the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[spacelordmother]

It's such a crazy mess! I don't have the funds for a real monome atm, so I am stuck trying to get things figured out on my launchpad. It makes it extra fun to be learning having another layer of complexity/potential problems.

I grew up on Keuka Lake, but was away for a long time (last seven years in Seattle) and I just recently moved back to Ithaca. CULTURESHOCK for sure, but it does still feel like home.

sweet man! keuka and ithaca are both really beautiful places.
i've seen some 40h's and 64's go pretty cheap on teh bayz ($200-$300 range). if u can get the LP working good, i don't see why u would need one tho

....and now I have "monome" added to my ebay saved searches. I'm glad that I can check this stuff out, but I wonder how the actual units feel under the hand. The touch response seems a little sticky on a Launchpad.

It all just seems so powerful and mysterious, and the device and its interface is so perfect for that. My head hurts -- both from trying to figure it all out and from these lovely sounds ringing in my ears!

Do you have an actual monome? (maybe we need to get a room? )

[01010111]

i'm starting to believe that it's actually possible for me to have a stable, sane, relatively normal life. i'd thought that was out the window so very long ago, but maybe it'll actually work out.

Awesome!

[jfrey]

i'm starting to believe that it's actually possible for me to have a stable, sane, relatively normal life. i'd thought that was out the window so very long ago, but maybe it'll actually work out.

[coldbrightsunlight]

i'm starting to believe that it's actually possible for me to have a stable, sane, relatively normal life. i'd thought that was out the window so very long ago, but maybe it'll actually work out.

Fuck yeah!

[PetZounds]

I realized tonight how well I'm doing and how content I am with my life.
I'm doing well in school, have awesome friends, and a great girlfriend.
A job in a lab on campus.
A car, an apartment with an awesome roommate.

Things are pretty swell and I need to remind myself of that more often.
Appreciating the little things really helps make everything else more tolerable.
So next time I'm feeling down I'll think about this post.

Now if only I could find the time to play music more often...

Oh, one last thing:
I'm really new here, but I'm really enjoying this community.
I don't post a lot or talk with many people, but it's nice seeing how friendly and cool everyone is.

[weed_killer]

not doing too well in the personal affairs area, but a chance listen to Live/Dead has turned into a 5 day long search into different Dark Star renditions,
which has been a pretty good way to keep my head above water . I blame/thank dubkitty for this newfound gd interest.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

It's such a crazy mess! I don't have the funds for a real monome atm, so I am stuck trying to get things figured out on my launchpad. It makes it extra fun to be learning having another layer of complexity/potential problems.

I grew up on Keuka Lake, but was away for a long time (last seven years in Seattle) and I just recently moved back to Ithaca. CULTURESHOCK for sure, but it does still feel like home.

sweet man! keuka and ithaca are both really beautiful places.
i've seen some 40h's and 64's go pretty cheap on teh bayz ($200-$300 range). if u can get the LP working good, i don't see why u would need one tho

....and now I have "monome" added to my ebay saved searches. I'm glad that I can check this stuff out, but I wonder how the actual units feel under the hand. The touch response seems a little sticky on a Launchpad.

It all just seems so powerful and mysterious, and the device and its interface is so perfect for that. My head hurts -- both from trying to figure it all out and from these lovely sounds ringing in my ears!

Do you have an actual monome? (maybe we need to get a room? )

for $100 or less u relaly can't go wrong w/ the LP. the plus side is you get bigger buttons! (which may/may not take some getting used to the smaller monome buttons) me personally i like having things closer together, easier to get your mash on. the 64 has a great footprint (deskprint?)

i started on a 64 that i got from a girl who lived next to brian and kelli when they were first starting out monome out of their apt in philly. had it for years, it had a super low serial number, like one of the first 25 units they made (not including the initial 40h kits).

i actually got the money for it off some "hail mary" scratch tickets type shit cuz i was broke at the time, but thought it was a really interesting device, even tho i knew very little. the stars aligned for me on that one. the girl told me she had gotten a ton of emails about it, but didn't want to sell it to someone who she thought wasn't going to respect it/use it or just flip it for megabucks (which was the case at the time, cats flipping monomes for like double the price, something that was greatly frowned upon in the monome community, now the demand isn't as high and their are far more units out there today so the used market has come waay down), it struck me as wild, so i had to ask her why she thought i was that person and had agreed to meet w/ me.

i got a sweet deal recently on a 128, so thats what i'm rocking now. for me, the extra buttons are really worthwhile. but u can totally get away w/ a 64 for most everything.

[D.o.S.]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ELQoQ7NZJY[/youtube]

I think I know this man.

Did you get wrongfully accused of breaking edge?

i'm starting to believe that it's actually possible for me to have a stable, sane, relatively normal life. i'd thought that was out the window so very long ago, but maybe it'll actually work out.

[foomanfat]

Spent the evening listening to Young Widows records and diving into this backlog of comics. It was nice.

[Chankgeez]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ELQoQ7NZJY[/youtube]

I think I know this man.

Did you get wrongfully accused of breaking edge?

No. I've never had an edge to break. I think I emerged from the womb with my edge already broken.

I have marginal attachments to the hardcore community. Never really been a great fan of the scene.

[D.o.S.]

not doing too well in the personal affairs area, but a chance listen to Live/Dead has turned into a 5 day long search into different Dark Star renditions,
which has been a pretty good way to keep my head above water . I blame/thank dubkitty for this newfound gd interest.

Live/Dead is pretty much the only essential dead record, in my view. SO GOOD.

[dubkitty]

i found an apartment i really want to rent. i have to wait for the property management people to get back from the weekend before i can nail it down, though.

[weed_killer]

not doing too well in the personal affairs area, but a chance listen to Live/Dead has turned into a 5 day long search into different Dark Star renditions,
which has been a pretty good way to keep my head above water . I blame/thank dubkitty for this newfound gd interest.

Live/Dead is pretty much the only essential dead record, in my view. SO GOOD.

yeah, based on what I've checked out I definitely feel the same way. I prefer the version of the show that's on the Fillmore box set though - more balanced mix, and you get to hear the entire
Mountains of the Moon instead of just the tail end before Dark Star begins.

[watchyourscrew]

band got the first bit of writing about it! have played in groups before but we never got a writeup even if it's a digital magazine.

By the end of the ’90s, riot grrrl may have been written off as a dead trend, but great ideas
have a way of refusing to lie dormant. A full 20 years or so away from its origin, riot grrrl is righteously
reemerging and Austin is not-so-secretly one of the hot spots of the new revolution, thanks in large part to
local favorites Foreign Mothers, Feral Future and incendiary upstarts like New China. Closer in sound to
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Flipper than Bikini Kill, New China embrace cacophony for the
weapon it is, with “OK♥QT” standing out as simply the most efficient and quickly devastating salvo from
their debut Buffet. A blitzkrieg of churning rhythms and skronky anti-riffs, “OK♥QT” is a brilliant single
minute blast that can handily shut up any “girls can’t rock” dipshits still lingering out there.

there's only one woman in the band, but it's still nice am cool with the band being genderqueer.

[psychedelicrelic]

I just realized I passed the 1000th post mark!

It only took me 2 years to achieve what Uncle Grandpa did in less than a week!