philosophy: "I build things"

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+    + :page: the curious case of Amon Tobin's Creatures
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     - I don't want to be tied to SoundCloud with where I host my music, but don't currently have any infrastructure set up for where I could host it for people to listen to.
-
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+- I bought Amon Tobin's [Bricolage](https://amontobin.bandcamp.com/album/bricolage) way back in September last year, but only today noticed that my copy seemed to be... corrupted?
+
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+    - while listening to it at work, I noticed it cut off suddenly at 3:50. what the fuck was that about?
+
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+    - so I downloaded the album again, and now the track is fine... but the pitch is different from the original?
+
+        % id = "01JBAGT4507W42V0ZJ963XFH9J"
+        - what a weird anomaly.
+
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+- on the note of Bricolage, did you know there's a track missing from the digital release? apparently due to some copyright issues around samples.
+
+    % id = "01JBAGT4508V8Q7DEK37W853PR"
+    - I love copyright law. (fuck copyright law)

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 - welcome to the purgatory!
 this page used to host all my music reviews, but those have since been moved to [the music blog][branch:01J8YY31QJQJYW1TTYSHKB2AV1].
 

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     - my mind was like, "how could you ruin your awesome track with these vocals?????"
 
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 - I take a much different approach to listening to music nowadays.
 there's meaning behind these distorted vocals.
 there's a _vibe_ OPN was trying to craft here.

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         - but if you decide to stay please approach these thoughtfully and respectfully, with more
         of a a "this is interesting" than "I disagree with this" vibe
 
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+        - there's a reason I don't include these branches in [page:treehouse/new][] alright
+
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 + :page: hedonic treadmill ([wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill))
 
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         - even if it means being called an old fart at some point.
         timeless > trendy
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++ :page: "I build things"
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+    - aka how to sound like the most boring software developer ever.
+
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+    - I can't count the amount of times I've heard this phrase.
+    You say it, and it sounds so profound.
+    So grand.
+
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+        - *You. Build. Things.* after all.
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+        + but behind those no words is no substance.
+        You build things, so what?
+
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+            - [the film starts, the film ends. nothing is said inbetween.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SILVQpqmH7U){.secret}
+
+            % id = "01JBAK3T1Z09EMEVYZDWM1Z9MX"
+            - [humpty dumpty sat on the wall...](https://youtu.be/AIxY_Y9TGWI?t=475)
+
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+    - if you're so uncreative as to _only_ be able to say you build things...
+    yeah you're not very creative are you.
+
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+    - liquidex yells at cloud.
+
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+        - there's a reason I call myself a programming wizard.
+        that one word tells you so much more about my nature than "I build things."
+
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+            - the wizard part is about wanting to go deeper, to explore every nook and cranny of the software I obsess over.
+            uncover arcane knowledge few to no people know about.
+
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+    - fucking, EVERYBODY builds things in this industry, arrite
+
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+        - "I build things" is something literally _every_ creative can say.
+
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+    + by the way here's a funny: <https://godly.website/>
+    have fun browsing bad UX design xoxo
+
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+        - this website feels like it never had a UX designer look at it either.
+
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+            - explore the [directory](https://godly.website/directory)---a list of categories, each of which is a link that takes up the entire width of the screen,
+            so you never have any space to autoscroll with your middle mouse button
+
+                % id = "01JBAK3T1Z506G168Q7GPW78QS"
+                - the fact the categories include boring garbage such as: "Agency", "E-commerce", "Startup", "Development", "Mobile App", "Finance", "SaaS",
+                and of course the badges on the front page start with "AI" and "Web3" tells you a lot about the creators.
+
+                "quality" my ass.
+
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+        - this website doesn't even work without JavaScript, even though it's purely static content.
+
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+            - look I know treehouse barely works without JS, but _at least you can read it._
+
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+        - an entry on this website provoked me to write this.
+        I don't want to call out the specific one because it would be missing the point.

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 [read][page:programming/blog/haku]
 
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+- ### the curious case of Amon Tobin's Creatures
+
+a weird anomaly I noticed while listening to some breaks
+
+[read][page:music/creatures]
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 - I was listening to Oneohtrix Point Never's _Magic Oneohtrix Point Never_, and had some retrospective thoughts about the distorted vocals in...