helena.handbasket / is on Nostr

just a goofy thembo, not too clever

representative of the clown college school of fucking up and getting laughed at. #1 fan of the sophomore album by crazy frog. member of guillotine gang.

piracy advocate and amateur nazi-puncher in training to go pro

#bad_@_hastags #not_cool_enough

pfp is one of buds I hang out with becuz I'm shy of pictures

header is a drawing I did that says Guillotine gang (it turns out I spelled it guillontine gang but what's an extra consonant or two between friends?)

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2024-02-28 16:30:46

I'm too poor for noise cancelling headphones but I made my own version where I wear earplug under the headphones and crank the volume on a heavy drone of some kind.
It basically works for me given my current circumstances and capacities.

2024-02-22 20:43:10

People always gawk at me when I draw at the coffee place but I need the commotion but I don't "talk to people" in "real life" so it's never fun for me.
Today two suit mens sat next to me and bragged to each other about how much their real estate development had raised rents in their buildings by over 10%
They were also trying to look at my stuff so I went and had a smoke and left them a couple little pieces I whipped up special
They had very quickly fucked off by the time I finished my smoke so I don't know if they liked them or not
https://media.neurodifferent.me/media_attachments/files/111/977/068/474/136/892/original/1b41c67eb83e0127.jpg

2023-12-21 14:37:28

That bombguy movie about plagiarism really shined a light on the the problem of lazy uncreative YouTube video people.
I didn't watch it, I just know because 70 bajillion other YouTubers also made plagiarism videos immediately afterwards because also for them it's very serious, the issue of lazy uncreative YouTube video people

2023-11-26 01:03:18

I don't speak with my father anymore but the last time we did we had a fight because of how "unreasonable" I was being about him telling me every time he came to my place that it's too dark and I should put LED bulbs everywhere. I had already told him about my realizing I was autistic and he told me I wasn't (he googled bipolar and told me I was probably that) and when he made a claim that I was able to, with great effort, disprove, he simply ignored that he uad been shown wrong and found another thread to grab onto to keep pushing his narrative. I said "hold on, you made a claim and I showed it was false, so we need to go back to before you made that claim" and he said "you won't let me GO FORWARD"
The idea that having been shown wrong about something you thought means you should reflect on what else you would be wrong about by extension is the most threatening thing on Earth to certain people.
This toot is about how crypto being shown to be a harmful scam isn't going to matter, there's the harmful ai scam and when that's shown for what it is there will be another and another.
The mini-sub billionaire death was fun for us all but it's not going to change the fundamental attitude of the type of person who runs these things.
He was warned about the safety issues and instead of paying attention he said "I'm sick and tired of all these establishment submarine people telling me my sub is a death trap, LET ME MOVE FORWARD.
The sense of entitlement to do whatever they want is not subject to anything but itself, that sense that I get to move forward no matter what the circumstances is so widespread.
I don't really have a point, I'm not that smart but I notice things sometimes

2023-05-20 14:22:53

I just replied to someone in a random thread that popped up who was suggesting that jazz is music to analyze and pop is literally meaningless background drivel or whatever.
I have done a lot of work in studios in my career and my experience is quite different.
The more "pop" the artist wants to go, the more thought goes into it. The level of meticulous decision making is really beyond anything else I've done. You have to be so exacting and precise and every little aspect has to work.
By contrast, jazz sessions tend to be pretty relaxed, not much rehearsal, and what you're going to end up doing is much more rote and autopilot. There are exceptions, and these usually end up being way better records, but I can usually expect to go in to a jazz session and just kind of follow the standard pattern and be asked back for the next session, when I do a pop record I really have to be serious.
That's just my experience of it

2023-05-09 14:55:01

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@npub18dc…at9u @npub1nes…4chl @npub1mew…tau6 @npub1s0d…jpq8 also, I think jazz is overwhelmingly populated by autistic people. It's a not particularly commercial music that all but requires a special interest level of obession to be able to play at even fairly basic levels. John Coltrane literally played the saxophone for 90% of his waking life, mostly cycling rapid intricate variations of scale patterns, that is not neurotypical behavior.

2023-05-09 13:39:13

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@npub18dc…at9u @npub1nes…4chl @npub1mew…tau6 @npub1s0d…jpq8 speaking of biographies of jazz musicians with autistic traits (who are also on the Chet Baker in Europe album) "Bouncing with Bartok" about pianist Dick Twardzik is another excellent one you might enjoy