iPad 2022 - rekzkarz

Working on an album using iPad as creation tool.  (Pic is Drambo.)

It's amazing -- while Ableton Live on computer is really straightforward and I made a lot of neat stuff, the iPad method is completely different.

Making music on iPad is harder, it's more chaotic, and I can't do things the same way -- more performance-based 'luck' and less focussed strategizing around a timeline.  I really love it.

So far, my tools are:

Drambo

Aum

Koala (sampler & AUV3 update)

Turnado

FAC Drums and Maximina

Perforator

and a bunch of other plugins.

It's been interesting to watch some of the tools I thought I would use (like Cubasis 2 & 3) and Beatmaker sit unused, but some things I never anticipated being important are essentials.

I will change this as I continue creating, but so far (already 2023) I have 10 tracks.  They aren't complete, they aren't perfect, and most of all they are missing the standard song construction -- but they are passion projects.

Lastly,. I bought a CD Baby album for $100 awhile back and never published.  I have a bunch of older tracks, I'm considering throwing them all into a massive compilation.  Not sure how that would work.  Exciting to make music!!!  

Heres a track: Product Equals Profit

Wonder how many people will think my stuff even is music?  I'm not expecting to quit my job or make money, just doing a passion projects.  Soul food!

Movie Theaters - the end looms

Oct 2022 marked movie theaters worst performance in 20 years.   https://www.yahoo.com/news/october-box-office-sinks-21-131500823.html

I'm unclear on something -- theaters may have a big picture (& sometimes good sound), but they have tons of drawbacks -- overpriced food & drinks, annoying rude audiences, kids kicking and messing around, and cold / flu / COVID.

Meanwhile home theaters are better than ever, episodic TV series are more interesting and look just as good as movies, and streaming is cheap.

Why would people see a movie theater as a better experience?

Movie theaters have gone the way of the casette/CD/DVD/BluRay. They are relics that don't know their days are over.

rekzkarz (.com) ends 5/2021 -- domain expired & bought: it's become Chinese Spam

 I haven't been blogging in awhile.  I liked that I had my domain - rekzkarz dot com - and that I could use that instead of rekzkarz.blogspot.com, but I found it annoying that it cost between $12-$18/year.  

When I first got the domain, it was $8 for 3yrs and it was a novelty.  But now I had to do stuff with Godaddy -- who always try to upsell you anytime you call, and it seemed like too much money just to go to a Blog, etc.

So I called GoDaddy & asked what happened?  Turns out my last payment was May 2020 and it didn't get renewed May 2021, so someone bought it --> who the heck besides me wants REkzkaRZ (???) <-- and they immediately filled it with what looks like a spam site.

When I look at their crappy site, full of GIF banners for casinos, it's just annoying and dumb.   But it's also kind of how the internet is becoming warped & ruined.

The premise was anyone who wanted to could post information, make books / magazines, do reporting, etc.  But over time, and the end of net neutrality, what's happened is that people are pulled to Youtube and Facebook, Reddit fight videos are more interesting than the news, and also all these sites are removing any reporting / data that they disagree with.  They want to filter news & information, which literally goes against the USA Constitutional guarantee of Freedom of Speech & Freedom of the Press.

You have to give some credit to the devious thinking behind subverting Freedom of Speech & Press.  Couple this subversion with Trump's ingenius invention of Fake News and Fake Facts, and you have a challenge to the INFORMATION REVOLUTION core principle, and instead that revolution becomes degraded into the lack of reliable information revolution.

The main positives out of my website getting moved to someone else are as follows:

• For the foreseeable future, I will rely on Google Blogger to show my site for free online and I won't use any paid service for domain redirection.
• When the GoDaddy guy told me someone else had purchased my domain and I had no more products with them, then said, "Thanks for being part of the Godaddy team", I got to respond, "I don't think I am anymore."  Wow that makes me feel unusually happy.

Makes me wonder how good it would feel to delete myself out of Reddit & Facebook & Instagram & whatever other online sites are out there vampiring me & my data?  Well, this is a good start.