Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Murlyball Part II - The Twoening

Well hello gentlechaps, I hope today finds you of excellent constitution. I don't have much music stuff to update--physical Gates of Heaven cds in process, Mrs. Equitone shortly forthcoming--but I figured I'd give you some stream of consciousness type stuff just to keep it movin'. Nahmean?

Yeah, Smirts is still alive. I'm going to be adding to it as well. I think I already asked for suggestions but let's hear more of them. A lot more of them, to be vague. They have to be relatively simple--no crazy detail. What do you think this is, Threadless? Listen, if I could afford to hire Bob Nanna as the official Smirts songsmith or whatever (never-minding the OBVIOUS inefficiencies of such a reorg) I would probably pay him to play Braid songs instead and then scream like that other guy who was in Braid who was not good and both ruined and broke up Braid.

This website will be redesigned as well. The purchasing interface will be forever altered. The marketing landscape may well never be the same ever again.

Also as of late I've had this idea for a book. Let's flesh it out right here. We start with Rick Ross, whose song "The Boss feat. T-Pain" and mixtape "What Drought?" I have been listening to for some while, but we turn him into a different character. This is probably set in the future. This person would be a famous rapper named after a famous criminal (maybe we would change it to something different since, after all, it is the future) who would have two completely distinct personalities and who would be the reliable dual narrator. The story would involve the creation of an audio fingerprinting technology and legally secret synthetic food ingredient ("flavoring") which would allow music corporations to control the incidence and severity of "ear-worms," or Musical Imagery Repetition as fellow native Downers Grover Sean Bennett explains in exquisite detail in his Masters Thesis, which I've probably illegally linked above (holler if nec., Sean). The idea would be that the one personality would be engaged in this cool adventure to topple some conspiracy but the other personality would simply be growing crazier and crazier and descending into a sort of delusional nightmare fantascape (because remember it's still the future). General themes would be the disconnect between commercial and artistic success and resulting brain schisms in unprepared individuals, the use of artificial personalities to sell music, rapping, and the cutthroat world of business.

So there's that, which should be pretty fun if I actually manage to do it. The last and most important thing to note that I'm also going to re-upload all of the old kleenexgirlwonder.com content, which webmaster extraordinaire Trbndo NK passed unto me the other weekend. So all them lyrics will be there, and many more besides one would figure. Plus I'll throw some pics on it. Fabolous will also be contributing a regular column to my website, and I personally am honored.*

Well, that's the consciousness ocean. Thanks for following my weak stream from its delta until now when I must return to writing this release note. I hope you are as excited about the prospects of using a portable "chunk" or "hunk" of HTML code to present a carefully researched message in a format that is easy for people to distribute amongst one another as I am, because I am.

*Note that this fact is especially true.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Fail

I would be honored if Ted Dziuba or whatever read this here blog as a result of anything, even if it was just a Google alert on his name (and potentially misspellings thereof).

My fail is multi-faceted, but mainly related to the BIG NEWS that I was prepared to deliver on January 1st, but which I did not deliver. Well, I think I've finally decided on some names. So let's dish the dirt and spoil the Internet.

First of all, the code name of the album I was talking about like 2 posts/months ago was "A Crown and a Bobby Brown Cordless." This album may still be forthcoming. But most likely it has metamorphosed into something moretogether hideous.

So first off, I'm going to release the new Kleenex Girl Wonder album, "Mrs. Equitone." Soon. You'll hear about it. It will be affordable and it is pretty fucking good. So be on the lookout for that.

Secondofly, we're going to release the second Gates of Heaven album, "Sea Hell." You'll be able to get that soon. I have to finally some art things. It's my problem not yours. It will be even more affordable.

Beyond that, I think we will probably do a Gates of Heaven EP. This will maybe be called "The Interbridge" if Mammoth Sunrise doesn't think that's too stupid. I like it personally.

There will also be a GoH live album (or albums) called "Lives." There will also be a third album which is in progress called "Empty Land."

Then there will be a couple of Graham Smith albums, one by just Graham Smith called "Keep Up" and one by Graham Smith w/ Herbs called "User Stories." There will also be a precursor EP to kind of both of these jive suckers, which will be called "Acceptance Criteria."

So, let's go over that:

1Q

Kleenex Girl Wonder, "Mrs. Equitone" LP
Gates of Heaven, "Sea Hell" LP

2Q

Gates of Heaven, "The Interbridge" EP
Graham Smith, "Acceptance Criteria" EP

3Q

Gates of Heaven, "Empty Land" LP
Gates of Heaven, "Lives" box set
Graham Smith, "Keep Up" LP

4Q

Kleenex Girl Wonder box set
Graham Smith w/ Herbs, "User Stories" LP
probably 4th GoH album

Holy shit, that's a lot of stuff. Also I have to remember I don't just make dumbo Scrum jokes as a hobby, I get to do it professionally as well. Here's to a busy 2008!

I'll be giving shit away for free here too. All of those products there on the right hand side are going to be digital soon. Do with that information what you must.

What else is new? The same things. Sorry I've been so remiss. Say goodbye to the fail-man. Maybe I'll even make some new sh(m)irts.

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Friday, January 4, 2008

YouTube Video

Hey have you heard of YouTube? Here's me:

Magical Raindrop Show 2: The Rebirth of Cool

Hey, are you guys as excited for the release of the sequel to last year's surprise hit, Magical Raindrop Show 2: The Rebirth of Cool? Because I am so excited I could literally burst with joy.

Here's the teaser trailer where Pinkee the Incredibly Powerful Magic Pick-Up Truck's creation story is laid bare for our minds to attempt to comprehend.

If you're as excited as me, please utilize this trailer's unique sharing functionality to add it to your website and/or page network.

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