Next Friday is No Pants Day. You are to go about as you normally would, but without the pants. Choose appropriately modest underlovelies, "…pretend like you were going to wear pants, and then just fail to put them on." C’mon, it’ll be funny!
(Courtesy of Infobong)
I’m working on sequencing the album of demos that’s coming out next month on the free-music label Comfort Stand. It’s kinda fuckin’ long, I’m not used to this… none of my records have been more than like 40 minutes, 11 or 12 songs. And I’m accustomed to thinking about sequencing in terms of the vinyl record, i.e. "What’s the opening song?" "What’s the key hitmaking 2nd or 3rd song on side A?" "What’s the grand thought-provoking last song on side A?" etc. etc. It’s rough. Maybe I should just think about it in terms of side A / side B anyhow, just because it makes for a good flow. Or not.
For the artwork, I’m using a photo of Davina’s, and she’s doing the layout. I’m not saying what the photo is, I’m just gonna let you see it when the time comes. It’s very simple yet totally kicks ass. :-)
c/o the newly revamped Sharpeworld: Songs To Wear Pants To takes e-mail and sets it to music. Don’t miss the Bjork one!
In my building there’s a guy who lives somewhere below me who’s constantly going outside to talk on his cellphone. I’m not sure where he’s standing but his conversations always float directly up into my windows. If I slam a window shut, he doesn’t get the hint. I’m not the confrontational type so I think I’ll take the passive-aggressive route by simply listening to what he’s got to say and reporting it back here. I mean obviously, he’s got stuff he wants the world to know.
I don’t know much about these; I assume they were given away as promotion by the movie studios.
 Yvonne DeCarlo |
 Ann Miller |
 Jane Russell |
 Gail Davis |
Beefin’ up my cowgirl collection. The next big push will be to get a bunch of antique postcards and celebrity star-cards up here… I used to keep them on Zing so they’re already scanned, I just have to post ‘em.
Another Susan find: Stealth Vehicles with Remote Control Weapons, yee-haw!! Promises "the ability to respond to hostile fire while blending in with a city or rural environment". That’s right, blending in, heheh. And oh yeah, the remote cocking, I’m gonna be sure and insist on precision remote cocking for the next SUV of Doom that I purchase. Don’t wanna have to cock it by hand.
My pal Susan turned me on to Death2Spam, a cool new spam-filtering service. Basic pest-control services are free, or you can get a premium account for $35/year. There’s nothing to install and the filtering kicks!!! It uses a real-time collaborative spam blacklist, so you’re helping your neighbor by using it. Best part: you can set it to pass along just the headers for anything it recognizes as spam. The message itself gets replaced with one sentence: Death to Spam! I love it. :-)
Wow, some wormy PC using Charter as the ISP just sent me a copy of the Netsky worm, using MY name and e-mail address in the From: field. I wonder if this was just for my amusement (I’m on a Mac so it can’t infect me…) or if anybody else I know got a copy? The last time this happened (that I know of) was a few years ago with the Klez virus. If you’re not familiar with how these evil things work, they choose a random address and make their virus-laden messages appear to come from someone else. In this case that someone else is me, and if anyone else got a copy of that, I’m very sorry but it had nothing to do with me or any machine of mine. It came from somebody at Charter so if you wanna complain, tell them.
Holy crap! Here’s my list of tunes I’m giving the Hoyle Brothers, for the purposes of comparison to their own knowledge-base of songs. It’s drawn from every old setlist I could find from the Holler Sisters, Roadhouse Romeos and Marfa Lights, plus whatever else I’ve demo’ed or covered live on my own, or just played around the house. I haven’t done any of these in awhile so there’s no tellin’ how much of it I can still reliably remember! But a lot of ‘em I know I can do no problem.
Sigmatropic: Could That Be The Voice?
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Catalog # TONG 006, distributed by Cargo UK
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A very limited edition 180-gsm 12" EP featuring 5 alternate vocal versions of songs that appeared on Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories. I’m doing vocals on Haiku 11 this time, alongside other contributions by Mark Mulcahy, Carla Torgerson and James William Hindle.
I went to the Empty Bottle this afternoon (=yesterday Sunday) to see the Hoyle Brothers do their twice-weekly happy-hour honky tonk thing. Ryan does sound for them and he’s been telling me I should go see ‘em and maybe even try to weasel my way onstage for a cover tune or three or eight, at some point just for the hell of it. They like gettin’ guest vocalists up there for their 2nd set, and I know a lot of country tunes so why not? And they are just as good of a band as Ryan said, I’m glad I went. I talked to Jack, the singer, and we’re gonna trade lists of songs and figure out what we might know in common. And, they’re very willing to learn tunes if they don’t already know something I really want to do. I’m excited, it’ll be fun playing with a real country band again, just like in the old days! I don’t know when this’ll happen but there’ll be time to let y’all know at least a week in advance… their Sunday slot is being pre-empted for the next few weeks anyway, so maybe it’ll be the week after that, or the following week, we’ll see.
I had a lotta fun at the Hideout show! It was the first show I’d been to since I moved. Gave me a bit of mild social anxiety at first, and of course there was also standard butterflies waiting to do my songs… but I got over myself and had a beer and calmed down talking for awhile to the award-winning Jim Allenspach. Gave him a copy of my Moonlighters CD which I think he’ll dig, just on the merits of its perfectly-miked ukeleles.
At the Hideout chatting it up with song poem composer David Fox from the film Off the Charts (photo by Ryan Hembrey)
David Fox, Kelly Hogan and Ryan Hembrey
