Audioblysk

You have the part, do it yoself and save major monz.

Yeah, and at this point, it's on her. I've come to the point where I have told her 'I cannot love you FOR you, you have to love yourself first and foremost' I'm a pretty stable person and I feel lately that it's starting to effect me as a person how much insecurities I have to reinforce/convince otherwise with her. It's all about her lately, and if she's not happy, I'm either being an ass by not consoling, or becoming depressed with taking on someone elses' problems.

Contemplating breaking up with girlfriend if she can't learn to stop blaming me for her problems/ taking problems out on me. It's a shitty feeling, but I really gotta do what I have to do.

Nice setup! What's on the rack there? I can see my avatar on your laptop. I feel honored.

I will have to muck around with it today. I have never really tried to get a very linear EQ like that, mine are always very rounded.

DJ Rephlex is still spinning the new record, said it needs more vinyl pop and fans don't deserve music, or MP3 Downloads cuz they won't make other people buy music. New wisp will be released on BetaMax, limited to 35 copies. Ultra rare, Ultra REPHLEX. Pre-order for 2016 when the Grant will get the tapes from distribution.

this is going to be a complete newb question. BUT, HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET SUCH A STRAIGHT EQ on EQ8? I know I'm going to get laughed at but I have been wanting to do that for a long while.

way to take things too seriously?

You heard me...

The kind of chick I can say I have never had sex with is the way I drink my coffee - Black. French press or perc coffee is always the best IMO, captures the most of the essential oils (^^^not saying I wouldn't, but it's just never been in the cards - it would be a night to remember, ethnicity is the spice of life... but I digress in parenthesis) I recently pitched caffeine in general over the past few months, I used to be the roaster and part-time baker for a coffee roasting company almost a year ago and I'd drink at least 4 shots of really nice espresso a day in various mediums... now it gets me pretty damn spun if I try some. No wonder I was such a dick to everyone when I was towards the end of shift.

so you're consuming aspartame then? I don't know why people think *diet* stuff is healthier when in fact it's worse. Maby you were simply unaware of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Diet Coke™ - IngredientsCarbonated Water High Fructose Corn Syrup Caramel Color Phosphoric Acid Natural Flavors Caffeine Aspartame (NutraSweet) Potassium Benzoate Citric acid sounds lovely!

Philosophy exam- Just write WHY? and you get 93.3% What are you doing for your Masters degree chenGOD?

Good post. Seeing the way he explodes in interviews (Sway!) I wonder whether he deep down sees his limits (being a good producer, but better off in the margins -producing- and not in the forefront-rapping), but is still in some sort of epic denial. I mean, if he really didnt know his limits, there wouldn't be an emotional need to explode, right? I'd assume he sees/knows/understands deep down, but still hasn't accepted it emotionally. Well, it takes big amounts of narcissism to be some big artist, I guess. He's like a living soap opera. He's doomed regardless of what he does. I think he's said "fuck it" and that's what fuels the arrogance, trolling, nonsensical artistic efforts, everything. I can't blame him. I mean, if one is trying to be the most important artist in 2013 or whatever you have to meet some insane standards. Yeezus was very calculated - it wasn't bloated with filler - just ten tracks, it had anti-elaborate artwork, and to his credit he sought out producers who were hardly safe: arca, hudmo, evian christ, gesaffelstein. So basically his art is honed but his persona is oddly authentic, which is why I think it's so fucking off-putting in many ways. It's an arguable record but it's not derivative and smarmy like so many other highly ranked 2013 albums: arcade fire, vampire weekend, chvrches, etc. @ Audioblysk I think you're right to a large degree and I wonder about this too, but my main point of disagreement is that I can't put this all on Kanye. For example, Jay-Z is a far more egregious out of touch bullshit musician when it comes to his ethos. That whole Samsung endorsement that he tried to turn into some sorta anti-establishment quasi-DIY nonsense (#newrules lol) was an absolute joke. Kanye declared Bush doesn't care about black people. Jay-Z made lame t-shirts for profit during the Occupy movement. Both are incredibly ignorant but the former was at least naive and sincere. And the press is the core of the issue. So many far less talented, far more lyrically questionable artists are acclaimed as much as Kanye yet never get the same faux controversy attached. SPIN will run articles about Danny Brown all day but then have op-eds questioning Lorde and Macklemore as "entitled and white" because they criticize hip-hop's obsession with material wealth while being hip-hop fans. Meanwhile, Pitchfork fucking had R. Kelly as their main festival act. Now, I'm not trying to rip on anyone here, I'm just saying Kanye is an easy target for a very lazy and skewed media to jump on. I agree with both of your sentiments. My opinion was mostly from just picking apart his Sway interview. I actually liked some of Yeezus for what it was and have enjoyed some of his past stuff and production overall. It's all pretty ridiculous in modern popular music from an outsider perspective. These guys basically put themselves into a character to sell records for companies in hopes to get rich. It's hard for me to take any of the stuff I see/hear from these clowns seriously. I feel like once they get out of public eye, they just sigh heavily, question their existence, look at their ridiculous amount of tattoos that mean nothing to them, look at their bank account, sigh again, and then bury their face in hedonism and ego to compensate for the fact that everyone sees them as a Bojangles who needs to perform and act the way their marketing/label portrays them. I don't blame them. If someone gave me buko bucks to act like a moron and have people eat it up, the ego inside me jumps at the notion... BTW joshuatx, your avatar/user title combo is ace.

To be honest, I don't find the album to be that bad, his rapping is definitely the worst part. I feel that this guy is all talk and no game. He can make some really cool sampled beats as shown in his albums and others that he produced. But he stopped being able to rap years ago. Now he sounds like a pissed off and poor imitation of Saul Williams trying to troll or inform people of things that are fucked up in this world that we all know about, and have known about for decades. I love hearing a multi-millionare call themselves a slave, god, and genius, all in one album... You want to not be a slave? - start your own record label, start your own clothing line, decline offers from corporations and do your own fucking thing. The amount of pussiness I hear when he starts whining about how he's an amazing artist and that he needs a fucking Medici-type family to back his art before he is 'marginalized' and 'out of his moment' makes me think of the game of thrones line - "Any man who must say 'I am the King' is no true king" - Real art speaks for itself and a real artist knows that. If financial/popular success dictated 'real' creativity, this world would be devoid of most creativity IMO. Kanye or Yeezus needs to pick up his big-boy pants and take his popularity with his heaps of money and put it where his mouth is if he really wants to be the next big thing. I don't think he has the balls, thus the simulacrum of Yeezus.

Got a 22.5% raise at a business dinner, plus a 10% bonus. Also, finalized my investment to become a 3.33% owner in the company with its expansion on the way this coming spring. Not much of an owner but we should be seeing at least 25% expansion on a business that already makes $500k a year in profit. My math tells me that I am about to start making first world money.

That was hard to watch for the most part. I am still not fully convinced if it's an act... it seems real, but I have a hard time believing that someone who thinks about themselves like that is 100% serious. I wish sway woulda taken off the head-wrap and just knocked his ass out. Woulda been hood as fuck. Poor Sway, it'd be a shit feeling to have someone say you're nothing and your hard work isn't a good as theirs on your own talk show.

Wow... his music has turned into absolute garbage. He's 'culture' though, so there's that...

At my work, I have to catalog various bits of cannabis and do a bunch of photography for websites/inventory/the magazine my boss owns The camera my work lets me use is badass. After a day of fucking about with lighting and macro settings/lenses I was able to photograph the straight trichomes of the stuff. Pretty neat, and quite IDM to boot if I may say so, it's pretty alien up close. Mine aren't nearly as good as the ones I have seen on the net, but I like em'.

I remember a Louis CK joke where he said that people NYC, contrary to popular belief, will hold the door for you or say thanks if you held it for them, the reason they'll get pissed is that you aren't quick and snappy about it. So it's more like "Hurry the fuck up I'm holding the door for you asshole." On the contrary, there are rural and remote parts of the U.S. where everyone really is really nice and really slow about everything. Like, I swear to god, every old Texan I've met literally says "Well, I tell ya," and like adjust their hat or pull their pants up, or drink a beer or whatever, then proceed to spend 5 minutes talking about something a normal person would conclude in 30 seconds or less. South Carolina was worse than Texas with that for me. I kept putting on my headphones to enjoy the music by the lake and this old couple proceeded to rape my ears with some 'long story short' style assault. Everywhere I went I felt like people wanted to talk to me... and as assuring and esteem boosting as it is to have people say hi and other niceties, it's reeeaaallly annoying to hear about peoples day that you don't even know in real life... let alone whatever anecdote they with to share. As a Pacific Northwestern-er, you don't even make eye contact out here without looking like a rapist or a psycho, its really quite odd. Makes initiating a conversation with a lady pretty hard.