Neil Cake

Dream sequences in films... kinda getting a bit tired of them now. They're just unnecessary... "this character is ruminating on this thing..."

Yeh, we know

"In their sleep. So that's somehow more meaningful."

Ok...

And... WAKE with a start

Turns out I have 23 tracks across the streaming services, and it looks like my distributor is finally getting around to my request to have them all removed from Exploitify. I mean Spotify.

banger all the way. In fact, the first 3 tracks should all be bangers (in the context of a 10-12 track album).

Why does Alexa think it has anything I'd be remotely interested in being notified about?

And yet here I am, every day, having to use my voice and energy to tell Alexa to delete whatever these notifications are.

@robbiddulph.bsky.social finally, "boom", Colette's self-portrait

@robbiddulph.bsky.social and, "it's not called anything, it's just a bunny", also by Colette aged 6

@robbiddulph.bsky.social Nancy the dinosaur by Colette, age 6

Lol, ok then, I'll take it

Can I swap the pony for another blowie?

the pedant in me wants to point out that scotch has to be aged for at least 3 years, so unless you've got a stock to be going on with, you've got a long, rainy wait. It can however be tomorrow's vodka.

That Maui song in Moana; pretty good.

The Maui song in Moana 2; complete dogshit

Hey, I've got an idea for Moana 3; the Americans turn Moana's island into a military base, test nuclear weapons nearby and force Moana's descendants to scavenge from a nearby rubbish dump

- make last intro into an ending, and the actual ending follows it

*example of the kinds of notes I write myself in listening sessions

YouTube video by Iwan Amersek Sometimes

something old from The Rapid Cycling...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7H...

YouTube video by Half-Arsed Music Christian Rock Band by Neil Cake (c)2023

My 6 year old was listening to my music on her Alexa.

She said this one is stuck in her head

youtu.be/lv24kXwNP1o?...

She hasn't mentioned the swearing...

I like that sort of thing.

I suppose I could fix my problem just by singing, "sometimes I don't feel like singing..."

It's just that in the moment, I'm thinking in the moment; "I don't feel like singing".

When I get depression I often think about writing a lyric; "I don't feel like singing...", because sometimes I just don't, can't, whatever.

But I never do because, how would I ever be able to sing it?

Props for that GvsB one

Penny Lane, The Beatles obvs

Desolation Row, Bob Dylan

Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant

Dead End Street - The Kinks. Could be a street name or just a description,but still

Lol, but I don't think that's how you ask for it

I'm trying to do this too

Picked this up for a quid yesterday.

I might let it jump to the front of my queue.

Thanks for checking it out. Growin Up's on part 4 of the Not Completely Useless mini-albums, but I haven't finished it yet. The others are Can YOU Play With Me? and Comparing Belly Buttons. They're all there as singles, but collected as playlists.

Half-Arsed Music Half-Arsed Music was a brand I thought of because I wanted to do music under a variety of names. I am Neil Cake. I am also Dig Xaz. I am in The Madonna and the Whore. I am in VIBE. I am in SnakeSkin ...

Ok here's some youtube.com/@half-arsedm...

My neighbour was playing Oasis in his garden last night.

I had to listen cos I was having a whitey on the floor of the back bedroom and couldn't lift my head up to put any music on.

I can confirm; I still think they're shit.

for how long
after a smoke
ave you left a region in a song loopin
and not noticed?

Can anyone suggest for me examples of songs with vocal counter melodies? I'm working on one and would like to see how they might be handled/mixed etc.