Author: robertjames1971

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Daily writing prompt
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
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What percentage of posts written in English are going to talk about giving up the word “fuck”?

25%?
33%?
50%?

Whatever the count ends up being, I am guessing it’s going to be a lot.

While Fuck is definitely the word I should give up, I will not go with that one. No, I do so love that flexible, brilliant, jack-of-all-trades of a word. It is English language at it’s peak. Yes, a filthy little peak mind you, but a peak nonetheless.

No, if it is up to me I would give up a word that I feel makes me sound sort of dumb and a little pretentious at the same time. Basically it’s a word that I just basically over use… basically.

Basically, I would give up the word basically and I would sound a little less like a pompous dumb ass.

Fuck yes, that’s the word I’d remove from my vocabulary. Basically.

One More to Go

My epic binge watch of the new Doctor Who show ends tonight. One episode to go and then I’ll be caught up until new episodes air in November.

I still have 7355427846428 episodes of the original series left though.

Shake to Shuffle the Back Yard

I cooked my lunch on the grill in the back yard today. It’s cold inside the house and roasting hot outside. In between hamburger flips I took a few random pics with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone. As I did so I posed the question to the universe: If I do start using Hipstamatic regularly again, will I be the only person on Earth doing so?

I posed the question to the 900,000 folks on BlueSky Social and no one responded. I went to Flickr and searched for images tagged “hipstmatic” and sorted the results by date taken. There seem to be a few people there still using it. I checked a couple of Hipstamatic groups as well and they are still getting updates with recently taken images. Based on that I would not say I will be the only user left on Earth. I will say that I am one of the only users left. That’s okay with me.

As usual, I used the shake to shuffle function to randomly assign film/lens combinations.

Hipstamatic: Shake to Shuffle
Hipstamatic: Shake to Shuffle
Hipstamatic: Shake to Shuffle
Hipstamatic: Shake to Shuffle
Hipstamatic: Shake to Shuffle

Someday I am going to buy a medium format film camera. Consider this as me practicing for using a square format option. You’re welcome.

Guilt Works Sometimes

Yesterday I wrote a post trying to guilt myself into working on new music today.

It worked.

One new song, complete with double tracked rhythm guitars.

Also, today’s photo a day is done. All before starting the work day. Not bad for a guilt trip.

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The Grudge

Daily writing prompt
Are you holding a grudge? About?
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I had to think about this one a bit. Do I have any grudges? A younger version of me was a grudge holding maniac. I could hold a grudge on anyone for anything for any amount of time. I was basically a pro.

Now? Today? I can’t think of anything. Well… I guess I hold a grudge against the New York Yankees and Bucky Dent, but those don’t really count because they are Yankees, right? No, now I think I follow the words of the great Roger Murtaugh when I say I’m too old for this shit.

So yeah, no… I don’t think I am holding any grudges anymore. They take up too much energy. It’s better to just let that crap go and move on with your life. Mental health is important and holding grudges with people who don’t really matter to you over things that are not really important is just bad for you.

Be like that cartoon lady from Frozen and let it go.

Two dumb movie references in one daily writing prompt post. I am out of control, babie!

Musically Guilt Yourself, Robert

It’s September 6th. I have blown off the bulk of the first week of the last month of the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. Like a putz. I have worked on one eight bar riff this month. Like a jerk.

Tomorrow. You heard me. Tomorrow I start pushing things again. Tomorrow I will make progress. I will work any ideas that aren’t in song form yet into a song form. I will add new riffs and chord change ideas and work them into songs. I will, hopefully, record some rhythm guitar tracks. I will also write some lyrics and some melodies so that I can do a full on onslaught of car music this weekend.

Progress will be made, Robert! Progress will be made!

And that, kids, is Robert trying to use his blog to guilt himself into working on the music challenge. Yeah, that’s what this is. Bring it on.