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I had this odd realization during my post-writers group smoke break today.

I think I – as well as my system as a whole – approach making art the same way that jazz musicians play music. I was thinking about this because the piece I ended up writing today in group pulled heavily from “My Island” and yet putting an entirely different spin on it, and it got me thinking about all of the different times that I’ve done that while making music especially.

And honestly, if I had to sum up my approach to just about everything in life, I would say that I approach most of my crafts like a jazz musician even though I don’t technically play jazz. I don’t believe in just one final product or making a recording or a piece the be all, end all. A single song can inspire me for over ten years and I’ll keep coming back to it lyrically, musically, poetically, even, in a sort of self-referential game of call and response, making something new with each iteration and reexamination.

In the process, I’m building a recursive universe the longer I make content and art.

I fucking love jazz.

-Allēna

I had this odd realization during my post-writers group smoke break today.

I think I – as well as my system as a whole – approach making art the same way that jazz musicians play music. I was thinking about this because the piece I ended up writing today in group pulled heavily from “My Island” and yet putting an entirely different spin on it, and it got me thinking about all of the different times that I’ve done that while making music especially.

And honestly, if I had to sum up my approach to just about everything in life, I would say that I approach most of my crafts like a jazz musician even though I don’t technically play jazz. I don’t believe in just one final product or making a recording or a piece the be all, end all. A single song can inspire me for over ten years and I’ll keep coming back to it lyrically, musically, poetically, even, in a sort of self-referential game of call and response, making something new with each iteration and reexamination.

In the process, I’m building a recursive universe the longer I make content and art.

I fucking love jazz.

-Allēna

"IS CORN GRASS?" is one of our favorite Rifftrax shorts, but corn has been one of my ideal plants since childhood. Juniata County Corn Field, 1973. #corn #cornplant #cornplants #cornstalk #cornstalks #cornshalk #cornshalks #autumn #fall #summer #endofsummer #highasanelephantseye #growingcorn #maize #indiancorn #farm #farmer #farming #farmette #familyfarm #familyfarms #rifftrax #riffing #riffers #mikenelson #kevinmurphy #billcorbett #entertaining #entertainers #comedian #comedians

All of the #Santo movies are just ... insane

#mst3k #riffing

Just watched one of the most recent #RiffTrax - "Champagne and Bullets" (1993).

I don't know anything about the guy behind the original movie, which stinks, but it was a vanity project, written, produced, directed, edited by, starring, and even featuring songs written and sung by him. And he is a fellow who absolutely, positively was not capable of doing any of those things.

My partner brought out one of her favourite sayings in these types of situations: "Oh, to have the confidence of a mediocre white man."

Makes a good RiffTrax, though.

#vanity #VanityProject #produced #directed #written #starring #BadMovie #movie #film #BadActionMovie #riff #riffing

Friday at the historic Miller Theater in Lewistown, PA you can enjoy a rare public screening of 1988’s BLOODY WEDNESDAY (a horror movie from the creators of CRY WILDERNESS), albeit with a wisecracking puppet talking through it. For more info visit https://sifillis.com/ #riffing #bloodywednesday #filmoddity #movieriffing #smortzflicks #movieriff #riffingmovies #vcr #vhs #videotape #rarescreening #filmriffing #puppet #puppets #puppetry #puppets

Still whiling away time on fooling around with the Yamaha Clainova CVP-50 I found in a neighbors trash. Quickly found I can have a rather simple piece of music play by essentially setting up a sequencer, selecting a rhythm to go along with it #, #and #riffing #along, #adding #flourishes #and #random #effects. #Effects #include #5-6 #revedb #settings, #a #chorus #setting #and #quite #a #few #other #selections. #And #besides #the #rhythm #settings #builtin #in, #you # #can #build #your #own #presets #and #record #them #to #as #far #as #I #can #the, #the #floppy #drive #in #the #control #panel. #Yeah, #floppy #drive. #After #all #the #CVP-50 #came #out #in #1989.

Still whiling away time on fooling around with the Yamaha Clainova CVP-50 I found in a neighbors trash. Quickly found I can have a rather simple piece of music play by essentially setting up a sequencer, selecting a rhythm to go along with it #, #and #riffing #along, #adding #flourishes #and #random #effects. #Effects #include #5-6 #revedb #settings, #a #chorus #setting #and #quite #a #few #other #selections. #And #besides #the #rhythm #settings #builtin #in, #you # #can #build #your #own #presets #and #record #them #to #as #far #as #I #can #the, #the #floppy #drive #in #the #control #panel. #Yeah, #floppy #drive. #After #all #the #CVP-50 #came #out #in #1989.

Still whiling away time on fooling around with the Yamaha Clainova CVP-50 I found in a neighbors trash. Quickly found I can have a rather simple piece of music play by essentially setting up a sequencer, selecting a rhythm to go along with it #, #and #riffing #along, #adding #flourishes #and #random #effects. #Effects #include #5-6 #revedb #settings, #a #chorus #setting #and #quite #a #few #other #selections. #And #besides #the #rhythm #settings #builtin #in, #you # #can #build #your #own #presets #and #record #them #to #as #far #as #I #can #the, #the #floppy #drive #in #the #control #panel. #Yeah, #floppy #drive. #After #all #the #CVP-50 #came #out #in #1989.

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Serpent Corpse - Blood Sabbath Review | Angry Metal Guy
A review of Blood Sabbath by Serpent Corpse, available worldwide July 14th via Temple of Mystery Records.

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/serpent-corpse-blood-sabbath-review/

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