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24 Hours, May 2009
Christophe:
I'm going to try to make my Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely cover sound like Bedhead.
billiumbean:
Oh, and I call "The Shape Of My Heart" since Patrick didn't want to do it.
This is the best idea this forum has ever come up with other than most other things this forum has come up with.
Sox:
Time is one of those things that people like to complain there isn't enough of, but really those people just suck at time management.
The thing is, almost everybody who cried for a month long extention last year didn't put out. So there isn't going to be one this year.
Every other rule for the (already very open to interpretation) challenge went out the window, the time frame stays. The reasons are arbitrary, but just as you would not celebrate Xmas in July, this challenge will not be moved forward a month. It is not intended for students who are too busy to take part. It is intended for people who will make the time no matter what.
May is the month of the challenge. This will not be changed.
24 hours is the maximum time allowed. Don't have 24 hours to spare? Do it in less.
When the challenge becomes malleable, it is no longer a challenge. This is the challenge. If you can't do it, it will not move to accomodate you.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 09 May 2009, 18:29 ---just do a really dirty lo-fi scremo cover, and it will be perfect.
--- End quote ---
This is most likely what will happen, since I can't do any other kind of singing anyway. My main worry is the drums, don't have access to a kit and I don't know how to do them on Reason or anything... yet. I'm thinking some passing the mic action a la Path Of Resistance or 'Three's A Party' might be necessary on this one too. Gang vocals are a definite whatever happens.
KvP:
--- Quote from: Sox on 10 May 2009, 04:31 ---Time is one of those things that people like to complain there isn't enough of, but really those people just suck at time management.
The thing is, almost everybody who cried for a month long extention last year didn't put out. So there isn't going to be one this year.
Every other rule for the (already very open to interpretation) challenge went out the window, the time frame stays. The reasons are arbitrary, but just as you would not celebrate Xmas in July, this challenge will not be moved forward a month. It is not intended for students who are too busy to take part. It is intended for people who will make the time no matter what.
May is the month of the challenge. This will not be changed.
24 hours is the maximum time allowed. Don't have 24 hours to spare? Do it in less.
When the challenge becomes malleable, it is no longer a challenge. This is the challenge. If you can't do it, it will not move to accomodate you.
--- End quote ---
Your attitude marks a disregard for the diversity of circumstances we find ourselves under and a willingness to paint with a too-broad brush (Here I was thinking my concern about finals was because it's the most important factor going into my semester grade, when in actuality I just wanted to abandon my QC forum commitments!), but let's leave that aside. This isn't just about time. Even the most creative people I know cannot write/paint/draw to their satisfaction under the kinds of pressure that finals bring. The pressure to perform on projects and tests blunts their creative impulses. Most of them have dropped out of / taken hiatus from school for that very reason, if they're intent on creating things for themselves. I'm not different. If you're going to ignore that then at the very least I'm going to ask you not to bitch when this ends and you've got mostly people who've done this before and have the kind of experience with writing and recording that makes this possible for them (Khar, Shane) or people who rush themselves and lack quality control (Linds, by her own admission) or people without life concerns. If you're looking just to those people to do this, say so in the first post of the thread, put it in big bold type and save yourself the effort of berating people when this is done. I'm not sure why this wasn't done in the first place. If I had known this was such a serious business I wouldn't have bothered getting into it.
Personally I'm going to be on Defcon 5 until at least the 15th. When you have to rile yourself up and get to a high-stress place to get what you need done in school oftentimes it sticks with you for awhile after the semester ends, like a near-death experience. If I have to make an album before that period of anxiety is over, I'm probably not going to do it. A challenge is good only if you're at a level of ability you're comfortable with, otherwise it's not fun, it's frustrating. You wouldn't expect a guy with a pulled hamstring to run a marathon.
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