Tag: music

Tilly / Lounge / Podcast / Receipts

Here is a bunch of updates on a variety of topics:

NEW CAT

Please meet Tilly, aka Ensign Sylvia Tilly. She’s about 6 months old and perfect in every way.

A small orange tabby standing on her hind legs in front of a mirror
a small orange tabby cat on a bad, turning around to look at you with her very big eyes
a small orange tabby cat relaxing on a towel on top of a bed
a small orange tabby kitten sleepin on a towel

OLD MUSIC

I got a really nice email the other day asking if I was the same person who used to post mp3s of lounge covers, and were they still on the internet somewhere. Yes I am and NO they were not. So I made a little website for them so they could download the one they wanted. Here is the whygodwhy lounge. I would like to give a shout-out to backing up one’s files, it’ll only took me about 10 minutes to go from “Jesus fuck, do I even have those files anymore” to “Yay let’s make a lil website for them.” I haven’t gone back and listened to any of these but I’m wondering if it might be fun to record new versions of a few of them, now that I have actual music recording ability.

NEW MUSIC

Speaking of which still uploading episodes of the podcast. Experimenting with not just uploading the music but also talking about my ~process in the episodes. Still tinkering with the format; not sure how successful it is. Still fun for me, in any case.

MORE RECEIPTS

Would you like to see some more recent drawings, OK here you go.

pencil drawings of two receipts
pencils drawings of two receipts
pencil drawings of 2 receipts, one of which is clearly Kohl's

The end.

literally how is a podcast

Last year I recorded and released 3 EPs and I learned a lot about making & producing music but the whole time I kept getting frustrated by how much I don’t know/didn’t understand about mixing & EQ’ing music. (My experience has been that it’s the kind of thing that is easy to do mediocre but difficult to do even slightly better than mediocre.)

So this year I was like: I’m gonna learn and I’m gonna get better, but because of how my brain works I knew that I had to have a framework/set of constraints in place to force myself to accomplish mini-goals, or I wouldn’t make good progress on the main goal. This is a VERY normal way to go through life.

the cover image for the literally how podcast

So I have this podcast called literally how, in which I post a new song every week, but the podcast is not the point. The point is that I am writing, recording, and mixing 1 new song every week, (and also doing a lot of reading/tutorial-watching along the way) and then releasing the song as a podcast episode as a form of accountability. And there’s an attendant blog where I talk through what I think worked, didn’t work, where I got frustrated, where I learned something, etc.

And so hopefully at some point in the future it’ll be possible to see that I’ve made progress, or at least trained my ear so that when I listen to older stuff I can hear the things I would do differently with all knowledge I have (hopefully) accumulated by that point. Again, all very normal.

So that’s like that. I have a podcast, but really I have a framework for learning things.

Hopefully I have undersold this enough. If for some reason this sounds interesting, you can find it in many of the usual podcasts places, such as apple, google, pocketcasts, and stitcher. (Not spotify though! They said this podcast is “in violation of their content policies”, which I think is code for “you have to upload music as an album because podcasts are for talking.” So, whatever, they suck, everyone knows it, who cares, not me.)

Reasons to listenReasons to not listen
Short episodes (<5 minutes)Who cares
Love 2 support the artsAlready so many podcasts
Absolutely fascinated by this processWow good luck with your lil “project”
Bored while waiting in line at bankOnly like bad music, sorry