New Year, New Beginnings!

Just got back from a wild weekend in Pensacola (Instagram) -- almost died, but I'll spare you the noise unless you inbox me here or on skype/fb -- and it's to the grindstone again with me. Got several new compositions coming out as I keep up with college, the latest of which I just finished, Balance, a little odd-metered 5/8 time drum & bass loop I had a lot of fun working on. Would love for a few people would check it out and leave some feedback -- primarily because it's so rare to see pieces outside of common time that I really have little to measure it against. Very excited to hear your thoughts, especially critiques!

In other news, Popsicle, my lastest album is available for download both on NG and SoundCloud, and is also featured on my Grooveshark. Follow those or my twitter/facebook for updates, and of course, if you haven't already, http://andrea364.newgrounds.com/follow is the way to go for things happening here on NG.

For those things I can't submit here due to non-public domain samples, lyrics, remixes, etc., I'll post those on SoundCloud or Grooveshark. You know how NG is about "Soulja Boy" remixes. I may also change usernames to 364degreesofmadness in the future, to match my other web presences, however this shouldn't affect anything important. Metadata still will show as (364DoM). Either way, I plan to come out with at least one new song per month throughout 2015, until the completion of Popsicle, which will be composed of loops only.

So, for short, I had a blast of a weekend, nearly died, am back in the game, and am eager share my music with you all. It's been too long since I really got involved with this crazy community. I want to fall in love with it again.

~A

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VicariousE 2015-01-24 23:59:44

Hm, I almost died in a rip tide when I was about 9 or 10, barely made it back to shore... My father lost 3 of his sisters in Florida in 2 separate car accidents down there :\ I guess I don't need the details, but what almost ended you?

ADR3-N 2015-01-24 23:59:44

Wow, that's maddening -- the sisters bit -- and having nearly drowned a few times myself, I can imagine the riptide was terrifying. But what nearly killed me (and my roommate) was that mom's best friend had a staph infection in his leg and took pain medication, which we were unaware of until he started falling asleep at the wheel, at night, trying to take us to Walmart, Pensacola beach, and Hardees at the same time, and yelling at Mom in the front seat. Thankfully, before we went into the bike lane another 15 times or into oncoming traffic again, Mom took the wheel. After that, I had a hypoglycemic episode from not eating all day (we couldn't), and then we ate at Hardees and went home, and all was well... aside from Mom pulling evasion maneuvers before exits because her nerves were shot, lol. The next day we actually did hit the beach, and Mom drove, so that made up for it.

VicariousE 2015-01-26 16:13:33

The last time my Pop drove (which I was epically against) he was on 2 or 3 kinds of pain meds - he had a huge bubble in the artery going to his heart (aneurism). I grabbed the wheel once or twice on the way to the hospital, really frightening. Hope his staph infection clears up, nature is certainly turning against us, and our slipshot methods of germ control.

ADR3-N 2015-01-26 16:13:33

Wow, I imagine that's certainly a story. I hope he turned out alright!

Yeah, you're right. I've heard more about staph infections than I did lice and pink eye in elementary. Considering my entire 2013 graduating class barring literally 6 kids had both at 2 or 3 occasions a piece, that's a lot -- and don't get me started on ebola, haha.

VicariousE 2015-01-27 07:51:20

Nah, they replaced the artery with some synthetic tubing, which got infected, then they took his leg off to scavenge some real artery...

Really, that many cases of lice and pink eye? 1/3 of a senior class in one town over, in the early 90's, all had the clap :| They tracked it back to one bi sexual guy, and a few orgies :| Rich parents sometimes raise feral kids I guess

ADR3-N 2015-01-27 07:51:20

My response to this must not have gone through. Damn dodgy campus internet.

That's a crazy story, both of those. I guess it's true what mom told me: "Be careful who you have sex with. It's like doing everyone they've ever done." Do the math, and with one sexually irresponsible guy, you can end up with a case of that senior class in the nineties.

Been a while since we've chatted, perhaps due to my incompetent keeping up of times. How have you been?

VicariousE 2015-02-26 13:44:48

I've completely fallen out of love with this site, but I'm sticking around because of people like you :)
After 14 years, I'd have hoped this place would've been a lot more fun, but a lot of what made this place cool got cut a long time ago, and has been getting worse - it's the structure, not the remaining members :\

Yeah, AIDS and HPV were really scary back then (still are), and when Ronnie Reagan pretty much ignored AIDS, us hetero folk got even more scared. Took a lot of brainwaves to be able to go bareback, even with the sponge at work lol

ADR3-N 2015-02-26 13:44:48

I definitely feel you. A lot has changed since I signed up in '06, and not all of it good. Most of the things that drew me to NG, like the funny voting buttons and level icons have been overhauled completely. I'll admit though, at least the audio portal has improved a bit. New genres to fit the times, etc.

I can imagine. There was virtually no education on it -- just abstinence. Condoms weren't even all that effective, and no one really knew who had the disease and who didn't because people didn't just go and get checkups or treatments.

VicariousE 2015-02-28 01:17:44

It's the little things I miss that made this place great... now it feels like an old car: radio stolen, a/c broken, pulls to one side, and smells nasty :p

The problem with AIDS was testing for it, since it was a really small virus... takes time for money to do its thing, builds a better mousetrap or something. And scarier still was doctors not knowing the signs of the disease or anything... But wow, it's sure scarier now, and you don't even get sex out of it lol Measles from Mickey? Say it ain't so!

ADR3-N 2015-02-28 01:17:44

Yeah, it's certainly taken a few hits. The car you described reminds me of my dad's old Plymouth Reliant, after it got the ass end of it taken off by a truck. Dad almost died. Happened in my front yard essentially as he was driving to come pick me up from mom's house.

Today it's very underground, especially with people's medical records being confidential. That's what scares me. Never know who has a disease and who doesn't. I think if people can possibly transmit deadly diseases like that, others should know about it.