I have theme songs that I sing for my cats. The lyrics are just "meow meow meow" but they understand that the melodies belong to them. It must feel pretty queer to hear a short melody in the next room and have to stop whatever you're doing because it's your own theme music. Cat is probably "fuck, gotta go everyone. Some asshole is singing the song of my people."

I suppose if you're in another country your national anthem becomes your theme music. Do they sing in a negative tone if they hate your country? Is it a bad omen if they refuse to sing your anthem entirely?

I just got back from Colorado, took a few days off from everything drive out to look at houses. The bf and myself want to move into a property just south of Uncompahgre Peak, middle of nowhere. It's a little remote. There's no road maintenance or mail delivery when it snows. Everything runs on propane, we need to put in a solar array. 30+ achres to farm. I'm learning how to pickle foods out of necessity, I'm stoked.

That's all. I really just wanted to talk about my cats but worked in some life details. You have been hoodwinked.

I know I said I was gonna focus on making new music but I started modding Stardew again. It's my first time playing the game with cheats, I'm running around my marijuana farm with +12 speed and infinite money. I almost completed the community center in one season. I'm debating loading in a polygamy mod so I can mate with every villager instead of just one. I also turned all the bachelors into girls. My farm could be a glorified lesbian marijuana harem.

I've been doing that instead of working on Kindness. I think instead of finishing that track I'll just delete the midi from the song, use the same general melody guidelines and recycle the drum kit. Maybe we'll see comparable devotion to this new song file that I have for Stardew but I'm not optimistic.

edit: four hours later she uploads the finished version of the song because this post was too real.

Here are some things I find nice. Funny story, I listen to mostly rock, jazz, and metal. Not drum & bass. I really don't listen to much drum and bass at all. I'm a total phony.

I just got terminated from my job for insubordination.

I currently have what my brother calls a good pile of "fuck you money." It's when you save up enough to money to give your boss the middle finger and leave a job on the spot. I didn't quit though, I refused to do what they asked. I loved my plant beds and put lots of effort into them. I plan beds so that they flower all year. I work the soil so that they foster ornamental cultivars as if they were natural. I'm an artist that calls herself a horticulturalist. I've given that company some of the best work of my life and in response to Covid-19, they told me to just pull weeds. I had recently acquired about 100 uprooted plants and decided to take a break from pulling weeds to make some new beds on campus. These poor babies needed a new home, their roots were all sad and damaged. When they noticed me going ham moving all the plants they told me to stop and I said "nope."

After a few hours of trying to get some work done and throwing words back and forth they finally "terminated" me. Silly reason to lose my job but I'm kind of glad to get out of there. Corporate has taught me that I need to surround myself with similar minded people. I need to be surrounded by people that are passionate about what they do. Management at a place like that is a joke. It's a board of people with huge egos that know absolutely nothing about what they are in charge of. In all my 15 years of working for estate landscaping companies in the Hamptons, I've never had a manicured yuppy neck tie tell me to "just pull weeds." That's like telling a police officer to just stop jay walkers. Yawn.

This isn't a sob story. I'm hella excited to start writing music with my free time. I notice someone front paged my last two tracks so I got a handful of new followers and some steam going here. I'm going to leave this link to my bandcamp page where you can choose to purchase my latest album "2Q4U." I have hardcopies as well so feel free to grab one of those but be warned, I never figured out how to modify the shipping cost. A hard copy is $20 so buy digital if you feel like supporting me on a budget. You can also download all the tracks from Newgrounds for free, check out my previous blog for quick hyperlinks to songs you want. I'd rather people download my stuff for free and listen to it in their free time than force ya'll to pay for this crap.

Much love,

Cory F MacNiven

https://quarl.bandcamp.com/

I've decided to upload updated versions of songs from my new album "2q4u" to newgrounds. I'd rather people hear them then profitlessly sit on them without sales. If you feel like tossing me some cash for these tracks: https://quarl.bandcamp.com/album/2q4u.

Ordered below are the songs I changed and the changes I remember making for the album:

String Puller - I added a few samples of strings being pulled. Made the bass louder. Pitch bent a couple of notes. Upped the amplification on the slap bass trying to make it more noticeable.

The Meaning of Life Is Paradox - Black key arpeggio at the start now has a few naturals added to it for added stank. The Rhodes key in the beginning has some delay, also snuck in an automation for it at 3:11. Bass is a little louder? I added a description for it on newgrounds.

Assembly Lines - This one has an intro now and a little more sub bass :D

Hello I am Quarl - I discreetly changed a vocal sample from male to female.

Television - This song was formally called "Shut Your Mouth When You Talk To Me," "Shut Your mouth," and also "shut." It's called Television now. I removed goofy drums from the intro. A few midi synths got moved around in the sequencer and make different sounds as a result. A "ha" sample was deleted from my sample library years ago and is missing from this version. It's better without it.

The next songs are unchanged to my memory but here are links to them none the less:

I Love him

Do Anything To Me

The Tower

Watching Waterfalls

Gravity Drive

The further remaining songs are tracks I didn't change but wish I really did. Some of these are kind of repetitive but I was too lazy to do things to them. Don't judge, they still good :C

Dressed To Kill

Chained Together

The End Of The Tunnel Is Dark

Tank

Go have music <3

I want to sample this video for a new track but I'm so lazy.

For anyone interested in my music I just compiled an album via bandcamp and pressed hard copies.

https://quarl.bandcamp.com/album/2q4u?fbclid=IwAR06noz2yjvPBU5gtaqYMqwJV-nMvTUED06kisVjhpTnQsl7sPUraoUosGQ

You can download the tracks here for free but I changed a few things for the bandcamp versions. I lost the ambition to be a successful artist in my early 20's, became a horticulturist instead. I've been landscaping and gardening so much that all of my creative energy goes there now. I'll keep making music every now and then. My music tattoos would feel empty if I didn't putter out a few tracks here and there.

In any case, hello. Old and new friends come as you are. Keep making content you smushy artists. We are all just soul searching or travelling. Thanks Mr Tom, for curating a unique and open platform. Have a happy weekend <3

I just came across these guys five minutes ago but I think I like them, so I'm posting this here as a reminder that I need to keep listening to them. Icelandic math rock :)

I've been repeatedly listening to these things. Enjoy some tunes :)