I know this is simplistic and probably goes w/o saying for most who maintain a practice, but the game changer for me was accepting that the "right" way to meditate (in vipassana meditation anyway) is just to acknowlege that's it's not working e.g. "oh look, now I'm thinking about this instead" and it changed the experience for me—this idea that you can't fuck it up so long as you observe yourself fucking it up
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
Brad Warner’s ‘sit down and shut up’ advice eventually worked for me but it took some getting past notions of “am I sitting correctly.”
I know all the other resources exist but many of them are tied to a spiritual tradition people may not be interested in and the success of Calm (or etc.) is that it’s an app on the device you carry with you all the time and not a class you have to travel to. Short of convincing everyone there’s no wrong way to meditate, it lowers the barrier to entry - unfortunately for $$$.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah I hadn't thought about explicit Buddhism being a barrier for some people, good point. Also I know nothing about Calm, not trying to knock it.
― lukas, Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
there was a great looking sorta cranky ebook I found on amazon once that seemed to focus on berating westerners for practicing mindfulness/meditation as a means to stress reduction/self help when they should just be doing it as a means to contemplate hell
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 May 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
now that I want a link to
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
what music can soundtrack a guided meditation on hell
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
Dark ambient?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXXCmX3t1g
― imago, Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
no way is hell ambient
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
i guess with Calm, they do the cultural appropriation for you? idk i deal with anxiety the American way by taking pharmaceuticals proscribed by a doctor and partially covered by my health insurance company ... not saying that's the "right way" making a joke mostly ... just that I don't understand this whole meditation / relaxation industry
― sarahell, Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
You don’t need to meditate to be meditating maaaaan.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
Revisiting this thread, reminded of more comfortable, more inconsequential, more moribund times
Real lol at this:
she's grifting live on the p4k IG right now:
"Grifting" should become common usage as a verb to describe somebody using a modular synth
― DJ Fiona Apple Genius (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 5 June 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link
beats "wiggling"
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 5 June 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
But surely one sketches on a music easel.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 5 June 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
New track: https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/lagoon
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 22 June 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpXOlcpoj1c
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Every time I listen to this record I forget it's on until "Expanding Electricity" rolls around. Really poor first single to album quality ratio.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Wednesday, 30 September 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
yeah, couldn't wait after listening to the preview, got the album off bandcamp and it was such a let down after that first release.
Still waiting for the vinyl from Bandcamp, which was ordered on the first bandcamp friday!
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
holy fuck, this new record……. my god
― winters (josh), Friday, 26 August 2022 06:23 (one year ago) link
I saw Max Tundra bigging this up, and reports are that it's a whole new sound, so I'll chance a listen, even though she's done nothing but annoy me before
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2022 06:54 (one year ago) link
Nah, same stuff repackaged. Maybe a bit less ambient than before, and there's probably more variation, but so many of the vocal, melodic, timbral choices are purpose-built to infuriate me still. Track 7 is quite good though! There I said it etc.
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
it leaked?
― Evan, Friday, 26 August 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
it came out yesterday
saw it being described as hyperpop and am disappointed it didn't live up to that
― ufo, Friday, 26 August 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
Well an hour ago when I posted that the bandcamp still had it in pre-order status. Just checked again and the page has updated, how about that.
― Evan, Friday, 26 August 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
I've given the new one a couple of half listens, and it's really not connecting. It seems too disjointed, and not in a fun po-mo OPN kind of way. Just ideas clashing with one another, with no real conceptual basis.
I still adore EARS though, and Sunergy. Guess I'm more into the bubbling synth arpeggios and orchestration, and less into the vocals and attempts at subversive 'structure'. KAS is great at ambient textures, and not so hot at 'songs' imo.
― The Ghost Club, Sunday, 28 August 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
She’s playing a free show in a couple weeks at the museum where I work - in LA
https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2023/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 22 September 2023 04:31 (eight months ago) link