One day, I woke up, and decided I would work on organizing some of my music backlog. This somehow devolved into almost an entire day of both studying Japanese, and playing Pokemon FireRed...in Japanese. Care to join me on a stupid adventure ? My only theory of what sparked this was a new Johnstone video that reminded me Po » Continue Reading
Of everything I've collected over the past few years with regards to music, the most popular thing I have that still surprises me are the files for all Rock Band and Guitar Hero tracks. It took me a while to understand why, but I realized what makes them so unique; They aren't just songs, they're stems I was absolutely one of those people that grew up having at least played a little » Continue Reading
(Unfortunately, spacehey's habit of only allowing very specific sites to embed, along with seeming to clash with Imgur right now and no easy way to host .mp4 or .webm embeds, you'll have to bear with my screenshots and probably bandwidth taxing GIFs. Sorry.) The night feels odd, my hands are lighter than usual, and I've just gotten off a loss to someone very close to my own rank, 1-5. It feels lik... » Continue Reading
My computer's clock reads 04:45, 2023-4-28. The house is quiet as I grab my earbuds to just have Deezer throw whatever at me while I start to clean the house up undisturbed, only giving it the single song off Metallica's newest album that I liked as the starting point of it's suggestions; Lux Æterna. I'm working off 10hrs of sleep over the past 48hrs, and have a second cup of coffee that night, as... » Continue Reading
I think a lot about how I'm perceived, for how few people actually overall know me nowadays. A few weeks ago, I believed myself to be unreasonably positive and accepting towards music, but I don't believe this to be the case anymore. Given how I still believe myself to have an extremely broad taste in music, what gives, what changed ? If this selfish subject interests you, read on. » Continue Reading
Apologies for the short pause in posts and the delay in this one, I spent most of my week either dead tired and stressed on airplanes, dead tired and straight up sleeping for 13+ hrs a day, or just overall enjoying some desperately needed time out of the house, out of Florida. California specifically, funny that I keep being there for completely disconnected reasons. My excuses aside; The Strokes. » Continue Reading
Something I teased in last week's entry was getting my hands on some physical CDs, which I spent a good chunk of one of my days completely scanning. As I strangely do actually know a little bit about physical media printing processes from my wasted time in college, I thought it'd make for a nice, simple post that you can see some pretty scans from. Native resolution versions available here for » Continue Reading
Whose your favorite musical artist/band ? Bet you that no matter how huge of a fan you are, you couldn't name everything they've done, and I think that's honestly a shame. But, it's also the nature of performative art like music, it's hard to encapsulate everything by an artist, a group, anything ever. The site Discogs...tries ? It's invaluable, but, may I tell you about all my problems with it ? » Continue Reading
There's been an alleged track on an album that's bugged me for quite a long time at this point, a blemish on my (admittedly extremely janky) music library, and it has to do with a weird discrepancy around the band "Cake". Allow me to throw you down a little rabbit hole for a few minutes... Showroom of Compassion is an album released by Cake in 2011, and on most releases it has 11 » Continue Reading
I have a habit of grabbing important or significant chunks of music data in the moment, then reworking them later on to function as if it was a proper, official release of a game soundtrack. As I'm currently on hour 9 of tackling my music collection head-on to clean things up, I figured I'd just ramble here about my process to give my mind a break. A long time ago, I was given a soft lead as t » Continue Reading