The +/- thread!

[luisch]

+Going with my girlfriend to Colombia in juanuary!
+recently left a band I was singing on, and I'm currently dedicating to my own songs. 6 lyrics done in two weeks (and arranging the songs, finishing the structure and blabla)
+Doing quite good at the university
+my Girlfriend is coming to live with me in a few months.


Hope up, fellas. After the night, comes the light.

En qué parte de Colombia vas a estar? Avisa cuando estés por aquí y vamos por unas chelas.

+ Starting a new band

Hecho luigi. no recuerdo bien que parte, pero vamos a visitar muchos lugares!

Para ese entonces voy a estar viviendo en la costa caribe, sí necesitan hospedaje no dudes en avisar!

+ Starting a new band

Nice. I hope the band does well.

Haha yup, we're starting and feeling so n00b (I play bass since 9 years ago) but maybe is my best project at the moment. Is a hybrid between Deftones, QOTSA, Kings of Lion and The Black Keys (I know, haha)

[deftones47]

Sounds like an interesting blend. I'm looking forward to the music!

[BillyNo.9]

-/+/-    I was working on the drive through on my own tonight and a car pulled up after ordering a bottle of water, as I said "here's your water." someone in the car squirted me with a super soaker. I completely lost  my shit and climbed through the drive through window and chased the car, kicking the shit out of it's licence plate. He ran into a dead end to I got in front of him and elbow dropped his bonnet. Now I think I might loose my job in the morning.

[RoyalDeftonicBoy]

+++++ Hammered with buddies since friday in celebration of my birthday LOL
+ Samsung Galaxy Camera thanks to my dad and mom, I can start saying goodbye to Ipod
+ Awesome birthday cake
+ Awesome releases coming up
+ Girlfriend gave me a nice special gift 0:)
- No soccer, no NBA which sucks

[lftpp]

-my 5 month external HDD just failed
--- 3 fucking days of work down the drain
-----got to redo all that, which will cost me three days to vectorize again
+at least 75GB of video done in the last two weeks is on another computer, but still have to sort all the videos that were already sorted out on the HDD that died

FUCK Western Digital

[sing blue silver]

--I'm homeless. Like sleeping on the street homeless. Trying to hide it from friends and family is painful. I'm isolated and have never felt so alone. I've been trying to turn my life around but nobody wants to take a chance on a guy like me and I don't blame them.

[deftones47]

+ Seeing The Dillinger Escape Plan in concert soon
+ Otakon a week after that

And SBS, that really sucks. Try to be positive, though.

[sing blue silver]

And SBS, that really sucks. Try to be positive, though.

Kinda hard. Been trying to find a job for about 2 months now. I'm 100% broke, no place to live, all my things (including my Deftones collection) are in a storage space I can no longer afford. I'm in debt over my head. I have no family and no friends to really help me out. I'm trying but... It's beyond the point where I can just pull up my socks and move on. The woman I love hates me. I have nothing left.

[lostpilot]

SBS, try to stay positive.. karma is karma, something good will come your way.

[luisch]

Head up, SBS, sending you good vibes, amigo.

[lftpp]

sing blue silver stay strong mate!

[digital bath]

@sing blue silver, that sounds really hard man 
is there really no one who can help you?

[deftones86]

-wont see 30 but at least its on my terms

What the fuck? why

Sorry tried to off myself a few weeks ago but I'm better now found out im schizophrenic and just generally a crazy person but better

[luisch]

Sounds like an interesting blend. I'm looking forward to the music!

thank you man, heres our second rehearsal. Im on the bass btw

Padmé Amidala

[DeftonesNZ]

That sounds great man

[deftones47]

Good! I like it! I can hear the Deftones influence. The opening guitar reminds me of Rosemary.

Keep it up!

[luisch]

+ Thumbs up! woah! Thank you guys

[lostpilot]

long post
tl;dr

[spoiler]- It's devastating. I can't make decent music = fullfil the dream of my life that revolves just around making music. Or either I can't make music that is refined, focused and finished, polished. And I want to be a professional.. Yeah sure. Over seven or eight years of music making I wrote, recorded, played, sang and (sometimes) released in album form around 300 tracks. I used to make really shitty music, ambient nonsense where tracks are 9 minutes long and three chords are repeated to death. Then I switched over to post-rock (as "the Picturesque Episodes") and it's forms, wrote some quality music that was produced poorly and a vision that is always rushed kept being released in form of albums. So I never really succeeded..

And only recently (a year or more) I shifted towards electronic music that I love making, beats, bass, all kinds of influences, releasing the music under the name King Sleep. I feel like my progress is infinite from where I started (know that as most of you who are musicians I don't have any kind of musical training schooling) but from all of these tracks.. none of them are polished, none of them are finished. Always a step behind. Always something lacking.

I did play probably around 30 or 40 shows during these years, both with a live rock band, or as one man project, with audience building up but never really breaking out. I am 25 and it feels like I have to start making decisions about the long term future, and it seems that it's about time to give up on all this because music does take time.. time that I could sell to all of the corporate fantasy bullshit. I love music way too much to stop making it, so I would probably record small pieces for myself from time to time.. but it all seems as an opportunity wasted, a dream untrue, tons of bad luck. There's a sense of missing out, when I clearly know that some local musicians just make acid jazz and some other rather bad music and it's glorified. And it will sound narcissistic but I don't think I am getting enough positive encouragment. Music is truly social, isn't it?

I wish there were signs that this road is for me. My music is becoming universal in the sense of meaning and creation and I could be making any kind of music any time soon, because all forms of music are beautiful in their own way. And I just can't seem to write that one song that would open up all of the possibilities in music. It's disappointing. And I can't say that I have a bad life - it's rather good actually, but this one element, it just keeps coming back. It's truly essential to my existence as a human being. It's fucking with my mind to a point where I am slowly driven mad by this lack of leveling up as a person, musician, etc.

What a waste of time..
[/spoiler]

[DeftonesNZ]

I wouldn't worry about it man I've heard your stuff and you've got the talent, don't let the fact you haven't gone pro make you think any different. you have to be extremely fortunate to earn a living off making music it's never a good idea hedge all your bets on it no matter how talented you are. Just establish some solidility in the other areas of your life you'll still be able to make music, you will have less time to spend on it but at the same time you don't have to worry about your stability, it sounds like because you have fully dedicated yourself to being a musician you've been putting pressure on yourself to become successful and it's taking the enjoyment out of it, just take the pressure of yourself and have fun, your music will improve and the success will naturally come with it.

[lostpilot]

Thanks for the good thoughts, man! It's a very discouraging process.. if only you knew what kind of music is popular in Lithuania, you would see the problem:)