Your pointless thoughts & observations

If Joyrex was in a jazz band would they be called BADBADQUITEGOOD?

  On 7/20/2021 at 4:08 AM, chronical said:

If Joyrex was in a jazz band would they be called BADBADQUITEGOOD?

I am dead sick of seeing articles that begin with “We need to talk about...blah blah” 

fuck off with that 

PS great movie.

my beard smells like dog food

  On 7/21/2021 at 5:53 PM, zero said:

my beard smells like dog food

                                                                  i've smelled my beard for the first time because of this post

                                                                            neutral smell but now i feel i'll always give my beard a smell

                                                                                                           every once and a while

  On 7/21/2021 at 5:53 PM, zero said:

my beard smells like dog food

wow lucky, that means you don't have to buy razors or dog food anymore, assuming you own a dog

pointless observation: i believe this court case was dismissed due to insufficient evidence- though i'd personally say victoria is the clear winner here.

  On 7/15/2021 at 10:56 PM, Wunderbar said:

When u guys listen too music do you hear your own voice singing the melody or the instrument playing it ?

i can get behind this - not so much from a musical theory stance, but more about how i experience it.

one thing about me is that i love screaming, and i wish i had more opportunities to scream the way i want to. this has channeled into the way i use and enjoy music - even as a teenager when i suddenly discovered aphex and all the warp/skam/rephlex artists, i was already doing it in my head.

when i listen to music with the right type of sounds, i am screaming inside my head and the music is releasing those screams. it's really more like singing (i like to say screeching, squealing, hooting or whatever).

albums like Exai, AFX AB4, Geogaddi, ICBYD, and the Analord series are really good for this. here is a prime example:

imagine how it would feel to be able to make that noise!!

baller alert

I audiate when I listen to unwell street dwellers bellowing in the alley outside my window.

I just read someone on elektronauts refer to a metallica concert as a live dawless jam and it made me laught out loud and clap my hands.

  On 7/23/2021 at 5:44 AM, drillkicker said:

I audiate when I listen to unwell street dwellers bellowing in the alley outside my window.

by that, do you mean you can hear in advance what they're gonna say?

  On 7/23/2021 at 11:24 AM, brian trageskin said:

by that, do you mean you can hear in advance what they're gonna say?

No, I hear what they're gonna say at the same time that they're saying it.  But I honestly can't stand when I can hear a song's melody in advance.  When that starts happening it's a sign that I've listened to something too many times and I have to find something new.  That's why I like really crazy atonal jazz, it's the music that I'm least likely to predict by accident.

Imagine the absolute carnage you could cause if you were to pop a single nugget of aquarium gravel into a packet of Nerds.

  On 7/24/2021 at 11:39 AM, Plum said:

Imagine the absolute carnage you could cause if you were to pop a single nugget of aquarium gravel into a packet of Nerds.

                                                              i ate nerds as a kid and that statement just made my teeth crawl itch

                                                                                                  like two eggs rubbed together on the shell

                                                                                                         medusa scratching her nails down the pillar as she fell

Which is worse tho, biting down on tinfoil or cottonwool? Both make my nought tighten!

                                                                oh shit forgot about the tinfoil when i had mercury fillings

                                                                                      bizzare electric feeling in the teeth

                                                                              a little bit would've stuck to the hersey's bar

                                                                                 have to chew on some cotton wool now and find out

Adding a cymbal to a track always sounds incredibly cheesy at first, even when it's clearly exactly what's needed.  Figuring out how to make it sound appropriate in context is always the most challenging part of any mix that requires a cymbal... and i have no idea why the fuck this is.  It shouldn't be so confounding after 20 years of music production.  Do other producers have this same problem, or is it merely my achilles heel?  (honestly, most cymbals I hear in electronic music sound ironic to me, so maybe I'm just reeeeally particular about what a cymbal is supposed to sound like.)

Do you mean like rides? Can we hear some examples of ironic cymbals? Last question; is it the way the cymbal is played/programmed, the place it occurs or the way it's mixed that makes it ironic?

Took me a long time to get my rides right and not too long after I figured out some programming tricks/swing settings/etc and started getting the mix right I switched daws. So now I usually decide to get rid of the ride.

Sometimes rides, but mostly crash cymbals.  I don't know which tracks go with which song titles (and don't feel like listening through a pile of stuff to figure it out) but almost any time there's a crash in an Aphex or Squarepusher track it seems like it's being sort of cheeky.  Also, if you just play a cymbal crash from almost any drum machine it sounds hilarious.  But any time I've wanted to add a cymbal to something I'm working on, it's to make a section actually sound more powerful... and sanding off the comedic edges of a crash cymbal is no easy feat.  Although after posting that last message, I had something I was happy with in under 5 min.  So maybe I'm over that hurdle.

New pointless observation: Lemmy's vocal doubles sound remarkably similar to Al Jourgenson's.  Neato.

The other day I was chasing rabbits with my bike but I would stop when the rabbit got exhausted and not get closer, so it was kind of a game and I was trying to keep the rabbit from the street so it won't get run over by a car. But the next day I went to the same area and I saw a rabbit completely smashed to a flat red-grey mass of bones and flesh at the bus station, probably run over by a bus. So I'm wondering if the rabbit got run over as a result of me thinking about rabbits getting knocked down by cars or if it was just a random and completely unrelated occurrence (which I doubt). A lot of the stuff I think seems to get manifested in this reality, in one form or the other. It's not that I can just wish for something and it happens, but all my thoughts seem to resonate into manifested reality in some weird way. So I'm wondering if what I was seeing was real or if it was something shown to me by a counterpart of existence that isn't me, as a response to my earlier thoughts.

Am quite worried about you, ding man!

Sounds like the sort of train of thought I had in my early 20's when I was manic out of my skull.  Some alternate theories for the rabbit thing: random coincidence (most likely), inadvertent precognition of sorts (fun!/harmless idea, but not the most rational take on things), cosmic pranksters (I prob would have gone with this one back when I was off the rails).  

  On 7/26/2021 at 8:45 PM, xox said:

Am quite worried about you, ding man!

Yes, me too @dingformung

Go talk to someone. Seriously. If only to get some ointment for your fingers. They must be worn out from typing so much.