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 :)

 

This flight is not step one. Several months of study and training went into this launch, awesome view ^·^

I've been meaning to upload this video clip to my news feed but I'm lazy as all fuck. This is from the 2017 North American Beatbox championships. There were about 110 some contestants and my name got called first. The video was shot on a friends cell phone from the front row. This was my first time in front of audience of my peers. This was from day two of the event, open eliminations. Day three saw tournament style knockout rounds from the best of day two. Being a new face I didn't aim to get past this round but the experience and friends made there were well worth the experience :)