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Posted: April 09 2009, 21:23 |
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What made it a paranoid day was the fact that so many thought computers, airplanes in flight, etc.....would crash since the date format(s) had to suddenly change from one number system to the other. Funny thing is on Y2K nothing happened. I can't recall one plane crash, stranded ship, certainly those who stocked up on bottled water and ammo were looking silly. No stock market crash, nothing. I remember watching the first places to roll-over to 2000 on TV late at night. When I woke up in the morning I think Russia or Japan had just rolled over to 2000. I figured, no looting or pillaging, no locusts, go back to bed.....
But I had a plan for the new century since I was a kid(I planned on having a synth(s) by then. I didn't have an Oberheim then but I did on Y2K and found the perfect blaring sound to "ring it in". A swelling, eerie and incredibly dynamic-ranged sound similar to what you hear on Steely Dan's "Aja" song, just before the drums get crazy near the end. But bassier, lusher, slower to decay. I guess I achieved my childhood fantasy thru 4 woofers, 2 midranges and 2 tweeters since everyone in the apt. complex came outside...."WTF?" It was a very good night. But I still wish it was 1973. The last whispered wish of age is to live it all again......
Jim
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We raise our voices in the night
Crying to heaven
And will our voices be heard
Or will they break Like the wind
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who knows how many time zones exist within our known universe? the space time continuum is curved not linear, we could speed towards our next millenium, but somewhere the past may still be our future...fade to twilight zone music, deb 
