August 12th, 2004 @ 5:07PM
Research and development.
November 8th, 2003 @ 3:26PM
Erm, I take that back. Many thanks to Google for helping me find a loophole to access the login page. While the mailchoose.com domain is suspended, their mail servers are fully operational and accessible. You may continue to contact me via my EmptyMail and WrongMail addresses (in my previous journal entries).
November 8th, 2003 @ 3:14PM
IMPORTANT CONTACT NOTICE:
Because of some mass incompetency/violations that MailChoose is responsible for (hence their account suspension), my EmptyMail and WrongMail addresses no longer work. I have no idea whether they will return or will be lost forever, but if you need to contact me, you can reach me at this address:
bolturg@yahoo.com
That is all.
August 23rd, 2003 @ 9:51PM
I apologize for my last entry. What I said about myself was extremely arrogant and simply filled with logical flaws on every level.
Kind of makes a person want to throw it all away and just become a sheep because they just realized that the only excuse they came up with and thought was good enough to justify that they'll have any success, is absolutely bogus...
You gotta love angst sometimes.
August 23rd, 2003 @ 2:15PM
Wesley Willis
R.I.P.
May 31, 1963 - August 21, 2003
http://www.suntimes.com/output/rock/cst-ftr-xwill23.html
As you may or may not already know, Wesley Willis has lost his battle with leukemia. I never met him or went to any of his shows, but I enjoyed his music. It inspired me. It may have been simplistic stuff, but always intriguing, especially with the use of various and random sound effects in the instrumental parts of his songs to keep them fresh and enjoyable. Wesley was a schizophrenic, constantly having to fight his torturous inner demons. He survived through this, in addition to a very rough childhood, as well as obesity that he resolved to take care of, but unfortunately never did. In his life he made many, many albums, and more than 1000 songs. They were all songs that he wrote with his unique lyric-writing style, which were also relatively simplistic, but still worked out quite well. He wrote about anything and everything, from concerts, fast food, life and death, things in everyday life we usually take for granted, musicians and bands that he liked (or hated, just listen to his song about Michael Jackson), people (he even wrote songs about fans he met at shows and other places), religion, super-heroes (and his tales of beating them up), murder and crime, love and hate, holidays, driving cars, state police, alcohol & drugs, cities, mythical creatures, masochism, war, politics, his own life, his own family (and had both good & bad things to say about them), real-life events, fake events, bestiality, to just plain rocking out. As a savant, Wesley was no rocket scientist, but he was wise, open-minded, and had special talents, including an astounding memory. Wesley was a brilliant, stubborn, and honest man, and told it like it was. He didn't even acknowledge people correcting him when he says "Mrs. Butterwerps" instead of Mrs. Butterworths (and he had the influence to do so, because he was a VERY big man of about 6'6" and 350 pounds !). During the mid-90s, he had his own traditional-form rock band, the Wesley Willis Fiasco (with an alumni including lead guitarist Dale Meiners, a member of Billy Corgan's [yes, of the Smashing Pumpkins] high school band, The Marked), whom he recorded two albums with, and covered bands like Thin Lizzy and Duran Duran (and Rush, whom he covered in the middle of his song "The Bar Is Closed"). He even befriended bands like Sublime, who are also fans of Wesley's work. Wesley was also an artist, and drew his own artwork (all from photographic memory). You can see it on some of his album covers, and there is a link to a collection of his sketches on my artist page.
Wesley was *truly* punk in the full sense of what it was founded for. He didn't sound like punk rock exactly, but he was punk.
He taught me that you don't have to have any experience playing instruments or singing to be a great musician, and that anyone, even mentally-troubled people, could make it in the music industry.
Masami Akita inspired my sound, Edgard Varése inspired my composition, but Wesley Willis inspired my drive to work in music, rather than what my parents and my school's administration suggest to me. Akita and Varése's inspiration would have been worthless for me if it wasn't for Wesley's amazing success.
Seeya, Wesley. Hope you're rocking & rolling in the afterlife with the greatest late rock stars like John Lennon and Elvis Presley.
You belong up there with them...
Rock over London,
rock on Chicago,
Wheaties, breakfast of champions.
July 26th, 2003 @ 6:42PM
I am back. And I won't be going anywhere for a while, now. I hope.
July 22nd, 2003 @ 10:27PM
Guess what ?
I have to be go away AGAIN !
So once more, do not send me any private messages if they are important and cannot wait.
I should be back on Saturday.
July 18th, 2003 @ 3:35PM
I'm back. You may now send urgent private messages, and I will respond sooner.
July 14th, 2003 @ 7:10PM
Just to let you know:
Do not try to send me any private messages or try to contact me for the next 4 or 5 days if it cannot wait. I will be away.
July 14th, 2003 @ 4:07PM
Screw that last idea.
The site asks for my Social Security number. I am not putting that in. I do not care about their private policy, I am not putting in that number !
