dangerous script proust

last week i was carrying my cards around in the proust book, this on the days when i was wearing trousers with no pockets...

then i lost my oyster card on the day of the gig @ ULU, bought another that came with a plastic wallet, you know the type,

so now my cards are all in the plastic wallet, and what do i do yesterday?

of course, all those eggs in one basket, how could i not lose the wallet...

so anyway, i didn't have a crowd of money on me, no oyster card, no debit card... i had to get home, so i decided to walk from london bridge to where i could get the 29 bus... also i was kind of wistful and it was late in the day, the sun still up...

so i got onto the thames beach just past blackfryers rail bridge (i think) and i walked all the way to waterloo bridge down there, the sky beautiful... windy but lovely...

i reach the southbank and pop in to use their loo and i find a sound sculpture interactive thing called volume, that wasn't as good as it looked like it would be, but probably worth a second look one day...



in time got to the 29 bus and set about finishing this current proust book, at one point a couple got on and sat beside me, insisting on talking, so i had to recourse to the piece of rhodes music i'd recorded to shield me from my neighbour's sound, now shielding me from these inconsiderate fellow travellers...

anyway i reached the end which was lovely, volume 2, it'll be a little while before volume 3 comes round to play... we watched dangerous liaisons last night which - as well as being absolutely delicious - was also ringing several proustian bells for me, at one point keanu reeves passes a note to uma thurman saying "i love you"... just as albertine passes a note to our narrator (the young proust) saying "i like you"...

i was a little confused because i'd seen a korean version of dangerous liaisons quite recently and couldn't work out whether i'd seen the original or not... it is just simply wonderful...

ok and scripts...

this is a little bit techy...

i do certain things every week, or every time i make a cutup film, over and over again, and i'm finding out about ways to automate certain of these tasks... (like changing the velocity envelope in a certain way to deal with my old camera's waywardness)... it turns out that vegas (my video editing software) allows the use of scripts, taking a repetitive action and assigning it to a single button, greatly reducing time spent on these tasks...

exactly what i need, for quite a few different things i do...

but my needs as a video editor are (i think) different from other video editors needs and so i may have to create a script or several scripts for my exact needs...

but creating scripts is really a programming thing, they're programmed in C++ or Jscript...

so this is it, do i plunge into that world of writing my own scripts? am i not so special after all and the scripts i want are out there on the web somewhere? do i carry on in my labour intensive way without scripts?

i've emailed D - who i'm going to see on friday as we're gigging up in leamington spa,

(indiana jones music as i look upon this scripting mess in despair and all of a sudden:

"Do Not Fear non-programming brother, I, D, Programming Brother Will Help You!")

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