May 2013
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This Week In Independent Musicianry: No New...
Money earned last week: $639
Shows played last week: BlasterCon
Next show: Phoenix Comicon, Fri May 24 at 9 p.m. in Captain’s Cantina
Giant Robot Album: mixed and tweaked
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I don’t have much of anything to say this week, nor do I have any great insights for you. :)
I did think, a bit, after watching The Great Gatsby on Tuesday, that a good deal of my indie career...
“While less involved than its foremother, the beehive, a proper topknot is more...”
– It’s like someone on the NYT staff has never had actual hair.
How To Do a Topknot:
Pull hair to top of head.
Wrap rubber band around hair with one twist, holding the additional stretch in your hand.
Twist hair into bun shape.
Wrap remaining rubber band around bun.
Depending on hair...
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This Week in Independent Musicianry: Advice to...
Money earned this week: $749
Shows played this week: Gaslight Gathering
Next show: Blastercon in Los Angeles, Friday May 10 at 9 p.m.
Is tonight the final mixing session for Giant Robot Album: I sure hope so
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Yesterday I did a shop-talk Google Hangout with Nerds With Guitars and Debs and Errol. They asked me for advice on making music, making money, and growing audiences. Here...
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“The answer to the second question is almost certainly no, unless your book takes...”
– David J. Peterson on creating languages.
Hilariously, the Caerdic language I created for The Red Book of Cordia used all the Latin vowel pronunciations I’d picked up from years of choral singing but the words themselves were 90 percent English cognates.
(With a bunch of apostrophes thrown in...
“I think we all have this little theatre on top of our shoulders, where the past...”
– Dennis Potter (1987), quoted by Rolling Stone’s Greil Marcus at the 2013 School of Visual Arts commencement ceremony. Or, as artist Austin Kleon puts it, “you are mashup of what you let into your life,” and as beloved graphic designer Paula Scher has argued, our entire creative capacity is the sum...
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“People who are successful rarely become that way because they followed a...”
– Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz. :)
“When the story broke on Wednesday, I contacted CharityBuzz, who confirmed the...”
– More about the CharityBuzz/RFK Center/UN internship auction, courtesy of Al Jazeera and Sarah Kendzior.
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This Week in Independent Musicianry: All The...
Money earned this week: $545.07
Shows played this week: four
Next show: Gaslight Gathering in San Diego, tomorrow (Saturday May 4) at 2:00
Giant Robot Album status: my mixing engineer told me last night “congratulations, your record is coming out this month.” Cross your fingers. :)
How tired am I? ALL THE TIRED
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I am feeling either like online promotion is no longer...
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CharityBuzz is auctioning off a United Nations...
Seriously. Current bid is $22,000. This is for a six-week internship in NY at the UN-NGO Committee on Human Rights.
The intern must be a college or graduate student able to complete a six-week internship.
I will quote the description verbatim:
Take advantage of this exclusive opportunity for a 6 week internship at the UN in New York City working for the UN-NGO Committee on Human Rights. You...
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