Please recommend a linux distro. i've been thinking about this for a long time. i tried mint on my main pc, and i also tried to revive an ancient 2008 netbook with antix.

i mostly just play games on my pc, and i'd like to try something new and pretty. Also, i'm thinking about getting into IT, and cyber security interests me most, but i just never get around to it. And with the rise of AI, it feels more and more pointless, so maybe i'll just stay with music and the bar))

Anyway, the question is: what's...

I completely forgot to post my Halloween costume, and Halloween has already passed, but I do have one photo from the party. I'm not big on taking pictures or being photographed, so there's just the one. I'm wearing a monk's robe and prayer beads.

And in front of me is my friend, who dressed up as BoJack Horseman, and his girlfriend was Sarah Lynn. My girlfriend was Kuchisake-onna from Japanese mythology....

I don't know why this song does what it does to me. Something in the mood and the lyrics lands right on what I've been feeling, and I can't explain it. It just hits.

The weather isn't helping. Snow, then rain, then snow again. I'm walking around in a bomber jacket and boots, looking like a stereotypical skinhead, minus the shaved head.

About a month ago I wrote about being stuck. Turns out stuck was the optimistic version.

Now I'm tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. No energy for music, mentally or physically. I snap at people over nothing. The old anger is back, the kind that once made me punch one of my best friends, and I'm ashamed of it. Little things that used to feel good just make me irritable.

I give great advice: enjoy the small stuff, let it go. I just can't take it myself.

Also, this past week I've been drinking more. That...

Hi everyone!

I recently stumbled upon the band Tinariwen.

"Tinariwen is a Tuareg band from Mali, formed in the late 1970s, that blended the traditional rhythms of nomads with electric guitars and created "desert blues." Their lyrics are about freedom and exile, and their album "Emmaar" won a Grammy."

And it reminded me of my vacation dream.

i want to fly off to some endless desert where it's not insanely hot, and stay there with a set of musical instruments and at least a recorder.

i don't know why,...

I wrote this little quatrain in Russian about 3-4 years ago. i'm a bit embarrassed to post my own whining like this.

Pathetic and useless,
a forever anxious, watching child with trembling hands
looked up at the sky, trying to find a place for himself.

Hello everyone, i’m going to sew a Buddhist monk costume for Halloween, and i’ll share the result once it’s done.

It surprised me how hard it was to find a ready-made one on Russian marketplaces, and when i did find one, it cost anywhere from 3 to 10 thousand rubles. So i bought 5 meters of fabric for 1,750 rubles instead.

By the way, i don’t mean to offend anyone with this, i’m only doing it for one day of the year.

What about you, will you dress up for Halloween, and will you celebrate it in some way?...

Today, on our way home after a walk with my girlfriend, we saw a double rainbow after the rain. It was so beautiful...

Annoying youtube has limited the number of videos i can upload, but i still want to share something, and then i remembered that i have tattoos! I only have two, but what tattoos they are))

The first photo is our matching tattoo with my girlfriend. As you can see, it’s two leopards, and we’re both wearing leopard print jeans. Man, i just love leopard print so much.

The...

I recorded this demo pretty recently, and honestly, i did it totally casually, without putting much effort in. It comes from a memory of the end of summer, which is why it’s named that way. The mood is a bit sad, and in the middle of the song i picture a shoreline, gusty wind, and pouring rain.

Was walking with my girlfriend to my work to pick up my paycheck, and on the way back we ran into a black squirrel. We live in a small town in Siberia with a lot of nature and animals around, and the deeper you go into the forest, the more variety there is. But this squirrel was bolder than most and seemed used to being fed. She came right up to us, so my girlfriend took out an oatmeal cookie and we gave her a tiny piece to nibble on. Just a little, since the cookie is sweet and we didn't want to hurt her....

Content warning: this post mentions self-harm and suicide attempts.
Last song for today. This one was also posted on SoundCloud about 3 years ago, and honestly... it’s pretty crappy, but it’s crappy to me only because of the synth parts. Back then i didn’t have an electric guitar or an audio interface, only a bass guitar. I went over to a friend’s place while he and his girlfriend were doing renovations, asked to borrow a guitar, and recorded for several hours. It was also the first time in my life i’d...

Well... I think i wrote this track about 3 years ago(?) ... i thought it was in a past life, although maybe i only dared to post it 3 years ago, idk. i don’t remember the season or what was going on in my belfry. I’m sure that back when i was 16-17, all i wanted was to drink, smoke, and run away from real problems.
I think back then i really felt like i was running along cold, empty streets in a panic.

I think it would be cool to describe the period of my life when I recorded each of my sketches, and what I was feeling at the time.

So, this sketch is in the style of “American pop-punk” (at least, I hope it is). I recorded it less than half a year ago, in the summer, when everything felt light and breezy.

For the life of me, I can’t remember what I was up to that summer. But I know I was happy with my girlfriend, with the fact that we live together, with having a job I actually like, and with everything...

Unfortunately, I wrote this instrumental back when I had a guitar but no audio interface.

Holy shit, thank you so much to whoever gifted me a subscription!! As soon as I get home I'll drop a few demos and tracks for you guys. <3

Kinda bummed that I can't get a subscription and support the people running this place. I live in Russia, my card won't link, and I can't find a workaround either.

Mostly I'd want it so I could post funny photos and the music I've piled up over time. It's mostly instrumentals, no vocals, and honestly there aren't that many tracks yet.

skating rat (I hope you can see it)

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Recently i went to a bar with friends, and somehow the conversation turned to the idea that you're either the best or you're fucking useless.

Music is my passion, and I've been at it for 7 years, but I feel like I'm stagnating and getting worse at it. I can't even force myself to sit down at the computer and record a couple of bars of a single riff.

And they told me: if I want to be the best, why am I just sitting on my ass doing nothing? I know tons of people who play, so why don't I play with them?...

Hi everyone.

I want to talk a bit about Russian TikTok and that disgusting part of our population.

If you open TikTok without a VPN, it's pure darkness. The videos aren't just outdated, they're truly disgusting, and so is the content.

Example: a mother walks up to her son, who's watching some video lesson, and starts screaming: "Seryozha (a boy's name), what the fuck is this?! What the fuck are you watching?!"

The son calmly answers: "I'm studying, it's a literature lesson."

The mother makes...