Got some orders out & a little money in today, always makes me feel like I can justify eating when I get some cash.
Talked to Monte of Moodring today about getting things rolling on that release. I’ll probably start selling some next week for direct orders as well as announcing the official release date. We’re talking about maybe in stores for mid-late August.
One of the things I was talking to Monte about also is how there seems to have gotten to be a bigger & bigger void in the tiers for music sales. It seems that there aren’t the same intermediary levels for CD sales anymore, if you sell more than 1000 then you sell 50,000. It used to be breaks around 500, 1000, 3000, 5000, 10,000, 25,000, 35,000, 50,000 for semi-obscure indie bands. It seems like the clear model of building something slow & steady is gone. I think it’s turning into the 1970′s all over again. No one attending rock shows, dance music taking over, & people being mega-stars or playing for six people. “That’s okay, when we die they’ll know our brilliance.”
I just realized I was shorted 5000 bags for my mini-comics. I placed an order for two lots of 5000 & only one came in. I wouldn’t have noticed except I started doing some paperwork filing receipts. Hopefully the place ships me another 5000, but I haven’t heard back so far.
Got another pass done on the Vlor. Need to listen to it to see if it’s 100% done. I did a kinda major edit on one song cutting it in half. It’s an ambient piece that I like, but it was just a little too droney/loopy to fit well in the context of the album at 5 minutes. It would be really funny if someone tried to hire me as a producer.
Getting geared up towards working on the new QRDs. Anyone have general questions for the following themed issues: guitarists, touring musicians, record label owners?
Still have to make a lot of mini-comics to get all the promos out. But I did write all the letters to reviewers & put address labels & stamps on all the envelopes. Still hoping to ship them all out by Monday.
I got some cheap ten year old paperbacks today & I have to say the quality of the paper on them makes me think maybe getting a little electronic book reader might be acceptable. I’m used to reading books that are printed on white paper (instead of a sickly gray) that don’t feel like they’re going to fall apart if I open them wide enough to read them. It makes me think I should just go ahead & spend the $50 for the archival paper hard bound copies even if they are literally 100 times the price.