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SCONES TO DIE FOR

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  1. Put out a five song EP of music made with Renoise, my new favorite DAW
  2. I just switched to Renoise recently and love it. It's like the the un-DAW meant for musicians with ADHD. So straight forward (to me at least), uncluttered and geared to creativity. Why didn't I discover the beauty of trackers 20 years ago
  3. I used to see them all the time in thrift stores, pawn shops and Craigslist around Oregon. Wish I'd gotten one. I think Plone used one on those first strummy chords you hear on "On My Bus" and others on their Warp album.
  4. Where I live in Oregon there is weed everywhere. You see fields of it. You smell it. Dispensaries everywhere. Greenhouses. Tall fences, barbed wire enclosures. Legal grows. Illegal grows. Backyard plants. Trimmigrants and people who work full time at legal grows. Sketchy Russian gangsters. LOTS of guns. High per capita dreadlock count. Big water trucks, underground water tanks, specialty soil shops. They sell bongs at the little markets. Everyone I skate with is stoned, usually smoking at the skatepark. If I wanted a toke, an eighth, an ounce, a pound, edibles, cannabis butter - shoot I could probably get anything I want for free. The market is over saturated and a lot of people just give it away. That being said I don’t smoke at all. Not my thing.
  5. This was my local skate shop back in the day in Santa Barbara, though I’d for the most part stopped paying attention to the world of skateboarding by the early ‘90s. I always sucked and skaters got ridiculously good by the early ‘90s A few of Church of Skatan’s/Shorty’s earlier videos had old friends (I guess more like associates since personally I didn’t like some of them haha) from high school. One guy who was a friend filmed many parts of those videos and was a DJ who worked at a local record store, and if I remember correctly an IDM fan. I started skating again a couple years ago and do it as much as I can since I fell in love with a local skatepark her Oregon. I’d never even skated in one before since for the most part they didn’t exist in the ‘80s. Skating transition is now one of my favorite things in life, though in my old age falling hurts REAL BAD haha. But pushing 50 and still doing it, so I’m gonna pat myself on the back. And this is a golden age right now. At least where I live - where there’s 12 skateparks within an hour’s drive and by far the majority of skaters are cool with each other. At least around here. Sorry - long post, reminiscing, too much coffee, Renoise break.
  6. This looks so slick. It's beyond my imagination to be that organized. My studio is developing into a future episode of Hoarders. So cozy looking.
  7. MilkyTracker - a whole 1.6 mb of space on my hard drive. Renoise is in the future but for now I'm having fun with this
  8. I was lusting for cheap analogs but I downloaded a free tracker program instead and now I've seen the light.
  9. I haven’t been around in a minute. How do I get back to my user name Scones to Die For? Last time I used this one George W. Bush was president
  10. Haven’t been on watmm in a minute. Good update.
  11. Some techno from the late '90s by Mark Broom and Dave Hill.
  12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJuu_4SR8-Y
  13. I let someone try it out one night in 1992. The guy was really drunk and fell. He got really belligerent, and I took off rather than searching for it. It was down a hill on a dark street, and I wasn't about to get my ass kicked that night.
  14. I still skate, and I'm turning 40 this summer. I came up skating around 1986. I loved the culture but sucked at skating. I'd fall hard trying to skate ditches, couldn't skate a ramp to save my life, and couldn't even ollie. Bad coordination and no balance unfortunately. But around 1991 I found a G&S wood/fiberglass mini cruiser board from the '70s at a thrift store. It didn't even have a tail and had big soft Road Rider wheels. I loved bombing hills and carving with it, more in the tradition of sidewalk surfing. Tricks never appealed to me, but I loved the acceleration. I used that board to get around town until I tragically lost it. I found a similar one a couple years later, which I still ride 20 years later. Nowadays when the weather gets good I usually cruise around the neighborhood or just up and down my driveway, sometimes setting up cones for slalom. I fell hard a couple days ago, and my knee, hip, ribs, elbow, hands and shoulder got pretty messed up. I'm sore and bruised, but I still went out again today though. My son just turned 9 and rides now. i got him a '70s style board since he was always riding mine. I might have to wear head-to-toe protective gear or something to keep up with him as we get older. I don't have any plans to stop though.
  15. Thanks. I can't stress enough how important it is for someone to get help before it gets to that point. I'll stop here before I start to depress you guys!
  16. The Sapolsky lecture was very enlightening - thanks for posting. I recently lost my best friend to depression . That info is helping make a little more sense of it all.
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