I’ve just submitted two songs to the Ambient Online “Fire” themed compilation, which should be released late this month or in early 2019.
I have one called “Electrostatic Dust Fountain” in the previous compilation, The Moon.
Cover art for Materials is done. I need to jump into mastering it, but with my process that doesn’t take too long. (If I sold enough to justify it, I would definitely look into professional mastering, probably checking with Obsidian Sound first. But I think I do pretty okay at it.)
I expect the next project will be an unthemed album, and there is no ETA at this time.
Having written up my modular system as it currently stands, I’m thinking about shaking things up a bit for a version 1.2, or 1.5 perhaps. More on that in another post, probably, once I’ve worked out some plan versions.
One GIF to represent two shows!
I’m not that much into TV, but sometimes get caught up in whatever my spouse is watching. The latest thing is The Great British Baking Show. All too often it makes us want desserts, and I’ve had a couple of dreams about it.
Bee and Puppycat is a mostly excellent, weird, cute, occasionally creepy show. The whole first season (if it can be called that) is a little over an hour. Marina Sirtis and Ellen McLain have minor roles in it. Here’s the pilot and here’s the rest. There will be more in 2019.
Steven Universe, my favorite show, is finally going to end its 4-month hiatus on December 17. It’s a Christmas miracle! It feels like it could be the end of the whole show, except that we’ve been told it’s not.
I was kind of into The Expanse and need to remind myself to look for season 3.
…when your electric company (which primarily runs on coal) mails their customers postcards saying they can save the environment by switching to paperless billing.
So… there are all kinds of ways one could introduce oneself. Let’s just go with a quick bullet point list here, because a lot of my future posts are likely to dive deep into specifics.
Name: you can call me Starthief.
Starthief?: Yeah, It’s a nickname my spouse gave me once because I was playing dirty at Mario Party.
Really?: I mean, also I like stars generally, both in an astronomical sense and for various personal spiritual reasons, so at the end of 2015 when I wanted to choose a new band name, I went with that.
Age: still younger than 30… in hexadecimal.
Gender:
No, really…?: non-binary.
Pronouns: “they/them,” or anything, I’m not fussy.
I’m starting up a new blog here because I’m finally breaking ranks with Facebook. I’ve been unsettled by their ethics and business model for a while, but finding out they were trying to deflect criticism with the old “paid protesters funded by George Soros” while somehow simultaneously calling criticism anti-Semitic, and pretending to care about the state of democracy and the validity of news sources, was the last straw.
After dabbling a little with journaling on a Commodore 64, I started more seriously writing in the early 90s on a DOS machine. I kept that going sporadically until the web became a real thing. I may still have a copy of that kicking around somewhere. Then I blogged with hand-coded HTML for a while. Then there was LiveJournal, which was nice for a while.
Yeah.
But somehow we all jumped ship for Facebook and Twitter (and then LJ kind of imploded anyway, bought by a Russian company that was decidedly anti-LGBTQIA+ among other things). And with the rise of social media as such… well, you know how that went.
So this blog is something of a way to rewind to before social media was a thing, as such, and give me an outlet where I can write actual paragraphs.
Because unlike Facebook, some of my readers won’t already know me and will find this via my main site or stumble into it via Google, my next post will probably be a proper introduction.
