So I guess the big announcement that needs to be made is Silber will be working with Pork Records to release some vinyl. We’re going to start with the Sarah June disc this September & see how things go from there. They’ll be in charge of everything about the vinyl that I don’t want to deal with the headaches of. So all of you kids that have complained about us not doing any vinyl can maybe have your dreams come true. When time is coming for other stuff assuming things go smoothly, maybe I’ll let you loyal fans decide what will be next on vinyl.
I shot this artsy video today of light experiments. Not sure what the final use for it will be.
I’ve been getting some contacts lately from bands that think Silber has money to court them lately. It’s flattering in one way & ridiculous in another. I have to wonder if I gave a $5000 advance to almost anyone on the label for recording, would they use it to go to a studio or to build/improve their home studio? Me? I think I’d get a couple good video cameras or something with it, maybe buy the POG & Wammy pedals, maybe get a sound card/digital interface with more inputs, maybe get those bass midi footpedals & something to hook them up to. I can’t really imagine a scenario where I was going into a studio unless it was because it was somebody I was friends with that I wanted to work with. I don’t know. Maybe I’d go into a studio to record drums or vocals. Just because I have trouble getting those two things to sound good sometimes.
Assembled about 50 mini-comics today. I need to get some envelopes for mailing out the promos in as the package will be too thick for a standard envelope, but I think to flimsy for the plastic envelopes I have too many of (designed for 8.5×5.5 zines). Maybe I could just put a piece of card stock in those….
Talked to my son Andrew a bit about things he could do as gimmicks to draw the attention of the modern avant garde composer folks. Things that I’m not too old to do or anything, but I lack the academic credentials for certain ideas to function within that community. I don’t know if there’s been a composer respected by academia that didn’t come from academia since WWII & that’s pretty sad. Or really I guess it just shows elitism & snobbery. Which is true in all music I suppose. I don’t know. I guess I have it too as if I hear the same music from New York or Romania, I always go with the Romanians….
So a couple years ago MySpace stopped telling me about people’s birthdays because I had too many friends. Now Facebook seems to be doing it as well? Maybe I should go back to using Friendster….