#explanitory

[phoenix-nightfire]

Self #explanitory. #foggybottom #lol #abitoffun #tomclancysthedivision2 #hahaha @ubisoftanz @ubisoft #fuckoff https://www.instagram.com/p/B2_jtziAsp9/?igshid=xgei9ea98ovp

[serotoninshakes]

Money Right (BPM Fiasco)

I really don’t know how to go about explaining my creation of this track. I guess I just threw the Lex Luger starter kit on a drum rack and figured out which hi hats I liked best then I got em runnin. Then I opened up the Can’t Tell Me Nothing Acapella, chopped out the intro loop that I wanted and warped it to the grid. After that I did a LOT of fooling around with kick drums and couldn’t decide on any particular drum sample(s) so I went with the Nicky Romero KICK plugin and chose the Trap1 preset which allows for pitched drums. I then dabbled around on the Push until I found something that I thought sounded good with lex luger snare & hats as well as the Kanye loop. The instrument labeled “Dat Smoov” is some sort of a guitar/organish sample (simpler “VEH1 Cutted Sounds -030″) I found and really liked. I threw an EQ 8 and chorus on there for a larger sound. Plick is another instance of simpler using “VEE Synth Sound 037″, EQ 8, Sausage fattener and sidechain compressed to “dat smoov” After dabbling around and finding some patterns I liked I layered everything together and was reasonably pleased with the end result. Especially the Jersey/BMore Club switch-up at the end but it still needed more low-end, so I threw on “Dance Bass Selecta” (Option #3) and copied the pattern from the KICK channel and threw it under the kick drum for some appropriate sub-bass I also used an uplifter/downlifter (it’s an uplifter but I reversed it when using it for the 3rd time at the end) from the Vengeance pack in the beginning and end of the song Finally, I recorded the master track to Audio 8 with no clipping and added on the BBE Sonic Sweet D82 Sonic Maximizer, tried to fill the track up a bit more then flattened it, exported and uploaded it here.

[thepotentiallyreverend]

Explaining the last picture

I hope I don't lose any followers over posting a shirtless picture. I always tried to avoid that as I know many of you have strong feelings about such things. But I have many kind messages from you all in my inbox asking how I am doing. I tried so hard to express in words, but I couldn't.

Tonight I was updating my selfies for the inevitable dating profile I have to put up. I dreaded it--I hate dating--especially as a gay guy. I didn't catch it at the time as I was taking snapshots, but when I went to edit my pictures, I froze when I reached this one.

This is a snapshot into my soul right now I thought to myself. I could scarcely believe it. Nothing could portray the sorrow mixed with hope, the mass of darkness in my soul being fended against by the light, the great struggle going on within me right now and the support I am receiving such as this picture, and the overwhelming grace I am feeling in the midst of the destruction of everything I know (a real "The Tower" moment...).

So please, don't worry about me--but I appreciate your prayers and kind words greatly. I thought that I, in turn, would share a mirror into my soul to say the words that I hope in my heart are true, I'm okay.

[bird-in-a-business-suit]

So here's the thing...

My fear of 'not being good enough' will swallow me one day if I don't combat it one of the only ways I know. So, even though no one will see them, I'll be putting up my writing here. Some might take a while, and other's I might just dump all at once. But if you do like it, criticism is appreciated, and, you know, tell ya friends (or something).

So yeah.

[lnfrkstmblr]

Leon Frerks

Yes, I just unfollowed a bunch of people, please don't take it personal  my dashboard was just to crowded  and

No I'm not quitting tumblr.

So please stop asking me why I unfollowed you or if I plan to stop blogging :)

[8sandcastles]

(in the beautiful)

— — — — many say nothing beautiful needs to seek or rather needs to demand attention

such imprecise truisms abound in the world

beauty flourishes flowing into life’s long-term structures in response to two basic stimuli

the crowning of goodness as a reward from or gift of love from some cloud of witnessing or from that which is higher

and spreads outward from the subtle embraces of desire built slowly by proofs of pleasures into an entrapping gravity-center or a purpose-hungry eternal fire

the truth about beauty is that it has already attained the merit of attention a therefore draws such attentions forth naturally

[modelultima]

Why paranorman didn't do so well despite having good stuff in it

People didn't like it and I know it had good morals and quotes and representation but shit man if people don't like a movie ya can't change that y'know even if you show them all that it did right