 80's music with this tune.
4. Take You There: A mix I made to go with the lyrics written and sung by a girl named Meigh. She's got a good voice and mysterious writing style. She told me that she wrote these lyrics when she was a little girl, and used to sing it to herself when she was on the playground.
5. Far North: Yet another song inspired by Southeast. As you can tell at the time I was a little hard up for song titles, but the song itself is fairly original. It has a familiar ring to it for most people, they can't quite place it where they've heard it before. I don't know why since it's completly an original piece.
6. Yellow Ghost: This is what I like to call electronic emo. I'm not sure where the style came from, but once again the lyrics and singing came from the beautiful talent known only as Meigh.
7. Discernment: Of all the songs on the CD, this one had the most collaborators and spent the longest time on the shelf before I finally ended up producing it last year. On vocals is a girl that made my six month stay in Ft. Worth in 2001 non-maddening, Lauren Strickland. The author of the lyrics is a great friend of my old Dallas clique named 'Rissa Winland. Of course, I did the mixing. The original recording was so bad that I shelved it until I could improve my mastering skills enough to make a good version of the song. I think, all in all, it turned out great.
8. Leylines: This is actually the title track off of Riz Mix 2: Leylines, the one that had the blue porno chick on the front (for you long time collectors, you know the one I'm talking about). The ending of it has actually been modified from the original CD, as the voices used to be up in a higher pitch to allow for a smooth transition into Halcyon On and On, but I think as a standalone it sounds better with it down low.
9. Slimee Is a Flatworm: I've dated some crazy-ass women, but this crazy song was dedicated to the craziest woman I EVER dated. Ever. I sang the vocoded lyrics on the CD.
10. Outback: the only song I've ever mixed using a Digeree-doo.
11. Black Beans: a mashup of a couple obscure ambient tunes.
12. You Didn't Think I Was Listening, Did You?: a hidden track from the CD. I recorded it off a hidden mike in Ricky McGill's office (Ricky is a partner in AACS).

/rizzn

Super-Secret-Mailing-List

Below is the form to subscribe to the super-secret rizzinite mailing list. It's mostly my friends making fun of me all the time, but heck, the more the merrier, right?

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FlyDLUX Collection

Over time, it has become apparent that I will not stop getting requests for FlyDLUX information. I have collected here all the FlyDLUX info from my blog, and I will occasionally add things as I learn about them. It is important to note that I'm not the best source of information, but I do understand that I might be the only one for most people. I don't mind discussing it with the occasional random caller, but keep in mind I don't keep in close contact with Rabbi Finkelstein any longer.

FlyDLUX Related: Khashoggi retires from Earthshell Corp. board - 07/08/2005
FlyDLUX Update - 11/20/2004
FlyDLUX Update - 08/12/2004
Resignation Reiteration - 02/02/2004
For those seeking restitution - 01/27/2004
Letter from Bobbye Finkelstein - 01/22/2004
Horrible News on the FlyDLUX Front - 01/20/2004
FlyDLUX Update - 11/27/2003
Robin Kish - Fact Checker Extraordinairre - 11/15/2003
Feelings on the WFOR FlyDLUX Report - 11/13/2003
FlyDLUX Grand Send-off - 11/13/2003
FlyDLUX/Derrick Update - 10/23/2003
FlyDLUX Press Release - 10/15/2003
More FlyDLUX Stuff - 10/15/2003
The continuing saga of FlyDLUX - 10/01/2003
Days and days of nothing - 10/01/2003
FlyDLUX Update - 09/24/2003
FlyDLUX Update - 09/20/2003
Moose Turd Pie - 09/12/2003

/rizzn