CREATIVITY v SKILL, Again

 

So I revised this older 1 page comic into a slightly longer 5 page MUSIC+COMIC.

As a short it may get heard by a few more. Or maybe not. It certainly isn't the kind of music or subject in any TOP 5 list you will find.  

It seems most English VBloggers in Japan are now posting their stuff at 7AM Saturday morning, an hour earlier than it was a couple of weeks ago. It must because of Daylight Saving change in the USA which must be their main audience. I tried that scheduled time myself this week, even though I aren't making Weeaboo Japanese content myself.

I am still searching for my best mix of synth/sequencer and heavy guitar riffs. 

I keep on using the same 6 or so drum patterns and never more than 16 tracks, so I think I am just a minimalist. Minimal automation and effects. Just enough to "solve the problem" and no more.   Only one track for rhythm guitar and one for melodic guitar (I would not call it lead guitar, as it isn't flashy enough).

I put this track on Bandcamp and called it CREATIVITY V SKILL.

Other Things

Visited the Clinic (Ohgaki Clinic, Shijo Kyoto if you are interested) yesterday for what I thought would be the last time. I even got reservation #2. Doc said the largest of the internal hemorrhoids he used Band Ligation on is only half gone, and it needs another go. I am still recovering, some 5 weeks now, from the external things he removed and wasn't up for that yesterday. Internal band ligation isn't painful, but it does effect me for a few days, so I will go back in a month or so for that. Have to take the cat across town again for his hair trim in a few days time and need to be in better shape to carry him on public transport there and back.

Not painful now at all, but it kept me up half of last night as it just is not comfortable sometimes, especially at night. So a bit of a downer to be not over it all yet, but still a much better experience than 9 years ago.  

A week since seeing PROJECT HAIL MARY and so much PR across Social Media and YouTube on it now.  A great, positive movie. A masterpiece even. Dolby YouTube channel even has an interview with the soundtrack composer, even if the soundtrack isn't something that struck me as amazing.  

Then there are the YouTube videos explaining it, but that doesn't seem to be for non native English speakers, but for the extremely stupid. No need to mention who they must be! 

Was expecting that with the early Cherry Blossom Blooming across Japan, that my local Sewaritei walk would be on my todo list for today, but no. I saw from the train coming home yesterday from the clinic that the trees had barely started to bloom, 98% still brown.  

So probably something for next weekend. For the last few years doing this 2km walk under the blossoms, with music in my earbuds ( TANGERINE DREAM last year), then getting a KEBAB and other food from the stalls along the river on the walk back to the station has been a great experience for me. 

The location with the music is a magical Visual & Auditory experience.  

A video I made on it last year:

It seems the first weekend of April 2026 will be the days to visit this year too. 

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