Ren Gill, musician

I again find myself captivated by a musician I've newly discovered - he is so good!


Ren Gill

Ren Gill (born 29 March 1990) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, rapper, poet, producer and multi-instrumentalist. ... Ren caught the attention of record labels as a street performer in Brighton in 2009 and was signed to a record deal with Sony. Around the same time, however, he fell suddenly ill, and his deteriorating health cut short any hopes of a music career when Sony decided to terminate his contract. Over the next few years, Ren received several false diagnoses including depression, bipolar disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome, until he was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease in December 2015.

RenMakesMusic - his Facebook page, where he has shared a lot regarding his struggles with chronic illness as well as his music.

Video title: Ren - Hi Ren
Posted by: Ren
Date posted: 2022/12/15


Filmmaker Reacts to Ren - Hi Ren - points out details about the above video which I didn't notice.

Video title: Ren - Sick Boi
Posted by: Ren
Date posted: 2023/01/19

Video title: Ren - Losing it ( FISHER rap retake )
Posted by: Ren
Date posted: 2022/06/30

very various

Sleep Deprivation

I really need to get my sleep habits in check.

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A dandelion in the yard, with full puffy seed-head.

The temptation to blow on it. Ah, it would be so nice! To see them float gently away in the air!

The responsible voice in my head telling me to pluck it and place it carefully in the trash, before the seeds disperse and grow into a swath of dandelion plants which I'll feel duty-bound to spend time and effort pulling out of the ground later this year or some other.

A compromise. Pluck it and take it inside. Blow on it in the house, where the seeds will eventually get vacuumed up.
Ah, they are like little parachutes falling slowly down to the rug! So cute!

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I discovered that when word-wrap is turned in in Notepad++, the wrapped text keeps the same indentation as the first word in the paragraph! That makes it so much easier to read, compared to Notepad's word-wrap.

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Writing with a pen or pencil on paper, sometimes my hands feel so awkward and clumsy. Sometimes the marks end up so malformed. I wonder if it is due to being so out of practice or due to losing flexibility in my hands.

(I am still having a lot of trouble with my hands and thumbs.)

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I made pretzels yesterday, from a box mix my mom gave me 7 years ago. I'd known it would take a lot of effort to make them, and also that they wouldn't turn out as good as the kind I used to eat in Germany. I was pretty sure this box mix was more like the kind of pretzels you get here in malls. I had made pretzels from scratch once before, long ago, and those weren't as good as German ones either. So the box sat in the cupboard all this time, waiting till I had the will to make them.

Anyway, the packet of yeast in the box showed a best-by date of 2017 and likely wouldn't work well on its own. Luckily, I had a jar of yeast in the back of the fridge which I'd practically forgotten about. Its best-by date was 2011. So I used the yeast packet plus several tablespoons of the yeast from the fridge, which seemed to work just fine.

The pretzels turned out looking just like the image on the box. Success, I guess. The taste... I'm not sure how to describe it; not very good but edible. Sort of salty and yeasty. I plan to make lunches with them, sliced in half and topped with vegan cheese and deli slices.