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My friend Forrest recently called me the world’s premiere gift horse mouth looker. Whenever I’m paid a compliment, I feel the need to explain myself. My debilitating anxiety prevents me from doing normal things, like choosing an ice cream flavor, folding my laundry, or falling in love. All I can do is whine, whimper, wail, mewl, moan, make a fuss. One way I shut myself up is through somatic vocal toning exercises. I close my eyes, fill my lungs with air, and slowly say “Vvvvvvvvoooooooooooommmmmmmooooooooooo.” The vibrations make me dizzy, dislodging me from consciousness as my heartbeat becomes a kick drum under my verbal drone, and for a moment, I feel blissfully stupid, detached from my self, fully present in my body. No thoughts. Head empty.
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Singing in a falsetto baby voice makes everything better. Most things I write these days starts out in baby voice and only evolves into “normal” voice later. Think like alt-J guy singing voice meets Blossom Dearie meets Tiny Tim. Singing this way when writing makes everything cute and dumb (two unforgetabble tenets of all good art). Takes the edge off of when you’re trying to write super emo serious lyrics too and gives you perspective. Goo goo ga!
Jul 12, 2022
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Very entertaining!!! What little diddle will you create?? Patterns, covers of songs, the possibilities are endless !!!
Also it's suuuuper good for you; stimulates your vagus nerve, detoxifies your body, helps with blood flow and improves your immune system amongst so many other things
Hum like nobodys business baby!!
Feb 19, 2024
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it shakes things up a bit & you get to try out/practice a new accent or cadence w/o embarassment
Feb 23, 2024
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In 2006, a YouTube account called Artssiren uploaded a series of clips for an amateur documentary called “New York City Subculture ‘96.” The doc is set in the East Village and mostly features downtown squatters hanging out on St. Marks stoops talking about tattoos, philosophy, and love. Characters include Kia, a topless punk who confronts a pig, Bernie, a squatter who wants to convince you he doesn’t look like a squatter, and Randy, the most emo boy in America. The film was made by Nia Janeen Brown, who now goes by Chloé Le Roux. She deserves a retrospective.
Sep 13, 2022
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It’s a weird way to end a recommendations list, but there are things you should just keep to yourself. Also, you should be comfortable with the fact that there are things from which you’re gatekept. Anyway, thanks for reading my recommendations lol.
Sep 13, 2022
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If you don’t have a DAW like Ableton you can use Audacity, an open source music software, to slow down time. Audacity comes with an effect called Paulstretch, named after an old program called Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch that was used to make this iconic YouTube video. It allows you to slow down audio files by inordinate amounts, turning silly little love songs into monumental drone landscapes. You can discover hidden melodies buried in the waveform and imagine life outside of time.
Sep 13, 2022