I’m Back
Those of you who have been watching the live stream of me recording this song over the last week or so have already heard it plenty I’m sure, but for the rest of you, here’s a new song. It’s the first public thing I’ve written since the end of Thing a Week in September of last year, and it feels good.
My daughter went through a phase where she asked constantly for this YouTube video (which, incidentally, is a blatant violation of copyright) of a National Geographic show about octopuses. In the opening sequence, the unassuming and literally spineless octopus takes out a shark like it’s no big thing – the shark is just minding his own business when all of a sudden, bam! Eight arms, baby. If you are a sea creature that an octopus wants to eat, God help you, because it’s definitely going to eat you, and it’s going to hurt a lot. So for a while I went around singing “Octopus, some kind of octopus,” in my head and thinking about an octopus just tearing things to pieces, mostly crabs. Naturally, this became a nice metaphor for a breakup song (as long as I avoided using the word “sucker”).
Here it is for your listening pleasure. Feel free to actually buy it if you like it, but at the very least I hope you will pass it around:
Attention Slaves of Me
There are a couple of projects I’ve been meaning to take care of for a long time, and I think it’s time to admit I don’t have room for them. It would be extremely awesome if there was someone out there with a little audio expertise who wanted to help out with these things – it doesn’t have to be someone with a world-class studio and golden ears, though ideally it would not be somebody who doesn’t know what they’re doing at all. These would both take a lot of time, so I’m not against paying actual money to have them done. I can also pay with free merch, music and eternal thanks.
1) I’d like to start making some live recordings available. I have several recorded shows on CD of varying quality, but they all need to be trimmed into individual songs and could certainly stand a little mastering. I tried doing this myself with one show and it took many hours and still sounded bad. I would probably put these into my store, but I’d also want to use this Discrevolt site to sell them (I print fancy cards to sell at shows for 5 bucks that have a code that lets you download live tracks from my Discrevolt store).
2) I would love to make all source tracks from all songs freely available for people to play with – remixes, mashups, etc. Of course I have all the Pro Tools sessions right here on my hard drive, but the time it takes to export all the tracks and upload it to somewhere like ccMixter is a little daunting.
If anyone’s interested in working on either or both of these things, let me know and we’ll talk about how it would work.
Octopus, Session 3
Today 11ish EST: some vocals, maybe some shiny extras for extra shininess depending on how long the vocals take. I can’t believe I used to do this every week. Watch on my site or here.
Done for the day, mostly done with the song I think. I’ll let the mix sit overnight and see how it sounds tomorrow, there may be room for another tweak or two.
How I Did It Comic
Len sends in this comic encapsulation of my long post about my quick and easy path to internet superstardom. You may want to click on it to get to the larger (and actually readable) size. The Paul and Storm likenesses are uncanny.
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