ian fletcher work

all the toys

Not Vampires - 1 - Quicksand -- [4:52]
Not Vampires - 2 - Quicksand (again) -- [4:22]
Not Vampires - 3 - Pain to Play (maybe) -- [1:50]
Not Vampires - 4 - Bubble Envy -- [3:05]
Not Vampires - 5 - Lines (Ian Fletcher) -- [3:10]
Not Vampires - 6 - Lines (Ian Fletcher) again -- [3:00]
Not Vampires - 7 - Lines (Ian Fletcher) once more -- [3:21]
Not Vampires - 8 - Pain to Play -- [6:39]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [1:12]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [1:11]
Not Vampires - 11 -- [0:46]
Not Vampires - 12 - Self Imposed (guitars) -- [4:04]
Not Vampires - 13 - Pain to Play (guitars) -- [4:16]
Not Vampires - 14 - Pain to Play (again) -- [4:22]
Not Vampires - 15 - Pain to Play (again again) -- [3:13]
Not Vampires - 16 -- [1:31]
Not Vampires - 17 - Pain to Play (keeps giving) -- [4:57]
Not Vampires - 18 -- [2:20]
Not Vampires - 19 - Lines (Ian Fletcher) more -- [4:21]
Not Vampires - 20 - Had to Know -- [4:02]
Not Vampires - 21 - All Your Fears -- [4:58]
Not Vampires - 22 - All Your Fears (again) -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 23 - Las Vegas -- [3:14]
Not Vampires - 24 - Vertical Integration -- [8:10]
Not Vampires - 25 - Bad at Math -- [3:39]
Not Vampires - 26 - Young Liars (cover) -- [5:28]
Not Vampires - 27 - Find Me -- [4:01]
Not Vampires - 28 - GPS -- [4:44]
Not Vampires - 29 -- [7:01]
Not Vampires - 30 -- [3:43]
Not Vampires - 31 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [1:28]

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [7:43]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Sandman -- [6:24]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Pain to Play -- [6:01]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Young Liars cover -- [8:43]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Bubble Envy -- [5:13]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Lines/Ian -- [5:19]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Lines/Ian tk 2 -- [4:07]
Decanted Youth - 8 - GPS -- [3:07]
Decanted Youth - 9 - GPS tk 2 -- [2:32]
Decanted Youth - 10 - vi -- [13:19]
Decanted Youth - 11 - All Your Fears -- [3:52]
Decanted Youth - 12 - All Your Fears tk 2 -- [3:24]
Decanted Youth - 13 - All Your Fears fast -- [2:24]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Bad at Math -- [3:57]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Squeeze 7 -- [7:18]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Light Creeps -- [9:48]
Decanted Youth - 17 -- [10:43]
Decanted Youth - 18 - Easy Target -- [2:08]
Decanted Youth - 19 - Quicksand -- [4:56]
Decanted Youth - 20 - Now We Understand -- [4:22]

a year on

pain to play

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [12:32]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Las Vegas (alt arrangement) -- [7:38]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Bubble Envy -- [4:52]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Young Liars cover -- [5:06]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Young Liars cover again -- [5:18]
Decanted Youth - 6 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [14:29]
Decanted Youth - 7 -- [6:19]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Young Liars cover (alt arrangement) -- [5:54]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Insecurity -- [9:07]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Candy Bandit -- [2:26]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Quicksand (too slow) -- [2:07]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Quicksand -- [6:30]
Decanted Youth - 13 -- [6:37]
Not Vampires - 1 - tired intro -- [1:07]
Not Vampires - 2 - let that e string ring -- [9:12]
Not Vampires - 3 - pain to play, updated -- [10:09]
Not Vampires - 4 - pain to play, again -- [4:06]

Not Vampires - 1 - Only a Monster -- [3:42]
Not Vampires - 2 - GPS (redshift) -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 3 - GPS -- [3:41]
Not Vampires - 4 - Bubble Envy -- [4:20]
Not Vampires - 5 - Vertically Integrated (new) -- [5:11]
Not Vampires - 6 - DTD -- [2:59]
Not Vampires - 7 - How Low (Sink into Shame) -- [5:56]
Not Vampires - 8 - Young Liars cover work 1 -- [4:40]
Not Vampires - 9 - Young Liars cover work 2 -- [4:39]
Not Vampires - 10 - Young Liars cover work 3 -- [4:53]
Not Vampires - 11 - Young Liars cover work 4 -- [4:41]
Not Vampires - 12 - Young Liars cover work 5 -- [6:08]
Not Vampires - 13 - Young Liars cover work 6 -- [4:39]
Not Vampires - 14 - Young Liars cover work 7 -- [3:11]
Not Vampires - 15 - Young Liars cover ok good -- [4:49]
Not Vampires - 16 - All Your Fears -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 17 - All Your Fears (again) -- [2:41]
Not Vampires - 18 - All Your Fears (short) -- [1:14]
Not Vampires - 19 - Bad at Math -- [4:04]
Not Vampires - 20 - Had to Know -- [3:40]
Not Vampires - 21 - Had to Know (again) -- [3:20]
Not Vampires - 22 - Oh My Days -- [1:16]
Not Vampires - 23 - Easy Target -- [2:08]
Not Vampires - 24 - Quicksand -- [5:01]
Not Vampires - 25 - Ian F -- [1:37]
Not Vampires - 26 - Old as Coal -- [3:16]

Not Vampires - 1 - Bad at Math -- [4:47]
Not Vampires - 2 - Bubble Envy -- [3:49]
Not Vampires - 3 - Pain to Play -- [3:40]
Not Vampires - 4 - Had to Know -- [4:17]
Not Vampires - 5 - Young Liars Cover (take 1) -- [3:36]
Not Vampires - 6 - Young Liars Cover (take 2) -- [3:48]
Not Vampires - 7 - Young Liars Cover (take 3) -- [4:10]
Not Vampires - 8 - You and Whose Army Cover dabblings -- [1:52]
Not Vampires - 9 - GPS -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 10 - Quicksand -- [4:38]
Not Vampires - 11 - DTD -- [3:01]
Not Vampires - 12 - All Your Fears -- [3:52]
Not Vampires - 13 - Oh My Days -- [3:50]
Not Vampires - 14 - Only a Monster -- [2:51]
Not Vampires - 15 - Orange Lines (Ian Fletcher) -- [4:02]
Not Vampires - 16 - Easy Target -- [2:28]
Not Vampires - 17 - Old as Coal -- [3:06]
Not Vampires - 18 - How Low (Sink into Shame) -- [5:59]
Not Vampires - 19 - Now We Understand -- [4:14]
Not Vampires - 20 - Find Me -- [4:28]
Not Vampires - 21 - Cosmic Background -- [3:10]
Not Vampires - 22 - Self Imposed -- [4:14]
Not Vampires - 23 - Vertical Integration -- [4:56]
Not Vampires - 24 -- [4:07]

bubble envy

Not Vampires - 1 - Bad at Math -- [4:20]
Not Vampires - 2 - GPS -- [4:28]
Not Vampires - 3 - Had to Know -- [4:57]
Not Vampires - 4 - All Your Fears -- [3:32]
Not Vampires - 5 - All Your Fears (reprise) -- [3:21]
Not Vampires - 6 - Oh My Days -- [2:08]
Not Vampires - 7 - Orange Lines (Ian Fletcher) -- [3:13]
Not Vampires - 8 - Orange Lines (Ian Fletcher) (reprise) -- [4:12]
Not Vampires - 9 - Only a Monster -- [3:01]
Not Vampires - 10 - Quicksand -- [4:48]
Not Vampires - 11 - How Low (Sink into Shame) -- [4:32]
Not Vampires - 12 - Old as Coal -- [3:48]
Not Vampires - 13 - Now We Understand -- [4:04]
Not Vampires - 14 - Self Imposed -- [4:59]
Not Vampires - 15 - Cosmic Background -- [3:14]
Not Vampires - 16 - Easy Target -- [2:33]
Not Vampires - 17 - Vertical Integration -- [3:43]
Not Vampires - 18 - Find Me -- [4:54]
Not Vampires - 19 - Find Me (extra noise reprise) -- [1:13]
Not Vampires - 20 - Quicksand (mini reprise) -- [3:17]
Not Vampires - 21 - Oh My Days (Instrumental Work Week) -- [2:27]
Not Vampires - 22 - Orange Lines (Instrumental Five) -- [1:59]
Not Vampires - 23 - GPS (reprise) -- [3:28]
Not Vampires - 24 - The Squeeze -- [3:50]
Not Vampires - 25 - Major Major Major / Insecurity -- [9:21]
Not Vampires - 26 - Light Creeps -- [3:53]
Not Vampires - 27 - Totally Original -- [3:48]
Not Vampires - 28 -- [5:25]
Not Vampires - 29 - Las Vegas -- [3:59]
Not Vampires - 30 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [2:49]
Not Vampires - 31 -- [6:32]
Not Vampires - 32 -- [5:38]

gps
orange lines ianf

Not Vampires - 1 -- [8:49]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [3:55]
Not Vampires - 3 - Las Vegas -- [4:29]
Not Vampires - 4 - The Squeeze -- [5:43]
Not Vampires - 5 - Totally Original -- [3:27]
Not Vampires - 6 - Had to Know -- [4:41]
Not Vampires - 7 - Oh My Days -- [3:31]
Not Vampires - 8 - GPS -- [5:21]
Not Vampires - 9 - GPS Turbo -- [5:03]
Not Vampires - 10 - GPS Again -- [3:36]
Not Vampires - 11 - Quicksand -- [6:38]
Not Vampires - 12 - Bad at Math -- [3:50]
Not Vampires - 13 - Only a Monster -- [3:46]
Not Vampires - 14 - All Your Fears (Eyes) -- [9:13]
Not Vampires - 15 - Old as Coal -- [3:20]
Not Vampires - 16 - How Low (Sink into Shame) -- [5:39]
Not Vampires - 17 - Find Me -- [5:06]
Not Vampires - 18 - Easy Target -- [2:11]
Not Vampires - 19 - Now We Understand -- [4:26]
Not Vampires - 20 - Intro / Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [8:57]
Not Vampires - 21 - Candy Bandit (Short) -- [1:11]
Not Vampires - 22 - Slow Down to Nearly a Stop -- [6:10]

what you want to hear

oh my days

Not Vampires - 1 -- [6:42]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [6:03]
Not Vampires - 3 - Chosen by the Few (Instrumental) -- [4:26]
Not Vampires - 4 - (now known as) GPS (accidental instrumental) -- [5:20]
Not Vampires - 5 - (now known as) GPS (accidental instrumental, slower) -- [4:27]
Not Vampires - 6 - Quicksand (accidental instrumental) -- [3:36]
Not Vampires - 7 - Only a Monster -- [3:30]
Not Vampires - 8 - How Low (Sink into the Shame) -- [5:51]
Not Vampires - 9 - Had to Know -- [5:07]
Not Vampires - 10 - Bad at Math -- [4:02]
Not Vampires - 11 - (needs a name) -- [2:50]
Not Vampires - 12 - Now We Understand -- [4:55]
Not Vampires - 13 - Chunka Chunk -- [0:51]
Not Vampires - 14 - Old as Coal -- [3:22]
Not Vampires - 15 - Break your Face -- [3:50]
Not Vampires - 16 - Easy Target -- [2:33]
Not Vampires - 17 - Orange Lines -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 18 - Major Major (false start) -- [1:26]
Not Vampires - 19 - Major Major Major -- [3:40]
Not Vampires - 20 - Towel of Babel (Las Vegas) -- [6:51]
Not Vampires - 21 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [3:40]

ample expectations

Not Vampires - 1 -- [1:28]
Not Vampires - 2 - Chub Rock, er -- [2:24]
Not Vampires - 3 - (intro) Candy Bandit -- [4:27]
Not Vampires - 4 - Orange Lines, or something -- [4:13]
Not Vampires - 5 - How Low -- [5:24]
Not Vampires - 6 - Had to Know -- [3:56]
Not Vampires - 7 - Bad at Math -- [3:52]
Not Vampires - 8 - Quicksand (Always a Woman, Never a Lady?) -- [5:29]
Not Vampires - 9 - Head Disconnect (to be GPS) -- [3:21]
Not Vampires - 10 - Only a Monster -- [4:03]
Not Vampires - 11 -- [3:08]
Not Vampires - 12 -- [4:14]
Not Vampires - 13 - Goldilocks Dirt -- [5:36]
Not Vampires - 14 - Now We Understand -- [4:16]
Not Vampires - 15 - Easy Target -- [2:10]
Not Vampires - 16 - Old as Coal -- [3:22]
Not Vampires - 17 - Cosmic Background -- [3:14]
Not Vampires - 18 - Vertical Integration -- [4:23]
Not Vampires - 19 - Find Me -- [3:18]
Not Vampires - 20 - (Pumpkins Something) meets Candy Bandit -- [9:26]
orange lines

orange again

how low ish

drink me

Not Vampires - 1 - Bad at Math -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 2 - (tbd) -- [4:32]
Not Vampires - 3 - Quicksand (trills) -- [7:39]
Not Vampires - 4 - Had to Know -- [4:44]
Not Vampires - 5 - All Your Fears -- [4:26]
Not Vampires - 6 - Only a Monster -- [3:52]
Not Vampires - 7 -- [9:00]
Not Vampires - 8 - Body of Lies -- [6:24]
Not Vampires - 9 - Old as Coal -- [4:08]
Not Vampires - 10 - Find Me -- [4:33]
Not Vampires - 11 - (finding beats of limbo) -- [2:45]
Not Vampires - 12 - Now We Understand -- [4:08]
Not Vampires - 13 - Easy Target -- [2:21]
Not Vampires - 14 - Easy Target (bass reprise) -- [3:01]
Not Vampires - 15 - Easy Target (again) -- [3:27]
Not Vampires - 16 - Vertical Integrato -- [4:34]
Not Vampires - 17 - (deserves a name) -- [6:42]
Not Vampires - 18 - Dogs Will Rule the World -- [2:44]
Not Vampires - 19 - The River -- [4:47]
Not Vampires - 20 - May 29 Track 6 -- [7:49]
Not Vampires - 21 - Ebb and Blow -- [8:20]
Not Vampires - 22 - Shreddies -- [8:11]
Not Vampires - 23 - Hindenburg -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 24 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [2:14]

biding time

quicksand slow decay

another folder

Not Vampires - 1 - Talk About (short) -- [0:46]
Not Vampires - 2 - Bad at Math -- [4:27]
Not Vampires - 3 - Had to Know -- [7:10]
Not Vampires - 4 - Only a Monster -- [3:57]
Not Vampires - 5 - Now We Understand -- [4:11]
Not Vampires - 6 - Circus Toes -- [6:34]
Not Vampires - 7 - There's a Friend (Living on the Edge) -- [7:48]
Not Vampires - 8 - Loop/Reflectionsish -- [6:37]
Not Vampires - 9 - Quicksand -- [8:23]
Not Vampires - 10 - All Your Fears -- [4:14]
Not Vampires - 11 - Easy Target -- [2:06]
Not Vampires - 12 - Untiled -- [1:24]
Not Vampires - 13 - Old as Coal -- [4:33]
Not Vampires - 14 - ntitled -- [7:15]
Not Vampires - 15 - (show me the soft side) -- [5:17]
Not Vampires - 16 - Dogs Will Rule the World -- [2:45]
Not Vampires - 17 - The River -- [4:35]
Not Vampires - 18 - Deck Stacked -- [5:33]
Not Vampires - 19 -- [4:41]
Not Vampires - 20 -- [4:35]
Not Vampires - 21 - Hindenburg -- [6:06]
Not Vampires - 22 -- [4:21]
Not Vampires - 23 -- [4:20]
Not Vampires - 24 - Chosen by the Few (false) -- [1:41]
Not Vampires - 25 - Chosen by the Few -- [3:40]
Not Vampires - 26 - Totally Original -- [3:18]
Not Vampires - 27 - Candy Bandit -- [1:19]
Not Vampires - 28 - Cast Iron -- [1:41]

easy there

pointless endeavour

fractured soul

forgetting the name

season of delay

glaring omissions
self report

not indifferent just tired

Not Vampires - 1 - Pick... -- [3:27]
Not Vampires - 2 - Quicksand -- [5:28]
Not Vampires - 3 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:55]
Not Vampires - 4 - Bad at Math -- [4:09]
Not Vampires - 5 - Only a Monster -- [3:45]
Not Vampires - 6 - Find Me -- [3:52]
Not Vampires - 7 - All Your Fears -- [3:39]
Not Vampires - 8 - Vertical Integration -- [5:47]
Not Vampires - 9 - Self Imposed -- [5:20]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [8:33]
Not Vampires - 11 - Major Major Major -- [6:06]
Not Vampires - 12 - Las Vegas -- [6:21]
Not Vampires - 13 - The River -- [3:21]
Not Vampires - 14 - The Squeeze -- [6:09]
Not Vampires - 15 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [2:12]
Not Vampires - 16 - Totally Original -- [4:51]
Not Vampires - 17 - Insecurity -- [4:03]
Not Vampires - 18 - Sandman -- [3:56]
Not Vampires - 19 - Cosmic Background -- [3:29]
Not Vampires - 20 - Easy Target -- [2:13]
Not Vampires - 21 - Now We Understand -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 22 - Old as Coal -- [3:26]
Not Vampires - 23 - Old as Coal (reprise) -- [3:43]
Not Vampires - 24 -- [3:43]

pick your nose not a fight

late and over budget

jetlag

egregious

in the box

help yurself
hold the pepper

roads well traveled

paint by numbers
unexpected paperwork

almond extract

called it
called it moredrums

degree

Not Vampires - 1 - Get in Line/Poke the Bear -- [8:57]
Not Vampires - 2 - Totally Original -- [6:26]
Not Vampires - 3 - The River -- [4:46]
Not Vampires - 4 - False Starts -- [1:03]
Not Vampires - 5 - Hindenburg -- [9:41]
Not Vampires - 6 - The Micro River -- [7:37]
Not Vampires - 7 - Only a Monster -- [5:21]
Not Vampires - 8 - No Idea -- [3:32]
Not Vampires - 9 - There You Are -- [3:51]
Not Vampires - 10 - Now We Understand Keyboards -- [5:08]
Not Vampires - 11 - Quicksand -- [9:40]
Not Vampires - 12 - Failed Loops -- [1:23]
Not Vampires - 13 - You Just Had to Know -- [6:26]
Not Vampires - 14 - Old as Coal -- [4:21]
Not Vampires - 15 - Dogs-ish -- [10:09]
Not Vampires - 16 -- [2:54]
Not Vampires - 17 -- [5:47]
Not Vampires - 18 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [4:48]
Not Vampires - 19 - Insecurity / Something Else Familiar -- [12:09]
Not Vampires - 20 - Bad at Math -- [4:17]
Not Vampires - 21 - Find Me -- [3:39]
Not Vampires - 22 - Easy Target -- [1:58]
Not Vampires - 23 - All Your Fears -- [4:01]
Not Vampires - 24 - Cosmic Background -- [3:25]
Not Vampires - 25 - Self Imposed -- [5:24]
Not Vampires - 26 - Vertical Integration -- [4:42]
Not Vampires - 27 - Shame -- [5:42]
Not Vampires - 28 - How Low -- [3:49]

poke the bear

undernoise

warmed up

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [6:34]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [2:55]
Decanted Youth - 3 - The Squeeze -- [3:42]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Major Major Major -- [5:52]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Had to Know-ish -- [3:37]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Just Had to Know -- [4:24]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Quicksand -- [7:58]
Decanted Youth - 8 -- [10:22]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Searching for the Cure -- [10:22]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Now We Understand -- [4:20]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Now We Understand (slower) -- [14:09]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Easy Target -- [1:51]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Only a Monster -- [9:52]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Light Crepes -- [7:44]
Decanted Youth - 15 -- [0:56]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Light Crepes Reprise -- [7:28]
Decanted Youth - 17 - Las Vegas -- [5:30]
Decanted Youth - 18 - Sandman -- [3:01]
Decanted Youth - 19 - Sandman (slow) -- [7:52]
Decanted Youth - 20 - Totally Original -- [3:44]

off the mark

missampled

below the fold
drunk and in power

accordion now

cozy
double standards
keep going
purple

exceptions

how low

failed assertion

full circle
the article

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [8:01]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Las Vegas -- [6:36]
Decanted Youth - 3 -- [7:48]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Sandman, Slowly -- [4:07]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Insecurity Seven -- [9:05]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Hopeless/Helpless/Change the World -- [13:15]
Decanted Youth - 7 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [17:28]
Decanted Youth - 8 - How Low -- [16:38]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Self Imposed / Rfelct -- [18:55]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Easy Target -- [1:45]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Bad at Math -- [3:40]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Quicksand -- [6:50]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Only a Monster -- [9:55]

still looking for something
worth overdoing

at last all reunited
now we understand fretless

how low

intersweet

Decanted Youth - 1 - Bad at Math (warmup) -- [4:26]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Building to Nothing -- [1:09]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Wrong Genius -- [5:51]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Self Imposed (short) -- [1:46]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Self Imposed meets Reflections (post) -- [15:33]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Only a Monster -- [3:22]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Only a Monster (post) -- [13:53]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Now We Understand (post) -- [13:49]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Had to Know (post / changeup) -- [25:10]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Candy Bandit -- [5:48]
Decanted Youth - 11 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [15:47]
Decanted Youth - 12 -- [7:31]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Major Major Major (post) -- [15:21]

against the wall
chicken with a savegame

deflection
training day

third life

Decanted Youth - 1 - Not Hopeless/Helpless -- [13:33]
Decanted Youth - 2 - The Squeeze -- [7:51]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Lost in the Peephole -- [10:36]
Decanted Youth - 4 - (my brain doesn't work) -- [2:24]
Decanted Youth - 5 - (my brain doesn't work, keep trying old man) -- [3:56]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Totally Original -- [6:37]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Legacy -- [16:58]
Decanted Youth - 8 - GPS revisited -- [2:17]
Decanted Youth - 9 - GPS revisited continued -- [4:33]
Decanted Youth - 10 - GPS extended -- [8:27]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Quicksand extended -- [17:49]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Had to Know (I) -- [4:16]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Had to Know (II) -- [2:15]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Had to Know (III) -- [1:56]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Had to Know (IV) -- [3:28]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Had to Know (new style) -- [9:42]
Decanted Youth - 17 - Now We Understand -- [3:31]

Not Vampires - 1 - Brainwashed Test -- [1:06]
Not Vampires - 2 - Brainwashed -- [3:13]
Not Vampires - 3 - Looper in Db -- [7:38]
Not Vampires - 4 - How Low -- [6:35]
Not Vampires - 5 - Quicksand -- [5:08]
Not Vampires - 6 - Bad at Math -- [4:24]
Not Vampires - 7 - You Just Had to Know -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 8 - Now We Understand -- [4:36]
Not Vampires - 9 - Old as Coal -- [4:25]
Not Vampires - 10 - Secrets and Lies / Vertical Integration (No Big Benefactor mashup) -- [9:57]
Not Vampires - 11 - Find Me -- [3:55]
Not Vampires - 12 - All Your Fears -- [4:17]
Not Vampires - 13 -- [9:32]
Not Vampires - 14 -- [2:46]
Not Vampires - 15 - Las Vegas -- [4:23]
Not Vampires - 16 - Totally Original -- [6:25]
Not Vampires - 17 -- [8:06]
Not Vampires - 18 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [4:01]
Not Vampires - 19 -- [5:24]
Not Vampires - 20 - The River-ish -- [5:28]
Not Vampires - 21 - The Squeeze -- [6:09]
Not Vampires - 22 - Lighter than Air Creeps -- [5:55]
Not Vampires - 23 - Major Major Major -- [6:14]

Decanted Youth - 1 - Not Hopeless/Helpless -- [7:45]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Justin Misses the Squeeze -- [10:22]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Sandman -- [5:03]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Light Creeps -- [10:49]
Decanted Youth - 5 -- [1:22]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Take a Walk -- [10:54]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Echoes of the River -- [15:21]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Totally Original -- [6:14]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Totally Original (slow short) -- [1:38]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Totally Original (slow long) / Round and Round -- [23:07]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Quicksand -- [5:29]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Now We Understand (false short) -- [3:01]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Now We Understand (long and glorious) -- [13:10]
Decanted Youth - 14 - All Your Fears -- [2:57]
Decanted Youth - 15 - All Your Fears (again) -- [3:12]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Easy Target -- [2:01]

We recently released REAPER v7.66, which is slightly interesting in that there was a small bit of LLM-assisted programming in there.

I'm not a fan of LLMs, but I do think what they can do is pretty amazing. Whether it is worth the cost, I have doubts.

Previously, on askjf:

Question: Have you tried Claude Code (CLI or VSC ext)? Opus 4.5 is *really good* (could be useful for tedius/boring tasks)
I haven't. tedious/boring things are good for you. either you figure out ways to speed them up (scripts to accomplish repetitive tasks), or you get the practice in doing these things, improving your skills. You train for marathons by putting in lots of easy miles along with your speedwork. The biggest win of LLMs IMO is discovery of poorly documented things.

...later on...


Question: I saw people pressing you here about supporting new versions of ffmpeg, and you replied it was a pain to do because of their constantly changing API. I just saw that you have done it. Well done! Was it a pain while doing it or it was not as painful as you envisioned??? Also, wouldn't their continous changing of API cause same issue again of latest version not being supported?

Turns out, this is was a task that an LLM could assist on.

Comment: What happened to tedious / boring things being good for you? ;-)

(lol)

My current thoughts:

• LLMs are great as a discovery tool for programming. Google has gone to shit, API documentation is terrible, it's really hard to find answers. LLMs end up indexing a lot of content that would be really hard to find otherwise.
• You can have high quality code produced by an LLM, but it will almost certainly take a ton of work by the human, unless you happen to be writing something that has been totally done before, in which case it will probably just rip that off.
• The better LLMs get at writing code, the more consolidation of wealth will occur, as independent software vendors will not be able to compete with the multinational megacorporations that control all of our infrastructure (read that essay). This will be a very not good thing. :/

My recent experiences, using Claude Opus 4.6, mostly via Claude Code:

• Updating REAPER's FFmpeg loading code. Up until v7.66, we supported FFmpeg v2.8/3.x/4.x. Every new major release of FFmpeg has subtle API changes. Navigating through all of those changes is a pain. I gave Claude Code our FFmpeg-loading code, and very little else, and asked it to support newer FFmpeg versions. It added support for 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x (it wasn't aware of 8.x as I guess it was trained before it was released). It pretty much succeeded; a few little tweaks were necessary, there were a couple of small errors, and it produced some preprocessor logic that was so incomprehensible it took me an hour to untangle. And I had to update it to support 8.x... butit still probably saved me a great deal of time (at least a few hours of very frustrating digging through headers and git histories).
• Updating FFmpeg support to support hardware encoders - it pretty much nailed this one, adding the necessary code which seemed to work.
• Updating our VLC loading code to support AV1 decoding. In this case I gave it only a few files relating to the VLC library loading. It gave me a working implementation, though it added approx 50 lines of code, which after reviewing, was mostly unnecessary, and I determined it would only take changing a few lines to support it properly. Still, super helpful.
• (this one hasn't been released yet) -- figuring out how to get consistent text rendering via CoreText on macOS vs win32. Initially the LLM gave me multiple solutions which were completely wrong (LOGFONT's lfHeight should be at 72DPI for macOS and 96DPI for win32, convert that way...), but there were kernels of things in there that were helpful (e.g. suggested ways of going from a positive LOGFONT's lfHeight to point size). I ended up getting something that almost worked, but I noticed that CoreText was returning obviously incorrect font metrics (particularly the internal leading). Once I pointed this out to the LLM, it suggested querying the OS/2 font table for the font (via a CoreText API I had no idea existed), and extracting the metrics from that. It produced code that almost worked, and from that, I managed to put all of the pieces together.

In all of these, I probably could have iterated with the LLM to get it to do more of the work. I'm not sure what time it would have saved, and even if it did save time, I don't think I would walk away from the experience with the same level of understanding I've attained going this route.

Based on that -- if you're vibe coding, right on. Enjoy it while you can potentially profit from it. Try to learn from it. If LLMs end up as master programmers, then the billionaires of today will be even richer (ripping off anything useful by burning tokens and then forcefeeding it to the world), and the rest of us, we'll just get the scraps.

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Decanted Youth - 1 - Vague Reflections -- [10:21]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Hearing the Cure -- [9:01]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Easy Target (false) -- [1:18]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Easy Target -- [1:56]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Quicksand -- [7:41]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Now We Understand -- [4:19]
Decanted Youth - 7 - More Possible Reflections -- [18:32]
Decanted Youth - 8 -- [13:25]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Light Creeps-ish -- [11:43]
Decanted Youth - 10 -- [10:35]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Insecurity -- [7:13]
Decanted Youth - 12 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [14:14]
Not Vampires - 1 - Pre-echo of Monsters -- [0:59]
Not Vampires - 2 - Only a Monster -- [2:39]
Not Vampires - 3 - All Ball Bearings -- [2:12]
Not Vampires - 4 - Swing and Miss (The Time Has Come) -- [5:31]
Not Vampires - 5 - Swing and Miss (reprise) -- [3:22]
Not Vampires - 6 - Bad at Math -- [4:37]
Not Vampires - 7 - You Just Had to Know -- [2:31]

stuck relay

Not Vampires - 1 - Only a Monster -- [4:52]
Not Vampires - 2 - Bad at Math -- [4:09]
Not Vampires - 3 - Fear of the West -- [5:34]
Not Vampires - 4 - diminished interlude -- [0:43]
Not Vampires - 5 - Get in Line / How Low -- [8:29]
Not Vampires - 6 - Quicksand -- [5:02]
Not Vampires - 7 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:33]
Not Vampires - 8 - Easy Target -- [2:36]
Not Vampires - 9 - All Your Fears -- [4:42]
Not Vampires - 10 - Find Me -- [4:14]
Not Vampires - 11 - Now We Understand -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 12 - Now We Understand (faster) -- [3:12]
Not Vampires - 13 - Bury Yourself -- [4:32]
Not Vampires - 14 - Old as Coal -- [5:02]
Not Vampires - 15 -- [5:51]
Not Vampires - 16 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit, Vaguely -- [6:00]
Not Vampires - 17 - Las Vegas -- [4:49]
Not Vampires - 18 - Insecurity -- [4:33]
Not Vampires - 19 - Sandman -- [4:25]
Not Vampires - 20 - Minor Minor Minor -- [6:33]
Not Vampires - 21 - Totally Original -- [6:12]
Not Vampires - 22 - Totally Original (reprise) -- [4:43]
Not Vampires - 23 -- [6:20]
Not Vampires - 24 -- [6:56]
Not Vampires - 25 -- [7:01]

to taste

had to know ac

Decanted Youth - 1 - Lite Crepes -- [9:42]
Decanted Youth - 2 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [16:50]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Las Vegas -- [7:49]
Decanted Youth - 4 -- [11:27]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Sandman -- [6:59]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Insecurity (7) -- [6:43]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Light Creeps -- [9:18]
Decanted Youth - 8 - You Just Had to Know -- [7:37]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Bad at Math -- [4:30]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Bad at Math (better) -- [4:42]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Bad at Math (final answer) -- [5:28]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Quicksand -- [7:29]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Quicksand (again) -- [9:35]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Reflections -- [11:42]

live solo improv: everything dirty and broken
Not Vampires - 1 - Bad at Math -- [5:32]
Not Vampires - 2 - Now We Understand -- [4:44]
Not Vampires - 3 - We Got So Far -- [4:34]
Not Vampires - 4 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:10]
Not Vampires - 5 - Quicksand (extended intro) -- [8:00]
Not Vampires - 6 - How Low -- [4:18]
Not Vampires - 7 - Old as Coal -- [3:34]
Not Vampires - 8 - Vertical Integration -- [4:26]
Not Vampires - 9 - Find Me -- [3:40]
Not Vampires - 10 - Only a Monster -- [2:47]
Not Vampires - 11 - Easy Target -- [2:32]
Not Vampires - 12 - Nearly Your Fears -- [4:13]
Not Vampires - 13 - All Your Fears -- [5:54]
Not Vampires - 14 - (intro) / The River -- [8:13]
Not Vampires - 15 - Major Major Major -- [7:43]
Not Vampires - 16 - Insecurity -- [5:47]
Not Vampires - 17 - Totally Original -- [5:48]
Not Vampires - 18 - AVH -- [2:08]
Not Vampires - 19 - Candy Bandit Cast Iron -- [2:59]
Not Vampires - 20 - The Squeeze -- [8:11]
Not Vampires - 21 -- [5:30]
Not Vampires - 22 -- [1:10]
Not Vampires - 23 - Chosen by the Few (if we can remember) -- [3:49]
Not Vampires - 24 - Save the Geese (Tomorrow is Special) -- [6:16]

philip - 1 - Bad at Math -- [3:28]
philip - 2 - Quicksand -- [4:01]
philip - 3 - Easy Target (false start) -- [0:54]
philip - 4 - Easy Target -- [2:11]
philip - 5 - (loop interlude) -- [1:41]
philip - 6 -- [3:25]
philip - 7 -- [1:42]
philip - 8 -- [1:23]
philip - 9 - Basket Case -- [2:20]
philip - 10 - (extended intro) Knockin' on Heaven's Door -- [10:07]
philip - 11 - Redemption Song -- [2:20]
philip - 12 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:11]
philip - 13 - Find Me -- [4:28]
philip - 14 - Only a Monster -- [3:27]
philip - 15 - (loop interlude 2) -- [2:54]
philip - 16 - Vertical Integration -- [2:57]
philip - 17 - Old as Coal -- [1:55]
philip - 18 - We Are All Guests -- [2:55]
philip - 19 - Dancin on my Own (w/ Rachel) -- [2:49]
philip - 20 - Love Somebody (w/ Rachel) -- [3:11]
philip - 21 - Riptide (w/ Rachel) -- [2:42]

bad at math gtr

Not Vampires - 1 - How Low -- [4:49]
Not Vampires - 2 - Now We Understand -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 3 - Quicksand -- [5:14]
Not Vampires - 4 - Ownership Society (false) -- [1:17]
Not Vampires - 5 - How to Survive -- [5:27]
Not Vampires - 6 - You Just Had to Know -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 7 - Cosmic Background -- [2:54]
Not Vampires - 8 - Old as Coal -- [5:47]
Not Vampires - 9 - Bad at Math (slow) -- [3:34]
Not Vampires - 10 - Lone Parasite/Mistress (revisited) -- [2:02]
Not Vampires - 11 - Easy Target -- [1:38]
Not Vampires - 12 - (squealy) -- [3:49]
Not Vampires - 13 - Vertical Integration -- [4:05]
Not Vampires - 14 - Only a Monster -- [3:37]
Not Vampires - 15 - Find Me -- [3:19]
Not Vampires - 16 - All Your Fears -- [4:10]
Not Vampires - 17 -- [9:08]
Not Vampires - 18 -- [5:31]
Not Vampires - 19 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [3:33]
Not Vampires - 20 - The Squeeze -- [5:07]
Not Vampires - 21 - The River -- [3:37]
Not Vampires - 22 - Dogs Will Rule the World -- [1:51]
Not Vampires - 23 - Dogs Will Rule the World (reprise) -- [6:32]
Not Vampires - 24 - Hindenburg -- [3:27]
Not Vampires - 25 - Totally Original -- [4:02]
Not Vampires - 26 - Minor Minor Minor -- [3:52]
Not Vampires - 27 - Quicksand (alt arrange) -- [5:17]
Not Vampires - 28 - Insecurity -- [6:18]

another reunion

Decanted Youth - 1 - Ownership Society Revisited -- [7:17]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Lone Parasite/Mistress -- [12:03]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Just Had to Know -- [7:50]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Easy Target -- [2:08]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Reflections -- [13:12]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Quicksand -- [8:39]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Quicksand (again) -- [5:37]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Only a Monster -- [3:52]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Bad at Math -- [3:11]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Find Me -- [4:17]
Decanted Youth - 11 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [17:00]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Candy Bandit -- [0:55]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Sandman -- [6:11]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Totally Original (fast) -- [6:32]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Totally Original (slow) -- [5:16]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Light Creeps -- [9:23]
Decanted Youth - 17 - Lite Crepes -- [5:41]
Decanted Youth - 18 - More Crepes -- [4:12]

ownership society revisited

To follow up on the previous post about our forums and getting scraped by bots, I enabled some statistics in our human-authentication system for the forum. In the last 18 hours, we have seen requests from about 300,000 IPs, of which about 5,000 (approx 1.5%) successfully verified themselves as human.

Of the 295,000 IPs that did not verify themselves as human, about 15,000 were poorly behaved, so much so that they triggered our log-analysis-ban system.

The remaining 280,000 IPs each behaved relatively fine, each doing occasional requests more or less mimicking the usage patterns of a user. There are two problems it caused for us, though:

1. they often would request pages that are expensive to generate (page 90 of our member list, e.g., which vbulletin has to go and sort/generate then skip 89 pages of the results)
2. there are 280,000 of them

If we had 280,000 simultaneous legitimate users on our forum, we would have similar problems, though in that situation we could justify spending a lot more on the infrastructure to support our userbase. Moderating such a place would be an impossible nightmare, too.

In short, to use a metaphor, the modern internet (LLM-scraping-bots) will effectively kill a forum like ours with a million tiny papercuts (if allowed).

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Well I didn't update for a while. Lost a ton of music related stuff (instruments, etc) due to a fire, that sucked. Will write more about that at some point, maybe, though also maybe will try to forget heh.

What I'm really posting here is to claim a momentary victory (it won't last long no doubt) against the hoards of scrapers effectively DDoSing web sites out there. Our forums would have 100,000+ "guest" users "browsing," causing all kinds of performance issues. Last night and today, added some stuff requiring some computation via javascript and a little bit of user interaction to authenticate the guest user as not-a-bot, and now we have a few hundred. What a mess the internet is. :/ Sigh.

Update Jan 2:
There are (currently) four layers of scraper/bot/ddos mitigations we are using:

• the latest - when an IP which is not already logged in makes a request, it is checked against a local temporary database. if it has not recently been verified it is verified, by serving a page with some javascript that does some brute force computations, and requires a little bit of human interaction (changing the state of some UI in such a way that a human would). once these are complete, it sends an AJAX request to the server, which quickly validates the results, and if it passes, updates that temp database. the page then refreshes itself to the updated version. Before this change, we'd often see more than 100,000 IPs over the course of a day request pages, often just one or two, each time creating a session which our database would track, etc. Now it's down to a more reasonable 1,000-2,000.
• every minute or two, we run a script that analyzes the last few minutes of apache logs to detect likely scrapers. it looks at the patterns of their requests, and updates a .htaccess file with rewritecond lines to match them and redirect them to a 529 page which tells them to chill. This sometimes causes false positives, when people reopen their browser sessions of like 50 windows on the forum.
• (also recent) - if a non-logged in user requests various obscure pages, e.g. our member list, we refuse. most non-logged-in users would never do this, and they end up being quite a lot of cpu load. so an easy win. maybe good for the privacy of our users, too?
• sometimes scrapers fill up all of our server slots. even when serving them cheap pages, they can still end up holding a precious slot for a few seconds. often they'll keepalive more requests, too. so when we find this happens, we run a script which identifies /24 subnets that are the worst offenders, then adds them to an ipset which we then blackhole. I sometimes spot check these with whois to make sure they are cloud providers. When we see 50+ IPs in a /24 (254 addresses) which are all doing a lot of requests, you're probably a cloud provider (if our forum had a much, much larger audience, then that might be more plausible).

anyway that's the current state of trying to run a forum with 280,000 threads and a few million posts these days. I'm sure it won't last, they will start defeating our countermeasures and we'll have to escalate them. I really do hate requiring JavaScript, some people don't want to do that. sigh.

3 Comments

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [0:53]
Decanted Youth - 2 - In Your Room / Candy Bandit -- [9:28]
Decanted Youth - 3 - The Squeeze -- [6:04]
Decanted Youth - 4 - This is Progress -- [7:15]
Decanted Youth - 5 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [15:14]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Make You Whole -- [10:28]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Las Vegas (false start) -- [1:32]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Sandman -- [5:58]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Las Vegas (seven) -- [3:42]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Las Vegas (slowr) -- [7:45]
Decanted Youth - 11 - How Low -- [8:34]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Quicksand -- [9:20]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Bad at Math -- [3:54]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Old as Coal -- [5:48]
Decanted Youth - 15 -- [8:25]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Reflections in E maybe -- [13:53]
Decanted Youth - 17 - Easy Target -- [2:10]
Decanted Youth - 18 - Easy Target (reprise) -- [1:53]
Decanted Youth - 19 - Now We Understand -- [4:20]

back one at a time

Not Vampires - 1 -- [5:05]
Not Vampires - 2 - Previous Song in 10 -- [5:41]
Not Vampires - 3 - Las Vegas -- [5:43]
Not Vampires - 4 - (extended intro) Candy Bandit -- [6:06]
Not Vampires - 5 - Major Major Major -- [4:53]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [4:42]
Not Vampires - 7 - Totally Original (too slow) -- [5:55]
Not Vampires - 8 - Totally Original -- [5:33]
Not Vampires - 9 - The River -- [4:39]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [5:53]
Not Vampires - 11 - Just Had to Know -- [6:37]
Not Vampires - 12 - All Your Fears (prequel) -- [2:58]
Not Vampires - 13 - All Your Fears -- [4:19]
Not Vampires - 14 - Now We Understand -- [4:23]
Not Vampires - 15 - Bad at Math -- [4:25]
Not Vampires - 16 - Totally Original (fakeout) Easy Target -- [4:14]
Not Vampires - 17 - Quicksand -- [8:01]
Not Vampires - 18 - Old as Coal -- [6:18]
Not Vampires - 19 - How Low -- [4:18]
Not Vampires - 20 - Only a Monster -- [3:41]
Not Vampires - 21 - Find Me -- [3:56]
Not Vampires - 22 - (wbplasmatron) -- [7:48]

slow fears

salvage mic
sneeze room

welcome back plasmatron

Not Vampires - 1 - Disintegration Deference -- [5:27]
Not Vampires - 2 - Totally Original -- [5:01]
Not Vampires - 3 - Totally Original, Slower -- [6:53]
Not Vampires - 4 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [4:26]
Not Vampires - 5 - Insecurity -- [7:21]
Not Vampires - 6 - Bitter Work House of Kittens (Broad City S2E01) -- [6:40]
Not Vampires - 7 - Las Vegas -- [5:50]
Not Vampires - 8 - Disassociate Seven -- [4:19]
Not Vampires - 9 - How Low -- [4:19]
Not Vampires - 10 - You Just Had to Know (slow, then loud) -- [9:49]
Not Vampires - 11 - Old as Coal -- [5:18]
Not Vampires - 12 - Self Imposed -- [5:38]
Not Vampires - 13 - All Your Fears -- [6:32]
Not Vampires - 14 - Only a Monster -- [4:15]
Not Vampires - 15 - Bad at Math -- [3:18]
Not Vampires - 16 - Quicksand -- [6:43]
Not Vampires - 17 - Find Me -- [4:27]
Not Vampires - 18 - Easy Target -- [1:51]
Not Vampires - 19 - Vertical Integration -- [3:11]
Not Vampires - 20 - Watch Your Step -- [2:26]
Not Vampires - 21 - Now We Understand -- [3:08]

in a box

Decanted Youth - 1 - Public Service -- [12:57]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Totally Original -- [7:30]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Sandman -- [5:39]
Decanted Youth - 4 - (familiar bounce) -- [7:41]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Las Vegas -- [8:26]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Insecurity (seven) -- [7:57]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Totally Not Derivative -- [10:36]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Momentary Separation of Drums -- [0:55]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Finding Alternate Reflections -- [14:27]
Decanted Youth - 10 - All Your Fears -- [3:49]
Decanted Youth - 11 - All Your Fears (again) -- [3:49]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Quicksand (half) -- [7:44]
Decanted Youth - 13 - You Just Had to Know -- [11:19]
Decanted Youth - 14 - How Low -- [6:33]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Not Finding Captain Dan -- [1:10]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Only a Monster (fast) -- [2:28]
Decanted Youth - 17 - Only a Monster (fast again) -- [0:49]

Not Vampires - 1 - Identity Crisis -- [4:55]
Not Vampires - 2 - Give Up / Losing Your Mind / This must have a name already / Candy Bandit -- [17:03]
Not Vampires - 3 - Major Major Major -- [5:01]
Not Vampires - 4 - Las Vegas / Extended Loss / Totally Original -- [14:32]
Not Vampires - 5 - Feelings, Man -- [4:47]
Not Vampires - 6 - Only a Monster -- [4:13]
Not Vampires - 7 - Quicksand -- [4:48]
Not Vampires - 8 - Now We Understand / ALL ABOARD -- [6:32]
Not Vampires - 9 - Now We Understand the Machines (loopy) -- [5:14]
Not Vampires - 10 - Vague Reflections / Bad at Math -- [11:00]
Not Vampires - 11 - How Low / Drowning in Delay -- [11:36]
Not Vampires - 12 - Old as Coal -- [5:30]
Not Vampires - 13 - All Your Fears -- [5:19]
Not Vampires - 14 - You Just Had to Know -- [2:58]
Not Vampires - 15 - Easy Target -- [2:07]

Not Vampires - 1 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:17]
Not Vampires - 2 - Old as Coal -- [5:30]
Not Vampires - 3 - Only a Monster (extended intro) -- [7:32]
Not Vampires - 4 - How Low -- [5:21]
Not Vampires - 5 - Quicksand -- [5:11]
Not Vampires - 6 - Painfully Aware of Your Own Limitations -- [4:36]
Not Vampires - 7 - Cosmic Background -- [4:23]
Not Vampires - 8 - All Your Fears -- [5:22]
Not Vampires - 9 - Find Me -- [4:48]
Not Vampires - 10 - Now We Understand -- [3:21]
Not Vampires - 11 - Bad at Math -- [3:53]
Not Vampires - 12 - Easy Target -- [2:28]
Not Vampires - 13 - Dropped Sticks and Loose Wires -- [8:18]
Not Vampires - 14 - Las Vegas (seven short) -- [1:09]
Not Vampires - 15 - Las Vegas (seven) -- [4:21]
Not Vampires - 16 - Totally Original -- [5:25]
Not Vampires - 17 - Madame Saccharine -- [3:00]
Not Vampires - 18 - Goalposts -- [7:48]
Not Vampires - 19 - Candy Bandit -- [3:04]
Not Vampires - 20 - Major Major Major / Insecurity (seven) -- [6:48]
Not Vampires - 21 - Insecurity (seven) -- [2:10]

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [1:59]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [10:31]
Decanted Youth - 3 - The Ladder (cover) -- [6:18]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Major Major Major / ripoffs etc / Insecurity -- [13:39]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Totally Original -- [6:49]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Just Had to Know -- [4:17]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Quicksand -- [5:35]
Decanted Youth - 8 - How Low -- [6:32]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Bad at Math -- [6:13]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Old as Coal -- [4:01]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Find Me -- [6:18]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Vertical Integration / Vague Reflections Off -- [21:55]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Easy Target -- [2:44]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Easy Target (reprise) -- [1:44]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Now We Understand -- [7:03]
Decanted Youth - 16 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [17:19]

Decanted Youth - 1 - The Ladder (cover, acoustic) -- [1:35]
Decanted Youth - 2 - The Ladder (cover, acoustic) -- [3:50]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Light Creeps (acoustic) -- [6:25]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Las Vegas (seven, acoustic) -- [2:22]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Las Vegas (seven, acoustic, partial) -- [0:36]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Las Vegas (seven, acoustic, longer) -- [4:18]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Totally Original (acoustic) -- [6:47]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Young Liars (cover, acoustic) -- [4:15]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Young Liars (cover, acoustic, revisited) -- [0:39]
Decanted Youth - 10 -- [9:51]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Sandman (acoustic) -- [6:04]
Decanted Youth - 12 -- [4:36]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Future Starts Slow (cover, acoustic) -- [4:57]

Not Vampires - 1 - Blinding Glare -- [8:07]
Not Vampires - 2 - Totally Original -- [4:58]
Not Vampires - 3 - Vaguely Candy Bandit -- [4:06]
Not Vampires - 4 - Not So Smart Now Are You -- [6:20]
Not Vampires - 5 - Las Vegas Seven -- [5:06]
Not Vampires - 6 - Easy Target -- [2:31]
Not Vampires - 7 - Easy Target (take 2) -- [2:24]
Not Vampires - 8 - You Just Had to Know -- [3:34]
Not Vampires - 9 - Bad at Math -- [3:31]
Not Vampires - 10 - Now We Understand -- [4:15]
Not Vampires - 11 - Find Your Way (Had to Know) -- [5:10]
Not Vampires - 12 - Quicksand -- [3:38]
Not Vampires - 13 - (new drum beats) -- [1:14]
Not Vampires - 14 - Find Me (bouncey) -- [3:27]
Not Vampires - 15 - Cosmic Background -- [4:40]
Not Vampires - 16 - Old as Coal -- [2:21]
Not Vampires - 17 - (new drum beats) -- [0:53]
Not Vampires - 18 - Odd Double Digits -- [7:28]
Not Vampires - 19 - How Low (15s) -- [6:43]
Not Vampires - 20 - How Low -- [4:10]
Not Vampires - 21 - Vertical Integration -- [3:10]
Not Vampires - 22 - Easy Target (reprise) -- [2:06]
Not Vampires - 23 - Young Liars (butcher cover) -- [2:13]
Not Vampires - 24 - Only a Monster -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 25 - Totally Original (reprise) -- [2:59]
Not Vampires - 26 - Not Enough Chords (good in bed callback maybe?) -- [3:42]
Not Vampires - 27 - Self Imposed -- [3:11]
Not Vampires - 28 - All Your Fears -- [2:41]

the other hangover

another one of these eh

lets something
or something else

how low

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [14:32]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Sandman -- [5:09]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Totally Original (instrumental) -- [7:20]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Totally Original -- [7:33]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Totally Original (role reversal) -- [10:32]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Bad at Math -- [3:41]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Bad at Math (slower) -- [8:27]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Just Had to Know -- [11:02]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Quicksand -- [6:49]
Decanted Youth - 10 - How Low -- [4:15]
Decanted Youth - 11 - How Low (false) -- [1:15]
Decanted Youth - 12 - How Low (reprise) -- [1:50]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Easy Target (acoustic) -- [1:20]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Totally Original (acoustic ditty) -- [0:51]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Totally Original (acoustic bounce) -- [0:59]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Las Vegas (extended) -- [9:25]
Decanted Youth - 17 - Insecurity (robot throwback) -- [13:33]
Decanted Youth - 18 - Disappear -- [18:52]

Decanted Youth - 1 - Welcome to the Battle -- [0:57]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Light Creeps -- [10:18]
Decanted Youth - 3 -- [13:59]
Decanted Youth - 4 - You Just Had to Know (reorganized) -- [6:49]
Decanted Youth - 5 - You Just Had to Know (reorganized again) -- [4:23]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Reflections / Self Imposed -- [17:24]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Only a Monster -- [3:14]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Quicksand -- [5:51]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Quicksand (reprise) -- [5:39]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Bad at Math -- [3:40]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Candy Bandit -- [1:43]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Legacy / Disappear -- [13:10]
Decanted Youth - 13 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [16:07]
Decanted Youth - 14 - How Low -- [8:06]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Old as Coal (preprise) -- [1:44]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Old as Coal -- [3:58]
Decanted Youth - 17 -- [0:37]
Decanted Youth - 18 - Las Vegas -- [3:06]

Not Vampires (with PJ Norman) - 1 - Bloody Knuckles -- [5:32]
Not Vampires (with PJ Norman) - 2 - You Just Had to Know -- [5:32]
Not Vampires (with PJ Norman) - 3 - Vertical Integration -- [4:31]
Not Vampires (with PJ Norman) - 4 - Quicksand -- [4:34]
Not Vampires (with PJ Norman) - 5 - Reverses -- [8:22]
Not Vampires (with PJ Norman) - 6 - Bad at Maths -- [3:28]

Not Vampires - 1 - How Low (Cadman Guitars) -- [3:45]
Not Vampires - 2 - Old as Coal (alt key, Cadman Guitars) -- [2:58]
Not Vampires - 3 - Quicksand (Cadman Guitars) -- [3:00]
Not Vampires - 4 - Vertical Integration (Cadman Guitars) -- [4:54]
Not Vampires - 5 - Old as Coal (Cadman Guitars) -- [2:01]
Not Vampires - 6 - Cold as Oal (Cadman Guitars) -- [2:00]
Not Vampires - 7 - You Just Had to Know (Cadman Guitars) -- [4:00]
Not Vampires - 8 - Las Vegas (Bounce Cadman Guitars) -- [3:48]
Not Vampires - 9 - Light Creeps (Cadman Guitars) -- [4:54]
Not Vampires - 10 - Young Liars (cover) -- [3:32]
Not Vampires - 11 - Only a Monster (Cadman Guitars) -- [3:07]
Not Vampires - 12 - Now We Understand (Cadman Guitars) -- [5:06]
Not Vampires - 13 - The River (Cadman Guitars) -- [5:09]

water based ink, made at a fundraiser at the good fork. thanks Ethan!

Comment...

brainfry

now we understand

keep on trusting
light in your hands

the captain
the captain prehofner

how can i choose a name yet
how low maybe
trapped outside

had to know loopy
how low loopy

had to know loss

Not Vampires - 1 - You Just Had to Know (slow) -- [7:17]
Not Vampires - 2 - Wasted Life -- [6:59]
Not Vampires - 3 - How Low -- [4:41]
Not Vampires - 4 - Easy Target -- [1:57]
Not Vampires - 5 - Quicksand -- [4:47]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [1:35]
Not Vampires - 7 - Now We Understand -- [3:59]
Not Vampires - 8 - Old as Coal -- [3:32]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [5:33]
Not Vampires - 10 - Only a Monster -- [4:10]
Not Vampires - 11 - Bad at Math (AI rant edition) -- [4:32]
Not Vampires - 12 - What's to Come (had to know-ish) -- [7:06]
Not Vampires - 13 - Hope Yielded -- [6:04]
Not Vampires - 14 - Unprepared, Nothing to Wear -- [5:12]
Not Vampires - 15 -- [4:59]
Not Vampires - 16 -- [5:29]
Not Vampires - 17 -- [5:24]

you had to know

Not Vampires - 1 - How Low -- [4:11]
Not Vampires - 2 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:38]
Not Vampires - 3 - Bad at Math -- [4:18]
Not Vampires - 4 - Quicksand -- [5:05]
Not Vampires - 5 - Old as Coal -- [4:43]
Not Vampires - 6 - Only a Monster -- [4:48]
Not Vampires - 7 - Find Me -- [4:03]
Not Vampires - 8 - Cosmic Background -- [4:04]
Not Vampires - 9 - Now We Understand -- [4:58]
Not Vampires - 10 - Self Imposed -- [5:09]
Not Vampires - 11 -- [3:40]
Not Vampires - 12 -- [0:50]
Not Vampires - 13 -- [6:50]
Not Vampires - 14 -- [2:12]
Not Vampires - 15 - New Seven -- [3:19]
Not Vampires - 16 -- [0:28]
Not Vampires - 17 - Documentaries Revisited -- [6:34]
Not Vampires - 18 - Insecurity -- [5:08]
Not Vampires - 19 - Las Vegas -- [4:01]

blame someone else

please join our panel

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 -- [4:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 -- [3:06]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - How Low -- [5:22]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Trees and Mold, Old as Coal -- [5:02]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Find Me -- [4:42]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Only a Monster -- [4:07]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Only a Monster (reprise) -- [3:38]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Quicksand -- [5:09]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 - You Just Had to Know -- [5:06]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - Las Vegas -- [3:28]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 11 - Easy Target -- [2:43]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 12 - Easy Target (reprise) -- [2:06]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 13 - Bad at Math -- [4:01]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 14 - Now We Understand -- [4:47]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 15 - Hindenburg -- [9:41]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 16 - Dogs Will Rule the World -- [3:49]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 17 - Leacho (Cosmos) -- [6:03]

Not Vampires - 1 - Find Me (Complexified) -- [3:29]
Not Vampires - 2 - You Just Had to Know -- [3:58]
Not Vampires - 3 - Old as Coal -- [5:18]
Not Vampires - 4 -- [6:00]
Not Vampires - 5 -- [1:11]
Not Vampires - 6 - How Low (shielded) -- [4:40]
Not Vampires - 7 -- [3:17]

TIL the default Apache Timeout is set to 300s, which is a long ass time, especially when dealing with crawlers that sometimes leave their connections open after their request. And they'll fill up the default 256 connection slots pretty fast, making things slow as shit. 10 or 15 is probably plenty.

Comment...

Decanted Youth - 1 - How Low -- [11:15]
Decanted Youth - 2 - How Low (take 2) -- [9:47]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Reflections -- [10:46]
Decanted Youth - 4 - You Just Had to Know -- [5:07]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Echoes of the Past (Storms? Spring?) -- [7:36]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Now We Understand (partial) -- [3:19]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Now We Understand (slow) -- [6:18]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Solitude -- [7:49]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Bad at Math -- [4:04]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Easy Target (partial) -- [1:36]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Easy Target -- [2:08]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Only a Monster -- [7:00]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Quicksand -- [6:17]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Light Creeps -- [9:52]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Find Me -- [4:13]

Not Vampires - 1 - Now We Understand -- [6:44]
Not Vampires - 2 - Quicksand -- [6:03]
Not Vampires - 3 - You Just Had to Know (eyes shut) -- [4:01]
Not Vampires - 4 - Only a Monster (partial) -- [1:21]
Not Vampires - 5 - How Low (yes) -- [5:38]
Not Vampires - 6 - How Low (yes, again) -- [4:32]
Not Vampires - 7 - Only a Monster -- [4:06]
Not Vampires - 8 - Bad at Math -- [6:31]
Not Vampires - 9 - It's Not Easy (Being This Good) -- [5:40]
Not Vampires - 10 - Find Me (slow) -- [4:53]
Not Vampires - 11 - Find Me -- [7:16]
Not Vampires - 12 - Easy Target -- [2:06]
Not Vampires - 13 - Easy Target (again) -- [1:55]
Not Vampires - 14 - Old as Coal -- [5:15]
Not Vampires - 15 - Old as Coal (guitars) -- [4:40]
Not Vampires - 16 - Old as Coal (guitars again) -- [2:45]
Not Vampires - 17 - Old as Coal (guitars guitars) -- [4:37]
Not Vampires - 18 - Diminished Thing -- [4:38]
Not Vampires - 19 -- [4:01]
Not Vampires - 20 -- [5:57]
Not Vampires - 21 -- [5:01]
Not Vampires - 22 - Major Major Major -- [3:35]
Not Vampires - 23 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [3:05]

Not Vampires - 1 - It's Not Easy -- [4:31]
Not Vampires - 2 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:13]
Not Vampires - 3 -- [0:56]
Not Vampires - 4 - Old as Coal -- [8:22]
Not Vampires - 5 - Old as Coal (loopy Trees/Mold) -- [2:58]
Not Vampires - 6 - Quicksand -- [3:32]
Not Vampires - 7 - Old as Coal (guitars) -- [5:23]
Not Vampires - 8 - Old as Coal (guitars again, 4+2) -- [5:25]
Not Vampires - 9 - Old as Coal (guitars again, 4) -- [4:48]
Not Vampires - 10 - It's Not Easy (guitars) -- [4:05]
Not Vampires - 11 - Easy Target (guitars) -- [2:47]
Not Vampires - 12 - Easy Target (guitars again) -- [2:26]
Not Vampires - 13 - Bad at Math (guitars) -- [3:04]
Not Vampires - 14 - Bad at Math (guitars, robotic) -- [2:08]
Not Vampires - 15 -- [10:24]
Not Vampires - 16 - Now We Understand (guitars) -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 17 - Now We Understand (guitars again, extended and nice) -- [6:53]

Not Vampires - 1 -- [0:42]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [7:03]
Not Vampires - 3 - You Just Had to Know (acoustic) -- [3:17]
Not Vampires - 4 - You Just Had to Know (acoustic again) -- [2:41]
Not Vampires - 5 - You Just Had to Know (acoustic third) -- [6:46]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [7:45]
Not Vampires - 7 - Snake Charmer (Munn) -- [2:19]
Not Vampires - 8 - How Low (acoustic) -- [4:08]
Not Vampires - 9 - How Low (acoustic) -- [3:10]
Not Vampires - 10 - Monkey in a Coma -- [6:11]
Not Vampires - 11 - Monkey in a Coma (work 2) -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 12 - Monkey in a Coma (work 3) -- [2:06]
Not Vampires - 13 - Monkey in a Coma (work 4) -- [1:41]
Not Vampires - 14 - Las Vegas (acoustic) -- [3:33]
Not Vampires - 15 - Chosen by the Few (acoustic) -- [4:21]
Not Vampires - 16 - Chosen by the Few (acoustic again) -- [4:02]

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - How Low -- [6:16]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - The River -- [6:05]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - The River (reprise) -- [4:55]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - You Just Had to Know -- [2:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - You Just Had to Know (false start) -- [1:24]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - You Just Had to Know (reprise) -- [3:31]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Quicksand -- [3:48]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Quicksand (reprise) -- [4:15]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 - Old as Coal (Trees v Mold) -- [4:05]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - Easy Target -- [1:51]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 11 - Easy Target (false) -- [1:26]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 12 - Easy Target (reprise) -- [1:47]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 13 - Now We Understand -- [3:38]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 14 - Now We Understand (reprise) -- [4:19]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 15 - Only a Monster (short) -- [1:52]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 16 - Only a Monster -- [2:51]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 17 - Bad at Math (slow) -- [5:57]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 18 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [2:51]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 19 - Bubble Envy -- [6:25]

Not Vampires - 1 - Find Me -- [4:59]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [2:16]
Not Vampires - 3 - Only a Monster (false start) -- [1:29]
Not Vampires - 4 - Only a Monster -- [3:01]
Not Vampires - 5 - How Low -- [4:26]
Not Vampires - 6 - Quicksand -- [4:21]
Not Vampires - 7 - Bad at Math -- [5:49]
Not Vampires - 8 - Now We Understand -- [6:01]
Not Vampires - 9 - (sax interlude) -- [3:43]
Not Vampires - 10 - (sax interlude continued) -- [6:02]
Not Vampires - 11 - Breaking Sax Rules -- [4:41]
Not Vampires - 12 - Drum and Sax -- [7:53]
Not Vampires - 13 - Only a Monster (guitars) -- [10:03]
Not Vampires - 14 - Only a Monster (more guitars) -- [3:10]
Not Vampires - 15 - You Just Had to Know (slow) -- [2:51]
Not Vampires - 16 - You Just Had to Know (slow continued) -- [1:03]
Not Vampires - 17 - You Just Had to Know (faster) -- [1:39]
Not Vampires - 18 - How Low (guitar n bass) -- [1:41]
Not Vampires - 19 - How Low (not sure why this made the cut) -- [0:24]

I've been toying with a definition of measuring how meaningful something is artistically. First, Newton's Third Law:

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

The act of making art changes us -- the neural connections of our brains are changed by the process.

That magnitude of change is reflected in the significance of the art. The change in our brains might be from a moment or from a lifetime of effort, but without the creative process, it is not art.

You could extrapolate, then, what it means (or doesn't mean) to have art generated by machines. David Byrne said something in American Utopia about how other humans are the most interesting thing to look at. So it makes sense to me that looking at the reflection of their changing brains would be meaningful.

Recordings:

live solo improv: someone took my bacon

2 Comments

If you know how to contact me (email, text, whatever) and are reading this, and you feel like it, send me a message saying that you've read this.

Recordings:

Not Vampires - 1 - How Low -- [5:35]
Not Vampires - 2 - Crazy Feelings -- [5:43]
Not Vampires - 3 - Now We Understand -- [4:30]
Not Vampires - 4 - Old as Coal -- [5:36]
Not Vampires - 5 - Quicksand -- [5:26]
Not Vampires - 6 - Easy Target -- [2:22]
Not Vampires - 7 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:47]
Not Vampires - 8 - Only a Monster -- [3:50]
Not Vampires - 9 - Bad at Math -- [3:14]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [4:13]
Not Vampires - 11 - Las Vegas -- [6:06]
Not Vampires - 12 - Intro / Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [6:38]
Not Vampires - 13 - Light Creeps -- [5:42]
Not Vampires - 14 - Bad at Math (acoustic) -- [2:50]
Not Vampires - 15 - Find Me (acoustic) -- [4:21]

8 Comments

(edit) upgraded to allow webamp, though it still defaults to the built-in player because this works a lot better for mobile devices (playback while locked, etc).

Comment...

Not Vampires - 1 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:10]
Not Vampires - 2 - (Trees/Mold) Old as Coal -- [5:56]
Not Vampires - 3 - Bad at Math -- [3:30]
Not Vampires - 4 - Now We Understand -- [4:58]
Not Vampires - 5 - Vertical Integration (vox) -- [5:59]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [4:38]
Not Vampires - 7 - Only a Monster -- [4:30]
Not Vampires - 8 - Only a Monster (faster) -- [3:28]
Not Vampires - 9 - Quicksand -- [5:03]
Not Vampires - 10 - How Low -- [4:31]
Not Vampires - 11 - Easy Target -- [2:00]
Not Vampires - 12 - Find Me -- [3:58]
Not Vampires - 13 - Bubble Envy -- [2:20]
Not Vampires - 14 - (failed) All Your Fears -- [1:46]
Not Vampires - 15 - Self Imposed -- [5:03]

super8 - 1 - The Time Has Come -- [7:12]
super8 - 2 - Escape -- [6:48]
super8 - 3 - FOMO -- [5:58]
super8 - 4 - Bottom of a Hole -- [6:45]
super8 - 5 - Run/Drive -- [9:07]

Not Vampires - 1 - You Just Had to Know -- [6:08]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [4:40]
Not Vampires - 3 - How Low (How Slow) -- [5:09]
Not Vampires - 4 - How Low -- [4:25]
Not Vampires - 5 - Quicksand -- [5:44]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [4:08]
Not Vampires - 7 - Only a Monster -- [4:29]
Not Vampires - 8 -- [3:32]
Not Vampires - 9 - Cosmic Background -- [3:12]
Not Vampires - 10 - Now We Understand -- [4:31]
Not Vampires - 11 - Easy Target -- [2:02]
Not Vampires - 12 - Bad at Math -- [3:37]
Not Vampires - 13 - Bubble Envy -- [3:42]
Not Vampires - 14 - Bubble Envy (again) -- [2:38]
Not Vampires - 15 - Now We Understand (alt setup) -- [3:43]
Not Vampires - 16 - Insecurity -- [5:07]
Not Vampires - 17 - Major Major Major -- [3:55]
Not Vampires - 18 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [3:16]
Not Vampires - 19 -- [4:59]
Not Vampires - 20 - Sandman-ish -- [6:00]
Not Vampires - 21 - Find Me (acoustic failure) -- [1:29]
Not Vampires - 22 - Find Me (acoustic) -- [3:23]
Not Vampires - 23 - Old as Coal (acoustic) -- [3:32]
Not Vampires - 24 - You Just Had to Know (acoustic) -- [5:33]
Not Vampires - 25 - You Just Had to Know (acoustic again) -- [2:09]
Not Vampires - 26 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit (acoustic) -- [2:22]

Not Vampires - 1 -- [6:41]
Not Vampires - 2 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [3:31]
Not Vampires - 3 - Las Vegas -- [6:03]
Not Vampires - 4 - (alt config) Bad at Math -- [5:10]
Not Vampires - 5 - (alt config) Easy Target (fail) -- [0:53]
Not Vampires - 6 - (alt config) Easy Target -- [4:56]
Not Vampires - 7 - (alt config) Easy Target (III) -- [2:36]
Not Vampires - 8 - Light Creeps -- [4:40]
Not Vampires - 9 - Quicksand -- [7:00]
Not Vampires - 10 - How Low (three) -- [4:26]
Not Vampires - 11 - How Low (regular) -- [5:20]
Not Vampires - 12 -- [0:44]
Not Vampires - 13 - (extended intro) Old as Coal -- [7:34]
Not Vampires - 14 - Easy Target -- [2:29]
Not Vampires - 15 - Only a Monster -- [4:12]
Not Vampires - 16 - Naked Eye -- [2:57]
Not Vampires - 17 - You Just Had to Know -- [3:04]
Not Vampires - 18 - You Just Had to Know (reprise) -- [2:48]
Not Vampires - 19 - Bad at Math -- [3:20]
Not Vampires - 20 -- [1:13]
Not Vampires - 21 -- [1:29]

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [14:41]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [1:04]
Decanted Youth - 3 -- [8:32]
Decanted Youth - 4 - (bowing) -- [11:20]
Decanted Youth - 5 - bubble envy fail -- [1:37]
Decanted Youth - 6 - bubble envy additional fail -- [0:45]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Reflections -- [11:58]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Only a Monster -- [3:23]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Candy Bandit -- [0:49]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Major Major Major -- [4:07]
Not Vampires - 1 - How Low -- [3:03]
Not Vampires - 2 - Only a Monster -- [3:26]
Not Vampires - 3 - Now We Understand -- [4:11]
Not Vampires - 4 - Old as Coal -- [3:28]
Not Vampires - 5 - Bad at Math -- [3:05]
Not Vampires - 6 - Naked Eye -- [2:15]
Not Vampires - 7 - Naked Eye (short) -- [0:53]
Not Vampires - 8 - Naked Eye (short) -- [0:43]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [3:33]
Not Vampires - 10 - Quicksand (sort) -- [1:34]
Not Vampires - 11 - Quicksand -- [4:10]
Not Vampires - 12 -- [1:16]
Not Vampires - 13 - How Low (reprise) -- [6:43]
Not Vampires - 14 - How Low (choir) -- [4:00]
Not Vampires - 15 - You Just Had to Know -- [6:04]
Not Vampires - 16 - (storms a comin) -- [4:51]

The project I started something like 21 years ago, Jesusonic, which became REAPER's JSFX, is now open source -- the real way, LGPL licensed.

So if you want to extend it within REAPER, you can, or if you want to make your software support it, you can, etc. It also includes the source to the ReaJS VST, though you'll need the VST2 SDK (or equivalent) to compile that.

I've cleaned it up a bit over the last few years in preparation for this, but there's still a lot of cruft, the mess I made in my youth.

It might be nice to also release the original text-mode UI, but really who wants to use that? and I'd have to dig it out of my git history, I've long since rm'd those files...

Recordings:

Not Vampires - 1 - (GPS wandering) How Low -- [4:58]
Not Vampires - 2 - Secret Safe -- [4:44]
Not Vampires - 3 - Quicksand -- [4:17]
Not Vampires - 4 - Naked Eye -- [3:47]
Not Vampires - 5 - Naked Eye (evolution) -- [2:20]
Not Vampires - 6 - Naked Eye (again) -- [1:44]
Not Vampires - 7 - Vague Now We Understand -- [6:20]
Not Vampires - 8 - Only a Monster -- [4:42]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [2:26]
Not Vampires - 10 - The Book of Sevens -- [3:16]
Not Vampires - 11 - (You Just Had to Know?) -- [6:11]
Not Vampires - 12 - Easy Target -- [3:34]
Not Vampires - 13 - Easy Target (short again) -- [0:59]

2 Comments

Not Vampires - 1 - Subtle Vacation -- [4:47]
Not Vampires - 2 - How Low -- [5:37]
Not Vampires - 3 - Quicksand -- [3:54]
Not Vampires - 4 - (Reverse) Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [2:28]
Not Vampires - 5 - You Just Had to Know -- [4:48]
Not Vampires - 6 - Now We Understand -- [4:40]
Not Vampires - 7 - Old as Coal -- [5:32]
Not Vampires - 8 - Bubble Envy -- [3:29]
Not Vampires - 9 - (extended intro) Easy Target -- [7:11]
Not Vampires - 10 - Easy Target -- [2:30]
Not Vampires - 11 - Bad at Math (slow) -- [5:27]
Not Vampires - 12 - Only a Monster -- [4:38]
Not Vampires - 13 - Self Imposed -- [3:55]
Not Vampires - 14 - Cosmic Background (slow) -- [4:16]
Not Vampires - 15 - Cosmic Background -- [2:33]
Not Vampires - 16 - The Flat Earth -- [3:52]
Not Vampires - 17 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit (acoustic) -- [2:07]
Not Vampires - 18 - Find Me (acoustic) -- [3:29]
Not Vampires - 19 - Major Major Major (acoustic) -- [2:55]
Not Vampires - 20 - Major Major Major (acoustic again) -- [2:31]
Not Vampires - 21 - (failing to) Follow Me Around -- [1:33]

Not Vampires - 1 - Only a Monster (acoustic) -- [3:35]
Not Vampires - 2 - (fake out) Bad at Math (acoustic) -- [3:53]
Not Vampires - 3 - Only a Monster (acoustic, expanding) -- [3:45]
Not Vampires - 4 - Only a Monster (acoustic, expanding more) -- [2:00]
Not Vampires - 5 - Only a Monster (acoustic, expanded) -- [6:24]
Not Vampires - 6 - Only a Monster (it never ends, acoustic) -- [4:30]
Not Vampires - 7 - Bad at Math (acoustic, expanding) -- [3:34]
Not Vampires - 8 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit (acoustic) -- [3:24]
Not Vampires - 9 - How Low (acoustic) -- [6:42]
Not Vampires - 10 - How Low (acoustic expanding) -- [1:58]
Not Vampires - 11 - How Low (acoustic expanded) -- [5:00]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Back Burner -- [8:42]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - Cosmos (Leacho) -- [9:24]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit -- [3:36]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Las Vegas -- [5:38]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Hindy2 -- [4:29]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Dogs Will Rule the World -- [4:05]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Quicksand -- [4:26]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Quicksand (again) -- [3:28]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 - Easy Target -- [2:43]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - Easy Target (fail) -- [1:02]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 11 - Easy Target (extra loud) -- [2:01]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 12 - Easy Target (again) -- [2:10]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 13 - Only a Monster -- [4:37]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 14 - The River -- [4:10]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 15 - Bad at Math -- [4:04]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 16 - Find Me -- [4:01]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 17 -- [13:36]

Not Vampires - 1 - Only a Monster -- [3:31]
Not Vampires - 2 - Quicksand -- [5:08]
Not Vampires - 3 - Find Me -- [4:01]
Not Vampires - 4 - Now We Understand -- [4:02]
Not Vampires - 5 - Old as Coal -- [3:26]
Not Vampires - 6 - Virgins Again -- [3:14]
Not Vampires - 7 - Easy Target -- [2:36]
Not Vampires - 8 - Cosmic Background -- [3:58]
Not Vampires - 9 - Self Imposed -- [5:39]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [7:08]
Not Vampires - 11 -- [5:27]
Not Vampires - 12 -- [4:41]
Not Vampires - 13 - Insecurity -- [5:37]
Not Vampires - 14 - Las Vegas -- [6:20]
Not Vampires - 15 - Body Count (acoustic) -- [4:05]
Not Vampires - 16 - Bubble Envy (acoustic) -- [6:50]
Not Vampires - 17 - Bubble envy (acoustic, reprise) -- [2:32]
Not Vampires - 18 - SFR (acoustic) -- [2:19]
Not Vampires - 19 - How F'in Low (acoustic) -- [4:41]
Not Vampires - 20 - How F'in Low (acoustic, reprise) -- [1:49]
Not Vampires - 21 - Candy Bandit (acoustic mini) -- [0:22]
Not Vampires - 22 - Cast Iron Candy Bandit (acoustic) -- [1:51]

Just cleaning up various cruft, was removing old useless projects from our main git repos, here's one that I've put on github to preserve: hoboprox. That was useful, for a while!

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Asked it (ChatGPT) to do some Linux joystick stuff. What it produced was almost usable! Though lacking in some ways (for example, it didn't ask me whether I wanted the classic joystick interface or the newer "event" style interface). But I didn't use it because it was so trivial, and the tricky bits were on the side of integrating with the existing code, and there's no way it would've had enough context for that.

Also asked it to produce some pipewire implementations. That was a joke, couldn't even get close to anything that would work. Functions and values that don't exist, etc. Don't think it even got the general structure right, hah. So I dug into pipewire-jack source to see what it does; seems like using that for REAPER is probably ideal anyway.

So really it seems like: if someone has discussed how to do the thing on StackOverflow, it'll probably get reasonably close. Otherwise, it's trash.

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