A bit faster at 145BPM than recent tracks.
Guitar, synths, techno drums and the synth noises/ sweeps are a KORG MONOTRON
Something of a reaction to being a care-er in recent weeks, and for many, the fashion and look aspect of being a musician are so important, and aren't anymore when I am a grandfather in my late 60s.
The Sennheiser e945, in a small desk stand with mesh pop filter has simplified my singing setup/tear down in our tiny studio and I seem to be able to hear myself better now. Putting vocals on something is so much easier now. Coming up with Lyrics isn't something I spend any time doing.
Much of Marty Friedman's book Dreaming Japanese I read last year seems to be fussing about his hair, being short and fashion. He was a rockstar. My own hair was so important to me in the last years of High School, but not in the 50 years since.
Lyrics:
no fancy shoes
no fashion sense
No fancy hair
An ordinary guy,
I'm not a rock star,
a family man,
a steady guy.
no fancy shirts
no make up
Just An ordinary guy,
I'm not a rock star.
no flashing lights,
no big guitar,
a quiet life
just an ordinary guy,
no stadiums,
no screaming crowds,
no limousines
Just a quiet life,
On Bandcamp.
I put it on Bandcamp and posted to X and Bluesky about it a week before releasing the Music+Comic. But my followers have zero interest in any music I put there. It is just my own vanity publishing project. Okay with that as I have already had my own 15 minutes of fame in another field over 20 years ago.
Will I do another new song this week? Don't know. I seem to be out of inspiration, or maybe the domestic things occupying my time make it unnecessary .
Other Things
The kitchen in our now 7 year old new house in Japan used to be my wife's domain. Took me years to be able to make anything there, but I have been preparing meals the last week+. Caring for others makes you feel good, and being able to look after myself when I need to is back at the level it was when I lived in Australia.
Australian political cartoonist Pat Oliphant, who made it in the USA, has passed away, aged 90 this week. There is a glorious film on him I need to track down. The Trailer:
Oliphant favoring neither liberals nor conservatives. 'We Are in a Forest Fire of Ignorance'
8 years ago during down sizing I ended up throwing away about half of my once cherished Cinfex collection. Issues 74 to 119. I kept 85 the 2001 issue
But the once great magazine of cinema special effects had lost anything of interest to me way before then. They went out of business during COVID. I wasn't the only one that cancelled their subscription.
Once the industry changed to hiring a bunch of disposable CG animators and their workstations, there was little of interest to me in an article saying "we used XXX software" and "YYY wrote a cool shader to do ZZZ".
I changed too. Narrowing my interests to what I can actually be involved with in some way, or be useful to me in my own creative adventures in retirement.
Facebook is a very different thing now compared to when I first joined. At first it showed you stuff people you knew posted, even if it was an outside link. Now it rarely shows anything people you know post, and for me it is all about the groups I am in. Only 3 or 4 I know post anything at all now.
I don't post actual personal stuff there any more. Just my MUSIC+COMICS. It is the place people I know DM me.
The English Musician Composer, Hans Zimmer, Peter Gabriel collaborator, once Fairlight Instruments CMI III demonstrator/support person Rodger Bolten has passed away, I learnt 2026/7/17. Just a couple of years younger than myself. I never met him in person, as I left Fairlight Instruments the time he joined. He had been posting about his hospital visits and treatments the last 2 years or so, and stopping the treatment for his cancer a few months ago.
He was the first person ever some 2 years ago to video call me out of the blue. We talked about old CMI III things, such as the System Floppy Disk I made for the first system to get to the UK. RIP
We can be found at ArtAndTechnology KYOTO JAPAN
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