- Countdown Entry #22
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- 11:35 PM, Wednesday, October 20th,
1999:
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- I am losin' it. I'm just
losin' it.
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- I have bought 3 seperate capture
cards, installed them, nothing works. I've been on
with tech support hours at a time for days...they
blame it on everything but their card. I bought new,
faster harddrives - still no luck. I've bought new
cables? Nothin'. I'm going the firewire route which is
apparently a newer technology, but it's cheaper than
an entire Media 100 suite which is $3000+.
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- This has been going on for over a
month now. Every second of my free-time is spent doing
this and I'm spinnin' in circles. I can't express how
unbelieveably frustrating this is. The whole show
relies on this. Being able to simply GET
VIDEO into my computer...and then
BACK OUT to my tape. That's all I need
to do. I've gotten it where I can get it in, but
never back out. Hahaha. At least I'm laughing. It
really is as frustrating
as a woman...except your
hands can replace a woman - I need this computer to
work or I'm screwed. Oh SPEAKING OF someone
as FrUsTrAtiNg as a WOMAN (I swear Jess and I are
fine, I'm just losing my mind)
GUESS WHO I RAN INTO... Let me
find my Thirsty Ear log:
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- 10/1/99 3:45 PM – you will truly enjoy the
irony of this entry. So there’s a big room at
CD101 – Richard Thompson. As he’s meeting
the listeners after the show – a guy hands him
a business card. Thirsty Ear. It was fucking Jerry.
I said: "Flaherty?" He says: "Yes…" Looking a
bit intimidated. I said "hey, I’m Adam
Kontras, I’ve been leaving messages for you
for a few months now…" "ADAM!" (Like we
were old friends) Blah blah blah…what a
moron. He says we HAVE TO GET TOGETHER….he
NEEDS to talk to me. Yeah…So, I will call him
Monday and try and set-up a meeting, but what a
strange twist of fate. Ya gotta love it.
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- 10/4/99 5:30 PM – called and he
wasn’t in…he’s off today…so
THAT’S why he told me to call on
Monday…heh heh…I’ll leave a message
at the other number…
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- 10/5/99 3:30 PM – no answer…I’ll
try back in an hour or so…
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- 10/8/99 1:45 PM – still nothing, I’ll
leave a message… Fuck him.
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- 10/11/99 1:00 PM – acted like he asked ME
for a meeting and left a message giving my
available time. Let’s see if that works.
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- 10/14/99 4:45 PM – he wasn’t in but
will be shortly. Let’s try 5:15 PM.
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- 10/20/99 2:00 PM – fuck…missed a
couple of days. OH MY GOD I TALKED TO HIM. Heh
heh… What a prick… Now he’s looking
at January, because he’s waiting for shelving
to come in. And when the "dust settles" he’ll
call. What a dufus. Oh well…I contacted you in
June and thought that just maybe, maybe in 6 MONTHS
I could play. Sorry you have to wait until January.
I won’t be here. LATE.
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- But if I can't get this
goddamn computer to work, I'll be worthless anywhere
else. I'm now 2 months away from the move, with
nothing to show for it. I can't make a new set, can't
make a new demo tape. (sigh) Losing Signatures, the
Holiday Inn guy is flakin' on promised
advertising...just lotsa doubts right now. At least
Chris at Boru's is still giving me gigs. Man he's so
cool. I bring nothing to the club, he just keeps
giving me a monthly gig. Man do I need
it.
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- Boru's in Powell on
Saturday.
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- Adam
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