soundcloud raze a vagina just added me as a friend on soundcloud. to explain... i'm not too big on the whole "online audio distribution platform" thing. i think it's fantastic that the tools exist for the people who want to use them. i've heard some really good music i might not have otherwise come in contact with thanks to bandcamp and the like. it's just not the sort of thing i see much use for when it comes to what i want to do with my own noise. different strokes for different cowpokes, as i like to say. even so, i generated a soundcloud page two years ago just for something to do. to see what it was like. i put two or three songs up there for fun. then i forgot all about it. over the past month or two i've been working as a producer/engineer/one-man-band of session musicians on music that isn't my own, for the first time in a while. this is not something i was expecting to happen just now, but i'm having fun with it, and it doesn't feel much like "work". i like having an excuse to flex muscles in ways i might not normally think to, while strengthening areas that may have grown flabby when i wasn't paying attention. in a situation like this, i normally upload mp3s of rough mixes to my blog server. i like to work quickly, and i like being able to fire off an email saying, "here's a link to a rough assembly of what we did last night." lately, this has been made more difficult by a need to renew some of my wordpress subscriptions, and for reasons not worth getting into, it's probably going to be a few more weeks before i can get it all taken care of. while trying to find a work-around, i remembered my dormant soundcloud page. i thought that might be an effective way to send along in-progress mixes. and so it is. problem solved. all was pretty uneventful until last night, when i got an email telling me, "you have a new follower! user811304350 is now following you on soundcloud." curious, i visited this mysterious person's profile...only to find a picture of an anonymous lady's downstairs business with a few fingers inserted. the moral of the story is pretty clear to me: there's absolutely nowhere sex-related spam can't find you. i got a hearty laugh out of it, anyway. 130423 what's it to you? who go blather from