went on a lazy vacation last week.... read The Chestnut Man and started Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (eve though I've already seen the films)

since you will reject compliments.... I will hide them cleverly in the following insults:

I hate it.

the transition between track 1 and 2 is awful.

the crunchy synths over the beat at about 8:38 makes me so angry

the riff at the beginning of 4 is so bad... it's not catchy, funky, or fun at all.

the vocal processing throughout is raw trash

I found the descending tones around 20:15 to be miserable.

The driving beat and synths at 29:26 are forgettable and atrocious

the vocals in Juke are simply the worst.

the end is so bad I would never listen to it again.

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except the opposite of all of that.

QUESTIONS:

Talk to me about hardware, synths(hard and soft), instruments and software used to create this.

Did you do everything (instruments, vocals, etc)?

Did you use any pre-recorded samples from elsewhere? or is all of that of your creation?

Which instruments/parts did you play live vs. using loops, sequencers, etc?

Would you share some pics of your studio setup?

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best of luck in the ongoing global meltdown.

thanks for the response!

Already working on the next batch of songs, with all the time in the world. :)

I think this is why I love it so much... we're all busy. We've all got stuff. But through it all, you (and others around here) take the time to create, to build, and share. And I appreciate it.

incredible!

>clink<

cheers friends

My kid came home from Brazil yesterday after having ben there for two years. It's great to have him back. He and I are currently sitting on the back deck, him with Nintendo Switch in hand, me "working" (not checking hubski of course).

life is grand.

as if I needed another reason to love this guy...

Life is moving fast.

Family is good - my son will come home from Brazil in 6 days - the first time I've seen him in two years.

Work is good - I like the people I work with and like what I'm doing. If I could get this startup profitable... it'd be that much better to not worry every quarter will be my last.

Work is good - another startup I'm a part of, more part time - is super fun and engaging. A great group of creative people who are doing a cool thing.

Creativity is ok - I've been a little stagnant in this area for a bit, but just kicked off an audio project with a friend that should hopefully scratch an itch.

Homeownership is ok - It's great and all... but sometimes things like "stabilizing and leveling basement floor slabs" becomes a project you have to do - and it's $10k and then you roll in new paint and new carpet and a few other things and that adds $5k and the next thing you know you've wiped out some savings... but in the end... the house is in better shape for it.

Life is good. On balance - I am privileged, I am blessed, I am fortunate. All of the downs don't overwhelm the ups.

I love all of you.

3 years?!?!?! congrats!

I take things for granted.

There is an information super-highway available to me.

I look at memes.

The camera in my phone is capable of amazing things.

I haven't written a short film script in ages.

I have the software and hardware available to make incredible music.

I've wiped the dust off of my synth more times this year than played it.

I need to change my daily routine.

The world is complex man... but in some ways... it can be simple.

pretty jealous of both of you... you're both people I'd like to meet IRL.

sometimes I think about this post and go back to look for posterity.

it also looks like Youtube finally got busted for having some unofficial Carl up in it.

It's been a long time friends.

FAMILY

My son is getting married in December.

FRIENDS

I got to see mk, ecib, dccrux and mike a few weeks ago and it was glorious.

WORK

Work at the main job is great except for crappy macro-economic factors putting downward pressure on sales, making investors twitchy, and making executives panic... We'll see if I have a job in the next couple months.

I am a tiny bit involved with ethosmobile.org and that is going well also. Lots to do, but feels very bootstrappy and exciting.

ART

My Own Private Idaho has been on my list to watch for YEARS and I finally got around to it. I will admit, I didn't love it... but I certainly didn't hate it... but the fact that I'm still thinking about it days later says something about its weight and effect. Above all else, it's amazing to me that a film that queer forward with such big names at the time was even made. I mean - it was a year before Murphy Brown enraged the GOP. Anyway... I'm still processing, and I think that's a great thing. Any time a film makes me think, that's a good thing. And more than that - When the credits rolled, I felt inspired like I needed to pick the camera back up - and that's a good thing.

yah - I've got a buddy who started a label around cassette releases... and I just nod and smile.

whoa - worlds colliding... this cat bopped into my instagram feed a month or so ago and I instantly followed. Great stuff. thanks for sharing here

thanks for the rec. I have a short trip coming up in the fall and that sounds like just the right thing.

I disagree.

I actually spent about a half hour writing a (sort of bitter and angry) response to this... but I just deleted it because the world doesn't need more negativity. I feel bad for this guy. He's not old, but thinks he is. He's resigned to complain about "the way things are" in a shallow reflection of "how things were".

But I'll give him his nostalgia (which I find to be privileged, white, misogynistic, and sad).

I am once again made giddy by the warning I am greeted with when going to your post:

do you ever get overwhelmed by a project at work or school and you just keep putting it off even though it's something you want to do, and it's something you can do, but for some reason you just allow it to intimidate you?

that's about me, not you.

I miss you hubski!

Family

I just spent eleven days with my wife and two of the kids in Florida and on a cruise. Weather-wise, it couldn't have been better. We missed two massive snow dumps at home. Otherwise it was nice. It's never FULL vacation when you have kids with you - too much planning, negotiating, scheduling etc. - but it's still nice to get away and have some fun.

Work

Career is in a good spot. I'm still feeling challenged and pushing for some new things. When I took this role fifteen months ago, it was an individual contributor. A year ago when leadership shuffled, I found myself interim leader of a whole department but after hiring my boss six months ago, I'm down to managing a smaller team. I do think I miss being an IC... but I don't mind managing. People are kinda my thing.

Life

Health experiment is still going well. I was down about 30 pounds at the start of the holiday season. Yes, I'm back up a little bit (intentionally - I wanted to enjoy some food), but interestingly, I really didn't eat to total excess and this week I'm craving the low calorie foods. The snow is putting a damper on my cycling plans, but I'll still find a way to get active. The mental/psychological/emotional piece is still so strange to me... what a bizarre connection I've built to food over the years... still hacking at that.

Miscellaneous

I've operated vehicles on four continents, in a dozen countries, and at least 30 of the states.... I've never experienced anything like driving in Miami, Florida. That place is BONKERS.

Life is weird... we live in our own little overlapping circles... family, friends, work, hobbies, religion, clubs.... and normally, for me, those circles ebb and flow as far as time/energy commitments go. a given week might be a busy church week, but work is slow. Sometimes two areas might feel busy...

this week ALL OF THE CIRCLES ARE DEMANDING ALL OF THE TIME.

but it's ok... lots of good things happening... just lots right now.

Thanks for being here

I don't come often enough

but I love you all

we've all been there...

but hey - his eyeliner game is STRONG.

see? you had a thoughtful response full of informed nuance across generations.... mine looked more or less like a line by line personal attack:

Gas was cheap, and we didn’t yet know that we should feel guilty for burning it.

Where the fuck did you live? oh yah... Connecti-fucking-cut. How did your rich, white, privileged Connecticut ass escape the conversation? I've been fretting about the environment since elementary school in the 80s. If you didn't know, shame on you.

Movies had tits in them. God, I miss tits in movies.

What in the cis-hetero-patriarchal bullshit is this?

I live with my girlfriend and my cat Suavecito.

because of course you do. I had to go look you up

I have officially been married longer than I wasn't.

I keep having to stop reading this and come back to it because it reads like every conspiracy theory coming true. All of the "evil rich men conspiring to rule the world" is just here in front of us in plain black and white... and probably nothing will change.

frustration runs high