remix
Glitch VHS
This was originally intended for a compilation. But, I missed the deadline. So, I reworked it into something different, a bit longer, for an upcoming issue of “Theee Urban SpaceCat” #3 cassette-zine. I’m working on more material that I can perform live. But, this plunderphonics style track is still pretty good and I didn’t want to waste it.
2019… So Far, So Good… I Guess.
Time still flies when you aren’t having any fun. I am absolutely certain that time speeds up as you age. That is why old people wear clothes that are out of style. It was still in fashion just a minute ago, for them.
I was planning to include a vlog today, since vlogging is meant to be half of these posts. But, honestly, I don’t have anything worth videotaping right now. I also don’t have any new paintings to show.
2019 is speeding by, just like the past few years have. WTF is wrong with me? Besides the usual shit? Things actually are going pretty okay right now. I had a few rough months between December and February. That mess is finally settled, notwithstanding my growing piles of debt.
I have a list of folks waiting for Theee Urban SpaceCat cassette-zine. I have been digging through stacks of demo tapes and gigabytes of incomplete data trying to finish it. I have enough material already done for a complete issue or two… or three. But, I have spread it out over several zines. I didn’t like the way it was when I compiled it all together. So, I am filling each issue, finishing each song, one-at-a-time. A friend suggested that I do this to get myself focused, instead of hopping all over the place like I usually do. Get one thing done. Then, move on to the next thing. This approach seems to be pushing the process along, I suppose. Creating the equivalent of two double albums every few months is kinda hard when doing it all alone and you keep shooting yourself in the foot. Everything is absurdly late getting it out.
I asked around about getting my mixes mastered. But, I cannot afford to do it, not entire albums anyway. I might have one or two singles mastered for radio… maybe. The rest will just have to be a raw mix.
I am waiting for the government to process some of my tax shit, so I can finish setting up the business side of things. They’re still catching up from the Trumptard shutdown a few weeks ago. It has delayed everything. I’m never happy dealing with that sort of stuff. But, I anxiously want to get it done and out of the way.
Here is a Daniel Johnston song from my record collection for you. I get the same feeling myself sometimes. I am always starting my life over again… and again… and again… and again….
Jobless Zine Tapes
I applied for another job again, Value World (aka Value Village).
Not sure if it will do any good.
They were the only place that required applicants to apply in person, instead of online like everywhere else.
I later walked to the store for pop & bread and actually did some housecleaning today, too.
Wow!
I’m on a roll.
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I am feeling kinda brave and pulled the Roland workstation out… seeing if I could operate it at all.
I may dig through some boxes of old tapes and see if there is anything that I wanna work on again.
I may lift some material directly from them for the zine.
Maybe.
I am thinking that I will just keep accumulating material as I go along.
Then, when I have enough cash to publish I will put a new issue out, hopefully every three to four months.
It would be easier if I had some extra income for this.
But, I am working with what I have for now.
Thee Urban SpaceCat CassetteZine may be printed by a company that did Death Cat comics, Ka-Blam is their name I think.
It seems like they work in all sorts of volumes with good quality.
The tapes may be recorded, mixed, mastered, and dubbed totally DIY, though.
I am undecided if I want to get them made at a duplicating plant or just dub them myself.
I guess it depends what the demand is for them.
If I get too many orders I will have to go with the duplicating plant.
I am making a distinction between the CassetteZine and the RecycleTapes, though.
The CassetteZine will use fresh normal bias cassettes, probably Sony.
They seem to be the most readily available.
RecycleTapes are hard copy recordings of Mike Damn Nobody’s noise albums, dubbed on reused tapes and re-labelled by me.
I may have to create new artwork for the older titles.
I cannot find the originals.
I was thinking of when I want to take my recordings into a legitimate studio.
Money is a factor, of course.
But, when I am ready, I am thinking that I may only release vinyl singles and EPs like that for awhile.
If they do well, I can compile them onto CDs later.
The Weirdos are an LA punk band from way-y-y back.
They released only vinyl singles for twenty years before they put out their first full-length album.
“Weird Al” Yankovic says that he will no longer release full length albums.
He is only doing singles now.
It seems like that is the direction that the music industry will be going, eventually.
I haven’t been in a record store for years.
So, it is a little tough for me to gauge.
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I am probably gonna upgrade my my video capture software and get a chromakey program added to it.
I need to get a green screen or some fluorescent green paint.
I have a few leftover projector screens that I could paint if I had something for fabric, that wouldn’t crack and peel off.
Mike Nobody 