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Yeah Bandcamp’s like a distributor backing for a do-it-yourself label, you’re your own label! You can be several labels in fact, lots of people do this, they make a name for different projects because they might be different collaborations or genres of music. Bandcamp’s not there to do it all for you but if you do well, they do well so they do encourage you to go out there and get popular. This is hard! I need to make more stuffs! You should all go to penguinmusic.bandcamp.com and err um like it or something!

Also to be more on topic I will mention sad and happy things in my life. The sad thing: my lovely cat Noot died recently, she had unbeknownst to me a congenital heart defect which she just got to the point where it wasn’t just limiting her but beginning to kill her and it wasn’t fair to extend her life in pain. She lived to be 3 years and a week old which frankly was 3 years longer than anyone could expect with such a defect and she was a lovely soul who deserved a peaceful end so I did the right thing for her. The pain of that was only really settled when I got her ashes home and she’s peacefully at rest in a little chinese pot on my kitchen shelf, at home, and that feels right and I can move on. There will be a new kitty in the new year, because cats are my muse and they give me far more than I can ever repay.

Ok the happy, I’m getting healthier and climbing out of the hole from the strokes and associated stuff from the last year or so and 2020 itself in a weird way helped because the world shut up for a while and got out of my way and so I had the space for a few epiphanies about myself mentally and physically and they weren’t always easy but ultimately fruitful. I’m eating better and walking every day and losing weight. At the same time I’m more than ever aware how neurodiverse I am and I’m trying to find someone I can get a diagnosis for spectrum disorder (you can imagine there’s a bit of a backlog right now). It may only be just for the sake of knowing for sure or there may be useful help. I think that facing some of the issues rather than simply coping and avoiding situations might be more possible with a diagnosis.

The other happy is of course the music. And apologies to @The Hole Got Fixed who is still waiting for a couple of tracks I’ve done nothing with but I’m still learning a complicated synth and reconnecting with just playing piano again and I should be finally getting a groovebox to help complete the bleepboxes I want to use and I’ll have to learn THAT and then I want to connect them all up and make silly noises and record my guitars and stuff over the top of them and see where that takes me. I’ve decided that 2021 is the year of making THE EP at least and looking for my sound and a process that takes me out of conventional songwriting.

Ok that’s about it for now

It’s 11:49pm here in the UK, which means it’s almost Christmas Day! To all those who celebrate, have a very merry time

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Well, my semester ended on the 11th, and since then I have been kind of a recluse.  I’ve only really gone out to hang out 3 times in the last 2 weeks.  I’ve mainly been in my house playing the Ukulele, and watching TV, or going to my job.  I also picked up a gig driving this guy who is staying in my buddy’s Air BNB to work.  I did it on Monday and Tuesday, however, he has been off the last 3 days for Christmas.  Christmas has sort of just happened without much excitement.  No family get together, however, we are having some cousins stay with us on Sunday.

Also, I got my own Ukulele for Christmas, so no more using Father Shears Campbell’s

The Hole Got Fixed said

Oh no, that’s terrible news ewe2. Hope you can remember the good times you had, losing a pet is never easy. 

Yes, absolutely go and try to get a diagnosis. At the very least it will give you a sense of knowing, and it could easily help you a lot. 

I will get a new kitty and I plan to get a diagnosis as part of several New Years resolutions.

Oh god, I’d totally forgotten about them. Now I’ve got a drum kit all working, let me know if you want any drums for that, or anything (that goes for other people too, though I can’t guarantee the timeliness)*

I can’t remember what you sent, I did get them into Reaper (which I encourage you to learn, because I’m working with that for everything now), it was just basic guitar tracks wasn’t it and I was supposed to play lead electric triangle or something?

*this reminds me, we should revive the BB Band thread. Write an original, get everyone to contribute something, etc… Would be a grand time.
 

I’d like to see you and @Dark Overlord and @Beatlebug  do something, get the meat of it down and I will be happy to contribute some bass and keyboards and help out with mixing but I don’t want to push people into things, I felt I was being a bit McCartney last time out of enthusiasm and worry that it might be inhibiting the shyer members of our forum from joining in.