Did some research today for trying to find people who distribute digital download comics & I didn’t find nearly the volume I’d expected. Maybe because Google already started to remove them from their search results (they announced a couple weeks ago about trying to not be searchable for illegal content (presumably in preparation of COICA)). I guess I should try searching using Altavista or something & see what happens. One of the problems is a lot of the sites are blog oriented, so they’ll have 50 entries over two months two years ago & nothing since. I wonder how most bloggers work. Do they think they’re going to make money & quit when they find it isn’t true? Do they do it between relationships? Do they move up to doing reviews other places? A mystery to me….
I got an email from Nick Marino (who will probably comment on this below) about doing a guest writing gig for SuperHaters for a week in February. Should be fun. I need to remember to get it done though.
I got a few orders in today. So sending out the newsletter works. The weirdest order was someone ordered Thorn1 & The Wet Teens together. They might have the exact same strange taste in music as me….
So I can’t remember if I’ve talked about this in the blog before, but about three years ago my girlfriend of the time had me buy this massive piece of furniture that could actually hold my CD collection. While I was assembling it, she was taking the CD’s off my collection of random pieces of wood & coffee cans that served as a CD rack & she just put them all in boxes (the ones I get CDs in when they’re manufactured for Silber) in random order. I’ve never gotten around to trying to put them back in order because it’s a daunting task & I get kinda irked again whenever I start to do it. But I spent a couple hours working on it today. I think it’ll be good when I get it done because it’s something that has contributed to me not listening to music quite as much over the past few years. Of course, then again I suppose it has occasionally helped me re-find things. I have to decide again if New Order goes under “J” for Joy Division & if Jesu goes under “G” for Godflesh & if Lou Reed goes under “V” for Velvet Underground. I wonder if that happens with my records, do people put Vlor & Small Life Form under “R” for Remora? Especially with Vlor where some people might put it with Aarktica or Rivulets or Jessica Bailiff or any of the other folks involved….
I spent another couple hours working on this school project video thing for my nephew that’s an ad for a Star Wars book. It should’ve taken thirty minutes, but he came in with no script or any preparation (I don’t think he’d actually read the book for that matter as their was a book mark about a third of the way into the book) & then I had a problem connecting my five year old camera to my seven year old computer with a $0.99 connector cable from Hong Kong. Which is a problem I keep having with doing videos. Anyway, I’m thinking about trying to do a bunch of ads this lo-fi & crappy for various Silber oriented things. I’m not sure yet. Anyway, here’s the video (but I don’t blame you if you don’t watch it):
Last Night’s Dream:
I’m taking care of my ex-girlfriend’s nephew & he has lice. He can’t use the medicine that you would normally use for it because of all his allergy & skin problems & his parents don’t want to shave his head because then people will think he has lice (ummm… he does?). So I’m needing to try to comb his hair with a metal comb to get the bugs out & his scalp is bleeding from a combination of the bug bites & his scratching. How did I get roped into this job?
YOU CAN SEE THE FUTURE, can’t you?
so… is this the way kids do book reports now? AWESOME!
i’ve wondered the same thing about bloggers. i think they just quit. they’re super amped to do it and then realize how much work it is, and give up. then they have a relapse like “i can do this! i just messed up before!” and then they blog again and instantly remember how much work it takes and quit again.
for the Super Haters thing, it doesn’t have to be February. in fact, i think my March guest writer is already lined up and i probably don’t need a guest for Feb, so the next first available month is April.
Yeah, I’m not sure of the quality of schooling these days compared to 20 years ago & it seemed pretty lax & crappy.
I suppose a lot of bands are like that too. They put out a good record & then find out how much work really trying to make it as a band is & they fade away. Then they get laid off & the band gets back together & goes on tour….
A Super Haters plot – “You should start a band called Third Eye Blind!” “That name is already taken.” “I know, you could totally gain interest from their fan base.” “I think that’s illegal to use another band’s name….” “But if I just gouge out your third eye, it’s an accurate description! They can’t fault us for that!”
Okay, not sure it really works….
I LOVE IT! I’m copying it out of your comment and putting it into my “super haters guests” Google Doc for safe keeping. Now stop writing these all in public or you’ll ruin all the jokes!!!
You can keep that one as a freebie. I’m going to do a week long narrative Rip Kirby style for my guest spot…..
hahaha is it wrong that i had to Google “Rip Kirby?”
Nah… I think I’m pretty much the guy most interested in golden age comics in our circle of comic book makers. When I occasionally tell that to reviewers, they understand my stories better….