- Hello, it's me.
I've got a lot of hair, I've got a spot brewing on my face
and I've got my own merch on and I've got my brain on
and I'm gonna give you some advice today.
Anyone want some advice?
I was gonna make a music-y vid
but nothing's working so I gave up.
Ask me about things you need help with.
Yeah, I really want to do like
a improv, improvinisation,
impro, improv, oh my god!
Improvised music thing where I like made it up
as I went along but my microphone
wouldn't connect to my computer for some reason.
I don't know why and I don't want
to deal with that right now.
Also this mic on this camera
was like only picking up audio on the right side
so if sounds weird, I'm really sorry.
Let's get right into it though, shall we?
I think we shall do that.
Taha says, "Food £200, data £50, rent £800,
"custom order statue of Cavetown £127,350,
"utility £150, please help me budget this.
"My family is dying."
Personally I think that that looks
like an excellent budget, I think you've done a great job.
I think you just need to work harder
and get a better job.
Just get a real job and then maybe you can pay for it.
Darwin the Tortoise says, "Any vegetable recommendations?"
I am really into eggplant or also known
as aubergine here in the UK.
I kind of prefer to call it eggplant,
it's a more fun word.
My dad will like slice them up really thin
and then bake them with a bit of salt and pepper
and it's like a little potato chip
but it's eggplant, egg chip.
Thomas says, "How to deal with having no friends
"in high school?"
High school really doesn't matter
as much as you think it does,
especially like friendship group-wise.
It might hurt in the moment when you are there
and you're lonely, I definitely understand that
but it's such a tiny part of your life
and once it's over, it won't even matter anymore, man
and that time being spent alone
will help you learn how to be more compassionate
to people around you so if you spot someone
who's looking lonely or looking sad,
you'll be like, hey I know how that feels,
I'm gonna help out and that's a really cool thing.
So deal with it by using it to learn
about yourself and about how others interact
with one another.
Ultimately you're not gonna be lonely forever.
You'll find somebody.
No matter how unlikely it seems right now, you will.
100%, there's no doubt in my mind about that
so hang in there, Thomas, you're gonna be okay.
Robin says, "How the heck do I pet all my dogs
"at the same time?
"I have four and they get jealous easily."
Get some of those sticky hands
that people like slap at each other in the classroom.
Get like four of those and put them between your knuckles
and then go slap, slap, slap, slap.
Cosmic says, "I get real sad sometimes about being aro.
"I'm quite young and I'm pretty sure
"I'm on the aro spectrum and every now and then
"I really wish I could feel romantic attraction properly."
if you didn't know this about me,
I am also on the aro spectrum, I think, at least for now.
It might change, doesn't really matter to be honest.
I get this sometimes.
I understand that feeling of like
people being in love look so cool
and it looks like such a happy thing
and you kind of feel left out
because you're not able to feel like that.
I think definitely for me, the energy
that would be going into romantic love
is channeled into plutonic love.
So I love my friends so intensely.
Actually, it's important to not separate plutonic love
and romantic love so much.
People kind of view romantic love
as the next level up from plutonic love
but they're both on the same level,
they're just different kinds of love
and they're both equally as important.
So if you're able to view it as equal
rather than as something better
which you're not able to experience
then maybe that might help you feel better about it.
Puppet says, "How to accept failure."
Anything bad that you've been through,
anything bad that you've done,
you can use it to better yourself
and to learn and to not make mistakes like that again
and stuff, so I think just try and find out
what went wrong, why it was a failure,
whatever it was, so you can pinpoint something
that you need to improve on or that you need to fix.
Ultimately that's a positive thing
to be able to find negatives and know how
to improve on them and stuff.
Dylan says, "How do you get over the fear
"of singing in front of others?"
For me it's really just been practice.
As much as you don't want it to happen
and that's what you're scared of
when you sing in front of people,
it's kind of good for you to eat (censored) a bit sometimes
and just realize how it feels to have a performance
that goes really badly
so then you can learn how to deal with that
and how to not let it get to you as much.
There's no one way to feel better about it instantly.
It's all about time and practice.
Eevvii says, "This is a bit of a weird question
"but how do I deal with really insecure people?
"A while ago a friend of mine was like,
"'Do you actually like me?
"'Sometimes I'm afraid you think I'm weird.'
"Of course I told her nothing was wrong with her
"but now I'm kind of scared to be my stupid, sarcastic self
"around her since I don't want to hurt her."
It can be hard to kind of be careful around insecure people.
I understand that it can be sometimes irritating
to have to keep reassuring them
but you need to be patient and talk to them
and just kind of understand what it is
that makes them insecure and make those changes
to do what you can to help them feel
as comfortable as you can.
Sometimes it's really tiny things
just like checking up on them, sending them a text
saying like, hey thinking about you today,
how are you doing?
Or if they make a joke, just laughing along.
Just tiny things that from their point of view
seem massive, can really make a difference
with their self confidence.
Chloe asks, "How to write a catchy tune?
"And once you do, how do you get people
"to listen to it?"
The more simple the better, basically.
Simple and repetitive is what you wanna do.
If you like re listen to popular songs,
it's all like nursery rhymes.
It all has that same kind of simplicity to it.
Just take a step back and be like,
hm is this too complicated?
Maybe we should strip it down a bit.
As for getting people to listen to it?
Just put it out there as much as you can.
Just show it to as many people as you can
and if it's gonna be liked, it'll be liked
and people will listen to it if it's a good song
but you can't like make that happen.
It's luck, really.
BlundellPlus says, "How do I feel more at home
"in a place that doesn't feel like home?
"I live there by the way, I'm not just trying
"to feel at home in a grocery shop."
I don't know, for me, it helps to make a room
feel more homely by putting things on the walls.
Whether that's my own drawings or posters
or pictures of my friends, just like memories,
like parts of me.
Also, I like really soft lighting.
Like if you get a lamp and you point it at the ceiling
and it diffuses and it just looks really warm?
That can be really nice.
I get that feeling though because I've had
to move house a few times and I still live
between two different houses
so it's hard to feel at home in both at the same time
but I always bring things with me
that are just always with me
so it's like my home is these items, basically.
For me it's my laptop, my phone, my music,
my Switch now.
I got a Switch and I'm playing Zelda for far too long.
Just little things like that, bring them along with you
and that's like a portable home.
Davi says, "How do I tell someone
"that I don't want to be their friend anymore?"
Oh.
If you know them online it's easier.
You can just kind of slowly ghost them.
But if it's in person, oof,
if it's like a close friend?
Oh, that's so tricky.
I guess it's important to pinpoint the reason
you don't want to be friends with them anymore,
like if its something they said to upset you
or something that they're doing
and if you did really care about them as a friend
or if you still do, I think it's definitely worth
talking to them about it
and trying to fix it, making sure they know
if there's something that they can change.
It's the same thing, going back,
it's the same as with a romantic relationship.
With romantic relationships and very close friendships,
you don't just ghost them, you talk to them about it
and if there's something to fix you try and fix it
and if there isn't, you let them know about it
and you talk about it.
Be like, hey, this is my issue
and if we can't change it then I'm afraid
I don't want to be friends with you anymore.
There's no real kind of clean way to do it
but I think that's the healthiest way, is to talk about it.
"What if a friend is making me
"have awful, suicidal thoughts
"because of the way they treat me?"
Throw the whole friend out, Hannah.
You deserve better than that.
Joe asks, "How to make all of the songs you write
"sound like they belong in the same album."
Have you heard one of my albums, Joe?
There's no rules, like you don't have to do that.
Nothing has to match up.
Basically when I write an album,
I'll be writing songs just anyway
and then once I get to 12 songs,
just smash them in an album, there you go, that's it.
Put it on Spotify.
I don't know, I think it's more fun
to just go wild and make them all sound different
and just experiment with all the kinds of sounds you want to
but if you really want to make them sound the same?
I guess use similar instruments?
Maybe you can create like a theme,
like a running theme throughout the whole thing
so the whole album tells a story.
"How to play bar chords on guitar?"
Use your thumb, all the strength is in your thumb.
You gotta like pinch the neck of the guitar.
You gotta pinch it, you gotta pinch it.
I guess you could try starting out
using a nylon string guitar or a ukulele
with softer strings, but yeah,
all of the power is in the the thumb
so just keep doing that.
Lift some weights with your thumb only
and then you should be right on track.
Hi again, wow it's later in the day.
My card was full and then I just forgot to finish
or film an ending to this video.
Yeah, I hope of that advice was helpful
or if it wasn't, I hope you just enjoyed looking at me
for a little bit.
Thanking you all so much for being so patient
while I take a bit of a break from videos.
As I've said before, my life is going pretty crazy right now
in a good way, I'm doing great
so don't be worried if I don't post a video for a while.
I'm working on some new songs.
Working on lots of cool new things.
Really looking forward to November and December shows.
Yeah, I'll see ya next time.
Yeah.
Goodbye.
Oh, also, also, leave a comment down below
if you're excited for Switch Animal Crossing.
I know I am, bye!
(xylophone scale playing) (cat meowing)