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And a Dollar Short

By sleepside on April 5, 2026 3:39 pm

Venting spleen on main. If you're on Elektronauts, you may have read an earlier version of this back in December. If you've had your fill of US Americans complaining about their government, feel free to skip this one

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Melodic synths are sampled and manipulated performances from my Roland S-1. Drums are all M8 (sine kick, noise snare, hypersynth hats). Cicadas were recorded by my wife last year. Vocals recorded between 2 and 3 am

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I'm tired of many of these things, too.  But I'm not tired of listening to this.  The synth backing creates a nice hypnotic atmosphere and the spoken word part has just the right level of world weariness to it.


I promise the video is related... Hahahaha... It's the first thing I thought about when I heard you talking about how tired you were.
Yeah,friend, I'm so very tired of all these things, too... Wishing you a better week ❤️

Those pads are thick.

Love the lyric about the B52. Reminds me of the trainspotting "Choose Life" speech.

At least we can take comfort in the shared experience of feeling so fucking tired of it all.

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Cosmic Cairns wrote:

I'm tired of many of these things, too.  But I'm not tired of listening to this.  The synth backing creates a nice hypnotic atmosphere and the spoken word part has just the right level of world weariness to it.

Thank you! I always worry about, well, everything, but particularly whether I'm being whiny, so I'm glad this struck that balance for you

jegasus wrote:


I promise the video is related... Hahahaha... It's the first thing I thought about when I heard you talking about how tired you were.
Yeah,friend, I'm so very tired of all these things, too... Wishing you a better week ❤️

Bahaha thank you! Definitely been feeling the madness, as many of us have. Hope you and yours are safe and your car is fixed

NickLong wrote:

Those pads are thick.

Love the lyric about the B52. Reminds me of the trainspotting "Choose Life" speech.

Thank you! The pads are offset by a whole bar between ears, which shouldn't work, but I think drowning them in reverb and delay helps it not sound a mess.

"Choose Life" is classic. The B52 line is a riff on a Stephen King interview where he says he's so rich that the US government probably paid for a whole ICBM with just his tax money. I'm not that rich, but you know

Homeostatic wrote:

At least we can take comfort in the shared experience of feeling so fucking tired of it all.

It's bad out there! But WeeklyBeats has been a great place to feel less alone. Plus, writing this got me to make a new donation. Thank you

jwh wrote:

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Thank you heart

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