#bad times

[aunti-christ-ine]

double-you-double-you-double-you-thats-whatcha-get-dot-com

[palatinewolfsblog]

Times are rough - let's remember: Fear is "what if". Faith is "even if". U.N. Owen.

[biotaillenaforaoise]

how do i even caption this

they got caught spreading misfortune and misery

[pseudophan]

i deliberately didn't post anything most of yesterday because i've been making my mental state everyone else's problem far too much lately and i'm Not Doing Great right now, but it turns out staying off tumblr made me ten times more miserable so i gave up and then without even thinking i've sadposted like ten times today so far like ohhh my godddd get it togetherrrr 😭 idk why i'm unable to be here and just not post the sad shit. it's all or nothing apparently

[samhaft]

Hello Sam!!!

I was wondering wich was your inspiration for Badder Times and also wich was the hardest song to write?

Hi! Nice of you to ask!

So Bad Times - which eventually expanded into Badder Times - was really the product of my creative frustrations at myself as a music producer.

I felt somewhat limited, and in the capacity of my work as part of The Living Tombstone, I’d never really need to grow as a music producer, as Yoav does nearly all the music production (as he very well should, as his production style and taste really define TLT’s sound). So I did something I recommend for virtually every creative, and I took some master classes with producers I found interesting!

I had been recommended the classes on Studio.com (which at the time was called Monthly, as courses were 30 days) and took one that was run by tropical house producer Kygo. I took the stuff I learned there and made Rooftop, Okay, and Grow Up, and from there I felt like I had enough to expand the creative ideas forming into Bad Times, and used two more monthly programs - Charlie Puth and Ryan Tedder - to create accountability deadlines to write some more songs, which is what I used to ensure I could get Afterburn and Pretending done, as well as the songs I made for a little birthday EP for/about my son. I’ve got some pretty hardcore ADHD so without the deadlines it would have probably taken me way longer! I can’t say I really learned as much from the latter two classes tbh, but I actually found the Kygo course super helpful at filling out some gaps in my knowledge of Logic Pro, which is my software of choice.

And a fun epilogue to that - I now have my OWN class on Studio.com (at my linktree in my pinned post!)

I am now realizing I have basically not answered your question:

My inspirations musically were a lot of dark pop and alternative from folks like Joji, The Weeknd’s album After Hours, and elements of Mitski’s Be The Cowboy. I didn’t find any of them /hard/ to write per se, but Rooftop, the first one I wrote, which I wrote the lyrics to in the middle of the night on a Suzuki Omnichord, blew my mind open as a songwriter, in that I had never written something FOR MYSELF in the way that I had with that song, and that shaped the process of the songs that followed. So, Rooftop! If you include the live versions, that was also the most difficult to get right.

Fun fact - every song on the EP contains the sound of the Omnichord I wrote with!

[leifandthorn]

So I've been hearing some horror stories about Google traffic for personally-maintained websites falling off a cliff.

But it can't be that bad, can it?

Let's mosey on over to the Leif & Thorn statistics page, and see how the first half of 2024 went...

January: 15K pageviews, 18K hits

February: 13K pageviews, 16K hits

March: 14K pageviews, 17K hits

April: 13K pageviews, 15K hits

May: 12K pageviews, 15K hits

June: 2.5K pageviews, 5K hits

...welp.

(July is only half over, but in case you're curious, it's up to less than half of the totals June hit.)

[kuhulua]

Is that a threat 😶

[nerdneeds]

[redisticzz]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @samhaft!! that's my first ever art collab, had so much fun, you guys are so cool @softbeanmayura @w_l4yl4 @drskeletons07 @artful_cas @suaddict @jdvanimations @cher_is_dumb @thenamesj @cage-cat-ytyt @avalynadoesstuff

[chronicillnesshumor]

Source: ColdHeatedQueen on Facebook

[cosmonautroger]

[soulinkpoetry]

If you need strength to carry on hang on to good memories. Those will keep you going.

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[sanewshimachal]

!! हीरों का हार !! Story of The Week

पुराने समय में किसी शहर में एक जौहरी रहता था, उसकी असमय मृत्यु हो गई। उसके परिवार में पत्नी और उसका एक बेटा था। जौहरी की मृत्यु के बाद उनके परिवार में पैसों की कमी आ गई। एक दिन मां ने अपने बेटे को हीरों का हार दिया और कहा कि “इसे अपने चाचा की दुकान पर बेच दो, इससे जो पैसा मिलेगा, वह हमारे काम आएगा।”

लड़का हार लेकर अपने चाचा की दुकान पर पहुंच गया। चाचा ने हार देखा और कहा, “बेटा अभी बाजार मंदा चल रहा है, इस हार को बाद में बेचना। तुम्हें पैसों की जरूरत है तो अभी मुझसे ले लो। तुम चाहो तो मेरी दुकान पर काम भी कर सकते हो।”

लड़के ने चाचा की बात मान ली और अगले दिन से लड़का अपने चाचा की दुकान पर काम करने लगा। समय के साथ वह लड़का भी हीरों की अच्छी परख करने लगा था। वह असली और नकली हीरे को तुरंत ही पहचान लेता था।

एक दिन उसके चाचा ने कहा, “अभी बाजार बहुत अच्छा चल रहा है, तुम अपना हीरों का हार बेच सकते हो।” लड़का अपनी मां से वह हार लेकर दुकान आ गया और चाचा को दे दिया। लड़के से उसके चाचा ने कहा, “अब तो तुम खुद भी हीरों की परख कर लेते हो, इस हार को देखकर इसकी कीमत का अंदाजा लगा सकते हो। इसीलिए तुम खुद इस हार की परख करो।” लड़के ने हार को ध्यान से देखा तो उसे मालूम हुआ कि हार में नकली हीरे लगे हैं और इसकी कोई कीमत नहीं है।

लड़के ने पूरी बात बताई तो चाचा ने कहा “मैं तो शुरू से जानता हू�� कि ये हीरे नकली हैं, लेकिन अगर मैं उस दिन तुम्हें ये बात कहता तो तुम मुझे ही गलत समझते। तुम्हें यही लगता कि मैं ये हार हड़पना चाहता हूं, इसीलिए इसे नकली बता रहा हूं। तुम्हें उस समय हीरों का कोई ज्ञान नहीं था। बुरे समय में अज्ञान की वजह से हम अक्सर दूसरों को ही गलत समझते हैं।”

शिक्षा:- विपरीत समय में हमारे ऊपर निगेटिविटी हावी हो जाती है और सोचने-समझने की शक्ति कमजोर होने लगती है। ऐसी स्थिति में की गई जल्दबाजी से नुकसान हो सकता है, रिश्ते खराब भी हो सकते हैं। इसीलिए बुरे समय में धैर्य से काम लेना चाहिए।

[fluseven]

This brand for vegan gummies has partnered up with a German soap opera called „Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten“. The result is this delightful, bright pink gummy that just says „bad times“ in German.

It tastes vaguely of strawberry.

[samhaft]

hi, Sam! I literally have no idea if you'll see this since idk what I'm doing; that's my first time on tumblr, but I just wanna say that I've been listening to TLT for YEARS and that I am truly attached to your Bad Times EP! you have a LOT of talent and I sure hope to see more of your stuff in 2025 :) I hope you're safe, with all the fires in LA, take care of yourself :DD

Very kind of you! I’m always happily surprised when people have listened to Bad Times / Badder Times.

I hope you see more of my stuff too! And thanks for your well-wishes, I’m safe but the chaos and doom-vibes of this past week have been very mentally and emotionally taxing. Working on feeling better! 😅