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Update 5: All words in- the work commences! · MAKE 100: The Album Where You Impose Your Lyrics On Me Greetings, fellow wordsmiths!Everyone's words are in and I'm formally beginning the process of writing the songs. Wow... some of you had some real doozies!I've got to say, this is already more fun tha...

Kickstarter Update #5: All Words Are In, The Work Commences!

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I am starting to execute on "DON'T YOU PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH" (the album where the fans chose the words I have to use in the songs) and I am one verse in and I have already written the most stupid-but-fun shit of my life

Like, put-me-out-pasture level of lyrics but it feels so good

100% this. There has to be some kind of an option for "I sincerely like person X's OG content but they also RT every mention and funny thing they see 200+ times an hour"

Lately I've been really into gambling on predictive markets (attempting to import goods to the USA and guessing what the tariffs will be when they arrive)

Seeing people different from you being completely fucking ordinary & everyday. Folks in rural areas only see clips on social of extreme things occurring in cities. You need that everyday experience of "hey there's just some guy eating lunch on the bench. good for him"

Troubleseekers (Official Soundtrack), by Downupright 13 track album

Looking for some good ambient work-music to help pass the rest of your Friday? The Troubleseekers OST is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp, and great vibe-setting music for losing yourself in some computer work for an hour :)

downupright.bandcamp.com/album/troubl...

Hello! My DJing days are behind me (almost entirely focused on production now) and I am a bit over-discorded, but happy to follow you here and see what you post <3

The backer-provided words (that I must use in the album's lyrics) are starting to come in on Kickstarter, and it's such providence. They all sync up. It's like you all worked together.

The clouds parted and I heard the choir and all the rhymes are weird and RIGHT THERE.

A selfie of Bill smiling, personally think it's a pretty cute one :3

Felt cute baby!!

i myself would enjoy a list of names discovered in the files, sung over the beat of the chorus of Mambo no 5

I can kinda already see it!!

it probably sounds like I'm joking but I am dead serious! The devil's in the details and when you hear it you know!

Listening to some minimal house / minimal techno today and i just love humans & music so much. love to notice:

"this is the exact same note repeated 32 times and it gets old and boring fast"

vs

"this is the exact same note repeated 32 times and it's brilliant & transformative"

hype based economy. vibes based economy. "wait look over here instead" based economy. fuckin peekaboo-ass-object-impermance-ass based economy

Do you have a go-to song for when you're down?

does jk rowling know that in the popular Hasbro IP "Transformers", cars & trucks can freely turn into people and back

age verification? ,8,1

I gotta put Rogan second behind Musk, Altman is also up there- to be fair he's mastered the art of just inventing science fiction in real time for free press.

Zuck has a horrible track record with his Big Ideas, but he doesn't pretend to be as brilliant as the others

The most upside down bill I've ever seen was in 2002, when a then-unknown Queens of the Stone Age opened for Zwan (who would break up just a few shows later)

fair enough, heh. point conceded

and to that second point, I already see this so bad in science journalism already. popular mechanics and science always reporting "wow scientist sends message back in time" and you read it and it's just like one ambiguous reading of one particle that can't be replicated

I'm definitely aligned with you about the thing where this doesn't repurpose otherwise wasted GPUs (and in fact needs all new most expensive chips ever) but in regards to the second question, misunderstanding quantum gives you shit like time travel and FTL communications

Honestly think quantum might be the worst one yet because 10 minutes on wikipedia will make you think about how time travel is just around the corner

I'm calling my shot early- it's gonna be "quantum".

✅ sounds futuristic like it is out of sci-fi
✅ pain in the ass to actually understand so you can say whatever you want about it
✅ does do some incredibly neat shit, so easy to claim it will do lots of other shit it doesn't

legitimate q (not ironic) for those who are closer to the beat on the epstein files: is the presence of the equals sign "=" throughout multiple words, in even in short emails, a side effect of some way that these files were stored (e.g. line breaks), or is it an odd and persistent real typo?

idle thought for the day: i personally feel that bizkit's "Break Stuff" has lost its undisputed 25 year status as the best general purpose "i am having such a shitty day" soundtrack, for me, to 21 Savage and GloRilla's "DOG 💲HIT".

if you are having a crappy one it helps to just yell DAWG SHIT loud!

woo stretch goal hit. i love you all much <3

this albums gonna be a wild ride

MAKE 100: The Album Where You Impose Your Lyrics On Me "DON'T YOU PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH" is Downupright's new audience-involvement experiment where backers supply the words for the songs.

One day left, and a SINGLE BACKER of ANY TIER away from the $500 stretch goal and a nice, smooth finish.

Thanks to everybody who's backed and helped along the way! This is gonna be one strange but fun album!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dow...

"Big Girls Don't Cry" by frankie and the seasons.

the moment of the falsetto "they don't, a CRY-EYE-EYE-EYE" has been nails on a chalkboard to me ever since I was a toddler and has never landed well once

is the latter a shout-out to Once Was Willem