<gq>
my singing is one of the few things i can take VERY harsh criticism about.
<glowcoil>
*nod*
<gq>
it's not very polished because audacity has um
<gq>
too many fucking buttons
<glowcoil>
hahahaha best way to put it
<gq>
like it's great but if i try to play with a song too much
<gq>
i'll fucking ruin it
<gq>
lol
<purr>
lol
<glowcoil>
right yeah
<glowcoil>
i would recommend
<glowcoil>
trying reaper
<gq>
kk
<glowcoil>
it's really live-audio-focused, unlike ableton etc.
<glowcoil>
so good for that shit
<glowcoil>
also has free unlimited trial
<glowcoil>
so basically pay if you have the money to etc.
<glowcoil>
ok so, harsh criticisms:
<glowcoil>
what kind of mic are you using?
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: hi i miss u
<gq>
kk glowcoil sounds good
<gq>
glowcoil: the shame & the sorrow of it i'm using a cheap gaming mike
<glowcoil>
fuck this is the largest thing i've ever exported in ableton so it's taking forever
<gq>
our old logitech one was AMAZING
<gq>
but it died.
<glowcoil>
aw :(
<glowcoil>
so what i would say is find some way to have it a good distance from your mouth, and keep that distance very steady
<glowcoil>
because sometimes you are too close it seems
<glowcoil>
there is distortion at some points that you cannot produce out because of that
<glowcoil>
but yeah
<glowcoil>
i like that you did harmonies with yourself
<glowcoil>
so obviously pitchiness can only really be solved with practicing a lot, warming up, etc.
<glowcoil>
but i would say that the steady volume/distance, and pitchiness of your voice
<glowcoil>
are the things i would say to improve on
<glowcoil>
<3
<glowcoil>
also a pop filter
<glowcoil>
or whatever
<gq>
also glowcoil D says when i'm in an episode i sing too high
<gq>
which is true
<gq>
i get high & squeaky
<gq>
my true range is alto/contralto
<gq>
i've been smoking more socially than i should
<gq>
which makes my throat rough and gives me janis-joplin-it-is
<gq>
which is good for some songs but for a really smooth alto i need to stay away from dairy for like
<gq>
the whole day
<gq>
and i like milk in my coffee too much for that -.-;
<glowcoil>
oh right the dairy thing
<gq>
anyway thanks for the criticism ^.^
<gq>
yeah dairy before a hard concert is bad news
<gq>
it numbs and roughens the vocal cords
<gq>
so you can sing like an angel
<gq>
but you'll hurt yourself
<glowcoil>
funny story, john lennon was drinking milk right up to the performance of all you need is love, which was both the studio and live debut on tv performance
<gq>
i've done it and coughed blood afterwards for days.
<glowcoil>
oh that sounds awful
<gq>
i'm not bloody surprised, the man was an addict, a wife/child-beater, and a fool all around
<glowcoil>
i have: been smoking socially more than i should too haha
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
was thinking about that yesterday
<gq>
i hope in the afterlife he's beaten by demons singing IMAGINE in disharmony, glowcoil
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
woah
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
holy crap ALL of those messages just came in, in IRCcloud
<glowcoil>
also i got a french press & grinder as a late birthday present recently and have been making great coffee all the time
<glowcoil>
and it is the BEST
<gq>
glowcoil: isn't it greaT?! i can make prairie wife coffee in a pan
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: right that was a really good way to handle that (the wb thing)
<gq>
glowcoil: but it's best with french press, to make a barista pun ^.^;
<gq>
wow
<glowcoil>
oh wow i should try the pan thing
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: they're learning
<gq>
i'm in bloody shock
<gq>
glowcoil: coffee is like music, you can't command it, just ask
<gq>
glowcoil: so making it in a pan or (if you're brave) over a fire is a good way to practise.
<glowcoil>
yes john lennon was an absolutely shitty person and it's so dumb how he's idolized
<gq>
and that phrase (coffee like music) is from a short story from Peter Beagle
<gq>
glowcoil: it's his assassin's fault
<glowcoil>
yeah really
<gq>
glowcoil: if you ever get a chance to see sondheim's Assassins live
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
UGH MY MUSIC IS CONSTANTLY SKIPPING
<gq>
glowcoil: then do it, or just listen to the album
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
IT SOUNDS HORRIBLE
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: spotify?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
YES
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
WHAT THE FUUUCK
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
been doing it all evening on every service
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU AND TOLD YOU SPOTIFY IS CRPA THEY ARE CRAP THEY ARE CRAP
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I have blazing-fast internet nowadays
<gq>
oh
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: my copy of purity ring skips, and depending on the client it goes silent or skips a part or goes to the next song
<gq>
sounds like an internet problem
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I live in a goddamn BIG CITY
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
and have LOTS OF MONEY
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I should NOT HAVE SKIPPY MUSIC
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: call your provider and scream at them
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: and i replaced it with my roommate's copy of it and it still does it
<gq>
lol 1stworldprollums.jpg
<purr>
lol
<glowcoil>
well, much less
* vigs
waves
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
shut up vigs
<glowcoil>
i feel like it just didn't thoroughly replace it
<glowcoil>
haha
* gq
glomps vigs
<glowcoil>
hi vigs
<vigs>
hi, all
<gq>
WAIT
<gq>
vigs not vil
<gq>
DAMMIT
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
/kick vigs shut up vigs
<vigs>
oui
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
/kick vigs shut up vigs
<vigs>
:(
<glowcoil>
spotifier is shite
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
#elliottcable: You're not a channel operator
<gq>
i revoe my creepily enthusiastic hugs
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
dumb
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
spotify is my favourite thing
<gq>
sorry vigs didn't mean to pounce you
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: your face is my favorite thing
<vigs>
gq: I don't mind
<gq>
OH
<gq>
BURN
<vigs>
it happens
<glowcoil>
i've been steadily what.cd-ing my way away from spotify
<vigs>
too drunk tocare
<gq>
I IMPLIED YOUR FACE IS LIKE SPOTIFY: SPOILED AND OVERRATED
<glowcoil>
gq: sondheim's assassins
<gq>
vigs: oh. in that case. helllllllo.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
glowcoil: never could get an account
<glowcoil>
cool
<glowcoil>
i will
<vigs>
lol
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: oh really?
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: there's a wiki for like, all the things you need to know in the interview
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
and ain't got an always-on computer to maintain stupid seeding ratios on Past Technology like torrents
<glowcoil>
right yeah
<glowcoil>
my friend just seedboxes it
<gq>
glowcoil: the local community theatre and my old acting/singing teacher was in the cast, they went to a competition, got no. 2/50
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
“the interview”
<glowcoil>
and hence has a much better ratio than i do
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
didn't know there was an interview.
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: yeah, it's an irc interview
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
this is the future.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
we use spotify.
<gq>
what?
<gq>
THIS IS THE FUTURE
<gq>
WE DO NOT USE SPOTIFY
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
market forces will fix all the problems with it.
<gq>
WE DO NOT SPEAK OF SPOTIFY
<gq>
IT HAS HAD
<gq>
FIVE
<gq>
YEARS
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: but i do ok with like, not a huge ratio, not huge amounts of downloading, with just my laptop
<gq>
SINCE YOU RECOMMEND ED IT TO ME
<gq>
AND IT
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
looking forward to Apple's pitch-in, but even more to the next Rdio.
<gq>
IS STILL
<gq>
BUGGY
<gq>
I WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH OVER SPOTIFY
<gq>
I HATE IT
<gq>
IT'S FOR SNOTS
* ELLIOTTCABLE
pats gq
<glowcoil>
the reason spotify is gross is it's as bad as pirating for the artists but also a much worse user experience because of the ads
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I am a snot.
* gq
bites ELLIOTTCABLE's hand
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
-elliottcable
<purr>
ELLIOTTCABLE: literally a fucking wizard. boo hiss
<glowcoil>
also the interface is SHIT
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
… clearly a gq quote
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: when are you coming to get me? you owe me a roadtrip
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
relevant
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
-factoid elliottcable
<purr>
ELLIOTTCABLE: Popularity: 28, last changed by: ELLIOTTCABLE, 107ſ 425mſ ago
<gq>
HA
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i am invading your mind. soon i will live there permanently even after i am dead likely by suicide
<glowcoil>
the fucking, artist pages are a different world than the playlist pages, ctrl f works in like 2 places only, everything loads in layout-rearranging slow ways
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: YOU CANNOT EVICT ME I LIVE HERE
* gq
smug
<gq>
what glowcoil said
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
“worse user experience”
* ELLIOTTCABLE
pats glowcoil
* gq
hits ELLIOTTCABLE with a stick
<gq>
LISTEN
<gq>
TO
<gq>
MICAH
<gq>
O RI WILL BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH SCIENCE
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
micah is wrong.
<gq>
MICAH IS ALWAYS RIGHT
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: ok, better user experience for trust fund babbys ;)
<gq>
YOU ARE WRONG
<gq>
YOU ORLD?
<gq>
or are old
<gq>
you.are.old.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
speaking of: glowcoil, are you aware of anything in Paws-land, recently?
<gq>
you are old and boring and a fuckinG EAGLE SCOUT
<glowcoil>
but i mean, you should spend the same amount of money, on purchasing music
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: talk to cheery
<glowcoil>
:p
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: talk to cheery
<glowcoil>
gq: i'm an eagle scout as wwell :(
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: TALK TO CHEERY. he is what you need he is absuar;ieyr;aoiydsf;oiaysd;fioyas;ofiyd
<gq>
fuck the boy scouts
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
gq: I can't understand Cheery. I basically gave up trying.
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: not aware, fill me in :o
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: that's because he's NICE
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
have some news to share with devyn, by the way, when he wakes up.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
relevant.
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: and you don't understand nice
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: listen to him for god's sake
<gq>
FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOD YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN PLEASE LISTEN TO CHEERY O_____O
<gq>
i am yelling
<gq>
hwy yelling
<gq>
-gq
<purr>
gq: genderqueer
<gq>
yus
<gq>
-gqbrielle
<purr>
gq: she is not devyn (I think.)
<gq>
o good
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
gq: what are you talking about?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but, glowcoil:
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
familiar with Tires?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
especially the Paws-Tires hybrid devyn and I have been idly constructing?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
it's basically fulfilling some of what you wanted four years ago.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
well, not really.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but based on what you were talking about years ago, this would definitely interest old-programming-language-designer-micah.
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i don't know i need to take my stupid pills for the vening
<gq>
*evening
<gq>
i'm having a mixed episode n.n
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
stupid pills for the venting
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
they are pills
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
that make you venting
<gq>
i don't even remember my suicide attempt ELLIOTTCABLE
<gq>
no
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
all vening
<vigs>
.me yawns
<gq>
*the EVENING
<gq>
youf cuking jerk
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I know :P
<gq>
xD
<gq>
:P
<gq>
i've only attmepted twice
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
-learn ELLIOTTCABLE=literally a cuking jerk. boo hiss
<purr>
ELLIOTTCABLE: Learned `ELLIOTTCABLE`.
<gq>
first itme i was blackout drunk
<gq>
this time i was diassociated
<gq>
remembering how it felt...being...being [redacted for the younger members of the chan]
* gq
sad
<glowcoil>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i have seen a bit of tires discussions and i feel like devyn is retreading some unfruitful ground he, tim & i tried to tread yeeeaars ago, about denoting arbitrary graphs without names for non-tree-things
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
tim?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
and, nah, don't want to cover arbitrary things
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
that's the beauty of it, if there's any at all: it's clearly not a system for encoding arbitrary graphs in easy-to-write text (that's just painful); but I think it's a really good hybrid for the types of mostly-tree-ish graphs that are likely to be common Tires programs
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but, that said … yeah. I'm interested in what it will become, but I've become convinced it's not the best choice for Paws.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
not 'cuz it's not interesting, or even because it's somehow not helpful/applicable … but because I just don't see how it abstracts.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Paws' original innovation was the synchronous abstraction, and this throws the entire point of that away: trying to be as approachable to synchronous-imperative programmers, as possible.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
gq: wat doin
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Yosemite wants me to correct that to doen
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I'm vaguely hyper. That's bad, I really need to be asleep. /=
<glowcoil>
i am watching the master and wow this is resonating with me about mormonism
<glowcoil>
Cheery: logo should be something like:
<glowcoil>
O
<glowcoil>
(
<glowcoil>
(
<glowcoil>
)
<glowcoil>
because, snakes + parentheses
<glowcoil>
oh but that logo is ascii and snakelisp is about non-ascii
<glowcoil>
hmmm :P
<gq>
glowcoil: i finally found my chinese zodiac
<gq>
glowcoil: i'm a pisces snake, a water snake, and D is a cancer dragon
<gq>
it's bloody perfect
<gq>
no wonder i was in love with cobras as a child
<gq>
glowcoil: anyway if you're areligious like i was at your age ignore me
<gq>
i've aged into something creepy in terms of religion.
<glowcoil>
boy i was seeing was way into astrology
<glowcoil>
but yeah i'm pretty rationalist :p
<gq>
glowcoil: that's fine, i married an atheist
<glowcoil>
not like raitonlist blogger rationalist though *gags*
<gq>
glowcoil: the poltergeist in the house is afraid of him
<gq>
glowcoil: i understand. no, i married a rational atheist who wore a fedora on our 3rd date ;) but he grew out of it.
<glowcoil>
haha
<gq>
he has an old ummm whatsit
<gq>
the kind of watch that you can open?
<gq>
looks like a compass, attaches to your pants with a chain?
<gq>
it was a gift and he rocks it.
<gq>
he'd be a great Time Lord
<glowcoil>
pocketwatch?
<gq>
drop him in 16th century germany and put him in constume and he'd have a date and a dinner provided by some enterpreising gentleman in under 3 hours
<gq>
yes, glowcoil.
<gq>
what are words.jpg
* gq
whispers secrets to glowcoil in Welsh
<glowcoil>
oh god all my muscles have atrophied away
<gq>
hahahaha
<gq>
that tends to happen in college
<gq>
glowcoil: try to sign up for a swimming course
<gq>
glowcoil: it's fun and doesn't /feel/ like exercise :>
<glowcoil>
i tend to like running a lot better than swimming
<glowcoil>
i tried cross country and swim in high school
<glowcoil>
and i did well in xc but swim was borderline traumatic haha
<glowcoil>
but if i just went swimming without the pressure of being on a team i think iw ould really really enjoy it
<gq>
ah
<gq>
yes glowcoil just....get a good coach if you can
<gq>
or a lot of places have like a free swim hour
<gq>
and if you're a matriculated student it's free
<gq>
as long as you don't bother anyone
<glowcoil>
living on campus i'm sure there is a pool very near where i sleep
<gq>
i'm sure.
<gq>
follow the chrloine scent and the cute girls with bleached green hair :P
<gq>
or cute boys.
<gq>
or whatever.
<gq>
lots of genderescent people coming out in university
<gq>
i can't hardly go near the student bars these days
<gq>
it's like crack.
<gq>
so many fresh minted lesbians o.o
<gq>
but they're all looking for girlfriends
<gq>
i just want a best friend to make out with sometimes.
<gq>
i have a semidate with a girl thru okcupid
<gq>
i mean it's nto a date it's not romantic
<gq>
but i mean she'd be the sort of friend who would probably let me sleep in her bed because i knwo fucking /boundaries/
<gq>
so many gay people are....are creepy
<glowcoil>
oh god it's true
<gq>
glowcoil: you'll have it worse becuase you're like me
<gq>
glowcoil: you're neither fish nor fowl
<glowcoil>
there's straightwhiteboystexting.tumblr.com but i feel like a gaywhiteboystexting.tumblr.com
<gq>
glowcoil: predatory people will scent that and go for it
<gq>
glowcoil: one of my best friends is still in the closet and he's like 29
<gq>
glowcoil: because of CREEPERS
<gq>
glowcoil: he got raped by a gay man at our university but there was no help for it beause homophobic christians
* gq
faugh
<gq>
the thought makes me gag
<gq>
the guy still live sin my city, the rapist
<gq>
he came into my subway i was working at once
<gq>
he startled me and we were busy
<gq>
lucky for him
<gq>
i would have thrown him out of the store if i'd recognized him sooner.
* gq
hisses
<glowcoil>
gq: :(
<gq>
glowcoil: :(
<gq>
glowcoil: i...i wish i didn't have to tell you this but you're younger and i feel responsibile
<gq>
glowcoil: like...so may GLBTS will make it seem like being one of those is the emerald city
<gq>
but its' more llike being the witch of the west
<gq>
so so so so so misunderstood
<gq>
poor Elphaba.
<gq>
i went by that name online for YEARS
<glowcoil>
no it's good to know, i feel like the newly found sense of lgbt community can be dangerous
<gq>
before the musical got made
<gq>
it's very dangerous glowcoil it's like a drug more potent than any
<gq>
and people WILL try to drug you
<gq>
some of them are parties or poz bugchasers
<glowcoil>
yeah one interesting thing is that
<gq>
who think all most gay men REALLY need is a HIV positive cock up the arse and a kiss
<gq>
and that
<gq>
is
<gq>
HORRIFYING.
<gq>
there are lesbians with similar attitude.
<gq>
*attitides
<glowcoil>
i finally GET like the way girls are scared of guys, walking home and shit
<gq>
"consent? are you a FEMINIST?"
<glowcoil>
like, not in the systematic way
<gq>
glowcoil: i know what you mean hon it's fine
<gq>
glowcoil: some of my best friends are bisexuals because we get SHIT on
<gq>
like, literally shit thrown at PRIDE parades
<glowcoil>
what the fuck
<gq>
i know a bisexual girl who's gotten slapped just for wearing bisexual pride flag colors
<glowcoil>
lg_t
<gq>
it's worse if you're trans.
<glowcoil>
oh i bet
<glowcoil>
:(
<gq>
more like GAYLESbian(bisexual)................................................trans
<glowcoil>
yeah
<gq>
glowcoil: GLAAD helps with that
<gq>
the politicisation of our cause has helped
<glowcoil>
fuck gay and lesbian people who are all about gay marriage and that's where they stop
<gq>
but it's also whitened it
<gq>
Sylvia Riviera wouldn't be allowed intoday's movement
<gq>
she'd be bounced at the bar it would be held at.
<gq>
i say she but she was more a drag queen than anything else. she defied boundaries, binaries, rules, expectations
<glowcoil>
equality for...white attractive unisexual gay men
<gq>
Sylvia was Sylvia.
<gq>
if i have a daughter i'd name her Sylvia.
<glowcoil>
i need to know more history of these things
<gq>
and Tristian for a boy.
<glowcoil>
i went to pride in the summer for the first time
<glowcoil>
and it was kind of dumb
<gq>
glowcoil: try. it will make you cry but it will give you a sense of place in history
<gq>
glowcoil: isn't it? like....sometimes it feels that way
<glowcoil>
i mean first of all the boy i was going to meet there didn't text me back and stood me up, haha
<gq>
like...a 26 year old trans woman in edinburgh just killed herself last week
<glowcoil>
but also it's 90% straight people, and very very corporatized
<gq>
she was recovering from an assault
<gq>
in her familiy's home
<glowcoil>
<gq>
somebody literally beat her bloody
<gq>
and her family won't let them call her Her in the papers.
<gq>
they're tryiing to bury her under her dead name.
<glowcoil>
what the FUCK
<gq>
Ireland is a hellhole
<gq>
abortion is still illegal there glowcoil
<gq>
did you know that?
<gq>
not everyone does.
<glowcoil>
what
<gq>
yep
<gq>
prolifers talk a lot of shit
<glowcoil>
ok never going to ireland...
<gq>
you can go
<gq>
it's a lovely land
<gq>
but...be aware
<gq>
it's been very Catholicized
<gq>
blame the Church
<gq>
blame the Troubles
<gq>
and mostly blame Britain, the shame & the sorrow of it.
<gq>
and FOR GOD'S SAKE TAKE A BIG GUY WITH YOU O_O
<gq>
or just a bat.
<gq>
they'r homophobic like you would not BELIEVE.
<gq>
you know matthew shephard, glowcoil?
<gq>
did you know he was raped in Europe? gangraped?
<gq>
he died HIV positive.
<gq>
glowcoil: you should read his mother's memoir. it will open your eyes to the circus modern gay rights has become.
<glowcoil>
i will do that, what's it called?
<gq>
glowcoil: it will horrify you, make you feel sick and dirty all over, so read it somewhere where you have a strong support network
<gq>
let me look it up
<gq>
glowcoil: "The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed"
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glowcoil: it was published in 2009.
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and look how far we haven't come.
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:(
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glowcoil: also let me recommend a tumblr, i'll pm it
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goodnight glowcoil goodnight ec goodnight the cow that jumped over the moon
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goodnight otters goodnine june goodnight the rabbits asleep under lune
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