let’s just pretend I’ve been doing these the whole time and don’t have to recap the last checks notes two years
after a disastrous few weeks at the choir trying to learn No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Donna Summer feat Barbra Streisand (weird disco key changes, stupidly wide range, way too much funk rhythm) we moved onto To The Moon And Back by Savage Garden. it’s a lot of fun! we got through most of it in one session, we’ll probably finish tonight?
i’m really starting to get comfortable with my singing voice, it’s a great feeling. even just warming up and singing something once a week makes a huge difference. ASYMPTOTES vocals when
thursday was the father in law’s 60th birthday party, at a Very Fancy Restaurant in Orpington. i’d been completely dreading it, i’m not close at all with that side of Sophie’s family, and i knew there’d be a bunch of people i’d met 1 (one) time, a decade ago. but it was actually super lovely! i ate too much and burnt my tongue on the chocolate fondant but somehow avoided both a physical hangover and an anxiety hangover.
my regular board game group are five sessions into The King’s Dilemma, a cool legacy-ish game where you’re playing as the king’s advisors in Definitely Not Westeros. it does some really interesting things with limited game mechanics, and (unlike Seafall, the last legacy game we played) the rules are really well explained. almost too well explained tbh, for a game mostly built around just voting, they’re 25 pages long and pretty verbose. but i prefer that over the several index cards of houserules we had to maintain for Seafall where it simply didn’t explain how a bunch of its separate systems interacted.
after that, Piers (a very much non-sportsball person) hosted the sportsball final. before the match everyone agreed with the prediction it would be 2-1 to Spain after ninety minutes of England’s usual “pass it around a bit, get crowded out, lose possession to unforced errors, occasionally get lucky”. and hey what do you know
okay maybe a little recap, as a treat. i’ve got a new album out! when i released IN PROGRESS i felt completely musically spent and didn’t make anything new for eighteen months. but after SYNCRETISM i still somehow had fresh ideas?
it’s extremely hype, i learnt a lot of hyperpop/future garage/progressive house production techniques. the whole thing came together mostly over one weekend (#humblebrag). chee says it’s my best work and i’m inclined to agree with them.
you can listen now on all good streaming services and Spotify but please consider buying it on Bandcamp because that actually gives me money