Hello everyone,
I have had a rather difficult month, but today is my birthday and is it is also Bandcamp Day. It is an April Genius Day/Bandcamp Day Collab. What I want for my birthday is a lot of BOOYAKASHA emails when you buy things I recommended, because that makes me feel like I am achieving my life goals. Go here for my recommendations.
I am going to spend my whole birthday weekend writing my Lifetime Achievement piece on Diane Cluck for Bandcamp, so you have that to look forward to quite soon!
I have also been sober for over a month. While not meeting the clinical criteria for an alcoholic, I have found in my abstinence that it is possible to be wildly reliant on alcohol without being considered a person who has a “problem.” Sobriety is nice; I like it here. A stranger who reads my writing and is also sober reached out to congratulate me and express their appreciation of my writing and music compilations and it was the biggest boost during a rough week. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to communicate to people when their presence, effort, or attention to something is meaningful to you!!! As a result, I now am really excited about writing this month and getting more serious about my Spring 2021 mixtape. So far, I have decided two things:
1) The person who made me feel this way will receive the hard copy of the mixtape with art. It will be digitized for everyone else who wants to hear it, to download for free.
2) It will be a 120 minute cassette, because I can no longer make shorter tapes, but mainly because that means I can include around 100 minutes of songs that are not “You Doo Right” by Can.
April’s song of the month is “Lady of the Fire” by Helium, because an April Genius requires an Aries Babe Anthem to be blasted all month, after all. It’s going to be a Very Good Month!!!