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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I tend to want to learn the history of anything new I’m learning. It helps me to understand by knowing how it evolved. Or I have to know how it works at a fundamental level and build up from there.

    To me those are all practical skills except music theory and are kinda all over the place each requiring time to practice. I’d feel like I was never making progress if I had to split my time 20 ways.

    Instead if I were trying to learn music productionI’d probably focus on one thing at a time as you mention a lot of different expensive software and hardware many of which overlap, multiple DAWs and hardware sequencers. As it is it looks like you are learning more interfaces and less music.

    I’d start with piano and music theory as they are complimentary and add in one DAW and then add in other hardware or instruments. Once I got a foundation I’d add in redundant hardware and software if I felt the need.

    For any fiels having too many options just drains my creativity. Where as if I have to work within limitations I get more creative.

    Anyway good luck with all that.









  • Just a few mild ones. Never swung on anyone but some altercations.

    In highschool I was ready to throw down with a guy in a fancy car who couldn’t find a parking space so he just parked in the middle of a one way parking lot to run into the bank. I yelled at him out my window and he came over to get in my face but when I got out I was like 8 inches taller. We yelled at each other face to face then went on our ways.

    In my mid 20s at a Jesus and Mary Chain reunion show a drunk guy in front of me was double fisting some beers and started spinning around with his arms up splashing everyone. We made eye contact while he was spinning and I flicked him off. He took offense to that and dropped a beer and started pushing me. I was going backwards and reached out and my hand kinda grabbed his throat. His eyes went wide and I’m sure mine did too but before anything more happened some other people were pissed at him too and shoved him. He went flying through the crowd and we didn’t see him again in our section.

    Later that same show a mosh pit broke out and I was on the edge of it. No one seemed pleased this was happening and i had shoved the dudes back in pretty agressively to get them away from me causing at least one of the thrashers to end up on the floor. The dudes in it were swinging extra hard forsomee reason and ended up hitting a chick on the edge of the pit in the face and I think breaking her nose. She was covered in blood at least. That was the last straw and the crowd descended on them. Security came in and broke it up.

    I don’t know what was up with that crowd. I expected a bunch of chill aging hipsters (and it was mostly that) but it seems quite a few people came in with different mind sets. I’ve been to legit hardcore and punk shows with a more polite crowd and where the thrashers weren’t looking to hurt anyone.