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Wonderful Woman

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Hey I wrote recorded mixed and poasted ten songs this month. that's about ten more songs than I wrote in like the last ten years. Hey!!!!!!! I'm doing it!!!!! (Switching from the me who needs to be noticed to the me who notices) OMG you're doing so good. That's awesome and keep at it and you never know what will become, could be something nice.

Song a day project is very very very fun. Enjoying the pressure on/pressure off of it. (The on pressure: only a day to do it. The off pressure: there is only so much you can accomplish in a single day, so it will is what it is) if you read this and you music? Try a one day song if you want. It is a fun process and a chance to be more improvisatory n less judgemental of self and work!

Updates:

Crushing fear of vulnerability? She is now only a squishing fright.

Need for proof of what I can do? Sated. Proof present and available.

Needed practice using DAW and mixing? Simpley grinding and noticing betterments all the whilst.

The privacy of not many people noticing that I am doing this yet? A gift that I am enjoying for however long it will last.

#now this is blogging

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I got frustrated with myself on this one. It shares a lot of DNA with two TMBG songs, neither of which I had specifically in mind while writing it.

I decided to keep with it anyway and finish the song for the sake of getting it done. I hear my own compositional voice in it loud and clear- but I also hear an unintentional mashup of Why Did You Grow A Beard with the melody from Can't Keep Johnny Down in the relative minor. It makes sense! I've had TMBG's library on shuffle in my ears since I was 14. It's ok to have influences. Nothing new under the sun and all that

If I were to do a version of the song where I had more than one day to do the whole deal I'd have probably tweaked for originality more. But I'm not sure it actually needs that. If I hadn't put this song's DNA out there I don't think it would be directly obvious where the material came from in my head.

Anyway make your thing. It's fine if it resembles a thing you're influenced by. That's often how art works.

Don't pursue originality so hard that you refuse to complete or share anything with clear influences.

K bye

Here you go

#musicians on tumblr #now this is blogging

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not everyone is either butch or femme actually. That's a false dykeotomy.

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i was put on this earth as a reminder that you can always be annoyinger and weirderer

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My Comrade magazine (1987-1994)

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written and recorded in 24h for my Song-A-Day project!

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Here you go

#musicians on tumblr #artists on tumblr #indie music #dokpetra

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Me to me: EAULRGHERGH! bed time? Washing teeth?

Me: yes.

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ph. Danko Maksimovic - Toulouse, France (2024)

Film: Kodak Ultramax 400

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Got startle and jumped back, thought there was a bug on my table!! It was a small thin piece of tape

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i had a fever dream about hrt gummies

[tip me im broke lol]