yknow even tho by the time i was old enough to need skype was already pretty dead, seeing it get turned into microsoft teams (a piece of software i have hated ever since 2020) makes me really wanna try and mod skype into being usable again

Quote from: Slurpee on April 05, 2025, 02:21:52 PMit's really funny that people got mad at Barry Manilow for singing "I Write the Songs" because they thought he was singing about himself
the first two lines are "I'VE BEEN ALIVE FOREVER, AND I WROTE THE VERY FIRST SONG"
just imagining millions of boomers hearing that and being like "what the"

thats the only barry manilow song I know haha one of my buddies showed it to me

Quote from: Slurpee on April 05, 2025, 02:21:52 PMthe first two lines are "I'VE BEEN ALIVE FOREVER, AND I WROTE THE VERY FIRST SONG"

this could easily be a death grips lyric lmao

I haven't had this much fun listening to an album in like literally over a year

i actually just started reading naruto. it's not like high art or anything but it's a pretty fun read i'm trying to make reading more of a habit of mine

i came across this video today and it really captivated me. i knew there was definitely A famous ddr video of some dude just ruling hard at ddr and i suppose this is it haha. thats a rerecord of his famous routine from like 2005 (crazy how that video is gonna be 20 years old youtube in a couple months!)

i feel like when i see pro level ddr gameplay they just look like they're having a seizure with their feet and holding the bar, i like this vid because that guy is just a genuinely great dancer !

Sorry if i used the wrong word! I have super little experience with actual MIDI software and trackers and the like. I guess when I say preset I mean the preset sounds you'd have on a MIDI keyboard. But like the really shitty one my chapel had for hymns haha.

This is all cool stuff! the only like tracker/midi song i can really think of that I used to listen to alot is that piece of magicmix one that was in the install gentoo video. i used to be really into dorky linux memes when I was like 17 and i guess i still am haha

that song legit rules tho

did people actually listen to midis alot back in the day? i always assumed it was like more of a 50/50 creator listener engineering artists community rather than a substitute for what would one day be MP3

do you guys like corny midi music? I feel like in a lot of electronic music, including my own when I make work, people really try to avoid that "preset" sound, like clean midi pianos and stuff. I've really come around to music that so boldly uses stock midi sounds though!

For a long time I thought the most potent example of this was James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual, which is a super sick record but while I wouldn't say it was being done ironically or disingenuously, it was definitely part of that like 2010-2013 tumblr era 90s nostalgia (stuff like arcane kids bubsy 3d parody comes to mind).

dumpster Clock introduced me to a record called Demons Dance Alone by the Residents and it's really cool! It came out in 2002 so I don't think the production techniques it uses were old or dated enough to be in vogue. I really wonder what the intent was! I really love this record I am gonna link a good song from it and you guys can tell me what you think


Also here's some of that james ferraro record i mentioned

what do u guys think!

     what is up you fucking sluts!!!!     

1080p, 30fps, one camera shot. up to 2.5 minutes

This year's collab is The Room. Everyone must use the below image as the template for their collab. do whatever the hell you want in your room. Don't put any doors on the left or right walls, because it wont make sense when the collab is put together, because all the rooms exist in the same building and stack on top of each other.  You can put a window on the back wall, and anything you want outside.

This is your room. Please decorate it, paint the walls, whatever you want. Animate whatever scene you want to animate. You can do a demonic ritual or a dramatic bedroom scene but don't move the camera! What's going on in the room is up to you, but i'd probably recommend be colourful because it'll look cooler as a whole.

The template is a simple one point perspective image, which you can trace in Flash or the program of your choice.



when the collab is compiled, all the rooms/parts will be put together into a building

Please post if you want to participate. You can start whenever you want. Deadline like 3 days before Clock day.

This jellyclock's collab so pls send all parts to him!

HELL FUCKIN YEA me and my associates all LOVE EVIL BEAN CLOCK bout to go BEANMODE up in this motherfucker

Quote from: VCRClock on April 26, 2024, 12:57:39 PMsometimes when a meeting of minds is really cohesive, the minds involved attribute it to something shared in their background, like people working on Pee-wee's Playhouse growing up on 1950s TV, or a couple of knuckleheads who are the only "weirdos" growing up in a stiflingly conservative rural environment. many such cases

also i think alot of kids i went to school with think they're in such a small tight alt-culture social circle because they're the only weirdos, but in reality it's because they weren't very nice people. i know the whole "nerds v jocks" thing was never strictly true, but it's interesting to me because my school was never rigged like that.

in my last two years of school i noticed the "popular" kids were generally very nice charasmatic people while the weirdos were very very cynical and bitter, and if you hung out with them (like i often did) they'd always talk shit about you behind your back. i'll never forget that during my final year of school, me and my best friend got paired with this like real footballer musclehead kinda guy in one of our classes. obviously it was weird and awkward at first but because I was trying to be friendly we eventually all got on really really well and i still talk to that guy to this day

i think this is a modern experience though. I find it fascinating and wonderful how far you can get in life by just being nice and having good manners about you. my tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt has certainly proved problematic at times but it's won me more goodwill than I think i'll ever know

Quote from: VCRClock on April 26, 2024, 12:57:39 PMI'm always looking at / reading about stuff that was birthed in 20th century pre-internet art scenes, but also recently in particular

sometimes when a meeting of minds is really cohesive, the minds involved attribute it to something shared in their background, like people working on Pee-wee's Playhouse growing up on 1950s TV, or a couple of knuckleheads who are the only "weirdos" growing up in a stiflingly conservative rural environment. many such cases

I think nowadays, everyone's formative experiences on the internet are potentially wildly different; even someone who's your local, socioeconomic, cultural neighbor may have been hanging out in a different internet dive from you, and you won't have been traumatized/aroused by the same things. so I feel like unless you're on a particularly popular trip, local scenes are kind of a hodgepodge, and it often feels more like respecting the different thing your local friends are doing, rather than really being tuned into the same frequency. sigh

but that isn't a totally new thing. I was reading this 70s underground comic book, made at a time when people would move from NYC to San Francisco for the stronger comics scene, and in among all of these comics from stoners and acid-droppers and R. Crumb acolytes etc is some dude drawing the most Prince Valiant-meets-Frazetta long-winded boring lore shit I don't care about, and I'm like "what's he doing here?" But then, who else would've published it?

then there's also like, for example, cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt and Chester Brown who are united by geography and practicing comics, but they're sort of doing different things and might not have gotten so involved with each other if they hadn't all been pre-Internet neighbors?

yeah I don't really know how to get into symbiotic relationships with people who Really Feel what you're doing, I think it's just harder to find kindred spirits the less popular your thing is. But the chances drop to 0 if you don't stay involved with the thing in kind of a public way ig

in ireland, there's a huge rock scene, and a huge rave scene. cities like derry have a great rock scene, and cities like belfast have a huge rave scene. dublin is the only place to kind of have both purely because of it's sheer size! in case you didn't know, of ireland's 7 million people, 2 million live in the greater dublin area

i tend to bounce between derry and belfast alot, and I can tell you one thing from exepriece. ravers don't rock and rockers don't rave. i took one of my frirends who's a proper techno junkie to a noise rock gig and he had probably the worst time ever. they just experience music differently! the problem for me is that my music is kind of a middleground between the two, it's a rock band setting and venue but with nearly entirely electronic sounds. i often look with starry eyes at the alternative scenes of late 2000s toronto or la where acts like crystal castles, the knife, grimes, and m.i.a. ruled the roost!

as a quick aside, crystal castles in particular is interesting because they were very much dance music first, rock second. i don't even think that would work in ireland though, because the rave music that you'll hear pounding out of nightclub doors and shitty cars is just so INTENSE! like we're not as bad as eastern europe but good god we're getting close with just how industrial some of the music you hear in clubs out here is!

i think it's fun to dream about what it'd be like to be a "scene kid" and really be a known name, but in reality, my rural upbringing has given me a real appreication for solitude. even the way i produce music isn't social at all, i spend 100s of hours on my own with headphones on making the music indepedently. boards of canada is a really cool example because they maintain their solitary upbringing was a key part of their sound. while I don't think I can claim quite the same thing, i think my music lacks that weird neo-irony that alot of modern alt electronic music has because of my situation.

a quote i think about alot from george michael in a 1998 interview is "it's not what you have that makes you a star, it's whats missing" that's a pretty heavy quote, but I think it can be applied in a lighter context to mean that whatever you make, even if you doubt it's craft or value, is priceless because no one else would think to make it

Quote from: Slurpee on April 24, 2024, 12:37:14 AMsounds like imposter syndrome

everyone gets that

here is where I would normally put something hilarious like "except for people who know what they're doing" but no, seriously, I've talked it over with all the other hopelessly multitalented lovable geniuses, everybody gets imposter syndrome

I feel like part of it is that I rely heavily on stylish production and the tracker workflow of DAWs like FL Studio for my music, whereas other musicians I know have this seemingly magic ability to conjure up music out of thin air. I should probably just learn to play an instrument properly already!

I haven't had a great experience with art/music circles irl either. A lot of people talk about how finding their local art communities made them feel "seen" and "accepted" but I feel probably the exact opposite. No one has been like outwardly mean to me, but there's also not a huge appreciation for my kind of work in my local area. It often makes me wonder if the problem is where I am, or if the problem is my work in of itself.

I don't mean to sound all like "ooo woe is me", but it's a sharp contrast to the experience I had joining the CC back when I was like 15. I feel like I wouldn't care about art anywhere near as much, or carry the same attitudes to it if it wasn't for this place.

do you guys ever get self conscious about your work? I think the answer for basically everybody on earth is yes, but I've had a weird experience with it recently.

ever since late September I've been recording music for an album. i think it's totally the best music i've made, and it's also the first music to feature me as a performer rather than just a producer. i'm opening for a friend of mine in the city over the summer, so i get to play for half an hour before he comes on. it's literally what i've wanted to do for like a year now: i get to go up there, play my key-tar, drop loud music on stage and rap and sing and generally make a ton of crazy electronic noise!

i feel like i should feel better about it. I've been working on this music for a long time, i have the music i need to perform. i have the skills i need to perform. i have the gear i need to perform. but even though i like the music, i just can't help but feel like it's no good. even though people tell me the music is good, i listen to other electronic acts and i just feel like they're tapped into something I'm not.

i feel like it's hard to like your own work the same way you like someone else's. Even though i'm closer to what i've been working towards than ever, the urge to just throw everything out and start again is very intense lol

i saw a little kid today at the train station who was watching the trains come in and as they were he was reciting back to his ma the model, series, year of manufacture, and tons of other shit about the train. i'm always fascinated by people who find their shit so early haha

i was watching a documentary about frank gehry, the architect recently, and he recounts building houses out of little wooden blocks and shit on his floor when he was a little guy.

did U have like a childhood gift???

do you guys tend to make many friends at work? I hear alot of people talk about their co-workers in a really negative way which is just so strange to me. I love the people I work with, but granted this is still my first job so maybe I'm just lucky haha

hey guys today i will do lots of work for the course i am studying haha after all the deadline is just a week away

this picture is basically how yesterday went but replace the word laundry with course

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

i really like this instrumental alot

Quote from: Slurpee on December 18, 2023, 01:48:19 PMI'm in remission 🥹

i heard the good news on discord, fucking hell yea dog!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AAAAAAAAAA

Quote from: TelephoneClock on December 04, 2023, 10:05:39 PMHi

hi!