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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

One day I will deal with my depression, but today is not that day.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

It's a nice feeling, especially after some of our disastrous post covid tours!

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Rüsselsheim is officially sold out. There will be no tickets at the door. Oberhausen tonight! MAY 24 - Oberhausen, DE - Kulttempel MAY 25 - Rüsselsheim, DE - Das Rind MAY 28 - Seattle, WA - Mechanismus Festival JUN 06 - Denver, CO - HQ JUN 07 - Los Angeles, CA - The Paramount

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If living ethically is impossible, why should we even bother trying?

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Sure, but the point I’m trying to make is that there is no such thing as being creatively dry or having no ideas. We always have ideas. What we need to learn how to do is turn our ego off and allow inspiration to flow.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Writer's block is not real and creativity is not a finite resource. An artist should be able to turn on their creative faucet at will. The only thing stopping a person from accessing their endless creative potential is ego and insecurity.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If you want to be an artist, just go out and do the thing. Right now. Waiting only means it will take longer to get good at your craft. It only means any success you achieve will come later. The longer you wait, the longer you’re depriving your future self of the good things.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Getting old is a peculiar experience. Two years ago, I would've given anything to be more successful in my career. Today, I would give anything to fix my spinal injury. Perspective is everything.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Some people make music because they love music. Some people make music because they need external validation. I do it for both reasons. 😅

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Watching men simp over AI accounts is my new favorite hobby.

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Foobar Studios @foobarstudios.com · 14/01/2025

Music is a key component of my life, and many others. @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social #aestheticperfection #concertphotography #livemusic

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I’ve been told my entire life that I’m rude for not looking people in the eye when speaking to them. The truth is: I don’t NOT look people in the eye because I’m nervous or scared, but because my eyes literally dart all over the place while processing information. Both while speaking and listening.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

My apple and I eventually find my beanie underneath my laptop. With beanie and apple, set off to find coffee cup. Search studio. Search office. Search bedroom. After 10 minutes, coffee cup is discovered on kitchen counter. This odyssey took almost half an hour. At least I can focus on music.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The joys of ADHD: Go to the cupboard. Get coffee cup. Look for beanie. While searching for beanie, pick up random apple. With cup and apple, look for beanie. After a while, realize I've lost the apple. After another few minutes, find the apple on washing machine, but cup is no longer in hand.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Not familiar with media preservation. Like, on a physical storage unit? What happens when that becomes obsolete? I've got tons of backup CDs that are hard to access these days. 😂

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Why? Bandcamp is the record store, and streaming is radio. It's all part of the business ecosystem, and all elements are important.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Artists: At a certain popularity threshold, no matter how many listeners support you on Bandcamp, you will end up earning more from streaming. While it's an important part of the music ecosystem, it is a niche market. If you're looking for growth, don't focus all your energy there. #musicbusiness

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Every time I open up social media, it's another scandal about a band using backing tracks or autotune and it's just impossible for me to believe this is a conversation we're still having in 2024.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It took me years to get used to it. It just sounds so wrong.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Color me surprised since ticket sales have tanked since the pandemic!

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In news that shocks the absolute hell out of me, our old-school shows in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg have sold out. Due to popular demand, we have added two more German shows in Rüsselsheim (Frankfurt) and Hanover. Don't sleep on these, they will absolutely sell out, too. #industrialmusic #aggrotech

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

They were angry that someone dared to tell them that the words they were using were wrong. It's not my fault that "burner" in English doesn't mean a cool song, rather references a disposable phone, or that "older timer" doesn't mean "classic car", rather an old and out of touch person. 😂

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Apparently, every German word that has been imported to English has essentially retained its original meaning. How am I supposed to make a video now!?

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In the spirit of fairness, I decided to make another video, this time about all the German words that have been imported to English and are used incorrectly. Guess how many of them I found? Zero.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In addition to people telling me to "go back to where I came from" I also got a lot of angry German speakers telling me that English has also imported a lot of German words that have lost their original meaning.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I made a fun little video about the English words that have been imported to German that are used incorrectly (like "handy") and I got absolutely inundated with hate comments.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Many will argue that luck is a variable that no one can control, which is partly true, but the more money, connections, skill and perseverance a person has usually translated to more lucky opportunities.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

You can find short-term success with more of one or two than the others. Say more skill and less money, but for long-term success, you need to bring these factors into equilibrium as much as possible.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Success in the music industry hinges on 5 things: 1. Skill (talent is a myth) 2. Perseverance 3. Connections 4. Money 5. Luck

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Nine Inch Nails in the streets. Gracie Abram’s in the sheets.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Spotify: In Summer you had your Sad-Boi-Crunk era… Me: Ah yes, that was a rough time. Spotify: And in Fall you entered your Industrial-Reverse-Cowgirl-Core period… Me: *remembers it fondly*

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Art is how people articulate the human experience to other humans. It is the language that many use to articulate the feelings they can't articulate themselves. The concern that a machine will replace this deeply HUMAN thing is quite silly, if you ask me. Which you didn't.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I know I'm in the minority here. It's just that half of my tattoos are either stupid or suck, and they're expensive and hurt and won't look good in 20 years so... what's the point? 😂

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If I could go back in time and not get any tattoos I would 100% do that.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I am absolutely NOT the guy to mix metal records. I'm terrible at mixing guitars and live drums. Why do you think I got Sean Beavan to do my last EP!?

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

That’s true. I definitely enjoyed torturing the world with that one. 😂

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It's also my inner misanthrope who can't stand being in large crowds. 😅

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

For most people, that's how it is. I'm just wired differently. I get nothing out of it. I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum, I'm just marinating on the irony of my tastes and my profession.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I respect that for the majority of concertgoers, it's not even about the music, it's about the shared experience. It's like a type of tribal bonding ritual. I totally get it and support it. However, I don't feel that. At all. I get absolutely nothing from it. It's just loud and claustrophobic.

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Daniel Graves | Aesthetic Perfection @iamdanielgraves.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In general I think recorded music is far superior to live music.

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