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Fuckin' a me too! I should add that I recorded just an unbelievable amount of horrible, horrible bands. That's where I got some of my best experience in tho.

its all about doing the work... soemtiems I did projects for abnds (a lot of times actually) where the music was so shitty that only the process amde it fun. No matter how hard I worked there was a limit on the quality of the finished product, but the work is addicting and great.

I watched this 4 part documentary recently on HBO about Jimmy Iovine and Nikhil needs to watch that and absorb the single-mined pursuit in these people. The workaholism and the willingness to put it all on the line, the focus on rpocess.

I feel like Nikhil is mroe itnerested inr esults than anything else. And Ic are about the finished product, but no matter ow prud I am of anything I do right after finishing, within an hour i am depressed because the fun of making it is over. its just dead to me, out in the world. I feel proud and I might even be able to listen to it years down the line, but I am always about the process, the fun of getting from humming in the shower to a recording that soudsn good on every system its played on and soudns pretty much the way I imagined it.... well, hopefully even ebtter thanks to the fun experimenting. But its sad too, ebcause most of the point for me was the work.

I don't find myself getting frustrated with stuff when tis not working, i justget at it. I get frustrated when stuff breaks! I ahte having tot ake time out to solder. i ahte having to do computer work tog et my shit running right like the last fucking OS update Iw as forced into! ARGH! But making isntruments obey me and making the tools do magic shit to the recording? See that can't take logn enough. I have gotten so fast now its over too quick. Its like the opposite of sex. When you're a kid its over too quick and its better as a grown up with some experience.... but with music you get good and the whole process gets quick. I putter around just to stretch it out now. take big breaks, get involved in other things so i have something cool to look forward to. like the vocals on all that stuff I bounced off you and Kyja. i think Iw as sretching to make the project last, man

Seriously. That's why I flat out need chatter Jim & I do- here or email, etc.

You just don't find many people who just love every bit from the music, to the math, to the theory, to the studio. Rarely am I not thinking of music in one form or another. Lots of friends can only listen so long or follow to a point where I'm just above their heads.

It's only shear force of will I don't change every conversation I have into something related to music.

I still have no problem focusing on the process even if I don't like the material.

For those reasons I feel the exact same way. I'm happiest while I'm working it's genuinely kind of a bummer when something is finished. I was notorious for being the guy in the band that wanted to scrap material quickly. In some cases after just a few shows. Didn't work, but I kept trying.

Jim, what's this HBO show? I'm about to breakdown & get HBO GO again...

That Disrupters show just looks like a fun watch...

dude, I have problems having a non-music, day job type career the past decade because I'll eventually ask eveyr motherfucker in the office what their favorite record is, often right in the middle of a conversation about soemthing else.... they're liket alking about work shit and I'm thinking, 'I'll bet this guy is a James Brown fan.' Or like someone will be talking at work and say soemthing remotely about sound and I'll be like "shit, that's just haas effect." nd people already thiink I'm nuts because I talk to myself all day and like hold a telecaster while I sit at the computer and do my do-ggoder healthcare funding job.... play a blues lick, type a littl;e, think some, figure out the problem, strum an A chord, solve it. Get the money, help more sick people... by the way, fuck Trump care.

HBO show? The Defiant Ones. DIf you have an apple TV you can rent HBO shows ala carte with the HBO NOW app insteada HBO GO.

you know what Nikhil? you need to relax into it to slow down and enjoy making the song happen.... net time you do any music work you gotta dim the lights and pour yourself a gin and tonic and just mellow out before you hit play... hook up whatever shitty computer speakers you have and set 'em kinda low and just chill... lsiten real quiet, sip your drinkk, go in there and maybe high pass the piano at 20hz, then roll it abck, listen...

and chill! Imagine you're Dr Dre.. he's just relaxed, kicking out dope beats, no stressing about the details but paying attention to them and making the sonics rock solid while he enjoys himself. That's you. Like a little christian gangsta drinking tangueray, praisin' the lord with some smooth parallel bus compression... got me?

YEA MAN! I got it thanks for the encouragement :)

Well now,

I got me some seagream's gin,

everybody got their cups but they ain't chipped in.

These types of things happen all the time,

ya gotta get yours before I gotta get mine,

but everything is fine when you're worshipping the big JC,

he multiplies them fishes while he's macin' on the bitches,

with that ho Mary Magdelene,

she fine,

when the party's bumpin' hard he turns your water into wine.

Yo Christ, DROP THE BEAT!

beeothch;

Rollin' down the street with my bible,

sippin' on gin and juice,

prayed back,

with my mind on the scripture and the scripture on my mind.

Hahaha, that's where I always crack! Any audio principal.

I tried to explain comb filtering & resonant peaks to my doctor yesterday so she knew how my ears were working.

I tried explaining the Hass effect to the client I've been worling with on Tuesday & I dunno why but I always expect them to have some sort of

"Wow, no way! That's what that sound is/what's happening?!"

Ya know, like in that Bill Nye "what a cool world we live in!" kinda way.

Noooope, usually it get's a "Huh." reaction & I realize I should reign it in.

and guessing who's into what?! It's like musical Astrology only it actually does tell you something about a person. Couldn't turn it off if I wanted to.

to quote the vernacular, Bill Nye is DOPE. I still follow him on facebook.

The guys got charisma. Love the new confrontational Bill we've gotten over the last few years too.

For me?

The only unforgivable sin is not being curious. I can forgive just about anything else.

Hmm, Jim you seem to know lot about Jesus(but kinda wrong way though). You still have time to accept Him[Because he loves you, still] :)

I love Jesus. But he's always like, 'shitdog, I am not ready, I'm still a virgin and I'm not gay."

so i'm like, "who's ya daddy!"

we are talking about a questionable historical chracter here, its like asking if I love Solon, the law giver of athens.. I dunno? idealogically? sweet, good guys here, but in a historiographical context? come on guys? I don't do faith. I want it to be 2legit2quit, homey.

Understand I fully aprove of JC's politics. But I debate whether he is even a real dude due to a thorough lack of archaeological and even historical evidence in the serious sens eof those terms. I mean, I assume the guy was some galilean dude, which isn't even fully provable, but what does that mean? I love paul of tarsus, a great guy, a visionary and uber politico. If you subtract his certainty that the world would end imminently he was quite the thinker. Plato/Socrates next level shit.

I am not some uneducated yabo, dude. I am also ot an idiot, I have very high IQ if you believe in that bullshit. I am smart enough to disregard my own intellect. Otherwsie i ouldn;t put up with shit from nobody, beeeotch!

I am joking all the ime, you get that, right?

peole don't get , my continuous sarcasm...

his pro GMO shit was killer

by the way Nikhil, being extra blunt now, stop playing the guitar, you suck at this particular instrument dude... just quit. I was playing sessions at your age. You suck ass. I had a stiff drink and lsitened t that track and you guys blow goats. If there was a god he would strike you down.. Stop. Stop making music. You are so bad at it. make websites. accept who you are and where your abiilties reside. I am being mean now to help the universe. God damn, I lsitened and everything is wrong with that recording, fuck the mix, I couldn't mix it because you guys just suck at singing ad playing. STOP IT

PLEASE

you have talent, its not audible.. get real! my 3 year old will schol you on piano, I am now fed up with you. Jesus loves you as web designer. Take a graphic design course though. your visual sense is shit too. his is from an MFA. I don'yt work design but I know it backwards andforwards, no shortage of education, kid.

Motherfucker, just give this shit up and be a coder, its whhat you are programmed to do. Seriously, you are one of the least musical and least artistic people I have ever spoken too. You need to find yourself and know yourself.

Don't bother to thank me when you realize who and what you are. Just leave me alone.

FUCK OFF YOU DELUDED LITTLE SHIT

BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH

shit, I encouraged you to collect your pay and told you howbto handle it... you owe me 15% motherfucker!

get it together

😂 😂, cool down babe, you had too much of scotch