stupid first world problems you're dealing with

Need to do a serious 'functionality' remodel of my studio. It really disrupts workflow to have to be rummaging about trying to find patch cables or space to plug things in or set them down. I use a table from walmart for my studio desk... it's just pretty grungy and I haven't done anything for it besides buy the actual instruments and computer stuff.

It's the things like keyboard stands, tons of patch cables, power sources, midi, getting a few new mic stands, mounting guitar holders/stands, sound foaming up the joint, setting my rack up for my effects and wiring up my mixer properly with everything at hand. You never think it's that essential, but after working in a friends much bigger and plusher setup that is set up very functionally - I realized it's time for an upgrade in the room.

FWP that can be taken from the above - I have been making so much money lately that I don't want to spend any of it as I've never been flush with money that is steady and accepted in the eyes of uncle sam... It's madness... COULD'VE DRIVEN ANY OF US MAD

  On 11/13/2015 at 4:04 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

Fucking a, feeding kids healthy food that is also stuff that they'll actually eat is near impossibru. The amount of time and energy my wife and I unwillingly invest in this endeavour is most FW nominated

 

  On 11/12/2015 at 8:59 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

  On 11/12/2015 at 2:00 PM, MDM Chaos said:

i'm finding so many great new musicians through the internet that i'm actually losing track. i need a better system.

 

The struggle is real. I'm now just resigned to the fact that my 'to listen' list, much like my 'to read', will probably never get finished in my lifetime. Kind of nice when you think about it, that there's always more stuff out there, to the point where it might as well be infinite.

 

 

True, I've come to a similar acceptance of this and it's quite liberating!

 

i think i'm on this pattern now where every couple years i kind of just reset and stop trying to keep up with new music and start over again. enjoy the old classics, dive into discogs of artists i like but have barely explored, surprise myself by going through music i bookmarked a long time ago

it happened already with some hard drive crashes, then back in 2013 or so when i decided to just follow underground cassette labels and now i think i might just go offline for few months to just start fresh

Burnt out.

  On 11/13/2015 at 6:07 AM, Audioblysk said:

Need to do a serious 'functionality' remodel of my studio. It really disrupts workflow to have to be rummaging about trying to find patch cables or space to plug things in or set them down. I use a table from walmart for my studio desk... it's just pretty grungy and I haven't done anything for it besides buy the actual instruments and computer stuff.

 

It's the things like keyboard stands, tons of patch cables, power sources, midi, getting a few new mic stands, mounting guitar holders/stands, sound foaming up the joint, setting my rack up for my effects and wiring up my mixer properly with everything at hand. You never think it's that essential, but after working in a friends much bigger and plusher setup that is set up very functionally - I realized it's time for an upgrade in the room.

 

FWP that can be taken from the above - I have been making so much money lately that I don't want to spend any of it as I've never been flush with money that is steady and accepted in the eyes of uncle sam... It's madness... COULD'VE DRIVEN ANY OF US MAD

 

This is acceptable usage.

Organizing cables and patch cords will definitely help your workflow. You might want to look at getting a local carpenter to build you a table? Or alternatively, do it yourself - not hard. Big sheet of 1" ply, 5 4x4 posts, some 2" screws and away you go (I say 5 posts because it's a good idea to put one in the middle back of the table to distribute the weight of your gear more easily).

If I do end up buying a house in Canada somewhere, can't wait to convert one of the rooms into a studio and start making tunes again.

For no reason at all, I just did about an hour of research about Michael Jordan being an asshole.

  On 11/15/2015 at 4:18 PM, Candiru said:

For no reason at all, I just did about an hour of research about Michael Jordan being an asshole.

What did you conclude?

  On 11/15/2015 at 4:18 PM, Candiru said:

For no reason at all, I just did about an hour of research about Michael Jordan being an asshole.

Sounds like a SFW success to me!

I too would like to know your findings.

  On 11/13/2015 at 6:07 AM, Audioblysk said:

Need to do a serious 'functionality' remodel of my studio. It really disrupts workflow to have to be rummaging about trying to find patch cables or space to plug things in or set them down. I use a table from walmart for my studio desk... it's just pretty grungy and I haven't done anything for it besides buy the actual instruments and computer stuff.

 

It's the things like keyboard stands, tons of patch cables, power sources, midi, getting a few new mic stands, mounting guitar holders/stands, sound foaming up the joint, setting my rack up for my effects and wiring up my mixer properly with everything at hand. You never think it's that essential, but after working in a friends much bigger and plusher setup that is set up very functionally - I realized it's time for an upgrade in the room.

 

FWP that can be taken from the above - I have been making so much money lately that I don't want to spend any of it as I've never been flush with money that is steady and accepted in the eyes of uncle sam... It's madness... COULD'VE DRIVEN ANY OF US MAD

 

If you have patchcords and shit all over the place you are doing it right.

Something is off about clean studios... it's like a painter's studio and seeing that everything is clean and devoid of any splatters of paint, or a skinny chef cooking. I would not trust a clean studio.

"I don't take pictures with no ni@@as." - Michael Jordan

  On 11/15/2015 at 9:44 PM, doublename said:

"I don't take pictures with no ni@@as." - Michael Jordan

wtf are niatatas?

  On 11/15/2015 at 4:23 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 11/15/2015 at 4:18 PM, Candiru said:

For no reason at all, I just did about an hour of research about Michael Jordan being an asshole.

What did you conclude?

He was compulsively obsessed with competition and winning, which can be ugly when it's in a situation that doesn't call for it. But his brain can't turn it off, which worked really fucking well.

The whole concept of role models is so weird. Want to be like them? Have some pathological shit going on and pair it with your goals. Sky's the limit.

My car got broken into over the weekend, the thief grabbed my backpack which was behind the driver's seat. The backpack contained the laptop the school assigned me (a MacBook pro with about $2000 worth of Adobe software and plug-ins) and all my textbooks and a few other miscellaneous things... Fortunately the theif must not have wanted to carry the weight of things they didn't see as valuable so they removed all my books an papers and left them at the edge of the parking lot and to be found by a neighbor (thank god for observant neighbors and the fact that it didn't rain!). The laptop however is still missing. I did file a police report, but it has to wait to be approved which according to the site can take 3-5 business days (WTF way to be efficient St. Paul PD!?). The school also can't put any motion towards replacing my laptop until I get a copy of the police report...

Being a graphic design major this makes things rather a pain in the ass, as pretty much all my coursework revolves around that fucking laptop. I lost all the data for the projects I was currently working on. Fortunately I have all my previous works on the school server so at least I can salvage that to backup and use for future profiles. But, most of the work we do in class is on the laptop so not sure what I'm gonna do during class hours until they replace my machine. Fortunately there is a laptop in the library loaded with all the same programs (What I'm typing now actually) that I can use to complete assignments outside of class hours so I'm not completely fucked academically. Not sure if I'm gonna have to pay a replacement fine for the new laptop or not yet... We'll see I guess.

That's too bad, is there no tracking system that can be used for the laptop. Seems like it should be pretty simple nowadays.

Edit: Hopefully you had this enabled - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204756

It'd be up to the school whether or not they set that up... It's not my personal laptop but the one I was assigned because of the program I'm enrolled in. They told me they need a copy of the police report before they can take any action, which seems counter-productive. I've made the report, but it takes 3-5 days according to the dept. site for it to be approved and then they'll send me a pdf of the official paperwork. In the meantime someone could be figuring out how to crack the login and remove any tracking... I'm really not getting my hopes up that it's going to show up. Honestly I'd rather just find out how much they're going to fucking charge me for the replacement and have a laptop to work on again.

Rabbit has taken over my bed, bad rabbit.

I broke my eyeglass frames while watching tv. I don't even know how that happened. Suddenly they were in two pieces. fml

  On 11/17/2015 at 12:19 AM, MDM Chaos said:

Wabbit has taken over my bed, pesky wabbit.

Fixt

  On 11/19/2015 at 5:20 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

so this happened 5 minutes from where i live. good thing i sleep in to 11am or i might have been there when this unfolded, i needed to get some groceries today

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-19/man-refused-bail-over-sub-machine-gun-in-bag-in-marrickville/6953370

 

A man who was allegedly caught carrying a sub-machine gun in a bag in Sydney's inner west has been refused bail.

Marc Avidov, aged 41, did not apply for bail when he appeared at Newtown Local Court.

Police and officers from the firearms squad discovered a Thompson fully-automatic sub-machine gun, clips and ammunition when they carried out a search on Murray street at Marrickville on Wednesday.

Avidov will remain in custody to face court next week.

Police said they did not believe he had any links to terrorism."

 

they don't say this in the article but he was caught outside the shopping centre (mall) i go to.

We're always narrowly avoiding things like this. Several months ago, a body with its head and torso missing was found right next to the building I work in. The head and arms were found in the lobby of an apartment building across the street and the murderer was easily caught in his apartment upstairs. There was a memorial left on the tree the body was left beside that was only taken down very recently. A few months later, a car stopped right next to the train stop I leave from because the passenger had died of gunshot wounds.

It's pretty exciting stuff.

How come Youtube has no problem loading 3h long videos on a crappy connection but a 16 second clip is impossible to watch?

Been without power for 3 days. It's nice to have friends who invite us over for dinner and to charge our electronics but I'm about to have an introvert attack. All of the daylight is consumed by the work day. I miss my Octatrack.

  On 11/20/2015 at 3:28 PM, sweepstakes said:

Been without power for 3 days. It's nice to have friends who invite us over for dinner and to charge our electronics but I'm about to have an introvert attack. All of the daylight is consumed by the work day. I miss my Octatrack.

Shitty buzz! What happened to your power?

Huge windstorm knocked down a fuckton of huge trees in our area. My neighborhood is one of the hardest hit.

I got higher than usual and somehow my paranoia was fueled into doing research on the Cascadian Subduction Zone and how it might fuck up the Pacific Northwest which bums me out because I liked it a lot when I visited.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

I just made it to #7 of a newspaper article called "10 tips to get Kate Hudson's Sexy Looks" before asking myself wtf am I reading this for?

I need my morning coffee.