Its been roughly a year and a half since I've started trying out the accordion, my mom bought me a stupid little 8 button toy accordion for christmas and that made me take a completely bonkers detour away from how my music and creative stuff was advancing. The accordion is a sophisticated, versatile, and above all a fucking ridiculous instrument, I started reading a bunch of Weird Al interviews last year, and I remembered the first time I actually heard Al was right here on Newgrounds, Hardware Store, before I became aware of the classic that is Albuquerque. Ironically two songs where the accordion isn't really doing anything, still, I wanted to mention Weird Al to make it seem like we have some sort of cosmic connection. I also took great interest in the brazillian genre of music forró, which carries a arsenal of awesome techniques that I feel bring a flavor to the bellows completely different from the polka so often used by the aforementioned god of modern music parody.

I've started gaining some rhythm, I started gaining some groove, after a couple of months practicing the shit out of the accordion, I actually made my performance debut HERE, on a Newgrounds online event( that happened thanks to @stanpai, @lilspook and a team of awesome moderators,collaborators,workshoppers,lecturers,etc). I, of course, started perfoming irl later but I'm gonna make sure to always point out for the rest of my days, that the first time I played my accordion to anyone other than me or my mom, was on the Newgrounds Summer Fest. I went on to do other internet stuff like that while the pandemic was still in its peak, I made some short music score pieces for the currently in production Shrek Retold 2, and did a little thingie with @scottwjsm, who I met through me hangin on the BBS and stumbling across an animation gig for swearnet, Scott recruited me and he ended up being cool as fuck guy and I'm glad we met. 

As I said, eventually I started trying to figure out where I would in real life perform my new me, the me with the huge squeezebox, the me who can now make as much noise with my hands unplugged as my mouth screaming. I performed at a cool event which was a celebration of an artist friend who passed an old building downtown where a naked guy was also performing this naked guy thing simultaneously, I played at a few of open mics and I think people really like when you bust out the accordion and play shit like careless whisper. I played alongside this band I love when they were just visiting my city. I met someone who's into campy shit like electronic forró and now we're a weird couple I love.

here's their kitchen: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/pegasutv/cozinha-delu

I played on a neat oudoor stage the muright by the municipal theater between a bunch of hip hop acts(I really really find it difficult to fit myself with similar acts so this happens, I just drop myself anywhere I see music and hope I'm not being a douche and taking up space I'm not supposed to) I played with a group of fucking clowns just last month. I've been rediscovering myself through this accordion shit and I have to say, a huge first step was playing for the Newgrounds people.

Music kinda comes before anything in life to me, but I am learning each day that I am not a music machine and I have to keep my "person" sane and whatnot, and I took some steps and went through stuff that though and is still teaching me a lot. I got into an apartment with this dude who supports and stimulates me musically more than anyone atm(he's playing acoustic guitar on the banner thingie) I am now half of a weird couple, the kitty I rescued from the street as a tiny rat looking thing covered in bruises, Zapata, got sick and I actually managed to make money with a couple of horrible jobs and with some help bought the medicine to get it. I regrouped with my volunteer firefighters buddies a couple of times and actually helped them out instructing new potential volunteer firefighters, and I dont know what else... Im sleepy and I can just update this later if I want lol probably wont. here's the happy n healthy kitty

I guess I wanted to share with whoever reads this that I'm having a blast and I hope you are too. I'll try to share more, for the time being you can peep @pegasutv on those shitty socialmedia websites that unfortunatelly everybody's active on, and I want to thank Newgrounds for the endless inspiration even if I'm sometimes just looking from a distance. I feel a little sorry for being absent but life away from the screen has been crazy and good, if I manage to fir a bit more "Newgrounds" to my schedule it'll be perfect

tl:dr: Accordion is reminding me how to live, I'm romantically involved with a funny alien/gobinlike person, my cat got sick, then got healthy, firefighters met up, I'm renting an apartment...I dunno...Happy holidays and may Tom Fulp bless us all.

Look! New(?) music! wow check it out! play it while you read this post or something I dunno

Last week I fulfilled a dream of mine, I met a damn legend, a huge example of creative force and someone who inspires me immensely. Pedro Paiva AKA @menosplay, an artist, game dev, very cool guy and creator of the magnificent marioxsonic kissing animation famously played alongside Take On Me by A-ha, yes, this one:

He also has some super fun games filled with criticism aimed at all sorts of bullshit permeating our lives, while still maintaining the FUN of videogames strong at his core.

He lives pretty far from where I usually reside in Brasil, but this particular weekend, he was around my area because he was visiting a comic shop(a very cool one) where he installed a fucking ARCADE CABINET he built by himself to host his games physically.

He writes a ton of interesting stuff on his blog and there's this particular one about his work translated to english, and if you are not a horrible person I highly recommend you take a look into his stuff. I was super happy to be able to chat with him in person for a little bit!

the latest iteration of his arcade thing the PIRATA DE PRATA and me meeting the man himself.

More music, eventually

On other news, I've been meeting the members of my old band which, now that I stop to think about it, has been a thing(even if an on and off thing) for ten fucking years. There's a couple of songs I wrote that I wanted to record with a band and well I kinda just dropped that in the middle of a casual conversation and now its kinda happening.

We had a first rehearsal with the four of us this last month, I tried recording it and it sounded pretty decent, and there's a few things I liked that came out of that like THE SONG LINKED ON THE TOP OF THE POST SCROLL BACK UP AND LISTEN.

Now I'm going after each of them to record some stuff on separated tracks, with my limited equipment, by myself, because I'm a maniac.

aand here's something we recorded way back, when this random dude who saw us playing at a party threw us in his friend's studio and just told us to play 4 original songs and then he told us he was being sued and just vanished

There's also a couple of cool internet projects I'm involved with that will come out soon, so uhh follow @pegasutv here and everywhere else and keep an eye out I guess...

Now to finish off yet another way too emotional post, here's a fan art thingie of one of Pedro's games

tl;dr

I met the dude who made this, and I've been meeting old friends irl to play music.

It's been around two months now since I've come back from the crazy trip I did as a volunteer firefighter, I basically worked a month then stayed over 2 more months waiting for a mechanic to fix my fucking van lol. I guess most people would think that's a shitty thing to happen, but I ended up meeting a bunch of nice people and doing cool stuff, like playing music in different places and I gave some kids in a public school a Flash class check it out, great success!

FLASH CLASS TO SOME KIDS AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL

While staying on the town I volunteered at, eventually I told people I worked doing video things with drawings that moved for a living, and I got invited to give some kids a "class" on animation or something. I tried my best to evangelize some kids with the gospel of Flash, on this picture you can see me showing freelance stuff I had lying around my hard drive and breaking NDA agreements(jk this is all released stuff or canceled or projects that never released and went kaboom)

It was pretty fun I got to talk for like 2 hours about animation and communities like Newgrounds, and two kids actually made little flipbooks, a girl did a stickgirl walking by a butterfly and a boy just straight up did an amongus guy killing other amongus guy... they said they've never tried animation before, so that was quite magical to me!

I did a bunch of cool things, like for example, touched a couple of horses, saw a cool yellow alligator, a bunch of animal skeletons, grabbed a snake with a stick, almost hit a tapir(which I didnt know it was what english speakers called "antas", just googled it) with my van, saw a shitload of huge trees catching fire, a lot of fire stuff obviously... but also a lot of fun things happened relating to the people in the city I was stationed in, Chapada Dos Guimaraes

MUSIC ADVENTURES/SEGUE INTO FUTURE MUSIC STUFF

I guess people liked me and eventually they also discovered I like doing silly music so they called me up to do a little show on a place where they have art exhibitions, theater, crafts, etc. I played a bunch of songs never played to any audience so it was pretty crazy doing that after almost 2 years of basically not going out, people laughed and sung along and I was pretty fucking happy with the 10 to 15 people who took part on that historical night. I wore a face mask and took it off when I was in my corner on top of the little stage they had. Remember: covid shits real be careful out there

HEY MUSIC STUFF ON NG YOU CAN CLICK ON HERE LOOK

Still sitting on a bunch of unfinished stuff, I am involved in a couple of "NG projects" that I have to get back to, but hey look I posted this thing recently ayyy

full bootleg ng summer album coming soon? maybe? I dunno I hope so, does anybody still remember that concert thing?I have way too many ideas aaaa here's a piece of art by @phasmagore look is me in the corner check out her cartoons

I'd like to thank @stanpai and @lilspook again and again because this is probably the coolest thing I've done online and it it felt like it kickstarted all the cool crazy stuff that happened this year(CHECK OUT THE WINTERFEST THERES A WINTERFEST HAPPENING PARTICIPATE AA)

OH I DID SOME MUSIC FOR SHREK 2 RETOLD CHECK IT OUT, MORE "SHREK" NEWS TO COME, RECORDED THIS LIKE, RIGHT WHEN I CAME BACK FROM MY TRIP SO YEA WE WASTING NO TIME IN HERE

MOREMUSIC? WHAT

I've been doing a l lot of irl vaccinated meeting friends and playing music and stuff with them because I really missed that during the height of the pandemic. I finally got two friends from very different backgrounds together and we're all making some weird emotional funny music that I hope to record and post here soon, but for now EACH OF THEM HAS JUST RELEASED ALBUMS ON BANDCAMP CHECK IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!111

ocolecionadordepessoas is a weird(er) project by my friend Dani or DJ Dennis how I like to call him, mostly instrumental stuff going to a spooky place. I love the stuff he does with electric guitars, reverse tracks, and ugly keyboards. My favorite tracks are 7 and 10, I kinda really want him to post this stuff here and see someone do creepy animation using his stuff as soundtrack

Ella's Heart Of Stone is the music thing from my other friend, Ella, wonderful singersongriter, with her raw acoustic guitar she shows us all the gay stuff that composes her lyrics IN ENGLISH so you guys can understand her beautiful poetry, which is the main thing I like about her music, alongside the emo ass voice and all.

CLICK THE LINKS THE PROFILES LINKED THE LINKS HAVE FUN LOVE NEGROUNDS HAPPY NEW YEAR

tl:dr: crazy year, I did a bunch of cool stuff and I'm doing even more stuff now irl bc vaccines and I'm planning on posting music made alone and with friends soon. Music making friends releasing their own thing check them out

I wanna share a little story of how I ended up fighting forest fires on the swamplands region in Brasil.(TL;DR at the end) A dude I know from a independent music festival I played in posted on his social media about these "autonomous firefighters" who travel to strategic territories in a specific season of the year when fires hit a high point, both because of human action(mostly human action actually), and because its dry season. And the big thing about this group I've come across is they're mostly anarchists who believe in direct action instead of just signing petitions calling for the bullshit to end, this direct action can be blowing shit up, or in this case, doing postive enviromental work that the government, or private ventures or whatever could take care of, all of this getting money for resources like equipment and food through crowdfunding without profit.

So, eventually I replied to a post of the Autonomous Brigade(Specifically the URUTAU BRIGADA AUTONOMA, in case you wanna look us up) movement calling for volunteers. I suggested I knew absolutely nothing about firefighting or animal rescue, but I like animals and learning stuff and I have my van that can carry heavy things and people. The mad lads actually contacted me and I went through a brief training with the crazy mario sunshine water pump thing, and those weird ass rubber mats things to put out fire. Now I'm at Mato Grosso, driving around the Pantanal(look this shit up srsly its a crazy swampland biome) region hunting wildfires with a small team that coordinates with local firefighters when there are any. We are here for an undetermined time, the volunteer brigades could be returning by the end of the week, month, or after 3 to 4 months depending on how much resources we gather and how crazy things get.

SO WE KINDA NEED MONEY FOR GAS, FOOD, YOU KNOW... NOT DYING WHILE SAVING FORESTS AND ANIMALS N STUFF. YOU CAN DONATE DIRECTLY TO ME VIA PAYPAL @ lucas.villaca@live.com

NG SUMMER FEST: WASN'T THAT COOL? WHAT NOW?

And all of this also leads to me kinda justifying why I havent been doing so much stuff on the web(Newgrounds actualy fuck the internet), fucking firefighting and driving all day is tiring, BUT I still want to do NG stuff and I want to collaborate with people I met through the Newgrounds Summer Fest, And I wanna do some sort of fun release of the summer fest concert recordings with a bit of polishing and some wacky overdubs(stay tuned to the NGSF discord server I dunno what I might do tee hee). Also if you kick ass at EQing shitty live recordings and wanna pitch in with your sKiLLz hit me up

FOR NOW JUST WATCH IT AGAIN HERE WITH ALL OF THE STREAM STUTTERING AND ETC

I'm still baffled I had people do fan art of me, you guys are marvelous, a huge incentive, and inspiring as artists of your own

LASTLY, actually contributing for newgrounds, I've done an entry for the Akira Bike Slide Collab by @Snackers

check out the art portal, it has cool process gifs(it is the same van I drove across Brasil to fight forest fires)

TL;DR

1- Im fighting forest fires in Brasil, we need money for stuff, if you wanna help paypal me at lucas.villaca@live.com

2- I wanna fuck around with recordings from the NG summer fest, thats coming, hopefully, soon

3- akira slide ayy

OK, now that I have your attention, I wanna say I'm pumped I'm rehearsing like an idiot this past week and I'm pretty sure my neibors hate me. SUNDAY 7:30PM I'm playing various songs from Newgrounds' history, music featured in games, animations, and whatever the hell I could think of related to newgrounds, that could be humanly played on a guitar/harmonica/lil rattles.

I don't post a lot of music to NG because I've been recording some original songs that will make up an album that I hope to finish and realease this year and between these doing a few pop covers basically to learn some music production/recording while stuck at home. But I've come up with a wacky way of really making it clear that even though I'm not always super active here, I always draw inspiration from Newgrounds. The world's been pretty horrible and it can get pretty heavy so this thing is coming to be very special, a little quick get away to a fun place before coming back to face all the shit. It's nice to remember the good stuff in the world that makes it all worth it

I'M VERY THANKFUL FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS THING

take a minute to check the full schedule because there's a shit load of great stuff

and read STANPAI'S POST ABOUT THE WHOLE THING

love you newgrounds

FLASH FORWARD JAM - VIRTUAL PET ROCK SEQUEL

I released my little flash forward jam game, it’s a sequel, I think, to a little game I made 11 years ago. I made a thread for sharing creations since I made a bunch of these while testing the game and some of them made me giggle because I’m that silly. I’ve genuinely had fun, and I am very very glad I got motivated by Newgrounds to make something.

this is me testing out a bunch of the assets for VPRDX2K, one of many possible beautiful results

PLAY IT NOW!!111l1l1l1l11l1l1

I just wanna say that I am very happy to see flash running properly on mobile, because I've been slowly realizing most people basically don't use their desktops for small pieces of entretainement or art anymore, and these snippets of greatness are what Newgrounds is made of, and I pratically don't share anything interactive or even animated anymore with IRL friends, because it seems people just turn away from a link that doesn't direct you to any app that isn't your browser. man, fuck people they're missing out on all these awesome AS2 tutorials from 15 years ago(not kidding).

QUICK RANDOM MUSIC AND CREATIVITY RANT I GUESS

I’ve been experimenting a lot with music, and I usually have loads of fun with it, but I’ve set some goals like, having 5 or so songs with production wrapped up(whatever that means) by the middle of the year and stuff like that. The thing is, I have no idea wtf I am doing, I am literally following along with a mixing for dummies thing and trying to mix my own stuff. So I get pretty lost in the process and redo things inumerous times before getting it “right". Learning how to handle mics, arranjements with multiple guitars/voices by myself. I keep alternating between focusing on the learning, and focusing on getting what feels like a complete song someone could listen to, and between recording and mixing stuff for hours several days in a row, and keeping away from any work files for my music for weeks in order to avoid my dumb brain melting. I may have a scheduling problem or something like that.

It's good to have goals, but when your doing something just for you and for the sake of it, I think these goals should hold little to no importance, you do it because you wanna do it, fuck it.

well once again thanks Newgrounds for being the bestest webspace ever. Flash lives on fuck stev jobs

mandatory link to random music stuff and bye:

First off, go follow this person who drew me on NG secret santa because they´re very good and cool https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/hpargonohp/secret-santa-2020-pegasutv

I´m trying to make some sort of sequel to my silly 11 year old flash game for the Flash Forward Jam. it would be very very very nice if anyone out there would step up to help out with what I assume is very basic coding stuff because there's a very big possibility that if I keep trying to do this alone I'll end up with a dysfunctional dress up game with glitchy animation loops shitting all over the stage without any control. You can of course check the original here on my NG page.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/526181/format/flash?emulate=flash

here´s my amazing plans for the game, I started thinking about little elements with physics and shit like that then I realized my programming knowledge is limited to GoToAndPlay, GoToAndStop and copying code from ancient tutorials into flash and hoping it works.

 Also, I know its not the first pet rock type game here, but I only found out about that like 2 years later, and also Tony Hawk is not the first skate game and Halo is not the first alien shooting game and people still praise them ok

So yeah if there´s anybody out there willing to spend a few minutes and or hours screwing around with this idea let me know and I´ll send you my .fla with the polished assets and animations and anymore wacky ideas I have. if you have any ideas hit me up send me threats, whatever.

mandatory link for my music stuff at the end of post

Hey you 1 out of 3 random people who will actually read through this

I made a video with my brother for 3GI´s Shrekfest Online GOWATCHGO SHREKFEST>>>https://www.twitch.tv/the3gi

Also it´s been 20 years since Tony Hawk´s Pro Skater 2 has been released, and that´s a pretty big religious date for me. So I released a song about skateboarding (that´s not really about skateboarding) alongside a weird ass video with TonyHawk Undeground 2 gameplay.

yea the song in portuguese and the lyrics are just a bunch of self referential nonsense so I I didn´t bother coming up with a decent translation for english speaking people for now.

and here´s a painting to celebrate the day yehoo

What are YOU doing to please SHREK and TONY HAWK??

bonus me as puss in boots for shrekfest:

Hey

a lot of things are pretty crappy, I've been trough some changes and got pretty disapointed at some shit, and there are some politics stuff going on in Brazil that are finally starting to manage to really bother me. But at the same time I'm getting quite a bit of work, consequently money, so I can do a bunch of dumb stuff I wanna do.  

I'm kinda trying to get into the social media thing where you post everywhere, but I still end up overthinking and doing next to nothing, or fucking it up hehe.

I'm trying posting little notebook sketches and general rough doodles in instagram, posting general shit on twitter, and I even tried posting on the little community they have on that lil app Colors3d for the 3DS and of course I posted like 5 paintings and went back to piling up stuff offline.

I'm doing this #inktober thing as a tribute to newgrounds and I realized like, yesterday that I should tag each of them with the hashtag instead of just having a untagged thread, but oh well, I'm having fun and at least I got more characters on individual tweets to write more stuff about these toons I love. I'm not posting them on NG individually because I wanna make a big pretty mosaic and post it here when I'm done.

But yeah Newgrounds is still the best place on the web, regardless if I'm just lurking or actually posting anything.

Also, I try to keep myself making music, even if it's pretty dumb stuff. this a music video thing I wiped up after having a bunch of clips of me acting like a dumbass with a skateboard collecting dust on my HD

tl:dr I'm a lil bitch who doesn't get social media, I still enjoy doing most of the things I do, I love NG

So if anybody out there can hear me... I've done this aimation in like 5 days, while I was feeling sick, for filthy frank youtube guy cuz I fucking love him, and for some reason some people actually saw it, and well they liked it mostly I guess, atleast in the comments...

I'll submit it to newgrounds new and hope someone likes it here too, I won't be able to touch a fucking computer for 2 weeks, but then I'll start fucking putting my shit together and animate like a fucktard

here's the animation on youtube

also I'll try to get to start making my internet places look decent like this blogthing

/http://portfoliolucasvillaca.blogspot.com.br/

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