I'm not even listening to anything. Please stop telling me about Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 (shout out to Dr. Laurie Santos of The Happiness Lab)

I'm trying to make deeper melodic refinement more habitual. Really and truly marking the thing up until its clearest character emerges, examining it on multiple layers before calling it complete. Here's one from this morning on the bus.

I have a bad habit of putting down notes and a few marks, and storing the rest of a line's potential in my head--as an orchestrator, I need those things nailed down to the page, so my brainpower can be used to solve larger musical problems instead of storing smaller musical information.

This week marked the beginning of Scanline Media's Gimmick Awards! If you haven't been to our site before, we do annual GOTY awards a little different than most sites: we wait a month or so before looking at the year in review, giving us enough time to produce several write-ups and podcasts without getting sucked into the holiday rush.

Anyway, on Monday, our first Gimmick Award podcast for 2022 dropped! We worked with Kyrie and Six to determine our Best Surprise from the year.

And yesterday, we went into our Biggest Disappointment:

We'd be honored if you checked out our little awards show! And if you happen to listen, let us know what you think.

I need to open it up and clean it a bit since I've noticed my temps are getting a little too high for my liking, and it's getting dusty in there. I don't know how to open a case though, and I don't know the general procedure and precautions around this sort of thing

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