stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 11/23/2015 at 7:41 PM, Audioblysk said:

 

  On 11/23/2015 at 5:53 PM, chenGOD said:

Think I ground my coffee too fine this morning.

 

 

#DadProblems

 

I kno rite? omg.

New FWP: having problems synthesizing all my research into a digestible product. Ugh, word limits.

  On 11/23/2015 at 8:32 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 11/23/2015 at 8:17 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

My Beatles box set from several Xmases ago has two copies of Revolver and no Abbey Road!! WTF. Those were two albums I already had on CD before I got the set, which may be why I hadn't paid any attention before. So aggravating... guess it's back to the pirate bay for me. I'm going to be really pissed if it's a transcode, or riddled with gaps, or any of the other horrors that go hand in hand with the pirate's life. I did initially say "fuck it" and ripped my old version of Abbey Road, but the sound is too noticably inconsistent with the new masters (went through everything from Help up until Abbey Road yesterday, and I've adapted to the sound... I must hear Abbey Road with the same treatment goddammit).

 

I could only find flac, which does not play in my ipod, and there is no batch convert option in the program I use for such things on my lap top... so I must now convert each to mp4, one song at a time x 17. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. My day is eroding into bullshit.

 

*OMFG it won't even allow me to encode mp4 in the demo version. Fuck everything.

 

revolver is my favourite, followed by abbey road

It used to be the same for me, but I think today I'm a White Album/Rubber Soul man. I still have Let It Be to go in this year's later-period-Beatles listening, but I was never a big fan of that one.

rubber soul is up there too. i never understood the white album love but it has some good tracks

Once again stuck with another project from the professor that gives the vaguest instructions, it's supposed to be due this week, and even after talking with her I still don't know what the fuck she wants us to do specifically since she referred me to a pdf and examples she posted online. However the PDF is extremely vague (hence the initial problem) and all the examples are all quite different. I get the idea of what we're doing but she seems to have a specific idea and constraints of what she's looking for. However all her instructions are terrible at communicating WHAT that is... God, I hate this class.

I have 10 well fleshed out song demos for my band, but no lyrics for any of it. The melodies are all there, but the words are just random vowel and consonant sounds at the moment. I have endless musical ideas, but finding words to fit with them is a really painstaking, frustrating process for me. If I wrote a song a day for a month it would still be a couple years before i had all the lyrics to match. And even then, the words never live up to the music. I think that's partly why I started making electronic music in the first place. Maybe I'll give the Burroughs cut-up method a try.

one of my coworkers has left me a few comments in our database that read like this: "DONT ______________ THE ____________ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and it's really starting to chafe my snares. Grown ass man can't even pull his balls down enough to scream about minutiae in person.

to elaborate on this, yes, I already called him out for it when I saw him walk by after work today. He got bitchy and defensive, which was appropriate, because he was acting like a bitch on defense

is he a peer or a superior? if he's a peer, tell him to go fuck himself. well not literally, cos that's not what you want at work, but you know what I mean. draw dicks on his computer screen in white ink or something.

ate a half of the most disguisting pizza imaginable yesterday. a thick layer of shitty onions, black olives, some other type of awful cheese all over it and grossly cut cherry tomatoes. heartburns, bad stools and unrealised burps followed me 12 hours after the meal. today i ate the other half because i just couldn't be arsed to make proper food.

lol @ your avatar.

I was doing a google search to see what could possibly cause mp3 or wav encodings to randomly smash two or more songs together (it's happened to me a few times now). The search started with "why does" and then google suggested "why does my life suck", which I decided to roll with, which lead me to this depressing-as-fuck site: http://www.imatternot.com/

It's kind of funny in a really dark way, but it has also sort of cast a gloomy shadow over my night. i still don't have an answer to my original question, and I'm not sure I can phrase it simply enough to yield helpful results on a google search.

  On 11/24/2015 at 9:54 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I have 10 well fleshed out song demos for my band, but no lyrics for any of it. The melodies are all there, but the words are just random vowel and consonant sounds at the moment. I have endless musical ideas, but finding words to fit with them is a really painstaking, frustrating process for me. If I wrote a song a day for a month it would still be a couple years before i had all the lyrics to match. And even then, the words never live up to the music. I think that's partly why I started making electronic music in the first place. Maybe I'll give the Burroughs cut-up method a try.

if you gave me a theme you wanted for each song, and the muffled singing i could probably translate it to english at about half an hour per, but then you'd have to give me song writing credit, and we don't want that so forget about it. Plus maybe i'm not as awesome at language as i think that i am, and after reading youd likely have an eugy pizzaftermathsperiance.

/in other words, nah, heh.

If I had themes I wanted for each song it would be a lot easier. The only message i really care to convey is the emotion/aesthetic of the music itself. But I like music with lyrics, and if they must be there they should be good. This is my eternal dilemma. I want good lyrics but I don't really care about any message outside of the music (at least when it comes to my own music... there are some great lyricists out there that I admire for it).

The shortsighted arseholes from NI Water have decided to sell off some beautiful old woodland near where I live, it's going for a pittance so it's probably going to get bought over and built on by developers, they were talking in the paper about how it's an 'attractive residential prospect', fuck these idiots. It's full of old, old trees, buzzards' nests and all sorts of other lovely stuff, probably all going to be ruined. So fucked off about this, argh.

I opened up the Apogee Duet I just bought and it won't turn on

I don't get to see or eat with my family this year because I have to be at work from 5:30pm to 12am for the whole Black Friday bullshit... Then I have to wake up and go back in from 2pm to 11pm the next day. I fucking HATE Black Friday and everything it represents about our society... People better be expecting to get some shitty service this weekend.

What's up with people posting out of sync and otherwise fucked up videos on youtube? I just tried watching 4 Richard Pryor standups. First one was way out of sync, second one was way out of sync, third one his voice was pitched/sped up a full two semitones, fourth one was time stretched to creepy hell. What the fuck? Is everyone who uploads to youtube completely inept?

FUCK!

I don't know about the out of sync ones, but don't people pitch things up/down to avoid the automatic copyright detection bot?

I just heard a Salem song I kind of like. it's shit but it's kinda banging.

  On 11/27/2015 at 9:29 AM, chenGOD said:

don't people pitch things up/down to avoid the automatic copyright detection bot?

Ahh, well if that's true then it helps quell my anger against those particular uploaders. Still, surely they could be a bit more subtle with it. The helium voice thing is so fucking distracting. The time stretching thing is probably done for the same reasons, and it's not quite as bad. As for the out of sync vids, I'm going to chalk that up to people not knowing how to use video editing software.

If they pitch up/down the video, it would be nice if they pitched it so that youtubes own speed settings could normalize them.

really tired from working in retail pretty much all goddamned weekend, just wanted to come home, eat, get some dishes done and pass the fuck out before I gotta wake up and go back to school tomorrow. Instead now I gotta deal with the sinks not draining again because of the bullshit plumbing in this building. FML so much for Thanksgiving Break

  On 11/26/2015 at 11:05 PM, ghOsty said:

I don't get to see or eat with my family this year because I have to be at work from 5:30pm to 12am for the whole Black Friday bullshit... Then I have to wake up and go back in from 2pm to 11pm the next day. I fucking HATE Black Friday and everything it represents about our society... People better be expecting to get some shitty service this weekend.

Hope you made thru OK. I despise it too, even tho I haven't worked retail in more than a decade.

Car got stolen from outside my GF's place for the 2nd time this year. I drive an older car because I like my money more than I care about driving a new car. Looks like I have to bite bullet and spend some of my VCFF contract money on a new fucking car if this one doesn't show up in 2 weeks. Weird thing is that the neighborhood has some million dollar houses and is considered the 'better' part of Seattle, crime-wise. My house is on the corner of buy meth and stab whitey and I NEVER had my car fucked with.

Nothing beats coming outside and going 'well, my car isn't where I parked it'... Trying to stay calm. Times like these you just gotta zen and put some positive energy out - everything is in its right place, I just have yet to discover why.

Ack, that sucks man... Does insurance not cover theft? (Not sure how that works rlly).

(also lol at corner of buy meth and stab whitey).