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Latest Post - August 8 2025
Myopic w/ Exit Wounds
Playing the Cards I'm Given...
Hope you're having a wonderful day! Mine's been a little mundane but that's fine.. keeping myself busy can only help so much. Sold some TF2 items to pay for my lunch (lamb over rice with béchamel sauce) and now I gotta sit down to type this. It is what it is. Fuck what it's not.
Some Recent Arrivals:
Billy Woods - Golliwog (Ghetto Records & Big Love pressings), Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out (Signed), Daupelords: Unobtanium Vol. 1 (book), Ron & Ron - Pup Friction & Let the Puppies Breathe (VHS), Irate Gamer Volume 1 (DVD).. AND you can’t see but I also got a haircut.
Aside from some works I gotta keep on the low for now, not much has been happening in my little universe. Every day has become fodder for the same cycle: wake up, shit, get out of bed, collapse, rinse, repeat. The few breaks inbetween mainly come from needing to move equipment around or going to the occasional concert. If you told 15-year-old me that he'd be seeing GZA and Andrew Jackson Jihad around the same time he'd be losing his damn mind. No doubt about it. Moments like that really hammer home why music matters so much to me and why I've been increasingly trying to incorporate it into what I do. Been cooking up some beats on the side lately and can't wait for y'all to hear.. with no attempts at mixing of course!
In tandem with music being heavy on my mind and recent events I'll weigh in on later, there has been a deluge of neccessary Spotify discourse that has inspired me to finally cancel my premium afer eight years. If you're also on the fence about it then honestly now is the best time to do so. Never thought I’d be asking this but how the fuck do you age restrict a song? Thankfully I'm not European but if I was then I got another reason to be livid. Imagine being told that you gotta hand your license over just to check your playlist. It genuinely sickens me. The only person winning right now is Tyler for dropping a clean version of his album.
Let's be honest: they're only doing this because they want more of your data to bankroll AI death machines blowing up sick children. A part of me wants to believe it's also a covert strike against the endless wave of annoying podcasts on there. Couldn’t tell you the last time I actually listened to one but I unfortunately keep getting subjected to new episodes of the H3 podcast despite never following them.
Over the years, I've tolerated the random UI changes at best (don't even get me started on that bullshit Smart Shuffle feature). But these back-to-back revelations have made me feel guilty for not making the choice sooner. Peace to Xiu Xiu for pulling their music off the platform.. you never hear this much nonsense happening on other services. When DatPiff shut down, Jesus wept.
As someone who's been using Spotify for nearly a decade, I can only chalk my reasoning up to convience. I'm not afraid to act elitist over my soulseek folder with 8,000+ songs and my physical collection with nearly 400 albums.. but I cant exactly carry those around with me whenever I go outside. All three of these methods accomplish the same goal of listening to music, but their circumstances couldn't be more different. The truth is, at this point, I listen to way more music off Spotify than I do on it. I have a whole folder of music that I listen to on my phone because most of it simply doesn't exist on streaming. The Spotify app just there for the sake of having it. My current rotation? Stuff I've dug up on Soulseek and '90s DNB tracks that pop up in my YouTube recommendations at 4 a.m. That's where the real gems are..
Say what you want about YouTube music but they've got the best algorithm in the game. I've found an unreal amount of great stuff on there.. music that would scare the average person who thinks that if a song isn't on streaming then it's either a leak or doesn't exist. I mean, I get it. It's a lot easier to just open an app and have immediate access to whatever is being offered. But the reality is that the more you rely on these platforms, the more they control your experience. It's also a fact that some of the best muisc you'll ever hear will come from weird Europeans sharing their vinyl or CD collections, and YouTube is the largest place where that discovery still thrives.
One more thing I'm gonna address. I'm sure that everyone reading this is already aware of the latest acts of blatant censorship coming out of the EU. Aside from the inane babbling from people like Bryan Lunduke, I really don't think it should be a hot take to say that signing away your information to government agencies just to use Spotify is a bad idea. For the past few years the Internet has basically been reduced to a handful of social media monopolies (and porn, but now people just get that from the same sites anyway). Also not a big fan of whenever this discourse comes up because it always leads to the most annoying conversations about VPNs you'll ever hear. Want my take on it? Just use Mullvad. It's five bucks a month and infinitely better than any of the "free" options out there. Not everyone has the patience to use Tor on the clearnet or the mental capacity needed to use Wireguard but this one's a fair compromise. Nord, Express, TunnelBear, or whatever "free" VPN you find on the app store are all bullshit psyops people only fall for because their favorite YouTuber wanted to watch Netflix in French. I even seen a nigga say "use cyberghost" lmaoooooo.. but at least it's not Hola or Betternet which are infamous for having almost zero leak protection and leaving users open to remote code execution.. on top of just being painfully slow.
Back due to popular demand, here's a short list of what has changed here:
- Improved homepage: images should load faster now and the clock on the bottom-right is more legible.
- Added a better About page, complete with a rotating set of random quotes.
- Began work on improving the Videos page, including uploading local copies of more of my past work.
- Did the same with the Gallery page
- Played with my metadata...
- Bought ANOTHER domain. As of writing this, the site will only be mirrored at ecks.mov and ecks.wtf. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you..
I grew up on the Internet playing Flash games and lurking forums about them so it's such a shame to see what it has become now. In the meantime, just make yourself comfortable and be thankful that as far as I know, you don't need an ID to get on my site.
Hope you're having a wonderful day! Mine's been a little mundane but that's fine.. keeping myself busy can only help so much. Sold some TF2 items to pay for my lunch (lamb over rice with béchamel sauce) and now I gotta sit down to type this. It is what it is. Fuck what it's not.
Some Recent Arrivals:
Billy Woods - Golliwog (Ghetto Records & Big Love pressings), Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out (Signed), Daupelords: Unobtanium Vol. 1 (book), Ron & Ron - Pup Friction & Let the Puppies Breathe (VHS), Irate Gamer Volume 1 (DVD).. AND you can’t see but I also got a haircut.
Aside from some works I gotta keep on the low for now, not much has been happening in my little universe. Every day has become fodder for the same cycle: wake up, shit, get out of bed, collapse, rinse, repeat. The few breaks inbetween mainly come from needing to move equipment around or going to the occasional concert. If you told 15-year-old me that he'd be seeing GZA and Andrew Jackson Jihad around the same time he'd be losing his damn mind. No doubt about it. Moments like that really hammer home why music matters so much to me and why I've been increasingly trying to incorporate it into what I do. Been cooking up some beats on the side lately and can't wait for y'all to hear.. with no attempts at mixing of course!
In tandem with music being heavy on my mind and recent events I'll weigh in on later, there has been a deluge of neccessary Spotify discourse that has inspired me to finally cancel my premium afer eight years. If you're also on the fence about it then honestly now is the best time to do so. Never thought I’d be asking this but how the fuck do you age restrict a song? Thankfully I'm not European but if I was then I got another reason to be livid. Imagine being told that you gotta hand your license over just to check your playlist. It genuinely sickens me. The only person winning right now is Tyler for dropping a clean version of his album.
Let's be honest: they're only doing this because they want more of your data to bankroll AI death machines blowing up sick children. A part of me wants to believe it's also a covert strike against the endless wave of annoying podcasts on there. Couldn’t tell you the last time I actually listened to one but I unfortunately keep getting subjected to new episodes of the H3 podcast despite never following them.
Over the years, I've tolerated the random UI changes at best (don't even get me started on that bullshit Smart Shuffle feature). But these back-to-back revelations have made me feel guilty for not making the choice sooner. Peace to Xiu Xiu for pulling their music off the platform.. you never hear this much nonsense happening on other services. When DatPiff shut down, Jesus wept.
As someone who's been using Spotify for nearly a decade, I can only chalk my reasoning up to convience. I'm not afraid to act elitist over my soulseek folder with 8,000+ songs and my physical collection with nearly 400 albums.. but I cant exactly carry those around with me whenever I go outside. All three of these methods accomplish the same goal of listening to music, but their circumstances couldn't be more different. The truth is, at this point, I listen to way more music off Spotify than I do on it. I have a whole folder of music that I listen to on my phone because most of it simply doesn't exist on streaming. The Spotify app just there for the sake of having it. My current rotation? Stuff I've dug up on Soulseek and '90s DNB tracks that pop up in my YouTube recommendations at 4 a.m. That's where the real gems are..
One more thing I'm gonna address. I'm sure that everyone reading this is already aware of the latest acts of blatant censorship coming out of the EU. Aside from the inane babbling from people like Bryan Lunduke, I really don't think it should be a hot take to say that signing away your information to government agencies just to use Spotify is a bad idea. For the past few years the Internet has basically been reduced to a handful of social media monopolies (and porn, but now people just get that from the same sites anyway). Also not a big fan of whenever this discourse comes up because it always leads to the most annoying conversations about VPNs you'll ever hear. Want my take on it? Just use Mullvad. It's five bucks a month and infinitely better than any of the "free" options out there. Not everyone has the patience to use Tor on the clearnet or the mental capacity needed to use Wireguard but this one's a fair compromise. Nord, Express, TunnelBear, or whatever "free" VPN you find on the app store are all bullshit psyops people only fall for because their favorite YouTuber wanted to watch Netflix in French. I even seen a nigga say "use cyberghost" lmaoooooo.. but at least it's not Hola or Betternet which are infamous for having almost zero leak protection and leaving users open to remote code execution.. on top of just being painfully slow.
Back due to popular demand, here's a short list of what has changed here:
- Improved homepage: images should load faster now and the clock on the bottom-right is more legible.
- Added a better About page, complete with a rotating set of random quotes.
- Began work on improving the Videos page, including uploading local copies of more of my past work.
- Did the same with the Gallery page
- Played with my metadata...
- Bought ANOTHER domain. As of writing this, the site will only be mirrored at ecks.mov and ecks.wtf. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you..
I grew up on the Internet playing Flash games and lurking forums about them so it's such a shame to see what it has become now. In the meantime, just make yourself comfortable and be thankful that as far as I know, you don't need an ID to get on my site.