It is really quite the bloody thing how utterly delightful and supportive everyone here is, particularly considering my Mexican is Unit 1 DuoLingo level (Maxed out purple everything but still), and my CrossFit is below high school level. If they speak English, they ask me how I’m doing and congratulate me on not being dead on the floor in a wet pile, and if they don’t speak English they smile and fist bump me.
I am by far the least experienced and skilled in the the entire building, but literally no one has done anything to make me feel bad about it. To be fair, I’m not sure they COULD, as I am very comfortable with the truth of my position within it all, and just very excited and grateful to be here, at this stage in my life were I think I’m finally mentally ready to actively aim at mastering my own physicality.
I spent the past 7 years working through a number of mental issues that had been holding me back, or down, or somewhere other than the place I wanted to be - borderline psychotic-abusive self talk, my entirely terrible relationship with money, alcohol and other such dependencies, decades of socialist indoctrination, all that. I’ve done very well with all those afflictions, thought there’s aways work to be done, vigilance must be maintained strictly and aggressively, as the old demons will pop back out at the first sing of weakness… and now, it is time to get this race car cracking before it’s time to dash the fucker off the proverbial cliff.
Anyway, today they had us doing a shit-ton of presses and pushups and pullups and run around the blocks and swangs and presses and hold weights in the air whilst lying on ones back with feet in the air which fucking STINGS, holy cow, I was not expecting that, and I was literally laughing out loud after about half an hour of this when I could literally no longer press 20 (twenty) flipping pounds above my head as my arms were shaking so bad and had decided to refuse to communicate with my brain in some horrified act of rebellion against the host.
Did some stretching at the end which was shocking delightful, for the first time ever… I noticed myself saying “ooooh that’s NICE” out loud in a sort of out of body fashion at the end as I was tripping out hard from the activity times heat times lunacy of it all I seemed to be floating above my body somehow.
Very cool. Back to the crib to chill with familia and work on music. Back at it tomorrow. Lucky mud.
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
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BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER FROM BERTON AND THE DON!
TELL THEM NOW!
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley's poem of 100 years hence!
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Art by me!
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HANK is the brand new album from Akira The Don and Charles Bukowski.
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HANK (https://go.meaningwave.com/HANK) draws from years of interviews and poems to create 14 beautiful songs - 11 brand new, including the instant classics BLUEBIRD (https://go.meaningwave.com/BLUEBIRD) ft Harry Dean Stanton, LET IT DIE (https://go.meaningwave.com/LETITDIE), and THE CRUNCH (https://go.meaningwave.com/THECRUNCH), along with a gang more that you will come to love, featuring Bukowski’s meditations on life, loss, loneliness, love and all that comes between and after, entwined with an exquisite string soaked soundtrack from Akira.
The set also features a trio of beloved Meaningwave Masterpieces - The Genius of The Crowd (https://go.meaningwave.com/THEGENIUS), plus the Tom Waits-voiced Nirvana (https://go.meaningwave.com/NIRVANA) and The Laughing Heart (https://go.meaningwave.com/THELAUGHINGHEART).
You can read about how Akira came to discover Charles Bukowski and the inspiration behind ...
It’s a new month, which means it's time to count down the most steamed Meaningwave songs across DSPs for the past month, on the
MEANINGWAVE TOP 50
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Chart data is compiled from streams across digital streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and now YouTube and X. We have a gang of new entries this month, along with some major re-entries… is your favorite in the chart? And who’s at number one? Tune in live now and find out!
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LABOR DAY SALE!
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It’s Labor Day in the USA, and in keeping with tradition we have a sale on for the next 24 hours… get 20% off everything with code WORK at checkout now!
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GAINS!
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Good news! I transcended my goal of being able to lift my bodyweight this week. I wasn’t expecting to hit that for a few weeks… but I jumped 20lb after doing extra bench practice 3...
ＯＣＥＡＮ ＶＩＥＷ 🌅 | 6 Hour Lofi, boombap, golden beats mix
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Going live RIGHT NOW! Come hang with the gang and enjoy six hours of immaculately mixed late summer vibes.
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In more good news, you can own the beautiful artwork as one of our brand new super useful and super epic MEANINGWAVE DESK MATS (https://www.meaningwave.com/pages/search-results-page?q=Desk%20mat)! Own yours now exclusively via meaningwave.com, and get 10% off your order because its Labour Day Weekend so we have a Labor Day Weekend sale on - use code WORK at checkout!
Enjoy the new single (https://go.meaningwave.com/THECRUNCH) and music video (https://linktw.in/MESaQl) that dropped this morning, and see you at the mix premiere! (https://linktw.in/UQQKZG)
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA THE DON
DSPDC, Mexico, August ‘24
