User:Lofi Gurl

My editing is focused on expanding/creating "Musical style and influences" sections in articles for all sorts of popular music artists. I am very nostalgic about reading these sorts of sections during the times when I was discovering new music, so my intention is to create that experience for people with similar interests as me, I guess. 90% of what I do is just listing the musical acts that any given artist is ripping off to get their sound, along with quotes from the band members complaining about being categorized in any particular subgenre. I believe in microgenres, but hold the opinion that they are secondary at best, and that mentions of them make for more interesting in-body passages than infobox entries. Before I die, I want to know that I have listened to everything under the sun. I also want to know that I had improved the Wikipedia article of every singe album I have ever listened to more than twice, whether it be substantial content additions, or just minor fixes to established articles such as additional sourcing or making small expansions already-sourced content. Seems like unachievable goal, but I might be forced to go through with it. I just moved back into the city after being gone for a year, and I reeeeally miss the bar scene... but I'm broke as shit, and alcohol destroys my internal systems. I live in my city's downtown area, very close to the bars, but I've gotta stay home and save money. Expanding music-related Wikipedia articles is the only thing on earth that is as fun as going to the bar, I think. So hopefully, this will keep me at home and antisocial. I try to think of every night I spend sitting at home typing on here, as indicitive of an automatic $25 USD hitting my bank account, because that is what I would routinely spend on a normal night at the bar (my usual tab was two IPA's ($5 ea.), two slices of pizza ($3 ea.), and a $7 tip. That shit adds up real fast, but it was worth it. But I stopped going to the bar every night, and I can now afford to live in my own apartment with no roommates, so that's rad. It's just so fucking lonely. It's getting to me. I hope all the staying home and being antisocial pays off and I can afford the things that I want.

I was a writer before I was anything else in life. I started creating stuff with an obscure PC game called Paint, Write and Play. It just snowballed from there. When I was six years old, I started my very own children's television production studio out of my bedroom. We had several programs I think. When I was in my preteen years, YouTube was introduced, and I discovered Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Paint. I was finally able to make TV shows for real. Unfortunately, 2006-2008 was just nothing but god awful pop culture reference humor, so my videos did not stand the test of time. I will not share these with my colleagues on this project. You'd all lose respect for me.

My interest in music began at age 13, and I stopped making YouTube videos shortly thereafter. Didn't want to anymore. I started off listening to 90's pop punk and alternative rock like Weezer, Green Day and blink-182. My dad also started me off with stuff like Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Metallica during this time. When I got into eighth grade I started getting into trendier bands like Avenged Sevenfold and My Chemical Romance (that was what seemed cool and interesting to me at the time, I stand by it). I "outgrew" that stuff, but now I listen to underground metal, punk rock and alternative music from the 80s and 90s, and I guess I partially owe that to my Warped Tour roots.