Today I somehow managed to tweak my back, right before I was going to do some gardening. I ended up doing the gardening anyway. This was, as it turns out, not a greaet way to help my back to feel better. | Continue reading
Transitions promo November 21, 2024 5:18 PM (a minute ago) fluffy A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions. they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it) music polls spotify Spotify allows artists to submit a single track per album for promot … | Continue reading
Some songs I wrote 20-25 years ago, remade for today. | Continue reading
Some songs I wrote 20-25 years ago, remastered a little. | Continue reading
Now that I’m able to come up for air because the album is finally done I think I’ll talk about my next few intended album and music-related projects. | Continue reading
Today’s choir show went amazingly well. | Continue reading
Last night’s show went really well! There were a bunch of technical hitches and I made a bunch of mistakes and so on but it was a good time and it was great to get a lot more people hearing my music. Hopefully I’ll be able to do more of these things. | Continue reading
There’s been a schedule change with Aga’s Toys for Tots event, and I will now be going on at 2 PM Pacific. Also it seems that I’ll be performing from an instance where I can invite a small audience to join me, so I hope to see folks there! The instance will be owned by my VRChat … | Continue reading
Transitions is (finally) almost done. There’s just a couple of little tweaks left to do (like, super duper minor things, decibel-level adjustments and slight timing tweaks and a little bit of vocal tuning). It’ll be really nice to finally have this album done after all this time. … | Continue reading
Hey everyone! On Friday, November 15, at 2:30 PM PST I will be performing a live set in VRChat for a charity fundraiser, benefitting Toys for Tots. | Continue reading
Okay my gut feeling was at least agreed to by a bunch of other people: Material Change will not be going onto Transitions, and instead the chamber pop version will be something I do for a later album, named “Misfits,” which I already have so many ideas for. | Continue reading
When I work on an album, I’m not just working on the songs in isolation, I’m also constantly playing the album as a whole to check things like song-to-song flow, dynamics, and listening for defects that I’d like to fix later before I release the album, since noticing and fixing l … | Continue reading
Tired of dealing with the annoying processes necessary to run an unsigned application on macOS? | Continue reading
Gosh it’s been a while since I’ve checked in! Here’s stuff that’s going on with me, music-wise. | Continue reading
Gosh it’s been a while since I’ve checked in! Here’s stuff that’s going on with me, music-wise. | Continue reading
My current hardware setup: M1 Mac studio in the office, M1 mini in the recording studio. | Continue reading
Lately I’ve been feeling super isolated and depressed. A lot of it is because I’ve just been so fatigued all the time, and the rare times I have energy to do anything I’m pouring it all into the album. But like, I’m getting very little socializing in with other people. | Continue reading
So, today Apple unveiled the new M4 Mac mini, which seems like a perfect upgrade for me! Except… they did something really asinine: | Continue reading
For several days my tinnitus and vertigo were getting progressively worse, which made me once again worry that I am developing Ménière’s disease, which has a prognosis that is very much Not Good. | Continue reading
When I was a kid I was really into Infocom text adventures, and the game Beyond Zork had some very strong tabletop RPG elements, much moreso than other Infocom games. One of the things about it is that when you started the game you had to roll a character, and you could choose th … | Continue reading
Okay it turns out that while the mobile version of PlexAmp works exactly how I want it to, the desktop version kind of sucks? Like, if you’re doing “album radio” (which is the shuffle-by-album thing I love so much) it is super easy to get out of the actual player view, and as far … | Continue reading
My big fibromyalgia flare seems to have finally subsided, so I’m back to working on music, yay. | Continue reading
I finally tracked down contact information for the attorney the scammers claimed to have on their counsel, and sent him an email. He almost immediately got back to me: | Continue reading
No idea if they’ll even respond to this. They probably won’t. But it’s more paper trail for me and the credit card company, at least. | Continue reading
I’ve been having another major pain flareup, or rather the pain flareup that started a few weeks ago has continued to get worse, and it’s super difficult for me to do anything right now. Typing hurts, my brain is in constant fog, and there’s no freaking way I can work on music or … | Continue reading
So, I’m in a bit of a frustrating situation right now. | Continue reading
Hey y'all, it is Bandcamp Friday, a good time to buy independent music while Bandcamp opts to release their share of the purchase price. | Continue reading
Grab-bag of stuff going on for me, apologies for my usual unstructured rambling | Continue reading
If all went well, my concert is now underway. In theory, here is the VRChat instance (but if nobody’s there check the VRC group). And in theory, the stream should be live. | Continue reading
Seeing this post made me think I should also list my computers and their purposes/vague specs. Because I’m that kind of a nerd. | Continue reading
I’ll be performing in VRChat tonight at 9 PM PDT. Join my VRChat music group for the instance link. | Continue reading
Here’s what’s currently going on with my music things. | Continue reading
Wednesday night I had a massive pain flareup towards the end of choir practice, due to some stressy situations that were developing all at once on top of my continued lack of sleep due to working on Transitions. This had me basically incapable of doing anything for several days, … | Continue reading
I’m having a bad pain flareup and as much as I’d like to push through it and do the concert anyway, from experience I know that’ll just make things worse and I’m trying to get better at self-care and showing myself the same understanding I show others. | Continue reading
Hey y'all, it’s been a little while since I’ve done a VRChat music performance, and I have a hankering to try out my new performing gear. Please vote in this poll so I can figure out what the best time is for a show! | Continue reading
My brain is constantly exploding with things that I want to get done but my body keeps telling me “no.” | Continue reading
Hello! It has been a hot minute! I should probably post things here! | Continue reading
Notions by Sockpuppet For quite a while I’ve been working on an album called Transitions, in which I rerecord some of my oldest Song Fight! songs now that I sorta know what I’m doing. While doing this I decided to also do a second companion album, Deadnames, in which I would prov … | Continue reading
My first full VRChat concert went pretty well considering it was my first time doing such a large set. Previously I’d done single-song performances or song-circle gathering type things, so there’s a bunch of stuff I learned during the process of doing this. | Continue reading
Just tracking stuff for my own reference and also so y'all know what I’m up to too | Continue reading
Well, this is silly: I just discovered that Bandcrash doesn’t properly escape HTML entities in the web preview player. Or rather, it didn’t. It does now, as of v0.7.9. | Continue reading
I have two upcoming VRChat performances happening. | Continue reading
Okay so, let me explain a thing about my two upcoming albums, and then a thought about a possible change of plans. I’d like to hear folks weigh in on these ideas. | Continue reading
Does it count as navel-gazing when my fursona canonically doesn’t have a navel? | Continue reading
Wellp it’s another day that I feel like talking about. | Continue reading
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Fediwave Artists Streaming Series 2024 August 15, 2024 9:17 PM (7 minutes ago) fluffy fluffy at beesbuzz dot biz A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions. they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it) music song fight! live set performance ac … | Continue reading
The other day in a chat about text editors (you know, the most important thing to anyone who spends a lot of time at a computer) someone recommended Zed and I figured I’d try it out. So this blog post is the first thing I’m writing in it. | Continue reading