Nitsua: Love From Sun to Moon

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

One listen.

Just threw myself in, didn’t try to aim for much beyond trying to describe the song. I think I did alright. Not great, but not bad.

Nitsua’s “Love From Sun to Moon” is from dayscape.

I hope you enjoy.

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A voice calmly announces it will be introducing people. Suddenly percussion cuts in and plays a steady, upbeat beat. Keys come in slowly rolling and filling out some extra space whilst more voice is heard for a brief moment.

The keys keep flowing and the beat keeps going, and it becomes apparent that bass is there too. How long has it been there? Perhaps not too long, but it plays along with and around the keys.

Another voice sings some words, and they seem like key words. They seem to be saying “Love is sweet”. Woodwind drifts in, takes some moments here and there, and disappears, and the singing returns for a moment. Then woodwind returns and flows around, and some rattling percussion has now come in, though perhaps it has been there for a while. Perhaps it just sort of seeped into view, and now it’s here.

The keys seem a bit livelier, though still “low”, and the woodwind seems be following suit. Suddenly there sounds like there’s a bit more space. The bass has pulled away, and the percussion sort of seems to become “choppy” for a brief moment. The bass returns and so does the sung vocals. The vocals take their brief moments to underscore and come through the other instruments.

Suddenly the percussion is left on its own, looping away to a point where it stops and the song ends.

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Ladyhawke Strikes the Pad

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Second time I photographed Ladyhawke and I managed to do a worse job than the first time. Still, I like some of the photos, such as the one below. It’s not great; I blew a lot of the lighting by not thinking, but I think the form and motion still works.

This is my submission into the three hundred-and-sixteenth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Destination: Fun“.

Gigs often are fun. Not always, but often, and so was this one.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Tina

Patti

Ann-Christine aka Leya

John Steiner

Sofia Alves

Anne Sandler

Egídio

Ritva

Egídio is curating this one. The next one is curated by Tina.

I recommend participating in the challenges as they provide a fun way to interpret theme. If not participating, then at least you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1405: Imagine Something

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Imagine something. Imagine that something and imagine it taking you to somewhere else, and how does that all go anyway? Where does it go? How does it lead you to wherever else you feel you’d need to progress to in order to progress to the days and the stars, and everything else that you felt reasonable and unreasonable on a burning paradise that is the last remainder of your success, but really it’s a melting testament to all that you destroyed in order to obtain a brief moment that you, ultimately could not share.

At the same time it stands as a chance to break free, and perhaps make amends whilst accepting that you can’t rebuild all bridges. You may have a second chance, or you ma go down with your excess.

You know, this was meant to be a bit of a rambling about the nature of toxic culture, and obsession, and hype aversion, and instead of going into that I start with something that’s way, way too dramatic for what I want to write.

And now that’s I’ve written that, I’ve derailed my whole thought process. What am I doing? Where am I going with this? Is this truly the path to success? I don’t know. Do I care? I don’t care. I don’t know. Maybe I do.

So I guess what I should really be doing is getting this back on track, but I don’t think I can. I don’t think I can go that way and do it and all that jazz.

Now I’m wasting time, and I’m reclining and resisting the urge to fall asleep. Not enough sleep and that puts me on a precarious edge. I don’t know if I’ll fall off or stay up, but I need to stay up for about three… or rather, seven hours. Cannot fall asleep at such a critical juncture.

I feel useless at the moment. Wrote something dramatic, failed to write something boring, didn’t want the former, can’t get into the latter and now I’m just rambling on into a ditch. Even one of the people that I work with has noticed that I’m feeling useless. Not great. Could be worse, however. AT least I can keep going; I’ve got that going for me. Just need to actually keep on going.

Need to not be typing so loudly also. Just need to keep on pushing on, and I’m nearly there and I’ll get there and continue on into success. I will continue on into the sunrise and find my way to the top of my monument, but with all those people that I want to bring along with me. All those people who supported me along the way.

And hopefully no burning or melting and then trying to rebuild bridges. I don’t want to go through that. I think it’s too much for me right now; especially when I want to be forming bonds and strengthening them.

But you never know with these things, unless you do.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:22:77

Bit of a weird writing.

Written at work.

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Sunrise Wattles

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Wattles as seen in the light of the sunrise. From what I remember, there was enough of a breeze to make capturing this bit of the plant with this particular framing a slight challenge. Had to be patient and had to be quick. I think it worked out.

I hope you enjoy.

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Ready and Outstretched

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

I can’t remember if this rock dove was about to fly, or if it had just landed.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1404: Just a Gap

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

I still need to write about a thing that happened a few weekends ago that I’ve mentioned; actually, I don’t, but I want to, and I should get onto it, and maybe I will a bit later today. I still need to also do a lot of word editing, and that takes time and all those things, and it all swirls on down into a drain upon which the other things find themselves in disarray, and it all scatters and slowly the narrative is lost to time… except in memory.

Sometimes I want to go back to writing all the silly and ridiculous and absurd stuff, and maybe that has been lost to time too. I don’t know, but sometimes I want to go back there, or rather, I want to go back there a lot but it doesn’t happen. Perhaps the years have taken away my ability to write absolute crap. Who knows.

But you can’t get back what once was; if you do, it is then now. It might not be “new”, but the flow of experience and change makes it something somewhat different, even if it is “exactly the same”, and that’s because perspective changes and all that stuff. You get the idea.

I don’t know what I’m going on about, but I do know that I need to be more productive, or rather, I need to actually get back to being productive. I’m not doing it enough, and personally I feel it’s a bit of a shame. Maybe in being productive I can get back to what once was and then make it become is, and from there the journey forward will continue as though it was nothing more than just a gap.

All that being said, sometimes you do have to leave things in the past. People change and grow… or you’d rather hope that people do, or at the very least learn how to stay a way whilst still maturing and becoming a better person, or something… You get the idea. Essentially, perhaps there are things that have left me and perhaps they are better left in the past because bringing them back is not a good idea unless it happens organically.

I can’t force silliness and I can’t force absurdity. I can work with it, but if it doesn’t feel good and right, perhaps it’s not worth working with unless I can find a way to make that sense of not feeling good and right feel good and right.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m just giving up because I’ve had some good fortune in my life, and that is a concern. Still, I try to push on and I try to improve and I keep on going, and hopefully things do switch around, but I also hope that I keep growing and changing, and if that means having to leave some things behind, then so be it. Sometimes that’s the best way forward, and sometimes you have no choice but to accept it.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:51:42

Personally I’m finding this bit of writing appreciably introspective.
It’s not great and I feel it’s a little too repetitive, but it’s touching on something that feels natural.

Written at work.

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Rambling About an Album

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

So I’m listening to a band that I’m not much a fan of, and I’m listening to the latest album and I’m still not won over. Not going to say which band because I don’t feel like starting a fight where people can’t handle the fact that their favourite isn’t above reproach (people tend to get really riled up when someone isn’t into this band as much as they are). Just saying I’m not much a fan of them and this album isn’t making me want to be more of a fan.

Anyway, my understanding is that this album is divisive, and I don’t quite get it, but I think I have an idea as to why.

A lot of people will listen to music for the skill and complexity, and for what is being done in the music. That’s a fair way to approach stuff… so long as you’re still listening to the music, I think. I don’t think it’s fair to just listen to the skill and the technique, though of course there are artists who use music as a way to display their ability and that appeals to some people, but that’s not what I’m looking to ramble about here. Well, the first bit of this paragraph, sort of, but the second bit, no.

This is a band that has played with a bit more complexity and skill in their music in the past, and they still play with that on this album, but it’s different. I find that, often as a band or artist or group, etc., progress in their career, their skill improves and they may get better at articulating what it is that they were doing when they were younger, but it does come at the cost of that energy. It’s refined and perhaps more directed and less wild. Of course this is not a firm rule, but that’s what I find for a lot of groups. Some become more juvenile as they go on, but… yeah. And I think that’s part of why some later career albums aren’t viewed as favourably as earlier career ones. That youthful bite and venom isn’t in everything as it’s reshaped. Of course it also isn’t always reshaped that well, and sometimes it’s abandoned entirely. It can be difficult to stay hungry and still have a bit of fight in you as you get older and see continued success.

So anyway, this band isn’t playing in the most technically complex way. They still have complexity and technicality here, but it’s diminished compared to prior albums, and I think it’s because this is a group that has a firm idea of what is and is not allowable in their music, so rather than some spaces with verbosity, they can’t warrant it and so they’ve held back a bit. They’re servicing the song and giving it a bit more space than usual.

I think too many people are listening to the complexity and not enough to the music, and that’s part of why this album is seen as divisive. And if that’s what they are looking to get out of the music, good on them, but it’s not necessarily the right album to be trying to get that from. Of course once a bit of art enters the public sphere, how people approach it is up to them, but sometimes there is an optimal or appropriate way to approach something. Sometimes you have to engage the work on its terms as otherwise you might miss what is happening.

Most bands change over time, and that’s the way it all goes and all that stuff. Here’s a band still playing to their strengths, and perhaps more so than usual, and it doesn’t click. Fair. But I do think people aren’t listening to the music on this one, and I think that if they were, they’d probably like the album a lot more.

It’s Tool’s Fear Inoculum, by the way.

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Two Shadows

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Obviously there are more shadows here, but the focus is on the two and you get the idea.

I took this as I thought, at this particular location at this point in time, me and my friend’s shadows looked interesting, what with how they stretched out and all that stuff.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s Monochrome Madness for this week.

Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Very Open Space

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Bit of a rough image.
I get why this happens; I get why it’s seen as necessary, but that doesn’t make seeing stuff like this any more pleasant.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1403: Choices

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Right now I have two choices and I’m exercising one of them. Will see what happens. Or won’t. So long as I get this done within a reasonable amount of time, the second choice becomes viable, and viably so.

There are so many choices and there are so many ways to go about following those choices, and we constantly make them and don’t even think about the fact that we make them, and perhaps that is a good thing as, if we thought more about every single choice we made, there’d be more decision paralysis out there and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Some might consider it… a bad thing.

But we make choices all the time and I’ve made one and I’m still making numerous choices right now, and they are forming the words that you currently see, and as this is happening there are so many choices not explored, and it’s generally not something we think about (don’t know why I’m saying that again), but one has to wonder sometimes about the choices not made and where they lead.

Of course there’s the whole regret thing, but I’m thinking about the smaller ones. I’m thinking about the ones that seem to have no impact or matter in the grand scheme of things, and that’s the set of choices I want to think about.

What if I choose to write one word over the one I wrote? Where would that lead? How would that cascade into a series of other things, if it would at all? What about the point at which I actively breathe? Could that have an impact on things in ways that I’d never be able to understand unless I were exploring that branch through a series of things and all that?

I mean, there probably isn’t much of an impact at all and life goes on and nothing changes, but you never know, and sometimes that is what I want to explore… but on a larger scale, of course. You never know with these things.

I guess in a way it’s a way of shedding realities and pathways to follow the one you’re set to so as to go through the most boring of consequences, and that’s okay too. There isn’t much wrong with that; sometimes a more boring life is the best option, but let me tell you, my life is the most boringly exciting thing possible… or maybe it’d be better to put it as boringly awesome.

I do the things that I do and people express some sort of surprise and admiration, but there’s a lot of tedium in the things that I do. You just get used to it and accept it if you keep doing the things that you do, you know? And so I keep on going through with all that is and I keep making decisions I don’t think about, and everything goes the way it goes and I keep following the path that I keep following.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:00:65

A bit more thoughtful than usual, I think.

Written at work.

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