Wednesday, Dec 09

 09.12.2020

Deadlift

215 - 3 sets of 3

207,8 - 1 failed rep with hook grip, really slapped my finger, then 1 good rep

And that was it.

I was recording the vocals for the contest song. I think I'm not going to keep anything I recorded today, but I did give myself some vocal guidance for the future - possibly tomorrow. There's little time left until 14th. I was generating a lot of popping in the mic - first I tried my condenser, then my dynamic. I should've tried the condenser with foam as well as the pop filter. Instead I went with my old option, but this time I didn't really control it too well, and blew a lot of air into the mic. Watched some old and new tutorials, tried to figure out reverb and delay - I like the kind of reverb that sounds like you're in the field, or at least you think it sounds like that - long, but not very loud. Oh my, I really want to rerecord everything. I posted my track in Farvann's discord today (only instrumental), so I might as well post it here.

Here's the soundcloud link - https://soundcloud.com/4n09/death-on-the-ice-lake-instrumental

And congratulate me, I fonally learned how to embed audio onto blogger :D Apparently you just copy the embed code and put it in the htlm version of the post. I didn't know it existed!

A very curious thing for the "r4nd0m th1ng 0f th3 d4y"

You can't take me seriously now, can you? :)

Recently I was reading Ross The Boss' wikipedia page, and noticed a supposed link to the page about the album "Denial of Death" by Brain Surgeons, but instead it lead me to this page - this is a psychology/philosophy book by Ernest Becker, and it strangely coincided with my last "random thing of the day" - it showed me a possible perspective on myself, about how I'm creating meaning for my life by making up an immaterial higher persona of myself, someone who does something meaningful. You'd think it'd be sad or depressing, but somehow it's even more inspiring for me. This purported realisation of the illusion of meaning in human life doesn't convince me completely, yet I do believe that it reflects "actual reality" (which, I guess, is my own schoolboy term for the unachieavable reality that reflects the absolute objective truth). I do believe in truth. I choose to believe in it. I believe that there's meaning in creation of meaning.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

October 08-09, Sunday and Monday - Bench, PP, small PR, nice Olympic style Squat

Image
 08.10.2023 Great day, feeling great. Woke up earlier than normal, worked more that usual. Feeling extra energy. The night was cold. I kept seeing dreams about (spoiler) The Emperor from BG3, hehehe 😉 Cause I watched one of his cutscenes, even though I ain't been playing yesterday. Yesterday, I was drained. I was drained on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at night, to a varying degree. Today I feel much more fresh than I have been in a long time. Like, a part of my brain is extra creative. Also, I have been eating rather little - a couple eggs swallowed hastily, a few bananas, a few glasses of milk. Two mokas and one small conventional brew. I'm thinking of doing bench today, and PP + Squat tomorrow. Reasonable? Yes, on the surface it is reasonable. Light-medium-light bench, sets of 5, around 120. 4 sets of 5, maximum velocity, no pauses whatsoever. When you've got the same muscle strength composition as me it sort of feels easier to bench with a pause, and bumpi...
Read more

grain economic flesh

Image
 10.04.2023 Nice day. Not too bad. Sleep - 4/10, nutrition - 6/10. Ran out of coffee, used some of the robusta from the stash. Now having one, fighting the desire to lie down, cause if I lie down I'm just not gonna be able to sleep. Jammed. I figured back in the day I made a lot of these micro-songs that are guitar and bass and midi drums. So, that's one of the things that fuels creativity. You have to save them and listen to them. Then you get something. My old headphones are buzzing a lot. Might be time to buy new ones soon. *** Today's workout is 4 sets of 5 with 77,5 percent. A sixth session in the program which I've been using in defferent variations for everything. So, 77,5% of 150 would be 116. But I'm not perfectly sure if I can do that well in my current shape. So, I might want to get up to 115 starting from a lighter weight. Maybe from 110. Now that I think about it, it's actually quite doable and it's very late. I don't want to hurry. And I do...
Read more

September 14th - Engaging in a variety of hobbies at once, nonchalant grip PR

Image
 14.09.2022 DL plan - 175 for 5, 200 for 5, 210 - 5*5, 200*1 clean single, maybe even overhand. Nice day. Slept very little. Ate a lot before I went to bed, so I had no appetite when I woke up. Tried to call and message some of my clients. Coordination issues. Sometimes people just can't pick a proper time. Understandable. I often think about how humanity evolved to proritise quick decisions over slow, but 100% sure ones. Better be two times faster and 80% sure than two times slower and 99% sure, amirite? He he. Having my second coffee. Or third? Not sure. Can't remember. Today I'm trying to overstuff the moka pot. The taste is awesome, but the brewing process feels dubious. Played guitar a bit. Practicing licks, playing quickly, playing up the neck. I don't gotta play, I gotta write and record lyrics and vocals. I already made a somewhat decent verse. And I have a rough idea for the chorus. I can't believe how much slower my process has become. What is it? Playing ...
Read more