Musings 6
Following after
https://www.7cups.com/forum/generalsupport/DiaryEntries_1597/THETAJFTOJSII_303933/
Less unwieldy a title than the last stream of diary entries. It has an origin, I might one day explain. I might do the Vocoroo links on here more often for which it'll mean all the more to me if they get feedback.
Still will be typing as typical on here as well.
Jonathan Davis has an interesting voice I'd like to emulate in karaoke but goodness knows I'm not up to doing a one for one coverage of his lyrics "^_^ *. Like with Usher it's a case of an interesting voice I think I'd like to take cues from even if I'm not up to vocalizing the songwriting they've usually done.
* I'd feel less reluctant with a cleaned version of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udy-Ewxsym8
I can either dare to repeat songs I've already done or seek ones uncovered by me with a questionable regarding for whether I'd want attention or testing my vocalizing in different ways.
When it comes to the latter, I'd be down to try to Jamiroquai's 'Virtual insanity' and Lenny Kravitz's older stuff or -u- i.e. what he might've done for an 'MTV unplugged' event (my main go to strategy).
I'm confident of being at a point where I tried enough songs that I could make a priority listing of those I'd prefer to practice on or use consistently and those which I feel less so about
A part of me wondering if Damon Albarn will be accepting of AI given how fans are fond of Gorillaz lore and multimedia which will make it a prime target for AI takes imo. Also `_` '_' if I have give an honest opinion on, is +75% of the time Jamie Hewlett's input even though anything music related will d--n well have to pass through Albarn.
I'm waiting for someone to make an AI Albarn cover Gorilla Zoe's 'Echo' song and someone say that it goes with what happened in the group's lore -- I remember hearing how for Phase 7/the recent Cracker island stuff there was something about Paula Cracker (who might still be alive and relevant ?) doing inciting some of that ritualistic cult shenanigans out of some kind of vindictiveness ?, `_` though I'm not too sure it'd be in 2D's character to be salty enough to perform Gorilla Zoe's 'Echo' song as from what I understand it was Murdoch who somewhat made her cheat on Stuart (2D).
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Sure, you might say that the above blurb is reflective of how 'terminally online' I am but do understand how I can still output like that even with hobbies like exercising. For me personally it was my past investment in the non-secular which was among one of the most persistently clingy sources for being online (reading up on stuff and such) and that before I got involved with Reddit during the lockdowns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUeIgzPVMw
Might have to cancel/postpone counselling appointment to a later date if I'd mean to try get naturopathic input online or such before then.
Acupuncture for sinuses I'll have to hold off on since the schedule of the particular acupuncturist is usually incompatible with my wage labour schedule expectations.
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Recently "Head over heels" by Tears for fears has fascinated me, both lyrically and instrumentally. I'd be intrepid enough to say that if I was say directing some intimate scene (live action or animated for that matter) that might well go beyond a kiss, I'd opt for that song as background music. Have the synthwave aesthetic of late, tie in as well.
- :(Family fridge) >:| Hth in a household where their aren't allergies to it, do you let on an entire little basket of strawberries so often it nigh-all goes moldy !.
Such a waste.
Since we're at the 2:45 a.m. range we've need to remind ourselves ('self-compassion') how falling into pornography had more to do with the restlessness of being up at this time and (on some implicit level) us seeking a near guarantee sleep inducer ('genitalia exhaustion') more so than h--r--s per se and more importantly just d--n don't linger that way after the currently mainstream YouTube video we're watching.
Even without getting into the specificities of one's mental health issues mayhaps referring to yourself in plural can be cathartic in it's own way.
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Slowly, slowly I'm inching towards time to know https://www.youtube.com/@DanielaAndrade
Tbh I found the audiobook version Margaret Atwood's 'Cat's eye' tedious enough to give up on even though I know it's significant for basically being a 'just fictionalized enough' take on her prepubescent life in 1950's Toronto and I can definitely appreciate that.
I think that Netflix's 'La Primera Vez' ['The first time'] or 'Eva Lasting' as per it's Anglicized title could've been that if the protagonist of 70's Colombia had been half to 2/3 his in show age but instead I got the unappeal of teen drama vibes (albeit with a high production and seeming seriousness of direction and approach) with the first episode of a group of males furtively gawking over a pornography magazine in a setting of an all-boys high school which was finally opening up to the female presenting demographic.
'Benjamin' by Maria Cecilia Zuniga was a nice read for a take on an Hispanic teen intensely introverted enough that you might think that you can read them as somehow non-neurotypical. Goodness knows how the time period setting of that 2012 released book wasn't relevant to the story but it makes me curious to read stories delving on the intrapersonal lives of prepubescents across the globe from decades past.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/highest-rated-books-in-each-country
Cool
Less cool is having a paratha bread, over toasted to a burn.
If there were internationally variant versions of the show 'PEN15' that'd be amusingly efficacious at doing that !.
It's short-sighted an offense to say ~' you're chronically online !. Go outside and touch the grass !' when what winds up making many of us chronically online is the confinement of winter. I say this on a summer day when due to dashed expectations, I wound up staying mainly indoors -_-.
I feel bad and actually worry for the women who are exposed down to underclothes or swimsuit levels of coverage but are posing in evidently wintery outdoors as if they're say skiers or such and not even in the warmth of an outdoors hot tub. The risk of getting sick that way.
When it comes to that sort of enticing imagery.
The term "adult contemporary" is a music genre that primarily targets adult listeners and typically features a softer, melodic sound. It is characterized by its appeal to a mature audience, often focusing on themes of love, relationships, and personal reflection. While adult contemporary music can sometimes overlap with pop music, it generally has a more refined and sophisticated sound compared to mainstream pop. It often includes elements of various genres, such as pop, rock, jazz, and R&B, but with a more subdued and adult-oriented approach. (Response by ChatGPT to a question of definition, I asked)
Compare and contrast 'dad rock' with 'rock' (if that's still even much of a thing at this point :I) and adult contemporary might be that to pop. Me thinking that 'unplugged' and acoustic versions exemplify that better.
Hip-hop has a (non-pun, maturity ?) issue if it still tries to hard to pretend it's on par with 90's stuff b/c it's basically genre producers and fans admitting their age as reflected by them being parents.
and if someone were to say that 'adult contemporary' is pop music with like 'polish,shine and overproduced sounds' than I can see where they're coming from
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Delving into the meaning of 'adult contemporary' music for a next time.
Lest I forget, R&B and soul music and how it's defined being present in hip-hop and not only pop and rock.
+'s: that I'm able to write, that there isn't a workplace uniform or dresscode but I'm aware of what 'corporate casual' is.
"^_^ Feeling a bit undressed as of the moment.
One of those 'reflects possible tension and ripple effects regarding the causes of being an uncle start getting you in the coming months'..like the Slipknot song 'Before I forget'..in some wacky alt-timeline where even if we achieved solarpunk post-scarcity et al, in having to learn to accept what hypothetical kids I have as autonomous individuals with utter freedom as how undergoings and undertakings would sculpt their personalities, value systems, attitude etc, et al..I could see myself being on a spectrum of being like, having the reluctant and weary quasi-fatalism and befuddled steadfast care of Bob Belcher and 'at worst'(?) Atreus's dad era Kratos -- https://youtu.be/CI2NXT7ND_I =u= Ah, that cringe/remorse of my past self hits me