I have not received any! I was bummed you never responded to my original one but I guess you did respond and I just didn’t get it. I am guessing you got the one I sent recently… I’ll dm ya my email or something, not sure what’s going on…

Week is going good!
Having a random Tuesday off always screws up the vibe, though.
My brother recently convinced me to start playing WarThunder, so I’ve been spending a bit more time than I would want playing that… It is fun so far, though! I have another friend who has played for a long time and we’re trying to find a time when all 3 of us can squad up. I’ve stayed up way past my bedtime every day this week, oops.

I got my flu shot yesterday, and it always makes me super drowsy and sore and lethargic the next couple days, so I’m dealing with that, too.

I recently made some caramel from scratch to make a warm caramel apple dip, and it wasn’t quite as hard as I imagined, and was super tasty, so I’m thinking I might try and make some homemade candy this year.
My immediate family isn’t big on gifts, but one of the things I do every year is find the most unhinged or weird mugs at thrift shops and give everyone a mug with some hot chocolate, candy canes, and other treats. Having some home-made treats in there for a change would be fun!

It’s amazing how often this series is relevant even all these years later.

Maybe they have indeed been dead for several minutes and it’s a sign they need to be brought back to life

Thank you! Yeah, I always love checking out new things, I was excited to take over these weekly posts. Music for me is like what movies or TV shows are to some others, I spend a lot of time listening and reflecting. If you haven’t found it already, there’s a user over at !obscuremusic@piefed.social who religiously posts things every single day. For the most part they tend to lean on the heavier side, which I very much appreciate as that’s where my main interests lie, but there’s a decent mix if you dig through. I’ve discovered quite a few things over there!

See that’s the thing, I don’t… In college I played the bass in a joke band, but I don’t actually know “how” to play the bass (or the guitar), properly at least, don’t know anything about music, production, etc. I’m really excited to just completely wing it. I have really good rhythm and was able to learn songs by ear on bass with basic trial-and-error and memorization in the past, interested to see how this translates. A big draw has been the thought of making my own homemade microphones out of random trash and sampling interesting sounds with them. I’ve got a few ideas to run with.

I was instantly intrigued by the name “Ancient Infinity Orchestra”, and I really really like this. I’m a sucker for lots of wind instruments.

Sorry for being absent from the past couple threads, I was traveling and busy and it’s just been crazy.

The song Universal Flame by Devin Townsend passed through to say hi while shuffling my entire library the other day and I always forget how much I absolutely love this song.
https://devintownsend.bandcamp.com/track/universal-flame

I have suddenly developed the urge to make experimental/noise music… so I’ve been acquiring weird old equipment, like an old Korg Microkorg, a bunch of guitar pedals, and the sketchiest guitar I’ve ever seen. Turns out a friend I’ve started hanging out with regularly already has his own experimental/noise project, so we’re definitely going to share some ideas. He told me the name of his project but we were really high so of course I forgot lol. I’ll be back to plug his stuff next week it sounded pretty cool.

I sent 2 letters and received 0 in return, so I’m down to try again! I’ll DM you

I leave for Paris tomorrow and while I’ve been planning the trip I had the strangest urge to smoke a cigarette at a streetside cafe sipping some coffee… and I have never smoked in my life. Feels like a real deep cultural meme has gripped me.

I just learned that the band Flake is playing near me soon… I stumbled across their stuff when a particular instagram reel went viral a while back and love their sound. Very excited to go to that show, and I am hoping I can convince some friends to come with me since it’s definitely way WAY mellower than my usual stuff lol.

Also in other news I might be going to a goth/darkwave club next month so that will be interesting.

Syncatto mentioned!! I stumbled across his stuff in 2021 with the album A Place to Breathe and instantly fell in love. I really like the blend of more “traditional” guitar sound with the prog side of things.

I’ve been trying to produce less waste and use my own insulated cup for coffee at work, even though they provide paper cups and lids. Sometimes I forget though or I am out on the production floor and don’t want to have to walk all the way back to my desk to get my cup.
Recently, though, the cafeteria had gotten a different paper cup than what they’ve always had, and although it looks similar, it is insanely flimsy. I have spilled coffee on my desk 3 times in the past 2 weeks because I go to grab the cup and it just crumples and the cover flies off… I am eyeing the current paper cup of coffee on my desk right now begging it to not be the 4th spill. It’s honestly kinda funny at this point. As soon as my deskmat dried out, BAM more coffee. Luckily it is black with a dark grey pattern, so no stains (yet). I had a blue/yellow deskmat at home at one point and after only a few months it looked nasty.

Other than that, the weeks have really just been flying by. How is it already the 2nd week of October? It is very cold today compared to the weather as of late. Tonight we will likely get our first frost. I plan on going for a hike after work, excited to layer up and have a nice cozy jaunt.

I don’t usually pay attention to usernames, but I just laughed out loud when I checked their post history. Very rarely do I see a truly shit take on here, but most of the recent posts I remember being real stinkers are all from this same user.

Also the recent obsession with age is very strange.

Can you talk with the IT team?
I was able to switch my MFA to a Yubikey.
They rolled out the MFA policy quite recently and I immediately sent an email like “Hello. I do not have a smartphone. What are my options?”
They also had the option for SMS verification, but I had been looking at getting a Yubikey for myself anyway so might as well get work to pay for it.

We are all just biological machines.

I clicked play and the airy chanting and ambient whatever started playing, and I was scrolling around the page to try and find some kind of information or clue into what this was about, and I got to the bottom and it said “If you like Tallah you might also like: Bloodywood”, and I was like Ah, ok, I just need to wait.

Yeah, that’s fun. I didn’t even read the second half of your comment and had the exact same Korn thought.

I had an interesting week. Not a lot of music going on.
I DID have one afternoon where I was feeling in the mood to just go nuts, so I blasted some Brand of Sacrifice, Humanity’s Last Breath, and Disembodied Tyrant.
Really bombastic Deathcore has cemented itself as my “guilty pleasure” genre.

like this: https://disembodiedtyrant.bandcamp.com/track/i-the-devourer-2

I am going to be in Paris at the end of October and I have marked a couple of small music venues that allegedly have weekly punk or prog stuff… I would love to catch a weird or crazy show (every French musician I know is wonderfully weird and out there), if anyone has any firsthand recommendations that would be sick.

I’m currently reading a book (A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge) where 2 voyages get stranded at the same faraway star system, one is a totalitarian autocracy and the other is a free trading culture. The totalitarian regime gets the upper hand, takes over via manipulation and sabotage, and tries to stifle and outlaw all money and trade. They end up spying on the underground black market trade that pops up and manipulates people into trading and doing work for the regimes benefit without their knowledge… If not money, then goods and services, or any other analog for such. Certain people will always try to accumulate “wealth”, whatever that wealth may be, it doesn’t necessarily have to be legal tender.

The book feels extremely relevant to current events, as the autocratic regime employs a ubiquitous police state and uses an even less ethical analog for AI to control it all. It was published in 1999.

Still doin’ their thing, they released a new album last year! They went on a small new-album tour and that’s when I was able to catch their show.

I found the source of the quote on the bookmark, and it was a quote by Plato out of Phaedrus so it definitely is real lol. It’s somewhat different on the bookmark, but depending on what translation you look at the quote will probably be slightly different anyway. It’s sections 274e to 275b

But when he came to writing, Theuth said, “This branch of learning, O King, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories, for I have discovered an elixir of both memory and wisdom.” The king replied, “Oh most ingenious Theuth, one man is able to invent these skills, but a different person is capable of judging their benefit or harm to those who will use them. And you, as the father of writing, on account of your positive attitude, are now saying that it does the opposite of what it is able to do. This subject will engender forgetfulness in the souls of those who learn it, for they will not make use of memory. Because of their faith in writing, they will be reminded externally by means of unfamiliar marks, and not from within themselves by means of themselves. So, you have discovered an elixir not of memory but of reminding. You will provide the students with a semblance of wisdom, not true wisdom. For having heard a great deal without any teaching they will seem to be extremely knowledgeable, when for the most part they are ignorant, and are difficult people to be with because they have attained a seeming wisdom without being wise.”