I got in the final artwork for Extreme Lost Kisses by Nick Marino. It’s a stick figure comic of a Rambo story basically. We’ll see how well received it end up after it comes out. I like that it kind of makes fun of me & is entertaining in roughly equal amounts.
I was listening to The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan today because I wanted to hear the song “Masters of War.” I typically walk around saying Bob Dylan doesn’t have an album that’s solid from start to finish, but this one has grown on me a bit over the past couple years. Just like on Neil Young’s Harvest I started out laughing at “A Man Needs a Maid” & it has somehow become my favorite track on the album, maybe some of the clunkers here will shine for me eventually. I guess I need to track down my copy of Blonde on Blonde again & give it another chance as well.
Hung out with Peter Aldrich tonight so he could listen to the working copy of the Remora record (is it being a jerk to not give people a copy of a rough version of a record & making them listen to it beside you or just the way you need to do things if you don’t want it distributed before release?)& see what his ideas were. A lot of his ideas were the same as mine. Two or three edits on two or three songs. Mild switching of track order. He did say that I shouldn’t call the album by the working title because there is a song on the album that three or four people have told me, “Oh, this is like that Nine Inch Nails song,” & the album title also sounded like it could be a NIN reference. Funny since I never have really listened to him. I own a copy of Pretty Hate Machine & a disc of demos from PHM & at one point I owned Broken but have no idea what happened to it. I have yet to hear The Downward Spiral, but rumor has it that it is good. So I guess I need a new album title. Most importantly Pete asked if the song “We Come from the Sea” (the only song remaining from my Lovecraftian band The Call of…) was about “The Shadow over Innsmouth” & while I’m not sure if that is the exact story it was referencing, it was nice to find it came across that clearly. He didn’t pick up on me ripping off Kreator (nor has anyone else), so I think I’m going to be in the clear on that one.
For those of you interested, the 919noise folks are working on a new kinda remixy comp – http://www.blondenamusic.com/919noise.html All are invited.
There’ve been a bunch of reviews coming in this week for some reason. It’s nice to feel like there’s a buzz & things are on the upswing.