GREAT DAY WOO BELOVED WAVE-RIDING INDIVIDUAL!
Last week was so busy round these parts that we didn’t get round to doing THIS WEEK IN MEANINGWAVE till, ur, today! So thank you for your patience!
It was a jampacked week, and weekend - we streamed ALL WEEKEND long, with a 24+ hour Meaninwave Radio stream on Saturday (https://linktw.in/yBpOnv), and the return of Sauce Wave Radio on Sunday! (https://linktw.in/tOgWxJ)
Our crowd-funding campaign for MEDITATIONS II (https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII) passed 50% of its founding target! Back today! (https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII) Because as soon as we hit the target, we will unveil a second song from MEDITATIONS II and reveal stretch goals to make MEET UPS AND LIVE SHOWS happen! (https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII)
Meanwhile, Hercules continued to get better at pull-ups in the gym, I memed so hard (https://www.instagram.com/p/C4Pa0QNuC-3/) people thought it was real, and am now preparing to go on AN ADVENTURE next week, more of which soon… Now, on to the rest of the week that was!
PODCAST:
SKYKING PODCAST: Akira the MF Don - Choose Your Programing
(https://skmp.supercast.com/subscriber/feed_items)
VIDEO:
Marcus Aurelius X Akira Then Don - BETTER THAN JUSTICE | Lyric Video
(https://linktw.in/ZnxzAL)
How To Slonk Eggs Efficiently!
(https://linktw.in/GHZZzv)
Over to Jayson Eva for a recap of this week’s…
STREAMS:
🔴 MEDITATIONS II CAMPAIGN LAUNCH PARTY! | MEANINGSTREAM 520
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/%F0%9F%94%B4-meditations-ii-campaign-launch-party-meaningstream-520-blocked-stream-recording-march-2-2024)
A PARTY LIKE NO OTHER!
Akira talks about the process of creating MEDITATIONS VOL. II. From translating to the music creation.
The truth must be known that MEANINGWAVE EXISTS!
Everyone in the chat is amazed by how amazing the mask looks and everyone wants one. Why would anyone not want one?
🔴 SUPER REQUEST SHOW | MEANINGSTREAM 521
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/super-request-show-meaningstream-521-stream)
IT’S A GREAT DAY WOO!
Everyone was giddy with excitement as the chat selected Meaningwave Classics and their choices were nothing but FIRE!
🔴 CARPE DIEM! 💀🥰💀 | MEANINGSTREAM 522
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/carpe-diem-meaningstream-522-stream)
MAKE THE MOST OF TODAY! LIVING IN THE FUTURE!
Played some Norm Macdonald, and shared a bit about Norm and having his permission for future Norm releases.
🔴 MEDITATIONS 1, 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONCERT | MEANINGSTREAM 523
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/meditations-1-4-year-anniversary-concert-meaningstream-523-stream)
It was a total BANGER!
Performed the entire MEDITATIONS VOL 1 LIVE for the first time ever then followed that with some amazing Meaningwave Classics
🔴 REGULATORS | MEANINGSTREAM 524
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/regulators-meaningstream-524-stream)
A night of pure vibe regulation
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS ENDEAVOUR?
There’s always light at the end of the tunnel!
Don’t forget to get dreamy
🔴 PARTY! | MEANINGSTREAM 525
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/%F0%9F%94%B4-party-meaningstream-525-blocked-stream-recording-march-8-2024)
Another utterly unhinged masterclass in open-format DJ devastation!
Join us on stream tonight for a MOTIVATIONAL MEANINGWAVE MONDAY (https://linktw.in/LwVJbD), and don’t forget to back the MEDITATIONS II campaign because you want the world to hear this amazing music and you’d like an Akira The Don meet-up and live show as well, por favor.
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!
Akira The Don
DON STUDIOS MEXICO
March ‘24
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
Own the NFT at https://opensea.io/akirathedon !
BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER FROM BERTON AND THE DON!
TELL THEM NOW!
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley's poem of 100 years hence!
STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW
Art by me!
Own the NFT! https://opensea.io/akirathedon
I worked in a bunch of factories when I was 16/17, after I'd left home.
Sauce factory. Cardboard box factory. Car door handle factory.
The former was the hardest because I was working in the freezers, packing bags of sauce for 12-hour shifts with nothing but local commercial radio and the speed-addled ramblings of my co-workers to entertain me.
The cardboard box factory was the most fun because I got to slide down this three-storey chute into a skip full of cardboard and jump up and down in it to squash the cardboard down. I'd always leave the place shredded with paper-cuts, but that made me feel like a warrior.
The car door handle factory was the worst because it was the most boring - literally just picking a spring out of a greasy bucket and jamming it into a wedge of plastic then passing it to the old lady to my right, for 12 hours, in a giant air-hangar looking-ass hall with a great big clock looming over us, that ticked with all the lugubrious lurching urgency of a ketamine zombie outside a ...
“Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud?
Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud
But while it's still going before he has died
A man may do many things worthy of pride”
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley’s poem of the same name, MEANINGWAVE is proud to present a new single…
WHY NOT
(https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT)
Why Not? (https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT) is but one of hundreds of poems written by the perennial zone inhibitor and Appreciator Of The Wonder Of Being, and published in magazines and newspapers between the 1910s and 1940s. It is classic Braley, an anthem for the glory of man and all his achievements, past, and yet to come. And now you can sing it.
Oh, and that cover art there? That’s a picture of me back in ‘91 when I was around 11, which is my son’s age.
WHY NOT (https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT) is out now. Download (https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/album/why-not) or stream on your platform of choice now ...
Been in the studio since 4am, guess what album I’m working on?
I shall be sticking to this new schedule ‘till the album’s done, at least, and then we’ll see. Heck, maybe I’ll like it. I liked it today, I gotta say. There’s something magical about going to the studio in the dark, getting an amazing new song mixed while most people are still sleeping, then stepping back outside to find the sun rising. Oh! What a glorious thing!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/OhWhatAGloriousThing)
I worked till 10:30, then cracked open a White Monster - another experiment - and walked down to the gym in the blazing Mexican sunshine. Jamie was leading a Crossfit class, and happy to see me as ever, and I was happy to find the entire squat/bench area unoccupied, and got some work in on my lifting. I don’t know if it was the early start, or the new song, or the White Monster, but despite having been away from the gym for ten days due to a cold that I had no desire to disseminate, I was able to lift slightly heavier ...
