Hey bud, that sucks…for sure and while my situation is different, I’ve been in the same place often. I wonder if I’ll ever get away from failure, but to some degree, it seems to simply always shadow me.

So many things I’d like to offer or suggest but they’d probably come off as cheesy or preachy. And that sucks because I hate thinking that people are in the same space that I am and have been. Hopelessness I an awful companion.

Is there one thing, anything at all that is on the other side of the failure list? Anything you know you do well or that generates a smidgen of satisfaction. Like, fuck I don’t know, do you make a killer peanut butter sandwich or can you catch the soap inhumanely fast if you drop it in the shower or maybe do goldfish seem to think your interesting? Can you find one thing that if only for a short moment, exists outside of the cloud of failure?

Nils Frahm’s Felt, or the soundtrack to Victoria

Atomos or the self titled album by A Winged Victory for the Sullen

Almost anything recent by Carbon Based Lifeforms but Alt:01, Alt:02, or Stochastic especially

Loscil is great but not a single album stands out though Submerz and Endless Falls are smooth

Hammock’s soundtrack for the movie Columbus

Brian Mcbrides The Effective Disconnect

I would recommend Stars of the Lid, but they are too sleepy for me. However, when Brian Mcbride and Adam Witzie do their own thing it is usually less sleep inducing-

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