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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-26 00:21 [#02639909]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



merry christmas? certainly not. terrible christmas, tho?
nah. simply alone, bored; numb. i have synthesizers and some
drugs and incredibly cheap food and a roof over my head so
life is not so terrible. but the drugs are not particularly
impressive; in particular i need actual weed. and christmas
dinner like, a can of soup with some bread and the bread
isn't mine and that might be a problem later. and i'm alone
and it's been shitty and rainy today. but i have
synthesizers and some drugs and so things are ok. i've idly
daydreamed about being the only human on earf since i was a
child [along with being stuck in the bathroom for eternity,
for some reason] and today has those vibes. i intrinsically
enjoy drugs and making music but then there's no one to
listen to the music and it just feels kind of sad. i think i
might construct something, because once it's done and you
can hold it in your hand, that's satisfying continuously. as
opposed to making music, where the track is done and we're
alone and oh now what


 

offline big from lsg on 2024-12-26 18:08 [#02639910]
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🎄

don't you have parasocial friends on youtube?


 

offline kei9 from Argentina on 2024-12-26 18:12 [#02639911]
Points: 434 Status: Regular



I think the problem is in chasing joy or pleasure

For example making tracks is enjoyable in itself as you
mention, drugs not so much. Even making music can be a drag
if you are pushing to feel the same pleasure each time you
listen to a track or make them in a certain way (as then you
are not chasing making tracks as of in itself but forcing
what is to be done bevause of your expectations). You have
to be open to the unkown which is impossible if you are
chasing the same "high" each time. The chase of pleasure
(hedonism) can only lead you to pessimism

I need to work on something intensively and then let it rest
while I work on something else with the same intrnsity, then
let that rest.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-26 23:29 [#02639912]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



oh, we're problem-solving? i was just checking in. i know
how it is when someone has not been doing well and it's
polite to let people know you're not dead so they can feel
better, because otherwise is mean. but then things are not
particularly good either, and what you're hearing is ~~ i'm
not sure what to do with myself

like: i'm alive.... hmm. maintaining this will take some
sort of planning and where am i going with this? we're
circling around closing out all the legal issues which
leaves us with merely having lost my shit and right i paid
off all my debt before and theoretically i could get fat in
an office again but the economy is worse this time and i
have no weed.

with the gear, well, i could fuck with it all day and find
that enjoyable and here's a track as the result. it's not
chasing a high it's more like jerking off and who wants to
press my cum rag to vinyl

then there is the acknowledgement of this and we go back to
my life situation and "i may as well fart around with music
gear i really don't have any agenda in life right now it all
seems incredibly meh to me"


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-26 23:33 [#02639913]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



just kind of like -- ohh, hm, no. i can't go to bed quite
yet; it'll hit harder if we wait an hour or two before
sluggabedding. evening out a liminal existence like turning
a potato


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-27 00:36 [#02639914]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



saving the two bananas for tomorrow having cheerios with
enough milk for another round tomorrow. with a microwaved
mug of coffee. nailed it. back to bed soon


 

offline kei9 from Argentina on 2024-12-27 02:54 [#02639916]
Points: 434 Status: Regular



We cant expect anything but trouble. Only when facing a
harder problem is that we think that the problems of the
past were not trouble at all.

"i may as well fart around with music
gear i really don't have any agenda in life right now it
all
seems incredibly meh to me"

Sounds great to me really. Just make it "sacred" instead of
"meh"

Maybe ive had too many drugz but i find life making music
for the sake of it is one of the best ways to live. If you
have to make music for the sake of others you may as well
die, what is the point in pleasing others? Same happens with
knowing, you have to figure out things in your own terms for
them to make sense at all, fitting in and merely playing
your part as others see fit is a curse, as it is the surface
of knowing or making music or whatever

(This fuckery is my way of checking in btw)


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-12-27 09:35 [#02639917]
Points: 8327 Status: Regular



ohh hm meh meh
meh meh ohh ohh
ohh hm meh meh
meh meh oh hm

no no meh meh
no meh hm ohh
no no meh meh
hm no meh ohh


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-12-27 09:37 [#02639918]
Points: 8327 Status: Regular



nah nah meh meh
meh hm no ohh


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-27 17:20 [#02639920]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular | Followup to kei9: #02639916



you totally didn't even process what i was saying, duder. i
opened up this thread saying i enjoy music "intrinsically" ~
meaning i enjoy the process in and of itself, for just the
process. nowhere did i say i was doing it for anyone. the
post at large was just a reflection on how it is,
ultimately, just wanking; a waste of time. like i said, when
it's over, it's over, and i just have a recording of no
interest to anyone. then reflecting i should maybe build
something instead, because it's satisfying to be able to
hold something in your hand or wall art hanging or
something. i'm supposed to move my stuff down to the
flooding basement but it's flooding.

yeah, a harder problem can make you reflect on how easier
your earlier problems were... but then you solve a harder
problem, and you just... have all the old problems still?
and behind them are more problems? that you have no food,
job prospects out here are shit, just telling assholes fuck
off, i don't want to trade for your shitty custom guitar
pedal, i need CASH? then it feels especially stupid that you
just spent a few hours on music or art or whatever because
now it's time to eat the one banana i have left

i think i give up on local routes i'm just going to list my
gear on reverb or somnething


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-27 17:29 [#02639921]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



nevermind. hello. bye again


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-27 17:55 [#02639922]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



i could use some work, i guess i should mention here. i can
code, write, compose, build synths, i've worked deep in the
guts of video for years, spent five years in automotive
services in between that. over a decade doing damage control
on others' PHP disasters before that [but npm/react etc has
proven every level the disaster i feared it would be with
dependency poisoning so i'd rather not touch web stuff now].
i love hacking unix and i think i'ma go do some of that
next. i'll take a job moving boxes but i don't have the
sunny disposition required for a cashier. i'll work fourteen
hours in a go but i'm NOT a morning person. i feel like
everything i do is either overlooked or parceled up and sold
off for someone else's profit and please give me the
motivation to do something, and money for food and rent.
because with the level of what i am; what i have on tap --
if there's not a good place for me, well, i daresay humanity
is fucked. like, this is not enough? then stuff it; we're
over. never mind that there are certainly better than me out
there; this should be enough, yo. right now i feel like i'm
just pissing away my talent scrounging for food when i could
be doing something interesting. it's not that i'm too proud
to move boxes or some shit [i actually kind of enjoy
physical jobs like that] it just feels like i'm selling my
talents short by taking something simply because it's
available and help. i want to actually do something with
myself not this miserable grind shit


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-27 18:28 [#02639924]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



let's help epicmegatrax find something to do with his life.
yes. that's a good target


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-27 19:20 [#02639925]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



seems like elon wants to import indian people because
they're cheaper this might have something to do with my
shituation


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-12-27 19:31 [#02639926]
Points: 25319 Status: Regular



"There is plenty of us talent, maybe you are not offering
enough," wrote Eben Plettner. "I work Almost 60 hours most
week And have been a lead system's engineer on several
defense projects and yet every time I turn a resume in to
your companies they get rejected. I've been told it's
because of my salary."

"Because wages are too low," replied Joshua Fontanilla.
"Because they are being systematically replaced by
foreigners. You’re going to lose a lot of political
capital on this issue bro."

"I see tech company's laying off tech high skilled tech
workers all over the place the past couple years," wrote
another Musk follower. "I am an engineer of 10 years with
plenty of friends that can't even get an interview after
months and months. Where are you getting this imformation
(sic)?"


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-followe
rs-turn-on-him-after-he-backs-importing-super-talented-engi
neers/ar-AA1wu19F

yeah, yeah. writing music with $$ gear is an aloof
well-to-do leisure activity when you get down to it. my
initial post, this is kind of what i'm saying. guilt over
like.... gosh this is such a waste... i should be... etc...
and then i have this attitude and shits like elon musk are
hammering to import deperate people to undercut the
engineering market even more. then a bunch of assholes
suggesting i go on disability. this is how you piss away
talent america


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2024-12-27 20:00 [#02639929]
Points: 31249 Status: Regular | Show recordbag



LAZY_TITLE


 

offline kei9 from Argentina on 2024-12-29 17:35 [#02640023]
Points: 434 Status: Regular



Capitalism itself is a total waste of our talents and
lives.

But I guess i is easier to serve our masters doing mindless
activities that generate profit for them instead os
adressing our condition.

The only good and noble thing to do, and in which you should
use all your talents, is the adquisition of knwoledge. If
you can go for dissabilty or get an income for doing nothing
then go for it and use your time wisely. Stop wasting it in
delusions of having control over the objective world

Cheeeerz!


 

offline RussellDust on 2024-12-29 19:33 [#02640026]
Points: 16078 Status: Regular



Fiddlers remorse


 


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