(October 19, 2016 at 12:52 am)Thena323 Wrote:

(October 18, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Oh, and I'm sittin' on top of the world right now, to quote Howlin' Wolf.

You're on a roll with the Happy, Thump. Stay in the game, sweetie.

You wear it well.

It feels so good for my baseline to again be happy. I know it won't last, but it's been a long few months since I've felt sunshine in my life, and I'm gonna dance in it while the skies are blue. And hopefully when the clouds do come, I'll still be able to sing in the rain. I think what's happening is the recovery roller-coaster is getting near that flat track towards the end of the ride.

I think I'll finish a song I'm working on tonight ... it's got a moody, spacey feel interspersed with heavy riffage, but the harmony is on the happy side of things, and it needs two more parts, I think -- one up-tempo, and a little interlude, I think, of mellow. May as well capture the moment, y'know? Make the thing a roller-coaster itself, and journal my feelings with it.

(October 18, 2016 at 6:13 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Also here is my latest piece of music that I made myself:

i love how the drums kick in around 5:30, tight groove, amps it up a notch or four.

(October 18, 2016 at 2:53 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Feeling like I'm happy with the new song I finished and uploaded a few minutes ago

I can hear a few different ideas I'd play over this -- modal harmonics over the intro, and a rippin' solo or couple of licks in places. Great stuff, Hams -- great stuff.

(October 18, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Jesster Wrote: I am visibly shaking in anger right now. Call me thin-skinned all you want, and maybe I am. I just can't not react to someone mocking me about something very important and personal to my life. I know they are just getting their jollies out of my reaction, but this is the kind of stuff that puts suicidal thoughts in my head. Fuck you.

I'm not sure of the reason for your hurt, but I've found that real life also has an ignore function.

I hope you're able to tune out the assholes and flatface them into silence.

Here's hoping you get back on the good foot, Jess.

(October 19, 2016 at 1:55 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: i love how the drums kick in around 5:30, tight groove, amps it up a notch or four.

And the heavier drums at 6:04?

(October 19, 2016 at 1:59 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I can hear a few different ideas I'd play over this -- modal harmonics over the intro, and a rippin' solo  or couple of licks in places. Great stuff, Hams -- great stuff.

Thank you so much for all your feedback! I'm so glad you are enjoying my music it's only going to encourage me to make more!

In fact... I'm just gonna listen to this on loop for a bit to warm myself up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=hNlS6adF2p4

^^

And then I'll make another song

Happy.

Happy is feeling good and feeling good is a good feeling and a feeling is something and something good be it a feeling or otherwise, all other things being equal, is good.

I'd require further evidence to believe that your happiness is anything but good ^__^

@ Thump

Still listening to that song on loop... I'm gonna switch to this song on loop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0EahgKvEZA

While I play a short Sit and Go tourney of Texas Hold 'Em Poker on my 888 Poker app... and then I'm gonna make that music

Still waiting for 3 folks to join (it's a 10 person SNG)--come on you fuckers, hurry up, I've got a song to fucking make. Yes I know none of you are telepathic and you're not deliberately attempting to try my patience but fuck you I don't wanna spend all day listening to this one Aphex song as awesome as it is!!!

* Edwardo Piet notices that by the time he has finished this post they've joined.

okay nevermind

Pleasantly surprised (but confused) that Music Magpie has paid me the full offer price for every item in a large box of CDs and DVDs I sent them. I was expecting about 75% because in the past they've been very strict on condition and I know for a fact that some of the things I sent in were in less than perfect condition (broken cases/scratched discs etc) and in those cases I was just using them as a convenient disposal method, not expecting them to pay out. Maybe they've changed their policy and have realised that since their slogan could well be 'Music Magpie: guaranteed equivalent to or marginally better than a kick in the teeth' in terms of offer amount, they may as well pay the full offer price regardless of condition for the sake of good (or better) will. Or maybe they've decided that it's more cost-effective not to bother with condition checkers at all because it takes a long time (especially given the above point about the offer price) and just treat it more like a lottery... the way penny booksellers do on amazon; I think that's the approach I'd take if I were in their shoes. Anyway I'm a happy bunny; in full declutter mode that's £40 for a box of space, and made better because they even sent a courier to pick it up free of charge. Now I'm going to have fun on Amazon Music spending that money on re-aquiring some of my favourite tracks from the CDs I've decluttered as single MP3s (and before you ask, when I decluttered the CDs that meant removing their ripped tracks from all my devices as well... can't sell the CD and keep the MP3s of it... it would be, IMO unethical... but that's just me ); no point in keeping an album if you only like one or two songs on it. So this should be fun

Right... my SoundCloud now has a proper URL. It's soundcloud.com/clockwork_honeybadger.

I then realize that's why my posts were no longer showing it because I changed the URL! I edited them now but they'll still not show up properly in the posts where anyone quoted me unless they edit their post... hehe.

Oh well it's worth it to have a proper URL... because soundcloud.com/clockwork_honeybadger -- that's memorable

Also a Google Search of Clockwork Honeybadger will take you there.