stupid first world problems you're dealing with

Damn Gina is from the 1990s U.S television sitcom "Martin" starring Martin Lawrence, who used to say Damn Gina a lot.

And I'm ok with you wearing whatever you'd like and I know most workplaces are more lenient than mine re: dresscode. I wasn't suggesting you should get fired or anything. It's just a flashy get up is all and you mentioned getting weird looks and I'm just saying why maybe you were, but if you're dressing how you want to dress, then keep on truckin.

But yeah, guys can't get away with too much at once without getting weird looks, as you've discovered.

i would definately give a look

but it's cool, you look like a comic book character or something.

I'm lactose intolerant, but I can't stop drinking white russians.

Went out to a friend's gig lastnight, with the intention of only consuming the contents of my hipflask and then going home. Of course that didn't happen, as afterwards we headed to a warehouse party, and then somehow ended up at a really mainstream party where people were dancing to disturbingly Pendulum-esque pop drum and bass. Spent all of my money on beer and taxis. The first world problem being that I need to exercise self control, aargh!

  On 8/4/2012 at 6:14 PM, Sprigg said:

I'm lactose intolerant, but I can't stop drinking white russians.

Use soy milk?

im so bored i baked a cake

my sansa only has 4mb left and I want to put a 25mb track :(

Eugh. Seeing people who have been writing music for only a couple of years post on facebook that they are at the TOP OF THE ELECTRONIC CHARTS on beatport or whatever.

I know you gotta be in it to win it and I'm not really in it (I don't network, I don't play gigs, I don't really ever really do anything but write songs and post them on forums)

but its still very demoralising

I have been writing music for fifteen years!

Considering how long that is I should be fucking amazing at it, but I'm just kind of 'pretty good'

Ah well, I'll keep chipping away at it

Yeah, it's pretty fucked really. You have to be a bit of a whore to get noticed these days. It's not enough to just make amazing music. Which is why I get frustrated when trying to get gigs and such. I'm a performer, not a promoter!

Yeah, exactly. It just reinforces my cynicism toward people. There's only a handful of people that I know that actually EXPLORE music (like there are only a few people I know who are into stuff for reasons other than that their friends got them into it. Turn the fucking radio on at random hours! Click on random links! Find some shit)

Having said that, the onus is on me to do better.

I still believe that if your shit is insane it will find its way to people.

I have to make more insane shit I guess

you seem to be doing brilliantly with the scene over there though dude!

I think your stuff is pretty damn excellent already! I just wish I knew the right promoters, etc to get you out here for some shows.

Eh, I get gigs every now and then, I guess. Haven't played since April, but then again a synthpop band contacted me lastnight about playing some gigs together soon so that could be promising.

My problem is that my music isn't chippy enough to be considered a permanent part of the chiptune scene (ie. I don't use a gameboy or other console to compose tracks), and I don't 'DJ' so can pretty much forget about the dance based electronic scene. Experimental gigs are easy to get but nobody fucking dances!

  On 8/6/2012 at 6:29 AM, modey said:

Yeah, it's pretty fucked really. You have to be a bit of a whore to get noticed these days. It's not enough to just make amazing music. Which is why I get frustrated when trying to get gigs and such. I'm a performer, not a promoter!

you can book your own gigs

how do you think 'scenes' start?

  On 8/4/2012 at 8:22 AM, modey said:

And here's the photo. Yes, I'm aware that they look like clown shoes or bowling shoes. Don't care. I bought them off a guy at work who sold me four pairs of boots for $120, pretty good deal imo.

I would have just thought you were in a ska band.

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:45 PM, patternoverlap said:

  On 8/4/2012 at 8:22 AM, modey said:

And here's the photo. Yes, I'm aware that they look like clown shoes or bowling shoes. Don't care. I bought them off a guy at work who sold me four pairs of boots for $120, pretty good deal imo.

 

I would have just thought you were in a ska band.

  On 8/6/2012 at 4:40 PM, luke viia said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 6:29 AM, modey said:

Yeah, it's pretty fucked really. You have to be a bit of a whore to get noticed these days. It's not enough to just make amazing music. Which is why I get frustrated when trying to get gigs and such. I'm a performer, not a promoter!

 

you can book your own gigs

 

how do you think 'scenes' start?

Like I said, I'm not a promoter. I don't have the time to rehearse and promote at the same time. I know it sounds silly for me to complain about it when I don't want to book my own gigs, but the truth is that I just can't pull the crowds that the dedicated promoters can. Maybe I should get a manager, haha.

  On 8/5/2012 at 3:47 AM, disparaissant said:

im so bored i baked a cake

I want caek

My back hurts a little bit and I have to pee.

Still can't find a new job.

me neither. fuck it.

I read sirch's posts in the mars thread. My faith in humanity has dropped.

My kitten stinks like cheese, especially around his head. I find it upsetting.

I've been waiting for Secret Chiefs 3 to release Book of Souls since 2006

  On 8/6/2012 at 6:11 PM, keltoi said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:45 PM, patternoverlap said:

  On 8/4/2012 at 8:22 AM, modey said:

And here's the photo. Yes, I'm aware that they look like clown shoes or bowling shoes. Don't care. I bought them off a guy at work who sold me four pairs of boots for $120, pretty good deal imo.

 

I would have just thought you were in a ska band.

 

I got blackout drunk saturday and don't remember what foolishness I got up to. My friends know but they won't tell me =(

full of guilt and regret because i knocked the recently purchased chicken from the hand of acquaintance and kicked it across the street whilst black-out drunk