February 2012
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Dusty Brough - Kelp1
Sometimes I hear a piece of...
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I just remembered how much I absolutely adore Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
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WatchSo, despite what I said about my album being released on March 1st… I managed to get everything uploaded early, so as a result, it’s officially released… today! After several years of thinking about releasing an album of my orchestral music, it’s finally done. A lot of this music is older stuff, and if you’ve paid close attention to what I’ve uploaded...
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ahippoonyourcampus replied to your post: I find it kind of weird how my stance on…
Relationships are fucking scary. That third paragraph was pretty much where I was at last summer and, to a degree, still describes where I’m at. The past is hard to get over. -hugs- If you need to rant, I’m here. Not tonight though, bc test tomorrow.
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I don’t need to rant now, but...
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I find it kind of weird how my stance on relationships has done basically a complete 180 since high school.
Back then I was like, ‘fuck, all I want right now is to have a relationship with someone and experience that kind of closeness that only that sort of thing can provide’, I would say things like ‘flings are not fulfilling’ so much I’d resort to using FANF as an...
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neatly-stacked replied to your photo: It’s so weird to me that I looked like this in…
where is your hair?!
I had a going away party a couple days before this picture was taken in which I let people take turns with scissors. And then my mom was kind enough to clean up the ridiculous mess that happened because of that.
So I guess at the time my hair was probably somewhere down some pipes...
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youremyguitarhero replied to your photo: It’s so weird to me that I looked like this in…
ffff you’re still a cutie patootie
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I think my short haired, beard-y, mountain man phase of life was a little weird looking though, but I guess I’m probably just used to longer hair since I’ve had it mostly that way since around the start of high school.
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ahippoonyourcampus replied to your photo: It’s so weird to me that I looked like this in…
Oh, man. That’s so trippy! The you in that picture had no idea that it would snow twenty something inches on you or that your boots would fall apart or that you’d do jazzercise or that lake S. America even existed. Weird, weird, weird.
I didn’t even know you existed yet at this point! Old...
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kittatonic replied to your post: Somehow I am up to 103 degrees from 101 earlier,…
Oh no! :c I want to put you in an ice bath. I hope you feel better soon! You may wanna consider going to a hospital if it gets any higher/stays that high
Thanks. :) Yeah, last night I took some aspirin and it went down, and I don’t think it’s bad enough to be hospital worthy. I’ve had...
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Somehow I am up to 103 degrees from 101 earlier, and I feel cooler.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense.
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You know what I have to say to a day of being bedridden, feverish, and throwing up the contents of my stomach over and over again?
FUCK YOUUUUUUU.
However Adam Foley and Laura Anderson have a video of one of their shows up… and I think it’s helped me feel a bit better. They’re such fantastic musicians, ahhh.
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So I said I was going to go to bed, but really I was uploading more of my album to Bandcamp.
Now all that’s left to upload are the two pieces of music that are on my external hard drive, and assuming the damn thing turns on long enough to grab the files off of it, that should be a piece of cake. I really need to replace the damn thing soon before it completely dies on me and I lose my old...
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supascooperandmightymansh replied to your post: Astral Yak and Iffy Stereos. Or, A Sky Altar and…
Astral Yak would make a phenomenal name for a psychedelic stoner band.
Oh my fuck, yes. I think that band needs to happen somehow.
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ahippoonyourcampus:
polaraxis:
Oh damn, an anagram of my name is ‘Mauled Slam’.
I am… a potential name for a slam death metal band. I’m not sure what to think of this.
Damn, the only good anagrams of my name are “Grab There Sigh” and “Shaggier Berth.”
I dunno, I think ‘Herbage Rights’ and ‘Beggars Hither’ are pretty good. I left out your middle name in that one...
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Astral Yak and Iffy Stereos.
Or, A Sky Altar and Fife Oyster.
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Oh damn, an anagram of my name is ‘Mauled Slam’.
I am… a potential name for a slam death metal band. I’m not sure what to think of this.
Potentially Totally fucking ridiculous songwriting ideas:
Write a song entirely based around anagrams.
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The Aimless Never Miss - I.D.
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Esperanza Spalding - Winter Sun
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wut4 replied to your post: I think the biggest problem I have with myself and…
Hey, I know I was pretty abrupt there, that’s just a pet peeve of mine. You don’t see many pictures of not-hot female musicians on tumblr, even if they’re fantastic.
-nods- It’s a pretty big problem that image seems to determine so much about a musician’s exposure and perception when they happen...
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The Lorax: Blowing Smogulous Smoke →
Fans of The Lorax have raised concerns that the new big-screen version is neglecting the environmental message of the beloved Dr. Seuss book. The movie doesn’t come out until March 2, but the initial trailer and promotional materials ignited a round of complaints on the web.
Now people are having a (rather justified) heart attack about the fact that The Lorax is now being used to...
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the-embalmer replied to your post: Ahhhh, ghost notes on personal posts are the most…
I liked it…
Ahh, it was you! :)
I wish I knew why ghost notes happen. It’s definitely unnerving sometimes.
Ahhhh, ghost notes on personal posts are the most bizarre/frustrating thing.
Whoooo are youuu..?
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I think the biggest problem I have with myself and the way I go through life is that sometimes my focus on certain things is so single minded I forget temporarily that other things exist even if they’re right under my nose. And then when people point things out that by all rights I should have paid attention to and didn’t notice somehow, even if the comments weren’t directed at...
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Fascinating Paper On Pre-Industrial Sleep Patterns... →
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the-embalmer replied to your post: Apparently ‘The Creator Had a Mastertape’ is…
That joke was ace.
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Apparently ‘The Creator Had a Mastertape’ is shorthand for ‘The Creator (Steven Wilson) Had A Mastertape, but he left it in a cab, and someone in a band found it and thought it was the coolest thing ever and tried to pass it off as their own, but it was too obvious and just sounded ridiculous and derivative because of that’.
Maybe some people were so creeped out by the...
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Today was way longer than I expected.
That’s okay though, I think I desperately needed the mental stimulation and the feeling that I actually did something substantial… even though all I really did was tighten and loosen some screws and take panels on and off in an effort to figure out what the hell was wrong with the radio transmitter we were putting in.
After a couple more posts,...
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Abigail’s Ghost = an example of how to rip off In Absentia era Porcupine Tree and be unoriginal about it.
No Brain Cell = an example of how to rip off In Absentia era Porcupine Tree and make some awesome fucking music that takes the influence of PT and turns it into something relatively new and refreshing, though sometimes slightly awkward.
However, both of them for some reason really...
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mistershrugs replied to your post: Alright, so tomorrow (and maybe tonight depending…
The music you’ve posted is all wonderful, Adam—you deserve every bit of praise you get. Be sure to upload the full album from scratch (as opposed to updating the album that’s already on your bandcamp) so it’ll show up in new releases!
Ahhh, thanks Andrew. :)
Also, wait, changing the release date...
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Alright, so tomorrow (and maybe tonight depending on how sleepy I get), assuming I’m not doing anything else (aka the weather is too shitty to do helicopter stuff), I’m going to start on the process of re-exporting all of my album to aiff files and uploading them to bandcamp.
I think, if all goes as planned, that means I’ll easily have the thing up on the internet by March...
Tumblr Has a Cutting (and an Anorexia & Bulimia)... →
butterflyrevolt:
This is terrible, for multiple reasons:
It is horrible that our society drives people to this level of self-hate. Many of these people, mostly women, are very aware of the fact that what they are doing is dangerous and self-destructive.
I think that tumblr’s policy of deleting blogs “glorifying” these oppressions is misguided— even though these blogs are often a way to...
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Ahhh, today at the farmer’s market that dude I met last week named Sprouts and I were talking, and we’re gonna jam this weekend. He plays mandolin. I guess this means I am not a total social failure, it just takes me a couple months to get comfortable enough in a place to be outgoing. And some nudging from good friends.
Also, holy shit, the number of attractive people there this time...