Hello folks. I am freshly single and I have questions. I have been an introvert my entire life, and prefer to avoid people, so I know next to nothing about going out

After dealing with a breakup, I would like to dress like a tramp and act like a whimsical fairy. I desire to boogie.

I am not interested in meeting people (romantically), just dancing. Might bring a friend. Where is the best establishment with good music?

Is early 30s too old for a female? I look pretty good, or at least people tell me so, if that matters??

Do I need to be looking at raves? Alternative ideas? Help me find that which I seek

Alternatively, upcoming metal shows are good too; I just always default to metal and was interested in doing some different stuff, namely being y2k Hot Goth Girl

So if you know or can advise, hit me up.

That is not a date request, keep it PG and in the comments, not my DMs.

Willing to travel or plan for BR, Nola and other regions. I prefer quality over quantity.

Hello everyone. Some 5 years ago I started a project for making Bad Music.

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Oliver Tree released his album, Ugly Is Beautiful.

As I recently contemplated music, I realized music and society kind of sucks again.

As I thought about this, I opened Reddit and got the news that Mr. Tree passed away.

So the world got a bit darker, like all this beautiful progress in music went up in a fireball. But, music doesn't die with people and I can get off my lazy butt and start my own projects.

In the spirit of both Bad Music, and Being Ugly, I have decided I want to do a hybrid music program.

This group will consist of both local Louisiana musicians. I am beginning my feelers for this project.

I have a few decent electric guitars, several acoustics, acoustic 12 string, some midi keyboards, a banjo, crystal flute, some kind of harmonica organ, a bass, Reaper and FL as my DAWS, a harmonica, a resonator mandolin, a silver saxophone and some other stuff I am not thinking of offhand.

My experience in music is very all over the place but I am always doing something new in order to grow

So my theme for this is: Alien.

Aliens??

Something like that. We need a theme, right? Anyway, my guitar friend and I have seen some stuff, which led me to some people who have seen some stuff.

So if you are interested in What Stuff Is, having alien side quests and alien themes, this is the group for you.

One must have an open mind to be in this group, or at least a sense of humor. This is not the place to be cool, build an ego, or flex on people.

We are in tin foil hats. Period. Spiritually. Literally. I care not.

Alien can include but is not limited to:

- imagery
- lyrics
- genre choices or styles
- actually touching grass, staring at the stars and seeing what happens
- short stories
- art
- performance fashion
- unusual underwater creatures
- weird time signatures

Is it weird? Good.

Is it new to you?? Good.

Who me?

Yes, you.

No experience required, no primary instrument. No genre required.

The only requirement is YOU, your good vibes, your willingness to get along with others and most of all: having fun

I am in my early 30s. My first project I made 18+. Due to the nature of some genres I would like to explore, I would prefer a slightly older group (at least 25) HOWEVER I am very flexible and willing to adjust the server.

18+ is a requirement at minimum, however.

General Structure

- Everything started and run from the internet

- I will rope in at least one local Louisiana musician, potentially even several if I am lucky

Fun activities such as:

- songs created in 30 minutes, no matter how terrible

- songs of deep meaning in order to exorcise our demons

- stories turned into songs

- random screaming like that grinch gif

- exploring genres and instruments you might not play or be familiar with (ex. Guitarist wants to play keys, or bassists want to sing, etc)

My goal: an open group. We do not fear cringe, we do not fear ugly. We embrace it.

No limit on members, I will structure it depending on interest and other factors.

As with literally anything I have ever done or touched, this is tentatively planned out

Comments are open for expressing interest, yelling at me, or submitting poetry.

Tentative ideas:

- swamp excursions for alien watching

- round table at the swamp to Discuss the Aliens

- publications about our opinions on The Aliens in highly comical and maybe sometimes truthful ways

- gumbo competition in the swamp, which we partially sacrifice to the aliens

- actual UFO/philosophical discussion

- swamp excursions for b roll

- Discord server for sending song parts

- piggybacking off a prior project I did, maybe making songs in 30 min, where people record parts, someone mixes and there's a little listening party.

(We made a lot of very very bad music doing that)

- genre and format undecided, music projects are big work and I want to make sure it gets done right and I have never done a local, IRL one.

Also I have been very tired but I have been tracking a lot of bass and guitar so clearly I have some musical energy

So basically a split IRL/over the internet sort of setup

This would NOT be a """serious""" band where you have groupies, or people think you are Really Cool. Which is why it would also be open to non-instrumentalists.

It would be more like a swamp adventure with music as a byproduct. I am still cooking this idea

Also there are a lot of aliens in this sub apparently

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I'm testing some waters

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I personally feel my body of experiences is escalating fairly rapidly. Just last night, I saw several things much closer and much more pointed than I have previously.

I am pretty committed to studying this methodically, and had already considered a science track so that I don't have to switch between modes of thinking as much, and also generally be around scientifically minded people

Things seen last night:

Numerous orb motions

A star/planet thing that seemed to generate or be part of a wider orb....thing. I saw a lot of light flashes

Said I wouldn't record (I tried anyway but my camera kept focusing on the wrong stuff)

A large orange glow in my neighbors yard that disappeared

A triangle of lights that appeared near the "star" I was staring at. The left most bottom one moved toward the right bottom, just overhead of me. I said "nonononono" and got the hell back inside, even though I had been trying to get them to come closer

Woke up. Water cup upside down. Later went to charge my phone and got a water warning so I had to let it dry. The rest of the phone was dry, only the port has water in it.

Methods: I was testing various meditative states as well as more direct communication (such as requesting a closer proximity, which was delivered upon).

I also imagined a tinnitus tone clearing my mind and that's when things really started getting weird

Anyway, I feel I have enough sightings and evidence that the "is the real" question has been answered.

My current question is how can I set up my life so that it is also compatible with this sort of highly analytical state.

And if anyone has experienced this sort of contact escalation, I am curious about what I could possibly expect next.

Edit: this is not a "convince you" post. It would take me an essay explaining how I know what I saw was not planes, birds, whatever.

Several of my experiences have had a witness. I have physical recordings so I am not hallucinating.

I wrote a massive write up under a different account that was largely ignored, so this post is specifically for people **already experiencing stuff, who have had physical sightings and physical documentation**

I do not wish to entertain fluff in either direction as I take this very seriously

I break my words
Bend and twist
In a decaying summer breeze

Willows snap
As black sap cracks
The fissures of tissue
Made of me

I give you the bible of me
Sorrow
Devotion
Worshipfully

Willows snap
And a Bible breaks
Strawberry syrup on a
Busted grave

I dreamt a dream of offering
Communion placed
Tastefully
And woe before me
I see
The black fissures sap

Black sap dreams
In a broken field rusting
Churning history's decay

Mississippi breath
Exhaling a dust betrayed
The poisoned and lonesome roads
Will always lead away

Traffic is currently flowing eastbound. It is flowing fast enough to make me nervous, but people appear to be driving in straight lines

Update: traffic conditions are still light

Also I saw a UFO last night

Update: I am home, traffic stayed light

Update: saw a second UAP last night

If your local crematory had mushrooms eating the cooler? Like if your mawmaw was in a cooler with fungal friends. Would you want to know?

ETA: mushrooms grow inside to outside. So the cooler foam is becoming high grade, organic, eco mushroom foam slowly but surely

Just asking cause the funeral homes don't seem to care, and I am pretty sure the funeral board is a good ole boys club from what I heard

Btw this same crematory has had to call the fire dept a few times, because the hydraulic lift they called a PC repair guy to fix isn't working, presumably because hydraulic lifts are not computers

Anyway without this $30k+ piece of equipment it can be easy for small people to get a decedent stuck in a retort run too hot for too long. Makes the floor uneven

Anyway I was considering doing a small writeup on the industry since I am sure I am blacklisted locally anyway for aggressively following rules, but I don't want to be a mortuary influencer or some bs

So, if people actually want to know then I probably have a few unsavory details I could collect and properly write up because imho they materially affect you guys

Also word on the street is over a year ago an funeral director bugged a funeral home. Including woman's bathrooms?

I can't say which one and risk libel/slander/etc nor am I detective so I can't exactly investigate that myself, but I will say the person in question has a history of controlling/surveilling/subtle info gathering behaviors in general

Anyway I meant for this to be a short post but apparently I had a couple things that have been bothering me

Do you feel like you work a bit in a zoo, but with less rules? Whale-eyed service dogs barring you from a room?

Might I propose: The Safari Squad

We have:

- sick outfits (all taken from The Wild Thornberrys)
- tranquilizer guns
- blow darts for subtle operations
- training in handling wild animals, people, and tranquilizer guns
- name tags identifying our role in maintaining stability when "Law and Order" becomes "Lord and the Flies" + Ace Ventura

The Safari Squad will be billable by the quarter hour, with several deeply considered surcharges

Billable Items

"Sound and Nuisance" surcharge -- Decibels are billable. Any sound exceeding 100db will be charged +$1 per decibel per minute per person, animal or machine, with emotional damages considered

Emotional distress is billable at +$50 per tear

- "What Is Happening" surcharge - flat $200 if it takes us more than 3 seconds to identify the problem due to chaos

- "That Doc Needs Sleep" surcharge - if physicians look tired, we bill for overworking people

- "Too Many People in the Hallway" surcharge - +$1000 surcharge per patient per hallway

- "Stop Talking" surcharge - anyone or animal who talks, interferes with, or distracts the Safari Squad will be billed +$100 for each distracting word, sound or action

Tranq darts from a blow gun are free, we do it for the love of the game

Counts as x2 clinical hours for premeds

The team will be half lawyers and half animal control, so we will be protected both legally and physically.

The Safari Squad prioritizes worker safety first, patient safety second, and is so annoying during billing that ER work culture slowly becomes more reasonable

Thank you for your consideration

If you read this post you can bill your workplace $300 under "Safari Squad Consult Services"