(Aus)wanderer

Random stuff from the internet https://glasvater.bandcamp.com/

[paperometria]

Forza Curaçao! 🇨🇼

(fino a ieri non sapevo manco dove fosse ma, come si dice, il nemico del mio nemico è mio amico)

[peolopeolo]

Stasera alle 20 mini-concerto all'aperto di due amici, saremo 3 spettatori... Ma piuttosto che il calcio andrei anche col temporale 😂

[turuin]

Buonasera, uno dei pochi Tumblr musici che seguo. Intanto in bocca al lupo per la serata e buon divertimento 😁

Se poi a tempo perso hai voglia di ascoltare qualche pezzo del progetto che ha preso forma in cantina con tre crucchi (questo mi tocca...):

glasvater.bandcamp.com

Io ci ho messo il basso e un outro strumentale (con una copia del Bass VI) . Prima esperienza a registrare originali, ogni commento è apprezzato. Soprattutto perché manco mi conosci, puoi andarci giù duro 😁

Sennò son tutti sempre troppo buoni, mi servono critiche (possibilmente costruttive!)

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Buongiorno a te! E grazie mille di avere condiviso la tua musica con me, è una cosa fin troppo rara e che io apprezzo tantissimo! E infatti, stamattina, letto il tuo ask (dopo essermi svegliato tardissimo e aver dormito male) mi sono messo ad ascoltare i vostri pezzi.

Mi hai chiesto di essere sincero, e non mi risparmierò: ti prego quindi di considerare quanto segue come un commento totalmente senza filtri (e ti do ragione, quando si tratta di far sentire / far vedere la propria arte, i complimenti servono a poco, così come gli insulti gratuiti: quello che serve, invece, sono le critiche costruttive).

Doverosa premessa: il vostro pop-rock con cantato in tedesco non è un genere che ascolto molto, però ti devo dire che i testi sono molto ben coordinati al pezzo, quasi al punto da essere catchy come se fossero in inglese. Il che significa che chi li ha scritti e musicati sapeva quello che stava facendo, specie essendo alle prese con le consonanti germaniche.

Veniamo a quello che va:

Avete un cantante molto bravo, con un tono di voce piacevole e una buona espressività. E' metà del lavoro, nel genere che fate, quindi siete sulla strada giusta.

Il lavoro di basso è preciso e presente nel modo giusto, complimenti!

Gli arrangiamenti sono ben costruiti, si percepisce che i pezzi non sono stati buttati lì come una jam-session ma architettati nelle loro parti (strofe, ritornelli e bridges, intro e finali). A livello di songwriting non vi manca niente.

I testi non sono banali (si, li ho tradotti!) e rispondono molto bene al mood dei brani.

Su quello che va un po' meno:

Le registrazioni risentono di una qualità non da studio, ma questo lo avevi detto, e ci sta. Sono degli ottimi demo, io vi consiglierei di seglierne un paio e investire in una registrazione professionale con mixing e mastering il prima possibile. Non costa così tanto come potrebbe sembrare.

Ai pezzi, infatti, manca un po' il tocco del produttore, che limi le asperità presenti in particolare nel suono della batteria (è elettronica? Sono dei samples, o c'è un batterista?) sul charleston, troppo alto (ma calcola che sto ascoltando dal PC), e anche su qualche fruscio di troppo. Il lavoro sulla chitarra è formalmente ben fatto, ma alla chitarra mancano le vitamine: effetti, ambiente, dinamiche, tutte cose che in produzione possono essere facilmente sistemate. Non è una critica al chitarrista, assolutamente: i pezzi sono ben suonati e tutto è al suo posto, ci manca giusto la spinta della produzione. Sono molto curioso degli strumenti che avete utilizzato, se vorrai parlarmene.

Se immagino i vostri pezzi con un suono più definito di chitarra, i volumi al punto giusto, e la produzione suoni necessaria, penso possano "sbocciare" in tutto il loro potenziale. Fammi sapere se ci provate! E grazie ancora per la fiducia e per la condivisione.

p.s. pezzo preferito Was wär gewesen wenn

[peolopeolo]

Lol, io volevo mandare un DM. Vabbè pubblicità extra, per quel che vale.

Grazie per la risposta, molto apprezzata. Più contesto: non abbiamo grandi ambizioni, le registrazioni ci servono (principalmente, ma non solo) per darci una struttura e avere un riferimento di chi ha suonato cosa e come - le prove insieme non sono esattamente frequentissime 😅

Siamo in quattro con figli piccoli, le energie e i tempi sono limitati. Anche il nome, nato come gioco di parole dalla storpiatura di Glasfaser (fibra ottica), è un programma: glas = vetro + vater= padre

Ampi spazi e tecnologia spaziale...

Il batterista/cantante/songwriter ha il suo kit acustico in cantina, non ci staremmo tutti, registra lì. Per strada abbiamo raccolto anche un tastierista, purtroppo malato per il primo, quasi casuale, open stage

Col cantante nell'angolo al buio in castigo 😆

Abbiamo due (o son diventati tre?) pezzi in cantiere da finire, poi dovremo decidere cosa farne esattamente... Ma con calma, che devo andare a cambiare un pannolone

[peolopeolo]

Listen/purchase: Kneif mich wach by Glasvater

[peolopeolo]

Listen/purchase: Wir sollten los by Glasvater

[leotanaka]

from: @teachingwhilemuslim (june, 2024)

for more information on sudan, make sure you are following:

@decolonizesudan

@bsonblast

@sudan.updates

@darfurwomenaction

@red_maat

@khartoum_aid_kitchen

@sudan_hf

@kandakamagazine

[nuroful]

After a 2-year siege El-Fashir, the capital of Darfur, has fallen to the terroristic UAE-funded RSF militias who now carry out ethnic killings against Black Sudanese with impunity.

Silence is complicity! To help with relief efforts, please spread the word and donate to the orgs listed under ‘urgent causes’ below:

@bsonblast | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

[sycamorality]

spotify is Pissing me off so im just gonna locally download all my (2.7k......) songs. Cant give me ads if theyre local mp3s. bitch.

[sycamorality]

soooooo does anyone know of any good programs for yoinking music from spotify with metadata included (one way or another idc if it matches it to youtube videos or not) or am i gonna hgave to manually go through all 2.7k songs myself

[rwrv]

this might have metadata

Spotify Downloader

Download songs, albums and playlists from Spotify instantly.

[sycamorality]

it seems to only do up to 100? which, i have. like 2.7k songs i wanna download

[oldmanyaoi-jpeg]

i will always shill for spotdl. it's a primarily command line tool which is an obvious turnoff for many but it's a phenomenal lil program

Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata

highly rec pairing it with mediamonkey so you can quickly sync your music to a phone or ipod

[vin-of-the-void]

my tags:

Heres all the things I mentioned!

Should mention you may want to learn port forwarding for using soulseek/nicotine+ to share your own files, some people wont share their files to people that aren't sharing themselves.

Soulseek

Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

And for editing tags in bulk:

Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.

Finding album covers in high res:

Search for high quality album covers from various online streaming services, music stores and databases.

Also gonna include some music players I like:

https://getmusicbee.com/

Tauon | Music player for the Desktop

Install via EXE, Flatpak or the Arch User Repository.

So far as iOS goes, this is the only one that supports replaygain and doesn't have in-app purchases, no lastfm support tho:

‎foobar2000

‎foobar2000 mobile is an advanced audio player for mobile devices. Main features: * Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, F

I'm not too familiar with android but the best one I found during a time I was planning to swap to android (still am eventually) is this:

Musicolet - Offline Music Player for Android

Musicolet is a small yet powerful offline Music Player for Android, which organizes and plays local audio-files stored on your device.

[flork-of-cows-official]

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scythe 2

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scythe 3

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scythe 4

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scythe 5

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[homunculus-argument]

Once upon a time there was a woman named Patricia, who worked in a bank. And one day a frog came in, a person-sized one. It wasn't the first time that dear Patty had seen or heard of a frog that big - she remembered the incident in the news: There had been a witch living in the woods, in a gingerbread house. Not a nice, helpful kind of witch or even a decent one who'd mind her own business, but one who hated everyone and everything and frequetly went out of her way to hurt people who couldn't defend themselves. So one day due to her supreme antisemitism God sent the frog that once plagued Egypt to fuck up her house. This, however, was not that frog.

When Patricia asked what the frog was after, he said he wanted a loan. When she asked what he wanted it for, the frog would not say. In return, the frog asked her whether she knows who he is. She could not say that she would, she had never seen this frog before. The frog asked her whether she knows who his father was. She said that she didn't. Turns out that this is the son of the giant frog sent by God. Pat is still not sure what to do with this information.

The frog digs into his suitcase and pulls out a tiny wooden figure, of a crudely carved dragon, and asks whether this is sufficient. Patricia is baffled, and asks the frog whether he could wait while she goes to see her boss and ask her opinion. The frog nods, stating that he was frankly hoping that she would. And to take the figurine with her.

So Patricia goes to her boss, showing her the figurine and explaining the situation, asking whether her boss knows what the wood dragon is or what to do with all of this. As Patricia speaks, her boss calmly picks up a newspaper from her desk and starts rolling it, soon wielding the rolled-up newspaper as a weapon as she addresses Patricia.

"It's a knick-knack, Patty [whack], give the frog a loan. His old man ate Rowling's home."

[txttletale]

people often talk about how d&d 5e is a horrible starting point that makes players struggle with other systems and that's true but it also does this for GMs. so many people i know had their first exposure to ttrpgs through d&d 5e and so view any GM or facilitator role with absolute dread assuming that it is an unpaid game design role that requires not only hours of prep every session but also to carefully micromanage every aspect of the game to singlehandedly balance it for the specific outcome of 'the party wins, but, like, it feels difficult' while simultaneously remembering everyone's rules for them & being treated like a substitute teacher

[footsteps-on-the-dance-floor]

I'm really interested to know which systems don't ask so much of the GM? I love 5e but it is really Exhausting.

[theresattrpgforthat]

Did someone ask if there was a ttrpg for that?

Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern, by Takuma Okada, is a collection of slice-of-life mini-games all about running a fantasy tavern together. It's got varying level of difficulty, with some games that work well for introducing yourself to the game, and others that are basically just excuses to roleplay! The game uses a deck of cards to introduce random elements, like ingredients for your dishes or elements of your tavern's atmosphere. If you like cozy fantasy stories with plenty of chances to dive into character moments, you'll love this game.

Faux Claw, by beccamay, is a game about cyberpunk criminal cats, with escalating consequences every time you fail. When you fail a roll, place your failing dice in a stack. The stack grows and grows until it falls, causing a big cat-astrophe! If you want goofy antics and big moments with cartoon-style action, you might like Faux Claw.

Against the Gloom, by Scryptid Games, is a game about fantastical musicians sailing across The Gloom, a dangerous void.It uses a d6 system inspired by Yahtzee! You "harmonize" your dice to get closer to success, and use musical magic to power your ship. If you want dramatic scenes that feel a little bit Saturday-morning-cartoon, you might want to check out this game.

Monster Guts 2e, by Wheels Within Wheels Publishing, is a game about killing monsters in order to defend your village and improve your own weapons and armor. If you're a fan of Breath of the Wild or the Monster Hunter franchise, you might find the cycle of play in this game really rewarding.

Atomic Powered Mutant Girls, by Cilindro Cubico, is a simple magical girls ttrpg inspired by Powerpuff Girls and similar Saturday morning cartoons. When you build your character, you roll 2d6 to randomly determine your girls' mutant magic powers, allowing for really kooky and interesting characters that might create some neat combos! If you like powerful characters and a little bit of creepy to go along with the cute, you might like this game.

Not sure if anything here fits your vibe? That's what the rest of my blog is for. <3

[theknucklehead]

I grew up reading Calvin & Hobbes, and one of my favorite running jokes was the snowmen that Calvin would build.

[shinraalpha]

i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

[elodieunderglass]

The mileage on this one is totally normal Elrond. Hey speaking of can I park him here for a while

[the-birth-of-art]

h/t to @namasteinside for the lol

[zinjanthropusboisei]

In "Unfinished Tales" there's a section where the Fellowship gets Gandalf to tell his side of the story about how he recommended Bilbo to Thorin's company and this is literally how it went down:

[carsen-daily]

There were just so many great additions to this post that I had to put them all in one place.

[schoolhater]

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

plugging gaza soup kitchen for those with the means to donate! it's another gazan-led initiative currently providing food, water, classes for children, and medical care across the north and south. you can donate through their website or their gofundme, or follow them on instagram for news about their projects

[snubbull-galar]

please also consider taking a look at dahnoun mutual aid (instagram link), another ghazzawi-run initiative doing great work using very little funds! they're currently distributing winter clothes for young children, as well as food and water, infant formula, tents, and cash. they've also got a chuffed

[do-you-have-a-flag]

tiktok: christinajulian_91

audio credit: anthony vincent

[abundantchewtoys]

That was not the audio I was expecting

[korixsonder]

i have to reblog this everytime i see it, its too good of a video

[rhynee]

the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

[paperometria]

Se non avete mai provato lo Spießbraten di Mannheim vi siete persi un bel po' della vita.

Intanto qui i siriani sfilano in auto strombazzando come ad una filiale dei mondiali.

[paperometria]

E questi sono favolosi.

[peolopeolo]

Però hanno un ragione ben più meritevole di una stupida partita di calcio

[bunjywunjy]

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

[bunjywunjy]

hnn I WANT IT SO BAD

[bunjywunjy]

on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!

IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS

[bunjywunjy]

now we enter the testing phase

yup. looks good.

[bunjywunjy]

Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

[digitaldiscipline]

Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?

[bunjywunjy]

OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement

[bunjywunjy]

*roar sound effect*

[bunjywunjy]

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

[bunjywunjy]

update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

[crochetninja]

There’s more!

[nuggsmum]

I love.

[bunjywunjy]

I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!

(just fine)

[bunjywunjy]

Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures

OP and Wexter can break all my toes and I would still send a thank you card

[bunjywunjy]

Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)

[bunjywunjy]

so it’s come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think that’s very cash money of her.

[bunjywunjy]

it’s been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!

ajdhf.

well that’s just,,,

REXCELLENT

[bunjywunjy]

two hundred THOUSAND notes???!?!

[bunjywunjy]

HELL

YES

HELL

FUCKING

YES.

Nearing on 375K Notes!!! What in the Paleolithic are y'all gonna do when they top 400K?!

[bunjywunjy]

cry, probably

[splendentgoddess]

Reblogging to get you one note closer to crossing the 400k mark!

[subbyboymax]

IT’S TIME

[bunjywunjy]

YOU MANIACS. okay, here we go!

HAIL TO THE QUEEN

LONG MAY SHE REIGN!

(she was a skater Rex, she said see you later Rex, she’s finally hit 400k!)

[bunjywunjy]

we’re coming to you live from Halloween 2022, where Wexter continues to be ridiculously jawsome!

this year we’re doing a much-beloved character from classic literature, “Dracula with inappropriate straw hat”

thanks everyone, may your weens be hollow and your candy be many!