Remora Recording, Digital Comics, Cheap Hitmen

I finished the recording of the Remora song for the WikiLeaks comp & sent it in.  I realized after programming all the drum parts that the song has half as many notes as when I recorded the demo on my phone.  Oops.  I’ll just leave it as is.  8 notes or 16 notes, who can tell the difference?  I think that the problem happened because the software didn’t want to do a BPM of 280 & when I reduced it to 140 I forgot that meant I needed to double the parts.  I think the comp is supposed to go up for digital download on Sunday.  If the song is cut, I’ll put it on the blog for you.  I recorded an acoustic guitar with the chords ringing out & then artificially put them in place using the computer & it makes the guitar sound like it’s run through a reverb tank even though it isn’t.  Kind of interesting the things I can do with my 1998 technology when I stop approaching it as 1984 technology.

I made some PDF versions of a few of the new mini-comics today.  I’ll let you know when I have things figured out & posted to the internet.  I’ve kind of decided it’s in my best interest to abandon trying to get things to happen through selling the comics physically or digitally & that the thing to do is try to increase popularity to score an elusive development deal.  In addition to having the digital comics free on my website, I’m going to try to push them to the people distributing pirated comics.  I just need to make a list of those people.  Any of you folks that know some sites that are into the trading, let me know.

I got out the newsletter email today.  It offered a special deal on sales that I’m curious if anyone will take part in.

The other day Martin from Plumerai emailed me about Brian David Mitchell (the kidnapper dude) & so I looked into some of the other Brian Mitchells around on the internet & found this one involved in a murder for hire scheme.  The crazy thing to me about it is in Florida you can get 5 people killed for $1500.  It’s at the point a hitman has to kill somebody every day just to support his family….