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  1. Cassettes are a pain in the ass to record. I'm more of a vinyl guy, anyway, and I think it would be really cool to hear that album on a vinyl record. I don't care what's "hip" in the "scene" these days, it's easier to just pay someone to make records for me rather than buying a ton of blank cassettes, recording them all, and then printing out the J-cards and the labels.

    Vaporwave is about more than that. It's about consumerism. It's about aesthetics.

    I care about vaporwave and neither does the person who made the album. I just care about the music. Consumerism has nothing to do with art and "aesthetics" is just a word used for art that relies on its image instead of its inherent quality. I'm not trying to argue with you or attack your tastes, it's just that none of that appeals to my taste.

  2. I'm very happy that his suffering is over. He was not a happy cat in the months preceding his death. He had so many problems going on that I just didn't know what to do. Even the vetrinarian couldn't figure out that was going on. I tried to make him happy, but there wasn't much I could do.

  3. Cassettes are a pain in the ass to record. I'm more of a vinyl guy, anyway, and I think it would be really cool to hear that album on a vinyl record. I don't care what's "hip" in the "scene" these days, it's easier to just pay someone to make records for me rather than buying a ton of blank cassettes, recording them all, and then printing out the J-cards and the labels.

  4. My friend's vaporwave album is legitimately better than any vaporwave I've heard. Go here if you want your proof. I wish vaporwave actually were all as good as this shit.

    pretty damn good - vaporwavers would dig this, sounds like a good "mallsoft" release

    I'm thinking about putting it on vinyl as the first physical release from my new marienhaus quasi-label. I need to save up a bit more money first, though. I'm not sure what mallsoft is, but I think it's some great ambient music, vaporwave or not. Unfortunately my friend who made it doesn't like it as much as I do.

  5. If you think you have it bad with electronic music, you don't even know what post-industrial fans like myself have to go through. I've only met two other people who listen to my favorite artists. Nobody has any interest in that music these days. Thank god I at least know someone who listens to Autechre, or I wouldn't be able to take it anymore.

     

    I've thought about making a prilgrimage to Heaven Street Records in Brooklyn, but I don't have money for records.

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    Please keep the politics discussion somewhere else come on, this isn't the thread for that

     

    my current fwp is I really fucked up the last semester of college and I might have just set myself back a whole year

    You'll get there.... what exactly was your fuckup?

     

     

    failing a fuckload of courses lel, was doing just fine, getting grades in the 5-7 out of 10 range till last semester, when I had a couple personal problems (nothing really important but I'm a bit of a pussy) and failed way too many courses. Lesson learned though, this was a nice wake up call

     

    That happened to me in my junior and senior years of high school. I would get depressed and skip classes to take long walks outside when I didn't feel like being near other people. And now I have to take classes at the community college here to get my GPA up.

  7. Only because I don't know where else to be angry about this

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMIX90-594

    It baffles me when Muslim immigrants choose to go to Europe because they hate their country so much, and then get angry because Euope isn't their country. There must not be an Arabic tranlation for "beggers can't be choosers." Seriously, how can people who have experienced war and destruction and sacrificed everything for their own safety and the safety of their families be so offended by such dumb bullshit? Like when Brian Eno had to un-release one of his tracks because it had a part of the Qur'an in it. That's the sort of thing that even the most extreme first-world SJWs would have a hard time being offended by, and third-world immigrants surely must have bigger problems than that. You don't see Tibetan refugees in India protesting and refusing aid because they're being helped by Sikhs instead of Buddhists. That's just unbelievable. If you go to someone for help because nobody else wants to help you, you shouldn't expect them to change their entire culture and society just for your own comfort.

  8. I think part of the problem is that I never have more than one character. Everything I've ever written has only had one central character and their thoughts and perceptions of their surroundings. I just don't know how to introduce a second character and still have it make sense. My antagonist is always just the universe, basically all of the character's surroundings. That makes it kind of hard for a complex plot to develop, I guess.

     

    Well, now that I noticed what the problem is, I can start working to fix it.

  9. I think the problem is that I usually don't have an ending, or even a plot, decided when I start writing. I just write out whatever my thoughts are, and they usually don't go anywhere, which I think is probably a reflection of how my life is right now. I have tried writing something that already had an ending in mind, but even that usually fails because I can't figure out how to get from the beginning to the ending.

  10. Yeah maybe he should start a new genre, one page outlines, otherwise retitled short short stories. Although lazy people of yore already jumped on the back of an existing genre, calling their short descriptive pieces, poetry.

     

    So maybe you're a poet but didn't know it. heh ..

    I do write poetry more often than stories, so maybe that's why I can never get far. I always write my stories as if they're prose poetry, which gets annoying because sometimes all I want to do is write like a normal person (or at least at a normal pace).

     

     

    Drillkicker: Ursula le Guin is offering some writing advice right now, you could even email her and ask her directly for help if you so desire: http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/author/ursulakleguin/

     

    Yeah maybe he should start a new genre, one page outlines, otherwise retitled short short stories. Although lazy people of yore already jumped on the back of an existing genre, calling their short descriptive pieces, poetry.

     

    So maybe you're a poet but didn't know it. heh ..

     

    Stories two page or less in length are referred to as flash fiction and is indeed a genre :mu-ziq:

     

    Also some poems can be so long as to fill an entire book (or books) by themselves: i.e. Divine Comedy :cerious:

     

    Also you smell

    Oh yeah I forgot about flash fiction. I guess that's just what I do, then. I can never get past the two page hurdle. Still, I'd like to be able to write a novel or something one day

  11. I've been getting much better at writing lately, but I also have a lot of trouble doing it for more than an hour or so. I get really inspired, put all of my soul into a few paragraphs, and then I'm done with all of the ideas I had. I wish I could write less densely so I could make developed stories, but that unfortunately just isn't how it works for me. I need help.

  12. If you want to write the next Great American Novel, you need to hit rock bottom with krokodil in order to have that gritty, worldly experience that you struggled to overcome. You will know true pain and yet also true love and when you get on that motorcycle on 3AM on meth, you're living life in the fast lane playing by nobody's rules, man. Go to an old school diner with a pack of cigs rolled up in your sleeve and call the waitress "honey". She'll see the world weariness in your eyes and try to fix you. It's like this every night. Small town after small town and nowhere to go. Everywhere is nowhere when you're a delicate genius teetering on the brink of destruction. When you ride away on that motorcycle and don't look back, the waitress will step outside and watch you leave, wondering about what an exciting dangerous life she could have lived instead.

     

    Krokodil

    Great Russian Novel, you mean.

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    Lots of people have suggested I give replica a listen

    Yeah, that's definitely a 'safe' beginners OPN album. If you can get past the super noisy intro (which actually works quite nicely as a comparison/segue to the next track desipte the fact I don't usually like noise artists) Returnal is grand too (was actually my first OPN purchase)

     

    I'd say it's all about Rifts 4 beginners

     

    Rifts is definitely the easy train way to get into OPN - great melodies, lush 70's vibe, non-repetitive for the most part, good range of styles to pick from

     

    Ummm...

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