Good work hawkthorne. Way to take command of the situation, and make the Pubski yours this week!

I had a musical breakthrough this week. I went all-in on the Native Instruments ecosystem, with Komplete 13 and the S49 MkII midi controller/keyboard, and have been mostly befuddled and lost for about a month, now. Spending endless hours trying to figure out how to make one small thing happen, and losing all will to live, and moving on to playing Fallout 76 instead.

This week I finally figured out how the system "thinks", and therefore I now know how to troubleshoot it when things don't work like I expect them to.

It's a HUGE fucking relief.

And in a nice little bit of synchronicity, my friend Helen (who was the voice on my last song), came by to drop off my new masks she has been making (she's an actress who has put her costume skills to work making masks since COVID)... and it turns out we both have the feeling that our friendship needs to go on the front burner and be much more focused and intent-ful going forth.

She's just the kind of creative spirit I need more of in my life, and everything we have collaborated on has been awesome.

That song, Monsieur Bon, was what we could do, via SMS and Google Drive, during the dark days of January under COVID lockdown.

I'm SUPER jazzed for what we might be able to create if we were actually able to sit in the same room together and, ya know, TALK! :-)