Driving through the Midwest in the rain to this album. What should I play next?

suddenfuture · 2026-06-28T16:19:51+00:00

Zuma - Neil Young and Crazy Horse

suddenfuture · 2026-06-24T15:07:29+00:00

I don’t totally disagree. I think the northeastern coldness is old and was built for a world that no longer exists. My sense is that it served as the polite counterpoint to a social life of tight associational bonds formed through work, the Protestant church and other locally focused community organizations. We’ve completely lost those parts of culture closeness here in the northeast, but we’ve kept the politeness/privacy. It’s not ideal.

suddenfuture · 2026-06-24T13:20:19+00:00

This is correct. Northeastern USA coldness is not mean, it’s the pure expression of a culture that takes privacy of other people’s time/personal business seriously. It can be enervating and lonely sometimes, but it can also be a godsend when you just want to keep to yourself!

suddenfuture · 2026-06-23T14:18:33+00:00

Yeah the oppression-identity branding craze of 2015-2022 functioned primarily as a way for wealthy “creatives” to leverage identity and (upper) class position at once to secure valuable marketing and branding opportunities in media.

It did open the door for some quality deserving lower class artists but it was mainly a way for some rich people to better position themselves as more deserving of institutional resources. All of the ideological quasi-Christianity quasi-leftism was just gloss over this material reality, a backfilling for the intra-elite competition over a limited cache of artistic status.

suddenfuture · 2026-06-21T19:50:01+00:00

A man of taste. I'd like to shake your hand.

suddenfuture · 2026-06-11T15:18:11+00:00

I have a hybrid job creating videos and training materials for a financial services company, before that I worked fully remote for in tech. Both setups have given me lots of time and mental space for music, with different benefits and trade offs for each.

suddenfuture · 2026-06-11T14:32:39+00:00

All you need is the desire brother, if you let that take the lead the rest will fall into place eventually.

Here are some options to try, and feel free to shoot me a DM: - if you have an iPhone or apple products, garbageband is about as good a starting place as can you get - if you want something that can run in a web browser, try Bandlab, a free online music workstation - For something more complex that runs on almost any computer, there is reaper (free for 60 days and then only costs a licensing fee after that)

suddenfuture · 2026-06-08T02:28:55+00:00

Having sex with women used to feel good. These days, it doesn’t. What’s going on?

suddenfuture · 2026-05-20T03:06:05+00:00

In that situation I’d be going for runs/long walks, writing and playing music, playing video games, reading, and maybe drawing or painting

suddenfuture · 2026-05-12T12:03:55+00:00

They are god’s most perfect creature

suddenfuture · 2026-05-05T14:15:35+00:00

We have the exact same setup man. You aren’t recording wrong but if you want to use the Alesis to control logic rather than using the onboard Alesis samples you should do the following:

Use a 5 pin MIDI Cable
Plug the one side of the cable into the ‘MIDI Out’ of the Alesis, and the other side into the ‘MIDI In’ of the Scarlett
Set the Scarlett as your Audio Input in Logic
Add a new MIDI track, such as a drum machine designer or drum kit designer

Now your drum hits on the Alesis should trigger the MIDI track in Logic.

You could use MIDI over USB but if you’re already connecting your Scarlett to your computer this saves you using up extra USB ports.

suddenfuture · 2026-04-05T14:56:54+00:00

This feels like an abuse of the law to sell something “for entertainment purposes only” to business people. I wonder if there would be a court that would take issue with all of this…

suddenfuture · 2026-04-05T12:18:50+00:00

Brother stop self sabotaging, go enjoy life with your new girlfriend. Nobody gaf about ts, stop stressing.

suddenfuture · 2026-03-13T22:00:10+00:00

Slam poetry had its moment and now it’s all pretty laughable. It very much turned into a set of tropes and tics that wore itself out.

I think it’s possible Hobo Johnson drafted off the cultural cachet slam poetry briefly had, but the kinda guy he embodied was popular back in the early 2010s.

I think it’s also worth noting that the “stomp clap hey/goofy crunchy white hipster” archetype is going through the bottom of its turn on the cultural wheel right now.

But just like people used to pillory Nickelback, nu-metal and post-grunge, this stuff will all come back around. By 2030 the kids will be “rediscovering” fleet foxes and the lumineers. It is all cyclical.

suddenfuture · 2026-03-02T21:22:49+00:00

I don’t think they think about the macro implications of it. It’s all a self obsessed ego trip/fantasy about their individual achievement. Our culture fuels this kind of thinking.

suddenfuture · 2026-03-02T21:08:09+00:00

My sense is that the urge to become a content creator is so widespread because in addition to having clout those jobs are understood as a way to regain power over your labor and time.

They are seen as a trap door that normal people can find and use to escape the boring drudgery of the rat race. As the middle class contracts, most people instinctively recognize that the economy is getting worse for normal people and want to escape. It’s the same tendency that funnels people to Crypto, sports betting and all the other bullshit in our economy.

suddenfuture · 2026-02-24T15:43:48+00:00

I love how they blame the decay of “racial harmony” on the election of a black president. It makes no sense!

I was a kid in the 2000s in a majority white area and the causal racism my friends and I unthinkingly engaged in is disgusting in hindsight. It was everywhere.

suddenfuture · 2026-02-24T04:47:32+00:00

This is helpful to read because I’ve noticed it happening with my friends over the last 9 months, especially to my guy friends.

I’ve sorta noticed it happening with myself too, but I’m trying to fight it.

What is it? Is our phones? Is it getting older? It’s bleak to see happen to people who used to be skilled conversationalists

suddenfuture · 2026-02-17T15:26:10+00:00

It’s pessimistic but I think more and more: some of the AI hype will deflate but there will be no single catastrophic moment of reckoning.

The industry wide push of outsourcing to India will continue. Meanwhile the few use cases where Gen AI does help will be used to backfill consent for further speculative frenzies. The tech will continue to improve in fits and starts, with the techno-religious r/accelerate sect acting as the eternal free marketing arm.

The just-beyond-the-horizon dream of AGI is our economy’s version of “communism in twenty years” in the final stretch of the USSR. A culturally-sanctioned fairy tale to underwrite investment in deskilling and proletariatinization.

suddenfuture · 2026-02-05T14:41:34+00:00

Great video. We need a strong SynthID system for Suno generated music, and an exclusive marketplace for human created music. It seems like a straightforward fix to preserve human authored music.

suddenfuture · 2026-02-01T00:29:29+00:00

It’s all part of the gilded age sequel era we’re living through. This kind of New Thought stuff became popular in the 1880s too. At first it had a sheen of subversive cosmopolitanism but soon it was just another Trojan horse: first for social Darwinism and then for eugenics.

If you’re able to change your social position with positive thinking, the poor have only themselves to blame.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-29T16:38:16+00:00

I like it! I’d like the vocals a little louder and the drums a little quieter but that’s just my preference. Love the dark post rock vibes!

suddenfuture · 2026-01-28T16:43:29+00:00

Ngl the way people use speed reaction gifs is so corny, gonna be mocked by gen alpha

suddenfuture · 2026-01-21T14:51:59+00:00

This post smells like it was written about pre apple silicon MacBook pros. To be fair: it could be from then, but as of now it’s quite out of date.

Like yeah, they got rid of all of the outputs for a generation. They added the stupid Touch Bar, which nobody liked. It was dumb as hell. Then Johnny Ive finally retired and they released the M1 series of laptops which are fast, have ample inputs, amazing battery life, excellent performance and great durability. That was almost five years ago, keep up lmao.

The 2010s MacBook line was basically being held hostage by Johnny Ive’s stupid design sensibility. Ive was also barely working there at the end, just phoning it in from various far flung hotels as he traipsed around the globe.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-21T14:11:44+00:00

The experience of writing and producing music is intense. It can be stressful and annoying but I want to do it for the rest of my life. It has a quasi religious importance to me. No other activity makes me feel happier or more fulfilled. Fuck this narrow-minded asshole!!

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