weeknote #23.9
Mad Jakale work, Patreon, fasting, Bandcamp sold to SongTradr
Sunday, 22. oktober, 2023 - week 43 of 2023 (Y23W43).
(started writing on Sunday, finishing on Monday)
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Work on Mad Jakale project goes in bursts. Last week I was able to work on music for the project only for two days, in reality. I planned so much more. But on the other hand, in those two days I had to meet a challenge to write my own chord progression, vocal melody and "traditional" structure (you know, verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus...), AND even lyrics. Well, it's probably rubish, but it was fun and fascinating and great learning experience. And another little step towards some more musical knowledge. Perhaps it will be completely reworked and what not, but anyway, I am content.
I'm happy that I also wrote a Patreon post after some time (or so it seems) with the mentioned draft track.
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I've been fasting for 8 days (wed-wed) and made a break of very light lunches for 4 days (thu-sun). I lost 7kg. I drink water, tea, and coffe and I take multivitamins. This works well for now. I did it once before but completely relapsed to sugar and bread after it and gained all the kg that I lost. So this time I plan to be very careful how I stop the fast. A book the influenced me was 'The Obesity Code' from Jason Fung. It explains in-depth what happens in the body when it doesn't receive food for three, four days, from a biological, chemical perspective.
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Bandcamp was sold (again), this time to a company called Songtradr, and in the process half of the workers were laid off, including all of the leaders of Bandcamp United union. While Bandcamp currently continues, many expect that this is a final phase where so-called enshittification (cf Cory Doctorow) begins. Many different responses, but the thing is, this has taken me a lot of brain energy. I just can't stop thinking about it - what is/was about Bandcamp that was just done right, and what are proper next steps, for my music, for the Kamizdat label. One quite wise suggestion is #BeYourOwnPlatform.
So I keep looking at GRAV flat-file cms, and listmonk, and YUNOHOST. And I keep thinking how to make it work.
