So I finished writing the press kit for Clang Quartet: Ava, just got to lay that out & bundle everything together & then put it online. Which I’m sure will take me a lot longer than I think as it always does. But hopefully in time for the shows Friday & Saturday nights.
I got the approval for the track order & artwork for the Sarah June: Under Black Robes Remix EP. So I just need to write up the press release & lay that out & bundle & get it up online.
I got in the Goddakk files to run some mastering on. We’ll see how fast that goes.
Last night I actually practiced for the Remora show. Sometimes I really think I should never perform songs live as they are a lot less interesting to me than the pieces, but I’m not sure if the audience feels the same way. Maybe the 50-50 mix I usually give is about right?
I finally finished the first draft for the Lost Kisses about time travel. As Lost Kisses #11 turned into Ultimate Lost Kisses #11, I’m thinking about numbering this one #21 & keeping ULK as #11-#21 (it’s a ten issue story arc about the woman, each issue depicts a life changing moment in her life more or less in order of a certain logic of events rather than chronology, issue #12 is about her deciding to give her son up for adoption & issue #13 is about a boyfriend from issue #12 & I’m not sure exactly what happens in between, but #20 either ends with her son being saved or committing suicide (the end varies based on how I feel that day)). Confusing stuff for the reader today, but not in the long haul.
So my son Andrew was having his record coming out on a small label & it’s been in negotiation a few months, but now the release date has been set & everything. So the label says, “Oh, we forgot to sign a contract!” They send him a contract asking him to pay them $1400 towards the release for 200! WTF? Talk about bait & switch. Now I can understand a label needing to operate like that on a release they don’t know how well they can sell, but that should be mentioned on day one; not six weeks before the street date. So who knows what’s going to happen with it. I told him not to work with them if he was to pay more than $300 for the 200 copies as it doesn’t look like they do much promo either. At which point, what’s the advantage of them putting out a release? I don’t know. I don’t claim that Silber is the best label going or anything, but when I hear stories about other labels I feel better all the time. Really, I think if Silber was raised to the point where I could guarantee selling 1000-3000 copies of a release I might be willing to say it was the best label going. But I like to think most label owners would be willing to say that about themselves….
I changed my mind last minute and decided to whip up something for the anthology. The comic was easy, but the ad is kind of a pain in my ass!
I’m not bothering to make an ad. People that want to know more will already know what to do. If you want, I’ll try to do something where your ad will have a hyperlink in the PDF version, but that’s a secret. Just you & me & maybe Bob Corby will have hyperlinks….