Got more quarterly paperwork done. Filed the taxes. Cut the royalty checks due to the bands on the label. Just have to get the invoices out to the distros & then I’m done with that load of work.
A bunch more back issues of QRD fixed up. Of course I am now to the point where there are some issues with a lot of articles. Still I should finish it up this week. Which reminds me I need to get to work on the new issue. I think there are maybe about ten interviews in for the bass player series so I need to send out some reminders about it. It’s really easy for the six week goal between issues to spread to ten weeks.
Worked on the 30 Second comp some more. Consulting with Ben on possible track order adjustments & trying to find out the status of the artwork. One of the tracks needs some kinda major adjustments to fit volumetrically with the other tracks (the noise floor gets really loud) so I’m trying to get a more raw track from the artist so I can scrub out the noise a little. Of course a lot of these tracks are a bit low-fi in the first place, so who knows if I really need to be so meticulous. Some of the tracks have glitches I wish I could fix that just aren’t worth it or are beyond my expertise (one was recorded at 8bit & I don’t think there’s anyway to fix the noise floor associated with that).
I had some kind of sales spike today. Not sure what it’s from, but four orders of different things from different people within an hour of each other when nothing is discernibly going on is odd.
Got a rough cut of the Remora album. I suppose I should be listening to it right now instead of typing this out.
I did spend a good bit of the past couple days freaking out a bit. I’ve debated telling the story here. There’s a girl I’ve been talking to/dating for a couple months. It’s been tough because with me taking care of my grandmother my ability to get out of the house to do stuff is a bit limited. Last Sunday we broke up because I couldn’t give her the attention she needed. It was a pretty mutual & amicable thing. Tuesday she called me telling me how sad she was & that she missed me & I told her I really didn’t know what I was supposed to say to that (because I don’t know what to say to it). Wednesday she was getting her kids back (she has them a week at a time), so I knew I wouldn’t see her or talk to her much for a few days while things worked out for however they might work out. Then Saturday morning it comes in my newsfeed in Facebook that the girl is now in a relationship with some new dude (where previously she said she wouldn’t put a relationship link on Facebook unless she thought she was going to marry the guy). Makes me feel really unique, special, irreplaceable, & important to the world (that was sarcasm) & a poor judge of character (not sarcasm). It shouldn’t have as big of an effect on me as it does. I wish I could make it as one of those guys who becomes a hermit & works on art & doesn’t even realize humans exist sometimes. You know, Henry DargerPart II & let my nephew share my work with the world after I die.
Here’s a new video from Thorn1 (it’s kind of a weird one, don’t know what the plastic bag is about nor the level of digital peaking):