Only a double handful of people have ever heard it (and known it was me), but I do a passable kargyra, the deep version of tuvan throat singing. Watched Genghis Blues many years ago and tried to do it. Surprisingly, I got it after maybe ten minutes of trying. I can do the other forms as well, but not quite as reliably.

It’s strangely satisfying to do. But it’s some I really only do for my own pleasure, so it’s rare for me to do it when other people are around because they get all curious about it, which ends up as an interruption.

However! I did do a song with a band where I did it on a self written verse. Local band, they do their own records and such. But I did two songs with them, that one where I did the kargyra and the chorus in metal growl, then another with just the growl.

So, people have heard it, but don’t realize that it’s me. I’m credited as “background vocals” (under my real name, so I can’t/don’t disclose the band lol). They’ve sold maybe a thousand discs and downloads of that album total.

They usually play my part as a recorded track at shows (the one with the kargyra is a highly requested track among their tiny fan base), but they did a local show a little while ago and my buddy that fronts the band called in a favor I owed him to get me to do both at the show. So I got all dressed up in black, braided my beard, did corpse paint, and wore a fucking cowl and did it!

I hate crowds. PTSD and such. But it was almost fun okay, the performing was fun, but I was kinda shaking by the end of the night from too many people. I dunno if anyone was fooled (im kinda distinctive looking overall), but nobody has said anything if they weren’t.

Preach!

Can we cut down on the bitching about posts about reddit dying? I get it, nerds are angry. But it isn’t a big deal, they have only been here three weeks. *THEY NEED TO HAVE TIME TO GRIEVE, WHICH INCLUDES META CIRCKEJERKS AND SERVE A CONSTRUCTIVE PURPOSE BY LIMITING THE BITCHING MOSTLY TO THOSE POSTS.

Well, years and years ago, my neighbor had a little black-furred mutt.

Wanna guess its name? It rhymes with bigger.

Now, you wanna hear the hilarious part? My neighbor was African American. She named it that because, “ain’t like white folk don’t call black dogs that, at least she’ll know to come when someone says it, and she can bite their ass.”

Miss Margaret was awesome.

I ran into offline back in the early 2ks, then in chat rooms.

But it didn’t go viral until reddit, that’s for sure.

Whoa, whoa, we can’t have effortposting like this, you’ll screw the grading curve for the rest of us

What’s your problem with beans? Are you a bean hater? You best step off my bean-bros, bro!

Banana for scale pre-existed reddit, and is unlikely to die soon lol

But yeah, fuck the rest of that list, I’m with you :)

Works pretty well, too. It kinda messes with my head. I entered the instance, and thought for a second I just got redirected to reddit somehow.

Daaaaamn!

Whatever you’re smoking must be so dank that skunks try to mate with it

Just so you know, using the term subreddit when you mean a community on lemmy could result in people not realizing what you mean, since this community is for lemmy support.

Anyone just scrolling by is going to think you’re asking about something on reddit. I did, and came in to see if you’d been caught by one of their new censorship filters. Can’t help you with lemmy stuff, I’m too new here.