Buddy knows that sleep is sacred.

I was falling in love...

Loud Hands. Loud Guitar. https://youtube.com/shorts/LBEmH0QFr0w

Top Workout song: https://youtube.com/shorts/qEobuj8861A

Pairing down life's complexities, one step at a time. Here's one way: A simple day out in the free run park with Buddy the Brat Mutt

Hey there friendos, I'm still alive. I did a commentary video on YT, but thought this audio post would be cool for people who enjoy audio stuff.

The YT commentary video is here: https://youtu.be/yhRn9AMgp8w

Been a hot minute. I did this because I find putting my awkwardness out for everyone to see half-amusing, half-cathartic.

The film is an incredible Exorcist sequel, containing delicious lore.

Full play-along is up on my YT music page. I never get tired of playing along with this track. 🖤

https://youtu.be/UYV7y9wp41w

#film #horror #movie #commentary

OK, the YouTube edit is done and will premiere tomorrow starting at 12p, EST if you'd like to check it out, 100% organic, AI slop-free: https://youtu.be/QkYJuGJHiTk

It's comforting to know that twisted imaginations tend to survive the worst and most puritanical organized sicknesses of humanity.

The BYOC edit of commentary on this fun film is now LIVE on my patreon page. After another edit or two, we'll next jump into the last of the Mia Trilogy, Maxxxine.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/x-starring-mia-131032622

Ace Ventura in shambles.

This does not directly impact me in any way, yet I find myself feeling good to learn the news.

"Grocery Lich"

https://youtube.com/shorts/PTBz99hdWDM

Amx has lots of time to think about his "life" and what he has become.

A random audio feed briefly picks up the after-life of Area Man X(Amx)— a dead spirit with Spectral Dissociation Syndrome, unaware that he's already dead, and unknowingly going through the tedious motions of his former life. One ghost; infinite Mondays.

Check out the pilot/ep1 video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/O1I_5y-JZpY

"Charlotte" - she's very angry. It's not all-right. Full song play-along is on the Nostr network or on my Patreon (patreon.com/d4nt3) for members.

https://loops.video/v/7VT-xBDMH5

GET IT? GET IT? Ahhahahahah, I kill me. 😁

Collective Soul - "Shine", clip of a play-along on guitar.

Will love be there?

Play https://youtu.be/TG58sKjdfKI

I've been looking for a way to reach people, or just share in general, without the middle-man of megacorpo scum censorship, ad-padding, and one person/group/platform gatekeeping, so I was happy to have run across this protocol/network and have had a fairly positive experience with it.

As a semi-techy user, I managed to get my keys and, after getting a little Bitcoin, a wallet. As an artist, it's great to be able to share what I do with people who can show appreciation directly on-the-fly (via sats[pieces of bitcoin]) rather than depending on a 3rd party to "manage" the financial part of the experience, but, it being decentralized, I think people have to realize what they're signing up for.

It's still new(ish) tech. There are still things that the devs are working on or working through, so it's going to take time to have a truly polished experience. Also, if I were to casually throw a social/psychological visualization out there, I'd call Nostr what Twitter and Bluesky would be if they had a baby social media platform.

Sometimes, the feed there seems tech bro heavy, with all the idiotic red-pill, pro-capitalism/fuck the poor, dixie/nazi flag, emotionally stunted/underdeveloped pathologies you'd expect(much like a significant part of twitter's userbase), BUT, muting, then doom scrolling enough through the search/discover section of the client does yield some people who are emotionally mature, kind, and have constructive consideration of others(much like a significant part of Bluesky's userbase).

There is representation of the arts. There are women who post there. I have not yet noticed many members of the LGBTQ+ community there, or many POCS, so for me personally, I'd like to see more of that content showing up there and I hope that more members of these underrepresented groups will find their ways there.

The point is, like any platform, it takes pruning(muting) and, of course, follows, to get your feed set up to give you posts by people who you resonate with, and it takes the occasional maintenance to keep the experience going the way you want it to. If there is content, if there are people there who are shit, then it should be ME deciding who to shut out of my attention, but that doesn't mean that they should not be able to be shit there, and to experience the social and emotional consequences of their shittiness.

It's a small bit of effort for enjoying the freedom to express without having to deal with ad-revenue focused corpo censorship.

speaking of ads...NO ADS...ANYWHERE. I don't know how long that will last, but that's how it is now. Some clients have premium services you can pay for if you want, but that's specific to those clients and their devs, and the free versions of the apps/clients I've tried so far seem to work fine for where things are in development.

Nostr has a lot of positive potential to give people back control of their online experience and I hope it can get enough attention to get more casual users involved.

Max, the little dog that was seen in one of the videos I posted here, crossed the rainbow bridge today.

I only got a few months to get to know him, but, given so little time I had with him, I didn't realize how big an impact he made on me.

It was his time. He was old. His back legs kept giving out on him, he was experiencing consistent back pain, and he had digestive issues. This had apparently been going on for months prior to my arriving to help care for my mom, but she couldn't bear to part with him, because she lived alone, and he'd been by her side for the past 4 years.

She is devastated, and I'm not feeling that great myself. I know time will dull the pain, but the house feels a little colder than usual, and far too empty.

We need to grieve now, so we can try to heal later.

Too empty...just...too empty.