Altered Banner, Your ideas?

Hard to get things done sometimes.

Made a slightly altered banner (colorful squares replaced with silber album covers) – http://www.silbermedia.com/test.html – let me know if you like it better than the current version.

Made a page for the 30 second comp on Archive.org as I know a lot of people do dig & trust that sight.

Talked to Ben Collins a bit about the new review blog I want to do.  Still trying to come up with a good name for it.  Reviews of things at least 5 years old that you haven’t check out in a year or more (music, movies, books, comics).  Let me know if you have suggestions.

Trying to come up with a title for the new Remora album.  The working title was “Hurtless,” but I’ve gotten a couple people telling me, “oh that’s a Nine Inch Nails reference?” (it’s not) so I’m not sure about using it.  A couple other ideas are “my blood won’t spill” & “send on your legions” (both lyrical references to “My Brother’s Guns & Knives”) & I was also possibly thinking of “risen” since it is the first real album in quite sometime.  Let me know your pick….

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Comics & Dreams (now featuring Nevada Smith?)

Got the layout done for Extreme Lost Kisses (drawn by Nick Marino) & printed a test batch.

Wrote another draft for the following comics: Monthly, Pow Wow, Glamourkisses.

Did some minor edits as requested by some of the bands on the 30 second comp.

Not sure where the whole day slipped away to.

Last Night’s Dreams:
Every cactus I ever had is alive in a little garden in a little sun room in a house where I seem to be all alone.  Am I alive?  Is this heaven?

I’ve made a short film inspired by my love of Nevada Smith.  We’re going to watch it at a church youth group thing after the church portion has finished.  The group is led by the guy who played Professor Z in Blake Holesy High & he’s explaining how he can appear to be gay buy be absolutely not gay.  Professor Z thinks I’m mocking him because when he is reading from Psalms I am listening intently instead of reading along in my own Bible.  Finally the time for the movie comes.  It is done in the Lego animation style in some scenes & in a french cartooning style (reminiscent of early Heavy Metal Magazine) in others.  There’s an airport scene where Nevada has been injured & is lying on his back aiming a missile launcher at the air traffic control tower about 50 yards from him & he has a walkie talkie & says to the tower, “I’m accurate from a mile.”  He shoots the missile & presumably this somehow saves the day.  Late Nevada is in some kind of brothel.  One of the other men kills a girl & she is relatively instantly replaced by another woman dropped in by a tube like the ones that suck up the container at the bank drive thru.  Nevada recognizes her as a celebrity & says to a man standing next to him, “Isn’t that…?”  “Of course  it is.  Any woman can end up here at any time.  They’ll just take a soft drug like cocaine or heroin & forget who they were & what they are now.”

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30 Seconds of Time

So a big day today.  30 Seconds of Time is available for listening, downloading, & ringtoning. I hear some of the ringtones are distorted, let me know what your experiences with them is so I can fix them up….

A lot more to do, but some things get in the way.

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A bunch of little things & Dreams

I got all the files for the comp made into ringtones.  It took a lot longer than anticipated.  Only takes a couple minutes per song, but there are 46 songs.  So now I’ll be working on the next stage of getting the comp ready.  So just another day or two to wait on that.

I listened to The Sisters of Mercy for the first time in probably about ten years today.  The song “Alice” was much better than I remembered it.  Anyway, I’m thinking about starting a blog where people review things they liked (or disliked) from five or more years ago & are revisiting.  Hopefully I’d be one of many contributors.  Anyone have suggestions for a free webhost that would allow multiple administrators & such?

I think I finished up my questions for the label owner series for QRD.  I need to go ahead & shoot them out I suppose.

Wrote a script for a new comic (I think it’s a one off that will interact with a series of other one offs) titled Pow Wow.

Last Night’s Dreams (why do they seem to come in bursts?)
There’s a drought & there’s about to be a flood.  I’m sitting in the hall of a house with blue carpeting waiting for the house to be destroyed & everything about me ever to be washed away.

I’m an elephant park & a rainstorm starts.  What do elephants do in the rain?

I get a phone call from a guy I barely know.  He’s really excited about Thounds & wants me to work on something with him.  I’m pacing around the house like I always do when I’m on the phone & I notice the front door is ajar.  Then I notice my amp is missing.  I go outside & there’s a blue & white van with dudes putting my shit in it & I start running out to beat the shit of them in my bare feet, but they see me & take off.  So much for my musical career.

I’m at some kind of family dinner & my biological father Bryce is there & so is my cousin Chris who might be the most talented musician in the family.  I’m talking to Bryce about if there’s a way to get ink stains out of a shirt that’s been through the dryer besides scissors when my mother calls Bryce into the kitchen to look for a swizel stick that Chris needs for making some convoluted mixed drink.

I’m at a church service where it’s very crowded, which always amplifies my personal solitude.  I look to my left & in another set of pews I see my brother & his fiance.  Somehow this manages to make me feel even more alone.

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Article, QRD, Grooveshark, Complaint about Humans

So my article that got rejected by Suite101 got picked up from Music Think Tank to Hypebot.  WTF?  Maybe one day I will make money writing.

Sent out a bunch of reminders to bass players trying to get the next QRD up to speed.

Put up some music on Grooveshark (Remora, Aarktica, Sarah June).  Not sure how many people use that service.  But it seems cool.

Got an order out to a distro.

Not as much done today as I’d hoped.  Much like everyday I suppose.  But for some reason my mind feels more like it’s melting today than usual.  When I see people lying over totally stupid things & then not admitting they are lying when confronted & then a third person saying that I am making up the story about the first person ever having said the stuff?  I don’t get it.  Makes me feel like I should interact with even less humans than I currently do.  Which would basically bring things down to me & my Grandmother….

Maybe I’ll get some things done in the time before sleep.

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Father/Son, Comp, Silly Bandz, QRD, Sarah June

Did the first mixes of the Brian/Andrew/father/son/drone is in the blood songs.  Sent them to Andrew to get some feedback.  Seems like things may start rolling quickly on a bunch of releases soon.

Got the press release of “30 Seconds of Time” from Ben.  Which means I’ve no excuses for the release not being ready.  But it isn’t.  What do I need to do?  Make MP3s, make ringtones, make a webpage, make a zip file, add to archive.  Can I get it all done tomorrow?  Maybe….

I was thinking about getting some Silly Bandz made & I found this:

I have in 11 interviews for QRD.  Still waiting on more to come back.  I was really hoping for 20.  We’ll see what happens.

Talked to Sarah June a bit about the future of music. Trying to balance a positive outlook & economic realities can be tough at times.  Anyway, her remix EP should be sooner rather than later.

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dreams

Last Night’s Dreams:
I regain consciousness & I’m blind.  A woman who’s voice seems familiar tells me that she loves me.  I ask her how old she is & how old I am.  I need to know where in my life I am.  I’ve never been blind before.

I’m with Kirk Adam & we just drove up to Brooklyn to record at some studio.  Inside the front room of the studio they have a little shop with merchandise for sale on consignment from the bands who’ve recorded there.  Inside the shop as a customer is Khristian Weeks, but he’s lost a lot of weight.  I ask him what he’s doing there & he says, “Recording.”

The only ones left are me & my nephew.  The rest of the persecuted have been killed.  I’ve forgotten what it is we’re even hated for.  We hide & live in his school because it is important that he get an education & some of the teachers are sympathetic enough to help us.  I spend most of my days hiding in a six inch space between the cinderblock walls of two class rooms (there for sound insulation).  What do I even bother to stay alive for & what is the future for my nephew?

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scrubbing, remora rap

Did some more track scrubbing for my father/son record.  Finished all of the long instrumentals & theoretically the short songs I should be able to clean up faster.

Everyone I mention the idea of a Remora record where I get a rapper seems to think it actually sounds like a good idea.  Maybe it’ll happen.  Where the hell do I find a rapper I like?  I wonder if I could get Listener to do it….

I feel sleepy….

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Remora Song, Pointless Forest, The Bible, Plumerai, Trailer Park Boys

I just put up a rough mix of one of the songs from the new Remora album along with the original demo version of the song at http://www.gimmesound.com/remora   It’s called “My Brother’s Guns & Knives.”  I’m curious to hear what people think of hearing the demo version as I am thinking about having a thing of streaming demos on the Silber site as something available for the folks interested in hearing how a creative process works.  Though it would only give the vaguest hints for how my brain works I suppose.  So yeah, check it out.

The band Pointless Forest that I played drums for a few weeks ago is undergoing some re-structuring.  I’d kinda thought the whole band had just fallen apart, but I may end up still being involved.  We’ll see what happens over the next couple of weeks I suppose.

I had an epiphany today that the book I’ve read that probably has had the biggest influence to my writing style in my comics is the Bible.  Mainly Genesis & Psalms where a ton of stuff happens in a really small amount of words.  Kind of a strange realization.

Martin & James from Plumerai are coming to town tomorrow & we’ll hang out & maybe figure out some more ideas for getting music to make us money instead of costing us money.

Last night I watched the Trailer Park Boys movie.  Not as good as the series.  I think sometimes that things having the swear words & nudity bleeped & blurred makes them more interesting than having the full reveal.  It makes them need to be a little more clever.

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Article, Grants, Remix

So here’s a link to the article that Suite101 rejected my writing over.  I think it’s alright – http://www.musicthinktank.com/mtt-open/music-social-shifts-a-personal-account.html

I was looking over a bunch of grant/gallery stuff.  Is me not being willing to pay a $30 entry fee a sign I’m not secure with the quality of my work or that I can smell a scam?

Did some work on the 919noise remix record or whatever you classify building a piece from someone else’s construction kit.

Alright, back to work.

Last Night’s Dream:
In a bar talking to Nic Slaton telling him that I never plan to play on stage again for less than $500 because that’s what I’m worth.

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